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Chapter 4: Talks of Tubs and Tsunderes

"Welcome to dinner at the mansion." Boris grinned deviously as Alice stared into the place blankly. Dee and Dum were running around the long table while throwing food at each other, Nightmare was coughing over his food; Blood and Elliot were talking, Julius took one look at everyone around him before getting up and walking out past Alice and Boris. Peter had an empty seat next to him, and the second he saw Alice, hearts replaced his eyes.

"Alice! You can sit next to me!" He gushed happily while gripping the chair beside him. Hearing Peter talk arose the interest of Blood and Elliot who both stopped talking. "Ah, it appears the Princess will be joining us for dinner." He smirked her way with a glint in his eye that she really didn't like.

Alice kept her poker face on and said nothing to any of them. She then turned to Boris, "Do I have to eat here?"

This question made Boris tilt his head to the side, "You're asking me?"

"No shit." She responded back while rolling her eyes. Boris scratched his cheek, trying not to be discontented with her attitude, "If you don't want to you don't have too, but we'd appreciate you—"

Alice turned on her heel and put her hand on the door knob, "Bye." She quickly stated.

Before she could fully leave the room, Boris caught her hand, "Aw! Don't leave yet! This is the way you can be officially put into the house… Get fully introduced you know?"

Alice stood, unable to walk forward… She went through her brain for options. If she kneed him in the crotch fast enough she'd be able to escape… But then she might get lost on her way back. Sighing, she nodded, "Fine…" Alice mumbled turning around to him.

Boris grinned, "Victory!" His smile disappeared in fright when Alice gave him a death stare.

"Yay! Onee-san can sit here!" Dee and Dum grinned as they took a seat; both of them patted the seat in between them. "No! She's sitting here!" Peter snarled at them.

"I was hoping she'd sit here." Blood smirked motioning to the seat on the next side of him.

"No. No. And no." Alice said through narrowed eyes. "I rather sit here." She lazily told them, she made her way around the table, when she passed Blood she stuck her tongue out at him and took a seat next to Elliot. The blonde boy blushed and looked at the girl in confusion while he received glares from Peter and the twins. Alice put both elbows on the table and looked at Elliot tiredly.

"I appreciate your existence more so than everyone else. Isn't it an honor to be you?" She sarcastically informed him while he scratched his cheek uneasily, "I—"

"Elliot, switch seats with me." Blood commanded to his friend whom he was sitting on the right side of. Elliot stammered with his words but obeyed by standing up.

Alice cringed in distaste, "Ugh." She rolled her eyes in exasperation before she turned her head to her other side from the moment Blood took a seat next to her.

"Nice seeing you again, Alice!" Peter proclaimed as Alice was now looking at him from her other side.

She now trapped between her least favored pair in the whole house, how as her luck that terrible?

Unable to contain herself, she released a large scream of frustration before slamming her head down on the table and covering over her head protectively.

Nightmare groaned. "No more seat switching! Since Alice is new, these are your new assigned seats!" Elliot and Boris sighed, the twins pouted, Peter grinned, and Blood smiled deviously, "Ah. It appears I have the honor of sitting next to the Princess for a while now."

"Did you hear that Alice!? Now it'll be like we're a couple on a date every night for dinner!" Peter swooned while shaking the gaping genie. "What the hell is this!? Primary school!? Assigned seats for dinner!? Are you humans that fucking slow that you have to resort to childish things like that!?" Alice growled while raising her head up to leer at Nightmare threateningly. With her body up, Peter took that opportunity to encase her in a hug affectionately.

"It has to do with the pranks we've had in the past." Nightmare answered simply, not at all bothered by her stare, "Plus the seat switching gave people headaches when people argued about where they were going to sit next…"

Alice glared at him as Peter continued cuddling her, "Whatever." She said defeated while crossing her arms. "Your pouting face is so cute Alice." He doted lovingly. Alice said nothing allowing him to keep his display of affection to continue believing he'd soon stop, but once she realized he wouldn't when everyone was eating, she immediately weaved an arm out of the tight embrace he had on her and punched him in the face.

