"I came here because," He paused. "Do you remember how I told you my grandfather was king of Denmark?"
"The crazy one? Yeah, why?"
"Well he's recently died and my father is to take over next, but he is to old-"
"So now it's your turn. So that's why you're here? To find a wife," I grabbed his arms around my waist. "Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom." I pushed out of his grip and hastily walked to the bathroom.
"Damn it." I mumbled walking in.
"Patty, how do I look?" I heard Liz. I crept behind the wall, hoping not to be seen.
"Why one-Chan is there someone you wish to excite?" Patty giggled.
"Yes."
"Tell me!" Patty begged.
"The guy Ghost is with. Kid tells me they're only friends. You don't think she'll mind?"
Patty was about to answer, but I swept into the open area.
"Hey guys. What are you two up too?" I asked innocently.
"On- Chan, you can ask her now?" Patty said.
"Ask me what?" I said as if I didn't already know.
"Who's that guy you're with?" She asked bluntly.
"Conner."
"Are you two dating."
"Not that I know of."
"What does that mean?"
"No, Liz. We are not dating."
"Would you mind if?"
"Knock yourself out. I'll set you guys up if you want. I think he's looking for wife though."
"A wife!" Liz squealed.
"Yeah. Well I have to get going. I left him waiting at the dance floor." I exited the bathroom.
Conner was standing at the balcony staring over the city.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Someone said before me. Maka and Soul walked out onto the balcony.
"It is," He looked over to see who it was. "Conner." He simply said.
"Maka and this is my boyfriend, Soul. Nice to meet you."
"Hey guys, what are you talking about?" I walked up. Soul and Conner jumped at my voice.
"Just how pretty the city is." Maka admired.
"Yeah, I guess." I agreed.
"Where did you go off to Ghost?" Conner asked.
"Bathroom, I ran into Liz and Patty." I rested my forearms onto the railing.
"You two know each other already?" Soul asked.
"This is the guy that was in my apartment earlier." I informed.
"So you two are dating." Maka assumed.
"No! Why does everyone say that?" I groaned.
"Well you two are living together and just by the lower half of his face I could tell he's devishly handsome." Soul explained.
"I knew it." I shouted.
"What?" Soul had confused painted all over his face.
"You're gay. I don't know any other guy that would call Conner handsome. Sorry to break it to you Maka, but your first boyfriend is in fact gay." I laughed.
"I'm not gay. You should know Ghost." Soul slapped on a toothy grin.
"Don't remind me." I grumbled.
"What do you mean?" Conner asked.
"Soul and I dated for like 3 months before I dumped his ass because he told me he liked book warm over here." I clarified.
"Oh dude, why would you do that?" Conner exclaimed.
"She pretended to be Maka with her mind messaging." Soul objected.
"Mind messaging?"
"Yeah, Professor Stein taught us 2 years ago." I said
"So you guys are saying you can talk through your mind? Doubt that." Conner snorted.
I gave him my famous evil eye, known for killing a Kishin just by glancing at me. Me doing this meant I was challenging him.
'Don't be so cocky Conner, you'll end up like Black*Star.' I mind messaged.
'Wrong person, and so true.' That was Maka.
'Sorry. I'm still not the best at this.' I apologized.
'It's fine, try again.'
'Conner, its Ghost. If you continue being so damn cocky then you'll end up like someone I know.'
"How'd you do that?" Conner asked out loud.
"Very carefully." I simply said.
"We told you. So are you a weapon or mister?" Maka probed
"Mister. No weapon. I used to use Ghost sometimes though." Conner replied.
"Used too. I hit that tree one last time and I was finished." I made sure to point out.
"I apologized like 6 years ago for that." Conner complained.
"You threw me at least 600 times." I challenged.
"Touché." Conner squint glared.
"Speaking of Black*Star, Ghost have you seen him?" Maka looked around. Black*Star wouldn't be hard to spot in any sized crowd. He would be the one climbing on the walls and standing on the tables screaming about his awesomeness.
"Come to think of it, I don't know. I think I might have an idea though." I said to myself.
"Where?" Maka interrupted my deep thought session.
"He's at home, with Tsubaki. I would tell you why, but that would cause another dent in my building." I stoked my chin.
"Point taken." She nodded.
"So, what do you guys usually do during one of these famous Lord Death parties?" Connor asked.
"Hey Soul, Maka, why don't you guys go dance?" I asked.
"I don't dance." Soul stated bluntly.
"Yes you do! Come on!" Maka pulled Soul out into the dance floor.
"Okay, I didn't think I should have mention this with them around, but guess what? There is a girl, she goes to my school, is a weapon, and has all my classes. She wants to meet you tomorrow at the coffee shack." I said.
"Do I know this girl?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay then. I'll meet her around noon."
