A Taste Of The Afterlife

Sixteen: Shedding light on the dark

-Enya-

Luce carried me all the way back to his house rather than letting me walk, wings out in their full glory. I was happy to see them knowing he wasn't intentionally hurting himself over them. Happy despite knowing I'll probably wake up in a stupid hospital bed, all of this being some big stupid dream I'm going to cry over. I won't be able to live a normal life with how long I've been here, getting used to everything and everyone. Plus I'll have to face my mother with the thought of me mentally being Lucifer's girlfriend. Will I become a satan worshiper after this?

..would that really be so bad? As long as I'm not sacrificing animals or hurting people, it shouldn't be a problem. I wonder if he'll show me his summoning circle so I can try to use it when I wake up. Al would think I'm crazy which he might not be so wrong about that since I'm seriously thinking about trying to summon the devil. I definitely have to do it at his house and not at home so Mother doesn't send me to church camp and be exercised.

He takes me to a new room in his house where Arawn, Ray, and 15 were seated in theatre seats. They were all holding something. Popcorn, assorted candies, drinks. It truly looked like a human movie theatre.

I gasped. "The movie night!"

Luce chuckles, setting me down. "Of course. I promised you one. I would have liked to have more time to prepare better but your mental health is in peril."

"Great. Still mentally dying. Got it." I nodded. "So what are we watching?"

"Whatever you'd like to watch, of course~" Luce gestures to Arawn who's holding a remote and suddenly, the lights are out and the empty wall across the seats is brought to life by a projector I notice is stashed in the wall on the opposite side. Movie covers appear on said wall and Arawn shuffle through them. "Pick what you want~"

"Oh.. I hadn't thought that far.. I don't really care what we watch.." Luce pulls me over to the chairs, one left empty between Arawn and 15 for me to sit while Ray occupies the other side of 15. I look up to Luce, half happy to sit between the angel and demon but I also wanted to sit next to him in.. celebration.. I guess since we are kind of a thing now. But I also didn't want to straight-up ask out of embarrassment knowing the others will laugh so I just sit. Luce then promptly sat on the floor in front of me, leaning against my legs. I guess he wanted to sit next to me too.

As I giggled at Luce's choice of seating, Arawn taps my arm to gain my attention. "Are you sure you don't have a movie in mind?" I look up at the screen. All the movies he scrolled past I've already seen with my own family, meaning they haven't updated their movies either. Lame. "We can search in categories if that helps." A list of genres pop up and the first thing I saw was Anime.

Endless possibilities fly through my mind realizing that was always an option. I tried to get Ray into anime, telling him stories of the ones I've seen but he wasn't impressed. 15 isn't a tv person at all so he wouldn't really care. But what about Arawn? I don't know too much about him so whether he was a movie person or not is a mystery. And Luce.. if he had the choice, I'm sure he'd pick something pornographic, anime or not. But.. this movie night is for my health so I should be able to watch something more catered to me.. though I don't like the idea of it.. but..

"..anime.." I whispered to him. Ray groans and throws popcorn at me.

"I knew it. I told you she'd go for it the moment she saw it."

"Stop complaining." 15 tells him. "She can watch whatever she wants. This is for her, remember."

"All I'm saying is that she should expand her genres."

"If I recall, you liked anime too before you died." 15 continues. "You said you liked manga and would always look for it in the libraries because you thought it was cool they were backwards."