"I'm hungry and quite frankly, your hugs aren't going to make me full. Don't touch me." Alice remarked as she watched him fall off his chair while holding his cheek. "Alice is so cruel~" He mumbled out sullenly.

An awkward silence spilled throughout the room after this.

Even with her words, Alice refused to eat and she simply settled on glaring down at her plate with enough murderous intent that made Boris, Elliot, and the twins figured the glass would eventually break under her gaze.

"So… Anyone think they can guess how many dates Boris has this weekend?" Dee asked attempting to break the silence.

"That's easy! None!" Dum chuckled out as Boris blushed, "Hey! Shut up! I have you know, I get dozens of requests for dates! I just turn them down!"

The twins continued their laughter while Boris tried to hush them.

"Other than that… How about we play 20 Q, Alice?" Elliot attempted looking over at her. Alice looked over at him, her eyes softening from their usual steel glare to a rock hard one. "How about no?" She questioned sarcastically.

Elliot frowned at her attitude. "Sorry…" He mumbled out, instantly making her regret her words and causing Alice to put her eyes back to her plate, "But I'm willing to let everyone ask one question each." She offered finally picking up her fork and stabbing it into the food.

"I'll save my question for last." Blood said smoothly not looking at her. Alice narrowed her eyes, "Do what you want."

The blonde grinned, "Great, well my first question is… What's your favorite color?"

"Seriously?"

"Lame."

"Of all the questions and you give her that." Boris blankly stated.

Alice gave the three of them brief glares, "Let him ask whatever he wants, it's none of your business." She defended him before she returned her gaze to the wavy haired blonde that sheepishly laughed, "Okay, I could have probably thought of something better."

"No, it's fine. My favorite color's light blue. Next?"

Peter smiled at her, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"

With his face obstructing a majority of her view, she twitched slightly, "If I told you my answer, it really wouldn't go over well for me. So I'll pass."

"But—"

"Next."

Placing a hand over his face to cease his words, Alice glanced around the table, "Anyone?"

Dee and Dum shrugged their shoulders, "We were going to ask what kind of video games you like best," Dum began, "But it's kind of obvious that you don't even know how to hold a controller properly so it's kind of a waste…" Dee finished with folded arms.

Alice scoffed, "Anyone else?"

"My question would be if I'm allowed to wish for all the paper cuts on my body to heal because taking a bath with these things is going to be worse than medieval torture, okay." Nightmare seriously stated to the seated brunette that snorted with a hand to her mouth in an effort to cover her smirk of amusement.

Everyone questionably looked between the two before Alice lowered her hand and snapped her fingers, "I'll give you a freebie, just this once."

"You're both speaking in some sort of secret code, I feel left out." Elliot blinked from the moment Nightmare breathed out in relief, his body losing its previous tense.

Blood returned his attention back to Alice, "I suppose it's my turn then."

Not even hiding her aversion to his close proximity, Alice groaned with a hand to her forehead, "Great."

"Wait, wait, no! I didn't get my turn yet!" Boris defied while waving his raised hand in the air.

Everyone then turned to him expectantly and Alice's eyelids dulled, "Oh, brother."

Not at all bothered by her words, Boris wore a smirk to his lips, "I'm pretty sure the guys who aren't gay at this table are all wondering. Are you single?" The purple haired boy gave her a heart stopping wink.

The question rattled her heart a bit and the fact that she was looking at Blood at the moment didn't help. A red blush immediately flew to her face unconsciously as she held her face that she shook with a school-girl-having-a-crush-moment expression on. The boys at the table observed at her curiously and confused.

"No! You can't be in a relationship!" Peter cried in anguish dramatically.

Blood observantly eyed her, a hand to his chin, "How cliché."

"Whoa… Never knew she was such a tsundere." Dee laughed, "Thought they only existed in those games." Dum agreed.

"What games have you two been playing?" Elliot asked suspiciously. "Innocent ones, you chicken rabbit!" The twins stuck their tongues out at him.

