Hey Guys, I'm back! I've recently changed this story rating for Explicit on Archive of Our Own but since FF doesn't accept the depiction of mature themes I will try to cut them off the story and post them completely on AO3, you will, of course, be warned when a chapter will contain such themes (as I did already) and I'll post a link on my profile so you can go read the entire chapter ("uncensored") on the other website :)
This chapter is still M and doesn't contain any explicit scene.
Nefera was sitting in what seemed like a waiting room. It made her wonder how many people were here as well, how many people were here for the same thing? She checked her phone and started to shiver when she saw no-one had answered her. It was even worse to think that she would be doing this alone, without him.
She let out a long sigh. Perhaps she should tell Cleo, it would at least be something to tell your sister, especially when said-sister had almost been devoting her whole summer to yourself.
No, I promised myself I will surprise her.
Nefera sighed again, being here again was filling her with memories. The good old days! She heard a door crack as it opened and she raised her head.
"Miss de Nile, please, enter.", said the lady with a huge smile on her face.
The Princess followed the lady's instructions all the while relaxing a little, her familiar face helped a lot, and gave Nefera some confidence.
Cleo was toying with her food at lunch. She never thought she would ever think that, but she was so worried about her sister that she couldn't enjoy her last back-to-school. She raised her chin when she heard her name in the hubbub made by her friends and all the other students. She was sitting in front of Frankie Stein, who just asked her how her summer went.
"Well, uh-", she started to mumble. Should she lie about the fact that she'd spent a shitty summer or complain to her friends even though she'd feel ashamed?
She was interrupted by her boyfriend, Deuce, who sat next to her, he kissed her quickly and bent over the table to shake his best friend's hand, Jackson Jekyll. Deuce, turned back to Cleo and whispered a little too loud. "How is she? Do you have some news?"
"Who?", asked the Stein girl, as Cleo was left wordless, holding her fork above her plate, not knowing what to say. She stared at Frankie, then Deuce back. She used to love the way Deuce would always mistakenly reveal everyone's secrets, but she didn't like it when he compromised herself like he just did. She hesitated between answering Frankie or insulting Deuce.
She sighed. "My sister. We spent the summer by her side, trying to cheer her up a little. She's been kind of depressed these last few months."
Deuce nodded next to her as he remembered the many nights he had spent at Neffie's side, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw Jake stiffen. Deuce wondered why but chuckled when he saw that Frankie's hand was on Jake's thigh.
"Wait, wasn't your sister an evil bitch or something? How come you spent your summer helping her?", asked Clawdeen Wolf, who was next to Cleo.
"I know. I know she was, and she probably still is. But trust me if you've heard the screams she made in her sleep… I just couldn't find it inside me to not help her."
"And here we are, thinking you're a heartless bitch.", chuckled Jackson, before Cleo gave him a middle finger.
"It's not funny, dude. I swear those screams were blood freezing. Like a fucking banshee. Like Scarah Screams.", he said with a lewd grin. "No, really, I've never seen someone this sad and helpless of my life."
"Do you know why she is sad?", asked Draculaura.
"She wouldn't tell us, we think her ex dumped her but she didn't speak much. She lost a lot of weight, she wouldn't eat or anything, like we almost had to force food down her throat. But, she's getting better. Not as she was before, but she smiles again."
"Yeah, she is seeing someone else, a dude, we heard his voice. We don't know who it is but he's taking her out, making her smile and everything. She laughed two days ago, and fuck, I felt like my kid has said its first word.", continued Deuce.
"Wait, Neffie?", asked Cleo.
"Yeah, haven't you heard, the other day-", said Deuce cheerfully.
"No, Neffie's here. I just saw her pass with the Headlessmaster.", said Cleo as she started to rise.
Jackson couldn't move. Every word Deuce and Cleo said about Nefera was like a sword fight, he tried to dodge the hits but every word they spoke just hit him in the chest.
She was depressed. She had lost weight. She had someone new.
He wondered if Cleo and Deuce knew, but he guessed Nefera would be ashamed to mention her condition was because of a human, well, if it was because of him. It didn't feel right, that she was suffering, she was the one that cheated on him, why would she be the one hurting? Why would she cry over him when she had been the one ending their relationship?
He almost let out an annoyed groan when he felt Frankie's hand sliding on his leg. She acted like they were a thing. Like they were something else than just bad sex. Jake almost got to hate her, that's how love made girls stupid. He smiled poorly at Frankie when she shook his thigh so he would look at her. His eyes were glimmering as tears started to form in them. He swallowed them and stiffen again when he heard a voice he hadn't heard in four months.
