Okay. Language and sexual themes, but they're meant to be verbally offensive.
Also, please don't take anything from this fanfiction and when I mean anything, I mean values because there is nothing for you here. This story was written for my pleasure and posted for others. This story wasn't meant to walk up to you and tell you how to act.
Also also, there are less than a hundred views for this so I'm kinda thinking highly of myself here, but still! My point stands.
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"Does it hurt?" Frini asked.
Reina flicked the small nubs of baby flesh sprouting from the top of her head. "Nah."
"Oh okay…" There was a pause. "Does it hurt when I do this?" Frini added, reaching to squish the appendages.
"Mm… nuh-uh," Reina replied as she shook her head.
"I see…"
As Frini and Reina played their game of If-I-do-this-will-it-do-that, Angel rolled her eyes before going back to the act of forcing her eyes to memorize every bit of word she could inhale from this freakishly-expensive, totally-not-necessary college book.
"Is it really that bad?" Alys asked. Angel nodded numbly. "Well, sucks to be you," she replied nonchalantly. The Hispanic glanced over to the heart of the house and shrugged out of boredom. "Hey, Frini, Reina!" she called. The two looked over to her with confused, nothing-better-to-do expressions. "Wanna watch the LitSis for a bit?"
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Privacy was nonexistent in this house, even if you exclude the cameras. Well, at least for Leo.
All the LBs had this bathroom problem wherein somebody would always find the time to pick the lock and it got weird from there. He couldn't blame them, though. He took part in it a few times.
Following that, he would feel somebody watching he every move. Literally. It was either the intense drop or rise of temperature, maybe both that gave away the fact that either Amy or Jewel was watching him. Don't get him wrong. They were both really, really nice girls, but at some point April told him that he might start House War II (following Reina's ambush a few days ago) with all the fuss he was making, and he didn't want to that.
Sadly, it was almost inevitable to have two girls dueling over him every now and again, with another girl he liked in the sidelines laughing at how pathetic he looked.
XxXxX
Jewel looked around the room. She's only been in here a few times and it pissed her every time. To start off, she was talking to a black screen then the room was all pink, reminding her of an infamous brunette. In addition to that, the fact that it was called the 'confession room' made it seem like this room was gonna squeeze all her secrets out. Well guess what? She wasn't gonna let that happen.
"Ah yes, Jewel, please, take a seat," BS purred. It was, as Mikey dubbed it, her 'evil twin'. Jewel didn't really care about that shit but it sure was getting on her nerves. Despite her urge to burn the house to the ground, she shrugged and jumped over the couch and made herself comfortable. "Would you like anything?"
"Nah, I'm good," Jewel replied nonchalantly.
"Berries?" BS offered.
A glass bowl emerged from below the table and popped out. It had all of Jewel's favorites and they looked good. She could resist, but she didn't. She bent over, picked one up, and plopped it into her mouth. Delicious. Then proceeded to claim the whole bowl.
(Jewel: [rolls eyes] Don't look at me like that. It's been weeks of playing basketball for food and no one's gotten me any berries, okay?!)
XxXxX
Now that Jewel was in the confession room, Amy found her chance to have some quality time with Leo alone.
(Amy: I know that it's bad to break into empty houses, but Jewel's done it before…literally, so why can't I…figuratively?)
She crept up to her crush from under the table. Leo was peacefully having a conversation with that stupid girl Karai, who had already won several sticks (Amy had kept count), but not this time. Ohhoho, not today miss.
XxXxX
Leo looked down when he felt a chin settle on his knees and sure enough, Amelia Smith lay there with her big, puppy dog eyes. It was adorable and creepy at the same time.
Karai looked over and nodded in understanding. "I'll leave you two alone now," she said, getting up and doing as she had promised.
There was a moment of silence as Amy just kept getting cuter and cuter. Leo was seriously getting weirded out now. Don't get him wrong. Amy was sweet, loving, and caring. In addition to that, she's incredibly protective of Leo. Just like the time she blasted Karai under twenty feet of snow just to have him all to herself (that was of course, only for five seconds before she was blasted with a hundred degrees of heat by Jewel).
"Hey there, Leo Bear," Amy said cutely, tilting her head in the slightest manner, making Leo blush with how cute and affectionate she was being. "Wanna talk?"
