Alone With Him...
pt. 2 of Indulgence: the Cannibal Named Nathaniel.
"Miss... Are you hurt?"
Ailes looked at Lysander, finally.
"No. I'm fine. Can I go home now? I feel a little light-headed.", Ailes muttered.
"You seem like a self defensive girl... but you are not enough to stop girls from..."
"I'm not some Victorian-Era princess, okay? I live in the 21st Century. I can fend for myself, thank you very much!", Ailes then groaned. She hated men that saw women as defenseless.
"Ah. My apologies...", Lysander muttered, feeling disappointed Ailes was not fond of repeating history when it comes to manners AND fashion.
"Don't be sorry. I'm just saying. I don't need a hero.", Ailes then grinned.
Lysander then saw her head begin to bleed.
"Let me help you to the nurse at least. I insist.", Lysander muttered.
"Alright, grandpa.", Ailes then snarked. Lysander frowned. That made Ailes ashamed.
XxXxX
"What happened?", the nurse gasped.
"Amber was beating her up next to a locker. She must have slammed Aile's skull using it.", Lysander muttered.
"She was after information I refused to give her.", Ailes then announced.
"What was it?", the nurse asked.
Ailes then began to lie through her teeth, "She wanted to ask me if I has sex before! Can you believe her?"
Lysander saw through that lie because he knew what really happened. However, since he knew Ailes was trying to keep a secret. He didn't object. He pretended to be worried about Amber asking for measurements.
"Oh my, Ailes. You are right to not say a word. It's un-ladylike to ask about one's personal life like that."
"Well, I'm no lady, but hey, that's a little creepy. I just can't believe she'd ask me that question. Maybe her social life was in a jam ever since Charlotte was having a baby.", Ailes then blushed.
"How do you know that?"
"I walk by Amber and her friends in the hallways."
XxXxX
Lysander wanted to hear the truth. The whole truth and nothing but that. He followed Ailes after school and saw she was going to Ken's house with her sister, Art.
"How odd... It's that beach-brain, Dakota... And that man...", Lysander muttered. After they closed the door to the front door, he had to look closely.
There he saw Ken was still pretty sickly, but he was recovering quickly. All he has now is a fever.
"Amber is still after you.", Ailes muttered.
"Amber? After a man? I wonder if 'Ken' is avoiding a clingy crush...", Lysander muttered to himself.
"Why don't we just call the cops on her. She attempted murder on my son once! And look at you Ailes... You have bandages over your head.", Ken's father muttered.
"Murder? So Ken is a target of something worse?", Lysander gasped.
Art turned around. She opened the window Lysander was looking from and then looked at Lysander at a point blank range.
"If you wanted to keep secrets, then just come in, Oscar Wilde."
Lysander felt offended to be called that for some reason.
XxXxX
"If you tell anyone we are keeping Ken stuck in this house until Amber finally decides to stop trying to kill him, I will make it so that you'll be right where the Victorian Era is... In the grave.", Ailes then hissed.
"It's not right to threaten me like that, Ailes."
"I try not to threaten people, but I can't control myself when one of the only two men I respect outside my family is a victim of attempted murder.", Ailes then muttered. She held Ken's head over her lap as she gently caressed his face.
"Are you a misandrist, Ailes?", Lysander asked.
"Not really. I just don't like guys that have specifics in what they want in a girlfriend. Both genders can be shallow. Men just go specifically for a body type sometimes.", Ailes smiled.
"So you don't hate men?"
"Of course I don't hate men! My father has balls and he was there for my mother! He may be a drunkard, but he still has standards and he still knows how to raise a family!"
"What about your mother?"
"My mother is sick all of the time. That's why Art is my only sibling. After my mom gave birth to us, she was unable to do what most mothers want to do... Teach their daughters how to be women. But if being like Amber, and Li and whoever the FUCK steals money from the weak to buy lunches and clothes is a woman, then I'd rather be a bear*."
"A bear?"
"C'mon, grandpa! Don't tell me you don't know what a bear is..."
