"Leo?!" Ms Ves shouted in embarrassnt, causing Leo to imdiately close the door and an awkward silence to envelope the two of them.
"Ah! I—I didn't see anything!" Leo stamred, turning away so fast he nearly tripped over himself.
Inside, Ves exhaled sharply, her own face red as she hurriedly pulled on her clothes.
"That idiot…" she muttered with a small, embarrassed smile.
He couldn't believe what he just saw. His brain felt like it was about to lt and run out from his ear.
That mont was very embarrassing for them to say the least. For Ms Ves, it was the first ti that anyone of the opposite sex has seen her that part of her body.
As an orphan, the children in the orphanage ho she grew up in was her family and after she left, she has been busy trying to make sothing of herself before she decided to go work for the orphanage ho.
As for Leo, it was naturally the first ti he would seeing the real thing. He has seen them in so movies—very bad movies that Ms Nora has in her phone.
But seeing the real thing was different. He felt his face flushed red and coupled with the hormones flooding his body, he felt his body beco strange.
'What am I thinking? That's Ms Ves!' Leo scolded himself and slapped his face.
He could feel his face burning, and no amount of scolding himself seed to help. But the slap seed to have worked as his body slowly started returning to normal and in a couple of minutes, he no longer felt the sa strangeness.
Leo finally let out a sigh of relief when he felt his body finally return to normal. He stopped standing in front of the door and went to the kitchen of the apartnt to see if he can get himself sothing to eat.
He and Ms Ves haven't eaten anything since the apocalypse began. He would had eaten before going for the zombie hunt but that was before one of them, drawn by his life force, started banging at the door of the apartnt.
Leo opened the fridge and luckily for him, he saw so fruits, a full loaf of untouched bread and so cooked food that was packed into so plastic containers.
"Wow. Very nice. Ms Ves' idea of looking for a residential building was the best idea." Leo nodded to himself when he saw the stocked fridge.
"It's very convenient," Ms Ves said from behind Leo, causing him to be startled.
Leo slowly turned back to find Ms Ves fully dressed and smiling at him.
"M-Ms Ves, I'm sorry!" Leo imdiately apologized when he saw her.
"I didn't an to walk in like that. I'm sorry, I should have knocked." He apologized again.
"It's fine. You don't have to apologize. It's nothing serious," Ves said, brushing off the incident.
Leo heard what she said but he felt that he should still apologize again. Even though she seems to be casual about what happened, he has idea no idea if it's going to strain their relationship and he doesn't want it to happen.
"Once again, Ms Ves. I'm sorry." Leo apologized for the third ti.
"I said no more apologizing. Besides, it's not like you haven't seen it before and you also said that you didn't see anything, right?" Ms Ves asked, as she turned to give him a sly smile, causing Leo to imdiately look away embarrassed.
Leo indeed wanted to say that it was the first ti but sothing told him that he shouldn't, and as soone who always follows his instincts, he didn't.
Leo's face flushed all over again, and he coughed into his fist. "Y-Yeah… nothing."
"Like I said, don't overthink it too much Leo. It was an accident," Ms Ves said, as she took so fruits from the fridge and started eating.
Though She sounded calm, but the faint blush creeping up her neck betrayed her own embarrassnt.
She quickly walked to one of the chair in the dining area, took her seat and started eating the fruits she took from the fridge.
That was… awkward," Leo muttered under his breath, shaking his head as he opened the fridge. Despite everything, he found himself smiling faintly. At least she's okay.
He also took so fruits from the fridge and walked to one of the chairs in the dining room, and took his seat.
"Leo, about the building, I was thinking that if we can completely wipe out all the zombies in the building and its surrounding, secure it and other place we would need, like supermarkets, and also so basic anities and protect the ones we had, living here would be very easy," Ms Ves said, after Leo had taken his seat.
Leo nodded in agreent to Ms Ves' words. He completely agree with what she said. The residential building they are in has electricity and water, two things that are very important.
And in addition to that, it's in perfect condition. From the apartnts he has checked so far, none of them has any broken windows or door.
"I completely agree with you, Ms Ves but that isn't what's important right now, is it?" Leo asked, as he looked at her solemnly.
The expression on Ms Ves' face also turned solemn at Leo's question. She looked down at the apple in her hand with different thoughts flying around in her head.
Leo saw the expression on Ms Ves' face and he clenched his fist in worry and anxiety.
The atmosphere between them tensed a little and there was a brief silence between the two of them.
The next mont, Ms Ves raised her head and smiled at Leo, and said sothing.
"I won't turn anymore. The thing causing to turn is no more." She laughed heartily.
It was the first ti she has laughed since the apocalypse started and it was very genuine.
As expected, Leo was shocked by what Ms Ves said. He looked at her with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
The smile on Ms Ves' face widened when she saw Leo's reaction. She knew that it was sothing that's hard for anyone to believe and so she decided to explain.
"It all started like this..." Ms Ves said, as she started explaining everything that happened to Leo.
She told him about the shadow creature in her mindspace, the personality of her zombie side and possibly the entity controlling other zombies.
She told him about how she fought it and how she won.
Even after Ms Ves had explained everything, Leo still found it hard to believe. It wasn't that he didn't want to believe but the reason was that he felt that it shouldn't had been so easy to get rid of her zombie side so easily.
He felt that there was more to it but he knew that since Ms Ves didn't tell him anything more, then be should forget about it.
Even though he was suspicious of the whole thing, he was genuinely happy that Ms Ves had regained complete control of herself and her zombie side won't be taking over again.
"That's wonderful,. Ms Ves. I'm very happy that everything is back to normal. This changes a lot of things for us. We can combine our strength and secure the building and the things, and also increase our strength." Leo said, before he continuing eating the fruits in his hand.
Ms Ves smiled at Leo's words. She couldn't help but look at him strangely, trying to study him to see if there's anything peculiar about him but no matter how much she looked, she saw nothing.
She glanced at Leo, who was focused on his food. Her smile faltered for just a second.
"Protect him with my life," she thought. The words echoed in her mind like a whisper, and she didn't know whether to feel grateful or terrified.
'Why did that person ntion my relationship with Leo? Why did she help ? Why was I told to protect with my life?' she thought to herself, as she rembered what happened in her mindspace when she was fighting her zombie personality.
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