A/N: Welcome to chapter three! Now I bet you're probably staring at that title and wondering, "WTF?" But you'll understand soon~!
I'm listening to Miserable at Best by Mayday Parade right now and gettin' pretty jiggy with it if you know what I mean!
I'm pretty sure that was my inner lame side flaring up again, I apologize... -_-'
WARNING: This story contains lots of swearing and obvious references to sex :D Not that you closet-pervs mind - What?! I didn't say that! Psh!
Disclaimer: Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji = DO NOT OWN
Claimer: Cassie, Ophelia, June, Kyle, Jim, anything you haven't seen = I OWN
Chapter Three
The Sex Talk and Life or Death Situations
At the apartment, Cassie was jumping at every sound. She was absolutely terrified of thunderstorms.
She didn't mind the rain but once she saw a flash of lightning, Cassie was under the covers. It didn't help that the wind was so high outside that every possible branch was tapping against the window to her room.
About ten minutes after she'd finished her essay, rain had come pouring down. By now it was half past six and Cassie was wondering where the hell Ophelia was. Ophelia knew how much Cassie hated thunderstorms and always found some way to distract her from it.
Said girl was cursing herself as she parked into her spot and ran her way up to the apartment door, skidding every once and a while. When she made it to the door she jammed the key in and crashed through, holding the bag from the shop and two still surprisingly warm pizzas with Kyle's number on one box.
Halfway on her way to her car she realized that it had begun to thunder, and occasional bright flashes of lightning lit up the sky. She felt terrible that she'd spent so long messing around when Cassie was probably home having a panic attack.
It didn't surprise her that all the lights were on. Even though it was spring and only 6:30, the clouds outside made it look like the middle of the night. Ophelia knew Cassie turned on all the lights so that she would feel safer seeing everything.
She didn't know what would've happened if she'd not been here and the power went out. After setting the two pizza boxes down on the counter in the kitchen and placing the plastic bag next to it, she set her purse down and walked towards Cassie's room.
She knocked quietly and entered, walking into the brightly lit room. She had the lamp on, the overhead light on, three night lights, and a camera light turned on, nearly blinding Ophelia. She never understood why Cassie felt safer when the lights were on. She herself felt better when it was dark.
After sighing to let Cassie know she was there, she turned the camera light off knowing Cassie would get stressed if its batteries went out. She also turned off the overhead light but kept the lamp and three night lights on.
She heard Cassie whimper when the overhead light went out. Ophelia tried to smile comfortingly at the lump of pillows and blankets that was Cassie.
"Hey, Casanova." Ophelia said, using the nickname she'd given her a year ago. A whimper from said girl was all she got in reply.
Ophelia sighed and grabbed the blankets, ducking her head under. She found a terrified looking Cassie looking with wide eyes at Ophelia. The redhead wrapped her arms around her older friend in a tight hug.
"Don't let it interfere with your night." Ophelia said in a quiet voice.
Cassie took in a shuddering breath and felt stupid for being so afraid. She knew about how Ophelia dealt with her problems by laughing it off every time they were brought up, but that didn't mean she could.
Cassie just sunk into her friend's arms and hugged her back, "Thank you."
"Now, get off me! I have pizza~" Ophelia said, sounding like an elementary school girl.
Cassie rolled off of her friend and sat up on the bed soundlessly. Ophelia, on the other hand, attempted to free herself from the blanket she was currently trapped under.
Cassie raised an eyebrow at the kicking and grunting mass of blankets and stood up, turning off her lamp. Eventually, Ophelia kicked around so much that she fell off the bed and groaned.
"Fuck my life." She deadpanned, not moving from the face first position she fell in. Cassie just chuckled and watched Ophelia crawl from the mess and flop onto the carpet.
"Air~!" She called over-dramatically.
"Yeah, yeah. You can breathe again, whatever. Where's the pizza?" Cassie said, deliberately being unhelpful.
Ophelia glared, "Kitchen."
Cassie saw her stick her tongue out and rolled her eyes. She could be so childish at times. Not that Cassie wasn't immature, she just wasn't sticking her tongue out at people.
When the pink haired girl made it to the kitchen, she tricked herself into being blind to pizza boxes. Apparently, her eyes refused to notice the delicious smelling cardboard boxes on the counter. Her brain, however, was stupid enough to look in their little living room for it.
Ophelia came in and saw Cassie looking under the couch muttering, "Pizza, pizza, pizza..." To herself.
Ophelia face-palmed, "You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you?"
Cassie looked up at Ophelia confused and then saw the younger girl point to the counter. The older girl stared at the counter for a while, taking a moment to register the blatantly obvious pizza boxes, before calmly going up to the counter and smiling as if she hadn't been looking under furniture for pizza seconds before.
