The Paired

Melody

Faith, what an ironic name for a hopeless bitch. I don't know what the hell got into her, but something has changed. I glared at her from across the cafeteria table as she was whispering into Cedric's ear and giggled every five seconds. I'm not irritated at the fact that she's flirting with her pair, it's the fact that she sucks at it. Recently, she's been all over him. Now it's only Finn and Harmony sitting opposite each other so I'm stuck next to Mr. Emo Demon and my only view is the pathetic, desperate little nymph that should go crawl back into the forest. Poor Cedric doesn't even know what to do with himself. She put his arm around her and leaned her head against his shoulder. I doubt she noticed how uncomfortable he looked.

"So, guys, I've been thinking, and I've found myself in a moral dilemma. And no, this time it doesn't involve my feathers." Finn gave up on eye contact with his pair and forced the rest of us into dumb conversation.

"What is it this time?" Liam sighed.

"Is it wrong if I eat chicken? Would it be cannibalism? I haven't eaten any chicken before but now I'm curious." If only his chicken brain had an off button.

"I doubt anyone cares Finn, if-" Liam was cut off by more giggles from Faith. Wait, Did I just see that? SHE DID NOT JUST START KISSING CEDRIC'S NECK. I fought the urge to vomit, and I assume Liam did the same.

"Wow, there goes my appetite for chicken I guess." Apparently, Finn was just as shocked and disturbed as everyone else. Cedric's face was bright red, and his eyes were begging for help. And here I was thinking that I would be the most seductive one here.

"Oh, get a room," I heard a cyclops mutter from the other table. How was she not embarrassed or anything? Faith looked up at the rest of us and smirked. She's enjoying this way too much.

Harmony looked up from her book for a split second and I could've sworn I heard her say something about common etiquette.

"Hey guys, we should go..." Faith locked her hand with Cedric's as he spoke, "uh... we could go... to the track." His voice cracked on the last word. Liam got up first but everyone else was quick to follow.

"The track sounds great." Liam agreed. As we were walking down the halls, somehow Faith ended up in the back of the group and Cedric didn't miss his chance to pass her and walk next to Finn instead. I saw Finn wink out of the corner of my eye.

"Well, I'm guessing that Faith got her meal for today. I thought you said she was sweet and kinda boring dude. If that's boring then I'd be curious to see what all happens up there in angel land." Finn whispered. Liam held back a laugh and Cedric just shook his head.

"Usually she is, I don't know, this has never happened before."

"Maybe she's been hanging around the sirens for too long." Liam shot me a dirty look. Rude.

"No, if she had been, she would've been doing a lot better than whatever the hell that was," I replied.

"I wish Harmony would start acting like that," Finn commented jokingly, nervously glancing around in case Harmony magically reappeared. She didn't bother to go to the track with us and headed back to her dorm as soon as she could.

"Not like you could handle that. Your feathers would explode." Liam's lips curled up at the thought.

"Don't mind me, I think I'll go have a chat with the whore herself." I walked back to where Faith was, quite a few feet behind the rest of us. She seemed surprised that I had come to talk to her but instead of her eyes portraying any sense of fear, it's like she was challenging me.

"Quite a show that was. You two must've gotten a lot closer recently." I started with a smile.

"What do you mean? Don't you enjoy your pair's company?" She looked straight ahead but the bitchiness was unmistakably there.

"No, I don't believe consuming each other with an entire audience is on my to-do list." I laughed. What is she trying to get at here?

"It's okay. I'm sure you and Liam will grow to that level of intimacy at some point." She smirked.

I walked in front of her and stopped before she could say anything else. "Listen here bitch."

"No, I think that you should listen. You must need some couple's advice. It must be hard to suck so bad at being a siren that you can't even bring your own partner to love you." She strutted forward and flipped her hair over her shoulder. It took everything in me to restrain myself from slapping her right there on the spot. I sighed and decided to go for a different approach.

"If that's what you think, then why not test it? If I'm just so bad at seduction, like one-sided make-out at lunch bad, then it should be easy for you to convince Liam to love you. Don't worry, I'm sure he'll love an inexperienced desperate girl as much as any demon." I laughed to myself at the thought of Faith treating Liam like she did Cedric earlier.

"Okay deal," her eyes brightened "have fun doing the same with Cedric." This was not part of my plan but I'm not backing down or letting this plant thing ruin my pride. What was she thinking, competing with a siren in a game of seduction? Is her brain as small as her ass?

"Fine, if I get your pair to kiss me before you get Liam to kiss you, you owe me a favor and vice versa." Don't mistake this for some spontaneous idea or an unthought-out plan. If I sing a little tune and get the angel to do as needed, I will have power over Faith. Owing someone a favor may not seem like much, but she has no clue what she's getting into.

I headed back to my dorm to thoroughly plan out how I am going to win this deal. At least it's Cedric, it could be worse. If it were the ginger-flavored chicken, I'd just take the loss.

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