What was Worick thinking? Nicolas couldn't just come out and say it. He couldn't possibly tell Amelia how he felt. He wasn't even completely sure how he felt. When Worick said that Nic liked Amelia as in more than a friend, it felt right. He felt like he liked her more than a friend but was it the same as Veronica?
'I don't think it's like Veronica... but I still think I like her the way Worick's implying,' Nicolas thought to himself, looking at the woman who plagued his thoughts. She was walking slightly in front of him with Alex by her side. Her hair was down again, cascading down her back.
Damn Worick. Nicolas wasn't this worked up about it until Worick said something. Now he couldn't get it out of his head. Should he tell her? What would he even tell her? Did he have anything to tell? Emotions were annoying.
"Could you show me how to make that dish from the other day?" Alex smiled at Amelia. She really admired the womans cooking. She was really good at bringing everyone together for a meal. Nicolas and Worick seemed to really enjoy the dish she made a few days ago and Alex wanted to see if she could get a better compliment than 'so-so' from Nic on her own cooking.
"Hm? Oh, yea, of course. I'd love to," Amelia smiled, trying her best to pay attention to the conversation. As long as she talked with Alex she had a distraction. Once they stopped talking, her stomach started to turn as she thought about telling Nic her feelings.
What if he still had feelings for Veronica? She didn't know if he even actually liked her. What if she was mistaking these feelings for something too serious. Maybe it was just like what she felt with Worick...
'No, I wanted an escape with Worick. Sex, that's all. Nic... I want to cuddle and kiss and be held by him. I'd be happy doing anything with him' the petite woman thought to herself with a sigh. She definitely had feelings for Nic. Hell, she may even dare say she was in love with him.
Amelia couldn't help but think about before. The only reason anything happened was because of Veronica. How could she possibly convince herself that Nic did any of that because he actually liked her. She just couldn't allow herself to think that. How selfish would that be? She would look like an idiot if that wasn't the case.
"Amelia?" Alex grabbed the woman's attention, blinking curious at her. The blonde had definitely spaced out. "Maybe you should walk a little slower. Talk to someone else," she gestured behind them with a jerk of her head.
Amelia glanced back, noticing that the woman meant Nicolas. She blushed slightly and bit her lip. "I can always do it later. He's probably tired from fighting earlier. It wouldn't be a good time," she ran over her words hurriedly, nerves getting to her.
Alex simply smiled and started walking a little faster. Worick seemed to understand the plan because he started to speed up, too.
Amelia huffed in slight annoyance. Why did they have to be so pushy? Amelia let out a shaky breath as Nicolas came into view at her side, she turned her head and smiled softly at him, hoping she didn't look as nervous as she felt.
'What's their problem?' Nic signed, referring to their speedwalker friends. He looked up to see Worick give him an OK sign. Nic quickly understood why they were doing that. Damn gigolo, can't keep out of other people's business.
'Who knows. Maybe they had to talk,' Amelia shrugged slightly before giggling to herself. They were very subtle in their plans. She rolled her eyes and sighed. How should she even begin?
What was he supposed to say? He couldn't just come straight out with it. Should he explain his feelings or just sign 'I love you'? Did he love her? That might just scare her off. The silence was dragging out and becoming awkward- even for Nic.
'Nic, I need to tell you something,' Amelia settled on the classic for breaking news.
'I have to tell you something, too,' Nic replied, wondering what she had to say. Was she going to confess before he even had the chance? Or was it completely unrelated? He would look like a fool if he confessed when she had something insignificant to tell him.
'I...I guess I'll go first. Well...' she paused to take a deep breath, hoping to calm the last bit of butterflies rising in her stomach. They were nearly at the apartment and she didn't have much time to get what she wanted out. As they neared the stairs she stopped and looked up at Nic, the other two already heading up the stairs and inside. 'I just ... wanted you to know ... I-'
"Amelia! Nicolas! Get in here!" Worick's voice caused Amelia to stop signing before she had a chance to say what she wanted. She looked up, hearing the worry in Worick's voice.
'Worick called. Sorry we can talk later,' Amelia quickly signed when she saw the confusion on Nic's face, obviously wondering why she stopped so suddenly.
The deaf tag nodded and they both headed up the stairs. Nic made sure to go in front of Amelia, in case someone had broken in or something. They opened the door to see Alex and Worick standing in the middle of the room.
The place was trashed. Rocks had been thrown in, breaking the windows. The furniture was cut up and thrown all over the place. The racks of clothes were knocked down and trampled over. It looked like a shit house.
"Down stairs isn't any better," Worick sneered slightly, obviously pissed that his home was trashed. It was rare to see Worick so angry but Amelia couldn't blame him. This is what they worked towards for years and now somebody completely destroyed it.
"Who would do this?" Alex asked, looking around the place worriedly. She was finally building a life for herself and this happens. And the poor handymen. This was their home.
Worick pointed to a wall. Amelia and Nic turned around to see the word 'MONSTERS' spray painted across the wall. "My guess is someone who doesn't like twilights," he sighed and crouched in the middle of the room, head in his hands. "We don't have the money to repair everything," he groaned.
"Um," Amelia spoke up, causing Worick to look up. "I'm sure Danny wouldn't mind housing us all for a little while," she explained with a sheepish smile, signing to Nic so he didn't have to worry about reading her lips. She was sure he was probably just as upset and when he got emotional he had a hard time reading lips.
