Chapter 17. Fluctuations.
September 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Roxanne and Gregory were warm in each other's arms again… Someone might say: «Aren't they tired of doing all this already?» – or: «How much can?» – and so on and so on… These questions can be answered for a very long time… I must say right away: I even thought at first to make a small digression on this topic, but… I think everyone understands that it turned out to be quite a big one. Therefore, in order not to delay, I'll tell you about it very simply: hugs – are one of the easiest ways to make it clear to the interlocutor that you care about him. Thousands of pleasant words can be replaced with just this one action. The main thing is that it should be sincere. After can talk about it by yourself and supplement this statement in a way that is convenient for everyone.
Let's go back to the two. At this point in time, these two, after a rather, to put it mildly, exciting moment, mutually reassured each other: they rubbed their heads against each other, snuggled closer and were charged with a kind of positive. They just enjoyed being around. Despite the silence on both sides, it was clear to both that everything would be more or less in order now. All the problems briefly receded into the background. They relaxed more and more on each other. The wolf growled a little, thus creating a kind of pleasant and soothing purr, and the boy sometimes just chuckled softly with emotion.
After a while, the boy almost fell asleep on her shoulder again. He abruptly and briskly recoiled from her, looking dumbfounded in front of him. The wolf also recoiled slightly from him, stopping growling and looking at him with wide eyes.
Roxy: «What happened?» – she asked in perplexity.
The boy then quickly turned his gaze to her and, finally, seeing her, began hurriedly and a little nervously talking to her, at the same time carefully waving his arms in front of her:
Gregory: «Oh! Sorry-sorry! I didn't do it on purpose!» – then he lowered his hands and began to speak a little more calmly: «I just almost fell asleep again».
Roxanne laughed out loud, lifting her head, but then abruptly calmed herself down and, lowering her head back, looking at the boy, began to cheerfully tell him:
Roxy: «Oh, come on… It's good for you. You've been up most of the night».
Gregory: «No-no-no-no… Not necessary», – the boy spoke stubbornly and shook his head negatively, after which he continued in a normal tone: «I'll sleep when we've more or less figured it out, but in the meantime – needs work».
Roxy: «O-o-okay…» – she stretched out her speech, slightly tilting her head to the side, and then returned to her normal position and continued to speak calmly: «I got you. Well, then let's get this shit sorted out quickly».
Gregory: «Yes, come on», – he said actively.
After these words, Roxanne laid the boy on her arm, grinned a little, and turned towards the exit from the utility rooms, and then slowly went there.
The boy, after a while, began to fuss a little because of the wolf's slow gait. At first, he didn't understand why she was walking so slowly with him, but then the boy noticed that her gaze was somehow distant… Sometimes he could see that she wanted to say something to him, but… Roxanne stopped herself all the time. Finally, the boy couldn't stand it and asked her quietly:
Gregory: «Roxy, is something wrong? Simply… we're walking so slowly and…» – at that moment, he had a motive in his head for a shortstop in the back rooms: «Although, know!.. Let's stay here a little longer. I’ve appeared a question for you…» – here he paused a little.
«She might know something about Bonnie?» – the boy was thinking at that moment: «In general, will need to find out now!.. Oh, wait… But before…»
Roxy: «Which one?» – the wolf interrupted his thoughts on the way, looking at him with small surprise and waiting for the boy's speech.
Gregory: «Um…» – for a while, the boy was a little confused, and then continued actively: «But before I ask you this question, tell me what's bothering you right now. And don't be afraid! I'll understand you anyway, if anything».
The wolf was confused for a while, briefly turning her frowning gaze to the side, and then, looking at the boy again, cheerfully uttered on the machine:
Roxy: «Um… Oh, nevermi…» – but not to the end.
She turned away from the boy again, only this time with a slightly sad look. After a few seconds, the wolf stopped. After that, Roxanne, apparently gathering her courage, looked at Gregory again, after which she began to ask him with a serious tone and petty awkwardness:
Roxy: «You're, uh, homeless, right?..»
Gregory: «Ah… Seriously? Well, yes», – he said soothingly.
Roxy: «Um, well…» – she said and pulled the boy in front of her in arms, after which she began to examine at him, and then, after a few seconds, continued more awkwardly: «And what if… well…» – then her head tilted sideways for a while, and she slightly turned her gaze away: «So to speak… we're!.. Shall put you up at our institution?» – the wolf spoke impatiently at the end and turned her head back to the boy.
