Queen of Beasts: The Fallen Book One

Revenge

Returning to the house with Seth, I feel completely lethargic and very full.

"We definitely shouldn't have asked for dessert." He chuckles, turning off the car. As I hop out, I lean over the top of the car and speak to him, he faces me promptly.

"Dessert was absolutely in order though. My parents just sprung a surprise visit on me, found out I was living in a frat house, found out that the sorority house I was living in took a picture of me half naked and plastered all over the college. Somehow, Nolan convinced my parents that staying at the house was actually a good idea and they ended up inviting both of us to dinner. Don't get me wrong, I'm really glad that you were there tonight with me, but I'm totally confused. My parents should have been scathing, but they weren't. The fact that I'm still standing here right now definitely deserved dessert." He locks the car, and we start heading up the driveway into the house, but I stop him before we enter. "Hey, why didn't you straight up tell me that we were actually cousins?"

"To be honest, I just wanted to see this whole thing unfold. If I had said it to you at any other point in time, you would have asked a lot of questions."

"I still have a lot of questions."

"I know, but I've got something prepared to show you, so hold off until then."

"Well, if it's already prepared, why can't I see it now?"

"I left it at Mom's."

"Right, your mother, who is actually my aunt who I've never met by the way. Can I meet her sometime?"

"Yes, next weekend Saturday at eleven. We're going to have brunch."

"I see this has already been pre-planned."

"Or were you just about to suggest it, and I said it first?" The stupid psychic had me there. Before we even have a chance to finish opening the front door and walking inside, we can already hear the bustle of argumentative voices. It sounds like the guys are trying to plan something for the sorority girls for doing what they did earlier today.

"Guys," I say catching their attention. In the living room are the triplets, but also Reyes, Echo, Kane, Nolan and Oliver. "I know what they did was bad. But if we retaliate in any way, it'll just get a lot worse."

"None of us are exactly happy to settle with what they did to you." Hendrik comments, ", and Reyes won't tell us what he and Seth did earlier today." I look over at the medium who seems preoccupied with talking to the wall. I can only assume he must be speaking with Ivan.

"Well, if you want to find out, you can always get up really early tomorrow." Seth smirks.

"How early is early?"

"If you can be at the sorority house before quarter to six in the morning, when the first alarm clock starts to go off, then you'll see exactly what we did." Now that's tempting.

"Wait, so making us choose between the quality of sleep and seeing some sorority girls fall on their faces? I'll set my alarm." I look at my watch and I can see that it's a little past nine. I suppose now would be a good time to go to bed if we're going to be up that early in the morning. Everyone else also seems to look down at their watches or their phones to check the time and comes to the same conclusion.

"How was dinner?" Nolan asks both Seth and I.

"It was actually really good." I say with obvious hesitance, "Both my parents came to the conclusion that they're happy for me to stay here. Even though of course I did tell them I was planning to leave as soon as I could afford the rent on my own." I don't miss the obviously disappointed look that Oliver tries to hide. In fact, quite a few of them are sharing the same expression. "Anyway, I'm really keen to see what these two knuckleheads got up to. So I'm going to get enough sleep so that tomorrow I can still manage to make my way through most of my lectures." I get a few wishes goodnight, but I stop before I head up the stairs. "Also everyone, I just wanted to say thank you. You've all been really kind to me since I've been here. You didn't need to tolerate me, and you didn't need to share anything with me, but you have. I just wanted to know I really respect each of you and I feel that you're all my friends. If you're happy for me to call you that."