"Neffie, what are you doing here?", said Cleo as she stood to hug her sister, something none of her friends would have ever imagined her doing.
"Hey! I just came to say 'Hi!' I have some news, some good news, but I'll tell you both later, I don't want to interrupt your lunch.", she said as she forced a smile on her face and tried to avoid to look at the dark-haired boy sitting behind Cleo.
Jake wanted to die, he wanted to disappear from this room. She seemed pretty happy to him. He made a wince when he saw Deuce rising too, and heard him hug his sister-in-law.
"Are you going home or… We could ditch class if you need to.", proposed Deuce, and Jake heard protectiveness in his voice tone.
"Pfff… Of course, not. I'm not wasting your first day. I'll be at home, don't worry. See ya!", said the elder de Nile as she waved at them and left the place.
Jake hadn't turned back but he analyzed Clawdeen's face, and her open mouth made him understand that the scene that took place behind him seemed as strange to her than it had to him.
"Wow, she really has changed. She looks… I don't know. It's kind of creepy, to see her like this.", said Draculaura, trying to find the words.
"She seemed so weak. How can she seem to be this weak and still inspire fear?", continued Clawdeen.
Jake could only imagine how she looked now. She had unfriended him on the socials and all he had to himself were memories of her, and he couldn't imagine her without her feminine curves he loved so much. Jake felt Holt's phone buzz in his back pocket and tried to forget it, but soon the sound got out of the phone and before he could turn it off, he had turned into someone else.
When Holt awakened, he was sitting in the cafeteria and Frankie had her leg on his. He took it off and checked his phone without considering the people staring at him.
"Holt, it's the first day of class, you can't be here instead of Jake.", he heard Deuce say.
"Yeah, well, I'm sorry but I have to take this.", Holt answered and rose from his seat, blowing a kiss at Deuce as he left the cafeteria.
"Allo?", he heard a feminine voice say.
"Hey, are you okay? Where are you?", asked Holt as he went outside the school.
"Just behind the school, I wanted to see you."
"I'm here in a second.", he said as he hung up.
He turned around the school and saw her running towards him as he entered her eyesight.
"Hey, baby girl.", he whispered as she jumped in his arms.
He caressed her back and balanced themselves, as she put her feet on his and he started to turn around slowly as if they were dancing. She wore a little cotton vest above her tank top and a summer skirt that had slits on both of her legs. He knew she had just barely recovered from a cold she'd caught in the arctic area of Salem, his bad idea to take an Egyptian princess out in the coldest places ever. Holt had wanted to make her travel and it had helped her to smile again. He felt guilty that she had come down so low because of him, but she would feel even worse if he told her so he had decided to keep it a secret.
He felt her moving in his arms as her head was stalling itself against his neck, where she could smell his perfume. Something she couldn't do three months ago without crying. He had to "accidentally" break Jake's perfume bottle and replace it with a new one that smelled different so she would be hugging him without any tears. Now, this perfume was his and she occulted the fact that Jake probably smelled the same. She didn't care how he smelled, she wanted him to disappear from her mind, she had amulets to do so, but she was too afraid she would go back to the one she was before she met Jake.
Nefera had realized how things turned great for her with the breakup. She had her sister next to her, now, she had Deuce, too. They both had been so invested in keeping her head above the water these last months. Her father, on the other hand, had been absent all summer, and if it wasn't for the postal cards she and Cleo received, she would have thought he was dead, too. And Holt was the last good thing that happened to her. At first, of course, she pushed him away. She hated him because he looked like Jake so much, and she mostly hated him because she wished she would've never heard about those messages, back then.
But just like Jake, he went past her barriers, just like Jake, he had forced himself into her life, for the best, this time. In the beginning, he would only stay in her room, in a chair, away from her, until she'd fall sound asleep. If it annoyed her at first, it soon became crucial for her if she wanted some rest. She needed him to be here when she would fall asleep. When he wasn't, she would make nightmares. The worst ones were when her mother would come to her looking like a zombie. She would scream so harsh that her throat would sting for the next few days, and when she screamed, it was only a matter of seconds before either Deuce or Cleo would come down to her side.
Holt took a step back to take a better look at her. He was afraid she'd received bad news earlier, he knew how important it was to her, even though she only had this thought a few days ago.
"So, how did it go?"
"I'm in! I got the job!", she said, smiling for real now. She had been so anxious earlier, she was afraid that the Headless Headmistress would take down her offer, but it turned out that she had thought about it, too.