At this time, Roxanne's ears were ridiculously spaced out. She looked at the boy a little uncertainly and at the same time playfully, waiting for an answer from him. The boy just looked at her with a Leninist squint, and then began to scratch the back of his head. After that, he turned away from her in perplexity.
Gregory: «Um… Well…» – the boy spoke uncertainly and slowly turned his eyes to her.
She began to look at him with barely noticeable pleading in her eyes, slightly pricking up her ears. The boy abruptly turned away from this again and, looking shamefully at the floor, began to nervously scratch his head.
Gregory: «Oh crap, Roxy…» – he hastily began to urge her to common sense, looking at her seriously: «Is it possible to do this? How do you imagine it? The guards will immediately kick me out of here, if not worse…»
She only laughed snidely at him in response, and then continued the conversation through laughter:
Roxy: «If that's the case, then why aren't you being kicked out now, huh?»
Gregory: «Now, according to Vanessa, I have nowhere to go, since I'm not in their database, but when the day comes, I think it will cost them nothing to get me out of here. Although, they can also detain me for violations. Oh, and…» – the boy answered seriously, but he was interrupted:
Roxy: «He thinks…» – the wolf was chuckling at him: «Okay. You've already admitted yourself that they have nowhere to put you. So… I'll taking you at your word!» – she said in a naughty voice, and then continued more seriously: «You'd better tell me this: would you like to settle here at all?»
Gregory: «Oh, crap, Roxy… Of course, I wouldn't mind, but…» – here he didn't have time to finish.
Roxanne, having heard what she wanted, quickly pressed him to her shoulder so that he couldn't verbally resist. After that, she started talking to him at a hasty pace with a slightly displeased tone:
Roxy: «Stop-stop-stop. No “buts”! After we'll take care of everything ourselves…»
The wolf's tail began to turn naughty and quite from side to side after that. But the boy didn't give up. He tried to move away from her and say something, but in the end he just mumbled some unintelligible words into her shoulder. She was a little amused by the boy's behavior, which made her chuckle a little and say cheerfully to him:
Roxy: «Aww… Come on! Calm down, huh… You can't leave us here alone, can you?»
After these words, the boy humbly and displeased exhaled into her shoulder. There was a reproach in his gaze. The wolf just continued to speak as if nothing had happened:
Roxy: «Well, that's nice…» – after that, she stroked him on the back several times and pulled the boy out in front of her in arms again.
There was still a reproach on his face, but after he saw Roxanne's cheery fluttering face, he softened his gaze a little.
Gregory: «Well…» – he said calmly, and then continued hurriedly and seriously: «But I can't promise that!..» – here he was interrupted again:
Roxy: «So… I'm now shut you up again if you're going to show off», – the wolf spoke with a sly smile on her face.
Gregory: «But…» – he continued in the same tone, but was interrupted again:
Roxy: «Sure?..» – she said snidely and abruptly brought her face closer to the boy, having previously leaned slightly sideways.
After that, the boy briefly rolled his eyes, looked at her reproachfully again and said a little displeased:
Gregory: «All right! To damn with you, goldfish…»
Roxy: «Now, you're making sense…» – she said complacently and returned to her previous position: «So, what question did you want to ask me?»
Gregory: «Ah…» – he quickly changed his mood to a calmer one, and then, after a while, continued uncertainly: «Well… this is a long question. He'll be connected, so to speak, with Bonnie rabbit».
After the wolf heard this name, she twitched her whole body a little and tensed, after which she began to stare at the boy in a daze. After a while, she asked, no less surprised:
Roxy: «Bonnie? How do you know him?»
The boy himself had absorbed a little of her shock, but only about her reaction to it. It could be said that it was the first time he had seen Roxanne so, to speak, strange.
Roxy: «Hey! Why did you stop talking?» – she spoke with great interest, slightly shaking him in her hands to bring him back from the astral, and then continued in the same tone: «Do you know where he is? What happened with him? Where did he go?.. Come on, say something at least!» – she began to beg the boy for information, shaking him again so quickly, as if she wanted to pour out all the contents from him.
Gregory: «Wa-a-ait!» – he barely spoke through her shaking.
Fortunately, she stopped shaking him and calmed down after a while. After that, she looked at the boy a little guiltily and began to calmly pronounce:
Roxy: «I was carried away… Sorry».
