CHAPTER 23: CHAPTER 23: STRAIGHT

"So, care to tell me how you are not injured?"

Betty clasped her fingers behind her back, forcing a stiff smile.

"I, I was just injured lightly and only my stomach was hurt, so it got healed pretty quickly."

David snorted and walked past her toward camp.

"Do you think I’m a fool? What a garbage excuse."

Betty’s eye twitched as she trailed behind him.

’tch what a moody man, bet he never got a girlfriend, waah so annoying now I have to find another chance to run’

David, walking forward, touched his head, feeling pain as his hand brushed the bandage.

His mind replayed Betty getting punched in the stomach, blood pouring from her mouth.

’There is something wrong with this guy that I cant figure out’

"Rustle"

Hearing strange noises, he glanced back only to see Betty’s stiff body and her finger pointing at him.

"What.."

Various expressions crossed Betty’s face, including embarrassment.

Seeing David’s penetrating gaze staring at her, she waved her hand nervously.

"Nothing, I was just exercising."

David raised a brow but shrugged, resuming his walk. Betty glared at his back and raised her fists in a mock boxing stance, shadow-fighting his silhouette in her imagination.

’K.O. Betty Wins all rounds’

By the time they reached camp, rain had soaked her clothes through.

Betty paused and looked strangely at David, while he was removing his French coat.

"Hey, David, did you take that zombie core or not?"

David stopped his coat hanging mid-way as he looked at her, nodded, and removed his coat.

Betty’s expression became dull, David’s white shirt was soaked, and she could see the muscles from inside.

David: "_"

’What is he staring at so intensely?’

Looking down, his lips twitched, seeing Betty’s gaze fixed on his see-through shirt.

He starts backing off as Betty, with a perverted smile, raises her hand toward him.

"Hey, stop, I said stop, what the hell?"

For once, His expressionless face finally broke as he fled from there.

"hehehehe, stop, let me touch it."

Betty’s creepy voice creeped him more as he ran fastly, he could feel Betty just behind her with both her hands raised.

"What do you want, Bennett? stop."

The survivors watch with various expressions as David runs and Betty follows behind him, pervertly.

"What the hell, I didn’t expect this man to be a pervert?" someone mutters

Seeing Ethan back, his eyes lit up, clutching his shoulder from behind, he turned Ethan’s face toward her.

"Whao who.. eh"

His face became dazed seeing Betty’s perverted smile and her drooling face.

"Ethan, help me from this pervert."

turning to look behind his shoulder.

"Puffff"

He nearly laughed, seeing David Haggard’s breath and his flustered face hiding behind him like a shield.

’hahahaha, what the hell, I didn’t see this type of expression on my brother’s face in my life.’

Betty’s boots rubbed against the floor as she stopped seeing Ethan. She blinked, realizing what she was doing.

Betty: "_"

Ethan:"_"

Ethan coughed and looked at Betty, seriously trying not to show his twitching lips.

"What the hell, man, aren’t you straight? Didn’t you and Lillian like each other?"

David looked from behind Ethan, his angry eyes staring at her.

"What was that? Why were you smiling like a pervert?"

Betty, hearing two questions at once, blinked, then her face turned completely red.

She opened her mouth to answer, but could not form the correct words.

"Hey Ethan, I’m straight, why would I fall for the same gender?"

She stared with an earnest glare at Ethan. Ethan nodded and patted her shoulder.

"Yep, that’s what I’m talking about, why would you like my brother, you liked Lillian?"

Betty’s mouth opened to explain, but she quickly shut it.

’I was talking about Lilian, but whatever they thought, it’s not like I have a crush on any of them’

"So why were you running behind me with that lecherous smile?" David’s glare was somewhat unconvinced, still standing behind Ethan, guarded.

Betty bit her lip and started making a circling motion with her feet.

"Well, that’s because I I....."

Betty struggled to say her shameful secret, even Cassie, her best friend, dint know about it.

"That’s because I like muscles."

Betty became more uncomfortable feeling their gaze.

Ethan punched his chest and made a proud face.

Betty tilted her head in puzzlement, seeing his sudden proud expression.

"So you mean you like muscles and want to make yourself bulky, but can’t make it?"

Betty’s eyes lit up as she found haven, she eagerly nodded, flicking her finger.

"Yep, absolutely correct, you are a genius, Ethan, you know that."

Ethan’s nose raised even more, hearing compliments.

David, although suspicious of Ethan’s words, walked out with a cough, he changed the topic.

"Ahem, Bennett, why were you asking about the core?"

Betty, hearing the change of topic, goes along quickly.

"Yeah, i was gonna tell you don’t crack that core, it can be fatal. I have seen one zombie eating a core, and he died, so you should put it in water and wait until the core light dims, then drink the water."

Inside, Betty was thanking god that she was able to save her secret.

Her mind was thinking of her shameful moments when she occasionally set her computer screen wallpaper of a shirtless man.

"cough, cough"

’Betty, stop thinking of those moments’

"Ahhh, Bennett, where were you? I was worried."

Betty stiffened, hearing Lilian’s voice. Looking back at her shoulder, Lilian was standing there with her hand on her hip, her eyes glaring at her.

"You know you are badly hurt, come with me to your mattress."

Without hearing a word, she dragged Betty away. Ethan grinned and patted David’s shoulder.

"See, I was right, they love each other, look at the adoration in Lillian’s eyes, yes, she is the same who glares daggers at me on family parties, but now look at her face."

David nodded absently while looking at Betty, his mind played with her lecherous smile, and his body shuddered.