"Found 'em." She said to Ophelia, still smiling.
The redhead's palm found it's way to her face again, making a loud "slap" echo throughout the room. Cassie ignored it and went to open the vegetarian-style pizza with bell peppers, cheese, and black olives.
However, something interesting caught her eye.
"I hope to god that this wasn't the price for these." She commenting, eyeing the phone number.
Ophelia rolled her eyes and shook her eyes, "Nope, I just got myself a nice and tall portion of sexy at Pizza Hut today."
"Was this portion covered in tomato sauce and cheese? If not, I'm no longer interested." Cassie said, talking around a bite of pizza.
Ophelia laughed, "No, but he was covered in sexiness and orgasm fuel."
"No comment." Cassie said, feeling her cheeks flame.
The redhead chuckled darkly, "Is wittle Cassie afwaid of sex?"
"No!" Cassie said, "I just don't think talking about it is appropriate..."
"So you're uncomfortable with the subject?" Ophelia pressed.
"...I guess you could say that." Cassie supplied but immediately regretted as Ophelia pulled off a wicked grin that the Cheshire Cat would be proud of.
"It's okay, Cass." Ophelia said, "I know what'll make you more comfortable with sex and your body."
"What the hell are you going on about?" Cassie deadpanned.
"Just repeat after me: sex, orgasm, sex, penis, sex, vagina." Ophelia said, still with the wicked smirk.
Cassie's eyes widened and she nearly choked on her bite of pizza. She had to turn around and grab a Rockstar from the fridge to down the piece. The energy drink's bubbles fizzed over her tongue as she glared at her friend.
"Hell no."
"Hell yes! It's gonna happen at one point. You're gonna be dating some guy and then things are gonna get serious and he's gonna penetrate the fuck out of you." Ophelia said like it was normal conversation.
"Ophelia!"
"Or you could get gang raped... There's always that." The younger girl continued.
"Ophelia!" Cassie said again, not knowing what else to say.
"Bro, the word 'sex' in general turns me on a little..." She continued.
"Ophelia Dawson! You shut the hell up right now!" Cassie said. By now she was blushing uncontrollably at the thoughts that went through her mind.
"Ooh! You're getting feisty! Don't worry, guys like that."
Cassie shoved a slice of pizza in her mouth to get her to shut up. Ophelia merely chewed it quickly and raised an eyebrow.
"Fwou're alweagy shogving stuff in peofple's mowfs..." (*) Ophelia started, with pizza still in her mouth. She swallowed quickly, "That's a good sign."
The older girl's blush deepened and she decided she wouldn't stand for the younger girl embarrassing her.
"How would you know?!" Cassie asked, "You're still a virgin." She said in a voice that she realized sounded a bit too much like a know-it-all Hermione Granger.
Ophelia just shrugged, "I'm not a virgin to everything. I just haven't had a guy's dick insi..."
"Shut up! I don't wanna hear it!" Cassie said quickly.
"...de my vagina." Ophelia finished it, relishing the way Cassie was spazzing out.
"Okay, I think that's enough sex talk for tonight." Cassie said, blushing profusely.
"Whatever you say, bro." Ophelia said, walking to the counter.
The redhead leaned on the outside of the island-like counter, looking at the fridge longingly. Cassie raised an eyebrow, her blush had yet to recede.
"...Did you want a drink?" Cassie asked Ophelia who was continuing to stare at the fridge.
"Why, that would make my night!" The girl said with a smile.
Cassie rolled her eyes and grabbed a Rockstar out of the fridge for her roommate, tossing the can to Ophelia. Just as the cool metal met the girl's fingers, the lights went out.
Cassie yelped and Ophelia blinked twice before her eyes became accustomed to the darkness.
"I'll get the candles." Ophelia said, "Stay right where you're at and try to not scream like you're getting stabbed."
"Hey! ...Fine." Cassie replied.
Ophelia snorted and walked towards the bathroom. She opened the door and then crouched near the ground where the cabinet was. She rifled through the organized baskets of stuff, courtesy of Cassie's need to clean when she was stressed or thinking.
After a minute or two, she found a plastic box heavy with all different types of candles. Just as she was about to get up, she heard Cassie yelp a little and was glad she'd found the candles when she did.
She made her way back to the kitchen and set the box of candles on the counter. Ophelia was about to ask why Cassie was shivering in her skin when suddenly a loud roll of thunder made the redhead's chest vibrate. Ophelia came to the conclusion that her friend had been frightened by a flash of lightning.
"W-where's the lighter?" Cassie asked, trying to keep the stutter out of her voice.
"I'll get it." Ophelia said, heading back to the hallway leading to their rooms and the bathroom.