Next, she gently laid the boy on her arm and began stroking his head. During this time, the boy managed to hurriedly and perplexedly say to her:
Gregory: «Oh, no-no! It's not a big deal. Everything all right…»
«Well, wow…» – the boy was saying hurriedly in mind: «What had gotten into her?.. Okay. What can be said for sure is that she clearly doesn't know where he is specifically. But… we still need to try to find out something. Something that…»
Roxy: «So, how did you find out about him anyway?» – she knocked the boy off his mind in a fit of interest.
He only gave her a slightly perplexed look, and then spoke calmly:
Gregory: «I thought I told you about it, as far as I remember…»
Roxy: «Gregory, this is the first time I've heard that name from you», – she spoke calmly.
Gregory: «Hey, come on, Roxy?..» – the boy insisted on his own: «When we first met, I already mentioned his name. Do you remember my story about how I had to calm Chica down?»
Roxy: «To calm Chica down?..» – she said thoughtfully, but then abruptly came to her senses: «Ah, yes! I remembered! But did you say anything about Bon?.. Oh, wait! But really spoke!.. I'm being really dumb today…»
Gregory: «Well… okay. Let's put it down to the influence of the virus», – he spoke judiciously, and then, in the same way, continued: «Anyway… I found out about him first from Freddy, and then a little more from Chica. And now… it's your turn to tell me about him».
After these words, Roxanne vexatious waved her free hand through the air and said:
Roxy: «Damn it! I already thought you knew where he was…» – then she continued more calmly: «Well… And what can I tell you about him at all?.. After all, I don't even know where he is right now», – next, the wolf began to speak in a more dissatisfied tone: «He was just taken away from us at the most inopportune, crap, moment!.. It was, damn it, extremely unexpected! Those morons probably had no idea what they had done…» – here she growled a little, thereby making a short pause, and then continued a little depressed: «That's it. That's all I know about it».
Gregory: «And who are the morons?» – the boy decided to clarify.
Roxy: «Who-who… Our dear administration!» – she spoke with some malice.
Gregory: «Oh…»
Roxy: «They, you know, had to do an unscheduled MNT!..» – she continued to pronounce it in the same tone: «Did it!.. Damn them all!»
Gregory: «So, wait…» – the boy interrupted her judiciously: «So, you could say he's still here somewhere. Yes?»
Roxy: «But I don't know!» – she screamed a little, raising her head and arm in displeasure for a while, and then continued a little more calmly, looking at the boy: «If I had known about it, I'd have found him by now! It's been a damn month! What are you talking about anyway?»
Gregory: «Well…» – the boy spoke calmly: «But still – there's hope that he is still here somewhere, and it is even greater now, thanks to your words».
Roxy: «Ha! Unlikely…» – she spoke disappointedly: «It must have been sent to the trash a long time ago, otherwise… why is he nowhere to be found?..»
Gregory: «Well, come on?..» – the boy spoke actively: «Don't rush to the worst outcome so quickly! What if he's lying here somewhere in the plex and waiting for it to be launched again? We don't know anything about it yet, but we have to hope that Bonnie is still here somewhere, otherwise we definitely won't find him».
After these words, Roxanne thought for a while. In her view of time, one could see the struggle of despair and hope, but in the end the second won, after which she cheerfully spoke:
Roxy: «Alright! You win».
Gregory: «That's better!» – the boy said joyfully: «I take it you have a good opinion of him, right?»
Roxy: «Right!» – she replied a little displeased: «That's, crap, yet an understatement! This guy was too good. I think Chica has already told you everything about him».
Gregory: «Of course, I understand that…» – he said calmly, and then began to beg her with interest: «But still, it will be interesting for me to learn also from you what he is like».
Roxanne hesitated a little at first, and then continued in a calm tone:
Roxy: «Well… what I can say about him is that he didn't feel sorry for himself. He was always getting attached to someone. Well… in a good way… To be honest… you even look like him in some ways. You're both such vermin!» – she joked and chuckled a little, then calmly continued: «In general, he wouldn't leave anyone else in trouble. Have been helping someone all the time. Crap…» – here she began to speak in a subdued tone: «It's ironic that he was the one who was taken away from us. Managed to take care of everyone, but about himself… damn… They're filthy brutes…» – she was depressed at the end.
Here the boy started up a little and began to speak to her with some reproach:
Gregory: «Roxy, that's enough already! We'll find him and restore. The administration was probably trying to do the best. You shouldn't call them that».
