Dating
Eda stomped down the halls, grumbling under her breath.
“Stupid Bump, throwing me into detentions yet again. It was only just a small explosion!”
Students walked by the witch, all blissfully unaware of her inner turmoil.
For some reason her surroundings seemed louder then usual, and it was only until she was a few hallways away did she realize she forgot to take her secret shortcut.
“Aw farts!” She cursed, “Stupid noise, stupid students, stupid bump!”
She personally liked taking the shortcut way, as it offered her a nice moment of peaceful alone time, to revel in her own thoughts, even if she talked to no one but herself.
Up ahead near the entranceway was a small cluster of hormone filled boys, ugh, they were always annoying.
Eda quickly hugged the wall, trying to go unnoticed, don’t get her wrong, she was not afraid. Heck, she wasn’t afraid of anything! —except snakes, but only Lilith knew of that. Part of their sister pact and all— but she just could not deal with these boys!
“Ha! Did you see reflectoid over their!”
“Yeah, her hairs so frizzy it blocked the sun!”
Immediately, with a burning hatred, Eda realized they were talking about Lilith.
Welp, so much for hiding in the shadows!
“Hey!” She yelled, storming up to them.
“Oh hey Eda!” They all chorused back, with a disgusting tone of lovesick.
Another reason she hated them, they always were trying to date her.
She had enough self respect to say no.
Eda stood, menacingly, “Shut up about my sister before I give you something to really talk about!”
Some of the boy’s looked alarmed, while others leaned in even closer.
“Is it your heart?” The main kid batted his 3 eyes , in what she thinks was supposed to be an alluring way.
Her nose scrunched up in revulsion, “Id rather feed it to a slitherbeast.”
The boys expression quickly soured, “You’ll regret that!”
“Not as much as you’ll regret talking bad about my sister!” She leered, ready to throw hands if she had too.
“Is something wrong students?” Principal bump happened to walk by.
Though to be honest, he didn’t look disapproving if you asked Eda, almost intrigued.
She looked back at the boy and scoffed, “No Bump, nothing worth my time.”
And with that, she turned on her heel and walked into the cafeteria.
Ugh, boys sucked. She thought internally, her face light up though, once she located Lilith in the crowd.
“Lily!” Eda crowed, sliding in the seat beside her and crashing into her in the process.
Lilith scowled, fixed her askew glasses, “yes, hello to you too Edalyn.”
“Did you get me lunch?”
Upon the question, the scowl was turned into a soft smile.
“Yes of course,” she replied, “I know what you like, sister.”
Edas eyes glimmered as she was shown her precious food.
“Aw nice! Roasted bird! That’s like, one of the few things they can actually make well!” She exclaimed happily.
Glancing down, Eda paused, turning her head back to lily.
“Um,” she hesitated,” did you, um.”
“Get you a slice of apple cake,” Lilith smirked, “oh edalyn, you act as if I haven’t known you your entire life!”
Her arm moved, revealing the thoroughly sought out dessert.
Eda snatched it with glee, sticking her tongue out for good measure.
Lilith just responded by lifting a finger, and pulling the bag of her eye downwards, her go to face.
The flame haired witch proceeded to dig in. Relishing the taste of everything.
After a while, she realizing how quiet Lilith was being, by now she should have been tuning out whatever ramble her dorky sister would go on.
Instead, she found herself not having anything to block!
“Lily?” She prodded, “you ok?”
Lilith froze momentarily, but easily regained composure with a nod and a smile.
It was such a good act, Eda was almost convinced.
Almost.
Except Lily’s hand had instinctively jerked upwards, a motion she was so familiar with, she knew it was caused by anxiety.
You see, the sisters had a pact of sorts.
They had a a couple secrets they other swore to never tell another person/thing.
Edas was, well, her curse. And her closeted fear of snakes.
Liliths main one was that she had sucked her thumb till she was 13.
It was a habit she abhorred, embarrassed beyond measures, but she could never seem to stop. For every time she tried their was some new type of pressure or stress leering down at her. And stress caused her to indulge, a lot.
One day, after a particularly hard day for Lilith, Eda swore she would help her break the routine. And that she did.
She stayed up for 7 days straight, refusing to let lily partake in the secret action. You could say Eda was a ‘Night Owl’.
Even so, she eventually managed to get her to stop overall.
But even after all her hard work, she wasn’t quite able to get the arm from instinctively jerking upwards, and if she wasn’t looking long enough, Lilith would be doing homework with one hand, and gnawing on the nail of the other. Jamming it into the slight gap into her teeth over and over again.
