Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

For the life of me, I didn’t know how we didn’t crash and die then and there, because I managed to keep a straight face while I was side-eyeing JP—as a signal to Kaley—because he was in the vehicle with us. However, Kaley just rolled her eyes and chuckled before she adjusted her sitting posture and doubled down:

“I said what I said, I just thought it’d look good on me…”

Quinn was the first one to speak from behind, “Hah! I’ll probably take one too if there’s something to fit me!”

Tatiana added, “Me too, imagine the sex when—”

I cut them off, “Hellooo?? We. Have. A. Passenger! Sit. Ting. Right. There!”

Quinn chuckled-scoffed, “This kid here? Trust me, it’s like the first time he saw tits because he was frozen the whole way~ I first thought he’d even try to cop a feel but his hands are tucked between his legs. How boring~”

Tatiana was looking at me via the rear-view mirror with an amused expression, “Imagine what he’d do if we start having sex on the ride—”

JP suddenly spoke up, “You— This is highly inappropriate! I should be driving the Raycolt my dad sent me but I’m getting hazed—”

Quinn placed her arm over his shoulders and started to lightly choke him to death, “Exactly. But you should be thanking us we’re sitting with you. We wanted to do something carnal and a little violent but you’re here and stopping us from doing so—”

“You can just stop the truck and let me—”

“Nuh-uh. I take great pleasure teasing uptight boys like you and you’re riding with us until it’s not fun anymore. And right now, seeing you like that is fun and—”

JP cut her off as he glared at me through the rear-view mirror, “Did you put them up to this?! You did—”

I chuckled as I shook my head, “Nope. I let you sit with us because of one particular reason and it’s not because so that Quinn could have some fun with you.”𝑂𝐕𝑙xt.𝗇𝓔t

“Lies! It was just— Stop spouting nonsense! Just let me drive my ride!”

The whole time JP blew up, Kaley was watching him the whole time and was dEfINiTelY using her psychic powers to some degree. However, she still hasn’t spoken a word ever since she broke the ice so I continued to calm down our angsty Baron who had his most important thing taken away: control.

‘And sitting between the biggest Alpha-Bitches I’ve known is definitely uncomfortable for the aLphA that he is… Heh.’

I shrugged my shoulders as I struggled to contain myself because of the 5mph speed limit, “You can believe me or not but I’m doing what’s best for you. We can—”

“You just want me to admit whatever the fuck I’m doing to these w-women, right?! You want me to embarrass myself in front of them, is that it?! Is that what it would take to drive my own vehicle?! HUH?!”

“Woah, calm down there~”

Tatiana turned to me, “What’s he talking about?”

Quinn added, “Yeah, this feels different.”

“…” Kaley still kept quiet while keeping a close watch on our golden egg.

How I wish I could just slam on the brakes and make him fly through the windshield but at the speed we’re going, I doubt making him have a sore neck was possible. But yeah, as I was still figuring out how to actually make JP be okay with himself, Kaley made Quinn and Tatiana sit with the other two on the truckbed before she sat with him and stared him in the eyes:

“Okay, you can tell me what’s wrong. I won’t judge you or anything— I’m just here to listen, alright? What’s bothering you?”

“W-What— I was… I… I was just…”

“It’s alright, take your time. It’s just us here, tell me what’s on your mind…”

“I… I-I don’t actually mean to d-do that…”

“Do what, exactly?”

“It’s… Umm… It’s umm…”

“JP, we’re just here to help… For that to work, you should just tell us… We won’t tell anyone else… We promise you…”

“A-Alright… I trust you… Thanks for kicking those two out…”

“Yes, you can trust me, right?”

“Yeah…”

‘Here we go~’

We weren’t even halfway to the cafeteria when JP was bawling his eyes out but I was more impressed with Kaley from the way she kept herself together when JP told her his biggest secret with Seb. She actually gave him sound advice though I felt a little bad for listening in to their session because there were a lot of times he could’ve said the truth instantly if he wasn’t afraid of me—or anyone else—giving him looks or straight up judging his actions.