Roxy: «Ha! Yes. They were trying to do the best… for themselves…» – she spoke with disappointment and quiet malice.
Gregory: «Why? I misunderstand. What are you talking about?» – he was already asking in perplexity.
Roxy: «Oh, that there have been rumors for a long time about removing Bonnie from the stage! After all, it will be more economical!» – she said with displeasure, and then, a little sad, continued: «Crap! They even managed to come up with a story about Monty breaking it in his golf to get out from questions!..»
Gregory: «What?.. What get out from?»
After these words, the wolf began to look at the boy with some concern, after which she continued calmly with hints of sadness:
Roxy: «You see… After a while, the audience started swearing and complaining about them because of Bonnie's absence. Well, they decided to turn around in such a strange way… Therefore, I'm telling you, I don't think Bonnie's still here. If they managed to do this, then… Well, you know what I…»
Gregory: «Disgusting!» – he screamed fiercely, interrupting the wolf and looking at the ceiling with a tightly clenched fist, but then, after a while, he came to his senses and, looking at Roxanne, continued in a calm tone: «I mean… are you sure about all this?»
The wolf stared at him in stunned amazement for a while, but then a reproach quickly ran across her face.
Roxy: «Yes…» – she said wearily and a little displeased.
Gregory: «Well… But why exactly him? Um…» – the boy began to reason out loud: «What was Monty's relationship with Bonnie like?»
Here the wolf immediately changed her mood to an extremely actively one and began to respond to the boy in the same tone:
Roxy: «Ha! But, funny thing is, that they had some of the best! Well… except for Freddy. Freddy and Bonnie can generally be called brothers. But he had a pretty good relationship with Monty too! They pestered each other all the time. They often went to visit each other all the time doing something there: they taught each other to play on their rides, then just had fun together, then… in general, what they just didn't do! These two have often amused us so much with their antics!» – here she chuckled a little, and then continued in a more serious tone: «But… Bonnie's disappearance had a very strong effect on Monty. After that, he began to destroy everything around him often. Plus, Monty was already closed inside himself, and after that situation, he didn't feel like himself at all. He became more stubborn and aggressive. Freddy was generally embittered after that, blaming him for being irresponsible for his friend. And, to be honest, I even agree with him on something here. Freddy could…»
Gregory: «What could do?!» – the boy asked with displeasure, thus interrupting the wolf: «He himself didn't know that such a thing would happen! Don't scold Freddy! It's already hard for him…» – he said a little sadly at the end.
Roxanne snorted with displeasure at this and began to pronounce him with contempt:
Roxy: «But Freddy could at least try to do something, but he!..» – she was saying, raising her free hand with her fist up, but then she was interrupted again:
Gregory: «And I'm sure he tried!» – he spoke confidently and stood up a little, pointing at her with his finger, and then, calming down a little, tried to reach her: «Roxy, you should know Freddy yourself… Do you really believe that he's irresponsible?»
After the boy's words, Roxanne fell into a stupor in a daze. She didn't move and stared at the boy with her eyes wide open. Only after 3 seconds, the wolf lowered her hand, unclenching her fist, and turned away a little shamefacedly. Then she spoke a little dejectedly:
Roxy: «Well… I hope you're right».
The boy chuckled a little after that, and then put his hand on the wolf's shoulder. She jerked her head a little after that and turned to the boy with some bewilderment, raising her ears. The boy looked at her with a smile on his face, and then began to speak to her in a soothing tone:
Gregory: «I understand you. You're very worried about Bonnie, but… I'm trying to convey to you that you don't need to find the culprit for him not keeping track of someone. You must understand that everyone is involved in this together. And so, you have to solve this problem together or experience it. Otherwise, if you find a scapegoat, you won't be able to move far like that… It's just that all the problems will be shifted to another comrade. Plus, you'll worsen your relationship with each other. So… just team up! You must share your common lot equally among yourselves. Do you understand?» – he finished with motivation.
After listening to the boy completely, Roxanne began to look at him curiously, turning her head slightly to one side. On her head, her ears were spread out again. She, after a while, thoughtfully said:
Roxy: «And yet you're somehow a strange kid…»
Gregory: «In what sense?» – he said, perplexed.
Roxy: «Well, to be more precise, unusual…» – she continued in the same tone: «Seems like is still very young baby, but say things that don't reach every adult».
