Chapter 8: The Night Passes!
Night fell and Lillian was sleeping. Rachel and Jason were up, keeping watch.
Rachel noticed his tears earlier that day and she knew that look all too well.
Jason had lost someone important to him and she understood what he was going through right now.
Rachel sat beside him, neither saying a word to the other because they knew that loss was the one thing constant in life.
"Are you alright?" Rachel broke the silence and Jason quickly picked himself up, she was far too close and he could peak at the top of her cleavage, her breasts were quite big to be fair so it was hard to miss. The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.
Jason, however, could not get it up even if he wanted to because he was rather sad.
"I am okay," Jason responded awkwardly, he looked panicked and Rachel kept quiet.
All she did was put her hand on his back, this was her way of telling him that she was there for him whenever he needed to talk.
She hasn't seen Lillian react the way she did for years, Lillian has always been a recluse with a phobia for people so seeing her going out of her way to help Jason.
Rachel saw this as an opportunity to get back the little sister that she had lost due to trauma and that in turn made Jason important to her.
Jason didn't know when he began to cry, the tears just started pouring and neither said a word to one another, it was met with silence but the silence was comforting.
The sun rose and Rachel passed the night, sleeping on Jason's shoulder but Jason couldn't catch a wink.
He stayed up all night despite being the one that needed it the most but his paranoia wouldn't allow him to sleep; he managed to get some when both Lillian and Rachel woke up.
He understood her need to protect her family. Jason knew women were the most vulnerable because the default gender roles that nature and centuries of archaic thinking had cultivated were now a part of life.
"I-I will never do something to you two! You saved my life!" Jason said and Rachel let go of his hair before adjusting her clothes.
"After we robbed you and you saved ours..." Rachel sighed. Jason might be a good person at heart but he was still a human being.
Humans couldn't be trusted, Rachel and her younger sister learned this the hard way.
Rachel was approximately twenty-five-years old, four years older than Jason but her youthful appearance made her look like she was approximately the same age as Jason.
Jason heard her message loud and clear but it wasn't up to him.
Jason hoped that the system wouldn't do anything crazy that would make him harm them but it was kind of strange calling it "system"
Jason was realizing how ridiculous it sounded at the moment.
Rachel walked out of the room but not before telling Jason to better follow right behind her.
She was quite well-mannered compared to her younger sister and Jason was surprised Rachel didn't put her in place.
They hadn't even introduced themselves yet but Jason heard them speak to one another so he didn't need a formal introduction but he needed to tell them his name.
"System, what is your name?" Jason whispered under his breath, he didn't need to but it was a force of habit and made interacting a lot easier.
[You May Call Me Chronos!]
The system responded and Jason was satisfied with this as he followed behind Rachel because she just demonstrated that she wasn't afraid of putting her hands on people.
Jason knew that his journey had begun and it involved these two ladies.