Gehenna's Gate

Dance With The Devil

"Ready to spill the beans yet?" Rae gave a playful nudge to Vena's ribs, knowing she'd given it enough time to simmer.

It was after school now, and the two were out doing their usual things- either walking around the mall or finding something to eat.

The noise of a fork slamming into a plate caused Rae to flinch, her eyes flicking down to see that Vena had decided to stab a piece of chicken rather violently in response.

Hm. Maybe not just yet.

"No way tall, dark and handsome got under your skin this bad." Rae scoffed playfully, making a dumb noise in attempt to curb her bestie's rage.

Typically Vena wasn't this easy to anger, and Rae was dying to know what he could have possibly done to piss her off so badly.

"Girl, in all the years I've known you, I swear I've seen you look this murderous maybe a total of three times. Talk, what happened?"

"You know, for how quiet that guy has been all year, I never would have guessed he's such a smug, nosy little brat," Vena began, shoving a forkful of her chicken alfredo into her mouth before taking a pause to chew.

Rae remained silent, not wanting to distract the girl now that she was finally willing to talk.

"He thinks he knows everything, he takes wild guesses and just gets lucky and then lets it all get to his head. He was getting a sick kick out of making me mad, what a literal CHILD. 'Do you sleep naked?' LIKE WHO RAISED YOU?" Vena mocked him, shoving more carbs into her mouth as she finally let the anger out.

"Wait HE ASKED IF YOU SLEEP NAKED?" Rae's mouth dropped open, thankfully it hadn't been full of food when this shocking development had been delivered.

"WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM?"

"I didn't answer, what the fuck was I supposed to say?!" Vena threw her hand up in the air angrily.

"HE WAS FLIRTING WITH YOU, MORON." Rae smacked the table with the end of her utensil, flabbergasted at her best friend's level of density.

"He was NOT. He was saying stupid shit the entire time, just so he could giggle at my reactions! He's a man-child." Vena's face was going to be permanently set in a scowl if she kept this up.

"I'm not sure if you're just not into men, or you just have NO CLUE when it comes to picking up their social cues but he was trying to make a move on you! IDIOT!" Rae continued to playfully insult her friend, but Vena knew better.

"No, Rae, listen-" Vena set her fork down now, the anger leaving her expression finally as her typical self took back over, analyzing the situation over again.

"He knew stuff about me that he shouldn't have known." Vena began, knowing she was probably about to sound a little crazy, but that if she could tell it to anyone, it would be Rae.

"Okaaaaay, likeeee~?"

"Like, my hobbies, the music I liked, my favorite food, even some of my personality traits." It sounded even dumber saying it out loud.

"Girl, I could guess most of those just by looking at you. You dress like an emo bitch, so your music type makes sense, and I could probably guess some of your personality traits too. What'd he say, you're quiet and have trust issues? He probably just got lucky."

Vena opened her mouth again to protest, but reluctantly closed it again, instead deciding to use her fork to drag a noodle across her plate in thought.

Maybe she was just being skeptical of him. How often did anyone even go out of their way to annoy her like that in the first place? He was probably just bored and thought he'd get a kick out of irritating the always-bored looking girl anyway.