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Chapter 12 ~ Demons Have Horns

I stayed up there for longer then I thought I would. Love made tea for everyone and we all chatted for a good hour. Well Chastity and Abby, which is what everyone calls Abstinence, talked in a separate group and Dillan, which is what people called Diligence, was doing other things so they were not in our conversation. It was good to meet them and I had a bit of fun joking around. It seems that Libby and Humility were really close friends. They acted more like a couple but made it very clear that they were not. Love Even confirmed that there was no connection between them. Chastity and Humility though. That was a whole other story. He was such a nice guy and she tries to convince herself that he's just a good friend but you can tell she likes him just from how she acts around him. She will probably never approach him that way tho. He seems to notice but it's become so normal that he's immune to it.

I had to pry myself away from the conversation in order to leave. These guys can chat up a storm much like the Sins.

I walked down and took the uncomfortable elevator ride to Lucy's floor. I entered the sins work space and found Lust on the couch. She seemed to like sitting on it.

"You wanted to talk?" She looked at me and smiled.

"Yeah! Greed! Come over here." She stood up and straightened out her pencil skirt. Greed sauntered over and stopped once he was standing next to Lust. "Let's head up to the roof. It's a nice private spot to chat." Lust smiled with eyes closed at Greed. I sensed some tension or secret between them.

"Works for me" I shrugged. Lust and Greed led the way as we entered the elevator. I was getting mildly sick of this thing. If the building wasn't so damn tall I would use the stairs. The ride didn't feel as weird with friends with me but Lust looked over.

"You look pale? Everything okay?" I nodded. She didn't seem convinced.

"Just been feeling really weird today." I shook it off as the doors opened. We walked out of the elevator and onto the flat roof of the huge building. The wind seemed stronger and the air colder.

There were a set of heavy, comfy looking chairs up here that looked like they were from the room the Sins "worked" in. There was even a coffee table. It looked like they came up here often. As soon as we stepped off the elevator Lust and Greed glanced at each other facing me. I felt out of the loop.

"Good cop bad cop?" Greed said. I became increasingly curious.

"Bad cop worse cop?" Lust looked from Greed to me. The facades the two had on faded and frowns stayed plastered on there faces. I was unnerved.

Greed turned from me and walked towards the ledge gesturing for me to follow. Lust and I did so. Greed stoped about a yard from the edge and turned to me arms folded across his chest.

"Who did you go to dinner with?" His tone was flat.

"I'm not sure, he said his name was Puck but I don't know who he was." I shrugged. It was the truth.

"And why did he ask you to dinner?"

"He wanted to talk to me personally. I don't know, maybe he wanted a job at the Cafe and wanted to make an impression." Lust walked up behind me and I got a whiff of her perfume again. I'm not sure what about it got my attention, weather it was bad or not, I noticed it.  There was the smell of Cigarette smoke.

"What did you talk about? Anything shocking?" I my nerves shot through my body. Did they know something?

"Yes... He made a few surprising remarks..." I don't want to have to tell them... The letter said there would be a punishment.

"Any context?" Greed stepped towards me.

"Nothing important."

"You sure?"