𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐂- 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬(𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐔)

chapter 6 ;; stop

CW: physical abuse, mild-ish non-con/SA, writing errors, edric's silly nicknames for hunter, luz being a girlboss and a bad ass mother fucker, belos, minor physical abuse, bad old art

it had left a mark.

when belos slapped hunter, it had left a mark. a blotchy, red mark. and hunter had no way to cover it. did hunter have any makeup? no. but luckily, today was after the servants' day off . room, and tiptoed to one of the servants room. he knocked.

'come in,' hunter opened the door and peeked in. 'hey, severine?' he said softly. the woman jumped, and turned around. 'oh! hunter, you scared me. what is it?' she asked in her high pitched voice. she had yellow eyes and brown skin, and short ombre hair that stuck up at random spots. she was amazingly tall and almost towered over belos himself. hunter shuffled into her room. 'h-hi, i, uh, i need some concealer, if you have any?' he asked shyly. 'oh, lemme check, hold on..' severine turned to her drawers and shuffled through them, standing straight with a sigh. 'im sorry, hun, but i dont have any makeup. maybe go to lilit-' she paused.

'hunter, what happened,' severine asked in a worried voice. 'your cheek's completely red!' she huffed. 'oh, and where did you get these bruises? ...go to lilith, she might have some concealer for you. ' she said softly. hunter nodded. he turned and started walking to lilith's room, and reluctantly knocked. he heard a come in so he opened the door and peeked in. 'oh, its you. what do you want, you brat?' lilith sneered, her bedhead of navy hair falling in strands over her eyes. 'i, um, i was wondering if you had any-any concealer,' hunter stammered, stepping fully inside her room. she narrowed her eyes in confusion, before spotting the mark, and the bruises, and almost falling off of her bed. 'thats bad,' she said softly with widened eyes.she shuffled through her drawers.

'this is a one-time-thing, okay? now, my skins a little lighter than yours but it'll be fine,' lilith said, taking skin concealer out of her drawer and walking over to hunter. she took his arm and sat him down on her chair. 'dont move,' she ordered and started applying the makeup.

after a little while, lilith stepped back, and hunter looked in the mirror. it looked as if belos had never slapped him, and if the bullies had never bullied him. 'thanks, lilith..' hunter said, getting up. 'dont expect me to do this again,' lilith called as hunter left her room. hunter got his stuff and put on his uniform, and went downstairs. he knew his uncle wouldn't care if he left a little early. walking to school anyway.

once he got to school, he spotted amity and emira, but edric wasn't there. 'hey, blights.' hunter said. amity turned and emira waved. 'wittebane,' amity greeted. she seemed nicer than she had been before the bully shit. 'how're you doing?' hunter hesitated for a moment. 'im...fine.' he managed. 'wheres edric?' they asked. out of the school, waving wildly. 'hii! goldie, you're here!' edric skidded to a stop and grabbed hunter's shoulders.

'you! you look great!' edric said cheerfully. 'wh-' hunter stammered. where had this sudden burst of energy come from? 'okay, lets gooo,' edric grinned. with amity and emira following. amity was shaking her head, with an unmistakable smile. hunter let a small smile creep onto his face as edric pulled them through the school, towards their first class(beastkeeping).

as the bell rang, and students pooled into the classroom, along with the teacher, hunter and edric had already been sitting down. amity was at her sculptures class, and emira was either at healing or optical illusions. thats when hunter noticed that luz was in his class. she was sitting several seats in front of him, but hunter could tell it was her from her curly brown pixie cut and colorful all-track uniform. she's in all of my classes and i never even realized? hunter thought.