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Chapter 4

Friends

Time:  5:15pm

Location: alpha base

Nearing the time for Alice meeting, James made his way to the barracks. He reflected how he acted towards Kevin (or Commander Jackson) earlier that morning. As he entered a building he saw most of the soldiers either heading to the mess hall or standing around and talking to one another. He walked deeper into the hallway, he notice a few glances towards him, for he was a bit taller than everyone in the base. Hell, he was half the size of a boomer. Either it made him feel strong or felt humiliated for he was always the target for humor.

Some of the soldiers in the hallway were snickering like little school girls or goddamn douche bags laughing during work out. He remembered the first time he stepped foot on this hell. Most of them started to mess with him the very second they saw them, next few minutes they landed themselves into the nearest trash cans. He laughed at that thought; it took them ten hours to get out of those small containers. He continued to remember his pass until the sound of doors opening in front of him shook him of his daydreaming. He saw two soldiers holding the door for him leading to the mess hall.

He thanked them and entered to area. He saw most of the soldiers were already had their meals or getting them. They had the usual crap they had for a long time since the war started. He observed the food stations that were giving out meals; one line was overcrowded with mass amount of soldiers waiting to eat. The second line was medium sized with some people waiting, the third was the smallest of them all, with about only a number five though seven soldiers waiting. The final line was…empty.

Completely empty with no soldier or staff in the station. It was very strange that most of the food station were overcrowded with people except the particular station. He was about to question it until his stomach growled at him with irritation of not having meals in its system.  James shrugged it off and made his way to the food station. When he first entered the food station line he could not believe what he saw.

In front of him were rows and rows of unbelievable amounts of food, some that he did not even believe that survived since the war. He saw large amount of fresh fruit and steaming vegetables, section of different types of bread laid out. But most of all, he nearly lost it when he saw the pile and of different and equally as juicy meat. James was in awe, he never imagine that he would see real food again. But that made him think even more, with this amount of food in everyone's reach. Why are all the soldiers in the different food station instead of this one?

He soon shrugged it off and decided to get his grub on, but then he stopped for a moment to reflect on what he just thought.

'Did I really make a "grub" comment; wow I must be desperately hungry.' James thought

He shacks of the feeling and grabs a nearby tray at the beginning of the food station. He stops at the start of the meal section. He gawked at the sight the portion at the first food selection. All of the meals were either seaming with heat and smell or evaporating from their frozen, deliciousness prison of wanting taste.  He places a fist under his chin
and thought. Would he choose a nice warm meal or a frozen delicious one?

He pondered on the thought until something crashed right on his tray and made a loud noise from it. James gave a slight jump and shielded his face with his hands. Once everything was quiet he slowly moved his hands away from his face and saw what made the crashing noise. What made him jump was a perfectly good bake potato sitting on the tray steaming with a melting butter square in an open section of the potato.

He slowly looks up from the tray to what was in front of him. He was not that much surprised when he saw what caused the scare.

"Hey, how it going, big guy?" a voice was heard

James gave a long and slow sigh. Out all the people on this god forsaken world, he had to be talking to this particular one.

"Hello jess, how have you been?" James said vaguely

In front of James was one of his squad mates he has in alpha base. Jessica Moorcroft, the master of pranks and scares. She is one of the closest friends James has in the entire base (other than Alice and one other friend). She may look like an average female soldier, but there's more to it than anyone knows. She wears basic combat cog armor, sleeveless up to the shoulders. She says that it's more moveable without the extra weight on her arms; also she just wants to show of the tattoos on her right arm.

On her right arm, she has a number of tattoos from her forearm to her bicep. One of her tattoo is the basic gear symbol with a dog tag dangling from the top of the gears teeth. The rest are some strange tribal symbols that look like something that comes out of a story of magic and spell or strange incantations. No never ask what those tattoos mean on her arm, mostly because of the way she acts around others. She is the scariest person to ever survive emergence-day, the reason why is because she looks like a legit witch.

