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« on: May 29, 2013, 01:01:11 AM »
"LATER TAY-TAY!" Zeta shouted as the group left.
"I'm not sure she'll like you calling her that." PB snickered.
"I hope she doesn't mind me calling her that." Zeta giggled.
"You sure like giving people nicknames." PB smiled. "I'm surprised you haven't given me one."
"I've been trying to think if one but it's no use." Zeta pouted "PB's too good of a nickname. Then again I just call Quickie Quickie like everyone else."
"I see." PB laughed "I like giving nicknames too, it's fun isn't it?".
"Yeah it is." Zeta said looking nostalgic.
"What's up?" PB asked noticing the change in her.
"Well it's just, there's a reason I call everyone nicknames." Zeta said as she smiled sadly "It's sorta serves as a reminder of her."
"Your friend?" PB guessed
"Yeah." Zeta nodded "She was really optimistic from what I could tell, though I didn't know her too long before...."
"I'm sorry." PB sighed and put an arm around her "I didn't mean to make you feel bad."
"It's fine, it's been almost 5 years." Zeta shook her head "I can't bring the dead back to life, and I can't change the past. All I can do is move forward and live twice as much for the both of us."
"You had to live with this for most of your life didn't you." PB asked.
"Yeah..." Zeta admitted.
PB brought Zeta close to him and hugged her. Zeta's eyes widened at first but after a while she returned the hug.
"It still hurts doesn't it?" PB stated.
"Yes." Zeta nodded. Although PB didn't see her face, he knew she was crying a little as she said it.
"I'm sorry." PB apologized "I wish I could take that pain away."
"I don't want to get rid of this pain though." Zeta replied. "If I do, I won't be able to remember her, and why I'm who I am."
"Because you didn't know who created you right?" PB asked.
"Yeah, before I met her my creator was gone. I think he died before he could activate me but was able to complete me enough that the only thing left was running checks to make sure I could activate with no malfunctions. After that I was...." Zeta drifted off as she struggled to continue and trembled a little.
"Shh, it's okay." PB said as he stroked her back and head "You told enough for now."
"I'm sorry." Zeta lamented "I normally don't get this emotional about this, the main reason that I didn't want to tell you about it yet was because I wanted to wait for you to recover from your own problems. You already have so much [parasitic bomb] to deal with, I didn't want you to deal with something that was already done."
"Doesn't matter to me." PB shook his head. "In my opinion the problems of others are more important than my own. Besides, this makes me concentrate on something else so I don't have to think about, well you know."
"I guess that's true." Zeta admitted "Still I want to wait until you feel a little better at least."
"I understand." PB nodded "Don't worry about it right now, just relax okay?"
Zeta merely nodded as she and PB stayed the way they were for a few moments.
(Next part is done but I need someone to post.)