The next morning, I awoke to someone furiously knocking at my door. "Come on, Violet. We're gonna be late!"
'SHIT-SHIT-SHIT!'
I open it. "I'm really sorry. Let me make myself a little bit fresher." I pick up my deodorant. "Step back, I don't want you smelling like women." I joke.
"Well, that T-shirts yours now." Barry joked. Suzy gave me one of his baggy tops to change into and I forgot to give it back. To answer your question, yes, I did sleep in guys clothes. You got a problem...? Thought not!
"Hehe! Seriously though. The deodorant needs to be put on." I instantly start spraying it.
"Violet, you smelt fine before-" Dan choked.
"~ Guess who doesn't give a shit? I don't give a shit! ~" I sang in an upbeat tone. I stopped and turned to throw the can of deodorant back into my bed room. I put my off brand turquoise trainers on and grabbed my canvas shoulder bag. "Let's go. I'm gonna use the elevator today" I get my keys and lock the door after stepping out into the hall.
"What's wrong with you?" Dan joked.
"My skins all fucked up, I'm not gonna risk it." I press the elevator button and waited. "Mother fuck- Fuck it, I've never went outside without brushing my hair before but fuck. It… Right in the anus." I complain and they stared in disbelief at what I'd just said. "What?"
"What's with you today?" Dan moaned on.
"Try having the same quality skin as a vampire and then talk to me. Until then shut up. I'm most happy sleeping after I've been burnt and you FUCKIN' WOKE ME UP! That's what's with me today!" I turn and give the what-the-fuck-did-you-jut-say look to Dan when I speak. Both his hands and eyebrows raised. "Don't even. Alright, I'm not in the mood." We step into the elevator. I get my phone out of my bag. "Shit, it's nearly lunch time."
"Yeah, like he said were late." Barry widened his eyes.
"Barry? Don't you start… Keep the stupid looks at home, will you?" I give him the fuck-off-ya-twat look.
When we reached the bottom, I stormed out with no idea how I got this energy. After being burnt, I'm usually so tuckered out by now. "I really don't know how I'm not in a white room with a straight jacket by now." I say after stopping and turning my head to see the shadowy figure again. This time it was even closer. It was cold out that day, meaning the hoodie I'd lazily never taken off helped me. The bag swung on my arm every half of a second. I was in pain and refused to let them see the level that it reached. My red skin made me want to cry but it would hurt if I did.
At this point I was running to mask the pain, it would of looked epic in slow motion. The moment you realise you're so reckless when you forget you're in a parking lot and that cars are free to drive there. I ran into one of the lanes where a yellow Ferrari was coming straight at me. I jumped and rolled out of the way, landing next to the passenger door of Dan's average looking black car. I panted in relief as I looked behind to see Dan and Barry sprinting in my direction as they might have thought I'd been hurt. I curled up next to the door as I was pretty sure I'd made a tear in my weak flesh.
"Violet!" Barry's voice cracked and I suddenly stood up.
"That… That was FUCKING EPIC!" I bellow, it gave me the rush of my life. "That was just like a movie scene."
"You're gonna kill yourself one of these days. There's obviously something the matter and you're trying not to tell us." Barry wrapped on of his arms around my waist and used the other to push my hair out of my face.
"I couldn't give much of a shi- never mind. You can read my mind, I know I could kill myself. I'm sorry that was cool though." I admit.
Dan caught up. "Hey love birds, do that somewhere else." He joked. I pushed Barry away out of embarrassment.
"Dan, you know we're all just friends here." I state.
"Oooh, the friend zone." He continued.
I grab Dan by the neck. "Leave him alone, have some manners. Jesus Christ, Daniel. Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?"
The tall Jewish man gave me the 'Bish-wha?' look before I removed my hand, allowing him to breathe.
"I bagsy shot gun!" I smile opening the passenger seat door.
"Excuse me, don't you know whose car it is?" Barry forced his opinion into my head, although it wasn't really an opinion at all.
"Yeah, it's Dan's! I bet he'd want me to sit shot gun." I look at Barry arguing my case and point.
"Shouldn't we ask him? Actually get his opinion on this one?" Barry challenges.
"So, Dan. What's your opinion?" I ask trying to be cute.
"That you should both sit in the back!" He retaliated.
I jump in the back after Barry and Dan get it. "You're not my real dad!" I squeal.
"I wish I was!" Dan yells back.
"And I wish I was the creepy uncle!" Barry interjected and makes us all laugh.