"Wait!" Cassie called, "Can I go with you?" She asked.
Ophelia was suddenly reminded of a kid who'd just seen a scary movie and was jumping at everything.
She hid her chuckle, "Yeah, follow me."
The two made it to Ophelia's room in the dark. Ophelia had adjusted to the darkness a while ago but Cassie's refusal to see anything but the backs of her eyelids caused her to trip a few times.
As they entered the threshold to Ophelia's room Cassie thought to ask something.
"Why do you have a lighter in your room?"
Ophelia didn't answer, but instead lifted up a plushie that looked like the Undertaker and took off the hat.
"I didn't know it could do that..." Cassie said with a frown.
"It couldn't. But then I found scissors and a need for a secret compartment." Ophelia replied.
Cassie snorted while Ophelia pulled out a small zippo lighter.
"Why the hell are you keeping lighters in the Undertaker's clothing?" Cassie asked.
"Well," Ophelia started in a voice that Cassie knew meant no good, "There's plenty of flame starting under his clothing already, I thought he wouldn't mind if I kept one more there.
Cassie rolled her eyes and mumbled something along the lines of, "...dirty minded son of a bitch."
A flash of lightning seen from Ophelia's window made her jump and grab onto her friend's arm. Cassie was glad Ophelia didn't shake her off like her other friends had when she was in high school.
"Off to the kitchen, my lady?" Ophelia asked.
"Y-yes, please." Cassie choked out.
As the two left the room a roll of thunder shook them, leaving Cassie on the verge of tears and Ophelia to wonder why the thunder was sounding so impossibly loud. When they made it to the kitchen and lit some candles Ophelia brought it up to Cassie.
"I wonder why the thunder is so loud..." She said in a thoughtful voice.
"It always seems that way to me, so I wouldn't know." Cassie replied truthfully, taking a swig of her energy drink and jumping at another roll of thunder.
"Hmm...whatever." Ophelia shrugged.
All of a sudden, a large flash of white leering in through the windows had both girls turning away. Cassie yelped and kept her eyes shut tight while Ophelia squeezed her eyes together for a second before realizing the bright whiteness wasn't going away. She blinked open her eyes and looked into the living room.
"What the fuck?" She said, staring in shock.
"What?" Cassie asked when she heard no roll of thunder follow what she thought had been lightning. She slowly turned and saw that in the center of their living room was a small white orb that illuminated the entire room.
Ophelia took a step towards it and all the candles were abruptly put out. She froze, not knowing what to do.
"Ophelia, what is that?" Cassie asked, fear interlaced in her voice.
"I'm not sure." Cassie didn't fail to notice her voice was an octave higher than normal. Cassie was shocked to realize that the girl was scared.
She realized that it would be normal to be scared in a situation they were in, but it was rare to see her sarcastic, immature friend in a state of fear. Despite her voice being a giveaway, Ophelia's face was entirely composed. If not too composed.
The pink haired girl dislike how blank her friend's eyes were. It seemed as if everything was going on inside. Because although Ophelia looked blank with her emotionless eyes and taut face, Cassie knew thoughts were flying through her head a mile a minute. It was as if the rest of her body had to shut down for all of her focus to go into thinking.
Cassie admitted it was somewhat frightening to see her usually always distracted friend focused solely on thinking. It was almost a contradiction.
The older girl's mind was so focused on her friend's expression that she almost forgot about the ... thing in the middle of their apartment. As soon as Cassie's attention was back on it, it started to glow brighter. The light from it seemed to engulf everything around it in it's brightness.
"Cassie. Get to the door now." Ophelia's voice was steely, not sounding frightened anymore. Cassie looked up to see that the girl hadn't even looked back at her. She thought she might've imagined her friend's words until she saw one pale, metallic gold tipped finger point in the direction to the front door.
"O-Ophelia..." Cassie started.
"Go now. I'll be there in just a second." She said again, no hint of the joking, dirty minded 20 year old Cassie had been talking to earlier.
She was shocked at how quickly her personality changed in the situation. Only minutes before she'd been falling off of the bed and making perverted remarks. Now, Cassie admitted she was kind of scared of how cool and calculating she seemed.
"But what about -" Cassie started but was swiftly interrupted by her friend.
"Now." Ophelia said in a tone that stabbed at Cassie's heart.
"Y-yeah." Cassie said quickly, feeling hurt without meaning to.
She looked warily at the glob of pure brightness as she stumbled quickly to the door. As she made her way down the hallway leading to the door from the kitchen she heard Ophelia shriek.
"Ophelia?!" Cassie called, stopping to turn around.
She found that the light was getting brighter and bigger, making Cassie shiver involuntarily. Said friend suddenly came crashing through the hallway.
