Chapter 28: the blue haired girl

A knock came onto Zoey's front door the next day, to which the black haired girl opened it revealing Nate and a human-disguised Damona.

"Hey guys, nice hoodie, Nate," She greeted them.

"Remind me why I need a babysitter?" Damona pouted, ignoring her… friend?

"Because last time I left you home alone, exorcists got involved," her fiance replied, "Gabriel said we're on three strike basis."

"I can take anything that guy can dish out!" the oni hybrid yelled.

"Um, guys," Zoey said, catching their attention.

"Thanks for doing this, Zoey, I'll be gone all day, and she is very untrustworthy," Nate replied.

"I'm 411, I can take care of myself!" Damona said.

"Relaxe, Nate, I babysit my sis all the time," Zoey said with a confident smirk, a smirk that became a frown when a voice called from another room, "ZOEY! ARE YOU TELLING PEOPLE YOU BABYSIT ME AGAIN!?"

A door opened and what looked like a shorter, scowling version of Zoey with a dark blue afro wearing a green shirt, blue skirt and pink hair clip walked in, "for the love of god, we're TWINS. We have the exact same age, stop telling everyone I'm younger than you!"

"You have an annoying little sister too?" Damona muttered.

"Hey Kaitlyn," Nate said in a friendly tone.

Kaitlyn wiped her scowl off her face to greet him, "hello Nathan, long time, about a year and a half to be exact."

"Yeah, it has been a while since I stopped by," the boy replied.

Zoey's twin seemed to grab a notepad and pencil out of nowhere, "any particular reason you appear now? After All, you and Zoey have been seeing eachother out of class less and less this year up until She randomly decided to start hanging out with you again, did you by any chance rekindle your childhood romance?"

"You had a crush on him too," her sister said with an annoyed tone.

With that, Kaitlyn began to blush profusely and walked out of the hallway.

"Works every time," Zoey's smirk returned.

"What was that about… never mind," Nate sighed, "I gotta get going, be back to get Damona around six."

"Seeya," Zoey waved goodbye as her friend shut the door, "so, wanna watch some tv or something?"

"Got nothing better to do," Damona sighed following her to the living room.

For the next hour or so Zoey and Damona watched one of the former's supernatural investigation shows. Well, Damona was trying to watch it, but Zoey's sister kept bombarding her with questions.

"So, where did you meet Nate?" Kaitlyn asked.

"In the woods, now shut up," Damona said bluntly.

"How did you start dating?" the human pressed.

"Why do you care?!" the half demon yelled, she was more annoying than those gnomes that had randomly appeared yesterday.

"I'm a junior reporter, I have a thirst for knowledge," the girl grinned.

"Yep, runs in the family, mines with ghosts, one of our cousins is obsessed with manga, once we set our interests on something, it is impossible to dissuade us from it," Zoey said nonchalantly.

"Can I borrow your phone? I'm gonna ask Nate how much longer I have to endure this," the princess asked. Zoey just gave her a sympathetic nod and handed her it. After some ringing, she was greeted to Nate's voice, "what'd damona do?"

"Nice to talk to you too, darling," Damona deadpanned.

"Oh.. what do you want?" he asked.

"How much longer you gonna be, Zoey's sister is super annoying," the half demon asked as said midget yelled in objection.

"Look, I'm busy righ-" Nate was interrupted by a voice she didn't recognise, a girl's voice, "who you talking to?"

"Who is that?" Damona raised a brow, despite knowing he couldn't see her.

"Look, I gotta go," Nate said, hanging up.

Damona's pupils shrunk, "who… who is he with?"

"Hmm, me thinks Nate's cheating on ya," Kaitlyn smirked.

Zoey let out a laugh, "pa-lease, I've known Nate for 7 years, he isn't the cheating type. He's probably just hanging out with Katie, and she's about as emotionally aware as a brick."

"No, it didn't sound like her, and even if it did I hate Katie," the yuki-onna said, "well… I guess it wouldn't hurt to check."

"Ooh, a possible cheater, my readers eat this kind of stuff up!" Kaitlyn cheered, "I'm coming!"

"I'm telling you, no one's cheating, I'm coming just to rub it in your face," her sister said in a deadpanned tone.

"Alright, lets go," Damona motioned for the sisters to follow her.

Via some of Kaitlyn's "Reporter's Intuition," they were able to find the boy pretty quickly. There he was, sitting on a bench in the park, next to a girl only one of them recognised. She had blue hair, a skin tone similar to Nate's, and black eyes. She was wearing a plain yellow dress with some white leggings and sandals. The two seemed to be talking.

"Who's she?" the oni princess asked.

Kaitlyn was the one to answer, "Jessica Stonewood, she's a classmate of mine. We're in a different class to Nate, and she has no relatives in his. There is no reason they should know each other."

"Hold it, sis," Zoey said, "don't assume anything, we should watch and listen before we make any accusations."

"She's right, come on," Damona said, she creeped closer to hear what the two were saying.

"I mean, it's great to finally see you again, I swear you've been so busy lately!" the girl said.

"Hey, I'll always make time for you!" Nate replied with a smile.

"Eh?" Kaitlyn said quietly, her taller twin jabbed her in the ribs to shut her up.

"Seriously, though, you gotta keep a better schedule," Jessica chuckled.

"Yeah, I know," the boy sighed, "wanna get an ice-cream?"

"Yes, please!" was her answer.

Damona had decided she had heard enough. As the two began to leave the triangle park, she cut them off in the street.

"Wh- Damona, what are you doing here?" her fiance said in response to seeing her.

Before the half-oni had the chance to say anything, the bluenette said, "Oh, so this is the girlfriend I've heard so much about! Hi, I'm Nate's cousin, Jessica!"

"Wait… you're his cousin," Damona's eyes shrunk.

"I TOLD YOU!" the three heard Zoey yell before what sounded like her and her sister getting into an all out brawl could be heard. Despite this noise, there was an awkward silence.

"You listened to Kaitlyn and assumed me hanging with another girl meant I was cheating, didn't you?" Nate deadpanned.

"Maybe," the half-demon replied.

"Should we stop them, or…." Jessica replied, watching the twins tear each other apart.

Her cousin shook his head, "no, lets just… let them work this out."