Chapter 8

Eve woke up the next day and sighed. She had dreamed about all her past girlfriends. Her first was Cleo Winters; she was about 5'6", redhead with cute freckles and full lips with brown eyes. They were together until a month after Eve had come out, their relationship just fizzled out. After Cleo was Alice Sun, she was 5'4" and a true Oriental Beauty with warm brown eyes. Alice and she were together for two months when Alice realized that she wasn't really into girls, she was straight. That had hurt Eve bad and not long after she was in her third relationship, Kelly Dolittle. Kelly was 5'7", a blonde-haired blue eyed dancer with the lithe body to show for it, and a real lesbian.

Eve and Kelly were together for five months when a paparazzo nutjob broke into her house because she was seeing Eve. Kelly couldn't handle the thought of more paparazzi stalking her for seeing Danny Phantom's granddaughter and broke it off. Eve's parents had to lock her in an anti-ghost cage to stop her from tearing that paparazzo apart, literally. After Kelly was Hope Liefeld. Hope was practically sex on legs in 5'8" female form, from her size D breasts to her luscious lips and curly black hair, steely grey eyes, firm butt, Eve wanted her to be her first. Hope broke it off after only two months because she thought Eve was cheating on her when she was really fighting ghosts or training. She just refused to listen when Eve tried to explain it to her. On looking back, Eve figured she had been too preoccupied with fighting ghosts at the time; she could have spent more time with her.

For a few months Eve gave up until she met her fifth girlfriend, Caroline Levi-Smith. Caroline was a 5'6", black, bald butch with a fighter's physique and a penchant for leather jackets and pants; she also shared Eve's birthday. Her Dads were Marines. They met when Eve went to the boxing gym that Caroline was part of and Eve sparred her. They were both pretty good, but it was Caroline who won. For the next month they met three times a week to train until they realized they were into each other. Things were great for six months when on their 16th birthday they decided they were ready and made love in Caroline's room.

They were together for two more months, made love three more times, until Caroline's Dads were reassigned to Maine. They tried to keep up the relationship online, but neither of them were the kind of girl that could make that work. After a month, Eve broke it off; then cried over a girl for the first time ever after Caroline logged off. Looking back, Eve realized that Rebecca must have realized how desperate she was to have a girlfriend and struck. Rebecca was a three month mistake that ended in the summer when Eve caught her going at it with the school football team captain, Rex Shrodinger. Now here Eve was in December, dreaming about one of her best friends. My love life sucks.

Today was Saturday, Eve didn't feel like exercising today so instead she just had her shower, wrapped up her sarashi and fundoshi on, and got dressed in her Alucard outfit and looked in the bathroom mirror. She made her eyes their ghostly red and smiled to show off her long right canine more. I am the Crimson Fucker! Eve thought as she finished the costume with yellow glasses but not Alucard's red fedora, it was too cramped in the house to wear it so she carried it instead. She then noticed how late it was when she saw that her Grandparents had already made breakfast, waffles to be precise. After having her fill Eve went out to take a walk, no one objected. She put on her hat and casually strolled through the streets, smiling inwardly at how some people shied away from her in her outfit.

Around ten her Ghost Sense went off and Eve looked up, spotting three white eels flying around. This'll be easy, Eve thought as she went Ghost. Green rings flew up and down her body, turning her skin green, eyes red, turning her teeth into fangs and turning her red trenchcoat, fedora, yellow sunglasses, and white gloves black and the black suit underneath the trenchcoat white. Eve flew up and decided to try the flashstep again; pouring her ectoplasmic energy into the parts of her brain that controlled her fast twitch muscles. Eve disappeared and reappeared in the middle of the eels and blasted the first two with ice rays from her hands, Too easy.

The third turned around and fired a red ghost ray at her. Eve flashstepped again behind it and froze it with an ice ray too. She removed her right glove and grew out her nails into claws to claw open a portal and threw the frozen ghosts into it and closed it before putting her glove back on, she ruined her Edward Elric gloves by not taking them off when growing her nails. Eve's stomach did a back flip and she quickly floated to a building, holding her hand to her mouth. Oh no, I'm not hurling in public, she thought to herself as she took deep breaths. After a few minutes her stomach was fine. Must be a side affect of going so fast; never see that in anime that's for sure.

