Before the Ever After

Let the Chaos begin

August 27th

2024

Britain, West side

Afternoon, 6:00 pm

8 friends in one house.
That's fine.
Nothing could go wrong.
Right?
. . .
Right?

"PUT IT IN!!" Crypt can be heard yelling at Valentino to put the chicken in the oven.
They were making dinner... Hopefully the house doesn't get burned down.. like last time...

"That's what she said." *Valentino says, while putting the chicken in the oven.*

". . ."
Silence.

Valentino was always like that. A dirty minded bitch.
But who isn't these days?
Some, like Val, are just more dirty minded than the rest.

Val jumped back from the oven, burning himself a bit when he put the chicken in the oven.

"Stupid." Cosmo hissed from where she sat on the counter.
She jumped down, grabbing Val's arm and dragging him over to the sink. "Next time, wear oven mits." *She scolded, turning on the cold water and putting Val's hand under the water.

"Well, no one told me to." *Val leaned on the counter with his hand still under the cold water.

"Dumbass. No one needs to tell you to put on oven mits." *Newt said from over at the couch, eating chips while scrolling on his phone. "It's common sense."

"NEWT!" *Tarcias suddenly yelled, snatching the chips from Newt's hands.*

"Hey! I was eating those!"

"Nuh uh!!" *Tarcias closed the chip bag, and put them on the counter.* "These are Crypt's! And Crypt's onlys!"

Did I mention Tarcias and Crypt are dating?
That seems like important information.

"I don't see his name on them!" Newt protested.

"THEY LITERALLY DO HAVE HIS NAME ON THEM!!" Tarcias picked the bag up again, and pointed at the very front of the bag, which very clearly has Crypt's name on it. "Stupid fuck." Tarcias put the chips down again.

"Oh... I didn't see that." Newt looked down.

"Guys!" Bingus and Prince suddenly ran into the room. "Guess what?" They said at the same time.

"Youfoundawaytokillme?" Cosmo said so fast that no one understood her.

"What?" Crypt looked at Cosmo.

"What?" Cosmo looked at Crypt.

". . ."
Silence.

"A-Anyways!" Bingus spoke up. "We got tickets to an amusement park online!"

"Online?... What website?" Crypt said skeptically.

"Uh.. I think it was... Unreasonably/priced_stuff.com"

"...and... How much were the tickets?"

"Only 2'000 dollars for each of us." Bingus said, rather excitedly.

"2'000?!" Crypt yelled. "For each of us?! How did you get all of that money?!"

"Bingus used your credit card." Prince spoke up.

"You weren't supposed to tell him!!" Bingus said.

"I'm sorry!"

"I'm gonna be in debt..." Crypt leaned against the counter.

"Oh, cheer up! It'll be fun!" Tarcias tried to cheer up Crypt. Tarcias hated seeing Crypt sad.

"Well, we already bought the tickets. Might as well use them." Val said. "Let's go tomorrow."

Crypt sighed. "Fine."

The oven beeped.
Dinner is done!
And they didn't burn the house down.
I'd say this is a pretty successful night.

And everyone gets to have fun tomorrow!
Crypt is in debt though.
That's fine.
He's been in debt before, buying all those maid outfits and plushies and video games and gifts for Tarcias and c.ai subscriptions...
He'll be fine.
Definitely.
...
Probably.
...
Maybe.