She is half the size of James, but two inches taller than Alice. Her skin is somewhat pale when she is not in the sun. most day she spend all her time in her quarters hiding from the world, until she becomes hungry or get bored. One time, James secretly waited for jess to leave her room. When she did, James tried to enter her room, only to find it lock. Although the door was locked, James smelled something weird that day, something in jess's room. But the most particular feature jess had is her long, dark violet hair.

She says she was born with purple hair, but James always thinks it's either a wig or a dye. As must as her entire body was strange there was more than her looks but within her mind. She has a rather… weird way to have fun. To have her chuckle, she would hide a fake snake under blankets. To make her giggle, she put on a realistic locust mask and scare James have to death. To make her laugh…she does the most disturbing act that no ever mentions. They do not dare repeat the act she has done.

Jess leaned forward with a mischievous smirk lying on her face.

"Better since I scared the hell-out-of-ya!" she spoke darkly

James stared at her for a moment and asked

"What are you doing here behind this food station?"

Jess put her palm on the top of it and her eyes lids lowered until they were half close.

"Punishment!" she hissed

James raised an eye brow.

"Punishment, What do you mean?" he asked suspiciously

Jess seemed to hold a bit of James answer, but then disappear with a inhuman smile. James hates it when she smiles like that it gives him chills down his spine.

"Do you remember my last prank James?" she spoke with a snake like hiss

James thought back to her last act of "entertainment" and shuddered

"The one with the dead locust head on Kevin side cabinet while he was asleep?" he asked regrettably

Jess nodded in yes then frowned, oh that was not good.

"Yeah, after that he caught me and told me that for my "punishment" I had to do this or…" she stopped

James tilted his head to the side in question.

"Or?" he asked

Jess looked at James dead in the eye and growled two horrifying words that no one wanted to hear.

"Toilet patrol."

James gasped and filched back at her words

"NO!" he denied her answer

Jess nodded and sighed

"He is unmerciful James," She growled "ever since he became our commander, he been nothing but a pain in my ass!"

James notice her stress and laid a hand on her shoulder. Jess eyes soften and her muscles started to relax. Jess then looks up at James in the eyes

"Ah, forget about him. He's just any ordinary douche bag in this god forsaken place." James comfort

Jess slowly cooled her nerves and finally relaxed at James's words. Jess closed her eyes and sighed. She opens her eye again and smiles at James.

"Thanks James, now what would you like?" she asked gesturing the food in front of him

James looked around the sections of glorious food. He was about to ask for a plate of pasta when he realized that he forgotten what was odd when he came to the food station. James looked up and laid his hand on the metal rail.

"Say jess." James said

"Yeah?"

"Unlike the other stations, why is th-"James said before he was suddenly push aside, still clenching to his tray, causing his to fall on the floor with his tray upside down on his chest. He sits up and move the tray off of him only to find the potato smeared all over his breastplate.

"Damn it, I just had this clean this morning" James said wiping of some of the potato off

"hey, dull faces make me a sandwich, will ya?!" James heard

James looks up to find one of symbols of what alpha base was truly like. A cog soldier in a combat armor, let alone without a helmet, stood with his left side facing James and giving a look which looks like how a man tries to act tough. He was obvious the kind that doesn't give a crap about anyone around him. He wore sunglasses with a painted one twinkle on the left side of his shades. On the other side, he had a stupid quote tag saying "nigga move!" writing on the bottom right corner. What was worst that he was a full on white man that was a bit bulk-ish for an average gear. The man turns to look at James and scuffed

"If ya woulda move, you woulnd'ta been sucking the ground fatass!" he said in a irritating  voice

'Of course it had to be one of those.' James thought

The guy then turns towards jess and yells "bitch, make me a sandwich or some of dam good stuff or else you'll be a limping!"

James eyes widen underneath his helmet and clenched his fist.  James was angered at the jerk yelling at jess. James was about to get up and punch the asshole, but quickly looked at jess for she made an unobvious motion with her hand. Jess gave a calm motion with her hand to stop James. James felt confused, why would she not let him help her?