"Tsundere? Isn't that a person that's all grouchy and gloomy, but the second they're around someone they like… They're actually normal?" Nightmare questioned with a hand on his chin. The twins nodded in confirmation and the guys continued watching Alice stammer. "I-I it wasn't like that! I s-swear!" She continued, "Just shut up and leave me alone!" She shouted at once before covering her head as she slammed it down on the table. Once she did so, the lights began flashing and the dining room began shaking violently for about three seconds.

"That sounds like fun." Boris grinned, "I want a tsundere as a girlfriend."

"All this lovey-dovey talk is making me tired. I'm going to bed. I lost my appetite. Girls are so confusing…." Nightmare murmured rising from his seat before walking out. "We're not cleaning the dishes." Dee and Dum snickered both getting up and running out.

"It is getting late…" Elliot said and Blood nodded in response, "I never stay at dinner this long. I was just waiting for Ace to bring back the wine… Shame that he never came back in time."

Before the ravenette could walk out, he glanced back over his shoulder, "White, you should go looking for Ace."

Glancing up at him stoically, his lips went into a scowl, "Why would I do that?" He asked coldly.

"You gave him your room keys earlier, didn't you?" The aqua eyed male snorted as the young man's eyes widened.

Realizing he had no other choice, he sighed heavily, "Good night, Alice." He sulked before getting up and running out the room.

"And then there were two…" Boris laughed nervously at the girl who was still covering her face.

"Make that one. I'm about to leave." Alice said while raising her head and though she had tried hard to push it down, her face still had a faint pink blush on it to her distaste.

"Really?" Boris asked as she walked over to the door, "How do you plan on finding your room?" This stopped her mid-stride.

Sighing she turned around and looked at the grinning boy, "One is such a lonely number. Let's make it two; it's more fun and interesting." Boris exclaimed before taking her hand in his and walking out.

"Weren't you supposed to do the dishes?"

"No… Technically you left the room last so—"

Slap!

"Ow! What was that for!?" Boris held the side of his head with a puppy dog expression on his face while Alice narrowed her eyes at him, "I'm not doing those dishes." She informed him firmly.

"I'm not either! I didn't step out last!" He defended himself.

"Liar." She crossed her arms indignantly.

"But I'm not lying! I made sure I stepped out before—"

Slap!

"Alice!"

Slap!

"Stop!"

Slap!

"It hurts!"

Slap!

"… You're a real masochist aren't you?"

"No, I'm not! What about you!? You're a sadist—"

Slap!

"I think boys who are silent are much better."

"Y-You're so mean…"

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"Faster." Alice ordered down at him.

"You're going to kill me…" Boris moaned in pain and as they made it to her room Alice hopped off his back.

A blank look to her features, she inspected her finger nails, "Now why would I want that? You gave me a free ride. If only you'd actually stop complaining."

He sighed, rubbing the back of his head which had received all the abuse she gave him. The genie walked inside the room without looking back, "Thanks for putting up with me on day one, I guess."

"I'd say it's been a pleasure, but I think I may have to go to a hospital to check out the bruises you've given me."

"Maybe I wouldn't abuse you if you didn't give me a reason to!" She said while turning around and glaring at him. Boris tilted his head to the side, his golden eye entirely confused at her sudden change in attitude, "What's with the harshness? You were just playful a second ago."

Her teal eyes turned confused for a moment, "Playful!? What part of me was playful when I was slapping your head around?"

"Trust me, I know playful when I see it… Or hear it in this case. Your face was cold but your words were playful. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have a crush on me. Aren't tsunderes like that?" He asked curiously.

Alice twitched as she listened to him babble on. "We haven't even known each other for a day and you're already all over me." He snickered.

He didn't seriously think that did he?

Glaring at him, she took a step forward, her hand forming into a fist, "As if I'd ever have a crush on you, stupid human."

Boris backed away holding up his hands in defense, "Hold on! Don't do anything hasty now! I was kidding!"

Bam!

Boris fell to the floor holding his cheek in pain.

"Idiot." She scoffed before walking inside her room and slamming the door shut. Once she was in total solitude, Alice walked over to her lamp that was on her bed. With a frown she prepared herself to touch her lamp, but then she pulled back her hand back when she remembered something important.