"You know something… You two fight like a married coup-" I stop Dan mid-sentence because I put my arm around his neck.
"Don't. Dare. Finish. That. Sentence." I stare at him through the rear view mirror. "Don't even try it."
Dan drove all the way to the house with my arm in the same place. I made sure it went back around his neck after we got out of the vehicle and into the house.
"Dan, what did you do?" Ross asked, assuming it was a joke.
"Say something that is forbidden." I growl. Barry shakes his head with a smile.
"You can't do this when we grump today." Dan tries to get me away from him.
"You wanna bet?" I hiss as we move into the room where Arin sat waiting.
"It's Violet's fault that were late." Dan blames.
"You're gonna die soon." I whisper creepily.
"Why is she angry? Violet you're scaring me." Arin shudders and moves forward.
"He spoke the forbidden words." I say in a demonic tone.
"And welcome back, Violet the demon has joined us holding Dan hostage… By his neck."
"Arin, help!" Dan begged.
I played along. "Shut up, mortal!" I say in the same demon voice.
"Why aren't you holding me hostage, Violet?"
"The demon code says not to hurt the demi gods." The voice starts hurting my throat. I cough. Hands squeeze my hips a little bit and I get a fright causing my arm to choke Dan a little bit.
"Aaagh!" I squeak. Dan gargles a little bit and I realize what just happened. "Dan! Dan! Are you alright?"
"Yeah." The guy on the couch chokes out.
"BARRY, WHERE ARE YOU I'M GONNA KILL YOU! YOU ALMOST MADE ME STRANGLE A MAN!" I march out of the room. "IT'S TIME FOR A SPANKING!" I only realized what I said until afterwards. Roaring barks of laughter can be heard from the recording room as I run around to find him.
Barry was cowering behind Suzy in the kitchen. "Suzy, help me!" He begged.
"Get outta here, Barry. Not in here while I've got a knife." Suzy pointed to the door with her free hand. I hide behind the door frame, waiting until Barry exits. I jump out, taking the man by surprise. I tickle his stomach while being dragged along the floor.
~~~~~~Holly's POV~~~~~~
I stood in the living room doorway with my mouth wide open. Dan was right, they do act like a married couple. Barry drags Violet up the stairs after my husband, Ross, joins me using the same expression. Curiosity takes over as I hear giggling from the spare room. I follow and see Barry pinning Violet down on the bed, tickling the shit out of her. The women's arms and legs flail all over the place trying to escape.
All you could hear was things like: "Oh fuck", "Ohmigod", "Ow, that's my hip", "No-no-no-no" and other inaudible noises that could be taken out of context by Dan and Arin really quickly.
'Is anyone seeing this? I hope they realize this event will be recorded on the internet for all eternity, poor souls.'
~~~~~~Arin's POV~~~~~~
Dan was crying with laughter at all the jokes I made.
"Barry, did you have fun up there? It sounded like you did!" I begin. "How about you, editor Violet? You mad brah… Yeah you mad!"
"Oh my fucking god- Arin why are you smiling like that… OH MY GOD!" Dan blurted. "They sound so wrong!"
"You having the time of your life? Hmm? Violet, you'd better tell me how good it was!" I joked.
"Arin, just stop!" Dan barked from his laughter. "I'm just warning you, Arin. An army girl will beat you to a pulp, especially one called Violet!"
"Oh, shit dude. I forgot, I'm fucked." I remembered while trying to be serious.
~~~~~~Violet's POV~~~~~~
I struggled shouting for him to get off. I somehow summon the strength to roll and begin to tickle Barry.
"Shtap!" He yelled.
"Never, I will never stop! Not in a million years!" I smile looking into his eyes and don't stop moving my hands. Play fighting always ends in tears, not always literally. Barry went to go and flail his arms playfully but instead he thwacked his hand straight into the right side of my face and ending at my nose. I went flying off the bed, screaming because of the fright it caused.
Barry leaned over the side of the bed. "Violet, are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. Th-that was fun. Thank you." I smile getting up from the ground using the hand that Barry displayed to me.
"Oh, Violet. I've made your nose bleed." He realized. I touch under my nose to feel for the blood that dripped onto his baggy t-shirt that I was wearing.
"Oh, it is. Don't worry about it." I rub the back of my neck.
I go out of the room, not caring about my bloody nose. Holly and Ross try to make eye contact but I kept it apart. Arin shuffled out of the recording room just after I pass the room.
"Hey, Violet." He calls.
