Chapter two
“At least we can be in our sorrow together,” Delila mumbled,
“Sorrow?”
“You know,” Penny piped in softly, “because our soulmates won’t want us,”
Lola made a noise of disgruntlement, “what! But we’re such catches,” the sad truth of Lola's words was that she believed them, Eve really didn’t want to be the one to rain on the girls parade, it had been hard enough to break to her that babies weren’t bought by storks, no less than telling her swearing didn’t take a year off you life. She had sobbed so hard when she first heard Delila curse several times in a sentence. She cried telling her ‘this wasn’t the way to go’. It had taken ages for them to convince her that Delila didn’t just lose five years off her life.
“I wonder why the goddess had us all have our marks at the same time.”
“So we can finally start a support group,”
“For what, losers and freaks?” Delila smirked,
“For rejected soulmates,” Penny chimed in,
“The forever virgins club,” Eve chuckled,
“This isn’t funny,” Lola pouted, “we shoulding be hugging and crying in a circle with joy.”
“We can hug and cry in a circle with dread,” Delila offered snarkily.
“Where are your marks?” Eve asked the two other girls.
“My neck,” Penny sighed,
“My thigh,” Delila grunted. “You,”
“Wrist,” Eve pulled up her left sleeve to show.
“Mines on my ribcage,” Lola chimed joyily. Eve and Delilia both rolled their eyes at once, “my brother is taking me to a vegan place tonight to celebrate.”
“Eww, don’t tell me it’s on hoof street?” Delilah made a face of repulsion, “that place is terrible.”
“They’ve had so many food hygiene strikes I'm surprised they're still open. They had a rat infestation the last time I checked.”
Lola shook her head at Delila and Eve, “nope,” she dropped the p with a pop, “it’s new.”
“Oh, the fancy-mancy place, whats it called rabbit eater?”
Eve snorted with a laugh, “rabbit eater?”
“It’s rabbit themed, they actually have a petting rabbit corner at the end of the restaurant.”
“Don’t let my brothers go there,” Penny whispered, “they’d probably try and eat them all.” The four shivered at the thought, “Eve you still coming round,”
She nodded at Penny, “yeah, have you got a lock?”
Penny looked down to her hands, “Vlad tore it off,”
Eve sighed, “sorry, i thought it would work,” Pennys brother had always tormented her, Eve had suggested getting a lock on her door, tio stop them coming into her room. It made her mad to think Pennys older brother would tear it off, she just wanted privacy.
They all fell into silence as each worked on homework or simply read a book, Penny spent her time helping Lola with her maths homework, the girl had never done very well at school. Eventually the bell rang signalling for them to leave. They all groaned, Eve hated leaving the sancionary of the library, but being late would get her in trouble, and being trouble would gain her attention, attention she didn’t want from her curel classmates. She just hoped it was going to be one of the days where they pretend she's invisible.
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The day did not go as Eve had hoped. The opposite in fact, it seemed her classmates paid special attention to her that day. In science, the boys behind her, had thrown balls of paper at her, each scribbled with horrible slurs. Like ‘pixie wench’ ‘disgusting moth’ ‘dumb bitch without wings’ ‘ugly whore’ ‘useless mouth breather’ ‘magicless slut’ they weren’t all that creative, but cut her nothing the less, even if they’re spelling was wrong for more than a few.
She had ended up getting in trouble with the teacher, after she turned round to tell them to stop, throwing one of their scrunched up balls of paper. Of course he would only notice when she threw the paper but when the boys did. Funny how that works.
In history two female fairies, one of her main tormentors, hand twisted their bubblegum that their teacher had told them to spit out, so of course they put it in Eve's hair.
When lunch had come around, Lola, Delila, Penny and Eve gathered in the girls toilets, trying to get the gum out of Eve's hair, Delila had taken a pair of scissors out, Eve immediately screamed at the sight, Lola tried to say that Eve would look nice with short hair, but she knew she would look like a twelve year old boy. Eve had run around the bathroom getting away from the madwoman with scissors.
“I’m just trying to help you!”
“No!” Eve screamed, kicking Delila, as she was cornered into a cubical.
“Um guys?”
“I swear I'll punch you in the throat if you come any closer to me with those scissors!”
“It’s the only way! Just let me cut it out of your hair!”
“Guys,”
“I’d rather live the rest of my life with gum in my hair!”
“Guys!” Penny shouterd. All turned to her, she held her phone to them, “i just searched it up, you can get it out with peanut butter or oil,”
And with that Eve gotta keep her hair for another day.
They head to the school cafeteria, which was bustling with loud acne, greasy faced teenagers with bad body odour. It hadn’t taken long for Eves favourite tormentors to spot her by the que, it hadn’t been enough to ruin her hair, so they walked right into her, with meatballs, spaghetti and bolognese sauce. It crashed right on her front, staining her sweatshirt.
“Oh no, i mean to spill thats all over your ugly shirt,” one of the girl sniggered,
“I didn’t think she could look anymore of a mess, but now i’ve seen it all,” the other commented snidely.
The all girls shrank back, “you did that on purpose,” Penny whispered afraid.
The girl glared down at Penny, who huddled into herself with the weight of the gaze. “It’s her own fault for being in our way,” she snarled.
“I can't believe we have share the same space as you lot,”
“Come on Meg, let's go get food, considering yours is on the floor and on-” she smirked, “Evie,” she taunt, the two girls walked away with their arms wrapped around one anothers.
