To Gwen's dismay, as soon as she was halfway done with her food Kevin seemed to just stomp right into the room, as if he owned the place.
Not that he couldn't though, it was his room after all, but he could have at least had some manors and knocked to see if she was decent.
Then again... he was Kevin.
She didn't look up at him again after confirming it was him, she kept her gaze low. Gwen went right back to her food, and Kevin just kicked off his shoes and dropped onto his bed, pulling a pillow over his head and groaning with a snort of disgust after that.
'What's his problem?' Gwen thought as she took a sip of her drink and then stared at what was left of her food. A few moments of silence passed before she put the tray back on the table beside her little cot.
She rolled over, facing the wall now and let out a soft sigh, resting her head on a pillow that had been given to her. This was nice, quiet, no one to bug-
"OWW!" she squeaked as a sharp pinch rendered to her back thigh. She rolled over quickly, only to see Kevin hadn't moved an inch… but there was a rubber band by her legs.
She glared and put it on her fingers, stretching it back as she took ain, "Hey Kevin," The so-called goth boy lifted his head from under the pillow and Gwen let the rubber band fly, "duck."
Kevin lifted the pillow with the same unapt expression and then sighed. "What got you into a playful mood?" he asked, running his tongue over his lip ring as his hand reached for the rubber band.
She stared at him, mouth open slightly in anger. "You shot the rubber band at me first!" she erupted, stabbing the air accusingly with her finger. Kevin looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"No, I do believe you did that, Gwenafer, you woke me up and then threw… this at me." he sat up, holding onto the band with two fingers. "Now why is that I wonder?"
"It's Gwendolen!" she barked back. "And I didn't start this, you did! You're the only other person in the room." she crossed her arms and sat Indian style on the cot.
"Why would I throw this at you?" he asked in a tired, baffled look. Gwen opened her mouth, then after a few minutes shut it again.
"My point exactly, you started it." Kevin stretched the rubber ring across his fingers and fired it at Gwen, to which she grabbed a pillow and blocked it, glaring across the room at him.
"JERK!" she shouted from behind the pillow. "You did it first, just to annoy me!" she said as she started standing up. Kevin only rolled his eyes and laid back on the bed.
Gwen clenched her fists. 'Never be quick to anger, never be quick to anger, never be-'
"I'd really like it if you'd sit your ass back down, your greasy hair is glaring off the lights into my eyes." Kevin said from beneath a sheet.
"UGH!" Gwen ran at him with her pillow in hand and Kevin sat up quickly, getting smacked across the shoulder. "Egocentric, apathetic, jack-ass!" Gwen shouted as she hit Kevin with the pillow again, only a lot harder this time.
"Bitch, you are not starting a pillow fight!" Kevin said as he grabbed one of his own black pillows.
Gwen's only response was a quick slap across the back of the head with her pillow. "Fine, you asked for it." Kevin said with a cocky smirk. And the war began.
Down the hall in a different room, Gorg sat with her tail curled around her stomach on the bed, a book in one hand and a cup of mostly cream rather than coffee in the other. The room was very simple, dark walls and red beddings. Hinu was laying beside her, arms behind his head as he looked at the ceiling, he stared with glazed eyes until Gorg pinched him.
"What was that for?" he asked her in a sharp tone, and Gorg set her cup down and marked her book.
"For being an ass." she stood on her tail and slithered over to a dresser.
"But I didn't do anything, Gorg!" he whined, Gorg turned at him and smiled, giggling after she shook her head.
"I know." she laughed happily and tossed him a different shirt, this one a blue tank top.
"I'll be glad when you have that kit." he grumbled as she came back to the bed. He leaned over her bulging stomach and planted a raspberry kiss there. Gorg giggled madly and blushed.
"Quit it." she squeaked out as Hinu smiled and rubbed her belly, then undid his ears from their ponytail and let one drop to her stomach.
"… What are you doing now, Hinu?" Gorg asked him softly as she played with strands of his hair.
"Listening." he said with a smile and matter of fact grin. Gorg rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Don't listen to long, momma's got to get her baby to bed." she smiled as she ruffled his ears.
"I still say it's a boy." Hinu whispered as he lifted his head from her belly.
"And I still say she's a girl, now turn off the light so I can sleep you silly goose." Gorg said as her tail slid back around her belly.
Hinu ruffled her hair and turned out the light, then leaning back as Gorg rested her head on his chest.
"Night you." she mumbled simply.
Hinu smiled and then looked back at the ceiling, his smile fading over time. "Night." he figured she had gone to sleep, so he closed his eyes.