I turn around, quickly, with surprise in my eyes. "Yeah? …Don't talk to me right now, actually. You're not worth the embarrassment." I speak turning back around, heading down to the office. I began drumming at Barry's desk whilst spinning on his chair with my eyes closed. Dan came down and I immediately know it was him. "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to ask-" He began but I cut him off.
"Out." I bluntly growl.
"I only wanted to ask you if-"
"O-U-T." I spell.
"I just wanna-"
"Do you want me to bite your fucking head off or not?" I threaten.
"O-okay. I'll just leave." Dan wined while going back up the stairs. I followed 10 minutes later. I went up to find them harassing Barry about earlier on.
"Hey! Leave off, Jesus." I call out, specifically to Arin and Ross.
"Oh somebody's pissed." Arin teased.
"Why, yes I AM!" My voice rumbled into a shout.
"Hey, hey. Settle yourself. Calm down." Holly coaxed.
"I'M NOT GOING TO CALM DOWN… EVER!" I storm out, my skin more red than before. I go into the bathroom, where I shut the door and lift the back of my top. The skin was cracked all over the place. "SHIT!" I bellow, both trying and unintentionally calling for help. I run my finger along one of the cracks and cause myself to wince in pain after pressing on it a little too hard. I whisper many different curse words.
Suzy had come to my aid. "HOLY SHIT, VIOLET!" She screams.
"This is what always happens. It's always been this way." I whisper trying to calm down. Suzy latches on to me.
I couldn't quite make out the whole muffled sentence that she said. It was something about 'not telling her sooner'. She led me down stairs. "I hope you guys aren't fucking freaked out by this but this is why she's ticked off." I was turned around and my top was lifted from the back. I stood, slowly fluttering my eyelids because I thought it was unnecessary to show people the side of yourself that even you wanted to forget.
"Did I tell you that I jumped out of the way of a speeding Ferrari this morning?" I ask flipping my top down before any 'why didn't you tell us sooner' comments came through.
"She did." Dan confirmed.
"And scared the living shit out of me in the process." Barry finished. "'Just like a movie scene' she said."
"You're kidding, right?" Ross asked surprised.
"No, I am completely telling the truth." I swear. "I swear on my mother's life… It was a yellow Ferrari." I remember.
"No way." Arin said, surprised.
"Yes way." Dan replies.
"Bar, you comin' to start editing?" I ask.
"Just to ask- Why is there blood under your nose?" Holly asked.
"Shenanigans." I reply. "Nose punching shenanigans… Barry, you comin'?"
"I'll be down it two." He replies.
"Okay!" I reply trying to be cheerful. I get back down to the office. I sit for a little bit. "I have no idea why I still live…" I sigh/whisper. And immediately Barry walks down. "Oh, hi Barry."
"Hey, are you okay? I heard you muttering to yourself." He heard me. 'FUCK!'
"Yeah, yeah. I'm… alright… I guess." I sigh looking away. "So, you ready to get started."
"Urm… yeah. Let's start." He started.
"You do half of it and I'll do the other half. Fair?"
"Meh- okay." Barry answers and I then go over to the stair way, pick up my note book and pen and return to Arin's Desk chair. "What ya doin'?"
"Writing chords for songs." I say drumming on the table with the pen.
"Oh, right." He says while opening the editing programme. I grab another pen from Barry's desk and start properly jamming out. "Alright!"
"~ Ba ba-da-ba. Ba-ba-da-ba. Ba-ba-da-da-da-da! Tssssssh! ~" I messed around rolling around the room, hitting Barry with one of the pens on the head at the end. "Oh, by the way. Sorry for embarrassing you with the tickle fight thing."
"No problem, it was actually kinda fun." He smiled.
"The last time I'd play fought like that for that long was when I was with my sister. I think I was about... 9. So basically, 17 year ago."
"Man, that's a long assed time ago." He said disappointedly.
"You know it." I smile, willingly.
I listen to the voices on the video and everything that is said: Boils. My. Blood. I begin trying to console myself and my note pad and pen drop from my hands. 'Calm down, Violet. Just keep it cool. Don't lose it. Don't lose it. Don't lose it. Don't lose. Don't lose. Don't lose. Don't lose. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. DON'T. DON'T. DON'T-' I hear things being said and I don't like it, my shit was then flipped. "GGYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I bellow and I open my tightly shut eyes to see Barry, with his fingers in is ears and eyes scrunched up. I pick myself up from the chair, red in the face, as everyone who wasn't already there piles into the office.