"Sure," she said to the jersey "I'll be right back."

As she moves to the back of the food station, she gave a glance towards James and smirk. James was now really confused. Jess would never take that kind of crap by anyone, so why let it go and do what that jerk said. James looked at the man one more time to glare at him, but forgetting he was still wearing his helmet. James gets up and starts wiping of the remains of his deceased potato.

"You know, that was not very bright kid, you could have waited till I was done," James told

"whateva bitch, need the food more than you fatass!" he cursed

"It not the food that I meant, but the respect you should give someone. If you play around you'll end up hurt or injured."

"yeah, well look at who's getting me a sandwich and who's on the floor licking dirt, and after the sandwich I might take er to my crib and give her dessert!" said bluntly

James was now gripping some mash left on his chest, trying to control his anger. He had a very low temper that if it comes to his friends or his work, he will fight with anyone disrespect his friends. the punk notice James clenching fists and smirk. He turned a pointed to his chin.

"Come on, give me a good one," he allowed "give me a reason to knock yo ass out!"

James thought out what would happen if he would punch this jerk, mostly him winning and throwing him in a nearby trash can. He was about to knock him out until-

"Okay here's your meal, sir!" jess voice rang

James and jersey boy stared at each other for a moment before the jerk creak a smile.

"About goddamn time!" he cursed

The jersey continued to stare at James with that stupid smile. He lifted his tray up and waited to get his meal.

"Ya got  nothing on me, bitch!" told james

James continued to stare at him for a moment until he looked over at jess; his eyes became wide at what he saw. It took a moment or two for the punk to say something else when he was feeling any weight on his tray.

"Hey are ya gonna give me my shit or wat?"  He complained still look at james

"Sorry, but this one is a secret just for you." Jess said seductively

The punk smirked

"ooohhh, already that time, baby girl?" he charmed

"Oh yes, now close your eyes and open your mouth over here." She told

he turned his head towards jess; obviously he obeyed on closing his eyes, and opens his mouth.

"Hope this is good girl." He warned

"Oh don't worry, it's our costumers best dishes, now close your mouth." She said

The jersey smiled with his open his mouth open and close it. The moment he closed his mouth, he tasted something funny. He licked around the object in his mouth until he realized what was in his mouth. The jersey widens his eyes to find a boltok barrel in his mouth. He looked up to also find a grimiest looking jess giving him demon eyes. Her eyes actually looked like demons because it iris turn into a cat like iris. James had no idea why they do that, but whenever they get that way, it becomes a furiously chase between her and her prey. Jess slowly pushes the barrel even more in the jersey's mouth, cocking her pistol and perpared her bullet.

"You think it fucking "cool" of you to fuck around with my friends!" she hissed

The jersey's eye flow open even more and slowly looked over at James with sweat dripping down his face.

James shrugged and said "I warned you, but you had to screw around!"

The punk slowly looked back at jess, looking even more demonic then she used to. Jess leaned in and lightly tapped the trigger making her hostage filched with each tap.

"if you ever fuckin come back here or give my friends bullshit, I'll fill your body full lead then throw you in the meat grinder and watch your remains get eaten by everyone here, AM I CLEAR!" she hissed in a whisper

The jersey rabidly nodded his head.

"Good now," she said before taking the pistol out of his mouth and hit his head with the butt of the gun "get the fuck out of here!"

Jersey boy stumbled to his feet and ran out of the food station area, as he ran he suddenly crashed into a group of soldiers that had their meals, walking to their table. The group of soldiers became angered and started to beat the living hell out of him. While back at the food station James and jess laughed their asses off at the sight of the idiot.

"Ha ha, god I'm awesome!" she bragged

"God, never in my life did I see that ha ha ha, PRICELESS!" James laughed

James and jess soon started to calm down from the laughter they have endured. Soon after they stopped laughing, james sighed and looked over at Jess.

"You know jess," he started "I could of taken care of that jerk if you'd let me."

Jess shook her head

"Nah, it wouldn't have been fun to watch you beat him up than scare the crap out of him."

