Alex chewed his bottom lip as he felt Julie squeeze his hand. It comforted him greatly, but there was uncertainty in his eyes, as he wondered if she was just toying with him. In his mind, girls were held with great regard, but... that all came from memories before the war, while all he'd heard in the last two years was bad reports from boys who had fought girls in battle. Very gently, he squeezed her hand in return, and then looked away, to peer through the windshield.
He remained rather quiet, until Julie spoke up.... his mouth falling open slightly when she started her sentence by addressing them as girls, and then continued to use words such as 'we' and 'us'. He felt a little dizzy, watching her intently to see if she was smirking, or wearing a mocking grin as she spoke of the girls up ahead realising there were no boys in the vehicle if only they could see inside. He drew in a rather sudden breath, as for a moment or two, he'd forgotten to breathe.
Nobody had said anything to him for two years that sent the warm, soothing feeling through his body that Julie's words just had, but at the same time, it was almost instinct by now, to hide his happiness at being referred to as a girl. His cheeks had gone rather red, his expression quite stunned, even before the Girl Scout climbed out of the car and removed her panties.
When she returned, without say anything, he reached his hand across slightly, and went to grasp onto her's again while Alyse held onto him from the other side. When they finally came to a stop at the base, the panic they might have expected from a boy prisoner finally starting to manifest, although it was still only a fraction of what it should have been, as now she too referred to Alex as a girl. "Aren't you going to tell them not to shoot?", he asked to the blonde girl as she led him from the car.
Despite Julie's 'kind' words about their being no boys in the vehicle, his brown eyes did seem rather scared as he wriggled his butt across the seat and then pushed a leg out, stepping down from the car, his knees feeling quite weak once he was stood on two feet again. His only first-hand experience of confrontation between boys and girls was the situation they'd just left behind, where the side with the majority had opened fire on the minority, and it made his stomach churn to think about what would happen once the girls here saw him in their base...