Beautiful Crime ※ DogNut

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It took Adelaide several moments of groaning and pushing from the boy to get her out of bed but eventually, she got out of bed and forced her feet into her boots and grabbed her jacket before leaving the room. Adelaide walked through the dark halls of the museum, following the sound of the voices.

No matter how nice the group at their doors may be, Adelaide would still be horrifically unreasonable with them – they woke her up from her nap and she was pissed. Sleep was fleeting in this new world and any undisturbed sleep was welcomed with open arms, so having those fleeting moments of sleep taken away was not appreciated.

By the time she arrived, DogNut was already within a heated debate with a member of the new group. Causing her to stand between them to break up the tension a little. "Before you two start making out, I'm going to have to break it up."

"Listen, lady, that's not what was happening-" a boy with light hair interrupted, a finger raising as if he was in class. Adelaide admitted that he was cute – but he had nothing on DogNut.

Wait, what?

What was she even saying?

You hate DogNut, he's a jerk. He's not cute or handsome, he's just a jerk.

Now let's get back to the matters at hand, shall we?

"I don't give a flying fuck what was happening; you woke me up from the best sleep I've had in weeks, so you better have a fucking fantastic reason for doing so or I'll start removing body parts." Adelaide cut him off, her jaw clenching together as she tried to contain her anger.

DogNut placed a hand on her shoulder, causing her to turn towards him a little. "Babe, you're scaring them-"

Adelaide wanted to snap at DogNut for his "babe" comment, but she knew she would only make the situation worse if she did so she kept quiet about it and turned towards the group instead, her lips pursing together as she raised a hand in DogNut's direction to stop him from speaking, shrugging off his hand. "Just... What the fuck do you want?"

"We just need a place to stay," a voice spoke up from near the back of the small crowd in front of her.

Just as Adelaide was about to give a sarcastic remark, she noticed who was speaking up. A blonde-haired girl had stepped forward and was in front of Adelaide and her whole angry demeanour dropped. "Holy shit, it's another chick. Make that four other chicks. You have no idea how nice it is to see other girls, at least now I might actually be allowed to do something."

The blonde's eyebrows fused together in confusion, her eyes narrowing a little. "Huh?"

Adelaide rolled her eyes. "Because I'm a girl, I'm not allowed to do anything dangerous – playing a huge part in keeping the human race alive and all. Apparently. Anyway, I'm not in charge here; you'd have to talk to Jordan – he's the one in charge here. I would get him, but it seems he's already here so if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to bed." She pushed DogNut and Jordan aside and stormed down the hallway, back to her bedroom.

After kicking off her boots and shimmied out of her jacket, Adelaide collapsed onto her bed and stared up at the ceiling above her. Despite only getting an hour or so of sleep, she didn't feel tired anymore. Almost as if she never truly felt tired in the first place, which annoyed her. All she wanted was sleep, but now that she was in a situation where she would get it, her body wouldn't allow her to sleep.

Her eyes closed and she was alone with her thoughts, that was when she fell into sleep... or something close to it.

She saw her older brother in his bed, covered in sweat and nothing would make it go away. He was all she had left now; her parents had died a few hours earlier and she didn't even get to say goodbye. They had died by the time she had gone to get them fresh glasses of water and some ice packs – a job that would've taken moments.