Lysander had the most awkward conversation with Ailes at that moment.
When Ailes used the word 'bear', she's referring it to a term for a heavy-set homosexual male.
"You're an odd girl, Ailes.", Lysander then groaned. He was about to vomit from how awkward she was anyway.
"Thank you. I get that all of the time.", Ailes muttered.
"Ailes... If you were a bear... Would you let me hug you?", Ken asked innocently.
"Yes. I'll be a cuddly bear for you...", Ailes smiled as she kissed his forehead.
Lysander did vomit at that time because now he pictured Ailes as a literal black bear hugging Ken.
"And what about me?", Dakota asked, begrudgingly.
"Don't be jealous Dake. And don't even pretend you like the both of us either.", Ailes teased.
"S-shut up!", Dakota blushed.
"So Ken and Dakota are the two boys you respect?"
"Absolutely. Why, do you object?"
"Dakota knows not on how to respect a woman like yourself...", Lysander then hissed angrily.
"Sure, he's a playboy. What's so bad about it? We can have an on and off relationship and still be friends. Shit happens in real life all of the time. He's not superficial.", Ailes then muttered.
"You sure don't talk like a lady either, so I guess that's one thing that's cleared up.", Lysander then groaned, forgetting how Ailes thinks of most people around her, as well as her potty-mouth.
"True. Say, grandpa..."
"Stop calling me that!"
"But it fits. Your hair is white and you dress like an old man!", Ailes smiled.
Another awkward conversation. When will this all end?
XxXxX
Li was walking the streets alone in the dark. Usually she would go with Charlotte, but Li was what you call a scaredy cat. She was on her way to Amber's house. Though she seemed to regret it all for some reason.
"Hello there! My name is Ailes."
Li looked up to see a new face. She was an upperclassman, and she had recently cut her hair judging by her looks. Li didn't want to hang out with a tomboy.
"Uhhh... Hi there Ailes. I'm Li. Can you leave me alone for a bit?"
Ailes was heartbroken and Li saw it in her eyes. She ran ranting to her twin, who was quietly reading a book in German.
Li will soon regret not being friends with that girl. After all, she happened to notice that unlike her friend Amber, Ailes was actually going to be nice to people for once.
Li decided to not go to Amber's house. She gave her a text as she was scared of how late at night her neighborhood looked haunted. Nathaniel was behind her. He held a knife behind his back.
"Where are you going this late in the evening, Li?"
"Oh! Nathaniel! You scared the living daylights out of... What do you want, anyway? I decided not to go to your house.", Li then replied.
"Why not? I bet you Amber is DYING to see you. Especially now that Charlotte disappeared."
"Yeah. I wonder who would do that? Some of our other classmates are gone too. There is Lynn Darcy, Ken's first crush... Then Jade... Then Dajan...", Li asked.
"Maybe you come with me so you don't disappear too.", Nathaniel smiled, putting her hand over her shoulder.
"N-no way man! This neighborhood gives me the creeps!", Li then muttered as she ran away from Nathaniel, the opposite direction to his house.
Nathaniel took his knife out and tried to throw it at Li's head or nape. Instead, it hit a flying cloak. Li was pulled away by a girl. Nathaniel hissed a little. He was going to have to eat leftovers again. He hated it when that happens.
Li was going to scream but the girl gagged her.
"Shhhh! I'm trying to save you, you ungrateful slut!"
Li was muffled and she was trying to cry for help.
"Listen to me. The name is Lo'... I will tell you what you should know by now... Amber was killing all of the disappearing kids. She didn't kill Charlotte though. Amber was trying to protect the both of you."
Li didn't want to believe this.
"She did a bad job though because Amber was trying her best to kill her latest victim. That latest victim... was Kentin."
Li begin to scream some more. She totally did not want to believe this.
"Shut up and pay attention!", 'Lo then said .
Li finally was quiet.
"Look Li... How I even know this is that my father is Neighborhood Watch here. He knows everything about Nathaniel. He tried to tell everyone, but nobody listened to him. Because of that, he went to jail."
