Eyes of White 2

NEW Chapter 6: Train Station - LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE WARNING! LANGUAGE WARNING!

This chapter has rude words in it, because my characters get angry. I have censored a letter or two of each, because I know young people may read this book, but still!

Also there might be a bit of inappropriate behaviour... maybe?

Persephone got ready for school in record time, telling Mel to leave Zania a message, and ran down to the corner store, where she went straight to the sushi bar.

"Um, I guess I'll get an avocado roll, and some inari," she said to the Japanese woman at the counter in Japanese. "Oh, can I also get a tofu bento with rice and a vegetarian noodle box?"

The woman beamed. "Certainly. You speak Japanese very well. Would you also like a tub of just rice, complimentary from me, a gift for the obvious hours and devotion you put into your studies of our language?"

"Yes, please."

"Four soy sauce or five?"

"Five please."

Persephone took the bag and thanked the woman. She walked down to the train station.

She sat on a dirty bench, next to a seemingly homeless man. She opened her tub of rice. "Would you like some?"

The dirty man looked up. "I don't need your pity," he growled.

"Sorry," Persephone mumbled. "I was just being nice."

He gave her a toothless grin. "Hey, Persephone. Sorry, I didn't recognise you. I will have some rice, actually."

Persephone glanced up. "Do I know you?"

"Well, of course you know me," Penelope said, morphing out of her homeless man form. "Now, can I have some rice?"

"S-Sure," Persephone stuttered, and spooned half of her tub onto the lid, which she handed to her sister. Penelope shoved the mound of sushi rice into her mouth.

Suddenly, a boy's voice called out, "Miss me, babe?"

Penelope's face grew sour. "Babe?"

Persephone grimaced. She turned around and saw a blond kid her age, with melting green eyes and a school uniform the same as hers. "Hey Dan," she said forcibly, squeezing a smile onto her face.

He came and sat next to his - girlfriend? He threw his arm around her shoulders. Gesturing to Penelope, he asked, "Who's your friend?"

"Um, this is my twin sister, Penelope. Sis, I can explain -"

Penelope exploded with anger.

"Explain? There's nothing to explain, sister. You replaced me! I've been gone for six weeks and you replaced me! We were supposed to get boyfriends at the same time, remember! Or have you forgotten me? Is that why you didn't recognise me? Was I just -"

Persephone growled menacingly. "Shut - the - f***ing - hell - up, you b*tch! Let me explain!"

Surprised by her sister's out of character outburst, Penelope grew silent.

"You were in a f***ing hobo form! How the f*** was I supposed to know it was you? And I haven't f***ing forgotten you! I think of you every f***ing minute of every f***ing day!"

Penelope couldn't help it. She had to butt in. "I'm going to say you don't think of me when you're banging him. You probably do every other time, but seriously, when you're banging someone, you tend to only think of how hot and dirty it is, or how you crave more, or something."

Persephone watched her train pull into the station. "Just f*** off, Penelope. Just like you did that day when you killed Mum." She grabbed Daniel's wrist and her bag strap. She marched off and stepped onto the carriage. "Oh, and for the record, I haven't f***ed him. Not yet." With that, she pulled Daniel in for a kiss, dumping her bag on the ground and enjoying the outraged look on Penelope's face.

"I love you, babe," Persephone whispered in Japanese into Daniel's ear after they'd found a seat on the train. She then translated it into English.

He smiled. "I just realised something. We aren't officially going out yet, are we?"

Persephone grinned. "Doesn't the guy have to ask?"

Daniel shrugged. "It depends. Will the girl say yes?"

Persephone leaned in for another kiss. "What do you think?"

Once they'd finished, Daniel asked her.

"Oh my goodness, yes!" she squealed.

"Good. So, as boyfriend and girlfriend, I have a question to ask you. What was that outburst at the station about?"

Persephone sighed. "Have you heard of The Evil?"

Daniel snorted. "Yes."

Persephone reluctantly told him her story.

He stroked her hair at the end. "Oh, baby..."

Persephone buried her face in his shirt as she cried.

"Shh, shh... don't cry."

"How can I not cry?" she sobbed.

"Good point."

Persephone pulled herself away and glanced out the window.

"Sh*t, Dan, look where we are!"

Daniel stared out the window at the sign that read Charleston Station. "Already?"

They clambered off the train and ran to school, laughing about absolutely nothing.

They laughed even harder when they realised that they'd arrived at school an hour early.

"What shall we do now?" Daniel asked innocently.

Persephone got the implication. "I might have an idea," she said, rushing off to the park. Daniel sat on a park bench and gestured for her to sit next to him, like he didn't know what they both wanted to do. But, of course, he did, and followed his girlfriend towards the bathroom block.

"Girls or boys?" he inquired.

"Girls," Penelope replied back instantly. When Daniel opened his mouth to protest, Persephone giggled and said, "The cubicles actually have doors."

Convinced, Daniel and Persephone walked into a stall in the girls' bathroom.