Chapter 5
Octavia woke to the sound of glass shattering and screams of rage. She sighed before turning over and watched her baby brother sleep for a few minutes. Seren had woken her up late in the night and asked to sleep with her. His lower lip had trembled and his arms clutched his plushie hellhound as if his life depended on it. She’d nodded and he climbed into bed with her with a whispered thank you. She nodded in acknowledgement and waited for him to speak first. He clung to her and said nothing, so she continued to stay silent. As the first hour passed, she began to believe he had fallen asleep. However, he slowly began to talk to her.
“This… this isn’t going away, is it…?” He asked her softly.
She sighed, “I don’t think so.”
He had silently cried himself to sleep beside her and her heart hurt as she noticed the tear tracks still staining his sleeping face. She tried waking him up and he looked up at her sleepily, not truly awake yet. She sighed before giving him a soft smile as she helped him up and get dressed for the day.
“I can’t believe you slept with an imp! In our f u c k i n g bed!” She screamed.
“It wasn’t expected! I didn’t have time to go to a motel.” He argued.
“A motel?! Like a fucking plebeian!” She screeched as she threw whatever was breakable around her at him in rage.
They both needed to have breakfast and she quickly put on a pair of headphones to listen to her music, quickly placing a pair noise-canceling of headphones on Seren so he could remain at peace for just a bit longer before he awoke to their new reality. She sighed as a pot was thrown in front of her, shattering. She picked up her brother before leaping over it with ease before setting him back down and continuing on their way to the kitchen. Octavia walked into the kitchen, slowly leading her still semi-asleep little brother to the table for breakfast, not even blinking at the screaming match her parents were having.
“You want to fuck this one too?!” Stella yells as she lifts up one of their imp servants and throwing them at him.
Stolas held his arms up in surrender, “No! Of course not!”
She continued to listen to one of her favorite bands and pushed Seren down to sit before she poured him a bowl of cereal to eat with a spoon. Once her brother was taken care of, she headed back to the counter to make herself some coffee. The coffee would most likely be finished by the time their parents stopped arguing.
“You are a goddamn embarrassment! I’m not spending another moment looking at your pathetic imp sucking face!” She screams before storming out of the room.
As she left the room, Octavia sat down with her coffee and took off Seren's headphones as she calmly took a sip of her coffee.
He slowly walked towards them with his arms spread out in happiness at the sight of his children, “Good morning, Octavia and Seren! Did you sleep well my owlette? And how about you, my little starlight?”
Octavia put down her coffee mug after taking a large sip and glared up at him, “Is that a serious question?”
Seren glanced up at his father before turning away and shrugging. He couldn’t look his father in the eye after what the imp had said to his mother and his father nonchalantly confirming it when his mother confronted him. Especially after his mother had told him that his father actually intended on continuing his affair and meet with his lover at least once a month. His mother’s sobs still echoed in his head.
Their father nodded softly as he hummed in awkward concern before trying to make conversation once more, “What’s that you’re listening to?”
He opened the fridge to grab a piece of raw meat as Octavia answered, “This song is called ‘my world is burning down around me’. It’s by FuckUdad!… it’s a band…”
His shoulders slumped down, showing his distress at her words as he said with a trembling voice, “Oh… how charming…”
He closed the fridge door and walked a few feet away towards his large carnivorous plant to feed before he gave it a soft pet.
“So you two done screaming for the day?” She asked with a scowl.
Their father turned back to face his children, “Umm….”
The sudden sound of something shattering as they heard the angry screams of their mother caused their father to flinch in surprise.
“I’m pretty sure that answers your question, Via…” Seren said with a grimace.
Their father’s face falls at his comment before he suddenly lit up, “You know what I haven’t done in a long long time! I haven’t taken you both to your favorite place in all of hell! Why don’t we go to LooLooLand!
“Neither of us is five anymore.” She said with a scowl, absentmindedly refilling Seren’s cereal bowl and pouring more milk over the dry cereal.
“You both were always so happy when I took you both to LooLooLand!” He exclaimed as he gave them both a quick hug and gestured towards two different family portraits of them all at LooLooLand in royal attire, “What do you say we go there again? Have a day! Just the three of us!”
They both stared at the two pictures hanging side by side. One of them showed a happy picture of their parents and a 5 year old Octavia smiling happily. The other showed all four of them with a happy 5 year old Seren and an annoyed looking 11 year old Octavia. Seren grimaced and shook his head, he didn’t want the good memories they had made as a family at LooLooLand to be tainted just because their father wanted to relive a happier time in their lives before the impending divorce that he had set into motion.
“I’d… rather kill myself” Octavia answered blandly.
“There we go!” He said with a smile before hugging them and muttering under his breath, “Anything but staying in this house…”
Seren nudged his older sister and smiled supportingly when she glanced over towards him. She gave him a small smile in return.
Their father stood up before reaching out for the landline, “Now! I’ll arrange our security!”
“Security for a theme park?” She asked slowly.
She wondered why they would need such a thing as they never had hired security when they went there in the past. They usually would just rent out the entire park for themselves whenever they had wanted to go.
“We’re rich and we’re hot. People want our money and our bodies!” He said.
“Our money maybe…” She grumbled as she grabbed the cereal box and began to scoop out handfuls out of it to eat.
“Speak for yourself princess.” Their father said with a smirk as he began to make a call, “Now! I’m calling the only man who can fuckme!”
Via dropped the cereal she was preparing to eat as she stared at her father in shocked disgust at his words “What….?”
Seren stared at his father in shocked disbelief, the behavior his father was displaying wasn’t anything he had ever seen him use before. He had no idea how to react to everything that was happening around him lately.
Stolas stuttered as he tried to amend what his children had just heard him say, “Who can protect me! Us! Being part of the Goetia family is rather valuable, you know?”
Octavia groaned before pulling her hat over her eyes in annoyance.
“Can’t we just rent out the entire amusement park like we did when we were kids?” He whispered to Octavia questioningly.
“Of course not. That would apparently be too easy…” She said as she glared into her cup of coffee before bringing lifting it up to drink from.
“Why hello, my bigdickedBlitzy!” Stolas moaned out sensually.
Octavia spit out the coffee she had just taken a drink of before slamming her drink down on the table and reaching next to her to cover her little brother’s ears, as if to protect him from the dirty talk their father had just uttered towards the individual on the other end of the line.
“What the fuck dad!” She yelled at her father.
“Language, everyone!” Their father said.
Seren assumed that the person on the other end of the line was the imp he had seen this morning and that he had cussed out their dad as well.
“I have a special request…” Stolas said before listening to whatever the imp he had called said before answering, “It’s for my son and daughter.”
Their father paused as he listened to the reply and he quickly became flustered before blurting out, “No! No! No, no, no… I’m taking my children to LooLooLand and I was hoping you brave little imps would accompany us.”
He waited for the person to answer him while twirling the phones cord around his finger before cooing, “I’ll pay you…”
A brief pause before he continued, “Money...”
“Done!” A male voice yelled out loud enough for his children to hear from the phone before hanging up.
“We’re going to LooLooLand!” Stolas exclaimed excitedly.
Seren and Octavia looked at their father in dismay before dropping their head to the table with a groan, this was going to be horrible.