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"They're too friendly!" Alice angrily barked as the heated water around her boiled even more.

Before she had entered her lamp, it occurred to her that she had not taken a bath. It was hard enough to find the bathroom, but not only that was strange, the bath tub was as big as a swimming pool.

At first, she was focused on nothing but relaxing, but then further on her thoughts wandered onto her current situation… Just making her angry once again.

"Why is my dad so cruel?" She hugged the towel that was around her body a bit more as she looked down into her murky reflection in the water sullenly.

Her old master… When she first became his genie, he seemed like everyone else she served. She goes her way, he goes his. Just so long as she granted his wishes. There was no conflict… But she soon found out what the genie aura really did.

"I need to stop thinking about that… He's gone…" She mumbled while splashing away her reflection with a frown "These guys seem different, but then again, everyone does when I first get here. Maybe I shouldn't keep acting so mean. I mean, just so long as I stay out their way… There shouldn't be a repeat of what happened…" She thoughtfully murmured to herself playing with the water with her free hand.

"Last one in is a chicken!"

Alice shot her head up in surprise as the door burst opened, with the noise came a snickering Dee and Dum, a fuming Elliot, and an obviously annoyed Blood. Alice felt her eyes widened as a red steaming blush spread its way back to her. Quickly she made her way to the back of the tub.

"You perverts, what the fuck are you doing!? Get out!" She shouted at them holding the towel closer to her than she did before. Now, the guys turned to her in surprise and shock.

"Hey! Alice is already in here!" Dee and Dum grinned as they made their way inside the tub, "So she decided to join the Blue side after all!"

"Stay away from me!" Alice ordered as the twins paid her no mind and continued advancing her way.

"Wait. Alice is a part of the yellow side… So why is she in now?" Elliot asked confused as he got inside the water. Blood entered after him with a smirk, "Who knows… Perhaps we aren't the perverts here."

"G-get off me!" Alice stammered out as the twins held onto both her arms, "We're so happy you're in the blue side now!"

Alice struggled against them, a look of confusion crossing her features, "W-what are you talking about? I'm still in the yellow side with Boris!"

"Aw~" Both boys said crestfallen before they released her. "Then why are you in the bathroom now then?" Elliot questioned her with an arched brow.

Alice blinked, "I'm not supposed to be?"

Blood shook his head with a chuckle, "It appears that you are very confused, Princess… There are specific times in which people from the different halls can take baths."

Alice grumbled, as she prepared to exit, "Well, my bad. I'm out of here. Didn't mean to intrude in your little 'bath time schedule.'"

"You can't go just yet!" Dee said catching her elbow, "Yeah, we just got in! We could at least play a bit!" Dum agreed with a nod.

The blush on her face became more pronounced, "I'm surrounded by perverts! I have to go!" She said shaking the blue eyed boy off.

"Why?" Blood asked with a smirk.

Turning to him angrily, the brunette seethed, "Obviously because I can't take a bath with guys!" Alice glared at him.

"I see… So it appears the Princess is the one with the dirty mind… Isn't that right Elliot?" Blood questioned his friend who was blushing heavily.

"I… erm…" He quickly put a hand to his nose, and he moved his gaze from Alice, "I think this water is too hot."

"Yeah. It is. So I'm leaving."

"I suppose that proves my point." Blood deviously stated. Alice rolled her eyes, "Whatever… At least I know to never take a bath at this time again…" From the back of the tub, she walked past a smirking and triumphant Blood, and Elliot was currently had blood seeping through his hand that covered his nose.

"Stupid… Smirking… Jackass…" Alice mumbled to herself as she exited the bathroom and into the door that lead to the changing room. She quickly began changing her clothes into the nightgown she had been provided.

Throwing her previous clothes in the dirty clothes bin, she picked up her lamp from the floor and made her way out the door and into the halls. "Okay… If I'm right… My room is five turns, straight, then another turn…." Alice mumbled attempting to remember where her room was.

Sighing, she continued walking with her lamp in hand. "If anything, I'll just sleep in my lamp… No biggie." She said to herself as she continued her way.

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