The boy rolled his eyes after these words, and then spoke with a small reproach and discontent:
Gregory: «Oh… Well, am I supposed to believe that?»
Roxy: «Gregory, I'm telling you seriously…» – the wolf cut off.
Gregory: «You're just underestimating others…» – he cut her off in response with a small discontent, and then continued calmly: «Maybe at first it seems that other people are callous or something else, but in fact everyone has their good sides. Do you know?.. Many people think the same way. It's just… they often shut themselves away from society… and, to be honest, I even understand them in a sense».
Roxy: «How naive you’re, Gregory…» – she spoke to him with some concern.
Gregory: «Well I don't know…» – the boy said a little offended and crossed his arms over his bust.
Roxy: «Do you even know how many people I've seen in all this time?» – she spoke calmly.
Gregory: «Imagine… But, after all, I'm too…» – he didn't finish the sentence, because at that moment a finger was put to his mouth.
Roxy: «Quiet-quiet…» – she spoke soothingly, and then, lowering her hand, began to speak affirmatively to him: «So… that's why I know what I'm talking about, Gregory. Accept it already, finally…» – after that, the wolf began stroking the boy's head again.
The boy looked at her in surprise at first, and then turned away from her with displeasure. She chuckled a little at this and began to speak to him in an asking tone:
Roxy: «Well, don't be stubborn… What's true is true».
After a little more hesitation after Roxanne's words, the boy turned to her, putting his hands on his knees, after which he replied with minor displeasure and embarrassment:
Gregory: «Um, yeah… Alright. Assume».
Roxy: «Well, at least so», – she spoke calmly and laid the boy on her arm again with the help of the second, after which she continued in the same tone: «Well, now let's probably go to the Fazer Blast, otherwise they've been waiting for us there for a long time», – and turned her head forward.
Gregory: «Ah… Well, yes. Let's go», – he said a little awkwardly.
Roxy: «Although…» – she said uncertainly and looked at the boy again: «I'm not sure…»
Gregory: «What happened?» – he asked with interest.
Roxy: «Well, you already know about Bonnie», – the wolf spoke in an intriguing tone: «But do you know anything about Foxy, by any chance?»
Gregory: «Foxy?.. Who is it?» – the boy asked uncertainly.
Roxy: «Well, I see…» – the wolf spoke judiciously and turned her head forward, after which she was about to go further, but she was stopped:
Gregory: «No! Wait! Who is it?» – he asked her in a burst of interest.
Roxanne hesitated a little at first, but then she obediently stopped. Looking at the boy again, she began to speak in a calm tone:
Roxy: «Well… Okay. I don't know much about him myself, but do know that I'm his replacement. He was, generally speaking, a pirate fox… Or, wait… Haven't you ever seen a Foxy sign in this place?» – she asked at the end in perplexity.
Gregory: «Um… Well… no», – the boy answered uncertainly and awkwardly.
Roxy: «Well, you're really something!..» – she spoke cheerfully and perplexedly: «A whole room has been allocated to him in this plex! And, as I understand it, it was his full-fledged attraction! I just don't quite remember its name…»
Gregory: «So, wait…» – the boy said thoughtfully, and then continued with great surprise: «Are you saying that was also here the 6th animatronic?»
The wolf looked at him in surprise at first, and then, after a while, began to speak uncertainly to him:
Roxy: «Well… not really… But, however, yes – the 6th. Just…»
Gregory: «Well, no-no!» – he interrupted the wolf, already understanding what she was driving at: «I mean, there were only 6 of you during all this time. I understand that at the same time there could have been, at most, only 5 of you. But still – the 6th!..» – he spoke a little clumsily with surprise.
Roxy: «Oh… If so, then yes», – she answered the boy calmly.
Gregory: «But what happened to him anyway? Why did him have to be exactly replaced, and not do something else?» – he asked her in a burst of interest.
Roxy: «Well, I can't tell you anything about that», – she spoke in an affirmative tone, simultaneously rolling her eyes briefly: «Probably broken…»
Gregory: «Accepted…» – he spoke affirmatively and a little thoughtfully, and then continued in a serious tone: «So, he also needs to be restored».
