A few weeks later Lex and I were bored out of our minds. Apparently, Szayel and Ulquiorra had missions to do on Earth, so they pretty just quickly gave us our three meals and left. We hadn't eaten with the Espapda, Aizen, Gin, and Tousen for obvious, cupcake related, reasons. We were re-watching Dragon Ball Season 1. We began laughing hysterically when Goku tells Bulma he didn't want to see her dirty fanny. It was around 3:00 pm when Szayel and Ulquiorra came into our room. We paused the DVD and slid out of bed. We were still in our pajamas. What was the point we only went to the bathroom anyway. I blushed remembering how I got my new found pajamas. It was a few days after the migraine from hell.
I woke up rubbing the sleep from my eyes. I noticed a small brown box by the door. I smacked Lex on the back excitedly.
"No, Gaz don't steal my Domo cake!"
"Lex."
"I'm up. I'm up. What is it?"
"…I think we have mail."
We looked at each other then jumped out of bed. I pulled on my white skirt. Lex giggled.
"Nice undies."
I looked down at my Victoria Secret, boy short cut, underwear that had little light bulbs on them and they said 'turn me on'. I laughed as we went to the box. Lex picked it up and looked at the card a little confused.
"I think it's for you."
I looked at the card. The hand writing was really bad. I flipped open the card.
"I thought you might need these."
~Szayel Aporro Granz
I ripped open the box to see a cute pair of pajamas. They were fleece and had white and yellow pinstripes. The top was button up with a collar. Lex giggled while I blushed.
"They kind of remind me of the ones Johnny Depp wore in The Tourist."
"…They're really soft."
Lex felt them and did her oohs and aahs. I thanked him immediately the next time I saw him.
Ulquiorra looked at Lex then at me.
"Tonight Aizen is throwing a party tonight. The two of you need to get ready. Harribel is in the bathroom if you wished to get ready with her. We will wait outside for you to change."
With that, the two left. Neither one of them made eye contact with us. Something didn't feel right, but I brushed it off. Lex and I quickly changed. I was in my yellow dress that I brought with me. Lex was in a lavender dress with spaghetti straps. It had a tie under the boobs and had a pleated bottom. There was a darker purple mess under the bottom. Lex furrowed her eyebrows.
"Lennie, we don't have shoes."
"Oh my God, we don't. Wait, we could wear our converses. You can take the purple shoe laces out of mine and I could use your white ones."
"That's perfect!" Lex squealed.
We quickly fixed up our shoes and went to the door. It was unlocked so I opened it. We both took a step back. There was Tia Harribel. She wore a green knee length dress with one shoulder. She had on silver, strappy, heels. For the first time I could see her hollow mask clearly. She usually wore a high collar and hardly anything else.
"Come on I have stuff for your hair." she said.
We followed her to the bathroom. We weren't really sure what to think. We also didn't ask where our two normal escorts were. We got to the bathroom. On the counters were a pile of make-up, a straightener, a curling iron, and a bag that looked like it had bobby pins in it.
"Umm…help yourselves." Tia said.
She started applying her own make up.
"Oh and sorry but I don't have anything that would match your skin tone."
She was defiantly referring to me. I nodded and plugged the straightener into the outlet. While it heated up. I grabbed some black, liquid, eye-liner. I quickly put on some silver eyes shadow so that the liquid would catch some of sparkly powder. I put a little white under my eyebrows and put on some mascara. Tia eyed me quizzically.
"I didn't know your eyelashes were that long."
"Uh…yea, they are blonde so you don't really see them."
Tia nodded and looked and Lex who was struggling trying to decide with all of her hair. Tia went over to her and grabbed some of her hair and played with it for a second. Lex looked like she didn't know if she should be worried, or a little happy. Tia pulled her hair up in a really loose bun. She let some of her bangs fall out, framing her face. She dug around in the bag and pulled out some bobby pins that had some purple and clear rhinestones on the. She placed them all around the bun. It looked really pretty. It took a little while to do it, but it was awesome. Lex gasped and put her hand over her mouth. She turned around and hugged a very surprised Tia.
"Thank you so much!" Lex squealed.
"It was nothing." Tia replied as she continued to put on her makeup. I began to straighten my hair until it looked silky, there was no frizz, and my bangs were how I wanted them. Thank goodness I no longer looked like a fuzz ball. I sat on one of the benches while Lex did her makeup and Tia did her hair.
They were done with everything before I could finish. We began to walk out of the door. I was half expecting to see Szayel and Ulquiorra there, but they weren't. I could see the disappointment in Lex's face. We began down the long corridors of Las Noches. Apparently the name had something to do with night. I recognized the areas that we were passing. I think we were heading to where we ate dinner that one night. Sure enough, there was that archway. We went through it and there was music playing through speakers that were placed around the room. The long table had been moved somewhere else. There wasn't really and decorations, but there was a d.j. and an non-espada was flipping through CDs. I scanned the room and saw some of the espada members, the bitch twins Menoly and Loly, and some other lower arrancars. I kept scanning the room, but there was no sign of Ulquiorra, Szayel, or Aizen. Gin and Grimmjow I suspected were spiking the punch in the corner. Tia left our side and headed toward Starrk. Starrk was wearing a loose fitting suit jacket a black, silky, shirt that was unbuttoned to make room for his necklace, hollow mask, thing. Beside him was a little girl in a pink puffy dress. She had short green hair with a hollow mask, helmet. One side came over one eye and had a flame on it. Lex nudged me.
