Chop Suey
"So go, Kraar," Cried Morgra. "It is time: The free Varg are going like sheep to the valley of Kosov, and the searchers shall be their nemeses. But your kind must be there for the feast too. Your cries must wake the dead."
David Clement-Davies "The Sight"
"Wake up! Wake up! Grab a brush and put on a little make up! Why'd you leave-"Trenity's long arm reached vainly for her alarm clock. "Here you go creating another fable. You wanted to! Grab a-"Finding the alarm clock Trenity's fish slammed down on the off button. Willow, having been so rudely woken up from a good dream, was trying to find her pants under a pile of blankets. "You really need to get another song for you're alarm." She growled.
"Why? I think Chop Suey works just fine. It tells me what to do, you know wake up, grab a brush and put on a little make up."
"Yeah, what about the rest? Hide the scars to fade away from the shake up, why'd you leave the keys on the table, and here you go creating another fable?"
Trenity shrugged and fingered the long scar that ran across her collar bone, a ghost of the pain still crept back into her mind when she remembered the incident. "All apart of the past dreary. Oh your pants are in the dryer, remember. That chick spilled beer on them while you were talking to that Spike wanna-be."
Willow wrinkled her nose in distaste, "I don't see how anyone can drink beer."
"How much coffee should I make?"
"None for me. I'm going to go take a shower."
Trenity sighed as she heard the door lock. "I guess you don't want me to come in there and wash your back." She shouted over the noise of the running water. When Willow didn't answer Trenity smile and shook her head.
The coffee pot was over half empty and still steaming when Willow got out. Glancing over at the table she saw that Trenity had polished off half a box of doughnuts and was finishing up her coffee.
"How many cups have you had?" Trenity refilled her coffee mug and shoved another doughnut in her mouth.
"I'll talk to you when you're wake then."
Trenity refilled her coffee mug and shoved another doughnut in her mouth.
"You keep eating like that and you're going to be fatter than you already are." Trenity looked down at her flat stomach, which was well defined by slight abs. She knew Willow was joking, she spent a very good part of her life in a gym. Giving a haughty shrug Trenity stuck out her tongue, which was covered with half chewed doughnut chunks.
"You're so gross." Willow said while selecting a chocolate covered doughnut of her own. The rest of their breakfast passed in silence, Willow finished the rest of the doughnuts and Trenity downed two more cups of coffee.
After breakfast Trenity and Willow went to work at Hot Topic. After half of their twelve hour shift, an extremely long half of a twelve hour shift, and barely any shoppers, they took a lunch break. After a year of working in the mall, mall food was still appealing. Willow went to go get the pizza and chicken salads while Trenity beat her way into a huge line to get Chinese food and strawberry-banana smoothies. Chicken salad and pizza already finished, they were working on the Chinese food and smoothies when a tall, attractive, redheaded guy came up and wrapped his arms around Trenity's shoulders. "Hey sexy, didn't I see you at that party?" He whispered hoarsely in her ear. "Maybe. But I saw so many guys there you might want to remind me who you are." She teased. He bend down and kissed her on the lips. "Eww, Trenity you're going to get germs." Willow said from across the table. Trenity smiled and pulled away,
"Jealous?" she asked.
"Hardly, why would anyone want to date someone like Mordrid Othello Turner. The read head in question, Mordrid, stuck his pierced tongue out at Willow as he sat down next to Trenity. "Jealous, Willow, that you didn't get her first?"
"Okay you guys, stop it. You both like each other so why are you always so mean? Can't you see all this fighting is tearing our happy family apart?" Trenity asked.
Willow grinned over at Mordrid, "Because Trenity, it's for the same reason why you and I flirt. It's just fun and comes naturally."
Trenity nodded, picked up her Chop Suey and began to eat. The rest of their lunch hour passed the same way, Trenity finished her lunch while Willow alternated between eating and fighting with Mordrid. At the end of their lunch break Trenity and Willow went back to work and Mordrid left to start his work shift at Best Buy.
By the time Willow and Trenity's work shift had ended nothing was going on, so they decided to drive around town, which ended with Trenity swearing fluently because of a book report she had due the next day. Making a very illegal U-turn in the middle of the highway Trenity speed off to the nearest bookstore.
They were browsing the shelves while arguing over which came first, the chicken or the egg, when Trenity noticed a red leather book sitting at the end of the furthest bookshelf behind a bulky section of Stephan King novels, almost as if it didn't want to be found. Trenity frowned and picked it up. There was nothing interesting about this particular book, in fact it even looked a little dull; its red leather seemed faded like embers of what was once a great fire. Its pages were worn and yellowish; a usual sign of age, and the gold letters that spelled out the book's name seemed worn and to the point of falling off, but Trenity couldn't put it back.
Willow found her staring at the red book and insisted on leaving due to arm ache, she had a large stack of books. Among them were a few books by Silver Raven Wolf and a couple of Japanese graphic novels, Gravitation among them. While Willow was checking out the cashier, a middle aged woman with too much jewelry and a huge cross pendent on her shirt, gave Willow a disapproving glance, which Willow returned with a hostile glare that if looks could kill the woman would have already died a thousand times over. When they left Willow was still muttering curses.
By the time they got to Trenity's apartment it was already 12:30 am and both girls were beat. Willow collapsed on the couch and was asleep by the time Trenity pulled off her shoes. After she changed and brushed her teeth Trenity picked up the old book and flipped through its pages. An eerie feeling came over her and a chill shot down her spine. Trenity turned to the front of the book and whispered the first paragraph, "In the beginning of this last world in which you, the reader, have just stumbled upon there was nothing, nothing except for darkness. Darkness and fire. In this nothing amid empty space darkness and fire consumed everything they could, but still their hunger and greed drove them on until they were feeding off each other-"
A light buzzing noise started to sound in the back of Trenity's head. The room seemed a little darker and the faint smell of burning wood drifted through the air. Trenity yawned and shook her head, believing that it was only her imagination running away again.
Years later when she would tell her grandchildren about a magical world that started with darkness and fire, she would start her story by showing them the world between the lines of ink and show them how fire is greedy and likes to gobble up the pages that hold this magical world together. But for now her warm bed and the promise of a good night's rest was too tempting to even think about staying up and wondering any more about this.
