Glass Feet

Kaye sat on her mattress in her room, trying to figure out where to start first with her cleaning. She could always start with her closet and go out from there, but the pile of clothes that dominated most of the space would be the easiest.

Sighing, she heaved herself up, stepped over her clothes. She would get her closet over and done with. Just as she stared throwing everything in the little space onto her floor in two piles; a "keep" pile, and "trash"pile, Luis, Corny, and Val came charging through her door.

"Kaye!" Corny greeted her as he stepped in her "Keep" pile, mixing up with her trash pile.

Kaye looked up annoyed. "When'd you get here?" She glared at Corny's feet, she would have to start all over again.

"Your Mom let us in. Whatcha doin'?" Val asked as she sat up onto Kaye's nightstand with a small leap.

Kaye sighed, and went back to cleaning out her closet. She spoke as she threw old clothes she had shoved in there a few weeks, or months, ago. "Gran is making me clean out my room. Apparently, I have too many clothes, and I should start giving back to the community." Kaye snorted at that last part. She was the Faerie King's consort. Didn't she help out enough? Being the Queen of Faerie meant that she had to help Roiben keep the Solitary Fae off the streets, and keep them from kidnapping humans again. After what happened last year at Halloween.... Kaye shuddered just thinking about it.

"You're boyfriend is gonna come up too soon, I think. We passed him in the car, and Val offered him a ride, but, he refused. I don't think he likes cars much." Luis grimaced.

Snorting again, Kaye crawled back out of her closet. "Damn, I have to clean up before he comes here, and I'm dressed like this." Kaye waved her hand over her red bikini top, and old ripped shorts over her matching bikini bottoms. Kaye starting looking for a shirt to cover up her bikini. She had one on earlier, but after jumping in a river to cool off, she had ditched it in her room somewhere.

Finally, she found it, under Val's butt. "Move, please. I need my shirt." Kaye tugged at the sleeve, and Val shifted so that Kaye could get it. But instead of getting just the shirt, the lamp, on which the bottom half of the t-shirt rested on, it came flying down as well, breaking the light bulb inside.

The glass shattered, several pieces flying in the air. Kaye stepped back a second too late, and her left foot stepped right into a small shard. Kaye started screaming in pain, her curse words heard throughout her house.

Luis reacted by placing his hand over her mouth. "Shhhh!" He warned her. He helped her down to her mattress, letting her rest her weight on him as she hopped there. Kaye on down at the edge of her bed, and raised her foot for Luis's inspection.

"It's not so far in that I won't be able to get it out," he murmured to himself. "Neil," he started again, "go get the first aid kit, and some duct tape."

Corny dashed out of the room, only to smack into King Roiben. He looked up to see Roiben's eyebrow raise in something between annoyance and confusion. Corny backed up, and ran around the King, careful not to make any eye contact again.

Roiben looked on as Kaye's human friend ran down the stairs, and winced as he heard loud banging of cupboards and drawers. As he turned to enter his love's room, he heard her scream out profanities. He quickly threw open the door blocking him from her, only to see her other human friends holding her down.

Luis had his one arm over to leg, and seemed to be trying to get something out of her foot, while Valerie had her hand down over his Consort's mouth. Kaye was still trying to scream out as Roiben made himself known to the three of them.

"What is going on here?" he half-yelled at the group. Kaye looked at him, and he noticed the tears that were threatening to spill. Just as Val opened her mouth to explain the situation, Corny rushed through the door, carrying a box of band-aids and a roll of duct tape.

"Got it! Please tell me that you've got that hunk-a glass outta her foot," he said, huffing and puffing,as he handed everything to Luis.

Roiben stared at the small group, his silver eyes widening. "So, all this is because Kaye has some glass embedded into her foot?" Roiben asked. Kaye nodded solemnly, and screamed out again as Luis pulled the piece out of her foot in one go.

Roiben rushed to her side, as the giant cut of her foot started spilling blood. Corny handed Luis the box of Band-aids. Luis took the already used tube of poly-sporran, and squeezed some onto his finger. He rubbed the medicine onto her injury, then placed a big bandage on it. Kaye sat up with the help of her King of Faeries' boyfriend, and rubbed her foot, carefully.

"That fucking hurt, by the way."

YES!!!!! DONE!!! omg, that was so hard to do. Btw, all my stories of Kaye, Roiben, Corny, Luis, Val, Ravus, Ruth, and Lootie-Loo are all based on stuff that happened to me. So yes, I did once get into a feather fight with by Budds, yes, my friends once woke me up by pouring a bucket of cold water on me, and yes, I once did slip and get a HUUUGE hunk of glass stuck into my foot. But how that Glass got there in the first place I'll never know. X-P The nest chapters I'll write will be about the whole Ironside crew going on Vacation in the bush! And for those of you who don't know what the bush is, it's just a lot of trees, in a remote place, with a lot of bugs, and a lot of water, swamps, lakes, and marshes.

I'm sorry, that I took so long to create this, I was on Vacation for a week, and I'm going again this coming Sunday.