"Great. I'll go tell her." I rushed off into the crowd looking for Liz.
I found her being admired by several boys in a corner.
"Excuse me." I said several times, hoping someone would move…No one did. I took a deep breath. "Move your ass or I'll kick you all in the balls!" I shouted. They looked at me, noticed who yelled it, and quickly moved out of the way.
"Liz, guess what? I snagged you a date with Conner. Meet him at the coffee shack say around noon?" I questioned.
"Sure thing." Liz's tone was as if she did not care, but I could tell she was trembling with excitement.
"Great. He doesn't know it's you though." I said under my breath as I walked away.
"Welcome!" Kid got onto the stage.
"Get back down!" I shouted, making the Spartoi group laugh.
"As I was saying," Kid scoffed. "Thank you for joining my party. Now for the main event. Join two circles. Women on the outside for once, and men on the inside.
We did as we were told know if we didn't Kid would go all spastic on us.
"Now when the music stops join the one in front of you for a dance." Kid demanded.
When the music stopped, we joined hands with the one in front of us. We danced in awkward silenced. Then the music stopped in the middle of the song.
"Now take off your masks!" Kid said.
We hesitated, but took off our masks.
"Hero?" I gasped.
"Ghost?" Hero had said.
"I haven't seen you in what, 2 years?" I said.
"Yeah, how have you been?" He pulled me in on a hug.
"Great! I'm a senior now, I am actually going to school…usually. I have a roommate too. What about you?"
"Same. I actually started my own business."
"Really, for what?"
"Technology."
"Cool. By the way. I'm sorry for not being able to get coffee with you."
"That was in the past. I was just wondering, why?"
"It's was weird actually, I got a boyfriend that night."
"What are the chances. So do you have a boyfriend now?"
"I'm sorry Hero, I can't right now."
"Oh so there is another guy."
"No, it's just I can't. There is too much going on these days."
"Like?"
"Well my roommate is my best friend. He is looking for a wife to become the King of Denmark, my buddy is not here which is amazing, and Lord Death has me going from the academy to a mission to my apartment back to the academy and all over again."
"Wow. Your life is complicated."
"Yeah, speaking of which. I have to get going. It was nice seeing you again." I pushed passed the extremely cute boy that I had to turn down and walked up to my friends.
"Who was that?" Maka asked once I joined the group.
"Do you remember Hero?" I questioned.
"The weird pizza boy from two years ago? Yeah."
"That was him. He asked me out, again."
"What did you say?" The girls squealed.
"I rejected him…Again." I swung my hips back and forth innocently.
"Why?" They screamed.
"Because I don't like him!" I screamed back.
"You did before." Patty's voice trailed off.
"That was two years ago, plus he is way too much of a nice guy for me."
"Ghost, who is this?" Connor's voice was dowsed with angst.
I spun around to find Connor dragging a pink haired witch. She was clinging to his leg.
"That's Kim." I said pulling her off.
"Let go of me Ghost, I'm dancing." Kim struggled in my grip.
"Honey, last time I checked dancing never involved hugging a leg." I threw her aside. "Now go dance with your date." I showed her off.
"You're a real ladies man, aren't you?" Liz said seductively.
"I guess. I never really got any girls back home, right Ghost?" He looked at me, but frankly I wasn't paying the slightest bit attention.
"Huh? Yeah sure, whatever." I said, concentrating back onto my object.
"What are you doing." Liz asked.
"Kid?" I looked at him.
"Right ahead of you." He nodded reassuringly.
"What is it?" Connor looked at me.
"Think Connor." I waited as he thought oh so desperately.
"Oh my, that sure is a big one, isn't it?"
"What is?" Liz asked anxious for an answer.
"Do you guys sense that Kishin?" Maka said, just in the nick of time.
"Yeah. Should we go after it or tell Lord Death?" Connor suggested.
"Neither." I said.
"What?" Kid said.
"It's already here." I turned to the balcony as a giant black figure rose from the ground.
"Who are you?" I asked, taking a step forward, everyone cleared out a path for me.
It snickered.
"Then I guess we'll have to beat it out of you." I smirked, signaling over Kid and his weapons.
"No need for violence." It croaked.
"Don't do that, I almost killed you!" I threw the closest thing to me, a table, at the Kishin.
"I'm sorry, I was trying to make an entrance." The Kishin giggled.
"Are we fighting or not?" Kid pulled back his twin pinky trigger pistols.
"It's Alicia." I informed.
"Oh." Liz and Patty turned back to normal.
"Who is this?" I heard Connor whisper to Maka.
"This is my mother." I spun around.
"I thought you said you killed her a long time ago?"
"I thought the same thing, but then she turned up." I shrugged.
"Are there any other surprises?"
"Well there is just one more." I sighed.