"Um…we kinda already are," Leo replied lamely. Kuso! Get it together, Leo! It's just Amy. Putting it like that made Leo feel a whole lot worse.
"Oh okay I see," Amy replied. She made her eyes bigger, somehow, and Leo felt like he could just get lost in those big, shiny emeralds. The moment was ruined when a big chunk of Amy's brown locks decided 'Hey, now's that perfect time to fall onto her face!' and so Amy ended up spluttering and cursing as she tried to fix the moment.
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Alys just wanted to laugh her head off right now. She couldn't, of course, not when she was pretending to be BS and just trying to confuse Jewel with fake love stories and experiences she just made up on the spot. Even Reina and Frini, who were on the side, were ready to burst out laughing because of how ridiculous it was.
"He did that to you?" Jewel asked.
"Yeah. I know, right?" Alys replied in BS's voice. "I mean, would you believe his guts? He walked up to me and broke up with me. When I asked him why, he said 'This relationship can't work because…" Alys let out a gasp. It was supposed to be dramatic, and it kinda did, but the gasp was out of contained laugher, not tears, "because…"
"Because what?" Jewel asked earnestly, as if this was her favorite TV show.
"Because I liked dogs!" Alys finished in a strained voice, a big smile plastered on her face and tears were steaming down her cheeks but she went on with the act. "And because I liked cats and turtles and ice cream! He was the cruelest boyfriend ever! And you know what I said to him? Huh? Do you know what?! I said that I hated him because he didn't like me for who I was! And…and…" By this point, Frini and Reina were snickering, the latter's new, fully grown tail stiff with contained joy. "And that if he didn't like my pussy, then he should've just fucked off! He didn't need to slap me or-or hurt me, he just had to fuck off, put his clothes back on and leave the house! That sick bastard!" Alys finished, pounding her fist on the table for emphasis.
"Hey!" Reina called. Alys looked over and saw her covering Frini's ears. "There are little ears over here!"
The blond's eye twitched as she slapped Reina's hands away and started chasing the latter girl around the heart of the house with a killer glare in her eyes.
Alys rolled her eyes.
God could've sent her to hell for all she cared, but this was just getting good.
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"You have a little brother?" Amy asked earnestly, leaning forward. She was really interested in the casual conversation she and the love her life were having. It was enough to make her heart soar, but she wasn't sure how she was able to keep a straight face and stay away from his personal space when she oh so wanted to wrap her arms around his neck and kiss him.
"Yeah… why?" Leo asked nervously, leaning back slightly. "Do you have any little siblings?"
"Nah," Amy replied, leaning back. Leo sighed in relief. "I only had April, my mom, my uncle Kirby, my pet box alien, Om-Nom, and April's dog Donkey my whole life."
"Umm… Donkey?" Leo asked unsurely.
"Yeah," Amy smiled at the day the black and white Pomeranian puppy peeked out of its open cage. "One of my mom's friends had a baby that came along and started shouting 'Donkey! Donkey!' at April's new puppy. Probably because he couldn't say 'doggy', but the name stuck. So yeah. Did you have any pets?"
"Uh—My little brother had a pet fish named Ryan at one point," Leo replied.
"Ryan?" Amy asked, checking to be sure if she heard it right. "Ryan. As in, Captain Ryan. From Space Heroes."
Leo's eyes went wide. "You know that show? D-do you like it?" he asked.
"Like it? I love it!" Amy grinned.
"Did you see the episode where Captain Ryan slapped himself?"
"See it?! I watched that episode a million times! I love it! It's one of favorites! Hey, did-did you know about he time when Captain Ryan brought two other crew members with him on a mission?"
"Yeah?"
"The directors actually said that they didn't actually disintegrate! The boss in the next episode was actually the two poor crew members combined!"
"No way!"
"Really!"
(Amy: And that is how I blew my flirting chance with Leo. But on the bright side, it wasn't all in all wasted. At least I was able to geek out with someone about Space Heroes. [grins like an idiot])
XxXxX
"So… tell me the scoop on you and Leo," Alys said, wiping away the tears of joy.
The confession room was littered with empty bowls and tissues from the stories she's told Jewel, and right now, it the was other girl's turn.
