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Heartlessly Heartfelt
Chapter Two
It was honestly a pretty lazy bus ride after that. Operetta strumming her guitar here and there, having a conversation with whomever she wanted to. The other monsters either kept to themselves, chatted amongst themselves or some even decided this would be a good time to catch up on some sleep. They had finally come to the end of their bus ride, soon arriving at the airport.
"I totally suggest you sit at the back of a plane," Toralei had went out of her way to speak to one Venus McFlytrap. "have you ever heard of a plane backing into a mountain?"
Venus let out a scared squeak. "... W-w-what?"
Toralei let out a meow and chuckled. "Yeah... it just happens sometimes..."
"Ah, buzz off, Toralei..." Robecca hissed.
Rolling her eyes, the ginger werecat walked off; heading back to Meowlody and Purrsephone, who were still trying to find their plane tickets.
"Don't worry." Robecca murmured to Venus, who was almost shaking with fear. "That only happened once, in a freak accident, I believe..."
"... What if it happens with our plane?" Venus said.
"It won't. I promise you."
"Can you guys hurry up?" Clawdeen exclaimed from practically the other end of the airport. "Our plane is going to leave in two minutes!"
The others were all gathered around Clawdeen, she seemed to know what she was doing when it came to this whole plane and airport thing, so it thought to be a good idea to stick by her. Meanwhile Jackson and Heath were grabbing their luggage still. "Aren't you nervous?" Heath questioned his cousin rather suddenly.
The normie raised an intrigued eyebrow, "No, not really. It's just an airplane, why?"
Heath shrugged quickly, "You're a normie, aren't you scared of everything?"
Jackson shook his head, "It wasn't too long since you've been normie yourself, so you tell me."
Heath sighed, "I'm not scared of heights... or anything. It's something else."
"Abbey?" Jackson smirked, "She can get very intimidating. I think she even scares Manny."
Heath's face blushed a deep red but he laughed lightly, "Her too. But no, something else... I get, uh... really airsick. I've only ever been in a plane like, once. And the staff on the plane weren't impressed with cleaning the aisles if you catch my drift. Plus mom and dad had to rent a car and drive home because I just... couldn't handle another plane."
Jackson nodded, "Yes, yes I catch your drift. You'll be okay though. Maybe take something to help you sleep through it? That's what I'd do in your position. It'd be better than hurling everywhere. And the last thing you want is for Abbey to hold it against you all summer."
Heath glanced over at his ice cold crush, Abbey Bominable. "Yeah, pretty much. Good thinking."
"So guys, I was thinking something really voltage!" Frankie stated excitedly as the rest of the group came together, getting ready to board their plane. They all hid their electronic devices away from Miss Stein. They didn't feel the want to replace anything that got fried. Her cheeks blushed, "I was thinking... maybe on the plane... to pass some time, we could play a game or something?"
"Like what?" Cleo replied, her eyebrows knit. "... Ghoulia! Get me a drink?"
Ghoulia moaned and handed her the bottle of water she'd yet to open herself. She had extras but they were in her carry on purse luckily. Slow-Moe snuck up behind her slowly, taking her hand in his. She grinned.
Frankie shrugged as they all boarded the plane and were taking their seats. She undoubtedly sat next to Abbey as Cleo drug Deuce to a couple seats not far from Frankie and Abbey. "Well I don't know... how about a game like..." she trailed off in thought, her delicate finger tapping her chin as she thought about it.
Clawd grinned as he sat next to Draculaura and they had gotten comfortable once more. It'd been nice that they had a chance to stretch their legs after riding the bus. "How about some... truth or dare?"
Toralei let out a cunning meow. "I'm up for that... Anyone else?"
"Yeah... Let's start with you." Clawdeen chuckled.
"What? Why?" the werecat's expression suddenly turned from cunning and evil to shocked and surprised.
"You're the one who agreed to it." Clawdeen smirked.
"... Fine." Toralei growled. "Hit me with your best shot, Fido..."
The smirk now turning menacing; the fashionista werewolf put a perfectly manicured finger to her lips and thought for a moment. "Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"... If you could kiss anyone on this plane, would it be?"
Toralei blinked slowly. "Um... I switch to Dare."
"... I dare you to answer that question." Clawdeen chuckled.
An awkward silence echoed throughout almost the entire plane as other passengers boarded.
"Well? Who would it be?"
"... Heath." Toralei spat, slumping in her seat.