"You are truly evil, jess."

"Meh, I try." she shrugged

Jess then turn and grabbed two tray's from their holders. She then places the trays on top on the roof of the station and started to put food on them.

"So, what plans do we have for today?" she asked

James crossed his arms and tapped his chin.

"Hmm, well after we are done with our shifts."

"Mm hmm"

"We head to the mess hall,"

"Yeah,"

"Meet up with Alice,"

"Uh huh,"

"We eat, and then hang out for the rest of the day."

Jess nodded in approval

"Done the same routine and it still awesome." Jess said proudly

"Yup, and that's all we do in this shithole."

"Better than being in patrol in the south side of illima, they have constant amount of wench attacks. Gotten so bad, they're lock up in their own rooms."

"yeesh that's rough." James grim

"Yeah, anyways do we sit in our regular spot or sit next to these jackasses."

The moment jess finish her sentence, James froze. James stood there for a minute, staring at jess for long time. Jess leaned in and waved a hand in front of his face.

"James?"

"What time is it?"

Now it was jesses turn to become in a frozen state. They had completely forgotten about Alice scheduled meeting. Ever since they have ever become friends, Alice and the two made a bet that if one of them were to be late to their eating spot.it was jess's great idea for that bet and they followed in it.

James looks at his watch on his wrist, it said 5:25.

"AH FUCK, WE GOTTA GO!" James yelled

"SHIT." Jess cursed

Jess quickly finishes filling their trays and passes one of them to James. James quickly grabbed it and walked out of the station and waits for jess at the door.

"HURRY UP JESS! DO YOU WANT TO BE LATE!" James rushed

"LIKE HELL I WANT TO!" SHE YELLED

Jess put a on a brake sign for the rest of the day and ran after James.

"MOVE IT SOLDIER! MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!" she screamed

As jess catches up to James, James is already running of the mess hall and into the courtyard. The two bolted across the courtyard, almost knocking some of the soldiers that were playing basketball. Let alone, in the shadows, someone was watching them from a far.

Description
Chapter 4

Friends

Time:  5:15pm

Location: alpha base

Nearing the time for Alice meeting, James made his way to the barracks. He reflected how he acted towards Kevin (or Commander Jackson) earlier that morning. As he entered a building he saw most of the soldiers either heading to the mess hall or standing around and talking to one another. He walked deeper into the hallway, he notice a few glances towards him, for he was a bit taller than everyone in the base. Hell, he was half the size of a boomer. Either it made him feel strong or felt humiliated for he was always the target for humor.

Some of the soldiers in the hallway were snickering like little school girls or goddamn douche bags laughing during work out. He remembered the first time he stepped foot on this hell. Most of them started to mess with him the very second they saw them, next few minutes they landed themselves into the nearest trash cans. He laughed at that thought; it took them ten hours to get out of those small containers. He continued to remember his pass until the sound of doors opening in front of him shook him of his daydreaming. He saw two soldiers holding the door for him leading to the mess hall.

He thanked them and entered to area. He saw most of the soldiers were already had their meals or getting them. They had the usual crap they had for a long time since the war started. He observed the food stations that were giving out meals; one line was overcrowded with mass amount of soldiers waiting to eat. The second line was medium sized with some people waiting, the third was the smallest of them all, with about only a number five though seven soldiers waiting. The final line was…empty.

Completely empty with no soldier or staff in the station. It was very strange that most of the food station were overcrowded with people except the particular station. He was about to question it until his stomach growled at him with irritation of not having meals in its system.  James shrugged it off and made his way to the food station. When he first entered the food station line he could not believe what he saw.

In front of him were rows and rows of unbelievable amounts of food, some that he did not even believe that survived since the war. He saw large amount of fresh fruit and steaming vegetables, section of different types of bread laid out. But most of all, he nearly lost it when he saw the pile and of different and equally as juicy meat. James was in awe, he never imagine that he would see real food again. But that made him think even more, with this amount of food in everyone's reach. Why are all the soldiers in the different food station instead of this one?