Roxy: «Hey-hey! Where're you accelerated?..» – she was saying with bewilderment: «It's unlikely that he will appear here already, since there has been a replacement. Therefore…» – and she was interrupted again:
Gregory: «Roxy, we said the same things about Bonnie…» – the boy was saying seriously: «First we need to try to find them, and only then, if we don't find them, then we'll relax», – he said a little sadly at the end, but then abruptly changed and continued in a naughty tone: «Or maybe not!» – then he smiled, looking into Roxanne's eyes.
She just looked at him skeptically and said to him with a little weariness:
Roxy: «Uh… You’re going to get so sick of this».
Gregory: «Well, what else should I do?..» – he said jokingly, raising his hands in the air.
Roxy: «Vermin!» – make-believe she said with displeasure and poked him in the side.
Gregory: «Quite-quite…» – he spoke cheerfully to her, covering his sides with his hands: «It’s forbidden to use these weapons».
Roxy: «Oh, how he started talking!» – she spoke snidely, starting to quickly turn her tail back and forth: «Uh! Just the chieftain “Formidable cloud”!»
After receiving a new nickname, Gregory looked at the wolf in extreme perplexity. And she laughed out loud in response and turned away from him for a while. At this point, the boy began to look at her with a small reproach. After a while, the wolf, calming down a little, looked at the boy again, but she burst into a new wave of laughter from the boy's face, after which she turned away from him again and, after a while, barely spoke:
Roxy: «Adore!..»
The boy, having lifted himself a little from her hand, had already begun to look at her with minor displeasure. After that, he slowly folded his hands on the bust and spoke a little resentfully:
Gregory: «Well, enough. 5 years by firing squad to you…»
That only made Roxanne laugh harder. After a while, she turned to the boy and, carefully taking one of his hands for manipulation, began to parody some commander in a lowered tone:
Roxy: «Oh, no! Gregory is very displeased!» – she spoke, and gently slapped the boy's hand on his own leg, as if he had hit the table with displeasure: «How could you let this happen?! You'll be punished for this!» – she spoke in the same tone, looking at the emptiness in front of the boy, and then briefly turned to him in deliberate stupefaction, playfully saying: «What are you saying?!.. Just that much? Well, what can do… Punishment is punishment!» – after that, “clearing her throat”, she calmly turned back to the emptiness: «Yes! 5 years by firing squad to you!» – and she lifted the boy's hand a little so that it pointed into this emptiness: «Enough! And no more!.. “But"!..» – at this point, the wolf couldn't stand it and laughed again, letting go of the boy's hand, and barely saying: «You should see your face now!» – laughed even harder.
Gregory tried to keep his seriousness, but after a while he himself laughed abruptly at the absurdity of the situation. The laughter of the two echoed throughout the back room. If only they would do it more calmly, vermin! They can be noticed!.. Oops!.. I got involved here again. Sorry, condemning… Let's get back to those two. After some more time, Roxanne happily said:
Roxy: «I can’t!» – and hugged the boy in her arms, starting to actively ruffle his hair.
Gregory: «Such shithead’ie!» – he said cheerfully.
The wolf giggled peacefully, after which she stopped ruffling the boy's hair, and then continued to speak in a hasty and joyful tone:
Roxy: «You shouldn't have said you were homeless! You're going to live with us! Now we don't stop molesting to you…»
Gregory: «And yet it can lead to problems», – the boy said seriously.
Roxy: «Oh, damn it! You're at it again…» – she growled, and then continued more seriously: «Stop denying it already!.. And just try to escape! I won't let you do that!» – then she hugged the boy a little harder.
Gregory: «Come on, it's going to make you all feel bad yourself!» – he tried to reach her.
Roxy: «Why would you even think that?!» – she said with displeasure and abruptly pushed the boy out in front of her in her arms.
Gregory: «Well, there are a lot of things that can affect…» – but here he was interrupted again:
Roxy: «O-o-oh!» – the wolf drew out dissatisfied and loudly, raising her head up, and then slowly lowered her gaze to the boy, after which she began to shake him with the words: «How you've already annoyed me with this!» – and shaking was stopped: «If you don't want to be with us, then say so!» – she shouted with great disappointment and anger at the boy.
Gregory: «No, I want!!!» – he shouted back and burst in tears a little, after which, pressing his hand to his eyes, he began to speak softly: «How can you not understand?.. It would be irresponsible of me. There will be so many problems with security and with me…»
Roxy: «No, idiot…» – the wolf interrupted him with an understanding tone: «It would be irresponsible for you to run away from here, and it would be irresponsible for us not to stop you. You don't have a home! Where're you going?.. Although, don't tell me. I know that you're such shithead and you'll find a place where you'll survive like before. But do you really need it?.. You've already done too much business here to just walk away don't know where. And by the way, what you call problems for yourself aren't problems for us. Therefore, stop talking demagoguery and get it together already!» – here she shook the boy a little.
