[Venom] You look delicious

The short dark-haired man tore off the sleeves on his upper arms, and wiped the blood splashed on his face with his cuffs against the broken mirror in the trash can. The cracks on the mirror made him unable to see his eyebrows clearly. The position above the bone, he tried it twice before switching to the back of his hand to wipe it casually.The wind that entered the alley in the middle of the night was as cold as a knife, and the man shivered involuntarily. He quickly lifted the hat on his back and put it on, and left with his head buried.

【—— Eddie 】

"hum?"

Venom laughed lowly, his voice full of joy, 【Your performance today is enough for me to laugh at you for a year. 】

Eddie walked to an alley, glanced around casually before continuing on the road: "Is this the reason you laughed just now?"

Venom · Don't call me a parasite · Super fierce · Cannibalism · Alien species, tonight's daily good deeds are also as good as ever, but they will make some annoying laughter from time to time, like listening to a silly joke in January. Happy till December's annoying old man.

【That girl is so cute, you should kiss her. 】

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Eddie wrinkled his nose in disgust, "Are you always a relative?"

After Venom bans him from bars with "too loud noises", "too many living people", and "strange lights that keep flashing", Eddie complains loudly that he is dead without alcohol.Venom said he could buy a dozen and drink them in the apartment like he used to.

Eddie snorted: "Loser!"

[Isn't it the old you. 】

Eddie pretended not to hear: "The most popular handsome reporter in all of New York, coming home to the apartment alone after work to eat some instant potatoes and drink a bottle of Wembis beer in the refrigerator that I bought last weekend? - No kidding, where did it come from?" Poor bastard."

Venom said that it can be left to him to solve.

"Leave it to you?" Eddie slumped his shoulders, looked up at the dark sky and said, "Oh... let me figure out what happened to the things I left to you. I fell off a high-speed motorcycle and broke Legs once, climbed hundreds of floors and fell down again—"

[Shut up, Eddie, it's all your fault for being afraid of heights. 】

"Very good, you still remember that I am afraid of heights!"

Eddie looked at the "pub with the red leaf painting" he said under the instruction of Venom.

"Canada!" Eddie put his right hand to his lips and pretended to cough and cursed "garbage".

【Earth! 】Venom imitated him in a strange way,【Uh (trash) cough (garbage)! 】

"That one! I'm going there!" Eddie blinked and stared at a bar that had already formed a long queue. "I dare say it will be a good night."

Venom was honestly keeping quiet.Eddie was complacently planning to cross the road to his destination, but suddenly there was a familiar pulling force behind him, and the strangely stretched black gel firmly fixed him on the railing beside the walkway. Before he could react in time, the venom threw him into the semi-underground bar behind him.

【Haveanicelife～】Venom's bastard subwoofer rang in his ear with a happy grin, and when he saw the scene in front of him again, he was already in this "quiet" and "not living person" randomly selected by Venom. Too many", "Leave immediately after drinking" at the door of the bar.

"...I want to go home early." Eddie muttered.He went to the bar and ordered a glass of wine, and chatted with the bartender in a bored manner, "How's the business today?"

The bartender Carl slid the glass towards his guests smartly after pouring the wine, "Very good. Your market doesn't look very good."

Eddie was angry: "Do I have the word single written on my face??"

Carl shrugged, turned around and took two bottles of beer and handed them to another customer: "Come to this elegant and tasteful bar alone at six o'clock in the evening, either for a date or to find single girls."

Eddie looked around the bar with a hellish expression, "Since when does a bar have the same taste requirements as a cafe where high school girls have dinner?" He took a sip of his drink sullenly.Carl patted him on the shoulder and pointed at the girls at the other end of the bar with raised eyebrows.

"No..." The man with short dark hair turned his eyes obediently, and sighed, "I'm not here to pick up girls." Although he said so, his eyes still honestly rolled around the girls.He drank the last sip of wine, asked the bartender to add another glass for him, got up and walked to the bathroom.

"Remember to save a seat for me!" Eddie turned to greet Carl.

Carl gave an OK from a distance.

Before he could turn around, he felt bumped into something.Then there was a girl's soft exclamation, and Eddie subconsciously stretched out his hand and grabbed her to help stabilize her body—the girl took a step back when he hit her, "I'm sorry," Eddie turned around, apologetically He lowered his head and said, "Isn't it..."

The dark-haired girl was small, with chocolate-colored eyes that gleamed in the warm light, and she was so close to Eddie that she had to look up at him, her puffy bangs sliding sideways as she looked up .

"It's okay." She squinted her eyes because of the light, "I didn't look at the road just now."

"..." Eddie stared at her blankly.

【Eddie. 】Venom's voice suddenly sounded, 【Why is your heart beating so fast? 】

Eddie came back to his senses as if he had been awakened. He opened his mouth and closed it again, blinked his eyes quickly a few times before saying incoherently: "Walk, walk carefully."