The biggest point in their entire conversation was it’s not actually about him doing stuff with the same sex, it was about being in the same corrupted mindset as Lopez. Well, it was actually a little bit of both—honestly speaking, but if there was something we needed to ‘cure’, it was his usage of the power given to him with his titles. But in his case, he was only using the Baron buff to make Seb bend to his will but if he only knew that Seb was actually letting him do what he wants, it’d be an entirely different conversation.

‘I’d hate to say it but Seb should be present next time…’

In any case, who would’ve thought one of our problems could easily be solved by passing it to someone else more qualified to solve it, and I actually felt lighter because that’s one more issue leaving my plate.

And yeah, Kaley made a promise to JP that they’ll have this talk every now and again but I almost burst out laughing when I saw Quinn and Tatiana trying so hard to read their lips from the glass window behind.

With that said, reaching the cafeteria took longer than it should because we’d only have to drive past a small rotonda—or a roundabout, a parking area that had gravel flooring, and a small bend past a few old Molave trees.

It would’ve taken me 20 minutes to walk from the gate to the cafeteria but it almost took the same time with my Raptor because of the speed limit and a few more reasons.

But yeah, once we reached the place and saw the hundreds of students slowly falling in line to get in, I instantly thought of going someplace else but Cass had already exited Jesus’ station wagon and waved us to follow behind her.

“C’mon! Use your ID! They have a separate seating arrangement for alumni like us! Wait a sec— do you still have caf load on that?”

I nodded after cringing because of the wave of nostalgia that followed after hearing that choice of words, “I probably still have around 20k of credits loaded—”

Before I could finish my sentence, Cass just rushed at me and tried to cover my mouth but I held her in place with my hand on her head. She never looked so distraught from hearing that I still had a boatload of unspent credits—because I’d rather just cook for myself or eat outside—but I never would’ve thought such credits would prompt a reaction from her.

Turns out, it was the currency this place kept on using as the world ended and even a thousand credits was enough to make waves around the campus.

“I d-don’t know if you’re lying to me but don’t say that you have that out loud!”

“You’re the one who asked me—”

“Not important! K-Keep your ID safe at all times and… ugh… just— d-don’t lose that, okay?!”

I actually didn’t care about garnering attention because our getup and the vehicles we used to drive in were attention-grabbing enough as is. Heck, just Quinn and her 7-foot frame were enough to turn several bottoms male or female.

And yeah, we were the center of attention when we walked through the alumni section—which only had half the tables filled up—but the look on Quinn, Tatiana, Jesus, and his crew’s company when they saw the menu was fucking priceless.

They knew fucking well that this place didn’t serve any meat but seeing them in person instantly made them lose appetite.

Sure, there are a lot of delicious and delicious-looking vegan or vegetarian foods but let me tell you with 100% certainty that in this place—especially in the apocalypse—those two terms had no chance of existing whatsoever.

What we have on the menu except for actual vegetables that were cooked in the simplest way like boiling them or just cutting them up to look nice were meat replacements called gluten-meat, vege-meat, vege-tapa, etc. And yeah, there were some familiar meals in the mix but the ones that should have meat were replaced by the ones I mentioned above or with tofu and beans.

In the first few months I’ve studied here, I actually found all of them pleasant but it didn’t take long before everything else started to taste the same.

And once again, I wasn’t saying that these types of foods taste bad—it’s just that I wished that they were cooked and prepared a different way or they should just change the menu once in a while. Furthermore, we were in the fucking Alumni Section—the selection here should be a little bit better than what the students were having.

But yeah, it only took a single phrase before we garnered more attention—because Cass didn’t brief us on how dire the situation here was on food selection—as Quinn spoke out the forbidden words:

“Can’t we just eat what we brought over? I remember we still have some strip steaks and a bit of fried chicken left, right?”

And all hell broke loose.