At this, Gregory lowered his hand from his eyes and looked at her dejectedly. The wolf looked at him formidable and persistently, after which continued her speech:
Roxy: «You're in our pack, and we needed you… You said yourself that you can't just throw off all the problems on one person. We have to figure them out together. And, in general! Forget about them already, finally! We'll arrange everything for you. This isn't a problem for us. We'll discuss this with everyone. Everything will be fine. The main – don't leave us…» – in the end, she spoke with sadness, slightly flattening ears and lowering head.
The boy felt ashamed after her words. He hesitated a little, but still awkwardly began the conversation:
Gregory: «Please forgive me… You're right. I'm just… on a roll, as always… Being completely stup…»
Roxy: «Enough!» – she interrupted the boy a little displeased and hugged him abruptly, resting her chin on his shoulder.
The boy was initially perplexed by such an action on her part, but then calmed down and spoke to her peacefully:
Gregory: «Agrees…» – then he hugged the wolf in response and gently tapped her on the back.
The boy, of course, was still worried about the relocation issue. It seemed to him all the time that he had forgotten something important somewhere in his box, but… Roxanne's speech made him think about what was more important: something in a box on the street or his new friends?.. Gregory was scared at first, and, to be honest, he is still worried about how others will react to this. And who will he be officially? It may not matter now, but in the future… Despite these experiences, he couldn't leave his comrades, so decided not to think about it yet. Moreover, since Roxanne says that this isn’t a problem for them, then… shouldn't make a fuss once again: everyone needs nerves.
So, they were warm in their arms for about 10 seconds, but then both quickly came to their senses and, simultaneously recoiling from each other, actively spoke:
Roxy & Gregory: «So!..» – after that, they stopped abruptly in surprise at this moment, but then both continued, turning their heads away from each other: «Well…» – and they fell into a stupor again, looking at each other in perplexity.
After a few seconds of such silence, Roxanne spoke in a serious tone:
Roxy: «In general, we need to go into a Fazer Blast already, and not start whining. They've been waiting for us there for a long time».
Gregory: «Yes-yes! Way past time…» – the boy spoke awkwardly, and then, after a while, hurriedly completed his speech with: «But don't tell them about Bonnie and Foxy! They're too much!..»
Roxy: «Yes-yes…» – she interrupted the boy calmly: «Softie… I know».
After that, both of them looked at each other for a few seconds with peaceful and slightly understanding looks. The two felt some affection between themselves. Gregory felt warm at heart from a sense of some cohesion and, apparently, Roxanne had the same thing. They smiled gently at each other. At that moment, the wolf's tail rose high and began to move slowly from side to side.
Finally, after a while, having come to their senses, the two began to move on to action.
Roxy: «Okay. Hold on to my hair», – she said calmly and, carefully pushing the boy back from her, carried him in her arms behind her back.
Gregory obediently took hold of her hair, after which Roxanne released him.
Roxy: «Are you holding up well?» – she asked with some concern.
Gregory: «Yes», – the boy replied decisively.
Roxy: «Great. Then let's go!» – she said pugnaciously and, under the electromechanical sounds, rushed forward at high speed.
Yes… How many conversations have passed… how much time has gone into them… but also how many conclusions have been drawn… how many new plans have been created or changed!.. Gregory had mixed impressions of all this. How strange it all is… How do dreams and hopes resist along with destiny and seemingly common sense… or… vice versa?.. … How strange it all is. Hard to concentrate… What's going on here?!.. But anyway… he knows that everything is going for the best. Everything is done for a reason. In some places, of course, it's scary for the consequences, but Gregory knew for sure that everything was for the best! It remains only to figure everything out slowly and little by little…
Notes:
Here is a new long-awaited goal! Working further…
P.S. Let me remind you that the idea of introducing Foxy into the story was given by a user with the name: “Nobody" (unregistered user from ficbook.net (the name must be translated into Russian)). Be grateful to him for this, because if it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have inserted Foxy into this story. Thank you, comrade! Personally, I liked this idea and I'll try to reproduce it here in the best possible way.