Me: Welcome to chapter nineteen! Story-chan is getting older (yes, throwback to S's old book [that she needs to update])!
Matt: Why am I here?
Me: Because I'm an asshole!
Matt: Yeah… poor S, she only got… three lines this chapter… I got more than her!
Me: Because, our past was in this! Oh, if anyone knows who I'm talking about in this chapter (the twins), you win… IDK, cookies!
Rain: S and Blake do not own Death Note, any CreepyPastas referenced, the twins mentioned in this chapter, the Japanese lyrics used… and that's it!
Me: I got bored, and alphabetised most of the characters…
(Time Skip, 14th of March, 2005)
"Matt, it is unbelievable that you still can't tie a tie," I sighed, finishing his black and blue striped tie.
Matt rolled his eyes at me. "Hey, it's your second cousin's wedding, not mine. I don't even know why I'm here!"
"She's your future cousin-in-law, therefore, you're stuck here."
The two of us were in one of the many rooms of the palace that I had spent some time in growing up. Grandfather ZALGO's palace. We were getting ready for Evelyn and EJ's wedding. Although Matt and I were joking around, I couldn't help but feel a small amount of guilt in my gut.
Once everything to do with the Keehl biology was explained (saying that the X chromosome was the one that carried shinigami traits, meaning that girls were much more likely to have powers and Y chromosomes cancel out shinigami powers, meaning boys didn't really get powers), Mello swore us to secrecy, not wanting Matt to freak about it.
Why's Mihael been so weird around me? I heard Matt think. Due to the fact Matt was so close to me, I was occasionally able to pick up his brain waves. S can do this too. We can do it with Mello and Viola as well.
"Matt?" I asked quietly.
"Yeah?"
"I know why Mello's been weird around you…" I said. No going back now.
Matt grabbed me by my shirt collar, seeing as I hadn't changed yet. "Why?"
I gulped. 'Mello is so going to kill me for this…'
"We all found out some of his family's history, and he's scared that you won't want to be with him anymore…" I mumbled.
Matt put me down, his eyes softening, but looking worried as hell. "What is it?"
"He's… all the Keehls are part shinigami… it's a weird decedent thing with hybrids and chromosomes…" I sorta explained. It's not easy without the whole history lesson.
Matt's worried look turned to a sad smile, an almost love sick look in his eyes. "Why would he think that would change my opinion of him? My real sister is a shinigami," he said.
"Who?"
"You, you dimwit. You're basically my older sister, so why would Mello being part shinigami change how I feel?"
We both laughed and hugged it out. We didn't stop until Matt's phone went off. "I should get that."
"And I should get changed. I don't think Evelyn would be happy with me showing up in mafia clothes and not that damned dress."
Laughing again, Matt walked out the room and I picked up the damned bridesmaid dress. Because, in Eevee's wedding deluded state, she made me, S, and Rain bridesmaids, and Betrayal her Maid of Honour.
The damned dress (yes, it will forever be known as 'damned') was a dark blue, much like EJ's mask, with a white sash like thing around the waist, and a white blood-like pattern coming from it.
Once I had finished getting dressed, Matt walked back in. "Who was it?"
"The twins, remember them?" he asked.
I nodded, "Damn, I haven't spoken to them since we were in kinder. Kitty still look like his sister?"
Matt and I went to kindergartens on the same street, mine was slightly more advanced. For a few months before my aunt's death, we had a two exchange students from Japan, twins who were identical, one girl and one boy. They spent a lot of time at Matt's house, so the five of us would walk to the school that Axel, Beyond, and Matt's step-sister, Maxine, went to so their parent's would take them home.
We were taught some Japanese, and had started calling the brother 'Koneko' meaning kitten, and the sister 'Hebi' meaning snake.
Matt laughed, picking up the nightmare hair curler, "There are pictures of him on their school's black market… mostly in girls clothes…"
"So… like Mello was?"
"Yeah… Not to mention his sister is still a snob."
