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Eighteen

"So do you want a drink?" Lily offered, the two of us walking back to the campus. "A kind of apology for being such a bitch and also drugging you."

"I've got somewhere to be," I answered. "Mexico or some shit like that." I looked at the time and shrugged, "on second thoughts I might have some time to spare."

Lily grinned. "Nice. Well, there's a little bar just off campus, its sorta like a bit of a goth-punk bar but I like going there when I need some time by myself." She rubbed her hands together, "let me get changed into something less colourful."

I waited on the front doorstep of the house for almost forty-five minutes before Lily came back out, showered and dressed in a really tiny black lace dress with six inch heels and black makeup. "Where are we going?" I asked her.

"A bar called Siren's Call," she answered. "I found it a year ago. It's pretty awesome. Has some weird cosplay shit going on but it's my outlet."

Yeah, cosplay shit, I thought to myself. "Yeah cosplay shit," I coughed. How the hell did a human teenager find Siren's Call? I followed Lily to a little back alley in the middle of nowhere with a familiar hellish red glow.

We walked in and she immediately pointed me over to a booth where I sat in between a werewolf couple and a-well frankly I don't know what it was but it looked like the creature from the Blue Lagoon.

"Bringing human's now?" Natalie asked me, coming over to take an order.

I shrugged. "Hey, as far as the human is aware, she found this place, not me. She thinks everyone here is costume playing. Can I get some fried whatever you have today and some Taint please? Vodka for the human" Taint was this delicious pastel green drink that made you see stuff-me I could handle it…it would probably fry Lily's brain.

"Don't let the human drink it," Natalie told me, "I'm not cleaning brains up off the floor again."

Lily came over as Natalie went away. "The lady who owns this joint just gave the stink eye," she frowned, "told me to stay away from you."

"Relationships never go well between one of us and one of them," Claire hissed from behind her, making Lily practically jump into the booth. "Who's your human friend, Tessa?" she snipped.

"You know her?" Lily asked me.

"Yes," Claire hissed before I could even speak. "She's mine. Put your filthy, human claws on her and I will strangle you with your intestine, got it?"

"I am not yours!" I snapped. "Leave her alone, Claire."

"My rules cover people of the shadow world, not humans," she snapped. "Don't let your human wander, Tessa. Otherwise she's fair game." Claire put her hand under Lily's chin and yanked her face upwards. "I'm going to kill you," she told her, "very, very slowly, little flower. Then I'll fuck my girl in what's left of your innards."

I reached across the table and punched Claire in the face.

So she punched me back.

"Claire!" Natalie called out, coming over with our orders, "you've a call."

Claire flicked Lily in the ear before she walked away.

Natalie sighed. "Sorry, Tess. She's been awfully possessive since the whole bride thing and before you ask, everyone knows."

I sighed and grabbed the bottle of Taint off the tray, taking a swig as Natalie prepared our table. "Fucking demons," I muttered, licking my split lip. I ignored the hallucinogenic imp that was playing around in Lily's hair.

"Don't drink that," Natalie advised Lily, "otherwise you could die. It's really a fifty-fifty chance."

Oh great now Natalie's ass was on fire...man I love this stuff...note to self...get a bottle for the bunker...I could have some fun with that.

Lily looked at me and waited until Natalie was gone before she demanded to know what exactly was going on. So I told her. Everything about the shadow world and magic, angels and demons, the monsters that go bump in the night and about this bar that was just as neutral as Sweden when it came to the fight between good and evil.

"Well fuck me," Lily whispered. She reached out and grabbed my glass of Taint.

"Damn it, Lily!" I snapped, grabbing the shot glass off her. "She told you!"

Lily gasped and reached out to grab something in front of her only to grab a chunk of my hair.

"Hey!" I snapped.

"There's something about you," Lily whispered in my ear, "something different…like I know you. You have two great big violet wings spread out behind you."

"I bet you say that to all the girls," I snorted, doing another shot.

She shook her head. "No…those stupid dreams I've been having there's always that pretty red hair." Lily leant over to me, "do the carpets match the drapes?" she asked me suddenly.

"Fuck off," I snorted. "You're drunk."

"I'm buzzed," she replied. "And it a serious question. I have zero natural red head friends and your pale skin tells me you're a natural red head."

"That's none of your business," I told her. "Buy me a drink first," I joked.

"I did," Lily smirked. She straddled my waist and threw back a shot before leaning in to kiss me. Lily poured the taint into my mouth and I almost choked on it but she wouldn't give up on kissing me.

"Would you get off me?" I snapped.

She shook her head and unbuttoned my jeans. Once Lily had the zip down, she slipped her hand in and started playing with me.

I gripped her arms tightly. "Get off me, Lily," I snapped.

"Refreshing to see I'm doing all the work and you're committing sin in public," John spoke up, coming to my rescue.

"She's drunk my Taint," I told him, "bad news for humans."

"Sleep it off," he told Lily, grabbing her under the arm, "we have to go to Mexico."

Lily giggled as John dragged her outside. I dropped some money on the table and made my way outside. "Take care of the drug?" I asked him.

John shook his head. "Supplier was gone. I'll pick it back up once we come back."

"So no one else is coming?" I asked him.

He shook his head. "Just us. I thought having a second magician with me would be better. Hotel's done," John assured me, waving down a taxi for Lily. He put her in and told the driver to take her to campus.

Lily rolled down the window. "Who's Samiel?" she asked me. "Ask your father who am I?" she all but screamed out the window as it drove away.

I sighed and shook my head. "Bloody crazy women."

"In my experience it's just collage kids," John answered getting into the cab waiting for us. "Your pants are hanging off your hips."

I hurried to do my jeans back up and got in after him, Lily's crazy ramblings in the back of my mind with all the other useless junk.