New chapter for Two Girls in Heartland! Hope you guys like it. I've been meaning to type this up for a while now, but sadly I am one of those people forced to have a life nor can I type up a chapter in one day like most people can so my updates are slow =_=;;
Plus I'm way to easily distracted by the TV in the room I am currently typing in. *glances at TV* must…resist…temptation…
Anyway, hope you guys like this chapter and also I don't own Heart/Clover/Joker no Kun no Alice! Everything except Jay and Ray belongs to QuinRose!
If I did own this manga/game it would either suck, or we would all have had an anime by now!
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Chapter 9: Jobs and a Card~
Ray's P.O.V.
It's been a few weeks since Jay came by to teach me how to play 'Go-Fish' and she hasn't come back since. It was really annoying that the seasons have settled so I can't go around and visit people. I mean sure there was Blood, Elliot, Dee, and Dum, but they were always so busy.
By now I had already memorized the entire Hatter estate, memorized each faceless servants face and had finally be reduced to pretending to be shooting imaginary targets on the ceiling with hair ties.
I was annoyed that the only other way for me to visit another territory would be to ask one of the role-holders to escort me. But I would feel too guilty or cowardly doing so, and I'm also pretty damn prideful. I hadn't told Blood or Elliot that I couldn't play something as simple as 'Go Fish' and I had asked the Twins not to say anything either.
It was just to embarrassing. I knew from the way he acted in the manga that Blood would never let me live that down, and I'm not too sure Elliot would either. I sighed staring up at the ceiling of my bedroom wondering what to do next.
I wrapped my last hair tie around my hand in a gun position and fired. Great. Now I was out of hair ties. I didn't feel like picking them up so I just continued to lay on the floor in silence listening to the sound of footsteps that would pass by every so often.
After a few minutes I rolled over on to my stomach and stared at the wall in front of me. Yep. It's official. For the first time in my life, I'm bored. I thought blankly. There was always something entertaining me back in my world, so I never really got bored. But now…
I sighed again and glanced up at my bag. I had gone threw it at least a hundred times and found nothing. I had finished my Mark of Athena book and now couldn't wait for the next. Which I was never going to get and had already made thousands of guesses for what was going to happen.
I got up and sat on my knees looking around the room. There was too much white in here. Like a doctor or dentists office. Or a classroom… I growled and shook my head. I got up and walked over the wardrobe closet and went in it. I walked all the way to the back hoping to find Narnia, but sadly I didn't.
"Damn…" I mumbled and sat down in the dark with my arms wrapped around my knees as I stared at the back boarded. So this is what Jay feels like when she grounded… I thought absent-mindedly. I rested my head against one of the many dresses in the closet and closed my eyes.
Then a brilliant idea popped into my mind. I smiled happily and ran out of the wardrobe and then open the door to my room. I stopped smiling when I bumped in to Blood who was just about to knock on my door.
He looked surprised and helped me off the floor. "Are you alright young lady?" He asked as I stood up and brushed myself off.
"Yeah, I'm fine, actually I had something I wanted to ask you." I said happily. He smirked and nodded.
"Well you can ask me at the tea party, I was just coming to get you." He said not even giving me a chance to speak. I sighed and nodded. I pulled back the hood on my green panda hoodie, which I had finally gotten back from the maids, and walked with Blood outside to the garden.
Elliot and the Twins were already seated and eating when we arrived.
"Hey Ray-san!" the twins greeted. I smile and waved as I took a seat right across from them. Elliot sat left of me and Blood, of course, sat at the head of the table. A maid came by and poured me a cup of mint tea. I thanked her as she walked away and I then cut myself a slice of vanilla cake. It was the only cake that thankfully wasn't carrot cake. I now understand Blood's displeasure of carrot dishes.
"So Ray have you gone to any of the other territories yet?" Elliot asked. I shook my head.
"Nope." He frowned looking a little shocked.
"Why not?" I just shrugged not wanting to give them my real reason.
"'Cause I'm lazy." I said blankly. Wasn't a total lie. Even if I did know how to play a game of cards, chances are I still wouldn't go. Mainly because I don't wanna go to the Circus and see all those evil, evil clowns!
"That isn't very much of a reason." Blood said simply taking a sip of his tea. I frowned and crossed my arms.
"Well not everything needs to have a reason." I pouted. Blood just shook his head and chuckled.