"Well…" Jewel started. "I'm sure that Leo's totally into me. The problem is that he's also into Karai and Amy. So right now, I'm trying to figure out a way on how to get rid of them. Peacefully. Not matter how much I wanna strangle them. Having my hands dirty would not make me look good in front of Lion Boy."
"Why would you want to strangle them?"
"Why? Why?!" Jewel spluttered angrily. "It's because those two sick bitches are the definition of hell! The definition of darkness! The definition of a disgrace! Karai keeps talking to Leo, pretending like she doesn't know what's going on and Amy… oh that little bastard! She's all sweet and kind and bleh! She's just as cute as the other girls are! She's not different from the crowd! She doesn't deserve Lion Boy!"
"And what makes you think that you are deserving of the handsome prince? I wanna hear," Alys purred. Finally. Jewel was opening up.
"I'm different! I've got the guts to man up and punch any sicko in the face. Not hesitation! No mercy! No nothing! In addition to that, I'm pretty. Amy's cutesy, but I'm sexy! You get what I mean? Anyway, I'm twice the girl Amy is, and I'm thrice the rebel she'll ever be!"
The rant went on until Mira came back from her exams to find Alys engrossed in a rant of curses towards a certain brunette.
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Melina somehow felt responsible for Jewel. She didn't know why, but she somehow did. When Jewel was called to the confession room, she first thought that the girl was gonna be the next team leader. The next thought was that Jewel was going to get into trouble. But she came out like she had just gotten the best thing in life served to her on a golden plate and studded with diamonds.
"How was your meeting with BS?" Melina asked.
"It was cool," Jewel replied with a smile. "I like your shirt, by the way. Very soft, though I think that you should wear your hair in a braid, so that you look more mature." And with that, she walked away.
Alright, whatever happened inside the confession room, Melina was now more curious to know than ever.
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Pop rolled out of bed for what felt like the first time in a million. Another day, another six AM alarm, another day of trying to stay out of Jewel and Amy's rivalry, which was in some way, harder than living on the streets while being stalked by a crazed army the size of the US.
When she had first entered the house, the beds had been clean, identical, and arranged in a single neat row. Now, most girls slept by the door in two neat rows facing each other while Jewel and Amy's beds were on the other side, also facing each other. It made ability shows much easier and safer for everyone. It also made fighting more convenient and frequent for the two. There were some nights when Pop would fall asleep at the smell of sleeping gas, the sound of Jewel and Amy trying to get on each others' nerves, and the feeling of burning heat at her body while frost nipped at the foot of her bed.
It was clear that the two had done some serious damage to each other's side of the room. Amy's canopy was defaced by scorch marks, dagger cuts, and crisp edges. Her futon and bedding weren't in any better condition. Her dresser and vanity were still intact, but her mirror had a big meltdown the other day so when you look at it, you can only see your deformed face, sorta like in fun houses but ten times worse and more bothering. Jewel's bed, on the other hand, was left with a canopy that had fallen to the floor in a sheet of shattered ice that somehow never melted and her bed covered in uneven layers of frost while icicles dangled from her bed frame, the wood half burned to crisp from tantrums. Her mattress was hard and uncomfortable in the most inconvenient places while her pillow was hard as rock and the sheets were reduced to half their former size.
Why so much elaboration? Because whenever Pop would rolled out of bed, she was greeted by the sight of those two trying to make the best out of the situation. Why did these two even stay in the same room? Why didn't BS move one of them, or at best, both of them to a different room? It was all a mystery.
However, today was quite different. Both seemed to be in a good mood and holding an actual conversation. As in, light chit-chat. The kind you do with friends. Pop tried to convince herself that this was nothing more than a dream, but the other girls seemed to be just as surprised, most in half-waken states, like this blond that just wanted to go back to sleep.
"Hey, Jewel, would it be cool if Dolly turned into a real dog just now?" Amy asked. Who's Dolly?
"Heck no!" Jewel exclaimed, holding a stuffed dog close to her chest. "Don't you dare try anything, Ice Princess!" Ice Princess? Jewel usually called Amy slut or bitch or whatever other profane insults there were for prostitution. "That would be like turning Lion Boy into a stuffed turtle!"
"I mean, that wouldn't be so bad, if you look at it."
"I'm sharing him with you."
"Feeling's mutual."
Alright, what the heck was going on?
XxXxX
This was either the calm before the storm, or the best day of her life here in the house.
