As I said; tomorrow Dutch holiday, so no updates tomorrow! I wasn't even planning on updating today, but I just felt like writing. Have a nice day everyone and a nice Sinterklaas (the Dutch holiday I was talking about) if you live in the Netherlands or another place that celebrates the holiday!

And I still don't own Kuroshitsuji!

(I don't know why, but I almost typed 'I don't own Death Note'. I mean… why? Kuroshitsuji and Death Note have nothing in common. I think I'm just tired. Also, because time in the Netherlands is different, it's now the 4th of December, almost 8 pm and the Dutch holiday is on the 5th of December, so yeah. Enjoy the chapter!)

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Chapter 9

'Oh my God!'

I could hear the teenagers scream as Sebastian helped me out of the limousine. I had to admit that seeing their surprised, but mostly jealous, faces was something I'd never thought I'd see. And it was priceless.

Sebastian had a big amused grin on his face and when I looked at him with the same kind of smile, he said: 'Their emotions are all over the place.'

I laughed and made way for Ciel as Sebastian let go of my hand.

It was strange how much I had gotten used to him in the three days that had passed since I started living with them. Even the three idiots started to grow on me. The only person I had barely seen was Ciel, but I wasn't sure why not. I think he just really hated it to be around people.

And a perfect example of that was the cold look he gave all the people on the street in front of our school that were looking at him as if he was some sort of God… but not in a positive way.

I felt kind of cool when I walked towards the school, eyes following me as if I was some sort of superstar.

'Don't they have anything better to do?' I heard Ciel behind me say in a grumpy tone. I heard Sebastian chuckle and I considered walking besides them, but stopping now to be able to walk besides them would be strange, so I didn't.

As I walked into my first class, I realized that I had done none of the homework giving to us before the break.

Fan-tas-tic.

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'You look like you're enjoying yourself,' Ciel said, his voice overloaded with sarcasm. He sat at his table in the canteen and read the paper, which was odd because I never saw him do that before.

I threw my bag on the table and sat down in the most angry way possible. 'Well, yeah. Teachers got angry at me for not doing my shit. Do they even care that my father died?'

'Of course they do,' Ciel said. 'Today's newspaper is all about the accident.' He then showed me the article he was talking about.

I almost threw up when I saw the picture. It was of me and Sebastian, standing in the doorframe of my old house. I didn't even know there were reporters back then. And I didn't see any camera. Who the hell made this picture?

'Tragic suicide of Barrymore's mayor leaves daughter and town hopeless'.

I almost laughed at the title. 'Are they serious? I'm not hopeless without him. He would me without me.'

Ciel sighed and then grabbed something from his back. He then handed that to me. 'This is a magazine that was interested in another part of the story.' He opened the magazine and handed it to me.

It was de same picture, again, but there was a second one. The one where I was trying to keep him out and he was determent do get in. The headline was way worse than the one of the newspaper. 'Consolation from the butler?' I almost fainted when I read that. I quickly read the few sentences of the actual article, hoping that it was just a misprint. 'Not even an hour after her father committed suicide, a young man appears at the Barrymore house. This man is no one else but the Phantomhive butler, Sebastian Michaelis. After observing for a while, we clearly see him getting into the house with Barrymore's daughter, to only hours later get into a car together and leave the city. Is this what you call a love scandal? Did the father of Clarissa Lane, the daughter who oddly enough doesn't share her father's last name, not approve of her boyfriend? And what does Sebastian's master, the young genius Ciel Phantomhive, think?'

I closed the magazine before I read too much. 'Oh, gosh,' I said, hiding my face behind my hands.

'It's not that bad. The paparazzi love to hear about me and my butler, so they isn't a surprise that they would hear about this and turn it into a scandalous story.' Ciel sighed and took the magazine back from me. 'Don't worry too much. It's boring.'

I could just feel everyone in the canteen staring at us. I wasn't sure if they were looking at me, Ciel, Sebastian or us all, but I knew that they weren't happy. 'I want to go home!' I whined, trying to close this subject.

'Stop acting more childish than the child sitting in front of you,' Ciel said, not shying away from the fact that he was two years younger than me.

'But Ciel!' I said, now being whiny on purpose to tease him.

'Zip it,' he said, but I thought I saw a hint of a smile on his face.

Then I looked up at Sebastian, who was looking at me with a look that I didn't understand. He looked as if he tried to read my mind… And I didn't like that at all.