Worick looked at the woman with a knowing smile. "Thanks but I don't know-"
"It'll be fine. We have plenty of rooms, you know. I wonder if anyone took my old room," she looked up in thought, still signing for Nic even though Worick seemed to forget. "Just until we're able to fix everything and buy some basic furniture."
Worick sighed, knowing they were better off to accept the offer. Besides, he had to think about Alex. He wouldn't dare make her sleep on the floor. "Fine. It wont be much longer than a week, though. Knowing Monroe, he won't pay us for helping him as long as we're living there. It'll be our rent and he's a big part of the income," he gurmbled to himself.
Nic didn't bother to pay attention after Worick accepted the offer. If he wasn't going to sign when he talked like shit then he wasn't going to try. At least Amelia tried to keep him in the conversation by signing.
Suddenly, the tag remembered something and walked away from the group, heading down to his part of the apartment. As Worick had said, it was just as disastrous. His poor chair was cut up and flipped over. There were plates and what not broken all over the floor. Knives had been thrown into the wall. There was more grafiti on their walls saying more nasty stuff about twilights.
Nic only looked over it for a moment before heading into the bathroom. Amelia came down the stairs after him, pausing when she was faced with the horrible damage on the home. It took her a bit longer to come to terms with it. What actually made her look away was the sound of Nic rummaging in the bathroom drawers.
The petite woman went up to the door and looked in. Nic was crouched and digging through the bottom drawer of the bathroom cabnit. Thats when she realized what he was looking for.
"Are they there?" She asked not thinking about the fact that he couldn't hear her. She bit her lip and watched him, not daring to sneak up on him.
Eventually, the deaf tag stood up and turned, looking at the woman. In his hands were a couple bottles of Celebrer. Amelia gave a small smile. Even if they could easily get more from Theo, they were expensive and they had just stocked up so it would suck if they had been taken or flushed.
'Half gone,' Nic signed when Amelia took some from his hands, freeing them enough for the small sign.
Amelia sighed. She would have been surprised if they had been untouched but at least they still had most of it.
Worick popped his head into the bathroom catching Amelia's attention. He glanced at the bottles of Celebrer in her hands and sighed in relief. "I didn't even think of those. That would suck having to buy a whole new stock. Expensive shit," he sighed and leaned against the doorframe. "Whoever did this isn't here now. At least they didn't have the balls to do it when we were home."
"Me and Nic could've taken 'em," Amelia beamed bumping Nic on the shoulder in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"Nic, maybe. But you still aren't recovered from the withdrawls are you?" Worick pressed, looking at Amelia pointedly.
The woman pursed her lips and looked away, crossing her arms stubbornly. "I'm fine. I took my morning dose. You saw me," she muttered. She hated when Worick treated her like a baby who couldn't handle her self.
"Morning dose? It's almost 3 in the afternoon. You're supposed to take 3 doses a day, remember?!" He snapped at her. Will she ever remember on her own? Most days Worick would just remind her to take the medication and not make a big deal about it but obviously having his home trashed dampened his mood.
"Fine. Here. I'll take them now, you..." she grumbled the rest under her breath so Worick didn't get salty over the names she called him.
Amelia turned and handed all but one of the bottles to Nic. She counted out her dose of uppers, showing it to Worick so he saw she did it right and swallowed them dry, making a face of disgust. How did Nic chew these things? She then exchanged the bottle of uppers with downers and did the same thing.
The blonde turned to Worick and looked at him as if saying 'Happy?' She then sighed and sat down on the edge of the bathtub. She knew emotions were just running high because of the break in but it still bothered her when Worick got all serious. He wasn't a serious person so it was scary when he was serious.
"Look, I'm sorry. It's just-" Worick started to apoloigze sweetly like he usually did when he got too serious.
"I know. It's ok. I'm sorry," she smiled reassuringly at the gigolo. The room soon became silent as the 4 friends stood, trying to understand everything that was happening. How could somebody do this?
"Is it done?" The woman asked impatiently from her chair shrouded in the darkness.
"Y-yes, my Lady. We hit close to the Monroe family b-but not the Monroe family just like you asked," the large male from before sat before her, bowing his head in both respect and fear.
"Good. I better see chaos out there. Everywhere. I want it overflowing from the streets. I want riots and terror!" She cackled as she imagined her vision of chaos. "Watch them. Make sure choas happens in the Monroe family. And have some of the other men building chaos elsewhere."
"Y-yes, my Lady."
"Leave. Go. I'm done with you. Get out of my face," she shooed when the giant continued to simply bow in front of her.
He quickly scurried out, knowing not to be told twice. The woman smirked to herself, uncrossing her knees and standing. Her high heels clacked on the hard floor as she walked over to a window. Dark purple fabric of her dress flowed behind her.
"Ergastulum. People think it's bad now? Just wait. You will all see what real pain is. Fear, death, chaos. Beautiful chaos. How it is now will seem like heaven to you damn rodents."
Uh oh. Benriya is changing location for a while. Sorry if not much seemed to happen in this chapter. I'm pretty bad at building conflict aren't I? I'm trying. I'm really trying to make it interesting and not completely about the love story.
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February 23, 2016
