Ma-chan: Woah! O.O I have fans? Well thx to all who reviewed... you really made me wanna continue the story ;
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Ma-chan: grrrr... ummm... ok I know I have a couple grammar and spelling mistakes ; sorry... I'll try and correct them.. Now on with Chapter three
Envy: Yeah! Just wait till you see Malice's roommate...
Ma-chan: -puts Envy in a cage and gives him to a fangirl- Shut up you!
Pa-chan: On with the fic...
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"GET OUT! OUT OUT OUT!" I screamed as I pulled Wrath to his feet by his hair and pushed him into Envy."AT LEAST LET ME GET DRESS IN PEACE!" I yelled, before slamming the door loudly. Needless to say I was just about pissed. I continued to get dressed... luckily without further distractions. When I came out Al was waiting to show me to my room...
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Greed's POV
I lifted my head from the book of was reading, hearing the commotion don't the hall. A smirk creeped its way onto my face. This new girl was going to be a handful indeed. I couldn't wait to start training her, but first I decided to put my desires aside and let her get use to her new home. She'll need some time to adapt with family members like Envy and Wrath... I wonder if she figured out who she is sharing a room with. This should be very interesting.
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Chapter 3
A New Roommate and Kitchen Duty
Malice's POV
Well... its confirmed... there's no way in hell I'm getting out of this anytime soon. I walked behind Al as he lead me to my new room. I didn't say anything, my hair abit fizzy from dry off without brushing. I could only hope my roommate was a female or some kind of long haired male. Knowing this crazy place, it'll probably be a prevert or a bossy wannabe. My face was still red from the little sitaution I had with Wrath and Envy eariler. It was almost nightfall, and I haven't eaten sense Envy gave me those incomplete stones. My hunger for them had simmered down abit since I got here, I looked around memorizing the halls and doors and the names and signs on the doors. Envy and Wrath's door had horror movie posters on it and a sign saying, 'Envy and the hellion' on it. I smiled abit at the word play. My train of thought was put to a stop when I bumpped into Al. He looked back at me.
"Here we are... This is your room..." he said, opening the door. I timidly walked into the fairly small room, then I looked back at him.
"This is my room..." I questioned.
"Yup... well... yours and your roommates..." he says, gesturing to the two twin sized beds.
"Oh... who is my roommate by the way..." I asked, not that knowing the person's name would help anyway, sense I didn't know any of the people that lived here. Al thought for a minute, then sighed abit. Something concerned him, I could tell. He hid his concern behind a false smile. Any normal person would figure Al to be a carefree guy, but I could see he had alot on his mind. "Are you okay?"
"Oh ummm... yeah... well... I'm not sure about who your roommate is... he's... new here too... I better... go..." he said, before turning around and leaving. I didn't really notice him leave. The room wasn't big and didn't have much in it. Wood panel floors, black painted walls, two twin sized beds with white sheets and pillows, and a vanity. I looked over the large wooden vanity with a ovel shaped mirror. It looked fimilair... almost like something from a dream. Just then I remembered...
Prefume...
Peppermint...?
Oil...?
I could have sworn I smelled peppermint oil and prefume in the room, but I couldn't find the source of the smell. I looked over the vanity and though the drawers. There was nothing in the wooden drawers or on top. I continued to sniff around abit, as a image came to my head. The image consisted of a vanity just look the one in front of me but the top had prefumes, lotions, powders, and oils on it. There was also a picture. In the picture, the was a guy with shoulder length golden hair and golden eyes. He was rather short, about the same size as I was now and next to him was a girl with long black hair, like mine, but mine was shoulder length. and silver colored eyes. My eyes widened at the picture.
'That's... that's me? But then who...' my train of thought was lost when she heard some footsteps coming down the hall to her room. I turned to the door, the image of the vanity full of stuff and the picture was gone.I couldn't even remember it anymore. I could tell I was going to hate these memories the would come in and out. Soon the door opened, and there stood a guy about the same size as me, then the image of that picture came into my head. He was...
Golden eyes...
Golden hair...
The guy from the picture...
...but he was different. His eyes were even more deep and cold. He wore a soulless expression on his face. One I never thought could be on that face. He wore the same black that Envy wore and some black pants with a spiked belt. He was caring a scythe and he had red markings all over his body and the oroborus marking that was on my back was also on his upper left arm. I looked at him and felt a strange range of emotions flare up inside me. I tried to shallow all the feelings boiling inside the pit of my stomach and be nice. Greed probably wouldn't like anymore commotion in his house.
"Hey there... my name is Malice... What's yours?" I asked in a friendly, yet shy manner.