Eve then floated down and noticed she wasn't far from Ralph's house. I wonder if he's up for some sparring. Eve started heading that way when a tall man, at least 7'2" tall got in front of her. Eve looked up and said, "Excuse me." The man turned around, he wasn't in too bad shape, with brown hair, brown eyes, and stubble in his chin. He looked at her and recognized her. "You're the Valkyrie," he said, using Eve's 'superhero name' the media gave her. "Uh, yeah. If you want an autograph-" "I don't want an autograph, ghost. I want your freak family out of here," the man said, glaring at her. A Fundie, yay. Fundamentalists didn't like her family because her parents were agnostic, her Dad was a ghost, and she was a proud lesbian. She glared up at him and said, "Remember that the next time an evil ghost comes around the corner and no one in my 'freak family' is around to save your ass."

Eve went Ghost and flew past the tall man straight to Ralph's house where she returned to Human Form. Clearing her throat and making her eyes glow she knocked on the door. It was answered by Ralph's Dad; he was about Ralph's height with blonde hair and brown eyes. Making her voice deep like Crispin Freeman, Eve said, "Hello Mr. O'Toole. Is Ralph-kun home?" Mr. John O'Toole stood there for a minute, until Eve broke character and laughed at his reaction. Mr. O'Toole laughed a little too, "You got me, Eve. Ralph's out back practicing." "Perfect," Eve stated as she stepped inside and went to the O'Toole's backyard.

Ralph was in a sweat shirt and pants with special shoes on he wore at his judo dojo. "Ralph O'Toole," Eve said as she took off her trenchcoat, fedora, yellow sunglasses and gloves. "Eve Wulfsson," Ralph said as she stepped up. Eve got in a stance and charged forward and tried a kick that Ralph dodged. Ralph then went for a sidekick that Eve blocked just in time and tried for a punch that Ralph easily dodged then grabbed and threw Eve down. They sparred for another hour, reveling in the challenge, though by the end Ralph was panting like a dog and Eve was breathing pretty heavy. "That *huff huff* was a good *huff huff* workout," Ralph said as he leaned on the wall.

"Yeah," Eve agreed. "So; you available Sunday?" Ralph shook his head, "I got Sunday School after Church." "Alright, see you Monday then," Eve said after getting her glasses, trenchcoat, and fedora on, and left Ralph's house and headed for Sophie's house. She decided to walk the way there and got there around 12. Eve knocked and Sophie opened the door. Holy God, Sophie was in a light blue sailor fuku with a short skirt that showed off plenty of her flawless legs. Eve quit staring and went in, trying hard to keep her libido in check. She took off her shoes and went in, taking off her fedora and sunglasses. "I got the latest Peach Amazons OVA. We can watch it in my room," Sophie suggested, did her voice get…seductive? Eve shook her head to get rid of that thought and said, "Okay." Eve was feeling a little hungry and grabbed an apple that was on Sophie's dinner table in a fruit bowl before following her to her room.

"Where is everybody?" she asked Sophie. "Mom and Dad went grocery shopping," Sophie said as they entered her room. She had a tall book shelf filled with various manga and anime DVD's, old anime posters on her walls, and a TV on her pink dresser. Sophie hooked up her phone to the TV and said, "On, activate video program, cell phone." The TV turned on showing the screen for the OVA. "Play," Sophie said, and the OVA turned on. For the next hour the two girls watched Julia and Suzu struggle to keep the band of survivors they gathered after the apocalypse alive. The OVA ended with Julia and Suzu sharing a kiss as they continued the journey with their survivors. If only my life was so kind…

Eve turned to look at Sophie, who had a look on her as she stared into her eyes. Out of nowhere Sophie leaned forward and kissed her full on the lips, WHAT THE HELL! Eve just sat there as Sophie kept their lips locked, her eyes threatening to pop out of her head from sheer shock. Suddenly they heard the front door open and a blushing Sophie pulled away, "Don't tell my parents." She quickly said. "AR-E?! DOSHITA!?" Eve barely managed to keep from yelling and grabbed Sophie's shirt, "What the Hell is going on!?" Sophie looked scared out of her mind as she quickly said, "Let me go, I'll explain everything, I promise! Hurry, before they see us!"