Until then, the Fearleaders had always trained themselves on their own, and Nefera had thought about how she would've loved to have a coach back then. Her sister now had one, and she had the best one.
"Really, that's great! That means that I will be able to see you when I'm there.", he said, taking both of her hands in his. "I'm proud of you, de Nile."
"Thank you, but it's all you. I wouldn't have been able to make it if it weren't for you…"
He gave her a huge smile and noticed how she'd been feeling low today, her only necklace being a big clue. If he had learned one thing about Nefera these past few months, it was that her necklaces were everything. The more she felt confident, the more necklaces she would wear, based on a personal scale from 0 to 5. It had been a long time since the last time she wore none, especially since he had bought her one she would never take off.
It was a thin gold chain with a gold Wadjet medallion that Holt had seen in a jewelry store he was passing by. It cost a little fortune so he had had to steal some money from his mother. He wasn't proud of him but it had worthed it, Nefera had smiled for the first time since before the breakup when he gave it to her.
When he saw how much she's been hurt, he had instantly felt remorse. He'd wanted her for himself, he'd been selfish and a real jackass only so she would be his. He would've never imagined that she would sink so low, and he had realized that her feelings for his alter-ego had been stronger than he would've known.
So Holt had wanted to fix his mistakes, he wanted her to smile again, he wanted her to be devious, confident, and loving. He missed her grin when he would tell dirty jokes, he missed her beautiful curves, those he'd dreamed to touch for months. The girl who had seduced him was missing and he was doing every single thing he could to bring her back.
Jake had spent his summer with Frankie. When he turned into Holt, he wouldn't wake up for days, which he was happy about. He just wanted to grief his past relationship in a heartbeat and focus on what really mattered: Science. Physics too, since he would spend most of his time trying all sorts of substances to forget the pain. One day, after he took things he couldn't even remember, he woke up in bed with Frankie. Jake didn't even freak out, he didn't think it was wrong, even if he knew, deep down that it was.
When Frankie woke up, she had started to kiss him, and he'd felt weird. It felt good to be loved, to feel loved, mostly because he had tried to avoid every living being since he'd had his heartbroken, but when he kissed Frankie back, he felt nothing. He felt no spark, no firework when he was pounding inside her. He couldn't even get hard if she didn't put some effort into it. Jake knew he should feel bad to raise her hopes, but she seemed happy and at least it changed his mind a little.
You would think that sex would help him forget his ex-girlfriend, but it only got worse, especially since he couldn't seem to pass through the differences between Frankie and Nefera. Frankie lacked experience, she didn't have those curves, she didn't have the same smell and her lips - the four of them - didn't taste the same.
It hadn't kept Jake away from Frankie, though, or any other girl. He had had sex with a few girls, most of them he couldn't even recall their names, but none of them could make him happy. His sex friend had gotten quite jealous when she had learned that Jackson had fucked other girls than her.
He had laughed at her face. "They're nothing.", he had said, and he'd seen her features soften before he added, "Just like you."
They had had a big fight that night, and it seemed like she was still in denial, like she couldn't understand that they weren't dating. She couldn't get the concept of friends with benefits in her head so he had stopped seeing her for a few weeks, before returning to her.
Frankie had been thrilled when she had seen him at her door, she thought that he regretted it, and she imagined that those weeks of silence had made him realize his feelings for her.
Truth was, even though the sex with Frankie would never equal what he used to have with his former girlfriend, he had least felt a little something. The more they would have sex, the easier it would become for him to feel some pleasure. It was not much but at least it was something. He felt like a monster, it seemed like he had turned his emotions off, and he hated it but each time he would allow himself to think of Nefera he would become a total mess.
So he'd spent his summer shagging his best friend, who he couldn't stand anymore, among other girls. He hadn't talked much to Deuce, only telling him that he was done with the sucker and that he was seeing Frankie.
For the whole summer, he had not heard of Nefera fucking de Nile. Until the first day of class, when, not only had he heard about her, but he had heard her. Live and stereo. She had sounded so happy it had destroyed him, he had let Holt take the control and he was glad about that because he was about to burst out of tears, or anger, he couldn't tell.
Jake had been dreaming of his ex for a whole week now, wet dreams, mostly. But if he would wake up hard, he would also feel a slight pain in his heart. He missed her, it's been too long since the last time he had seen her, touched her. He hated her but he just wanted to be in her arms, as if she was the only cure to the pain she caused him. And he craved her so much, that sometimes it seemed like he could still smell her scent on himself.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'd like to thanks Darweiner7 and Milkyfrankie for their reviews/comment, you make my day every time I read you!