"With you around miss Carson, I guess not." He said smirking.
"Should feel insulted by that comment?" I asked blankly. Blood just continued to smirk and sip his tea, not giving me an answer. I growled and took my anger out on the cake by stabbing my fork with it. If Jay was here she just pat my head and tell me: "Now, now Ray-Ray; there's no reason to take your anger out on the cake~" I'd then probably threaten to stab her with my fork and then she'd threaten me with a knife. We'd probably continue to do this until Blood stopped us.
I laughed quietly without even realizing it. "What so funny miss?" Blood asked snapping me out of my thoughts. I looked up.
"Hu? Oh, nothing." I said quickly. He nodded and the sky suddenly turned to night. It was sunset before, which was quite odd. Normally that was Vivaldi's thing.
"Oh, young lady, I believe you said you had something you wanted to ask me?" Blood said finishing his tea. I paused for a moment trying to remember what it was and then snapped my fingers remembering.
"Oh yeah! I wanted to ask you if I could start working here." I said cheerfully. There was an awkward silence as everyone stared at me. I frowned. Was that not as good of an idea as I thought it was?
"Why might that be?" Blood asked looking a bit taken back by my request.
"Oh, I don't really have anything better to do, plus it'll keep me busy so that I won't be reduced to shooting hair ties at the ceiling or climbing into the wardrobe waiting for Narnia to appear." I explained simply.
"N-narnia?" Elliot asked confused.
"It's a movie reference." I said quickly. He nodded and continued to eat his carrot cake. Blood thought about my idea for a moment before shrugging.
"I don't see why not. Is there any job you had in mind particularly?" He asked.
"As long as it doesn't have to do with cooking or paper work, I'm fine." I mumbled. Blood nodded.
"I see, well, I'll have some sort of idea for you tomorrow, will that be alright?" He asked. I nodded.
"As long as it keeps me from having delusions that there's a whole world living in the back of my wardrobe closet it fine with me." I said happily tacking a bite out of my cake. The twins laughed at my comment and Blood and Elliot creaked a smile.
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The next day I headed over to Blood's office. He gave me a job my job was basically helping out the head maid. Frankly I was slightly disappointed that I wasn't given a job that involved using a gun, but Blood said that if I did, I would automatically be considered a Mafioso and would be targeted by the Hatter enemies.
"Now that that's settled, you'll need a uniform. I'll have a maid uniform brought in-" Blood started but I cut him off.
"Actually, can I wear the guy's uniform?" I asked. Blood looked at me oddly.
"Why might that be?"
"Because I refuse to wear dresses or skirts for anything other than a special occasion, plus I feel for comfortable in pants. There much easier to move around in." I replied happily. Blood sighed and shook his head.
"You truly are one strange outsider miss Carson." He chuckled. I nodded.
"Yes, yes I am." And with that I got changed into my Hatter work uniform and started assisting the head maid doing whatever it was that I was told to do.
Things went on like that for a few days. I learned that the head maids name was Roselyn, she looked like all the other maids, but she did have her own individual qualities that all faceless have. Like for instance: Roselyn had higher check bones and her hair was closer to blond that it was to brown like the rest of the workers.
I also noticed something about each of the worker's I met; even if it was for a second I swear I could see eyes. I remembered reading in one of the manga's that it said that the workers and other background characters did have a face, but they just faded away due to their role. Outsider, like me, could see their eyes, but only if you looked hard enough.
I saw that Roselyn's were a bright shade of green, like mine, and the head butler, Alfie, had a bright shade of blue. I saw this with each of the faceless and suddenly, they didn't seem so…faceless. It was a weird yet exciting discovery.
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The next day:
I sighed trying not to look up. I've gotten myself into some dangerous situations, but this, is by far the worst… I thought to myself. I sighed trying to keep my grip on the curtain rode I was cling to for dear sweet life.
Earlier today Roselyn had asked me to clean the all the windows on the fifth floor. Each one was a good two stories high and about 15ft wide. It didn't seem like such a hard job since I didn't have a problem with heights, so Roselyn got me a really big latter and left me alone with my work.
About an hour or so later I was about half way done. I was now standing at the top if the ladder holding onto the railing trying to get this one spot that was just out of my reach. I leaned out a bit and the ladder wobbled. But I paid no mind to it. I had done this about 5 times now. Just a little further… I thought to myself. "Got it!" I shouted happily. My right foot was the only part of my body that was still on to the ladder and was about to slip off. Oh shit! I carefully brought my left foot around and was able to place it back on the ladder as well.