"Whoa! What was that? It was like a storm passed the room and was gone like, a second later." Suzy asked. "What happened, Violet?"
"I can't believe what I'm hearing here. That whole time, you did it!" I said, infuriated.
"Whut? Ooooh, right…" Dan began, thinking that I might not have heard it.
"Shit." Arin mutters.
"Silence! Why don't you listen?!" I scream again. They become immobile on the stairs and Barry keeps his distance. "Not only have you dragged me into your crazy world, but you've kept me from setting the boundaries! I could have still been at home, mourning the loss of my father instead of being in this miserable place, with horrible people: Like. You."
"Don't get upset, Lillith. We-" Arin tried to make an excuse.
"Don't you ever call me Lillith again! You poor, obnoxious, imitation of a good friend! Not only are you the most inconsiderable and insufferable being I have ever met, but you clearly don't have what it takes to be a prudent leader of a youtube channel, let alone a good friend to a person who's had a shitty life!" I accuse. "And you… You aren't any better than your puny friend! You are a cognisant fool who is too self-centred, and who pretends to be the man-of-every-women's-dreams! Oh, and your unspeakably loud and express yourself like a popular-Starbucks-white-girl!"
"Violet! How fucking dare you insult my friends and wife in my house!" Arin yelled, obviously not taking any of the shit I was giving out.
"Knock it off, Arin." Dan pulled him back as Arin marched towards me.
"Of all those years I'd spent alone in my dad's house, I've never been involved in such a disastrous event! This is truly the worst moment I have ever lived!" I start pushing away at the crowd on the stairs after picking up my bag. When I'm by the door, I finish off what I was going to say. "You heard me? I hate this office, and I HATE you ALL! Now I'm getting out of this nightmare, and I'm taking my life with me. I am out of this country by the first hour of tomorrow! I need some sleep!" I advance to the door and footsteps follow. I open the door.
"But wait! It's hot outside! Didn't you say your mortal enemy was the sun?!" Ross called, quoting me.
"TO HELL WITH THE DAMN HEAT! RRRGH!" I get out and slam the door. I marched and marched, and they were all smart enough not to follow me. I'd crush their bones.
~~~~~~Dan's POV~~~~~~
"Whoa! We pissed her off, bad!" Arin said, annoyed. "I wish I could go back in time and not say anything."
"Arin, honey. Don't beat yourself up about it." Suzy hugged her husband.
"Is it go-find-Violet-time?" Holly asked, reluctantly.
"No, Holly. No it isn't, we have work to do. And we could do without her." It pained me to say it.
~~~~~ The next morning (Barry's POV) ~~~~~
"Oh my," Dan started. "What happened late yesterday? It's all a blur."
"I think something bad happened, and that we're to blame for it." I continued.
"Oh, yeah. It's all coming back to me now… Violet a-and the video!" Dan jumped.
"And she hates us now…" I sigh, regrettably.
"Oh my god! Violet." Dan jumped. "What time is it now?"
"Umm… half past 9." I look at the clock on the wall.
"Wake up, Barry. We're going down stairs!" He announced. Dan grabbed Violet's apartment spare key and lead me down the stairs, the door that led to floor 69 was still open. He unlocked her door and stormed into her living room.
"How'd you know she'd still be here?" I ask, completely confused.
"Just think for a second: Do you think you'd be able to get a Visa and your stuff packed up, in one night? After what she'd said, to us. To colleagues." Dan gave me reason to agree with the situation.
"No… you're right." I admitted. "So, what are you gonna do?"
"Apologize, what I had in mind." Dan said. "We'd been terrible to her and now is the time we make ourselves forgiven!"
~~~~~~ Violet's POV (Sometime later….) ~~~~~~
"Holy, fuck!" I bellow. "What the fuck did my mind just create?" I say trying to remember what I thought was that nights 'dream'. "It seem so, fucking, real. I can still hear the things I said echoing in my head."
KNOCK-KNOCK! The door made an earth shattering clank. I fell into my wall, in complete shell shock. I am greeted by the whole grump family when I open the door. "Oh, good afternoon, Violet." Suzy chimed.
"You guys… Was it real? I mean, what are you doing here?" I rub my eyes.
"We thought we'd apologize to you, by letting you in on a surprise we've been keeping from you for… sometime, now!" Dan announced.
"Wait-wait-wait-wait-wait. So, you're telling me that you've been keeping a secret from me and you don't know how I react to surprise or spontaneous surprises. And, not to mention gathered out in my hallway waiting for me to wake up, without asking me, in the first place?" I question.
