We found the others and I walked over, Asch behind me. Ava was talking to some girl about how cool the guy's cosplays were. I'm not that tall, only 5'8 yet I still TOWER over Ava and this woman. Not to mention with my boot's 4-inch platform I'm 6'.
"O-oh... hey Y/N..." Ava chuckled as she looked at me.
"Hmm.?" the woman looked at me.
Fuck... it's Lorelai.
"Y/N! You're back from Australia!"
"Uhh yeah... have been for a week..." looked down at the energetic RAT of a woman.
"You're so underdressed! It's weird actually seeing your face for once." she giggled. I looked away and scoffed.
"Mm.. My mask broke.." I said.
"Oh no! Do you need someone to fix it? I can help!"
My eyes widened a bit. 'Huh!? She wanted to help..?'. I shook my head. "I got it. Don't worry kid." I looked away down at her, my gaze sharp and chilling yet she just smiled.
"Alright! Well if you ever need help just call! I gotta. Run but I'll see you later! Bye, Ava!" Lorelai said as she ran off.
"What the fuck just happened..." I muttered.
"I dunno but you looked like you were horrified by her offering help," Ava said.
"Yeah, you really did..." Noi said. "Are you scared of help?"
I scoffed. "Of course not. I worked in the fucking military... I helped people every day."
"He means are you scared of being helped." Asch scoffed.
"Piss off, would ya! Doesn't matter what I fear because I don't let it affect me." I said as I took the bags for Ava and started walking.
"Y/N we need food." she chuckled as she watched me change directions to go to the grocery store.
I watched for 10 minutes as Ava chose between feeding her and feeding Johnny.
She sighed "goodbye scrunchies..." She sighed and put back the cereal. Before looting at the four giants behind her, even I towered over her, she was like 5'3 or sum, just a little midget.
"Can you guys not stare all weirdly." she looked at me a second. "Well, you do it all the time so it's not surprising but still! It's weird!"
"How?" Noi asked.
"Oh right.. I forgot none of you had manners down."
I looked slightly offended.
"Don't even Y/N! You ate a fucking cockroach in front of a child.. FOR FUN!"
"It was my favourite game when I was younger."
"Oh yeah... I always forget you're fricked in the head
"What a weird way to say I have trauma."
She rolled her eyes and paid for Johnny's food before we left and started walking home.
Noi looked at all the bags in my hands. "Do you need help..?" he asked.
"Nah, I got it." I looked at him briefly before continuing to walk.
I'll never accept help, not from Ava, our dads, strangers... no one. That's just how it's been since I was younger.
'God what I wouldn't do for a smoke right now. But my hands are full... mother fucker.' I thought I was twitching to taste the bitterness of a cigarette 'damn paper bags.'
I sighed and kept walking. Noi seemed to notice my slight twitching, the way my tail would tense and relax. Just like it had when my lighter was dead.
He reached into my bag and pulled out my lighter and cigarettes.
"Noi! What are you doing!" Asch said.
"Hmm..? I'm helping!" I tensed and looked at him. "Put them back kid.." I said, my chilling gaze focused on him.
He frowned and put them back. Ava looked at me and sighed before speaking to Noi.
"Don't take it to heart. She just... doesn't like help, she never has." Ava shrugged.
"Oh.." Noi muttered got home, and I set everything on the counter before going to check on Thorn.
I held the Venomous creature in my hands and watched him crawl up my arm... the only help I could ever ask for.
I smiled softly before hearing Ava scream. I ran out, my tail curled over my shoulder. I watched as Ava put her arm through the wall. 'What the fuck!?'. My eyes widened as she walked through.
I walked over and stuck my head in, my jaw dropping at the sight of this place. Light Grey walls with gold accents, marble floors and quartz pillars.
"Holy shit.." I muttered as I looked around.
They looked at me, noticing the look of Awe on my face.
"How the fuck did you guys manage this.." I said as Thorn climbed onto my shoulder.
"Magic." Leif shrugged.
"Yeah, no shit Sherlock... What I was talking about... was the fact that this stuff would cost like... a million fucking dollars."
"Dollars..?" Rhys asked.
"Yeah. Dollars? Yen? Gallion? Money..?"
"No clue." Leif shrugged.
"Jesus Christ..." I heard a thus and saw Ava had passed out.
"Damn... couldn't be me." and with that, I walked out.