Good! Now all I have to do is- suddenly a crowd of faceless was storming down the hallway carrying large stacks of paper work. I sweat dropped and continued to make my way back onto the ladder. Then one of the faceless bumped into the ladder causing it to wobble and then the whole ladder came down itself.
I quickly caught the bucket of water with my feet and my rage fell on top of my face. Both my hands were griping onto the curtain rode. And to make manners worse I was wearing white gloves that were causing me to lose my grip. The ladder landed with a large bang, but the crowd of faceless servants were long gone. The bucket was weighing me down making it even harder to hold on. I felt like I was being stretched out.
"Well this is just bloody perfect!" I cursed in a fake British accent. I glanced around but there was not a single person in sight. "I thought these things only happen in anime…"
I slowly wrapped my arms around the pole. That helped a bit but it was still pretty damn painful. I also had to be carful not to drop the bucket of water that was nearly full. I looked out the window and I could see Elliot and the Twins arguing.
I sighed. There was no way they'd see me. They're far to busy arguing…
…
I felt like hours had passed before I heard the sound of footsteps coming down one of the near by hallways. Yes! I thought happily. The person turned the corner and I saw it was Roselyn.
"Ah! Roselyn!" I shouted. The women turning in my direction and almost dropped the tray of tea she was carrying. If I could see her eyes now, I bet they'd be the size of Texas. I smiled and nodded.
"Yes, I know. Do you think you could get the ladder either before I fall, or this bucket of water that's sliding of my feet?" I asked, still in a fake British accent. I don't know why, but I love talking a fake British accent!
Roselyn just sighed and shook her head. "How did you..?"
"Bunch of people with paper work came running by here, probably looking for Elliot." I mumbled. She nodded and looked around, probably for someplace to put down the tray.
"Oh, Alfie!" she shouted. "Can you hold this for a moment?" Roselyn asked. Alfie turned the corner and stopped. He looked at me then the ladder and at Roselyn.
"Umm…sure…" He mumbled taking the tray. "Do I want to know?" he asked as Roselyn started to lift up the giant ladder. From my perspective, it looked like Roselyn was putting in no effort at all lifting up that giant ladder and placing it under me. She must be very strong…
I sighed when I put the bucket down onto the ladder. You really have no idea how good it felt not having that thing dragging me down. I then carefully lowered myself onto the ladder and took the cleaning rag of my head.
I then took the bucket in one hand, rage in the other and slid down the ladder and on to the ground.
"Thanks. I know officially get a sense of how people in mid-evil stretching, torture felt." I said stretching my arms. Roselyn chuckled at my statement and nodded.
"No problem. Boss would probably kill me if anything happened to you, while you were on a task I assigned you to." She said.
Why do I suddenly get the feeling that if she had the option that she would have let me fall?
"Oh well. Your safe now." Alfie said giving Roselyn a look. I nodded.
"Well, sorry to disrupted both your work. I'll get back to mine now." I said cheerfully picking the bucket back up. Roselyn and Alfie both flinched and quickly glanced at each other.
"You know what? How about we give an assignment that won't get you killed. Like…" Roselyn trailed off looking around then grabbed the tray from Alfie's hands and gave it to me. "Delivering Boss his tea. Hopefully it's still warm."
I looked at weirdly before sighing. "Fine." I pouted walking away.
…
I walked down the hall and came to a pair of large wooden doors that lead to Blood's office. I knocked quietly and waited for a few moments.
"Enter." An annoyed sounding Blood mumbled. Well he doesn't sound like he's in a good mood… I thought opening the door.
I walked in and saw Blood sitting at his desk talking to Elliot and…Pierce? I stared at them for a moment before walking over to Blood's desk and pouring him some tea.
"Ah, I was wondering when my tea would get here." Blood said sounding less annoyed.
"Yeah, sorry about that. Roselyn decided to give me a job that I most likely wouldn't get myself killed doing." I sweat dropped handing him his tea. Blood frowned.
"What were you doing before this?"
"Cleaning windows~"
"…" There was a very awkward silence as the three role-holders stared at me with deadpanned expression.
"Need anything else, before I leave?" I asked ignore the awkward stares of the role-holders.
