The Tales Of Esmeralda

Chapter 19: Mythical Creature #2, Comin' At Ya!

They all learned about each other within a week. They stayed up until after midnight with each other. After midnight was always the best time to get to know someone. Each one shared a secret that they never shared with anyone else.

Esmeralda said that she was actually very shy when she was younger. The only reason she wasn't was because she had to talk to people in order to get food and survive. And now she will never shut up!

Yolanda told them that she was something called "bisexual". Basically it's when someone is attracted to both males and females.

Sebastian is something called "homosexual". It means that he's only attracted to males. ("Well," Petros said to this, "that makes me special then...")

Petros sometimes wishes that he was an only child. Six siblings was just too much to handle. ("That's understandable," Yolanda had said to this.)

Eventually they knew the foundation of their travel buddies. The type of people they were, their secrets. Not everything about them, no. Not yet. But they knew each other well enough to know that they were a family now.

The family that Esmeralda wanted.

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Esmeralda, Yolanda, Sebastian, and Petros pulled over to the side of the road one day in order for them to get drunk and go to sleep. As well as for the horses to sleep (and Triana of course, but she was a cat; she slept whenever she felt like it).

After a couple drinks they all started laughing for no apparent reason.

"Okay okay," Sebastian said. "Let's play a game... I used to play it with Larissa...and Demetria too... We call it 'Fuck, Marry, Kill'."

"Ooooh!" Esmeralda said. "Fuck, Marry, Kill? Sounds interesting." She took a sip of her drink, then put her head on Yolanda's shoulder. "How do we play?"

"Okay. So we pick a category of people. And we say which one we would like to fuck, which one we'd like to marry, and which one we'd like to kill."

Esmeralda shrugged. "Sounds easy enough."

"Okay!" Yolanda said. "Who wants to pick the topic?!"

"I will!" Petros said. "I think we should choose from...the gods..."

"Ooooh!" everyone else said. Triana then walked onto Yolanda's lap and fell asleep.

"Alright," Yolanda said. "May I go first?"

"Of course," Sebastian said.

"Okay! I would fuck...Hades."

"Ah!" Esmeralda said, lifting her head with her jaw dropped. "Hades?"

"Well yeah... I don't know why. I've just always wanted to like... I don't know. I'm weird. I'd want to marry...Hermes."

"Understandable," Esmeralda murmured into her cup before drinking from it.

"And I'd kill... Okay, I'm stuck between two."

"As long as it's only two you can say," Petros said with a drunken chuckle.

"Okay. I'd either kill Hera or Ares. No offense to them, but Hera can be kinda...bitchy? Yeah, bitchy. And Ares is kinda a jerk too. He's the god of war. None for killing people... I don't know. I don't like that. Killing to defend someone is different, though."

"Okay!" Esmeralda said with a smile. "My turn! I'd fuck Persephone. She's the goddess of flowers. Very beautiful. I'd marry Athena. Goddess of battle strategies. Very nice. And I'd kill...I don't know who I'd kill..."