We laughed while Matt curled my hair. "How about we call them after the damned wedding? After all, we're all going to the beach together."
"Alright, just no making me cross dress this time," Matt agreed. Last time we Skyped someone together, I put him in a dress. But, hey, Mello liked it.
"Deal."
The wedding went without a hitch, although Betrayal looked like she wanted to kill me. We didn't have a reception, seeing as we all just wanted to get to the beach. Only bridesmaids, groomsmen, the Birthday-Afters, and the Keehls were allowed to come.
We had a run in with Mello and S's aunt and uncle, Eevee's parents. Matt almost hit them in their heads with a pipe because they were so mean to his Mellycakes.
Mail Jeeves holds grudges, even if he's never met the person it's held against.
In the car on the way to beach, I swear I heard Mello complaining about being flat chested… but I was drifting in and out of consciousness, so it's equally likely I was imagining things…
"Auntie Blake? What are the purple numbers I see?" Beacon asked. She did end up getting some powers. I got A to help in teaching her as I knew next to nothing about Life god biology.
"Okay, so some girls will have two sets of numbers, the lower one is how long until she loses her… virginity, the other is until she becomes a mother. Guys will only have the one – the virginity one," I tried to explain. I'm not a Life god!
"Suicide doesn't have any purple numbers…"
"Do Lucy and Rain?"
"Yes."
I started to mentally freak out a little. 'WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! SUICIDE HAS DONE THE FRICKLE-FRAKLE!'
Obviously, Rain and S picked up on this.
'WHAT! MY LITTLE BROTHER HAS LOST HIS MAIDEN HEAD!'
'Naw, now I can't tease him about being a sad little virgin who watches gay henti~'
'We can still tease him about the henti.'
"Are you and Auntie Rain and Auntie S talking about Uncle Sussie?" Beacon asked. Yes, she had adopted the Susan name for dear Suicide.
"Okay, better questions, what about Uncles Matt and Mello, and Auntie Evelyn?" I asked. What? I can't exploit this in Ana, Beyond would pull my eyes out if I tried to ask A, and Cancer, rest in peace, died of, ironically, cancer.
I will always thank her for bringing me Barium.
"They're numbers are all really similar, like, they all finish tonight," Beacon said quietly.
I nodded, telling the twins this info… 'Girls, we're gonna need those ear plugs, apparently M Squared will be busy tonight, also, Eevee's going for the traditional wedding night.'
All of us (Anastasia, Anima, Avery, Barium, me (Believe), BEN Drowned, Betrayal, Beyond, Bowen (Ana's brother), Evelyn, Eyeless Jack, Iniquity (she is family), Jeff the Killer, Laughing Jack, Lucy, Mail, Mihael, Rain, Silence, Suicide, and Ticci Toby) got out of the car and put all our stuff in our rooms.
Rain, S, Betrayal, Iniquity, and I were sharing a room for this. Matt and Mello had their own room. Lucy, Ana, Bowen, and Beacon shared a room. BEN, LJ, Jeffy, Toby, and Suicide were together, A and Beyond were, as per usual, together, and the lovely newlyweds had the honeymoon suite. Anima and Barium wondered as they pleased.
We Birthday girls devised a truce for as long as we were staying at the beach; the second we were back home, everything was free game.
Unfortunately for us, Matt and Mello's room was on one side of ours, while Avery and Beyond's was on the other side.
"See you guys, I've gotta make a call with Mattie. Old friends are still alive, somehow!" I exclaimed.
"Alright. Rain and I are going to interrogate Suicide about how he lost his maiden head," S said back.
The three of us walked down the hallway, but Betrayal whispered something to me before we made it to the rooms we were headed for.
"What did she say~?" Rain asked.
"Yoru wo oou mabuta hirake, magki kage wo osoreru nakare," I said, mentally questioning if they were fluent enough in Japanese to understand that.
S's face was blank. "What?"
I sighed. "Open your eyes and bare the darkness within, don't fear the evil in them."