Li pulled Lo's hand away.
"Stop! I heard enough~!"
Li started to cry. She didn't know who to trust anymore.
"Amber always complained about a green-haired rough girl who has the mouth of a sailor."
"...Ailes...?"
"Why of course! Ailes has her own story. Why is she so un-girly? Why does she only hang out with her twin? Why so anti-social except for certain significant others like boyfriends and summer flings?"
"Wait... Ailes has those?"
Li could not believe Ailes would have a boyfriend. She guessed that talking to her would tell her more things.
XxXxX
The next day Li changed things up a little bit. Rather than sit next to Amber, she finally sat next to Ailes.
"About time you sat with us.", Ailes smiled, as if pretending what Li said to her the first time they met didn't happen.
"Hey, Ailes... Do you want to hear a juicy gossip?", Li asked.
"Who wants to hear rumors?", Ailes then groaned.
"Ailes, Li is one of Amber's friends.", Art then stated.
"Well, that is true. She would like spreading little inside jokes about me being a plant-girl or something like that. Then again, I really don't know what is up with that girl. First she tries to kill Kentin and now she pushed me up against a locker. Man, apparently it was so hard, my head was bleeding!"
Li understood what Lo' was trying to tell her that night. Though, Ailes sounded so innocent now.
"I bet you Li knows why Amber is trying to kill him, right?", Art then asked.
"Hmmm... Maybe so... Though when I saw Amber trying to kill Ken, Li wasn't with her. Crazy bitch must want to keep secrets even from her friends.", Ailes then muttered.
"Hey Ailes. I forgot to bring lunch money... Do you have any?", Li then asked, looking through her purse.
"Dammit woman! Do we look like ATMs!", Ailes hissed.
Li blinked a little.
"Look... If you're that hungry, have one of these. Kentin made it for me. I forgot to tell him I don't like ham."
Li then saw in Ailes' hand, a ham sandwich.
"Thank you...", Li gasped.
"Your welcome.", Ailes grinned.
"Ailes. I think I ate your sandwich. I must've taken your meal by mistake.", Art then blushed embarassed that she finished an entire sandwich that didn't have ham in it.
"That explains everything. Art, you're so silly!", Ailes smiled.
Li saw the twins and noticed a lot of differences between her friends and those two. Whenever Amber and Charlotte messed up an order, they bicker at each other and get revenge against each other over it. When Art ate Ailes' sandwich, it was no big deal.
"So... Why do you like that geek so much?", Li asked.
Ailes glared at her for a couple seconds.
"Uuumm... I'm sorry...", Li began to cry. Ailes almost looked scary, her eyebrows were so severe.
"I keep on forgetting you don't like Ken very much. It's no big deal. Unlike you, I'm not shallow.", Ailes then muttered. She tried to tease, but it came out like she had a grudge on Li for saying it.
"S-sh-Shallow! I'm not shallow! What does that even mean?", Li then freaked out.
"Li..."
Amber was behind Li. Ailes sat quiet now, her face now in a look that said she was so scared, she is now petrified.
Art then stood up and pulled Li next to her.
"So you're hanging with those two now, huh? What did they tell you? Huh?", Amber then hissed angry.
"N-no-Nothing! I was telling them on how I love Castiel!", Li then muttered.
"Li... You know that boy is MINE.", Amber then growled.
Ailes was still speechless.
"Let's go girls. We all have Mathematics together. We'll be late if we don't hurry.", Art then said, quietly and as nonchalantly as she can.
XxXxX
Li was with Ailes and Art at Ken's house. Dakota and Lysander were enough for Li to squeal in delight, as they were eye-candy to her. However, Lo' was here, as she followed Li.
"So this is where Amber's hunt has been hiding.", Lo' muttered.
"Hunt?", Ailes then gasped.
"Ailes... I'm...", Li started to cry. She was hiding the fact that Lo' told her everything.
TO BE CONTINUED...