Comforting Darkness

Chapter 11: The Tutor, Victorious Celebration

The tournament was already in progress; Blue House was against the Red and it is surprisingly to say that the score was in favour of Blue, for now at least. Everyone were sitting on the blanket under a shade and Bard was explaining the rules of cricket; however, Selina could not follow any of this. On one hand, she was always a complete dumb in terms of sports, unless it was fencing. On the other hand, lack of sleep made her head pounding with a constant headache, to the point she actually forgot she wanted to find Maurice Cole and teach him one more lesson for bulling her master.

Sebastian's nasty games the previous night had managed to keep her up and not catch any sleep at all. She knew that all he did – like seductively stroking her skin or suddenly licking her lips! – were just because he got excited that he finally found out what she was; after a few days he would be back to his usual self and would leave her alone. Hopefully or else she would be in huge trouble...

Ever since she had looked in Ciel's past, she had realised that his demon butler had chosen a really handsome human form, but she corrected herself when she met him on board of Campania... He had chosen an extremely attractive human form and was playing the role immensely well so that any woman would find it impossible to resist his charms, his smile and... his eyes, either the strange mahogany ones he had as human or his purely demonic vibrant red. Selina was lucky that he himself had cleared the matter – in no way he could be really sexually interested in a human – and that she had killed the woman inside her years ago... Or so she thought until lately with last night being the peak, since she spent all night trying to calm her heart and the fire that fleeting, although deeply sensual, touch of his had ignited in her body.

"No problem, I'll just have to kill the woman in me some more. I will not lose to a demon no matter how attractive he is... not ever!" She thought as she was kneeled on the blanket, her hands crossed on her chest, nails furiously digging in her arms and a deep scowl on her face as she had spotted the said demon on the tournament field pretending to be housemaster Michaelis.

The small terrified voices of Mey-Rin and Finny brought her back to reality. She saw the two of them huddled up with Mr. Tanaka leaning over Bard's picnic basket.

"Miss Selina!! Help!" Finny called to her absolutely terrified.

Selina moved close to them and instantly knew what caused their misery and desperation. Sitting in the basket was what was supposed to be Bard's meat pie. Terror invaded her and became visible on her features.

"What? Why did I take this one? Why not the other? There had to be another one! I'm so stupid!!" She whispered in desperation.

"What do you mean, Miss Selina?" Finny asked her.

"Huh? Um... Last night I didn't catch any sleep because I cooked a new normal meat pie and placed it in another identical basket so that Bard would not realize the difference... but in the morning, sleepy as I was it seems I picked and gave him the wrong basket before we leave. Oh God... what to do now?"

"We cannot give Lady Elizabeth this thing... she will be poisoned, we will be accused." Mey-Rin was trembling with fear.

"No!!! I do not want Lady Elizabeth to be harmed and for us to go to prison!!" Finny cried with the beginning of tears in his eyes.

"Hoh!" Mr. Tanaka added quite troubled himself.

"Where is Mr. Sebastian when we need him?" Mey-Rin asked in outer desperation.

"Leave him be..." Selina said a little harshly. "Anyway, we still have time until lunch so let it rest for a while and I'll think of something." She suggested and for a while they all sat, watching the match and pretending to be cool. None of them had seen that 'professor Michaelis' was watching them, with a very troubled look on his face, as they were despairing over the basket.