Monsters and mundanes 5

5.1 Tattooed

Hector enters the school with his usual to-go coffee cup and headsets on playing metal music. He walks up the stairs to Aiden, Jack, and Amanda sitting outside the classroom.
"Hey, Aiden, can you drive me to work today? My mom took the car this morning" he asks.
"Yeah sure, but I gotta talk to Elliot first" Aiden replies and Hector does a thumb up before he walks away again.

In class, Aiden is sitting at the far back drawing a trident on a piece of paper beside his book. He looks up at the teacher who's sitting by his desk and then Aiden takes up his phone from his pocket to take a picture of the trident and send it to Elliot.
"Mr. Bone, no phones in my class," Thomas says and Aiden looks up at him while he puts the phone down.
"Sorry, Mr. Hyde," he says and then continues to read from the book he is supposed to read.

After school Jack drives to the car mechanics. He enters it and starts looking for Trixie. After a few seconds, she opens the door to her office and comes out to him.
"Hi, Jack," she says happily and greets him with a hug.
"Hey, Trixie. Good to see you" he says
"Good to see you too. So, I was thinking maybe you could start in the car wash? After we fix a car here we always wash it for free before the owner picks it up. Of course, you'll earn pay for it though" Trixie explains as she takes him to the car wash.
"Sounds good" he nods.
"Great. Eliasz! Guess what, you're promoted" she says loudly when she opens the door to the car wash. Eliasz walks up to them and Jack and Eliasz look a little awkwardly at each other for a moment and then Eliasz smiles at Trixie.
"Thanks. What's my job now?" Eliasz asks.
"Changing oils and windows. I'll give you some classes in how to do other stuff and you can do that too as you learn" Trixie says happily.

Hector is sitting alone in the passenger seat of Aiden's car while Elliot and Aiden are inside the tattoo store. Elliot is sitting by the window, watching as Aiden is getting the trident tattooed into his right rib.
"Alright, all done" Kent says and leans back.
"Have a look at it" Elliot says and stands up. Aiden stands up and walks over to the mirror. His holds his shirt up as he looks at the new tattoo.
"Yeah, it looks cool" he says with a smile.
"Not that one. Elvis' tattoo" Elliot says and Aiden looks back into the mirror and lifts his shirt up even further to look at Elvis' tatto which slowly fades out.
"That is so gross" he says still smiling. Ellios laughs a little at him.
"Aight, Hector's waiting. Best be going" Elliot gets his jacket from the couch he was sitting on and waves at Kent before he walks out and Aiden walks after him.

A while later they pull up outside the vet clinic.
"I have to pick up mom's keys. I left mine at home this morning and mom is working late. Besides, she doesn't want me breaking into my own house anymore" he says as he turns off the car.
"You've been breaking into your own house?" Hector asks and gets out with him.
"Yeah, these past couple weeks I've been forgetting my keys quite a lot and my solution was breaking into my own house" he explains as he opens the door. Hector stays by the reception as Aiden walks right past it to get the keys. While Hector is waiting for Aiden a girl comes out to the reception.
"Hey. Are you friends with Aiden?" she asks and he raises his eyebrows at her.
"I am. You know him?" Hector asks.
"I used to live with him and his family a couple of years ago. I was an exchange student. Now I moved here and Nancy had always promised me a job here at her clinic" she explains and Hector walks up to the counter to her.
"I'm Hector" he says and holds out his hand. She takes it and greets him.
"Tindra" she smiles at him.
"Nice to meet you. Do you live around town?" he asks.
"I do. Just down the street from here. Walking distance to work. It's pretty nice"
"Oak Valley sure is a nice little town."
"Yeah. As long as you don't know it, right" she smiles at him before she takes her hand back. Hector looks a little confused but still smiling. Aiden comes back out to them with the keys.
"Hey, Tindra" he says and she goes back to work.
"Nice to see you too" she says and looks at him. He looks back and gives her a little smile before he takes Hector with him and walks out.

When they arrive at the coffee shop where Bonnie works, they put on their silly hats and walks up to Bonnie.
"Half an hour late boys, what happened?" Bonnie asks as she's wiping the counter.
"I'm sorry. I had to pick up my mom's keys" Aiden explains.
"And get a tattoo" Hector fills in and Aiden widens his eyes at him as a sign to shut up.
"Get a tattoo?" Bonnie asks and puts her hand by her hip as she tilts her head and looks at Aiden.
"It's a pack thing" he says guilty.
"And it couldn't wait?" she asks keeping eyecontact with him.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Faist"
"Don't Mrs. Faist me. We know each other better than that. And I am in the position of firing you so don't be late again. And don't pull Hector down that void with you. Now! Clean off the tables" she throws the dish cloth to him and he catches it.

The pregnant Lola is sitting at home in her pyjamas in front of the tv. She switches between the channels and eats some liquorice. Suddenly a brown gue sips in through the open window. She looks over at it and looks a little grossed out at first. The gue falls down on the ground and leaves smelling brown spots on the wall and windowsill. The gue forms a shape and stands up. Lola backs up on the couch, terrified when she sees what it turns into.
"Who are you?! WHAT are you!? What do you want?" she asks as she crawls away.

Elliot is sitting in his car on his way home from the tattoo store when his eyes suddenly start glowing bright green as he hears Lola's voice in his head.
"ELLIOOOOOOT!!!!" her scream echoes through his head. Elliot steps on the gas and drives as fast as he can all the way home.

Lola crawls from the livingroom into the bedroom, blood dripping from her leg. She crawls into the closet to hide there. She tries not to breathe so she covers her mouth. The monster's footsteps approach the door. Lola closes her eyes and falls a tear as she holds her moth with one hand and her stomach with the other. When she opens her eyes again the footsteps are gone. She reaches to the door and locks it before she presses up against the wall again. The brown gue sips in under the door and she tries to get closer to the wall but she can't. It stands up in front of her again and suddenly the door is ripped open by Elliot. The gue falls down and disappears as soon as he opens the door. Lola looks up at him and he reaches her hand out to her.
"What are you hiding from?" he asks as he pulls her up.
"I don't know" she says and stays close to him as she looks around the room. He looks concerned at her and wraps her arm around her.
"It was a brown gue, chasing me. It came in through the window and then it stood up. Like a human" she says and walks out to look at the window. Elliot goes with her and looks around the room. Lola closes the window and turns to Elliot again.
"It's still here. It can't have gone out it wasn't fast." she looks around the room. Suddenly the light goes out and Lola jumps a little. Elliot pulls her close to him and looks around the room with bright glowing eyes. The human takes shape by the stairs and he walks slowly toward them standing by the fireplace. Lola gets behind Elliot and Elliot shoots out his claws. They only see a silhouette with white eyes that sends out a black smoke. Suddenly he jumps into the fireplace and the brown gue goes up the chimney. Elliot walks to the lightswitch and turns on the lights again.