"Yeaaaah! Told ya; the ladies love me!" the flame elemental exclaimed.
"... Wow. Real shocker." Lagoona muttered.
Clawdeen giggled and exchanged a knowing glance with some of her best ghoulfriends. "Really Toralei? Out of everyone on this plane, you would kiss Heath? I personally would've chosen the extra parachute or emergency exit to be honest."
Abbey busted a gut laughing.
Heath gave a sly smirk, "That's because you haven't kissed this sexual prowess yet."
Frankie laughed, "And what will your sexual prowess claim to do? Make it rain, or make it pour?"
Draculaura jaw hung open, she hardly knew her friends could think so… forwardly and dirty. But then again being around for so many years, you see and hear fads and trends come and go over centuries. Not a big deal, but sometimes quite shocking.
Heath began to relax a bit, he didn't mind being on this plane with his friends. They seemed to be calming him down and keeping his mind off the thoughts of being on an actual plane. He still felt scared shitless though. Clawdeen gave a menacing grin. "It's your turn to pick someone, Toralei... Or are you too scared?"
"Shut up." Toralei snapped. "Rochelle. Your turn."
"Truth." Rochelle blurted. She did not want to end up doing something stupid.
She purred in thought, "What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you, mon ami?" She ended in taunt, whether the stone ghoul knew it or not was another question.
All eyes were now on Rochelle, hopefully she didn't mind that being so.
"Ah..." Rochelle chuckled nervously. "Well, once, I scared a little normie child. Got beaten brutally, in public, mind you, with his mama's handbag..."
Almost all of her classmates snickered; some not holding back the urge to laugh out loud.
"What did you do to the kid?" Deuce asked her.
Rochelle immediately got nervous once more as she turned to him. "I.. I, well, to be honest, I do not know what startled him so. Probably seeing a living gargoyle, non?"
Heath nodded, trying to involve himself in the conversation more, as to keep his mind busy and not focusing on the fact they were going to leave ground in merely a few minutes. He'd had his seatbelt on since he retrieved his seat. "Well yeah, that'd probably scare the shit out of me too. You're used to seeing them on historic buildings and maybe hearing of them in stories or seeing them in movies, it's not every day you run into a femme fatale in gargoyle form." He nervously chuckled, but rubbed the back of his neck nervously.
Jackson could tell this wouldn't be a good flight for Heath. Not at all.
Clawdeen looked around at her friends, but gave Rochelle a gentle verbal push. "Go on, Rochelle, it's your turn to pick someone."
The normie swung his gaze forward to the set of seats in front of them, there Operetta sat alone with her guitar. He bit down on his bottom lip, he wanted to go sit next to her but he was so damn shy. He didn't think it'd be possible to gain the courage to do so.
Just then, a little purple spider hopped up on the seat and waved to Jackson.
Despite Heath feeling much comfort with his cousin next to him, he could see that he'd been ogling Operetta since she boarded the bus back at Monster High. So he'd be willing to let his cousin go. "Go sit with her." Heath whispered.
Jackson's eyes widened and he adjusted his glasses worriedly. "Ooh, I don't know."
Heath gave him a little playful shove. "Go. I'll survive, I think. If not, I won't guilt you I swear. Just show up to my funeral and maybe say a couple words, it's all I ask. I guess it'd be too ironic if I were cremated? ... Come to think of it, if I'm a fire elemental who knows if that's even possible?" He mused; of course he knew that even talking about death rattled Jackson a little, so he didn't do it too often.
He reached into his bag and pulled out some nighttime cold medicine, handing it to Heath. "And people think I'm dark." He narrowed his eyes. "Anyway, have fun."
Heath narrowed his eyes but didn't think it was that bad an idea, so he discreetly twisted the cap off and drank a good portion of it, almost half. It tasted like hell but he got through it. Twisting the cap back on, returning the bottle he took a pillow, fluffed it up and awaited Jackson to move. "How subtle of you." He commented.
"Go before we take off." Heath gestured once more.
"Alright, okay... okay." Jackson shyly unbuckled his seat belt, letting Heath have the luxury of two seats as he got up. "Hi Operetta... is this seat taken?" He asked her, a sheepish smile upon his face, blowing the blond bangs out of his face that had fallen loosely.
The Southern belle looked up at him and smiled. "Nah, I don't think so..."
