Do Not Drink the Water

Chapter One: Peter and Oliver

     "All I'm saying is just don't drink the water." Oliver demanded for the fiftieth time. "It's the government's way of controlling us, there trying to dumb us down so we will listen to anything they say."
    "Why are you so determined to convince me of you crazy theory, has anyone ever told you your just being paranoid?" Peter replied as if he were talking to a child who wasn't willing to leave his parents alone about letting him get a dog.
   "I'm just looking out for you buddy!" He grinned not letting Peters upset tone bother him. Then his face turned serious and firm, "Just listen to me OK" he sighed. "I have been looking deep in to this and this is no joke, its been a classified study the government has been working on but they were always weary about testing it out, but now that we have been having so many over turns in our government they are getting sick of the people and there many opinions, so there testing it out on our little city and once it works all of America will be under there spell."
    "Oliver your my best friend, and I want to believe you. Honestly. My only problem is America is all about freedom, how can we be free when we have no agency?" He is still determined to not let the child have the dog. "And another thing, we work at a water perfection plant for crying out loud! It's my job to test whats in the water to make sure it's safe. I assure you not one drop of water comes out of here with 'mind controlling' drugs in it."
    "Alright, but don't come crying to me when the government has you all 'zombie-fyed'." He laughed. "Actually now that I think about it you wont even be able to complain about it because you'll be to stupid to even know your a zombie! ....Which is why I want you to believe me.... I want to keep you they way you are Peter, I really value our friendship and you know that." He said endearingly.
   "OK! OK! Don't get all lovey dovey on me kid! Peter laughed almost spitting out his milk. Oliver's jokes about them being "sole mates" always made Peter laugh like a immature school boy, but this time he could tell he was serious.
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   "Ah time to go back to work right sole mate!" Oliver giggled.
   "Yes it is, and don't call me sole mate!" He grumbled. "I'm going back to work and making sure that no zombie drugs go into the water. You can go back to whatever it is you do."
   " Hey! I'm a certified water technician and you know it!" He said proudly.
   " Ah... Right.. Sometimes I forget about that. With all that non-sense filled in your head and all, it's hard to believe that theirs anything of use in there." he said while knocking on Peters head as if nothing was in there.
   " Ha. Ha. Real funny." Sarcasm was another of Oliver's favorite responses. Oliver pulled a funny face at Peter like the little child he is and walked away.
    Peter walked away from Oliver shaking his head a laughing heading towards his work station. Peter is twenty-five years old but sometimes acts like he's forty-five. The young spirit of Oliver reminds him of his little brother Jack, who was wrongfully lost to the ocean on one of the two brothers daily visit to beach, but there was a bad wind that day, and the biggest wave Peter and Jack have ever seen on that cold day picked Jack up and threw him in to the rocky cliffs. Peter tried to save him... but he was gone... Ever since that happened a piece of Peter was missing, but Oliver filled that void as if he were his little brother. After Jack died Peter took a seriousness to life, no more playing around like a child, and he could no longer stand his home in Pacific Beach California, and he gave up his dream of being a pro surfer, it was Jack's dream anyways, he was the real surfer.
   He left his home in California and got the first job he could find in Washington. He always loved the majestic mountains of Washington. His family took a trip there when he was sixteen and he found refuge there, blocked in from the mountains, thousands of miles away from the ocean. He lives in Trent Wood Washington, which is just an hour away from Spokane Washington and just twenty minutes away from Opportunity Washington, which was his original destination to start his new life but unlike the name suggest he found no opportunity there and went to the next closes city not losing faith.
   Once he found his job at the Trent Wood Water Sanitation Plant things started to turn around he found a nice little apartment a mile away from the plant making it easy to ride his bike to work every day. Peter hated driving, he hated all the hussle and the bussle of driving in California and never really learned how to drive. He never had the money for a car anyways. After he got settled down he bought him self a German Shepard and named him Spock, he and his brother were big Trekkies and watched old re-runs every morning right before they went surfing, and the Shepard's pointy ears reminded him of the ears of Spock.
   Life was pretty simple, and rather boring for Peter and Spock. That is until he met Oliver three years ago and that's when things started to get interesting.