"This is where I come out!" The splat of annoying flowed through the room.
"Ghost your blood is?"
"Long story short, I almost died, Chrona saved me with his black blood and this is Calypso." I pointed to the blob sticking out of my back.
"So are you as strong as Ragnorak?" Connor asked.
I shook my head in a way to say, 'look what you did.'
"Don't you ever speak of such a foolish creature as my half-brother. To answer your question, yes I am stronger." It gloated.
"Only by a little bit and that's because all we train non-stop." I pointed out.
"I can take my brother any day." Calypso snickered.
"Not without my help," I laughed. "So mother, what brings you here?"
"The party of course!" She cheered.
"Well in that case, crank up them tunes!" I shouted to the band.
The music began and everyone acted as if nothing happened.
"So you're Ghost's mother, pleasure to meet you." Connor gave a slight bow.
"What about me?" Calypso demanded.
"You really are related to Ragnorak." Connor said.
"I have to live with her." I groaned.
"So do I." Connor pointed out.
"Oh yeah." I laughed.
"Yes, I'm Ghost's mother, who are you again?"
"I'm Connor, old friend of Ghost."
"Really, well pleasure to meet you," My mom gave a slight bow as well."Is there something you want to tell me, Ghost?"
"Not really." I yawned.
"You know Connor, Ghost is the most pleasant girl to-"
"Okay, I need a drink." I weaved through the crowd to the open bar.
"What can I get you?" The bar tender asked.
"Come on Phil, you know what I want." I said plopping my ass on the stool.
"Of course, Ghost, how could I ever forget?" He laughed as he whipped down a class. He poured the liquid into the glass then slid it in front of me.
"Thanks." I gulped half of it down.
"Damn girl. What's going on today?" Phil asked. Oh and if you haven't figured it out or took a guess, Phil is my usual bar tender these days.
"Well, my ex is here and right now, he's talking to my mom." I sighed.
"He's your ex? Oh honey, why would you let something that fine go?"
"I changed apparently." I finished my drink and gave the glass back to Phil.
"You want to talk about it honey?" He refilled the glass.
"Honeybuns, you are my best friend, but we both know you don't want to hear it and I don't want to talk about it." I grabbed the glass cup.
"You know me so well sweet cheeks! That's why you and I are friends."
"No honey, we're friends because of that one night when I got really drunk and I did stuff we shouldn't have." I laughed.
"Oh yeah. Well still. You know I'm her for you baby cakes."
"I know Phil." I gave him a kiss on the cheek than walked to Soul and Maka, who were on the balcony again.
"Hey guys." I took a sip of the drink.
"Oh shit." Soul mumbled.
"What?" Maka and I said in unison.
"Ghost is drinking."
"Don't be jealous, underage boy!"
"I'm not, it's just every time you drink, something bad happens to you or someone around you."
"No I don't!" I shouted.
"Really? Last week you almost put me in the hospital trying to tear out my stiches, convinced they were creepy crawly things eating me."
"One time."
"When you first got here you had such a bad hang over you couldn't leave your bed. Two months ago, you got into a fight with 6 gang members, putting 3 in the hospital and you got stabbed in the arm! Shall I go on?"
"Hey, that gang and I are tight now!" I objected.
"Still, something always goes wrong and I always have to drive you home!"
"Well Connor and my mom are here so eat that beotch!"
"Your mother? Does she know about your drinking problem? What about Connor?"
"I think we should tell them." Maka thought out loud. I chased Soul and Maka as they darted towards my mother and Connor.
"Alicia, Connor, do you guys know a-"
"Shut your damn mouth!" I interrupted Soul by slicing the back of his lower leg.
"Nice one, Ghost." My mom high fived me.
"Damn, that hurt." Soul whined.
"I didn't know getting a deep cut hurt." I said sarcastically.
"Ghost is an alcoholic!" Maka blurted out.
The room had gone quiet and everyone was staring at me, waiting for an objection, but I couldn't say anything. I couldn't lie to my mother, but I can't tell her I have a problem.
"Is this true?" She asked.
"It depends on what you find an alcoholic to be." I said in a nervous tone.
"Someone who drinks so much in one sitting they don't know what they're doing and always causes bad things to either themselves or those around them."
"Then," I hesitated. "Yes, I'm an 'alcoholic'."
"I expected more from you, Ghost. You are not the girl I knew! What the hell happened?" Connor shunned.
"Well, I thought I killed my mom, I killed my aunt, I almost died last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, most importantly," I looked at all the staring confused eyes looking straight into my eyes. "Most importantly, I lost something that meant the world to me." I darted out of the room.
"I'll go make sure she doesn't drink." I heard Soul yell after me. He chased me down 3 blocks until I stopped, dead in my tracks…