For the next few days everything went "normal". They would get out and start killing zombies, that was quite done by now already. At least in their city.
Sitting on their balcony, Jenny watched a drama that she has found in one of the stores, while the two people prepared food in the kitchen.
There was an only strange awkward silence in the kitchen. You could only hear the clinking of knives and bubbling of food could, while the two people almost ignored the presence of each other.
"Anne, can you please send the other silent person over here to humour me." Jenny felt suddenly bored.
Hearing her words Anne suddenly smiled brightly at him and saw him moving towards the balcony with a dark expression. "Ma'am, could you stop asking me for jokes. I told you all I knew."
Jenny shook her head. "Those were not funny. At all. What's the difference between a human and an ant... It's head." With flat expression, she stared at the man that almost rolled on the floor from laughing.
"Head....hahahaha." Seeing her calm expression he found it even more fun and started laughing even harder. "Wait.... hahaha... I just remembered...hahaha... another joke."
The problem was not that he said the joke, the problem was that he laughed the whole time while telling the joke, making it actually even less funny.
Jenny gave up and rose both hands in defeat. "I give up. No need for jokes. Now tell your story."
"I... am an ant." He just pressed his lips as he tried to stop his laughter. His eyes and face became red from pent up laughter and it broke out of him again, making Jenny stand up and escape.
"Anne, no matter what, this man is just not... funny." But she saw her daughter laughing at his antics and froze. No wonder she didn't like other men. This one has some weird sense of humour and found himself funny enough to laugh this heartily.
How strange. Anne's taste was as it seems a bit different. "Oh, well. If you like it, take it. Too many flies are buzzing around him. There must be one that would capture him. That redhead is quite persistent. He might change his mind and after that, all you can do is to stare from a far. He will leave us permanently then."
In her thoughts, Anne just listened to her mother's words, but when Jenny was already gone to her room, she reacted. "What? Gone? Where? Ugh, mom?"
When did she disappear? Anne shook her head. If he is such a man, she doesn't need him. But thinking about that redheaded woman grabbing him here and there whenever they were out, annoyed her by now.
This is no good, she must stop thinking about it. It's not that she liked him, right? Right?!
But seeing him walking towards her calmly, her heart suddenly thumped. Impossible! Not this man!
No humour. Pretentious. Narcissistic. Dirty...
She saw him just rubbing his hands on his trousers and moving those dirty fingers towards clean fruits that she just washed. He froze as he suddenly felt an ice-cold stare and as he moved his eyes towards the source of coldness he realized. That woman had clean a streak and probably was a problem again with his hands.
''I understand. My hands, right?'' He moved his fingers carefully away from the fruits and started washing them under a long stare from Anne. ''Clean freak.'' He murmured slightly and smiled at her with clean hands. ''Can I eat now?''
''Do whatever you want. Just wash your hands before, please!'' She just threw a clean cotton cloth at him so he could dry his hands. With a swift move, she pushed the few fruits in bowl towards him and waited.
Actually, Fabius Maximus hated all those healthy things. But after eating only meat for days. For the first time in a while, he wanted to eat something sweet. ''You even dipped it in chocolate. My favourite. Thank you.''
She smirked. ''I did it for mom, not you. But seeing that you like it, next time I'll just make more. But you just have to help me clean them... or better not.''
She just remembered the disaster that happened the morning before when she asked him to cut a few apples. The poor apples turned into chopped things that didn't seem like apples at all, and how the heck did he succeed to even keep all the things he should cut out, inside those pieces?
''I can help you. Next time I will do better. If I try more often I probably will get better.'' But he saw her shaking her head.
''I won't let you destroy my poor fruit babies. You would need a year to learn that and even then I probably wouldn't be happy with the result. Nope, just stay there and help me wash them and just stay out my way. Ok?'' She stood up and started cleaning everything and was finished in nu.
Looking at her busy hands his eyes became dark and was about to say something, but they suddenly heard ringing on the door. In a surprise, he blinked at Anne and stood up. But as he looked at the screen by the door he just turned around and closed his door swiftly.
''I am not at home. No, say I am dead. No, tell I am gone and will never ever come back! Damn it!!!'' His scream could be heard through the door, as he tried to, as it seems, pulled the whole closet front of it, so no one would ever be able to enter.
In wonder, Anne went to the door that was still ringing up a storm and saw her mom going to the door as well. But when they saw who was outside they looked at each other and started laughing while staring at Fabius's door.
As soon they opened the door a smiling woman rushed in, without giving them a chance to close in time and looked left and right while both of them stared, with dark expressions, at her feet...