"That's his gun…the little girl."
The image was a little weird; if Lex said it I was sure it was right. I looked up to see Grimmjow saunter over toward us. He was wearing black pants and a white jacket. He had on a black button up shirt with a dark, green tie. He walked straight up to Lex and grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the dance floor.
"You're dancing with me."
Lex didn't have time to protest, but she seemed to be having a good time. The Killers' song Somebody Told Me was playing. The song switched to a slower song. It was The All American Rejects' Mona Lisa. I was kind of in a daze. I never was much of a dancer. Before I knew what was happening, I was spinning in circles. Someone had a hold of my hand; I was spinning in circles so fast I couldn't see who it was. Then the spinning stopped with a jerk. The person had caught my free and causing me to stop abruptly. He was standing there with a terrible grin and his face. His long hair was pulled back with a yellow ribbon. He was wearing white pants and jacket, a yellow button down shirt, and white tie. His creepy grin was bearing down on me. He bent down and whispered icily in my ear.
"We seemed to be matching, my dear Lennie."
The way he said my name made me feel nauseated. All of a sudden Szayel was right behind him.
"May I cut in?" he said coolly.
Nnoitra smiled and gave an over exaggerated bow. Szayel placed one hand on my waist the other on my shoulder. We began dancing to a slow song that I didn't recognize. Szayel obviously knew how to dance much better than I did. I had to look at my feet for two reasons: I had to make sure I didn't step on Szayel's feet and the other was because I could hardly look at him without blushing feverously. He looked very good. He was wearing black pants, a dark grey suit that he only had one button done. He also had a pink shirt that matched his hair almost perfectly and a black tie. Even though the music was still going Szayel stopped. He lifted my head up with his pointer finger. With his other hand he dropped something that stayed dangling in my face. I gasped. It was a dainty silver chain necklace. On the end it had a yellow gem in the shape of a tear drop. He gave a crooked smile.
"Do you like it?"
I nodded my head quickly. He stepped behind me and hooked the clasp and pulled my hair out from under the chain. It was so beautiful. No one beside my mother had ever given me anything like this. Even my past boyfriend of a year and a half had never given me anything like this. I threw my arms around Szayel's neck and whispered hurried thank-yous. When I broke the embrace, Szayel looked almost guilty. The look quickly changed to a smile. Maybe I had just imagined it. The song that was playing switched and my heart dropped. The all too familiar words began to play:
Anywhere you go, anyone you meet,
Remember that your eyes can be your enemies,
I said, well hell is so close
And heaven's out of reach
I ain't giving up quite yet,
I've got too much to lose
Hold me down, sweet and low, little girl
Hold me down, sweet and low, and I'll carry you home
Hold me down, sweet and low, little girl
Hold me down, and I'll carry you home.
I looked up. For some reason Szayel was all blurry. Then I realized that I was crying. I felt like someone tackled me. Then I realized Lex had her arms wrapped around me. She led me away from the dance floor to one of the benches. Szayel had followed us there.
"What is wrong with her?" Szayel asked.
He received no answer. I was in a daze. I wasn't thinking. I was numb. I looked down at Lex's hands that were holding mine. There was a new bracelet on her wrist. It had a braided silver chain and a purple gem charm dangling from it. Ulquiorra and Szayel must have coordinated.
"One of you better tell me what is going on." Szayel said in a quiet voice.
Lex began to speak, but I cut her off.
"About a month before I came here I had a really bad break up with my boyfriend of a year and a half. That was kind of our song. You see everything was great. We were in love, or at least I thought we were. Then one day when I got to school I didn't see him. When I got to my classroom, there was a note on my desk. It was from him. It just said that he had to leave he couldn't tell me why, but apparently it was important. It also said that he was never coming back. There was no apology; no I love you, no nothing."
"He was a jackass." Lex muttered.
"Shinji wasn't a jackass, well wasn't until he left. All I wanted to know was why. I could have handled it if he had just told me that he wasn't in love me anymore."
"Anyone who would have left you was an idiot." Szayel stated in an angry tone.
This shocked me. Szayel actually looked mad at the guy who broke my heart. It just didn't seem to fit, but it made me feel good.
"He had a gay hair cut anyway…though it was always perfect…it was still gay." Lex mumbled.
"Oh, shut up Lex." I said wiping my tears away.
Szayel stood up straight. I looked wear his eyes had darted to. Aizen and Ulquiorra were walking toward us. Ulquiorra looked really nice. His usual messy hair was brushed neatly. He wore black pants and a black jacket. Under that he had a dark green vest, then a lighter green button up shirt and a black tie. Aizen wore all white except a black tie. Aizen walked up to us.
"I hope you two are having a good time. I hate to interrupt, but we have some pressing matter that we need to discuss now. You two, follow me."
Lex looked scared and frankly I was too. I knew that Aizen had kept us alive for a reason. I guess we were finally going to find out.
