Ghoul woke up, he didn't scream but he was breathing hard and in a cold sweat…apparently he fell asleep at some point last night. Ghoul curled up in a ball on the floor head against his knees. "Ghoul…" he heard a quiet voice call, it was Deidre, he peaked up at her and buried his face again.
At least it's not Delia he thought to himself. Just then he felt a hand on his shoulder and he saw and heard her knees hit the ground next to him. "Ghoul?"
"WH-what?" ghoul replied, still spooked from his nightmare.
"Are you ok" she replied softly. Ghoul just nodded and sat up on his knees in front of Deidre. She gave him a warm smile
"Nightmares again?" ghoul lowered his head embarrassed to be the only 18 year old in the world to be afraid to sleep. She sighs, and rubs his back before standing up and walking out of the room. She figured it would be better to leave him alone for now. On her way out she bumped into Delia. "Is ghoulie in there?" she asked peaking around her sister.
"Yeah" she replied. "But leave him alone for now ok?" she looked at her sister almost begging. Delia nodded and smiled. "Ok Dee" she turned and walked away until Deidre started walking also. Delia ran into the backroom the find ghoul on the floor still. She grins and crosses her arms "did little ghoulie have a nightmare" she said in a mock baby tone just before Deidre grabbed her from behind
"I said leave him alone for now" she tugged on her sister and looked over at ghoul who had stood up and was glaring at Delia with a low growl. "Dee I swear I am not in the mood" he turned away pulling his hair back and wraps a hair ties around it to hold in place.
"Awww" Delia continued
"What did I say!" ghoul turned back and yelled a few strands of bangs escaping in the front, both girls jumped and backed off slightly. Deidre nudged Delia and whispered "I told you" she pulled her sister out of the room and Ghoul slammed the door behind them.
"What's with him?" Delia said glaring at the door. "I was just playing"
"You know how he is and yet you find just the wrong time to push his buttons!" Deidre storms out of the room with a huff.
"Someone has a crush" Delia grins as Deidre stops in her tracks
"What?" Deidre brushes some hair out of her face
"Ghoul is a dreg why do you like…him" Deidre was still looking away but couldn't help but glare
"Two things, ghoul is not that bad, and I don't have a crush." Delia rolls her eyes
"I have known you for 16 years DeeDee, no point in lying to me" Delia says in a sing song tone, Deidre huffs again and goes to the kitchen. Deidre knew Delia was 100% write but she would not hear the end of it is she ever admitted it so it had stayed bottled up inside since just after they joined the jokerz. Ghoul may have been dreggy and somewhat obnoxious, but he was nice…for the most part, and he wasn't like every other joker out there. He was just…him. Deidre smiled thinking about this as she stated mixing ingredients for snicker doodle cookies…they were ghouls favorite, this was bound to cheer him up