It’s safe to say Eve was glad when the final bell finally rang, she sped walked down the school halls, and out through the car park then gates. She had to quickly drop home before going to Penny's house, it wouldn’t do any good turning up at the Alpha of cities pack with bolognese sauce on her sweatshirt, or gum in her hair.
Luckily her mum wasn’t home when she got to her building of flats, saving her a disheartening description of how her day went and yet another raged fill Feya charging down to the school to give the headmaster a piece of her mind.
She got gum out with a lot of olive oil and a steady hand, and when i say steady i mean yanking violently through her locks, till she forced some hair from her scalp. After the pink gum was out, she quickly changed into an oversized turtleneck jumper with a black and whiter chequered design. She rushed out the flat as soon as her head popped out through her jumper, legging it to get to the bus.
She caught it just in time, the driver was an orc, and he looked as dumb as he was scary. Eve showed him her bus pass and scurried quickly to a seat.
It took twenty minutes but finally the bus stopped at her stop announcing through the mic the orc grumbled, “everyone off for pack lands, or stay and make my day more shitty by driving to yet another stop,”
Eve was nearly hundred percent sure that the people that got off with her were trying to avoid the orcs wraith, as many had sighed with displeasure and foreboding when the bus drove off, beginning their walk following behind the distancing vehicle.
Eve shuffled along the path, she was at the very edge of the city, where the woods that counted as the pack's land began. Most of the wolves lived on that side of the city, or even in cabins located deep in the woods. But the star of the wolf town as everyone liked to call it was the Alphas mansion. It was a large old, historic structure, much like all other larger houses and mansions in the city had been one of the masny first buildings to be built. It was warm and inviting to look at with carved varnished woods and cone roofs. There was a long driveway, and a small circle paved courtyard with a stone fountain depicting the goddess with a wolf at her feet.
Eve knocked on the door after climbing the two wooden steps. Yells sounded behind the door, male voices yelling for someone to get it. She waited a moment, a moment too long till a worn down looking woman opened the door. Penny’s mum looked a bit like penny, with dark chestnut hair and warm hazel eyes that shone kindly when she saw Eve standing at her step.
“Come in, come in,” she smiled, “how are you, love?” Eve scrapped her shoes on the mat, then slid them off,
“I’m fine Mrs Volkov,”
“How's your mum?”
“She’s good,” Eve muttered, Penny's mum was friendly but it was always awkward talking to her. “Busy with work,”
“Pharmacy keeping her busy then?” she chuckled, “let her know will you if she’s free for tea any time soon, it’s been too long since we’ve chatted.”
Eve nodded stiffly, “will do,”
“Penny’s up in her, i’ll bring up snacks.”
“Thanks.”
Eve took a deep breath after Mrs Volkov left for the kitchen. Walking into the house was always like walking into a sniper trap, she didn’t know when something would come at her. The poor oblivious woman was ignorant of the goings on, that her three sons could be so horrible and cruel. The twins that were a year younger than Penny and Eve had on more than one occasion had mentioned that it would be so easy to rip into her without a fight, they told her she smelled like she was human. Their favourite joke around her was. “Do you know what would happen if you fell from a huge height?” they would wait till she answered and if she didn’t they would partly shift and growl at her till she did. It didn’t matter what her answer was, the joke ended the same, though it’s a bit far to call that a joke. “You'll fall right to your death,” they’d break into laughter about it, mining with their hands and making sound effects of what it would look like.
Eve climbed the stairs panicking if she would run into any of Pennys brothers. Last time she was there, they had knocked her to the wall, saying her human stink was filling up the house. She didn’t bother telling she was a fairy, there was no use, she hadn’t wanted to make the bruise on her side worse. She thanked the goddess when she arrived at the top of the stairs at the attic door.
She walked in seeing Penny laid on her bed with her phone above her face. “Hey,” Eve flopped next to her, “how much do we have left of the project?”
Penny smiled sheepishly, pulling her phone to her chest. “I’ve actually already done my side.” Eve snorted, she couldn’t believe anyone could hurt Penny; she was one of the soft, shy, kindhearted people she knew. As well as, as nerdy as Eve was.
“I did too.”
Both them giggled, “guess we can just hang out,”
“That is what i planned,”
The more Penny wasn’t alone in her house with monster brothers the better, even if Eve had to suffer along with her.
They ended up watching a tv show called taxi academy. It was a soap opera about people learning to be taxi drivers. There was love and betrayal, friendship drama, deaths, plot twists and once even alien invasion. And of course the opening credits were in Spanish, even though the rest of the show wasn’t. That week's episode, they were trying to find out who killed Johnny, the man who was most likely to be rewarded with his taxi driver licence, there was even a reveal that one of the characters was a were-taxi, someone who changed into a taxi car every full moon. It was an intense episode.
Just when they were going to start playing another soap opera called the love of the mermaid and alien, Penny’s mother walked in.
“Hi girls.”
“Oh, mum, did you need something?” Penny squeaked,
“No, I just wanted to tell you dinner is ready in the dining room.”
Penny gave her mum a blank look, “okay..?”
“You’re joining us,” a voice chimed in, demanding and cold. Eve shivered, she could never get used to hearing or seeing Penny's dad, the alpha. His eyes bore into the two teenages. “You mother has prepared a lovely meal and we will share it as a family.” he passed a side look at Eve, “and with our guests.” There was no arguing with that tone, it was a ‘yes sir’ kind of answer.
Penny and Eve looked at one another, their evening just went to a whole new level of bad.
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