'Do you have any special demon powers?' I asked him, mostly to distract him, but also to distract myself so that I wouldn't stare at him.

Sebastian pulled an eyebrow up. 'Special demon powers?' he repeated, sounding more cynical then I thought possible.

I sighed and started to relax as I pulled my mouth open and said every little thing that came to mind: 'Yeah, like reading mind or changing into a bat or something. Wait… do you have wings? Angels have wings, right? Do demons have wings too? And if so, where are you hiding them? If you pull them out, do your clothes rip become of it? Or do you use magic so that your clothes stay intact?'

Sebastian looked even more cynical now. 'Magic?' he repeated, but he didn't say anything about the wings.

Ciel frowned now, looking up at his butler. 'Do you have wings when you're in this form, Sebastian?' he asked.

Sebastian sighed, knowing that he couldn't ignore a question his master asked him. 'If I wanted to have wings, I would.'

'So what, you can make yourself look however the hell you want?' I asked. 'Because if that's the case, then I want to become demon too. That would be so unfair.'

'Life is unfair,' Sebastian said, surprisingly cold. But he did answer my question: 'But no, I cannot. I have a human form, an animal form and a demon form. Those can't be changed, but I can alter between them.'

'Wait,' I said, understanding it without truly understanding it. 'You think this form looks human?' I asked. 'I'm very sorry, but a human couldn't even dream of having such a godly face as you have.' The moment I said it I put my hand over my mouth, but it was too late. I had already said it.

Stupid, stupid, stupid! As if this demon wasn't arrogant enough!

A seductive smile appeared on Sebastian's face. 'You think I look attractive?' he asked amused.

Something about those words put me off. Or maybe it was my embarrassment that was so desperate to try and hide itself that it made me angry. 'Does anyone on planet earth think you're not? Come on, dude. I bet even you can't deny the fact that you're gorgeous.'

Sebastian rose his eyebrows. He clearly didn't expect me to compliment him again.

Oh gosh. Why did I open my mouth again?

'Okay, love birds,' Ciel said, clearly being annoyed and bored by this conversation. 'I'm done eating. I'm going to my next class. Clarissa, come with me while he cleans up the table. I really don't want to hear the two of you discuss anything every again.'

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When the day was over I was so happy that I almost thought I would cry. Everyone had been looking at me in every class I was in an even though I liked the attention at first, it got annoying really quick.

Ciel sighed when he sat down next to me in the limousine. Sebastian went and set in the driver's seat.

'How was school today?' I asked Ciel, since I hadn't had any classes with him after lunch.

He made a sound that didn't sound like he had enjoyed his day of school. 'Boring as ever. A game gets boring if the field never changes.'

'Right,' I said, clearly not understanding what he was talking about. Why did he always make comparisons between real life and a game? I mean, who did that? Life wasn't a game. Everyone knew that. Even iceman Ciel should now.

Then Ciel surprised me. 'How was your day at school?'

I looked at him for a while. I never thought he would ever ask me something like that. I thought that I was just a bore to him. 'Er… okay, I guess?' I said, not really sure what the good answer was, the answer that Ciel wanted to hear.

He closed his eye for a moment. 'That's great,' he said, but I couldn't tell if he was being cynical or not.

'Do you think the house still stands when we arrive?' I said, trying to avoid a silence.

That made Ciel open his eye again. 'What?'

'I mean, we did sort of leave the three idiots alone in the house all day,' I said, making it awkward by sounding as if I was some sort of Disney-villain.

Ciel sighed. 'I've left them before. If I don't give them anything to do, they usually break nothing apart. However, the risk is always there.' He made a move with his hands as if he was trying to brush my worries away. 'But don't worry. There's nothing those three could do to my mansion that Sebastian wouldn't be able to fix.'

And knowing Sebastian, I knew he was right.

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When we arrived home there was an unexpected surprise waiting for us.

The main hall was filled with flowers, glitter and confetti and the whole room smelled like chocolate cake and something else… Something sweet.

'What in the world happened here?' Sebastian asked, but the only answer he got were the three idiots who came running towards him. I thought for a sec that they were going to attack him, but they just grabbed him and cried: 'Sebastian!'

'What in the world happened?' he repeated as they hugged him as if he was his mother and they were three little children who got bullied.

'Ask the crazy girl!' Baldroy asked and first I thought he meant me, but then I saw him point at a fast moving object in the room.

