The shortening gap between Beth and Lilly made the victims stomach knot, hurting the monster. It thought it had the most control over Lilly but Beth was a tough contender. It was having none of her games. It needed to take full control of Lilly. Needed to find a way to switch her mind to complete evil.
Lilly was so intimidated by Beth that she would do anything to stop her from jumping her. Even if Beth had commanded for Lilly to suck Stephen off right there and then, in front of the students and bus driver, she would've done it. 'Anything would be better then the pain she can give' she thought.
Lilly only knew that touching a boys penis was a sexual and pleasurable act as again she took the information from the world. Having no friends meant she could listen in on others conversations, as to how she discovered this was a thing girls and boys did. The female students never talked about touching themselves, though, so Lilly supposed it was only boys who could have their parts touched.
Luckily, before Beth could get too close, the bus pulled up next to Lilly. Hastily, she jumped on and sat down at one of the very front seats. She hid away behind her backpack as Beth walked past to sit at the far back where her gaggle of sheep already sat. Next to get on the bus was the tiny girl who sat behind Lilly, hoping she could serve some protection if anyone was to hurt her. Lilly wouldn't help though. The demon wouldn't have let her as she had become a self-minded, ignorant girl. However, the monster hadn't quite mastered to make Lilly stand up for herself, but it was getting there.
The last to get on was Stephen who sat opposite Lilly. The two hardly talked but shared many classes. He was a very tall boy with glasses and blotches of acne on his face. He was on the line between attractive and average and usually kept to himself. One thing Lilly didn't know about this lanky boy was his quenching lust for her. Of course only a freak could love someone as unusual as Lilly. Stephen was incredibly dirty-minded, a trait he hid behind his shy mask. Often, he imagined Lilly's small mouth intimately close to his cock. If he knew that Lilly would give him a blowjob to avoid conflict with Beth, Stephen would have begged Beth to threaten her with all his persuasive skills.
Oblivious, Lilly sat in silence, not noticing Stephen licking his lips to those sexual images. In many ways he was quite like Lilly, he hid his bad side behind a perfect portrait. Although Lilly did like Stephen, he was merely an acquaintance to her and not someone she could go to hang out with or talk to.
Since it was still slightly dark out, Lilly could see her reflection quite clearly in the window. She still held the blue tit feather in her hand as she looked at herself. She couldn't hold onto the feather forever so opted to put it in the plait she had made from a clasp of hair. It sat perfectly atop her head and flattered her deep blue eyes. She smiled at herself, glad that her present could be put to beautiful use.
Once she finished admiring herself (something she did rarely as her insecurities made her hate her face), Lilly returned to sitting in silence.
The bus picked up more and more students at each stop it came to. Most gave Lilly a small glance then passed her with little notice. No one was friends with her but no one minded her. She was a nice girl to them who you could ask for the answers from and wouldn't argue. With her new demon, she wouldn't be so kind now. it wanted people to not befriend her because she was scary not weird.
Her odd qualities were probably what made her attractive to the handful of boys that fancied her. None of them were the popular or athletic boys, they were the slightly weird ones or the freaks. Stephen fit perfectly in with that group.
One of the freaks who liked Lilly was a boy called Cassius. A freak because he was crazy and dangerous. He groped girls, stabbed boys with compasses, threw chairs at teachers and acted like he was king of them all. Undeniably, he was a sociopath but people preferred the simple term "freak".
Cassius' fondness for Lilly was a new development. He was the only student who had noticed her slipping mind. Slipping mind to insanity. Since he refused to do his work all the time, he liked to watch Lilly. He especially liked when she had to bend down to pick up a broken part of a pencil she snapped or a piece of paper she had been drawing pentagrams on. Lilly's skirt would lift up slightly, giving a clearer view of her rear end. This sight always caused him to smirk enormously.
The amount that Cassius craved Lilly was becoming unbearable to him. He needed to let it out like how he let out his other emotions of hate and anger. He would commit frowned upon acts.
At the next and final stop of the bus journey, Cassius jumped on. As soon as he saw the feather haired girl, his already devious grin stretched to his ears. Cassius was crazily confident, much more so then Stephen. So, he did the thing the weird boy would never be able to do. He sat down beside her. This act would've been too innocent for Cassius' liking so of course he had to increase the intensity. Something that would prove if she is worthy to him. Staring into her confused and startled eyes, Cassius handed Lilly a piece of paper.
"Dear Lilly, do you like my art?" she read in her head. As she finished the line, her eyes were brought down to what he was questioning her about. At the bottom of the page were three red blood blots. She realised now what the question meant. That 'blood' was his art.
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The Heart Collector
HororLilly was an innocent soul. The world turned her insane. Cassius was different. He was born with the devil inside him. The song birds fell to Lilly under her knife. She became ever desperate for affection and bigger hearts. Cassius was her answer. T...