All For Not - Wednesday

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Opening my eyes I look up, my sight raking across the wooden ceiling before I sit up pin straight. My view this afternoon is Enid's bedside, half of her area including the wall clock that shows I slept through not only the rest of yesterday and last night but also over half of the new day. Seven in the afternoon meant soon enough the Neveremores traditional ceremony Dort was bringing back would soon come into play.

Groaning, I get up, stripping and dressing before leaving the dorm room all together. At my side Thing appears as we exit the room and move to the stairs where I help him up onto my shoulder so he won't have to climb down each step himself. Sighing, I take a step down before fully moving down the stairs of the tower, stopping at the bottom when I look up and see two girls off to the side near another door, both with their backs to me.

My head tilts as I recognize the voice, then my eyes narrow at the words. "He's so cute, I give it two days and he'll be asking me to be his girlfriend..."

"Isn't he with someone already?" Her friend asks. Sasha scoffs, laughing, "Who cares, even if he was in a relationship, there's no way he'd choose some other outcast over a siren, like seriously look at him and look at me, I'm perfect for him. Besides, he already asked me out."

"No way," her friend laughs, her head of hair making me recognize her as one of the girls Sasha had first shown up with yesterday right before leaving them to join Kent and interrupt us.

"Yep," Sasha sighs happily, "He says he wants to show me some stupid star thing in a secret room the nightshades use." My eyes narrow at her words and I move to step down before Thing taps my shoulder and makes me stop. "I mean it wasn't really a date but I bet you we will be making out as soon as we get there. Why else would he want to take me to a secret room for a date?"

Her scoff makes my nose twitch and glare, her friends laughing with her and speaking, "Maybe he's trying to impress you... If it were me I'd wanna take him to the lake and show him my tail." Disgust fills me at her friend's crassness, her purr sickening.

They laugh together, cackling like a pair of sad desperate eels before the move away from their dorm room and towards the next set of stairs, Sasha's friend gasping and talking once more, "Oh my god, so rumor is that girl he was with yesterday was Morella Feathertail."

Sasha scoffs at my name, "Yeah, I know. Kent introduced me to her." Her friend gasps, surprised, "Holy shit, you met her? What was she like," her friend asks only for Sasha to interrupt as they begin their descent down the stairs, my feet also taking me after them as they continue to talk, "She's a total bitch. You know, I bet not only did she actually not do anything to save Nevermore but I bet she's not even an actual Phoenix, she's probably just some stupid avian contractor or something stupider like one of those mind freaks."

My hands crackle as she continues, my anger forcing me to stand still at the top of the next set of stairs as they continue downwards, "First chance I get, I'm gonna siren song her and make her my school pet, knock her reputation down like building blocks. Then I'll have her carry my stuff and do all my work, easy pass."

Thing and I watch them descend the stairs and turn off, walking away towards the next set and out of our sight. At first I'm quiet, not speaking a single word as I stare downstairs at literally nothing, then I speak softly, "First sign of disarray, I'll roast her alive and eat her...then I'll send her bones home."

My skin burns as I walk down, exiting the tower then the dorms and then lastly the school entirely. Making the effort to find my way to the ceremony after letting Thing off at the cottage..

On first glance though, the giant wooden statue of a raven makes my nose twitch in confusion. Looking around I spot Sasha and her friend, Kent at their sides. My eyes narrow and I stare, glaring him down until he turns, feeling my gaze singe his skin. Catching my eyes he smiles, saying something before walking away from the two girls and jogging over while the girls turn to watch, Sasha clearly scoffing and glaring as she crosses her arms.