"Oh, yes actually…" Blood stared pulling out an envelope from his desk, "I need you to deliver this to Mary Gowland; it's for negotiations tomorrow. You won't have to worry about changing the seasons, since you're on official business." He said handing me the letter. I nodded.
"Sure, no problem." I said taking the letter and heading out.
Pierce decided to tag along since he was going there anyways and I couldn't help but notice the spots of blood on his cheek and a few dabs on his clothes. I highly doubt that's red paint…
"Hey, Pierce?" I asked. He looked over to me cheerfully.
"Yes? Chu~"
"Do you work for the Mafia?" I think I remember reading that somewhere, but I wasn't really sure.
"Yes. Chu~ I used to live at the mansion, but the scary twins and cat chased me out. Chu~" he said sounding terrified just recalling it. I nodded.
"Hmm…I guess that makes sense I was curious as to why you were here. I figured it was either that or negotiations." I said looking down at the letter. Pierce nodded.
"Yes. I just came back from a job Chu~ I'm considered the undertaker of the Hatter's Chu~" He explained. I nodded thinking about the Undertaker from Black Butler. He was one of my favorite characters.
"That's cool. What's an 'undertaker'?" I asked.
"Oh! I clean up the messes when we finish a job. Cu~" I nodded thinking about just what sort of "messes" Pierce cleaned up.
The temperature stared to rise and I noticed that the trees were no longer browns, red, yellows, and oranges. But bright shades of green and I could see the tops of the roller coasters just fade into view.
I felt like I had just crossed some unseen barrier that separated the territories.
Pierce didn't look surprised, and I began to wonder if this invisible barrier that stopped outsiders, like me, from crossing between territories simply didn't exist in the minds of the role holders, there for, it wasn't there for them. That would be an interesting thing to research… I thought absent-mindedly.
We walked through the gates and I ignored some of the looks I got from the workers. One of the male workers walked up to me and put up his hand to stop me. He crossed his arms and glared down at me trying to look intimidating.
"I'm sorry miss, but Hatter's aren't aloud here unless-" He started but I cut him off.
"I'm here on official business." I said coldly making the guy flinch. I held up the envelope. "I was asked to deliver this Gowland for territory negotiations happen tomorrow." I glared up at the man who looked he just saw a ghost. "Is there a problem wit that?"
He shook his head quickly before walking away with his tail between his legs.(figuratively)
I smirked cruelly before turning to Pierce who flinched and hid behind the nearest person. Which just so happened to be Boris.
Boris looked down at Pierce annoyed, but he didn't seem to notice. Pierce was to busy being terrified by me. I realized this and frowned.
"Sorry about that Pierce." I said trying to sound as sweet as I could. Boris looked me up and down before crossing his arms and smirked.
"You're working for the Hatter's now? And you managed to make Pierce more scared of you than me in less than a few seconds? You truly are the strangest outsider I've met." He laughed. I smiled nervously.
"Sorry about that, I didn't think they would let me deliver this letter if I didn't." Boris nodded.
"Your right, they probably wouldn't. I'll take you to the old man, now before the worker start up anymore trouble." Boris said happily escorting me over to an arrangement of odd looking buildings.
We walking in and went to Gowlands office. Boris knocked at the door and opened it before Gowland could say anything.
"Yo! Old Man delivery for ya!" Boris said casually walking in. Gowland looked up from his desk and glared at Boris.
"Can't you wait for me to-" Gowland stopped when he saw me. He looked quite surprised by my new uniform.
"You're working for the Hatter now?" Gowland asked. I shrugged.
"Yeah…it's been keeping me from trying to find Narnia in the back of my wardrobe." I said casually. They all looked at me weird not getting my reference.
"Movie reference." They nodded finally understanding.
"I see, well then, why the male uniform?"
"I refuse to wear a dress or skirt unless it's for an important even of occasion. Plus pants are much more comfortable." Gowland laughed and nodded.
"I can agree with you there, even though I've never worn a dress or anything like that before, but pants are definitely comfortable." I smiled and handed him the envelope.
"Blood asked me to deliver this to you. It's for the territory negotiations tomorrow or something." I said. Gowland sighed nodded.
"Thanks, hope you and your friend come around and visit more often." Gowland smiled. I shrugged.
"I'll try." I said waving and walked out of the office. I made my way out of the Amusement Park without any troubled and walked down the path that lead to the Mansion.