Eve let her go and followed Sophie to the living room. Mr. Campbell was 5'10 with black hair and green eyes while Mrs. Campbell was 5' even with long brunette hair in a braid and brown eyes. "Oh, hello, Eve," Mrs. Campbell said. "Afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell," Eve greeted back. For the next five minutes she helped the Campbell's put their groceries away then said, "Me and Sophie were thinking about going out for Lunch, if that's okay with you of course." Eve flashed a look at Sophie who raised no objections; she seemed a little relieved actually. "Alright," Mr. Campbell said. Sophie and Eve said goodbye and after getting her hat and glasses, Eve and Sophie got their shoes on and left. Eve went Ghost and flew Sophie to the Nasty Burger, screaming in her mind, You better have a good explanation for this Sophie! You shouldn't be in the closet anymore, its 2051, not 1951!

They got to the old restaurant and took their seats far from the window. Sophie got a medium salad and Eve ordered a triple-decker burger with a large fries. Eve folded her hands in front of her after ordering and looked at Sophie, "Explain." Sophie swallowed a little before saying, "As you probably guessed, by now, I'm bi. I started feeling attracted to boys and girls when I was 12." "Then why are you in the closet? It's 2051; homosexual marriage has been legal for almost four decades now!" Eve roughly said then their food arrived. Eve ignored it and watched as Sophie had some of her salad as if she was trying to avoid the question.

Sophie finally talked again after having a sip of her drink, "I wanted to come out the month you did, when my family visited my Grandparents. I talked to my cousin Geoffrey, and he told me that he was coming out too; he was bi too and had a boyfriend. We were going to come out the same day, but when Geoffrey came out with his boyfriend John, Uncle George, Aunt Lisa, and Grandma and Grandpa Campbell were furious when John introduced himself. Everyone was yelling; it was like a nightmare. Geoffrey packed what he could and left in a huff. That was the last time anyone in our family saw him."

Sophie started to cry and took off her glasses, "The last time I saw him, he looked at me as if I had betrayed him. That whole time our family was tearing apart, my parents and I just sat there and didn't say anything. I could have at least tried to comfort him, but all I did was stand there, like a fucking statue!" Sophie wiped away her tears, put her glasses back on, and continued. "I lost my nerve after that, I didn't want what happened to Geoffrey to happen to me so I just stayed quiet and dated boys. But inside me, I felt like there was a hole inside me.

"It was torture, you were so upfront and proud of your sexuality, and I just sat in my shell and didn't say a thing." Sophie finished. Eve barely kept herself from trying to comfort her, she couldn't let go of the fact that all this time Sophie had lied to her, she hadn't even bothered telling her or Jayson or Ralph, her nakama, none of them would have betrayed her secret, even if they were boiled alive. "Why me, why now?" Eve asked. Sophie blushed a little as she said, "I never looked at you sexually until the summer. We lost that stupid bet to Jayson and Ralph and had to wear our sarashi and fundoshi at the WaterPark instead of bathing suits. God, Eve, you're just so hot, I don't know how I kept from drooling over you, your abs, those arms, your back…your…beautiful breasts…

"Not a week went by after that that I haven't dreamed about us…together," Sophie said. Eve absorbed all this information and processed it as the two girls ate their lunch in silence. As they left the Nasty Burger Eve said, "I'm taking you home. I need to think about this…alone." Sophie nodded and eve flew her home. Before Eve flew off, Sophie told her, "I meant everything, I do love you Eve." Eve didn't even look at her as she flew off.