"... Do you, um... mind if I sit next to you?" Jackson inquired. "Heath won't shut up about his fear of flying..." He faked a laugh; that it was almost convincable...
"Sure, I don't see why not." Operetta smirked as the normie boy sat down next to her. "But, you know what's been buggin' me this whole time?"
"... What?" Jackson said; the sheepish smile never leaving his expression.
"That ya decided to come to a music camp of all places for the summer. I'd thought ya mighta chosen somethin' like... I dunno..."
"I like music. But not loud kind. That's what triggers off Holt."
Operetta's face immediately read confusion. "I thought ya said just music made ya turn into Holt..."
"Nope..." Jackson shook his head. "Me and Holt have two different iCoffins, really. One's mine and has soft music; the other... well, I think you get it... The music has to be over ninety decibels for Holt to appear."
"Oh..." the Southern beauty leaned back in her seat. "Huh... Well, ya learn somethin' new everyday now, don'tcha?"
Soon a familiar scream was heard and almost everyone's gaze fell on who it came from. Abbey.
"Jsi blázen! Nedělám to! Raději bych skočit z budovy!" she was in a rage and glaring at Rochelle. "Anything but that! Switch to truth!"
"C'mon, mate, just tell us the dare!" Lagoona said. "What did she tell you?"
"I dared her to kiss Heath." Rochelle said, in a teasing matter.
Immediately all of the ghouls (except Abbey, of course), and even some of the guys, burst into hysterical laughter.
Heath was almost asleep, until he heard Abbey go off like a bomb, far from in the good way. He glanced up wearily to see her ranting on something about baby mammoth and eating its own regurgitation or something along those lines. "Abbey, I know I disgust you and what not, so just... take a 'chicken' and move on, it's all good. I get it." He curled up with the pillow and lightly sighed. He didn't want to do much moving anyway. He didn't really know the rules of 'Truth or Dare' here at Monster High or how everyone else played it, but a 'chicken' is a chance to escape the dare one had been given. Usually three were had at the start of each game.
Jackson excused himself politely to check on Heath, "Hey... you alright?" He inquired softly. He knew how badly Heath really crushed on Abbey, but he also knew how Abbey wasn't apparently into him. Even still, making those cracks about rather doing anything else but kissing Heath wasn't all that boosting of his confidence. They didn't know the real Heath, Jackson and Holt did.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks Jackson." He gave a small smile and slight nod.
Jackson lightly nodded as he turned back around in his seat, glancing to Operetta, "My apologies, Heath and I... are pretty close. In our family... we're the only kids more or less. So we've just stuck to each other and we're really close as cousins. So uh, what about you?" He blushed but was actually able to hold eye contact with Operetta, which she recognized he barely did with anyone else but Heath and Deuce Gorgon.
"Ah, I get ya." she replied. "I'm the only child as well, really. Though, I ain't as lucky as you... You got Heath there. I got no one 'cept mah friends and mah daddy."
"Oh..." Jackson bit his lip.
"But, really, I don't let it bother me." Operetta said, quickly. "I don't mind it just being me sometimes, y'know?"
Jackson gave a nod, "Yeah, I hear you on that one. It's nice to have solitude, but sometimes I find it gets a little lonely. Heath's always been more like my, uh... and Holt's... brother rather than our cousin, but that's just a long tangled story of family stuff in a web you don't care to hear about I'm sure." The announcement that they'd soon be landing in about another hour's time boomed through the plane. "When we get to camp, even though we have another bus ride ahead of us... did you wanna hang out sometime maybe?"
Operetta gave a big beautiful grin in agreement. "I'd love to."
Frankie looked over to Abbey, looking over at Heath and back to Abbey again. "Abbey knows." She stated coldly as she heaved a chilly sigh. Luckily everyone else was occupied with someone else while the tall female snuck over to where Heath was almost asleep. She leaned down, scrunching her nose at first, but as she brushed her lips against Heath's, she felt this warm tingle she'd never felt before.
Pulling away, she bit down upon her lip... kissing him once more.
'Abbey likes...' she thought guiltily to herself. She felt a little startled when he gently kissed back, but even that didn't stop her. Could Heath Burns be her secret guilty pleasure?
He didn't care to pay attention to anything else going on around the both of them; his biggest crush was finally kissing him!
'Holy fire balls, is Abbey Bominable kissing me?! Maybe summer won't suck after all!' The fire elemental thought eagerly to himself.
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