At least I don't have to worry about changing the seasons…I thought happily breathing in the fresh summer air. I passed by a bunch of sunflowers and stopped for a few minutes to admire them, before making my way into the woods.
…
After a few minutes I began to grow weary of my surroundings. I should be back at the Mansion by now…maybe I took a wrong turn? I looked back and noticed the path had disappeared.
"What the?" I frowned and looked around. None of this looked like it had back when I came here with Pierce. But that's not possible. There were only fours paths that lead to the Amusement Park and I took the one that lead to the Hatter. I was sure of it.
I turned around and decided to just keep going until I saw something that looked familiar. To pass the time I decided to hum to myself.
"I found a grave, brushed off the face, felt your light and I remember why I know this place." I began to hum along to Evanescence "End of the Dream" "I found a bird, closing her eyes, one last time and I wonder if she dreamed, like me~"
"As much as it hurts, ain't it wonderful to feel?" I started to get a little louder as my favorite part came up. "So go on and break your wings! Follow our heart till it bleeds as we run towards the end of the dream!"
I laughed happily trying to remember the next verse.
"Nice song. What's it called?" a voice said from behind me. I shrieked and jumped around to face White. My heart was beating at about a thousand miles per hour due to the little scare he just gave me.
My eye twitched as I glared at the Jester. "Damn it White! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" I shouted.
"Yeah, but your reaction was so fucking funny we couldn't resist." I heard Black laughing from the mask. I growled. And crossed my arms.
"What do you want?" I asked coldly turning my gaze back to White. I hated it when people herd me sing or when they sneak up on me without warning.
"Huh? Didn't you come here to change the season?" White asked confused. I blinked.
"What? No, of course not. Why would you…" I trailed off remembering that Blood had said that I didn't need to change the season since I was on official business, but now I'm not so…
I face palmed and shook my head. "Got to pay more attention to those things…" I mumbled.
"Are you alright miss Ray?" White asked I nodded.
"Yeah, just forget what I just said…" I mumbled. White nodded.
"Well then, shale we?" White said leading the way while I trudged behind.
We made our way to the Circus and I sped up and hid behind White as some clown that dared pass by. White had led us over to the table where we sat at when I first came here.
I took a seat on one side and White sat on the other. He took out a deck of cards from his sleeve while I looked around trying to remember the rules of Go-Fish. Damn it! I can't remember anything! I thought hysterically. Jay played me a few weeks ago and I hardly remembered the first thing about Go-Fish how the hell am I supposed to change the season?
"Miss Ray?" White asked snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Hu? What?" I snapped my head up and looked around. White laughed a bit at my reaction.
"Do you always tend to space out this much?" White laughed. I nodded blankly.
"Yes, as a matter a fact I do. What were you saying?" I asked. White continued to shuffle the cards.
"I asked you if you had a game you wanted to play in particular." I shrugged.
"I guess Go-Fish." I mumbled tugging on the hem of the white jacket I had on.
"That seems to be a popular game among you outsiders. When ever Jay comes here that seems to be her favorite game." White said in a sing-song voice and began dealing out the cards. I nodded and saw White pick up his cards, so I did the same.
50 thousand games later:
"Miss Ray?" White asked shakily. My eye was twitching as I looked at my cards.
"What?" I seethed.
"Do you even know how to play Go-Fish?" He asked setting down his cards and looked at me seriously.
"…" I refused to respond. White sighed.
"I see, if you didn't know how to play then why didn't you pick a different card game, perhaps one that you already knew?"
"…"
"Don't fucking tell us that you don't fucking know how to play a single fucking game of cards!" Black shouted. I lowered my cards and looked away embarrassed.
White just shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Why didn't you say something earlier?" White asked calmly. I just shrugged. Because it's so damn embarrassing that's why! I mentally shouted. The day suddenly turned to sunset.
White got up and crossed his arms. "Normally I would teach you how to play Go-Fish or something but I need to manage the Circus, so Black," White looked at the belt, "You're going to teach her~"
"What!" Black and I said in unison. White just waved his hand.
"I have to manage the Circus right now and Miss Ray needs to get home, and besides, it's not like your doing anything right now, Black." White spoke to the belt.
"There's no way I'm going to fucking deal with that little-" White put his hand over the belt and sighed.
"I truly am sorry about this Miss Ray. And I apologize for my partner's language."
