Love

Rhode's tears trickled down her face. Her heart felt so heavy within her rib cage. Was he ever coming back? Did he not love the family anymore? A sharp surprised cry came from her mouth as the needle pricked her finger. A gem of blood welled upon her index finger. She stuck it in her mouth, sucking on it. At least she had finished her creation. Rhode picked up the doll, biting her lip. The doll was an ashen color that resembled her own skin. The crazy brown hair, which was made from strands of yarn, was pulled backwards. In the doll's hand was a cigarette.

"Ah, my very own Tyki!" Rhode exclaimed with a giggle, clapping her hands together. There was no more need to cry now, right? Mustering a smile, Rhode hugged her Tyki doll. Even with Tyki gone for a few months now, she could help herself feel less lonely with the doll.

"Oh, Tyki, when are you coming home to the family?" She whined to her doll, hugging it tightly. "I…I…need you here…" Her eyes became wet once more. Where had he gone off to? Why did he love his gambling human friends more?

"TYKI!" Rhode felt anger boil up inside her veins. She grabbed the Tyki doll and slammed it against the wall. Her eyes narrowed into small slits as she watched the doll hit against the wall of her bedroom. Rhode's sharp striped candles levitated around the doll, ready to pierce at any given moment.

He loved his humans more than his family? That thought triggered her ascending anger. Was she not good enough? Did he hate his Noah side? His inner self that linked him within the family?

Rhode walked over to the fallen Tyki doll and picked it up. "Do you not love us anymore? Do you not love….me?" She pressed the doll tightly against her breast, wishing the doll was the real Tyki.

At dinner, Rhode placed her Tyki doll in the real Noah's empty chair before settling down in her own seat beside him.

Jasdero and Debito walked into the Dining Room, arms linking each other together. They paused by Tyki's rightful chair, ogling the doll. "What the hell is that?" The twins inquired in unison.

Rhode frowned, crossing her arms over her chest. "It's Tyki, who else?"

Both of them started to laugh hysterically at the notion of the doll being Lord Tyki Mikk.

"It looks like Debito!" Jasdero laughed.

"HEY!" Debito held his gun up to Jasdero's head. "I am better-looking than that!"

"Are you calling Tyki ugly? I'll send your ass into a nightmare!" Rhode growled at the two.

Jasdero and Debito walked over to their rightful seats, stifling laughs from underneath their hands.

The Earl walked into the room, humming to some ridiculous tune. The silly large grin was plastered permanently upon his face. Seeing the Tyki doll beside Rhode, he started to chuckle. "Why, it's our Tyki… Did you make him all by yourself, Rhode? Aww, it is so cute…." His eyes flashed with a hidden intent within his words for only a second.

A month later, Rhode still played around with the Tyki doll, always wishing for the real man to return.

Rhode sat upon her bed, placing the Noah doll on top of her lap. "Tyki? I want to experience something… A little experiment, yes…?" She grinned. "Lord Tyki Mikk…." Rhode Kamelot bent her head down and pretended the doll was the real personwhen she placed a kiss upon his sewn lips.

Even if the Tyki doll was not real, it made her heart spasm into a rapid race. If only she could taste the real, sweet, soft lips of the Pleasure Noah. Rhode licked her lips just as Jasdero and Debito burst into her room unannounced.

"You're kissing a doll?!" Debito laughed.

Jasdero pointed at the doll, "Tyki! You love Tyki!"

"But he isn't really here…." Both chorused, aiming their gun at the doll. Simultaneously, they fired a bullet direct directly at the doll. "Sick, sick, sick girl!" They chuckled as the damage was done. The doll was blown to pieces.

Rhode started to cry as anger festered through her body. "You killed my Tyki!!!" She screamed, letting the power of dream ebb from within her body. The air started to grow thick and hazy just as someone slammed the door open, round-housing the twins in the process.

The newcomer wrapped its arms protectively around Rhode, snapping the Noah girl back into reality.

"You don't need the doll anymore…I'm sorry…" A sexy deep voice whispered in her ear, making her shiver.

"Tyki….? You're back….?" Rhode questioned, stunned at his sudden reappearance.

"Yes, I am here to stay… I'm sorry you were so lonely that you hqad to resort to a doll…" Tyki hugged her tightly. "Rhode…?"

"Yes?"

"I was spying on you for a bit as I arrived here earlier tonight… You want to try your experiment over again? On me, the real Tyki?" He grinned, making poor Rhode Kamelot blush bright red.