The Mysterious Tale of Wisteria Griffin

Chapter 4 Sethastion Becomes Cannon

The forest was even more mystical on the inside, I loved all the weird, demented things we were seeing. There were mushrooms, (mostly Amanita Mooscarias, though a few bleeding tooth fungi, inky caps, morels, and chanterelles) but in all different shapes, sizes and colours, instead of the normal red. The purple puddles on the ground hadn't dried up yet, and when you splashed in them, bits of black earth surfaced. The dirt on the ground was a fine Powder, but didn't kick up very easily, but when it did, it came up and down in slow motion, like gravity only had an effect on people.

"OOH!" Naiomi yelled, picking up a big pink mushroom, and hugging it. Then she handed it to Nate, and gave him a big hug. It was the most wholesome thing I had seen in awhile. Plus I was secretly fangirling inside, because whenever Naiomi does things like that it reduces Nate to a blushing mess. I looked at bash who was looking at them and smiling his face off. I looked at them, catching their attention, they turned to me and screamed silently shaking their head with their hand in front of his mouth. As the sun was getting lower, we came to this huge log in the middle of the road.

"We have to climb through this log to get to Azrael's." Haven said.

"OH MY FUCKING GOD! I'M GOING TO SEE AZRAEL AGAIN!"I screamed.

"You do know he's my grandfather, right?" Haven asked, laughing a little.

"Yeah, but with all the sleepovers, and playdates we had at your house, I practically lived there." I said.

"That's true." He said, taking my hand, to help me through a hole in the log. I had to twist myself into a Contortion just to get through, but I was pretty flexible, so it wasn't too hard.

"Wait, if you don't mind me asking, why were you always at his house, you guys didn't trade off or anything?" Meg asked.

"No. we didn't," I said flatly.

"Again, if you don't mind me asking, why?"

" 'cause mine was a shitty place to exist." I said, slightly defensive.

When I got through I saw Bash struggling to jump down from a hole that was pretty high up, and Seth underneath him.

"Just jump! I'll catch you!" Seth shouted up to him.

"No! I'm gonna crush you!" Bash shouted back.

"It's not even that high!" Seth told him.

"Well you're not 4'10, Bubba!" Bash shouted down.

"How many times must I tell you not to call me that!" Seth shouted, turning a deep shade of scarlet.

"God you're insufferable!" Seth told them. Bash took a deep breath and jumped down with Seth catching him as promised.

"What did I tell you?" Seth asked, with a smile. Bash still in his arms, leaned over and kissed him, and then said,

"Thanks! Also, you do know I wasn't actually scared to jump down? Love you though!" He said, with a coy smile. He hopped down, kissed Seth, and then left him completely flustered, and unable to form sentences. I later found out that was their first actual kiss. Also the only time Bash had initiated. Bash proceeded to walk away, leaving Seth there, trying to remember his name.

"You coming?" Bash asked.

"Yeah." Seth said, still with a dazed expression.

"Stop being so adorable, you're making the rest of us feel incredibly single!" Meg said.

"Yes, I concur, I feel slightly attacked by this display of mutual affection." Ophelia remarked.

I turned around to find Haven staring at me with this funny look in his eyes.