"I've heard worse." I said blankly. And said worse. I mentally added. White nodded.
"Very well then, you two behave then~" White said and the world around me started to fade into the Prison.
I was standing up and I looked around quickly. The Prison looked exactly like it was in the manga and games. I sighed and crossed my arms. I was starting to get the feeling I was going to be here for a while.
"Jeez you look even more stupid in that outfit than you did in the outfit you came here in." Black cursed from behind me. I turned around and glared at the warden, who glared back.
"Let just get this over with." I mumbled. Black just clicked his tongue and pulled me over to a wooden table like the one at the Circus. There was a small light hanging over it that made me feel like I was being interrogated.
I saw a few blood stain on the table and realized this was where Black interrogated people. I sighed looked back at the warden who shuffling the cards and cursing something under his breathe.
He dealed out the cards and explain how to play the game. I nodded taking in all the information and after a few minutes we started to play.
A couple thousand card games later:
"Bitch, are you just naturally horrible at card games?" Black asked annoyed. I sighed and looked up from my cards.
"I'm starting to think that. And don't call me 'bitch.'" I said darkly. Black just rolled his eyes plopped his feet up on the table.
"I'll call you whatever the fuck I want to, bitch, got it." Black sneered.
"Whatever you say, smiley." I said sarcastically. Black stood up and walked over to me. He grabbed me by one of my pigtails that my hair was in and pulled me up out of my chair.
"OW!" I shouted trying to pry my hair out of his grip. "LET GO!" Black grabbed the collar of my shirt and lifted me and inch or so off the ground and forced me to look at him.
"Listen here you little whore! If you ever call me 'smiley' ever again, I will have you in a cell before you know it and beat the living shit out of you until the day your pathetic little heart gives out." Black said darkly. I just glared at him.
"No." I said. I refuse to be intimidated by this asshole. Black's eyes widened looking a bit taken back, before letting go of my hair and took out his wipe.
"You're going to regret that." He said before throwing me to the ground and putting his foot on my stomach so that I couldn't get up. I didn't try. I just stared at him blankly waiting.
He just stood there as if waiting for something to happen. I crossed my arms.
"Well?" I asked in a bratty tone. Black sneered, but still didn't do anything.
"Aren't' you going to try to resist? Scream? Beg for mercy?" he asked looking slightly confused as to why I wasn't reacted.
"And give you the satisfaction, as if. I refuse to be intimidated by and ass hole like you." I sneered glaring up at the warden. Black just stared at me for a minute and then took his foot off me. Wasn't he going to try to kill-My thoughts were cut off when Black kicked my side. I bit my lip refusing to scream.
"Tch. What the fuck is it gonna take to get you to scream?!" he shouted as he continued to kick me. I continued to bit my lip until I drew blood. Just when I was about to give in White suddenly came in on the little mask on the side of the belt.
"Hey how's miss Ray doing?" White asked cheerfully. Black stopped in mid kick. My eyes that were squeezed shut opened.
"She's can't play cards and she insulted me, so I'm in the middle of punishing her. The damn bitch won't scream!" Black yelled. I rolled my eye and slowly got up. I stood up strait and held my side that was throbbing like crazy.
"You're just horrible at torturing people." I said just to annoy Black.
"Why you little-"
"Black I would recommend you stop. There are some angry people here from the Hatter's who would very much like to have miss Ray back in one piece." White said sounding nervous. I sighed. If it's Blood I'm so dead…
"Tch fine! Just get the bitch out of my place!" Black shouted. And with that the Prison faded away and I found myself back at the Circus.
White was being held up by the scarf he was wearing by a guy in a black pin stripped suit with black hair tied back in a short pony tail, while another guy looking exactly like him only with short hair held a giant ax at White's throat.
I stared at the two me who had there back to my. I tilted my head to the side. "Dee..?Dum..?" The two men turned around, dropped White, and ran over to me.
"Ray-san are you alright?" the one with the long hair-Dee-asked. I nodded looking up at them. I completely forgot they could do that… I blushed looking away.
"Are you hurt?" the shorthaired one-Dum-asked noticing I was holding my side. I flinched and shook my head.
"No, no, no nothing I couldn't handle. Really, I'm alright!" I said trying to sound cheerful. White got up and brushed himself off.
"But we heard the stupid warden say that he was trying to hurt you!" Dee said darkly. I shrugged.