He soon shrugged it off and decided to get his grub on, but then he stopped for a moment to reflect on what he just thought.

'Did I really make a "grub" comment; wow I must be desperately hungry.' James thought

He shacks of the feeling and grabs a nearby tray at the beginning of the food station. He stops at the start of the meal section. He gawked at the sight the portion at the first food selection. All of the meals were either seaming with heat and smell or evaporating from their frozen, deliciousness prison of wanting taste.  He places a fist under his chin
and thought. Would he choose a nice warm meal or a frozen delicious one?

He pondered on the thought until something crashed right on his tray and made a loud noise from it. James gave a slight jump and shielded his face with his hands. Once everything was quiet he slowly moved his hands away from his face and saw what made the crashing noise. What made him jump was a perfectly good bake potato sitting on the tray steaming with a melting butter square in an open section of the potato.

He slowly looks up from the tray to what was in front of him. He was not that much surprised when he saw what caused the scare.

"Hey, how it going, big guy?" a voice was heard

James gave a long and slow sigh. Out all the people on this god forsaken world, he had to be talking to this particular one.

"Hello jess, how have you been?" James said vaguely

In front of James was one of his squad mates he has in alpha base. Jessica Moorcroft, the master of pranks and scares. She is one of the closest friends James has in the entire base (other than Alice and one other friend). She may look like an average female soldier, but there's more to it than anyone knows. She wears basic combat cog armor, sleeveless up to the shoulders. She says that it's more moveable without the extra weight on her arms; also she just wants to show of the tattoos on her right arm.

On her right arm, she has a number of tattoos from her forearm to her bicep. One of her tattoo is the basic gear symbol with a dog tag dangling from the top of the gears teeth. The rest are some strange tribal symbols that look like something that comes out of a story of magic and spell or strange incantations. No never ask what those tattoos mean on her arm, mostly because of the way she acts around others. She is the scariest person to ever survive emergence-day, the reason why is because she looks like a legit witch.

She is half the size of James, but two inches taller than Alice. Her skin is somewhat pale when she is not in the sun. most day she spend all her time in her quarters hiding from the world, until she becomes hungry or get bored. One time, James secretly waited for jess to leave her room. When she did, James tried to enter her room, only to find it lock. Although the door was locked, James smelled something weird that day, something in jess's room. But the most particular feature jess had is her long, dark violet hair.

She says she was born with purple hair, but James always thinks it's either a wig or a dye. As must as her entire body was strange there was more than her looks but within her mind. She has a rather… weird way to have fun. To have her chuckle, she would hide a fake snake under blankets. To make her giggle, she put on a realistic locust mask and scare James have to death. To make her laugh…she does the most disturbing act that no ever mentions. They do not dare repeat the act she has done.

Jess leaned forward with a mischievous smirk lying on her face.

"Better since I scared the hell-out-of-ya!" she spoke darkly

James stared at her for a moment and asked

"What are you doing here behind this food station?"

Jess put her palm on the top of it and her eyes lids lowered until they were half close.

"Punishment!" she hissed

James raised an eye brow.

"Punishment, What do you mean?" he asked suspiciously

Jess seemed to hold a bit of James answer, but then disappear with a inhuman smile. James hates it when she smiles like that it gives him chills down his spine.

"Do you remember my last prank James?" she spoke with a snake like hiss

James thought back to her last act of "entertainment" and shuddered

"The one with the dead locust head on Kevin side cabinet while he was asleep?" he asked regrettably

Jess nodded in yes then frowned, oh that was not good.

"Yeah, after that he caught me and told me that for my "punishment" I had to do this or…" she stopped

James tilted his head to the side in question.

"Or?" he asked

Jess looked at James dead in the eye and growled two horrifying words that no one wanted to hear.

"Toilet patrol."

James gasped and filched back at her words

"NO!" he denied her answer

Jess nodded and sighed

"He is unmerciful James," She growled "ever since he became our commander, he been nothing but a pain in my ass!"