Anyway, that’s how Eda knew something was up.
“Lily, what’s up?” She tried again.
Lilith sighed, “it’s nothing.”
“What you call nothing, I call something.” The witch retorted.
Lilith sighed once again, looking forlorn.
She mumbled something under her breath, but Eda wasn’t able to decrypt it.
“Lily, talk clearly.” She pushed.
“I said someone asked me out.”
Dead silence followed, as the younger witch sat in shock.
That was, until a wide bred grin spread across her face.
“That’s great lily!” Eda crowed, “Who is it? What girl am I going to have to silently judge from across the room and plan ones death if they hurt you?!”
Oddly though, Lilith only seemed to shrink into herself even more.
“Wow,” she chuckled uneasily, “Did you really not like her or something?”
The bespectacled girl shook her head.
“No, no. It’s not that.”
Eda frowned, “Then what is it?”
“It’s just.” Lilith’s hand automatically jerked upwards, but Eda caught it in time.
“It’s just, it’s not a girl.”
The Calamity smirked once again, “oh! You scared me! What is their name.”
The older sister waved her wands, “No! No, Edalyn, dear sister, you simply don’t get it. It’s not a girl, and it’s not a
betweener, and it’s not a ghoster.”
Eda frowned again, “But, that leaves,”
“Yes, Edalyn,” Lily finished, “It’s a boy.”
The tension grew somber, and the vigilante stared with sympathetic eyes.
“Sorry lil, don’t worry. One day a girl will ask you out and then you can say yes and be happy!”
Liliths hand jerked again, and this time it slipped out of Edas grasp. instinctively pressing against her lips, the nail teasing it’s way between the gap in her teeth.
She mumbled something, but it became slurred around the nail.
The younger witch tenderly reached out and grasped her older sisters forearm, and with a gentle look, slowly was able to lower it once again.
“I said yes.” Lilith repeated, refusing to look Eda in the eye.
It wouldn’t have made a difference, the surprise of the revelation hitting Eda face on.
“B-but why?!” She exclaimed loudly, ignoring her sisters wince, “That’s wrong?!”
Finally becoming aware of their surroundings, the troublemaker lowered her voice.
“You don’t like boys?”
And you see, that was Lilith’s other part of their sister pact. Her bad habit, and the fact that she vehemently was not attracted to boys.
Lilith looked defeated, her head hanging low.
“And how else am I suppose to look like I do unless I go out with one.” She whispered softly.
A blush of anger appeared on Edas face, hating this was happening.
“B-but Lilith!” She tried to protest. But lily held up a hand to stop her.
“What’s done is done Edalyn,” the witch sighed, “I will go out with him once, and then it will be over.”
She wanted to argue, but seeing her sisters steely expression, she understood their was nothing to fight for. A decision had been made.
*AAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH* the bell screamed shrilly, dismissing the kids from lunch.
“Well all right,” the troublemaker quickly agreed, as Lilith got up to go,” As long as your ok with it.
Who was it anyway?.”
Lilith turned back, brightening a bit, happy her sister was backing her up.
“Oh it was Warwick.”
Edas brows furrowed, why did that sound so familiar.
“Can you point to him?”
Lilith replied, holding a pale finger up, and aiming towards the table closest to the entrance.
The witches eyes followed the mark, and once they found the target, nearly popped out of their sockets.
“Oh no.” She murmured allowed.
For their sat the lead boy who she nearly throw punches with all but half an hour ago.
She quickly looked back, bent on warning her sister it was nothing but some cruel joke, but she was gone.
Dang it Lilith! Always such a stickler for getting to class on time.
She sat alone now, most of the students already in the hallways.
Glancing down, Eda stared at her barely eaten food and decided she might as well indulge. She was going to need her energy too think of a way to help her sister.
But first, with a devilish grin, she grabbed her food and ran to the Secret room of shortcuts.
What? They would have kicked her out!
———-
“Patience Edalyn, Patience.”
Eda was currently in Detention, hiding in the shadows. She needed to Time this perfectly to evade the Detentacles.
Time was ticking, and the longer Eda was stuck in school, the longer that horrible boy was stuck with her sister.
Her poor, innocent, Likes girls, sister.
“Wait for it....wait for it.... NOW!”
She dived through, weaving in between tentacles, aiming for a certain section of wall.
Her arm reached out, maneuvering it so the first thing it touched was the secret lever.
“Almost their! Come on!”
A tentacle came out of no where, cause her to dive to the side. Rolling on the floor, she coughed on the dirt and scrambled to get to her feet.
