“Feeling… p-pretty good.” Jack admitted with a small smile, as he took hold of her hand with his own as they began walking. “Still a little nervous I mean. Crowds. N-not so easy to just be okay with you know but… but this helps. This and you. You’ve always helped.” he says quietly as he shifts closer to her, bumping her gently.
She really had. He had barely stepped outside before he had first met her. Then he’d been going out, meeting her places, going out and about more… while large crowds still terrified him the people on the street were manageable. Barely.
“Well I’m really glad I could be of some use,” she began, smiling and reaching over with her free hand to touch his goatee gently. “But remember, it’s still also mostly you and your bravery.”
She cuddled closer to his side, snuggling her large head against his shoulder, her height the same as always. “I gave you the nudge and you’re the one who kept walking.”
As they walked now in fact they began to notice more and more people, people walking along the sidewalks and returning from the pier or going toward it, everyone talking happily, though some stared at the human/alien couple, having not seen it around before.
Katelynn watched one person look at her and smiled, giving a little wave. Their eyes widened before they hurried off. She blinked after them. Had she done something wrong?
Jack noticed this, and gently nudged her with his arm. “Don’t look people in the eye or smile at them, Katelynn… re-remember, Megamind is evil to them because he looks different. You now look different and… and they may associate you with him that way…"
He glanced at a group of girls who were watching them, one of them with long blond hair gave him a flirtatious wink and smile as they walked past them.
"I love chocolate men, they’re so hot.” one of the girls said to her friend, honestly not loud on purpose but they still overheard them.
“People don’t like what’s different. A-and blue skin and big heads are as different as they come around here…” he said.
Jack Maple 