All For Not - Wednesday

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The hot chocolate was all but gone in my hands when Wednesday had arrived, a giddy and nervous Galpin boy at her side, well more like her back side but still there nonetheless, eyes finding me quickly. I figured she would have scared him off, her secret plan to go into the woods tonight not so secret, and it never would have been since she doesn't know how to whisper properly...

It was truly a shame that I had assured Kent I could make my own cup, or more so bet that I could after Davina pulled her phone out, the word of pictures on her tongue. Here I was alone as she appeared behind me, the cup not filling up quick enough for my taste, "hot drinks, really sister?" My eyes lifted slowly before I turned to her, "do you have a problem?" Her head turned as her eyes laid into mine sharply, "none, I see you're not with your date. Did the siren not live up to expectations after all?"

"There were no expectations, besides, yours isn't present either or was he just too unpalatable for you?" The glare between us sharpened like scythes, her annoyance with me doing what I wanted, a displeasure in its only form, "clearly you are the one with an issue."

My head tilted as she took a step forward, "you're only an eyeful away from looking like our mother, are you sure you don't want to show some cleavage to make your debut?" My lips turned into a snarl as I spit battery acid at her, "you'd think you'd be more polite with me when you're a dye job away from being the triplet to the twins, tell me why do you suddenly have anger held for me, sister..."

"You're incompetent, while you've been busy with everything surrounding this stupid dance I've been dealing with the monster by myself, no thanks to you of course," my teeth ground together as I listened to her words, "it seems somethings slipped your mind, so let me remind you dear sister," I shortened the distance between us even more as I spoke up the hot chocolate forgotten, "I am only at this dance because of you volunteering me to get rid of our roommate, hang me for trying to enjoy myself in such a forced situation."

"I have been helping you in almost every step of your search without much complaint, may I add, not to mention the lake incident where you forced me to be, where I ended up drowning for the simple sake of your rivalry with Bianca. So much for being sisters, you never even bother making sure I'm alright until after I say something to you."

"OMG! I love the look! Interesting choice of date though." Enid appeared, talking only to Wednesday who stood glaring at me until the date comment where she turned away from me and glanced behind Enid, "I could say the same." I sucked in a deep breath filled with aggravation as I turned on my heel gliding back across the room in fury.

"Hey, couldn't figure out how to make it after all huh?" I sighed trying to relax my shoulders, "the opposite spectrum I'm afraid, Wednesday wanted to have a word with me," he nodded looking off behind me as Davina nudged his shoulder and he coughed into his fist after nudging her back, "give me a moment I'll be back in a second yeah?" I nodded and glanced behind me to watch him walk off before looking back at Davina to find she had wandered off to talk with someone for a moment, I was alone again.

For a moment everything around me disappeared, dissolving into complete blackness as I gazed across the room. My eyes closed as I sighed and for a moment everything seemed to calm down as a small surge of heat sparked all the way down in my toes until suddenly it was gone and I was shocked back into reality.

I rubbed at the fabric on my chest a small frown of discomfort on my face, only a small version of a steep consequence. "Here you are," I shook myself from my disappointment to turn my head. Kent stood with another cup of hot chocolate, except this time it was practically boiling.

He smiled at me as I reached for it, "I didn't think about it at first but I figured that comment that your roomie made, maybe means extra hot is more your pace," he sheepishly grinned as I looked at the cup before looking back into his eyes not even a second later, "I know I can get pretty cold being a siren but...I can remedy that at least a little bit," the cup was so warm in my hands that I honestly was just stuck in blankness until his smile twitched and I thought that he'd drop it, "thank you, Kent..."