"Yes because he was being an asshole and I refused to be intimidated by him. He only kicked me a few times, nothing more. Besides my sister kicks a lot harder than he did." I said trying to brush off their concerns.
White sighed and walked over to us. "I must apologize for my partners rude behavior miss Ray, I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again."
I just shook my head. "It fine, I'm fine. There's nothing for anyone to really worry about so long as smiley stays out of my way." I said glaring down at the belt.
"That's it bitch! The next time I see you, your ass is mine!" Black shouted. I made a face that clearly said that I interpenetrated the wrong way. "Gah! Not like that you little pervert!"
I just shook my head and sighed. "Tch whatever. I'm ready to go." I yawned. Today has been far to long.
As if on cue it turned to night. White nodded and held something out to me. "This card will allow you to go threw the seasons freely, so you don't having to come here each and every time you want to go to a different territory. Just don't lose it." White said.
I took the card and looked it over. On the front was a black joker on a white background like the symbol from the game. On the back was the same symbol only reversed as in a white joker with a black background. "Thanks…" I mumbled and slipped it into my pocket.
"No problem, until next time." White said walking away. Leaving me alone with Dee and Dum who were silent the entire conversation.
I should probably feel happy that I no longer have to change the seasons anymore, but some how I feel as though this card was just a nice way of saying: "yeah we don't feel like playing 5 million games of Go-Fish with you everyday, so were giving you this card so don't need to come back any time soon."
The three of us headed out of the Circus and on to the path that led back to the mansion. I yawned again and felt my eyes starting to close.
I squeezed my sore side to keep myself awake. Yet that started to fail as well. I was so tired I hadn't even noticed Dee had picked me up bridle style at some point on our way back until we arrived at the mansion.
Blood and Elliot were standing in front of the gate waiting for us. I told Dee he could put me down now and he did.
"Thanks." I muttered and walked over to Blood who didn't look all that pleased. Time to face the music…
"I would have very much like to have known that you were incapable play cards." Blood started. I could feel a lecture coming on.
"Sorry…" I mumbled looking at the ground. I waited for Blood to say something like: "That was very irresponsible of you," or "Sorry isn't going to cut it", but instead I felt a pat on my head and I looked up at Blood shocked.
He chuckled a bit and shook his head. "Just don't do it again." He said and walked away. Well that seemed a bit…out of character I thought. Elliot said he was going turn in for the night so that just left the twins and me.
I turned to them. "Oh! That's right I forgot to ask." I said looking up at the two of them. "Why are you two grown ups? I know guys tend to have bigger growth spurts then girls but this…" I trailed off.
Dee and Dum laughed at my statement and shook their head.
"No Ray-san, it's nothing like that." Dee started.
"Because we have clocks for hearts, we can move them forward of backward, so we can be bigger or smaller." Dum finished. I nodded.
''Hmm…I guess that's makes sense." I mumbled. When you don't really think about it, it really does make sense along with everything else in this messed up world. I yawned and shrugged.
"Well I'm ready to go to bed. Oh, umm thanks, for…rescuing me." I mumbled awkwardly. They smiled and walked up to me. My face for whatever reason was starting to heat up and my heart was starting to beat faster and faster.
Before I knew it, Dee had already wrapped his arms around me from behind while Dum did the same from the front. They way they were staring at me only made me blush even more.
"It's no problem at all Ray-san~" Dum said before giving me a quick kiss on the lips. Dee did the same on my cheek. By now my face was aflame and my heart felt ready to explode with an emotion I wasn't familiar with. I was just frozen there, not knowing how to respond to this.
What do I say? What do I do? I asked myself when they let go. "Umm…I…uh…" I stuttered and looked away. "Thanks…" I muttered quietly and before I even realized it, I had run off into the mansion and into my room closing the door behind me.
I just stood there replaying what had just happened over and over again in my head. Every time I did my heart started to pound again and my face once again lit up with an emotion I just could think of. Love…
I just shook my head in denial and got changed into my nightgown. That's just not possible. There was no such thing as love…right? I asked myself as I slipped under the covers and turned out the light.
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I never in million years would have thought that I would be capable of writing that last scene. I suck at writing romance, don't know why, but I do. And please don't hate me if I didn't do a good job at typing it up. It looked so much better in my head.
Moving on from that; this was so far my longest chapter yet and so glad that I got it up. Hope you all like this chapter and Please Review! :)