Temptations Of The Mist (ticci toby x reader)

chapter 4

               once we were all done with dinner lyra lead me to her room to begin studying.

i sat across from lyra on her bed with a math text book in my lap and lyra 'tutoring' me. the thing is i already knew what she was trying to teach me, but i just sat there and let her explain the equations to me anyways. what else do i have to do right? i already  spent half my day trying to get here, stood in the rain, cut my hand, and to top it off i had to spend the night here. but it was ok she was nicer than i thought she would be, and her brothers cool . i just can't explain the twitching yet. i might ask lyra later what that's all about. 

       "do you get it?" lyra asked snapping me out of my thoughts " umm... yeah it's just exponents."   exponents were easy.i dont even know why they were on the test. but that was one of the many i got wrong for not showing my work, sadly.  i just sighed as i scanned the page i've read so many times i could practically resight it word-for-word but i didnt want to say anything to her to avoid multiple scenarios like her asking 'if you know it word for word then how come you missed so many questions on it?' or 'if you could resight it why would you want my help?'  there are so many scenarios to go through but i'll refrain and just stick with what im doing, playing dumb. i have put to much effort into getting here so i might as well she what she knew, right?

            "i know what you got wrong here!" lyra declared with pride as she examined my paper "you got the question right, you just didnt show your work! it looks like you didnt show your work on any of the questions." she looked at my paper and back to hers then to mine then to hers. this went on of a good 3 minutes then she looked back to me "you got all the questions right you just didnt show you work." she said with a hint of sadness in her voice but as soon as it came it left she had this big cheesy smile on her face then took my hand and dragged me down the hallway the a white door with a synthetic crystal door knob and opened it to reveal her mom laying on the bed in her pjs reading a book.

            Connie looked up to me and lyra with a small smile "hey mom," lyra started "is it ok if me and rose go to the store to get some popcorn?" lyra asked taking me by surprise " dont we have some?" Connie asked "me and toby finished it last night when we watched that movie." lyra stated to her mom "ok but take Toby with you , and return that movie to the redbox thing." Connie said "can we have the card?" i still had no idea what was happening, i didnt know where we were going or what we were going to do "yeah its in my purse, oh and rose your clothes are clean if you want to wear thoughts instead of lyras." she said looking me up and down, i shifted slightly at the gaze and nodded " um, ok, sure. um where is your laundry room at?" i asked, "i'll show you." lyra stated and grabbed my hand "thanks mom" she said then dragged me down the halland to another door i assume to be Tobys. 

            lyra knocked and the door slowly opened to revile, guess who, toby!  he looked like he just rolled out of bed which made me laugh slightly. "we're going to go to the store. And mom wants you to go with us, so get dressed. and brush your hair please it looks like a family of owls curled up and died on there."she said as i tried to stifle my laughter "lets just hope it doesn't smell like it." i said trying to recompose myself he just looked at me, then walked over to me and bent over slightly so he could look me in the eyes and said "you want to check for me." not even breaking a straight face. i was caught off guard from his sudden action so much i bumped into lyra with a extremely red face.  "Toby stop, she might be short but you dont need to point it out ." she said now stifling her laughter making me blush even more than i already was "ok, ok but just so you know, your kinda cute when you blush." Toby said straightening  back up making me blush even more and earning a slap on the back of the head from his sister. "just get ready to leave dork." lyra said grabbing my hand once again and pulling me down the stairs. 

           she lead me into a room that was more like a windowed in back back porch it had two doors one going to another hallway and one door going to the kitchen. it was pretty cool though cause you could see the stars and just sit on (or in ) the washing machine, chill  and  just talk with friends. she walked over to the drier and got out my clothes  and handed them to me "there you go, nice and clean." she said with a small laugh at the end we both went up the stairs and to her room. i was slightly uncomfortable with her watching me change, but i just turned my back to her and quickly changed. after i was done changing we headed downstairs to wait for toby, but to our surprise he was already down there sitting on the couch. "t-took you guys long enough." toby said rolling his eyes., "well its not like me and rose are guys, we cant just brush our hair to look good, we have to walk the full mile."lyra said sticking her tounge out at her brother mockingly "you maybe, but i think rose would look just fine without all that crap on her face, unlike you."  he said looking at me, only to be pushed by lyra. i thought it was nice to see siblings fighting. but it also made me wish i had a brother or sister. but then again not, at the same time. i just sat there smiling to myself as i watched them bicker at each other. but i still couldn't shake this feeling of envy deep in my thoughts.

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