I'm Not A Simp.

Move.

"Brown! Thank god you're okay!" I looked at him as I was still processing what he said, as of now I had completely recognized him with the annoying and screeching squeaker voice. But hearing it more clearly now made me notice that he had a rather handsome, deep, and strong voice. Too bad his suit still looked awful.

I gave him a thumbs up, and he nodded before remembering something. "Oh, I forgot to tell I took some sign language classes on the way here and after we got here!" I did my best to give him a quizzical look, before signing. 'Can you read this?' He stared for a moment, his gears turning before saying. "Can you read that? Was I right?" I gave a thumbs up, it wasn't exactly what I signed but it was close enough. 

He looked proud of himself and was just about to say something before there was a loud slam coming from the doorway. We both glanced at the entrance of the room to see who could've made that noise, it was cameraman #211. He ran towards me with so many emotions in each individual step, when he got close enough he wrapped me in the tightest hug I've ever received, I felt like I was about to pop. 

When he finally let go he signed at me hastily and poorly, there was clearly a lot on his mind. "I- I thought you were dead!" I don't know if that's what he exactly given how poorly it was signed but I'm pretty sure I was right, I signed at him calmly and collectively to try to make him calm down. "Well I'm alive, it'll take a lot more than that to kill me besides I had friends." I glanced over at Squeakerman. 

'But still.' He signed back in a more calm manor. 'Brown, theirs something I need to talk to you about!' That didn't surprised me a lot must've happened so I signed at him to go on, but he signed at Squeakerman to leave the room. He nodded and left without any resistance, whatever he wanted to talk to me about it must be serious.

My head was already hurting so whatever this was I doubt it would make me feel any better. His chest pushed up and down in an exaggerated version of a sigh. 'First.' He signed. 'I'm happy more than you could ever know that you're alive.' That made me happy I could swear my lens was blushing, being thought about so fondly was rare if not impossible for someone like me. 'Second.' He said breaking me out of my thoughts. 

'Over the weeks you've been gone I had a lot of time to think if I should tell you or not.' I looked at him alerted, this goes way back before my capture. 'I'm not the person you think I am, well I am but not entirely.' What does that mean? 'And since your capture I realized that the only thing I regretted was not telling you.' He looked down.

His head suddenly shot up before signing. 'Brown, I'm a girl!' I stared frozen for a few minutes before signing. 'What.' He- no she looked embarrassed. 'That's right, for the past several years I've been a girl but I had to hide it by disguising myself as a cameraman as I would've been separated from my brother. If the alliance knew I was from the female line of production then they would've treasured me and sheltered me from everything happening in the war.' She casted her gaze down again.

 'I'm sorry for not telling you but I did it for me and my brothers safety, and theirs one more thing I need to tell you...' I don't know what else she could say because that was practically a bomb dropped right on top of me. 'Brown.' She looked at me intensely. 'I'm in love with you!'

If she dropped  a bomb before then this was a nuke. I didn't even know what to say my oil felt cold but I also felt excited, scared, and confused. She looked at me expecting an answer I could feel her anxiety as it reciprocated my own, turns out the one to break the silence wasn't me but her brother. He tossed a pebble inside the room and we both looked at it as it echoed around the room before we both looked at the doorway.

 'So you told him.' He looked disappointed that out of everyone she told it was me. 'Do you know how much you compromised your position! If the alliance finds out you're a female we may never see each other again!' His worries were absolutely justified.