I'm yours

Part 11

Beth smirked while adjusting her glasses professionally. “Pay up, bitch.” She said to Ciel when he came to her land and had to pay quite a price. “I hate this game. I give up.”, “You’re bankrupt, anyway.”, “Whatever, I’m going to the toilet.” When Ciel left, Beth was alone with Sebastian. She tried really hard not to look at him during the game and even harder now. “So, he really cried over the game?” Beth could at least talk with him. “Yeah, company and I hid some of his money from him when he didn’t look and then he got upset. Soon after he lost and blamed us, saying that we took his money. We were deadly serious and told him to stop acting like a child. And then he ran to his room.” After Sebastian finished the story, Beth looked at him with raised brow. “And you call yourself mature?” she asked and he narrowed his eyes. “No, not quite.” Beth laughed and shook her head. “Well, I’m not surprised.”, “Really? I don’t hear that a lot.”, “Never mind.” He replied after he got a questioning look from her.

Predictably, Beth lost, she was expecting it. After monopoly, Ciel wanted to watch a movie and they had to say yes. Beth gave them her collections of DVDs and prepared snacks. “Have you decided?” she asked and sat on the couch. “I want Ice Age.”, “Oh, come on.” Beth and Sebastian said in unison and shook their heads. “Okay… Why don’t you choose something then? Ciel talked to Sebastian, “I don’t know… ” Beth looked at them argue and sighed. “Give it to me.” She said and randomly chose one without looking at it and put it in the player. When they all settled, the movie started. It turned out to be ‘Jack and Jill’. “Is it a good movie?”, “Shut up and watch.”

No one seemed disappointed by the movie because they were all laughing. Beth almost fell asleep, but who could sleep when you have two men laughing like idiots next to you? But wasn’t it weird enough that they were there, hanging out with Beth like good old friends? Yeah…
After the movie, Sebastian saw that Beth was tired and told Ciel they were going home. “Wait.” Beth stopped them before they left and gave them their presents. “You better use it, pipsqueak.” She told to Ciel and gave him a death glare. “What is it?” Ciel asked with an expression of a 2-year-old kid. “You’ll see.”, “And yours is not as cool as his, but it’ll serve.” Beth then said to Sebastian. “Oh, uhm, thank you. You didn’t have to.” He thanked her and smiled. “But we also have something for you.” Ciel interrupted and winked at her while walking to the door. Beth looked at his way with a horrified face on. “Yeah, he does that a lot.” A second after, Beth heard a rustling sound coming closer to them and Ciel appeared, carrying a big object wrapped in paper. “Oh, my God…” Beth muffled with a hand over her mouth. “What the fuck did you…”, “You’ll see.” Ciel said imitating her and they started leaving. “Thank you!” She yelled after them and closed the door.

Beth would never admit it, but she felt happy and excited because of this little gesture of theirs. Although it wasn’t little… When she removed the paper, she saw a huge teddy-bear. It was white and had a blue ribbon around his neck, not to mentions he was fluffy. In his… claws? Yeah, in his claws he held a cup on which wrote ‘The world’s best neighbor.’ “Cute as fuck, holy Jesus.” Beth said and felt something warm around her heart.

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“Elizabeth Brant?”, “Yes?”, “Sign here, please.”, “Okay, what is this?”, “I don’t know, I just deliver.” The delivery guy brought her a package and didn’t seem he was in a good mood. It was still snowing like crazy outside and no one normal wanted to be out in this blizzard. “Thank you.” The guy muttered and went to the elevator from which Ciel just got out. “Oh, Beth hey.” He cheerfully said and went to hug her, but she stopped him. “Don’t even dare.” He was covered in snow. “What were you doing outside?”, “Emily and I went to the date.”, “Really? How was it?”
That actually interested Beth.
“She’s not that bad when you meet her.”, “Where were you been?”, “At the cinema and café. Then we were walking slowly on the streets.”, “What? In this snow?”, “Yeah, it’s actually pretty nice.”
‘Idiots.’
“That’s nice.”, “Yeah. Oh, and by the way, thank you so much for the PS4. I love it!”, “Good, I’m glad.” She said and smiled. “Wait, your name is Elizabeth?” Ciel asked while looking at her name on the package in her hands. “Uhm, yeah. What did you think?”, “I thought it was just Beth.”, “Nope.”, “Well, see you later, Elizabeth.” He said and smirked. “Don’t start with that.”, “With what, Elizabeth?”, “Goodbye.” She said and closed the door.
The package she got was a new HP laptop from the company. “Okay, wow. Surprise after surprise.” She immediately moved everything from the old to the new one. “It really is a nice Christmas this year.”

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Since she got a new laptop, Beth didn’t separate from it. One night she was up until 4 a.m. and then realized how tired she actually was and went to sleep. The next day she had to wake up a little earlier to go shopping. She bet it’ll be crowded on the New Year’s Eve.
She dragged herself from her bed to the kitchen to drink some cold water because it felt like a desert in her mouth. A sudden bell ring shocked her and the glass from her hand fell to the floor and shattered to pieces. “Aaahhh, just great.” Beth muttered and moved forward, only to step on a big and a few smaller pieces of glass. She sat on the floor and took a few deep breaths, clenching her fists. The bell repeated. “Who is it?” she shouted to the door, unable to get up. “Sebastian.”, “Please come in.” Beth heard the door open and patiently waited on the kitchen floor. “In the kitchen.” She gave him a small instructions of her whereabouts. He froze when he saw her on the floor with a bloody foot. “You got any tweezers?”

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“Hold still.”, “I can’t, it’s big.”, “That is why you need to hold still.”, “It hurts.”, “I know.”, “As if. Ow! Can’t you be a little gentler?”, “I’m trying to get it out as sooner as possible.”, “Don’t blame me if you get a kick in the face.”, “Right.”, “I’m serio- OW! God dammit!”, “Just a moment… Here”, “Oh, thank God.”, “But you still got 4 more of them.”, “This never happened to me before.”, “There’s first time for everything.”, “Mhm.”, “I didn’t know you’re such a wimp.”, “… Shut up.”
Ciel listened to Sebastian’s and Beth’s conversation while watching him removing the glass out of her foot. If he only listened to them, he’d thought of something really different. While Sebastian was removing the rest, Beth didn’t make a sound. Not even when he was disinfecting the wounds. Finally, he wrapped the bandages. “All done.”, “Thank you very much.” Beth stood up and almost screamed. “I think you should rest for a while.”, “Yeah. Anyway, you needed something?”