Chapter 17: Bus Ride Home

Hel and Kamran stayed for football practice, and Cin and Jen stayed for detention, so I had no close friends to sit beside to hide the dildo and butt plug that filled me more, as I walked to the bus.

I pushed Willow out of the very back seat and placed my bags on the seat beside me to make sure no one sat beside me. The bus’s metal side cooled my overheated body and the breeze from the window ruffled the stray hair that had escaped my twin braids and dried the sweat on my forehead. Sun shone through the dirty window and highlighted the dust in the air. The smell of fresh trees, and the sound of birds, helped remind me that life contained more than my fellow students’ sweat, musk, perfume, and chittering noises. The need to orgasm had dulled, but I still couldn’t wait for the challenge to end.

“Fuck P! Are you ok?” My sister, Jezerka, said as she arrived at the back of the bus. A couple of her friends stood beside her, plus a new guy, who gazed at her like a puppy dog. Zer, while a year younger, stands a head taller than me. Big-boned, she looks like she could play football. Most brainiacs carry extra weight, but Zer carries it beautifully, with a round face, always a smile, bright green eyes, red cheeks, and silky golden hair. She never wears makeup, but would look like the action star Eve Everston if she did.

“Who’s that?” I asked and pointed to the boy. Young and the same height as Zer. While not physically impressive, and a little scrawny, but he did have a lovely face, with prominent cheekbones, full lips, black hair, and thick eyebrows.

“Your sisters a fucking ape?” he said and laughed with her friends. They kept an eye on me while they tried to impress the guy, the Randy, that Zer talked about every night. The most popular guy at the school, with two high-level designated enhancements. He had a high-ranked general for a father, not enhanced, but a storied veteran of the original conflict. A man who appeared in our History textbook, the appendix, but still famous.

“Ape, I am, shithead, you are,” I said with a smile and a squint. The response will allow him to laugh it off before I stand up and beat him. Greta, a younger girl who sat a row up from me, made fists and shifted to hit him.

My sister and the other girls laughed, but Randy squinted at me. He stepped closer, as if to fight. Stupid, very stupid, we Deads don’t take shit from anyone, and as Hulk, I could dish shit out.

“Must need daddy to protect you ‘cause your proverbial head is up your ass, which I will make literal,” I said, and shifted to get out of my seat to beat him. I didn’t care that beating him would give me the worst fucking jobs if I entered the service. As a duel, I would get the worst anyway, and I planned to buy my way out. I also wanted to save Greta from the shit she would get from beating his ass. She had stood up with her fists clenched; she hated the ape term, and as a Flash, Greta could hurt him before he even registered that she had moved.

“I fucking know what it means,” Randy said, even though his body language said the opposite. What do they teach these kids at their school? Does he think his dad, and brain, will protect him from me? Worse, Greta looked mad. I would at least not kill him because of Zer, but Greta has had trouble with control.

“Randy, my sister’s a Dead and a Hulk; she doesn’t care who your dad is,” Zer said and pushed Randy to the empty seats at the front.

“Fucking dead ape,” Randy mumbled at me and let my sister save his life.

Greta moved out of her seat, and faster than I could see, she moved to the seat beside me. She must have hit the seat corner because she arrived with a whimper, and a “Fuck me!”, as he rubbed her hip. Greta raised her hand in a blur and said, “I’m Greta.” A cute girl who looked to have just started puberty, she stood inches taller than me, with a slight body, dark bruises on her pale arms, and a cut on her bony chin. Her bright blue eyes danced as she glanced around the bus.

“I know,” I said and turned to look out the window. Green, full trees lined the street. Their branches extended over the road and created a tunnel-like effect.