"Get out! Get out! Get out!" Ophelia ordered.
Cassie had only a second to feel relieved that her friend was no longer an emotionless robot before the light grew alarmingly in size and brightness. Ophelia had her hand on the doorknob, having passed Cassie, when the brightness started reaching towards them.
Just as the growing orb was about to touch them it abruptly was sucked away. Ophelia turned the knob slowly, staring warily at where the brightness had receded and tightly gripped Cassie's hand with her free one.
The door was now several inches open and the two girls could clearly see rain pounding down outside with severe cracks of lightning and thunder lighting up the city and extreme winds making the trees sway.
Cassie let out a quick breath of relief when, rapidly, the light expanded once again. It was faster than last time, as if it had to implode before it exploded. Ophelia and Cassie were blinded by the light, not even having time to run away, and thrown out the door by an unknown force.
As the two girls were thrown outside the light seemed to swallow them, before they could even collide with the concrete they got the sense of blinding white and then the feeling that they were falling.
The two couldn't see each other but their hands were gripped tightly together. Cassie felt her throat burn as she screamed but couldn't hear the sound. She only heard the blood pounding in her ears and a strong wind.
Ophelia, on the other hand, was having a panic attack. She'd always hated how they sprung up in the most inconvenient times. She felt as if she couldn't get air into her lungs and her heart was beating much too fast. She was dizzy and tears of struggle escaped her eyes.
Her inability to breathe worsened when she felt Cassie's grip on her go limp. Pressing a long finger to her friend's wrist alerted Ophelia of the slow pulse and she was given the idea that Cassie had passed out.
'Why can't I pass out?!' Ophelia questioned to herself. She desperately tried to clench onto Cassie's wrist and knew if she let go they'd be flying in completely separate directions. She knew why she couldn't pass out. If she did she'd lose Cassie.
The sense of falling still had Ophelia's hair flying in front of her face as she stared up at pure whiteness that made her already dizzy composure worsen.
She thought back to when she was in the kitchen. She'd told Cassie to leave and admitted to being harsh, but honestly it was for the older girl's own good. When Cassie had been in the hallway she'd foolishly attempted to touch the orb, hence her scream.
It'd felt as if her entire body was being burned and her eyes in particular had stung with the pain of a flaming stick jabbing them out. She'd been quick to pull away and get Cassie out of there.
'Unfortunately, the universe decided we were its favorite plaything.' The thought ran bitterly through her mind.
She didn't even bother to question what the blob was, why it'd come to them, or what was up with it. She knew she'd give herself a headache and her panic attack was already slowly letting up, she didn't want to make it worse.
Ophelia suddenly became extremely tired. It was as if something was forcing her eyes to close and just fall asleep. She tightened her grip on Cassie, straining to hold up the slack body as they fell. Her breathing slowed and her dizziness came back tenfold.
"Fuck..." Ophelia said weakly before losing her grip on Cassie and closing her eyes. She felt herself thump against something hard and then came a surprised gasp.
Before anything else could be done Ophelia fell asleep, finally ridding herself of the annoying blankness and left to worry about Cassie.
Done with chapter three~! I hope you liked Ophelia's persistency in the topic of sex and the like, but sorry if it made you blush :3 You silly little dolls, you've probably been reading fanfiction long enough now that you're used to OCs bringing up sex or even sexing up their favorite characters ;P that's this website for ya!
I'm trying to update the first few chapters quicker so that I can just get it out there, but in a while updates might slow down a little. Not too much, just more to once a week instead of this schedule I'm trying to do of every days/every two days.
I've literally been doing nothing but listening to music while drinking Arizona tea and writing for like 3 weeks now. I take breaks to sleep and go to the bathroom.
I think I caught a cold or something because my throat's all swollen and my nose is stuffy. I usually get a lot of sickness during the winter so being sickly in the summer annoys me. D: But oh well! More time and more excuses to be writing all the time!
(*): In case you couldn't tell Ophelia said with her mouthful of pizza to Cassie, "You're already shoving stuff in people's mouths." :3
I had fun writing Cassie and Ophelia's different reactions to the bad situation :P Cassie's more that girl who's panicking but trying not to panic and trying to get everyone taken care of. Whereas Ophelia, I think, just shuts down all emotions and tries to get everyone out alive and doesn't care much about what's gonna happen to her.
That maybe important for later chapters~
Or maybe not.
How do YOU react to bad situations? I usually try to act brave and try to help people but end up failing and just getting really annoyed that no one cooperates. -_-'
Thank you to anyone and everyone who's read, reviewed, followed, favorited, or even glanced at this story :D It means a lot to me~!
Take care, panda bears! ;D
- Anti Social Shinigami