James notice her stress and laid a hand on her shoulder. Jess eyes soften and her muscles started to relax. Jess then looks up at James in the eyes

"Ah, forget about him. He's just any ordinary douche bag in this god forsaken place." James comfort

Jess slowly cooled her nerves and finally relaxed at James's words. Jess closed her eyes and sighed. She opens her eye again and smiles at James.

"Thanks James, now what would you like?" she asked gesturing the food in front of him

James looked around the sections of glorious food. He was about to ask for a plate of pasta when he realized that he forgotten what was odd when he came to the food station. James looked up and laid his hand on the metal rail.

"Say jess." James said

"Yeah?"

"Unlike the other stations, why is th-"James said before he was suddenly push aside, still clenching to his tray, causing his to fall on the floor with his tray upside down on his chest. He sits up and move the tray off of him only to find the potato smeared all over his breastplate.

"Damn it, I just had this clean this morning" James said wiping of some of the potato off

"hey, dull faces make me a sandwich, will ya?!" James heard

James looks up to find one of symbols of what alpha base was truly like. A cog soldier in a combat armor, let alone without a helmet, stood with his left side facing James and giving a look which looks like how a man tries to act tough. He was obvious the kind that doesn't give a crap about anyone around him. He wore sunglasses with a painted one twinkle on the left side of his shades. On the other side, he had a stupid quote tag saying "nigga move!" writing on the bottom right corner. What was worst that he was a full on white man that was a bit bulk-ish for an average gear. The man turns to look at James and scuffed

"If ya woulda move, you woulnd'ta been sucking the ground fatass!" he said in a irritating  voice

'Of course it had to be one of those.' James thought

The guy then turns towards jess and yells "bitch, make me a sandwich or some of dam good stuff or else you'll be a limping!"

James eyes widen underneath his helmet and clenched his fist.  James was angered at the jerk yelling at jess. James was about to get up and punch the asshole, but quickly looked at jess for she made an unobvious motion with her hand. Jess gave a calm motion with her hand to stop James. James felt confused, why would she not let him help her?

"Sure," she said to the jersey "I'll be right back."

As she moves to the back of the food station, she gave a glance towards James and smirk. James was now really confused. Jess would never take that kind of crap by anyone, so why let it go and do what that jerk said. James looked at the man one more time to glare at him, but forgetting he was still wearing his helmet. James gets up and starts wiping of the remains of his deceased potato.

"You know, that was not very bright kid, you could have waited till I was done," James told

"whateva bitch, need the food more than you fatass!" he cursed

"It not the food that I meant, but the respect you should give someone. If you play around you'll end up hurt or injured."

"yeah, well look at who's getting me a sandwich and who's on the floor licking dirt, and after the sandwich I might take er to my crib and give her dessert!" said bluntly

James was now gripping some mash left on his chest, trying to control his anger. He had a very low temper that if it comes to his friends or his work, he will fight with anyone disrespect his friends. the punk notice James clenching fists and smirk. He turned a pointed to his chin.

"Come on, give me a good one," he allowed "give me a reason to knock yo ass out!"

James thought out what would happen if he would punch this jerk, mostly him winning and throwing him in a nearby trash can. He was about to knock him out until-

"Okay here's your meal, sir!" jess voice rang

James and jersey boy stared at each other for a moment before the jerk creak a smile.

"About goddamn time!" he cursed

The jersey continued to stare at James with that stupid smile. He lifted his tray up and waited to get his meal.

"Ya got  nothing on me, bitch!" told james

James continued to stare at him for a moment until he looked over at jess; his eyes became wide at what he saw. It took a moment or two for the punk to say something else when he was feeling any weight on his tray.

"Hey are ya gonna give me my shit or wat?"  He complained still look at james

"Sorry, but this one is a secret just for you." Jess said seductively

The punk smirked

"ooohhh, already that time, baby girl?" he charmed

"Oh yes, now close your eyes and open your mouth over here." She told

he turned his head towards jess; obviously he obeyed on closing his eyes, and opens his mouth.