'Crazy girl?' Ciel repeated, but before he could even say something else, someone grabbed him and hugged him as if he was her favourite Barbie.

The girl that was hugging him was young, she couldn't be older then twelve, and had blonde hair. She was wearing an orange dress and her voice was high pitched and too be honest, a bit annoying. 'Ciel!' she screamed. 'I missed you!'

I was surprised how not-angry Ciel reacted. 'Elizabeth!' he said, but he only sounded surprised. He didn't seem unhappy to see her, nor was he annoyed with the fact that someone was touching him.

The girl – Elizabeth – released him. 'Aww, you know I'm always telling you to call me Lizzie!' she said with a big smile on her face. A smile that I hadn't seen much in my life. She smiled at him as if… she loved him. Then she pulled him back for another hug. 'Aww, you're just so cute!'

Sebastian sighed, but silent so that only I could hear it. 'Lady Elizabeth,' he said. And if I was surprised with Ciel's reaction to this girl, then Sebastian's reactions killed me. He was even smiling at her!

His hello did distract the little girl from Ciel. 'Oh, Sebastian! Good afternoon!' she said happy.

'Elizabeth,' Ciel said, a little bit of his bitterness back in his voice. 'What have you done to my mansion?'

'I just wanted to add more cute things!' she said, not even thinking about the fact that it could bother Ciel.

'Ah,' Ciel said, just letting it slide. HE. JUST. LET. IT. SLIDE. Who are you and what have you done with Ciel, because clearly, you're not him. 'By the way, Elizabeth, why are you here? Where's auntie?'

Auntie?! Did he seriously just address someone with the word 'auntie'?

Elizabeth smiled a lovely smile and grabbed Ciel's hands. 'I wanted to see you, Ciel, so I snuck away and here.' After that she pulled him in for another hug.

'Snuck away?' he repeated with not only surprise but also worry in his voice. 'What were you thinking?'

Elizabeth laughed and released him again. Then she saw me. 'Who's she?' she asked, observing me from head to toe. 'She's so cute!'

Ciel sighed. 'That's Clarissa. She's having problems with her family at the moment, so she's staying with me.'

A sad, almost cartoonlike grumpy-face appeared. 'Eh?' Elizabeth said. 'I also want to stay with you!' She started to rant to Ciel about stuff that I really didn't want to hear, so I turned to Sebastian.

'Er, who is she?' I asked. I noticed that the three idiots had disappeared, but I wasn't sure when that happened.

'Oh, this is the daughter of the Marquess of Scotney. Lady Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford,' he said.

'You didn't have to tell me her full name you know. How do you even know that?' I asked teasingly.

Sebastian ignored my comment. 'Lady Elizabeth is Ciel's childhood friend. And if you ask Elizabeth, she is his fiancé.'

That was definitely not a word I expected to hear in this subtext. 'Aren't they a bit too young for that?' I asked.

Sebastian nodded. 'But it isn't like that. Their parents are old friends and they really wanted to see their kids get married. So they brought them together as much as they could. That changed, of course, when young master's parents passed away. But that doesn't change the fact that she's a very old friend.'

'And, let me guess, rich as fuck?' I asked sarcastically.

The only answer I got from Sebastian was an amused smile that clearly meant 'yes'.

Then Elizabeth suddenly looked at me again. 'Ow, but she's so pretty! Can I choose a dress for her sometime? Please, please, please!' she begged Ciel.

Ciel sighed. 'Ask her.'

'Yes, yes!' Elizabeth said, almost running towards me. 'Can I dress you up sometime? I would love to dress you up sometime!'

What did she think I was, her personal Barbie doll? But it was obvious that Ciel really cared for this little girl. And something about her made her impossible to hate. 'Sure,' I said, smiling as kindly as I could.

'Yay!' she said, clapping enthusiastic in her hands. 'Ooh, why not just dress you up today, then?! We can have a ball in the old ballroom, just like we always did as kids!' She gave Ciel a puppy-look. 'Can we, Ciel?' she asked in a way that was almost impossible to refuse.

Ciel sighed once again. 'Fine.'

'Yay!' she screamed again, making me jump. 'I'm going to call my dressmaker and my hairstylist and we're going to make you so pretty!' She said, smiling at me as if I was worth a thousand unicorns.

Oh, boy. I started to feel like this was a mistake.