It's afternoon when a car honks on their frontyard and Alex is the one who drives the Mercedes. He's still the same. Quiet with a dinner jacket on and his face in it's usual expression as he says "Lady Vanilla" I can't ignore the relief I feel to know he's still the same "Hi" He opens the passenger seat for me while I stare at my reflection. I'm wearing a shirt and shorts with my koala bag that has my uniform on my shoulders. I look presentable, at least. When I get in, he gets to the driver seat and begins to drive us back to the Manor. This reminds me of the first time Aunt Penelope took me there and also reminds me I've not heard from her ever since then. But before I can think of her for too long, Alex tells me that they all went jogging and haven't returned yet so when we get home, meeting the silent house and reach my room, I'm not not exactly sure about how I feel with the fact that there's a big bulge under my comforter. I poke at it with my bat. It growls, making me m
My hand moves to his hair though it freezes when Cream says "Don't. He'd wrap around you tighter. He's a hoarder when he sleeps" Cream's voice is cold. Like rain pouring over my body that has goosebumps coming on my skin before he reaches out to brush Mel's hair. The boy let's out a small sigh, immediately letting go of me and holding Cream's hand. Tight. "Isn't-" I look at him "Your hand, isn't it going to bruise?" He shakes his head "I won't feel it" "But-" "Go change for dinner" He cuts in. His tone is cold as always but there's no sharpness to it "Caramel and I would be there soon" I nod. When I'm at the table for dinner, my eyes fall on Strawberry who stares at me. We only do that for some seconds before he looks away, turning back to a book in his hand. So we're playing that game? Alright. Chocolate comes next, sitting at my left and in front of Strawberry who begins to have veins on his forehead as Coco begins speaking before Caramel and Cream arrive. He looks sleep
"D-Do you think she'd try leaving?" After dinner, she had asked if we had a TV and Doctor had taken her down to the basement. It was our theatre room but no one ever actually went there. Ever. It was a basement and it was mostly dark and— "I think this is a bad idea" Strawberry is still pissed though. He didn't like her reaction and I don't exactly blame him. It hurt, a bit but then with all of this. All of us. I knew it was hard to take. To imagine. Sometimes it felt like a dream. But I didn't want to wake up. "Hey. Hey" Strawberry carries me, settling me on his table with his body in-between my legs, his face moving to my neck before he begins to whisper "If she doesn't want you, that's her fucking choice. You have three men who would kill for you. One of us more so" I giggle, his breath making goosebumps fill my skin as I say "B-but I want her to like me too" I hadn't exactly expected Doctor to say Vanilla would be in a pretend relationship with me, fake sounds more hu
Her tone is sharp, cutting, which makes me look at her again. Her eyes are like the sea now, but an angry one that keeps crashing it's waves, promising to kill anyone who comes to close past it's shore.It's scary.It's…Beautiful."You survived" She's looking at me "You survived all of that. Some wouldn't. Some can't. The whole brunt of it. I can't even—"Then her voice gets colder "I could kill your parents, you know?"With the way she's looking now, I believe her "I don't—""I won't, but I could. I'm just saying" Maybe I should have been scared about the tone in her voice but I find myself standing and going behind her chair before I place my hands on her shoulders "Cream does this for Strawberry when he's stressed. I'm not sure I can replicate it but I'm willing to try""Nice to know I'm your first"I try my hardest not to blush.After a while of me kneading her shoulders, I say "Ber doesn't hate you"She says nothing so I continue "He's the one who sent me here, he just— Has a h
I dream. For the first time, I'm not inside the lighthouse where it's dark and my heart is racing a thousand miles per hour or I'm scared because Mommy could want to play one of her games and I won't win. I never win. It's outside. I'm outside. On the shore next to the sea. I can hear the waves crashing and I can tell I'm me but not me. My body is on the sand, it's warm and the air smells nice. There's an umbrella over my head and Dad's next to me, trying to make a seashell necklace. Staring at him now, through my eyes after so manu years, I realize I'd almost forgotten what he looked like. He was blond like me and yet not quite. His hair looked like golden silk, the type that makes you wonder if the sun decided to try it's luck with another creature that wasn't Rapunzel and also about gold chains and wristwatches and other shiny things. And he has green eyes, too. Emerald green eyes that I'd wondered why I never had. There was nothing remarkably similar about Dad and I, except
"God, I don't know" I cover my face "How does this even work? How am I supposed to feel about it?""I don't know" He sounds clueless "It was different for me. I didn't-"I look at him now "How different?"He pauses, staring at my face like he's trying to remember before he speaks "I d-didn't exactly find out by them telling me, that they were- Well. I just c-caught Coco being tied with his hands behind while Ber stood behind him and Cream stayed at the front w-with Doctor watching"Oh.Oh.My brain on its own creates the image. Caramel standing there, staring at his brother in that position-I shove it away quicker than I'd finish a cheeseburger "And what did you do?"His cheeks are slightly pink, like this was weird to talk about but he was going to do it because it was me as he says "I-I wanted to run. I did, but I couldn't. I j-just kept staring and wondering why everyone always wanted Coco. We have the same faces and yet-"As he speaks, his voice going lower, I can tell he was not
Kai stares at us, his dark eyes flipping through different emotions as he tries to understand what's going on.Why I'm being with them like that.My body moves, wanting to wrap him into a hug so I can explain but someone's rough hand clamps around my arm, and I turn, a snarl already appearing on my lips as Ber studies me.There's amusement in his eyes but it fades away to his usual scowl as he says "You're going in with Mel""Get your hands off me" I snap, jerking my hand away from his and without waiting for a reply from him or any of them, grab Caramel's.I don't wait for Mel to try getting himself together or ask what's going on either before I start tugging him behind me. I feel him stumble a bit, and I want to turn around and apologize about the way I'm pulling him along like he's my five year old son I can't wait to go home and shout at, but my eyes don't leave Kai who seems to look at us like his worst nightmares were walking directly to him and he wanted to bolt but wasn't su
Through half of our classes, he doesn't even look at me once which should hurt his neck cause I'm at his side but he's not even looked anywhere else asides from his front view and down view. With each class that ends, and the small breaks in between, everyone is talking about Caramel, Kai and I. This is the most cliche thing I've seen in Aeria high since a teacher dated a student! And that itself has never happened! Do you think they'd fight? The nerd and the cute boy? Besides, why her? Didn't the cute ones twin like kiss her, during gym class? Who the fuck is this dumb bitch that has people around her doing stupid things? But I ignore them because I know Kai isn't angry at me anymore. He gets the part that I hurt his feelings but he also knows, or at least thinks I'm doing it for a reason, or they are doing it for a reason. I doubt he think it's a good reason but he's worried about me, and is hurt that I'd do something with them and not him. And that makes me more sad. As s