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Roommate's POV
I looked at the gothic-looking female. I could tell she was hiding her emotions. Thats what people do when they meet new comers... I guess.,... Greed and the other homunculi and family members were pretty open to me, but this one is kind of different. She remained me of someone I met somewhere but I couldn't think of it... It hurt to think about anything beyond when Envy found me...
"Pride... my name is Pride..." I said to her coldly. I wasn't exactly wasn't interested in being her friend... at first anyway.
"Cool... Pride... My name is Malice... or at least thats what Greed named me..." she said. Her voice sounded so fimilair to me. It... seem to scare me for some reason... was she someone.. from my past... I shook my head and forgot about that for the moment.
"Malice... Greed mentioned you... never thought you'd be a girl... what a disappointment..." I said to her bluntly. I didn't take to girls that well. I could never figure out why... even if I seem to have a specail connection with this one.
"Disappointment! What do you mean disappointment...?" she yelled in my face, abit too close for comfort. She then pulled back. "Oh so... you're gay?"
"Wha...? No... well... umm... gay?" I questioned. I didn't have much memory of anything... not even the definitions of some words or how to use somethings. She blinked and sighed.
"Ummm... well... gay is when a guy likes guys over girls... or something... I really don't see the big deal with liking one gender and one gender only... but thats just me..." she said more calmy. She sat on the bed nearest to the door and I picked the one nearest to the window. I didn't really care much for things such as relationships, at least I don't think.
"Oh... well... I don't think I'm gay... but... umm... I'm not sure..." I said kinda confused. I wasn't sure how exactly to answer that question.
"Hm... way... I never been in a relationship that I could remember... actaully... I don't remember anything sense I woke up in the alley behind Damus Lab..." she said boredly. The name of the lab made me think. It sounded fimilair somehow... before I could get really deep in thought, the tall man named Roa came in. He looked down at the two of us.
"You both have kitchen duty... go down to the kitchen and Marta will give you your assignments..." he said briefly before exiting the room. We both simply looked at the door then to each other.
"I guess... we go down... to the kitchen?" she said unsure of what to do exactly. I simply nodded. There wasn't much else to do. She blinked and walked out of the room and I followed behind herself with some distance between us. I wasn't quite as fond of her as I was of Envy, but she seem to be better than Greed, In my eyes anyway.
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Malice's POV
I walked down the hall, which was unusually dark. It remained me about that damn lab I keep dreaming about. At least... I think it was a lab... and its officail... this guy... Pride... has something to do with my past. He looks way too fimilair not to be. I figured I'd bring it up later when we got to know each other abit better. I looked at him over my shoulder for a moment and he leered at me abit. I gluped silently and looked back ahead. When we came to the kitchen, there was a short woman there with very short dark blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She had tattoos on her body and even if I couldn't see them... I was pretty sure she had some peirings. I looked to Pride, who didn't seem interested in bonding or talking to anyone. This was going to get on my nerves... I could tell. I turned to the woman and appoached her, while Pride stayed in the doorway of the kitchen.
"Ummm... are you Marta?" was the first thing I asked. She nodded and unfolded her arms.
"Yeah... you Malice?" she asked and I nodded, then I gestured to the close, but distance Pride.
"And that's Pride... my ever so pleasant roommate.." I said, leering at him. There was a odd uneasy feeling of tension when we were near each other.
"Oh... just met and already wanting to tear each other appart... eh... you'll get over that... but now... we need this kitchen cleaned and dinner cooked by 7 pm... sharp... we're having dinner unusually late due to some business Greed-sama had to take care of. Now the menu for today is pinned up on the frig... and the cleaning stuff is in the storage closet... alright... any questions?" she asked. Pride and I shook our heads. I hated getting orders and from the looks of it Pride did too. Marta nodded and exited the kitchen. They seemed to believe in very brief orders around here. I looked to Pride. He didn't seem interested in the task at hand.
"Well... I guess I'll get the stuff ready for cooking... you go grabbed the cleaning stuff we need..." and with that I sent Pride off. He walked out of the kitchen towards the storage closet. I sighed and walked to the frig and found the piece of paper with tonights menu on it.
Tonight's Dinner Menu
Broiled T-Bone Steaks with grilled onions ((20 orders worth))
Brown Gravy ((1 with mushrooms/1 without))
Mushed Potatoes ((No clumps))
1 liter of Kool Aid ((for the younger ones))
Margitas and Scotch mixes ((For the older ppl))
I read the list and my eyes nearly popped out of my head. I looked at the clock and it was already 6 pm. I had no idea how I was going to do this but I was going to try. All in a hour... geezh... I hope I don't have to do this every night. I immedaitely went into the freezer and grab 20 large steaks, all frozen. I dropped the steaks into the sink and ran warm water over them then ran back to the frig and found two large bowls of already cut up potatoes. I smiled, it looked like they did do some preparation for me. I ran the two bowls to the counter then Pride walked in, placing the mop, bucket, broom, dust-pan, and cleaning solutions off to the side. I smiled when I saw him and figured help has come... or so I thought. I gave him the two pots.
