Aquata Cove Ch. 96

"Oh, I'm not here to help." She scoffed, "I'm just here so you don't start whacking off in here or break anything expensive. If your head splits open and you start screaming your lungs out, I'm just going to go get a drink."

"Aheheh..." Adam laughed weakly from that, "You know, now you're making me a little nervous."

"Would you just turn the damn key?" She snarled, "God, you weren't this much of a puss when you were alive."

"Wait, what?"

"Whatever, just open the door."

"Ok, ok." Adam said as takes the key and turned it. It clicked inside, and he pushed in. Stepping into the small changing room, he can see everything with a slight grey tinge, covered with a thin layer of dust.

"God, it's worse than I thought." Chloe winced as she stayed close, "I can't even breathe in here."

"Good. Maybe that'll shut your gash."

"Ahahaha, finally, I get something out of you... Which I will never say again, I just had a very disgusting thought."

"Riiight." Adam rolls his eyes as he looks around. There's a vanity table located at the back wall with a mirror and light bulbs. He turned them on, and saw they are still working. It isn't long until the two of them smell burning dust from the bulbs. He looks around, seeing the various costumes hung up on the wracks on the right and left sides of the room.

"Uh-ghgh, seriously, Alf. This place needs to air out." Chloe gagged on the stale air, "I'm going to get a fan in here, ulgh." She turns and leaves.

"Take your time." Adam said as he sits on the chair, sighing as he looked down, and noticed a few tidbits on the floor. Bending down, Adam inspected them and picked them up. "What are these? Pills?" He asked as he looked at the blue diamond-shaped tablets. He absentmindedly rubs at his left shoulder to take care of an itch, before it felt like a very weird sting. He furrowed his brow as he palms it, the odd stinging sensation remaining faintly.

"Aghh..." Adam puts a hand to his head as he feels his brain throb, "Sssshhhhit. Don't do this now..." He tosses the pills aside into the trash bin, before he sees something else. He looks, and picks up a ripped up folder and some official-looking documents. He can't understand what this could mean, skimming through the words, his sight glimpsing Jessica's printed name on the paper's lines.

"Ahh, ghhhh" Adam hisses as a keen ringing begins to pierce into his skull, "Fuck, fuck, fuck, aahhh." He puts both his hands onto his forehead.

"Here, plug this in," Chloe says as she walks through the threshold, and then sees Adam grunting in pain, "Oh shit, you alright?"

"No... My head hurts, I think a migraine is coming."

"Well don't panic, just calm down." She tells him as she puts the fan down, and adjusted him a little, "Don't move, I'll get an ice pack and the aspirin." She rushes out of the changing room. Adam sits there, panting as he tries to pass through this headache.

Adam takes a double-look at the trashcan, and sees a few ripped papers in there. He pends down, and picks up them up. White paper with more printed lines and words. At the top parts of the ripped document, are the words:

RESTR//AINING

OR//DER

His head throbs more, "Agh, fffuck," Adam throws the shreds back into the bin, and tries to settle down.

After a few pulse-pounding moments, the worst of the headache starts to fade. He puts a hand on the desk, thinking to occupy the next few minutes before Chloe comes back. He opens a few drawers to try and distract himself, closing some of them with make-up bottles and kits in them, along with a couple of undergarments here and there, before he opens one, and doubles back on it, seeing something very catching.

He sees a couple of slides of pictures, the kind you get from a photo booth. His mouth becomes ajar when he reaches in, and picks them up.

They are of him and Merrick.

The roll of pictures shows them in multiple poses. The top one shows Merrick in mid-speech, looking confused while Adam tries to talk to him. The second one shows Merrick to have a whined face while Adam is laughing, having force-tickled Merrick. The third one is of Merrick's right arm around Adam's neck while he had his hands on Merrick's forearms.

'And I can tell you that you and him...' Donna's voice echoed as he looks at shifts through these photographs, 'The two of you were really close...' Adam opens his mouth further as his eyes widened when he sees the picture of Merrick kissing his cheek. The next one shows of Adam clutching at Merrick's head while his licks his cheek like an animal.

Adam breathes harder as he looks at the pictures of him and Merrick holding their shirts up, and exposing their torsos, Adam's hairy chest and treasure trail, and Merrick's chest and smooth abs.

'He blames himself for what happened...' Echoed the memory again. His fingers shook and slipped the pictures out of his hand, falling to the floor. He gasped and felt a very hot wave on his face when he sees the image of a couple of penises on one of them. He quickly snatched them up, and flipped through them more.

He sees an image of his and Merrick's mouths wide open and glued to each other. He sees his own self clutching onto Merrick's sides while he drags his tongue on his smooth abs. Adam's cheeks get very red as he stammered, covering his mouth when he sees himself pushing his face into that fair-skinned lap, seeing Merrick's nude ass at a side-angle, with his jeans tucked just below those round cheeks.

"Oh my God, what..." Adam's heart pounds as he sees Merrick pulling at Adam's underwear with his teeth. He looks at another photo of Adam's fuzz-butt as the two of them are naked from the waist down, with Merrick's knees on the booth's seat, and Adam having look like he's right behind him.

"Ffffuck." Adam fumbles the pictures and puts them down, rubbing into his scalp, before he feels slightly dizzy, and he looks up as his vision blurs. He can see a distorted image of himself walking to the door and opening it, and glimpsing Merrick smirking at the door's frame.

'Hoh my God' He can hear himself say faintly before the apparition quickly hugs the blonde phantom. The two hold each other as they wisp and echo, 'I missed you...' They whispered.

"Wha..." Adam leans down, staring at the floor, swallowing his dry throat as he tries to process this.

"Ok, back. You still alive?" Chloe says, making Adam jump.

"HAH!"

"Jesus! Adam," Chloe said, just as startled at his reaction, "You scared me, dick-fucker!"

"Shit, sorry, Chloe, fuck..." He shook his head, still quivering.

"Here." She pushed the cold pouch onto Adam's head, and then pushed a couple of white pills into his hand and a bottled water, "Get these in your mouth before your head explodes."

"Heheheh, that's what HE said..." Adam chuckled nervously.

"I- G- Ssssshit, Adam! It's in MY head, freaggin, ack!" She says angrily. Adam pops the pills into his mouth, and chugs down the water. Taking a moment, and looking at those facedown pictures he has. There's more that he hasn't looked at yet...

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Merrick lightly splashes about beside the shore, which is tainted by a red shade. He holds a part of his harpoon with the seawater as he scrubs it as clean as he can with an abrasive pad. Dried human blood seems to be stubborn to remove. He grunts as he wipes firmly along the shaft.

He lays the second wood pole next to the first one, previously cleaned. He picks up the blotched metal head blade of his weapon, and proceeded to push thoroughly into the blood grooves of the fragment.

-Vvvv-Vvvvvvvv-

Vibrates his phone along with a jingle. "Huh?" He picks it up to see he's got a text message on the screen.

Adam Bryant

[Come to my house. Now.]

"Huh... Sounds a little blunt..." Merrick says as he dries his hands real quick and texts back.

Merrick Piscien

[Why? What's up?]

Adam Bryant

[Just get over here.]

"That's... Kinda on a weird tone, he almost sounds like he's mad..." Merrick sighs as he shakes the water off of his harpoon's blade, before he tucks the 3 pieces into its duffle case, zip it up, and slinging it over his shoulder as he slips his sandals on.

Merrick Piscien

[Ok. I'll be there soon.]