"Yeeaah- that was all Barry's idea…" Dan pointed the finger while distressed faces came over every single one of them.
"Hey! That was all your ide-" Barry yelled at his roommate.
"THANK YOU!" I jumped at Barry, nearly strangling him with a hug.
"Urr-umm-urr-umm… You're welcome?" Barry said awkwardly.
"I may or may not have had something to do with it..." Dan tried to get back to his original intended situation.
"That was super sweet of you all! But, you really didn't have too, after all the mean things I said to you guys yesterday…" I felt super-super wrong for saying what I said. "That was sooo unlike me…" I shyly look down. "W-will you for-forgive me… for that?"
"Don't worry about it, Violet! I'm not the kind of guy to hold a grudge! If I were like that, JonTron would never be allowed to be mentioned on the show." Arin smiled. "And I'm positive Dan feels the same…"
"Yeah, I do!" Dan also smiles.
"Oh, that's cool, dude! I'm happy that there's no hard feelings surrounding the subject!" I enlighten all of their faces with my words.
Phrases like: "Yeah!", "Cool.", "Awesome." and "Neat." fill my hall.
"Okay, so were all cool and that's all superb but… I still am able to be let in on that secret, right?" I ask.
"On one small term!" Holly announces.
"So, what's the catch?" I question the short haired women.
"A Group Hug!" She answers, holding her arms to the side. We all pile in together like the penguins who live in Antarctica.
"Let's get you all inside. You aren't, umm, freaked out by creepy demon summoning things… Right?" I ask holding the door open.
"No, that fascinates me!" Suzy answers for everyone by mistake. I continue to hold open the door while Dan and Barry lead everyone into my living room.
I went to go and skip into my living room. Tripping over my goddamn fucking prick of a coffee table… again. The angel and demon in my mind became active as I glided towards the floor. The angel asked: 'so, umm, you know what this means right?' The demon answered. 'Oh, hell yes I do.' I knew what they were talking about as I landed on my knee.
"OW, FUCK, MY KNEE! THAT'S MY KNEE! DAMMNIT. SHIT. AWW, MAN!" I yelled, then quickly glancing over at Arin's shocked but amused face, I fully swivel around to face him. "Why didn't you evolve me, you asshole?" I ask.
"Because I love you Pikachu!" He replies.
"Do you want me to lose?! Is that what you want?! Christ!" I hang my head around so that no-one could see as I pretended to throw up. "All you feed me is poffins! I need nourishment! Toros-meat or somethin'!" I turn to Suzy before speaking again.
"We don't- we don't kill Pokémon." Arin quotes.
"Yes we do! We do it for you, you fuckin' assholes! Goddamnit!" I continue.
Arin does his best impression of the voice he made for Venusaur. "Look, I'm total- I'm really sorry man-"
"Fuck you man, you suck! Stupid furniture prick!" I point at the table. "What do you even do? You're jus-just a table… Shut up, man! It's all your fuckin' fault!"
Arin was amazed I was still going. "Hey, I didn't even-"
"You were the one who was like: 'Oh, I gotta assault Violet!' You coulda just walked away! But you didn't you prick… So, fuck you, you dumbass!" I finish and Arin started hysterically laughing. "My knee… Aw man… Fuckin' ow!"
"Violet, stop-stop!" Arin cried trying not to choke. "That was fuckin' awesome." He high fived me after I got up from the floor and by then, everyone laughed. The spirit was following me, everywhere I went, but I gave up on telling people.
"Oh, umm, what were you going to tell me, exactly?" I ask.
"Oh, yeah so, we've been planning you and Barry a joint birthday party!" Suzy announced.
"Really?" I ask, a sparkle in my eye. "I've never had one before!"
"That's impossible! You're 25!" Arin said, shocked.
"No, it's not. I've never had a birthday party." I admit. "I've never been invited or have been to one… like at all. Well, my dad's ones were more of an arranged get together."
"So… that's the surprise!" Holly smiled.
"Thank you. I never thought anyone would care that much, for me or what my dreams are." I smile. "No one has ever cared that much."
"Why do we need to keep reminding you that your one of the family?" Dan asks.
"Because a family is something I've only half experienced." I sigh, looking out of the window. "All I've ever wanted is a functional one… now it feels almost impossible."
"You know that's not true." Dan reminds me.
"HOW DO you know… I'm-I'm sorry, I get mad… sometimes." I state a fact they already know, too well.
"We know…" They all chant.
"How- I'm short tempered." I sigh.