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Heartlessly Heartfelt
Chapter Seven
Operetta couldn't describe how she was feeling in this particular moment, it was something so amazing she'd never felt it before. In fact, she even wanted to write an entire song about it! Now whenever she even looked at the normie, she had this strong urge to just pin him down and kiss him some more. Maybe go a little further too?
They walked along when she felt the warmth of Jackson's human hand and fingers intertwining with hers. It was so surreal, she could feel his pulse and the blood running through his veins. Was this what it was like to be alive? "Hey, that... wasn't bad, was it?" He inquired softly, hoping to get the truth from her, even if it hurt a little he'd understand - referring to the kiss they'd shared just a few minutes prior.
She shook her head, "No way. I thank that when you get to kissin' it's just so amazin' and I dunno what t' thank. It's just, dizzin'." She giggled, blushing very much so.
Jackson bit down upon his lip, "You think so?"
"Oh I know so now," she confirmed, a big smile upon her lips. "Hey... why dont'cha be my cabin partner?"
He shied away a little, "Oh Operetta, I don't know if that's such a good idea. You're so pretty and nice and I like kissing you." He blushed too, just as much as Operetta had moments before. "I just don't think us rooming together would... be alright."
She smirked, "What, y'don't trust yourself around lil' 'ole me, darlin'?"
Jackson's free hand rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "Well... I, uh..."
She giggled, not being able to hide how giddy he made her feel. "We'll be fine," she pressed, kissing his cheek gently. "I don't steal too much of the covers now."
"I don't know, it sounds pretty risky." He admitted finally, sighing.
She stopped him right in front of what was her cabin, soon to be known as 'theirs' she hoped. "Well hey now, it's against the rules to be rooming in a cabin all by m'lonesome... so I was wondering if ya'd stay with me, please Jackson? No where in the rules did it state that boys and ghouls can't stay together." She was right, they went over the cabin rules prior to tonight's events.
Figuring this was a bad idea, he argued with himself internally about staying for a solid minute before he decided. "Sure, I'll stay with you."
"Yay!" She hugged him, wrapping her arms around his neck joyously. "Now c'mon, we gotta get ready for bed. The sun rises early in the morning and all that what not's."
Jackson sighed; running a hand through his hair as she excitedly opened the front door of the cabin, gesturing for him to come on in. "Oh boy."
Operetta laughed. "C'mon, there ain't nothin' in there..." she walked in and Jackson followed. "Lucky us, this here cabin's actually got two rooms, so no biggie, hmm? Just grab your thangs and ya can get settled, how's that?"
Jackson shrugged, looking at the mess before him, with a smirk.
"... guess I shoulda told ya, apparently I ain't the cleanest ghoul. But no fussin' 'bout it, ya hear?" she chuckled. "I'll get to it, 'ventually..."
The normie picked up Operetta's bra off the floor and set it on the bed, "If we get to this now… it'll be clean and then we won't have to do anything else later on." While they were out, her suitcase managed to let go and burst so a few of her clothing items were all over the bed and some on the floor. "It won't take us long, I swear it."
The phantomess let out a loud laugh, all-the-while blushing. "Alright..." she bit her lip. "But I can't promise it'll all be the same again..."
Once they got started it really didn't take both of them long to pick up her clothing. Jackson showed her a new way to fold them so that it would all fit and her poor suitcase wouldn't get nausea and spew her fashion sense everywhere. "See? It all fits better than it did before. You can close it and everything now."
Operetta smiled, "Indeed. Thanks Jackson, y'er such a sweetie." She leaned in to give him a kiss on the cheek as well as extra blankets and pillows. "Night darlin', I'll just be in here if ya need me." Jackson nodded as blush filled his cheeks. He gathered his pillows and blanket, lightly stumbling towards the sofa, hardly believing he was here and not in the boy's cabin where he should've been. He was sure he'd have their questions to answer later on.
Soon he settled down with thoughts of this risky night clouding his mind. This was just one night, what would the rest of summer bring?
It was bright and early the next morning, it was impossible to sleep in though. Everyone had to be up. It didn't matter what they were doing, they just couldn't be in the cabins all day for some strange reason. So the lovable Monster High gang decided to make the first stop at the main cabin, where breakfast was going on. "Let's hope this beats what they serve in the creepateria at school..." Venus muttered. "No 'mystery meat', hmm?"
"Food time!" a pink-haired werewolf girl at the breakfast bar rang a cow bell;
waking every monster in the cabin, causing half of them to scream "I'M NOT
ASLEEP!"
Jackson had snuck out of the cabin he was sharing with Operetta early as he caught a seat at the guys' table. He did his best to eat some of it though, despite not being a person who really did breakfast in the mornings. "So where were you last night?" Manny asked, digging into his breakfast and seeming to just savor every bite of it.
The shy normie adjusted his glasses, "Who, me?"
Manny nodded, "Yeah, you."
Jackson shrugged his shoulders, "I was just around. Couldn't sleep."
Luckily to save him from any further questions, Deuce cut in to distract Manny with a different topic. He gave a knowing nod to Jackson, acknowledging the many thanks he was being given.
Frankie, Abbey, Lagoona and Clawdeen accompanied by Draculaura all piled in at the table where familiar ghouls sat. "Hey Venus," Frankie greeted cheerily, "can we have a seat here and join you?"