"Hope this is good girl." He warned

"Oh don't worry, it's our costumers best dishes, now close your mouth." She said

The jersey smiled with his open his mouth open and close it. The moment he closed his mouth, he tasted something funny. He licked around the object in his mouth until he realized what was in his mouth. The jersey widens his eyes to find a boltok barrel in his mouth. He looked up to also find a grimiest looking jess giving him demon eyes. Her eyes actually looked like demons because it iris turn into a cat like iris. James had no idea why they do that, but whenever they get that way, it becomes a furiously chase between her and her prey. Jess slowly pushes the barrel even more in the jersey's mouth, cocking her pistol and perpared her bullet.

"You think it fucking "cool" of you to fuck around with my friends!" she hissed

The jersey's eye flow open even more and slowly looked over at James with sweat dripping down his face.

James shrugged and said "I warned you, but you had to screw around!"

The punk slowly looked back at jess, looking even more demonic then she used to. Jess leaned in and lightly tapped the trigger making her hostage filched with each tap.

"if you ever fuckin come back here or give my friends bullshit, I'll fill your body full lead then throw you in the meat grinder and watch your remains get eaten by everyone here, AM I CLEAR!" she hissed in a whisper

The jersey rabidly nodded his head.

"Good now," she said before taking the pistol out of his mouth and hit his head with the butt of the gun "get the fuck out of here!"

Jersey boy stumbled to his feet and ran out of the food station area, as he ran he suddenly crashed into a group of soldiers that had their meals, walking to their table. The group of soldiers became angered and started to beat the living hell out of him. While back at the food station James and jess laughed their asses off at the sight of the idiot.

"Ha ha, god I'm awesome!" she bragged

"God, never in my life did I see that ha ha ha, PRICELESS!" James laughed

James and jess soon started to calm down from the laughter they have endured. Soon after they stopped laughing, james sighed and looked over at Jess.

"You know jess," he started "I could of taken care of that jerk if you'd let me."

Jess shook her head

"Nah, it wouldn't have been fun to watch you beat him up than scare the crap out of him."

"You are truly evil, jess."

"Meh, I try." she shrugged

Jess then turn and grabbed two tray's from their holders. She then places the trays on top on the roof of the station and started to put food on them.

"So, what plans do we have for today?" she asked

James crossed his arms and tapped his chin.

"Hmm, well after we are done with our shifts."

"Mm hmm"

"We head to the mess hall,"

"Yeah,"

"Meet up with Alice,"

"Uh huh,"

"We eat, and then hang out for the rest of the day."

Jess nodded in approval

"Done the same routine and it still awesome." Jess said proudly

"Yup, and that's all we do in this shithole."

"Better than being in patrol in the south side of illima, they have constant amount of wench attacks. Gotten so bad, they're lock up in their own rooms."

"yeesh that's rough." James grim

"Yeah, anyways do we sit in our regular spot or sit next to these jackasses."

The moment jess finish her sentence, James froze. James stood there for a minute, staring at jess for long time. Jess leaned in and waved a hand in front of his face.

"James?"

"What time is it?"

Now it was jesses turn to become in a frozen state. They had completely forgotten about Alice scheduled meeting. Ever since they have ever become friends, Alice and the two made a bet that if one of them were to be late to their eating spot.it was jess's great idea for that bet and they followed in it.

James looks at his watch on his wrist, it said 5:25.

"AH FUCK, WE GOTTA GO!" James yelled

"SHIT." Jess cursed

Jess quickly finishes filling their trays and passes one of them to James. James quickly grabbed it and walked out of the station and waits for jess at the door.

"HURRY UP JESS! DO YOU WANT TO BE LATE!" James rushed

"LIKE HELL I WANT TO!" SHE YELLED

Jess put a on a brake sign for the rest of the day and ran after James.

"MOVE IT SOLDIER! MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!" she screamed

As jess catches up to James, James is already running of the mess hall and into the courtyard. The two bolted across the courtyard, almost knocking some of the soldiers that were playing basketball. Let alone, in the shadows, someone was watching them from a far.