Chapter 85 - Home (1/2)

Gray walked out of the bar carrying Yurika and placed her in passenger seat of the pickup truck. A voice sounded out from the door to the bar as a waiter was looking for Gray.

"Sir! Your friend, he left his card!"

Thinking back, Gray remembered that Major Valen had paid for their drinks. Gray nodded, glanced at the card and said "I'll return it to him then, we live in the same area"

The waiter handed Gray the card and Gray slipped it into his pocket, then got into his truck.

Yurika was still sound asleep, at this time she was sprawled across the entire bench seat of the truck forcing Gray to have to move her out of the way. When Gray tried to sit her up, she punched him in the face, but she was still asleep.

"What the heck is wrong with this woman!" Gray thought to himself. Not wanting to try and sit her up anymore, Gray just pushed her over as much as he could to get in the truck.

Gray looked at the time and saw it was 2:30 am. "Hmm, should we just crash here or head back to the base?" Gray said thinking out loud.

At this point Yurika was trying to spread out in her drunken sleep over the bench seat and started headbutting Gray's thigh. "Seriously?!?" Gray exclaimed.

"Uggg, let's just get back to base!" Gray lamented the thought of driving over an hour in the pitch black when the road was barely usable but figured it would be best as he didn't want to spend the night at the military base in the city again.

Gray made it to the main gate that lead out of the city and was stopped by the guards.

"Where you heading too sir?" the guard asked Gray politely.

"We're heading back to the military base south of the city." Gray said as he thumbed over at Yurika's passed out form.

"You didn't drug her, right?"

"Of course not... I was the designated driver tonight."

"Ah, makes sense, okay, have a safe trip back then!"

Gray waved to the guard after the guard returned to his shack and opened the gate to let them leave.

When Yurika was sleeping peacefully Gray couldn't help but admire how pretty she was even without trying to be. When she wasn't being so peaceful, Gray would suffer the consequences as she would usually disrupt his driving.

One time Gray thought she was whispering something so he leaned in close to hear her and she ended up biting his ear. Yurika ended up snuggling up and resting her head on Gray's lap, much to Gray's enjoyment, at least until she started drooling on his pants. Still, this drooling was preferred over the punching and biting so Gray just patted her head and let her drool away peacefully.

When Gray got back to the base, Yurika had started mumbling about what may have been her past, or present, or maybe her dreams. Gray decided to just listen as he carried her back towards her room.

"Zzzz… not real… no I can't…" Yurika mumbled "… they betrayed us… stop them… stop Mehhnk…"

"Mehhnk?" Gray thought to himself "I've never heard of that name before."

"Zzzz… Gray is my wife…"

"Wait… wife?" Gray was half tempted to check if she was a male or female, but considering her personality she was probably always the alpha male in every relationship. Was she dreaming about the pregame lobby earlier when she declared Gray as his wife in front of Carly?

Gray finally made it to Yurika's room and knocked on the door.