"Sure..." Venus shrugged. "I don't see why not..."
"Hey, now, has anyone seen Rochelle?" Robecca murmured as her fellow students sat at the table with her and Venus.
"She's your roommate; didn't you see her this morning?" Lagoona questioned as
she stabbed a piece of omelet with her fork. The food squealed as she did so. "... oh lovely, does anyone wanna trade?"
"You want my toast?" Clawdeen joked, holding up her slice of the burnt
bread.
"Thanks but no thanks love, I'd rather stick with this..." the sea monstress laughed.
Heath chuckled and joined in on the ghoul's conversation. "I mean I tend to enjoy hot foods… but I'm not a fan of burnt food. This wasn't my idea of camp breakfast."
Abbey giggled, "Could be worse, could have roasted squirrel with nut dressing."
The ghouls all squirmed and cringed. Before they could do anymore complaining, Mrs. Bloodgood entered the cabin with some fresh food, they were about to taste her amazing home recepies and they couldn't have been happier. "Real food!" Heath exclaimed happily, getting up from where he was sitting to rush over to some decent food. Many of the ghouls and monsters followed his lead.
"Really, have you seen Rochelle?" Venus asked, turning to Robecca as the two
of them joined the long line to get some of the Headmistress's scrumptious food.
"No, I haven't seen her all morning." Robecca shrugged. "She wasn't even in
our cabin when we all woke up, was she?"
"Nah." Venus shook her head and grabbed a plate full of pancakes. "I'm worried about her, you know."
"Same here I mean," Robecca cut off her own sentence as she let out a
shrill scream; caused by one of the preppier dressed campers to pour syrup down
her top. She turned around to slap the monster, but Venus held her back.
"Yo, you got a problem with us?"
"It's just a joke, dudette. Chill." a werewolf with a short, shaggy hair style laughed.
"Syrup? Down my shirt?" Robecca shrieked. "That's hilarious!" She almost spewed sarcasm.
"Whoa, whoa, chill everybody..." a voice said. There, on his skateboard,
standing by the crew of fellow punks, was the somewhat popular vampire boy who
had been giving out fliers for the open mic the night before. "Luken, man, give a ghoul respect. If you think syrup down someone's shirt is funny, do it to yourself."
The werewolf shied away, "Yeah… whatever." He didn't have much to say as he took a serving and left with his pals.
Xavier looked at Robecca, who if she could – her face would be full blush at the humility of what had just happened. "Hey, this may be a dumb question but, are you alright? Maybe you need a trip to the ghouls' bathroom?"
Venus decided to step in, "That's nice of you, but it's okay. I'll take her there myself."
He gave a nod, "Sure, that sounds good. It's over there, to your left. Later ghouls." He skated away, getting lectured for bringing his board inside, he stepped off it and made his way outside with it.
Abbey glanced to Heath, "Would you be wad of jerk like that and put syrup down ghoul's shirt?"
Heath swallowed a mouthful of delicious food. "Are you kidding me? First of all my parents would string me up by my unmentionables for even thinking about disrespecting someone like that, and secondly… no, that's just rude. There's funny, and jokes and what not, but that's uncalled for."
The smallest of smiles came across the ice beauty's face. "Good answer." She praised vaguely, continuing on with her own breakfast.
"There's jokes and there's just being rude if ya ask me..." Lagoona muttered
as she stirred her coffee.
"Dude, they got bacon!" Clawd yelled from the other end of the cabin; causing
half of the monsters to rush over in pure madness. Again.
"You sure you're alright?" Venus murmured to Robecca who was practically
steaming with anger as the two of them headed to the ghouls' bathroom.
"I'm fine." Robecca growled. "Just..." she let out a deep sigh. "run to the
cabin and get me a clean shirt, alright?"
Venus nodded. "No problem. But I'm surprised that I didn't let you hit the
guy, to be honest..."
"Venus!"
"I'm kidding!" the plant girl laughed.
It didn't take Venus long to zip over to the cabin she shared with her two best friends, grab Robecca the new shirt she had asked for and to head back to the main cabin and into the bathroom where Robecca was trying to wash herself, yet not rust at the same time. "Thanks, for running to get me a shirt." She said sheepishly, trying to wipe the remainder of sticky syrup from her bust line.
"It's no problem, really, our cabin wasn't that far, and I couldn't let you
walk around with syrup down the back of your shirt any longer." Venus murmured.
"Can you believe that boy though?" Robecca huffed. "Some monsters have no
manners."
Venus nodded as she wiped off the remainder that Robecca couldn't get herself. "Oh I know, sadly it doesn't phase me. Some are just so rude, especially to Mother Nature. Go ahead, piss her off and see how merciful she'll be to you soon enough." There she went on another environmental rant. "People expect so much from her, to give trees for oxygen… to shelter and love those within. But if they keep disrespecting her, they'll be real sorry. You can count on it. I won't go down with that kind of reputation. I'm going to savor and protect the environment with everything I have."
Robecca turned to Venus, taking the moist paper towel from her and throwing it out. "You're adorable when you rant, y'know that?"
"Adorable?" the plant girl held back a blush. "Pfftt, please; Venus McFlytrap is not adorable. She is only bold."
"Referring to yourself in third person..." Robecca laughed. "nice one."
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