?Her eyes twinkle approvingly as her glare drops. “Impressive.”
?I roll my eyes.
?“I found out when I bit and fed from Castiel.” Her approving expression freezes as her eyes slowly widen. “Clicked into place and when I pulled back I saw his eyes and yeah. . .”
?“That was our first week here,” she growls at me.
?“Yeah, yeah, I know.”
?“No you clearly don’t!” Her voice gets all high pitched as she stares at me with one eye glitching and looking like she wants to strangle me. “You’ve got a full shifting demigod and two devils on your roster and you just wanna brush it off like nothing!”
?A grumble sound comes from my throat. “It’s not like he said anything either. I’m sure he thought it was a fluke or something, or he just didn’t want to admit it, and I just wanted to get through school. Then there was everything that happened with the Willow of Lore ceremony and the rebels and so yeah.”
?Her expression softens. “It’s okay, you have been through a lot,” she consoles. Then she tilts her head and squints aneye. “Why are you telling me this now though? I also saw your location when I got back to the dorm and you were running through the woods.”
?Oof, I forgot about that.
?“I wanted to go hit something last night so I was headed to the arena and at the last minute went to see Darian instead.”
?Her eyes widen again and she interjects, “Is he your fated too?”
?I hold my breath for a moment so I don’t say anything out loud just yet. I’ve noticed that every chance I’ve had I’ve looked him directly in the eyes. I did so last night just to see. The connection between fated will show whenever it wishes. It’s not something that snaps into place at first glance, and there have been records of two people being together their whole lives and only in the end their fate line is shown between them.
?Another reason I think fate is bullshit.
?“No,” I finally answer.
?“You sure?”
?“It would have happened between the encounters we’ve already had if I was.”
?She winces and then asks, “Is Thorne – “
?“No,” I cut off before she can say anything more, and Jullia zips her mouth before nodding.
?“Well. . .” She blows out a breath. “Oh! How does going to Darian correlate to Castiel? Also why were you going to see Darian?”
?Oh. I forgot. “Right, well I was going to ask him a question and apparently Castiel barged in demanding where Iwas. Snapped at me asking how my fated would feel if they could tell I was with another guy – not that I was doing anything with Darian – so I flooded the space with my scent and then asked him how my fated would feel about my scent on him and it sort of escalated after that.”
?Jullia’s jaw is dropped as I ramble about the events that happened.
?“Yeah. . . and then I exposed the bitemark that hadn’t faded at all on his shoulder and Darian saw and then I asked what Castiel wanted again. He got snappy at me and demanded to know why I was in Darian’s rooms and when he challenged me I basically wrapped my flames around him and shoved him to the wall. Then I choked him out and left him unconscious in Darian’s room.”
?“I love you,” she whispers.
?And it’s so random, so. . . unexpected that all I can do is laugh. She starts laughing with me and we go into a minor hysteria before we’re leaning against the walls heaving for breath.
?Just two girls bonding over our shared mania.
?Actually that sounds psychotic – which makes me start laughing again harder and because I started back up, Jullia starts and neither of us can stop. After another moment the curtain of our stall gets ripped open and bored electric green eyes look down at me and Jullia nearly on the floor still laughing.
?Ricka pops my sound barrier and arches a well-manicured dark blonde brow at us. “Well clearly you two aren’t eating each other out in here. Not that I would complain, but I doubt you’re boyfriends would appreciate all that – “ she gives me a devilish grin, “ – especially your fated.”
?And that sobbers me up. I let out a last long sigh as I turn disapproving eyes up at Ricka. She simply leans against the wall and crosses her arms.
?“I kicked everyone out after I heard Jullia and came up here, but you two have been in there for a while. I should have asked to join the party.” Jullia nudges her bare foot to mine and grins at me. “The world famous Castiel D’etre, the most powerful devil of this generation, and the devil councilman’s son. Pretty impressive, Tsuki.”
?“Ehhh. . .” I’d rather not dive into that now. “You can let everyone back in, thanks Ricka. We’ll shower and then head to class.”