"Take these and fill them with water..." I said before rushing to the pile of steaks. I started to unpack and tenderize the steaks before looking to Pride who was just standing there. "Argh didn't I tell you to feel them with water...?" I said, growling about.
"Why?" he asked, tilting his head. I wanted to hit him.
"Grrrrr... just do it then put the potatoes in them..." I yelled before turning back and seasoning the steaks. I should've been paying attention. He had filled up both pots as I asked, then putting the two bowls of potatoes all in one pot. When I saw the water over spill I ran over and gave a good hit in the head. "Two bowls... two pots... I thought you could've figured that out!"
"Owww... grrr... sorry... you didn't say how to put the potatoes in..." he said bluntly, rubbing his head. I growl and attempted to separate the potatoes evenly. Once that was done I went back to preparing the steaks. "Now Pride... I just need you to turn the stove on low and the oven on high... ok...?" I asked. He nodded.He turned the oven on correctly... thank god... but when he turned on the stove he turned it on too high. Once I was done with the steaks I went to put them in the oven when I saw the water boiling over. I meeped. I hurryingly put the steaks in the oven then turned off the fire under the potatoes. Luckily they were not burnt.
"Pride... I said the stove fire should be on low!" I yelled. He shurgged and pointed to the pots.
"But they would've never got done if they were on low... we only have 40 minutes left..." he said looking to the clock. This made me wonder if he actaully knew what he was doing or just winging it... I didn't want to risk either.
"Fine... now... use the mixer to mush the potatoes... IN TWO SEPARATE BOWLS!" I stessed the last part. He nodded picking up the two pots one by one so as not to spill the hot water. Once the pots were removed, I grabbed two smaller pots and started on the gravy. I seasoned the two gravys prefectly to match the taste of the steaks.I heard Pride using the mixer and I looked over at him. He was actaully doing it right. I was quite suprized. Something told me that he didn't always cook that well. Everything went smoothly while making the dinner and cleaning up our mess as we went along. It was almost as if we always worked with each other. It was so natural it was scary. We didn't get stuck until it came to the alcholic beverages.
"Ummm... you know how to make a margita?" I looked at him abit confused. It was 5 minutes before the dinner bell rang and everything was set except the alchol. I was at a stand still. Pride was confused aswell. Neither of us knew how to make a drink. Lucky for both of us, Greed came in to inspect the dinner. I looked at him and hoped I'd done well. I still hated submitting to someone, but if I wanted room and board it wasn't gotta be free.
"Nice... very nice..." he says before he looks over at our completely confused expressions. He chuckled and walked over to us. "It seems neither of you know how to make a drink. Very well... I'll have Kimbly do the drinks tonight but tomorrow... he'll teach you both how to make them..." he said in a understanding tone. This surprized me beyond belief.I always figured him to be mean and overbearing, but he was more of a good father figure or a big brother... then it came to me. He wasn't father nor brother... he was.. master...
"Thank you sir..." both Pride and me said in unison.
After the inspection and Kimbly taking our place in making the drinks, everyone sat down for their dinner. Pride and I kept getting good comments on our cooking and cleaning job. After everyone was finished, Al and Envy took over the job of cleaning up afterwards. I sighed as Pride and I walked back to our room. Then Pride stopped me at our door and looked at me.
"Sorry... if I caused you too much trouble..." he said in a fairly sad tone. I blushed lightly for some reason and shook my head.
"No worries... we got the job done... so umm.. thanks..." I said timidly. He nodded and walked into the room. I sighed and walked into the room. That was the end of my first day in this crazy house.
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Ma-chan: Wow... I finished it without being too lazy... o.o;
Pa-chan:Yeah thx to your reviewers.
Ma-chan: Thankz reviewers Keep reviewing and I'll keep updating!
Envy: -walks back in-
Ma-chan: I thought I gave you to a fangirl
Envy: I escaped...
Ma-chan: -looks to reveiwers- I'm giving away... ENVY! To the highest bidder! Starting at a... nickel..
Wrath: I raise you all a quarter!
Pa-chan: Oh boy... ; thx for reading her story and she'll have another one up soon... but for now plz read and review this one... then we'll update chapter 4: Mixing Drinks and Babysitting.