[Oh——I remember, last time you also had a rapid heartbeat... your ex-girlfriend. 】

Aliya showed a cute smile as if she was amused, "Understood, Mr. who teaches others to walk well even if he doesn't look at the road."

Mr. Bullock, who is a reporter by profession, seemed to be tongue-tied at this moment, and would just stand there in a daze, still holding Alia's wrist in his hand.

"Can you let me pass?" Aliya raised her eyebrows, "I promise to walk well in the future."

Eddie let her go in a panic, and stepped back two or three steps to the side.

Aliya tilted her head to look at him: "Thank you."

"No, you're welcome."

[Eddie! 】Venom urged, 【You should kiss her! 】

what!Eddie called him an asshole under his breath.

[Don't try to lie to me, I know exactly what's going on in your mind. 】

……

Eddie summed up what happened today, and finally remembered what was wrong, and criticized Venom: "What obsession do you have about kissing? Why do you always want to kiss others!"

[Hiss...you can also lick. 】

"Can't!"

Eddie fumbled with the key to unlock the door, pushed the door in and went straight to the bathroom.He turned on the faucet and washed his face with cold water amidst the splashing sound.

[If I were you, I would be more careful when washing my face. 】

"What?" Eddie didn't hear clearly for a moment, and the falling water droplets obscured his vision. He tried to open his eyes and asked, "Why should you be careful?"

The venom condensed into a jelly and came out of his shoulder, and the hoarse bass said maliciously, 【Look here. 】

Eddie searched his face for a long time, and finally saw a touch of light red between the ears and his chin.He stretched out his wet fingers and carefully wiped off a little bit on the edge, holding it up to his eyes for a closer look, but he couldn't figure out what it was for a long time.

[The girl's lipstick,] Venom snorted, [I touched it when I was talking to you. 】

Eddie and him looked at each other for a while, "...I won't wash my face anymore."

[Please talk about hygiene. 】

"Sanitary?" Eddie sneered in disbelief as if hearing that New York would be bombed tomorrow, "Then don't bite other people's heads."

[Enjoying delicious food and paying attention to hygiene are two different things.You have to respect my little hobbies. 】

Eddie pouted and carefully lifted the cuff covering his left wrist, "I won't wash my left hand either."

[Quickly call her. 】

"What time is it!" Eddie ran into the living room to look for his phone with a wet face, "I'm not afraid of disturbing others!" He read the lipstick number on his wrist and entered the phone one by one, and finally confirmed it before saving it into the address book.

Then Eddie took a leisurely shower while Venom was constantly talking, baked a pizza for them as a snack, and waited until he returned to the bedroom and sat down by the bed before taking out his phone.The lit screen showed that it was [-]:[-] in the morning. He called out the string of numbers that he had memorized, and gently stroked the signature with the beginning of E with his thumb.

"...It's too late."

[I was urging you two hours ago, idiot! 】

Eddie's voice involuntarily softened in the quiet bedroom, "Maybe she has already rested."

[Perhaps she took a leisurely shower and baked a plate of pizza for a late-night snack. ] Venom laughed at him.

The smell of mint-flavored shower gel leaked from his collar, and he eased his breathing. The outline of his face was soft and ambiguous in the dim light of the screen.

"Three rings," he whispered, as if speaking to himself, "I'll hang up if no one answers."

Eddie pressed the call button and counted patiently one, two, and a third.

He waited until the fourth beep by a strange coincidence.

"Hello?" A cute voice came through the phone, like a roasted marshmallow, "Eddie?"

Before Eddie Brock breathed a sigh of relief, he smiled involuntarily, "How do you know it's me?"

"I just know." Alia laughed softly, "I threw the phone on the carpet, and I rushed to answer it, in case you hang up before you can wait."

Eddie lay back on the bed, the fluffy quilt was sunken into a human shape, "I was going to wait until the third ring and hang up."

"I snatched the third tone?"

"It's the fourth sound." Eddie looked at the ceiling, but seemed to see the starlight in the New York night sky through it, "suddenly wanted to wait a little longer."

"Well..." Arya said, yawning, "that's a good idea."

"Alia," Eddie whispered knowing the girl was going to rest, "are you free tomorrow night?"

"I can."

"Can I invite you," the man paused and pursed his lips, "shall we have dinner together?"

Alicia, "No way."

"……what?"

The girl on the other end of the phone laughed happily, "I lied to you! It's fine!"

Eddie felt like he had returned to his 17-year-old high school days. All the muscles on his face were used to form an expression. He smiled with crooked eyebrows, and his delicate eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes.

"Good night." He laughed silently, and finally said goodbye softly, "Have a good dream."

"Good night~"