"KEVIN PUT ME DOWN YOU CHEATER!" Gwen screamed as Kevin lifted her onto his shoulder and began to walk back to her cot.
"It's not cheating when I'm tired of the game." he grumbled as Gwen hit him on the back with her pillow.
"Put me down!" she barked again.
"Fine." Kevin dropped her onto her cot and turned around.
"Let me sleep you hyper active brat." Gwen hit him again while he was still in reach with her pillow and glared. Kevin turned on his heal and glared back at her, grabbing her pillow from her.
"Hey! I was usi-umph!"
Kevin chucked the pillow back at her before crawling into bed. "You're not supposed to hit girls..." Gwen muttered as she pulled the pillow into her lap, but Kevin had already rolled over and smirked.
"Girl, where?"
Gwen pointed at him with a sneer. "She just spoke."
Kevin rolled his eyes and gave her the finger before rolling back over. "Go to sleep before I knock you out." he mumbled in a yawn.
"How are you tired?" she asked him, plopping back onto her own bed for now.
"Oh maybe because I didn't sleep the day away, so sorry." he grumbled.
Gwen rolled her eyes and smirked. She was sure she'd tired Kevin out, hopefully enough to keep him out and away from her. She let a few minutes pass by before deciding it was safe; he had to be asleep by now.
She sat up slowly and quietly, trying not to make any noise. She touched her socks to the ground and stood, looking quickly over at Kevin's bed.
He lay there on his back, pillow over his chest, hair in his face, drool coming out of the side of his mouth.
She shook her head and walked silently to the door which led to the hallway, or she assumed that's where it led. Quickly she pushed the door open, not making a sound and shut it behind her before being engulfed in darkness.
At least in Kevin's room there was a warm glow of light. She shook her head and put her hand along the wall, beginning to walk down the narrowing path.
The top of the hall seemed to expand oddly, and the floor was very slippery from what she guessed to be wax. She slipped a few times in her socks, but held her footing for the most part.
Soon she came to another door, she hesitated at first but pushed it open quietly. From the floor she could see a blue light emitting in the room. She gazed at the light a few moments before slipping inside to investigate.
Along one wall was a huge fish tank with... no fish in it. The tank seemed to connect to the wall and went further along the room, so whatever this thing held could just be between the wall area.
Gwen took a step forward and saw a table with clear pill bottles sprawled everywhere, each with a different type of pill in them. She slowly turned back to the tank and gasped.
There was a girl in there now, but not anything like her, or even Gorg.
"More like a mermaid?" a soft female voice said. Gwen turned quickly to see Gorg in the doorway, her nightdress flowing around her belly. The girl in the water blushed and hid behind long strands of seaweed. She had light blue skin and dark blue strands of hair to her waist.
Her tail hung out, splotched with green and yellow and she wore a green shirt covered by a netted top.
"Wha..." Gwen couldn't put together any more words.
"It's alright, Unta, you can come out." she girl shook her head with a blush and giggled in the water. She swam away behind the wall quickly.
"Again, Wha?" Gwen asked with a point. Gorg could only smile and laugh.
"She's my baby sister." Gwen did a double take at Gorg's tail and the retreated form of Unta.
"I'll explain in the morning, deary. I come here at night to feed her, she doesn't normally get company anymore. I'll go get her food." Gorg said and then paused, turning back with a serious expression, "Kevin's coming, by the way." And then she slithered out of the room.
"Wait!" Gwen huffed out and looked back at the tank.
Unta peeked out from behind the wall and smiled. "H-Hi." she said in an enormous blush. Gwen couldn't help but smile back at the timid childlike girl. "Hey."
The door opened and Kevin walked in yawning. "Hey fish bait." he said with a wave to the blue haired female.
Unta ducked back behind the seaweed, shivering almost, before retreating behind the wall again. Out of sight.
"Gwen, what does 'Go. To. Bed.' mean?" he asked, crossing his arms.
"I want to go home." Gwen said sternly, crossing her arms in return.
"Wrong, it means get your ass between the sheets, shut the hell up, and fall asleep." Kevin smirked. "You even know that, right Unta?" he asked the girl hidden behind the wall.
"G-go b-back to y-your room!" she whimpered out.
Kevin pushed Gwen toward the door gently. "Get back in bed." he grumbled. "And don't worry, I'll escort you to make sure you get there."
The mer-child peered out from behind the wall, with a whisper she called out. "See you later." she waved as Kevin pushed Gwen down the hall.
"Bed."
"But-"
"Yours should be in bed, now get!" he gave her another push.