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Chapter 6

*A Quarrel*

The Rustbuckets’ dorm, that was where N and V were at.

The dorm was just exactly what one would imagine an old married couple would live,

All the walls were colored like copper, and each room had a concrete floor except for the living room which had a cobalt blue greasy old carpet

Just as the doorman’s residence, the kitchen and living room shared the same space, however contrast to it, instead of an island to eat at, their was a metal table with a sheet over it and chairs, which was the threshold between both areas.

then their was a hallway, on the right wall their was the entry to the master’s bedroom (that was going to be V’s room) then on the left wall was the door to the guest’s room (that was N’s), then finally the door to the laundry room where on one of the walls they found was a door to bathroom.

Was it a weird little home? Yes yes it was, but it was theirs, and they were gonna have to get used to it, because Heaven nows they weren't going to back to Khan's home for a loooong while.

Currently the two were sitting in the living room, N on a sofa had, back to a wall, with an oil painting of two cats playing with yarn over it, he was looking down at his legs, kicking them up in the air, trying to get his mind somewhere else.

then V on the left side of the living room, talking away on her phone.

”Okay, so that’s the plan?” She asked “Okay good.” She nodded

”Cya at school tomarrow, bye.” V then hung up, and placed the phone back into her jacket, not even taking the surfaces anywhere as an option because of how dusty they were.

”Okay so good news,” she got N’s attention “If Khan’s wife tries to get us evicted, Lizzy says we’re more than wellcome to stay at her house, which is a down grade from this, but hey! Still good to have a plan B, right?”

N simply stared at him with sad little puppy dog eyes, which admitably caused V's heart to ache a decent amount.

He looked back down to his legs head hung low.

”Did you hear how she talked to us?” N finally spoke.

V pursed her lips together shaking her head as she sighed, she should've known he would have taken a response like that so personal.

”She really hates us, doesn’t she?” N asked

"Guess so." V simply shrugged.

N lowered his head, How awful, this was the second time he had met his girlfriend’s mother, and she hated both him and V’s guts.

“Hey.” Once again V got N”s attention, and he looked up to face him.

V waved her hand in the air, “Don’t…don’t think about it too much on it, okay?’ She said

”Alot of people feel that way about us, don’t dwell on it, okay?” V explained “I did that once, and it really messed me up.”

"Well maybe we should show them that we're different now, and get their opinions to change!" N exclaimed "Because I never want to feel the way I feel tonight!"

Tears began to form in N’s optics “I know that, but I don’t want it too be people who I’m close to that hate me.”

V looked at him, with not an inch of confidence, "N, I hate to break to you, but people's opinions don't just change." she shook her head.

N stood up from his seat, "but what about our friends?" he asked

"What?"

"Our friends!" N cried "Uzi, Thad and Lizzy even! They all changed their opinions on us." he pointed out, managing to put a dent into V's arguement, and a hesitant expression to cross V's face, but only a split second before it changed to annoyance, with her slowly growing irrtated with N.

"That's different! We didn't give them a reason to hate us." she retorted.

"Me and Uzi tried to kill each other when we first met, and you planned to eat all of Lizzy's friends during prom, that feels like a pretty good reason to me, and yet they still choose to be our friends, because they know we're changed." he declared confidently "What makes you think we can't do the same for anybody else-"

V slammed her peg leg onto the ground, and balled her hands into tight hands, now completely over her friend's foolish optimism.

"Because that's not how the world works N!" V yelled

N backed up, flinching her voice so loud it rang through his hearing processors, for over a minute.

V seeing N's noticble alarm, felt a twinge of guilt.

She exhaled deeply, pinching the bridge of her nonxestic nose for a minute, before finally musturing up the courage to look him in the eye and have a civil conversation with him once more

"That's now how people are," she began "People's opinion don't just change, espicially about drones like us, and the sooner you except that, the better it's gonna be."

N looked at him like he was kid, told that santa clause didn't exist, which she believed had meant he would now drop it.

Believing she had won, V turned away, knowing the words she had said hurt N, but would in the end help him, but as she went to go to her bedroom to retire for the night, N once more broke the silence.

"That's really how you see it?" he asked

V stopped, biting her tongue.

N shook his head "That's a horrible way to look at this."

It wasn't a horrible way to look at things, it was the real way.

"You're wrong," N declared, "We can change how people see us, and we can start with Uzi's mother."

V kept her back to turned to him.

"I'll believe it when I see it." was the last words she said to them.

Then that was that.

So just like that they left the conversation be for the night, ignoring each other for the rest of the night, knowing they were getting nowhere with the conversation, neither taken each other point of view into their own persepctive.