Seeing the cyrokenetic and pyrokenetic of the house get together for breakfast was terrifying and relieving at the same time. When they bickered, you don't know if they're suddenly gonna ruin the house or if they'd start the game of whoever-can-make-the-best-comeback-gets-to-start-the-next-conversation-with-Leonardo thing. This applied for all their meals for the rest of the day, except when the siblings had gotten together in the living room that night for their version of a slumber party, where the spotlight shifted to Casey and Donnie. That was much more interesting because there were several occasions when you would see Amy and Jewel giving Donatello advice while Raph gave Casey clever insults. How quaint.
For some reason, long after BS had shut down all the lights, the LitSis stuck together and Melina found herself waking at nine the next morning, surrounded by her siblings.
This just might work.
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"Now I feel bad for the need to the separate them," Mira said.
Reina choked on her soda. By now, her leopard ears had grown to full size and were the size of her hands, making the way they perked up super obvious and exaggerated. "Separate?!"
Frini had also stopped blowing her orange bubblegum. She had been trying to make it as big as she can, but at Mira's words, she had stopped, making the candy pop all the way to her forehead. Mira was sure that Frini wanted to say something, but at the moment, all she cared about was being respectful and keeping herself from bursting into laughter.
"Woah, woah, woah." Alys was suddenly at the controls, glaring down at Mira. "What is this separation shit you're talking about? They were just beginning to get along!"
Mira snorted, making the older teen glare down at her more. The brunette rolled her eyes. "Achi Alys, relax. Let me explain," Mira said calmly, but in the inside, she was laughing her guts out. "You know how there are only supposed to have two winners in the end? Well, this game's winners will be determined by elimination. Therefore, I need to remove them one by one until there are only two left. And I know this makes me sound like —excuse my language— a bitch, but you know, you can't always be happy. Don't worry, they won't be banned from the house for all eternity, nothing like that, but—"
"You can't just separate them!" Frini, who had gotten out of of her gum gag, yelled. "That's cruelty! Cruelty I tell you!"
Mira blinked at the blond. Inside, she really wanted to bubble into laughter, but the more she held it down, the less she wanted to laugh, kinda like a balloon losing its air while being squished by a heavy book of some sort. She felt like a professional right now, no matter how terrible of a job she was doing. "Basically it's a game of elimination," she said simply.
"But like Alys said!" Reina exclaimed, "The fun was only beginning!"
"I'm not gonna separate them right now! What do you think I am? An idiot?" Mira yelled. She didn't feel like yelling, it was an instinct that was pressed into her by years of being feared by the boys of her class. Somehow, with all that fear, they only heard her when she yelled, and she felt like that right now. "I may be careless and clumsy, but I'm no idiot."
"You can barely cross the street," Aly commented.
"Yeah, I got it. Thanks," Mira said. "I feel bad for separating them because the due's this Friday! It's Wednesday!"
"Friday? Can't you extend it to Saturday?" Frini asked.
"Can't! We're already a chapter behind schedule. As soon as this one gets out, we'll be two chapters behind schedule!"
"You never stick to your plans," Reina deadpanned, poker-faced.
"Yes! Thank you very much!" Mira retorted.
XxXxX
They were called to the confession room. All thirteen of them. At. The same. Time.
As task leader, everyone found it appropriate for Melina to sit in the middle. The rest was chaos. Three minutes later, Kevin and Casey was sitting to her left while Pop and April sat to her right. Mikey and Ellie sat by Popcorn's feet. Behind April stood Donnie, hands on her shoulders, while Karai sat on the arm rest next to the redhead. Next to Casey stood Raphael, who didn't seem to care about standing up. Behind everyone was Amy and Jewel with Leo in between. Ah, love.
BS has called on them and while the atmosphere was light, April seemed to be tense. Before the team leader could do anything about it, the tone played in the speakers and everyone straightened up.
"Good afternoon, LitSis!" The 'original' BS greeted. "I have good news and bad news."
Oh. April must've seen it coming.
"Good news is that I'm happy that you guys got together on time!"
"On time?" Raph asked. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing good," someone in the background of the speaker yelled.
BS let out a sigh. "I have a task for you on Friday. All TVs will show the date until then. Be prepared for losses. Have a good day."
And then she was gone.
Well… that was…vague.