A flash a blue appeared in her peripheral view, barely giving her time to jump over the sweeping movement.
She decided to go for it, and lunged for the wall, thankfully activating the lever and getting inside.
“Whew,” she panted heavily, “they don’t call that detention for nothing.”
She took a moment to regain her breath. Before looking up with a determined face.
“Time to go ruin a date!”
———-
Eda adjusted herself from the tree she was hiding in.
“Curse the guy for bringing Lilith to a freaking Forrest.”
For some reason, the boys idea of a normal date was having dinner in a crowded thicket, it was apparently romantic, and no girl could resist his allure.
How she knew this?
He freaking tried to ask her to do the same exact thing.
Her eyes filled with hatred as she spied on the ‘couple’
Lily looked devastatingly uncomfortably, more then out of sorts.
It was like she was both anxious, and bored with the whole thing.
As her right hand hadn’t moved from her teeth for the past twenty minutes, and the other couldn’t sit still. Constantly switching from the ground, to her lap, to adjusting her glasses.
The fact that Warwick wasn’t reading ANY of these signs, and kept moving closer, didn’t help at all.
Eda wanted to stop it from the start, but couldn’t figure out a way to do anything without drawing implications about Lilith’s sexuality.
Then Warwick got a distinguishing lustful look in his eye, and Eda could only watch in horror as he moved closer, before placing a meaty hand on Lily’s thigh.
She refrained from screaming, as Lilith squeaked, her face going a deathly pale, before blushing heavily.
“I can show you a good time.” Warwick whispered.
His hand moved upwards, and Lilith scrunched her eyes tight, rapidly shaking her head no.
“Come on, I know you want too.” He rasped.
“No, I DONT!” Her sister vehemently denied.
The boy refused to accept her answer, and advanced even closer.
Lily braced herself, biting down on her thumb to keep from whimpering.
That’s it! NO ONE, does that to her sister.
“HEY! Bonehead!” Eda screeched, jumping down from the tree.
Warwick jumped a foot, thankfully backing away from Lilith. Who looked at her sister in shock.
“Eda?” They both asked in confusion.
“Come on Eda, think of something.” She whispered frantically. She glanced at her surroundings, finally landing on the boy with 3 eyes.
Got it!
“Warwick! How dare you cheat on me! With my sister of all people!” She yelled, scrunching her face into one of anger.
The Orange clad boy seemed to be clueless, while Lilith looked on in utter bafflement.
Eda looked her straight in the eye, trying to tap into that sister bond, begging her to play along.
Lilith seemed to get it, and gave her a discreet nod.
“Warwick how could you!” Eda yelled again.
“B-but were not together?!” He replied, confused.
She gasped, pretending to be hurt.
“What are you talking about! These past few weeks we’ve been dating!”
He blanched, “We were?! But you kept refusing me?!”
Eda wanted to scream it was because of things like this that she did, but had to continue with the act.
“Don’t you know us girls?” Batting her eyelashes, “Playing hard to get! I had true feelings for you!”
Warwick smiled wide, “I knew it! No one could not stick with wick!”
Both girls cringed, his cat-phrases were worse then his attitude.
“But I don’t like you anymore!” The younger witch claimed, raising her hand to her forehead, “Not after you cheated on me! With my sister!”
The boy blanched again, “B-but this wasn’t real?! It was just a joke! She means nothing to me!”
Lilith winced, not knowing that was the real intention, but quickly regained her composure.
“Is that all I am too you!” She surprisingly acted along perfectly, “A joke? Well now theirs no way I’m continuing this date!”
“Wait no! I didn’t mean that! Unless you still want to be with me Eda?” He tried, starting to panic.
Eda gave him an incredulous look.
“After you treated my sister so horribly? Never! Were through! Come on Lily, let’s ditch this loser!”
Lilith scrambled after her, but not before ‘accidentally’ dropping a small vile. Inside, a potion of her own creation.
Warwick started screaming as it’s effects took place, and that’s when Eda and Lilith made a break for it, running away.
They collapsed a good measures away, Lilith resting her head on a rock, and Eda on her stomach.
“Y-you ok Lily?” She asked nervously.
Lilith seemed shaken by the whole ordeal, but managed to give a tiny smile.
“I’m a bit rattled, but I’ll be ok, thanks to you, Edalyn.”
The two sisters then curled up with one another, and gazed up into the starry night sky.
(And the next day, they laughed their heads off, as Warwick walked down the hallways. ‘Cheater’ spelled across his forehead in pulsing green thorns.)