Living with Murdoc and Noodle for the past week is both amazing and weird.
It was awkward when I saw Murdoc parading around in his underwear.
I was about to walk in the kitchen when I saw him digging for a beer the refrigerator. It's one thing to be in your underwear, but it's another to wear a thong and be bent over while wearing it.
What made it worse was the fact that my wings shot out upon seeing him.
Noodle and I have grown closer. She says we have a 'Zen bond'. We'll sit in her room all day playing videogames and talking. One day while we were talking, she asked me a very uncomfortable question.
"So, have you seen anybody you like?" She asked.
"Well, it's a sin for angels and human to love each other…"
"C'mon! You said it yourself; angels sin too."
Maybe I shouldn't have shared that with her.
"Okay," I said. "There's this one blo-bird that I have my eye on…"
"Really?" She asked. "What's she like?"
I hadn't thought of a lie to tell if she asked that. My mind ran a million miles a second trying to come up with a good enough lie when she started to laugh. I raised an eyebrow at her.
"I already know what HE is like." She said. "You love Murdoc."
I gaped at her. "How did you know?"
"It's SO obvious! The way you look at him, the constant blushing, how you prolong physical contact with him, I could go on forever." She said.
"Do you think he likes me back?" I asked, feeling like a hormonal teenaged girl.
"Yeah! He tries to act like he doesn't but I've known him long enough to know that he does." Noodle said. I smiled and blushed.
I'm sitting on the couch plucking loose feathers from my wings while Murdoc laughs at me, saying I look like a "skinny, retarded rooster with a bad hairdo", when Noodle walks in.
"Hi guys!" She said in her usual spunky voice.
"Hey luv." Murdoc said between fits of laughter.
"Hi Noodle…" I grumbled.
I could tell she was trying to suppress laughter. "I have an announcement to make." She said.
I stopped plucking feathers, which stopped Murdoc's laughter. She continued. "I think we should take a trip to the apple orchard." She said enthusiastically.
"Sure. Why not?" Murdoc said.
I froze. I know how this is going to go…
"Stu? Are you okay?" Noodle asked.
"Yeah, you look paler than usual." Murdoc said with a genuine look of concern written on his face. He cleared his throat then tried to hide the concern.
"I-I don't know about going to the apple orchard…" I said.
Noodle frowned. "Why?" She asked.
"Yeah." Murdoc said. "Since you're the only one out of the three of us that can fly, you could go up and get those hard-to-reach apples for us."
I've failed to tell them about the forbidden fruit, and I don't plan to tell them at all. Other that there being a possibility of finding the fruit, there really isn't an excuse for me not to go. I sighed and spoke. "Okay. I'll go." I said. Noodle cheered.
"Okay. First thing tomorrow." She said.
The rest of the night was a blur.
We sat round and arranged plans for tomorrow. We're leaving at 10 in hopes to arrive there at 11, depending on how traffic is. I sat, hoping that we wouldn't come across either of the apples, but there was a part of me that wanted to find it. I tried to convince myself that we wouldn't find it, but that same part of me knew we would.
There are many factors that could happen.
I find the fruit, present it to Murdoc, and he bites it with me. Off to hell I go.
Or, what if Noodle was wrong? What if Murdoc doesn't like me? What if I find the fruit, explain it to him, and he laughs at me?
I pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped my wings around myself and sighed. My head was staring to hurt. I rested my head on my arms.
"Stu, you alright?" Came a gruff voice.
"Yeah." I said. I lifted my head. "Where's Noodle?"
"She went to bed 30 minutes ago."
"I guess I'll go too. Goodnight." I said as I got up to go to bed. I was honestly tired. Even my wings were drooping when I stood up.
I crawled into my bed and fell fast asleep.
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I woke up at eight to an alarm clock screaming at me. I sat up and hit it so it would quiet down. I don't remember having one in here.
Noodle.
I grumbled to myself and got up to go to the bathroom. I washed up and headed back to my room to change into some clothes I bought the other day. A white t-shirt with some white jeans and my white dress shoes.
By the time I got dressed it was 9:07. I walked downstairs to the kitchen. No one was in there, so I decided to make some toast. I put some in the toaster, but they burned.
I'm really glad it isn't necessary for angels to eat.
I threw them away and went into the refrigerator for some orange juice. I got a tall glass, and before I could bring the glass to my lips, Noodle came into the kitchen clad in a bright red fitted shirt and black jeans.
"Morning Stuart! You ready to hit the road?"
I looked up at the clock and it read 9:34.
"But it's too early." I whined.
"Not now silly! Besides, I still have to lure Murdoc out of his room."
Just as she said that, we heard his bedroom door slam shut.
Speaking of the devil…
He walked into the kitchen with us mumbling something under his breath.
"Good morning Murdoc!" Noodle said in a bright voice.
"Morning Noods. Morning Stuart." He said. I noticed his tone of voice changed a bit when he said something to me. Did it sound a bit dreamier?
"So, we're about to leave in a few minutes. You guys don't want to eat anything?" Noodle asked.
"Nope. I'll just grab an apple when we get there." Murdoc said.
"Angels don't have to eat." I said.
Noodle made herself some toast (which didn't burn, by the way) and by the time she finished it was time for us to go. We all descended down the stairs to get into the car. I could feel Murdoc's eyes on me the whole ride to the orchard.
The orchard was beautiful with its many apple trees. We all grabbed baskets and went off to pick apples. The tree we were picking off of had rotten apples, so we went to the next tree, which was the same as the one before. Most of the trees had rotten apples.
"How about we split up and look for good trees?" Noodle asked.
We all agreed to do just that. Noodle ran to a faraway tree that looked like it had good apples, while Murdoc and I picked apples off the same tree.
"Stuart?"
"Yes Murdoc?"
"Are you into blokes?"
I froze, and I could feel the blush spread to my ears. He looked at me, expecting an answer.
"Y-yeah…" I finally admitted.
"…I like you. A lot…" He blurted out as he tossed a rotten apple over his shoulder.
I looked at him and blushed harder. "I like you too…"
He smiled and continued to pick rotten apples. He looked up towards the top and spotted one that looked good. He pointed to it. "Hey, I think that one is good."
I flew to where he was pointing and grabbed the apple… The Forbidden Apple of Love, to be exact. I gulped and prayed that I wouldn't bite it with Murdoc. I went down to where Murdoc was and handed him the apple with shaking hands.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
I hadn't told him about the apples, so I did.
"You're supposed to bite it with the one you love at the same time…" I said as I blushed.
"Then we better get to biting, right?"
"N-no! It's a sin." I said.
"I worship Satan, I know where I'm going when I die."
"But what about me?" I asked.
"I already know it's a sin for an angel to love a human, so what harm would be done if you sinned again?" He asked.
I sighed and walked up to him and took ahold of the apple.
"And what happens when you bit into the apple?"
"I don't know…" I said.
He looked at me and smiled. "All the more reason to bite it, right?"
I smiled and leaned forward, as well as Murdoc, to take a forbidden bite…
Okay so I updated today yay! I'm seriously going to update Switcheroo soon. I'll start typing the next chapter for it right now! Hope you enjoyed this chapter~
