Haunted Statues

Dont ask For Mercy

TW//SA

I sat in Cumulus room as she told me what to do with my makeup. It was the closest thing to her actually being able to do it.

"I don't understand why I'm putting this on?"

"-No put the glitter here-" sunshine spoke as I asked the question.

"Because you need a little glam in your life every once in awhile." Cumulus said as she finished "plus you want to stun the boys right? Hey Rain!" She finished and acknowledged Rain as he walked in.

"Hi girls." Rain said, smiling at us. "Dove, I need to talk with you, in private."

I got up when the girls "finished" my hair moving into theirs. The two of us walked into cumulus' bathroom and closed the door.

"What's up?" I asked.

"I think that one of the ghouls might be your mate. And I think I have an idea on who it is. I know it sounds weird but I was reading a book on it and it seems possible."

"How?" I asked. What was he talking about. I knew about mates but I wasn't expecting this to come out of Rain's mouth.

"I do think one of them definitely is and I have my suspicions on who it is and why. If they are your mate, they will do anything and everything to please you. They could pick you out in a room full of a thousand people. That's why I said to do this tonight. You are masked and the only one who knows it's you is the four of us who helped you get ready." Rain responded.

I nodded and looked at him "who's your suspension?"

"Dew. It gets irritated when anyone is around you or touches you. The fact he let you touch his bare stomach is honestly alarming because if I do, he claws at my face. You mentioned feeling a current when you touch him, that could very well be the mate pull." Rain explained his reasoning. My mind instantly went back to the night prior, with the fire ghoul in Rain's room.

"He hates me though. If he was my mate wouldn't he want to be with me and not treat me like shit?" I asked

"Yes, normally but no, in Dew's case. Dew has a lot of trauma he's working through. Dew lost his brother and two mates in one year. One of his mates, a water ghoul, turned him away. He had resorted to drinking and Azar was pissed which is why Azar never let you two meet. Dew was summoned topside so Azar could help him get sober and dew had met a fire ghoul named ifrit. The two were mated until Ifrit killed the papa's before Copia Dew broke the bond before ifrit got sent back. Plus the issue with Azar and you know the rest of his transition and all of that. He's afraid to love again. He doesn't want to hurt you or himself and that's why he's a dick to you. It's a facade." Rain explained and I nodded my head slowly as everything processed in my mind. "Dew, once you get him to crack, is the sweetest and most caring ghoul. He doesn't hate you." He explained to me as I let my mouth hang open at the knowledge I was just given. "Let's get you dressed though."

I walked out of the bathroom and grabbed the beautiful red ball gown that I had been gifted by the ghoulettes. I took the dress into the bathroom so I could put it on.

"Leave here fifteen minutes after us so you are fashionably late. You will make an entrance." Sunshine's excitement filled her words. "And don't forget to grab a drink!"

The girls had left and I sighed, grabbing the bag with the mask in it that was left on the altar . I pulled it out and marveled at it looked exactly like their silver ghoul mask but didn't cover the whole head and only covered half my face. In the lights of the ballroom the mask would look like it was on fire to match the dress.

"I really hope you are right about your suspicions because Swiss might be pissed at this." I said to myself pulling on my black heels and placing the mask on my face. And of course grabbing on of the bottles.