The thumps of the road as we drove back caused me and Poppy to vibrate within our oversized confines,
I sat in the see through violet glass as Velvet was growing amused by seeing me like this,
In my tiny two piece assemble, holding my adoptive sister to my chest hoping to hide her from Velvet's sickening wide grin at the fact that now she has two trolls.
I laid against the glass with my cheek smooshed into the hard material and I could see Velvet's golden fingernail trace almost affectionately against the glass while looking at me with an emotion I couldn't quite place.
I could only wait until we got back to that hellscape of a manor to know what her true intentions are with the both of us.
I could feel tears building as I was finally feeling how my boyfriend now Fiancé felt in that cold lonesomeness of a cell. I shivered against the crisp chilly walls of glass, and I watched as my biological sister gave our captor a sweet tender kiss on the cheek,
"Oh Pange, I can't thank you enough! Not only you found my brother, you found me a troll to use!" I bit back a sob as they were referring to Poppy who I tried so hard to save only to get herself captured too.
I sat up and looked to Poppy who pressed her self into my side as she quietly whispered,
"We're going to get out of here!" I could feel my heart getting lighter and I knew that by the confidence that we would be able to just fine. I mean she was able to escape from Bergens with just with her kind heart and music. So we definitely have a fighting chance and I'm not giving up easily not this time especially when there's so much at stake.
However Velvet's comment made no sense, she only talked about using Poppy and suddenly a beige white hand blocked my view of our captor and I looked at Velvet to see her face grinning with glee.
"How do you know it's me?" I spoke up as I sat up in the bottle that had a gentle waft of vanilla keeping me calm since it smells like Floyd during our first time.
It did bring a subtle heat to my face at being reminded of such a passionate tryst between the two of us.
But I needed to focus on how was Velvet able to tell it's me and not some other random Troll? She smirked as she tapped the glass in front of me as she were booping my nose.
"Because Ven, I heard mommy and daddy's fight before the accident, they talked about everything~" she mocking fluttered her eyelashes at the memory she recalled.
"Wait they fought?" This was new information to me, I must've been sleeping during their verbal brawl completely blissfully unaware.
"Yep allll day, turns out that mother was just as unhappy as I was and shacked up with her co worker! The filthy Hypocrite!" I couldn't take that away from her, our mother was a hypocrite but that's because she went back on her vows, but her grip grew tighter,
"Dad was going to take you after the divorce was finalized since you were his son." My eyes widened at that information, I was going to live with my dad if they finalized the documents. But they never did get the chance to finalize the papers, hell I didn't even know that they were divorcing. God how in the dark am I about my family and was just left to live in blissful ignorance.
"I couldn't let that happen, we're Velvet and Veneer! We're each other's yin and yang, we're a duo you can't just take us apart." I didn't like where this thought process of hers was heading I interrupted her frantic ramblings,
"I thought I was nothing to you and you didn't have to keep me around, what changed Velvet?" I huddled closer to poppy as her hair was down and cascading around us as tears cluttered her eyes as she clutched onto me. I held on just as tightly afraid of the beast that held the both of us in this glass hell.
"I realized that your my brother and I've changed we won't be like what we were before, I promise." My heart pinched as it wanted to believe her words to be true but her eyes gave her away due to their stiff coldness, not like The warmth they held when we made promises as kids.
But I came to a sudden conclusion at her behavior, she was trying to keep me complicit and willing just like before with her sweet promises and caring attitude towards me.
The only times I've looked back where she was extremely kind to me were at my lowest depths on the cusp of leaving her behind to explore greener pastures.
She kept me sucked in by sweet lies on her tongue that dripped of ambrosia and honey but I wasn't tasting her poison this time,
"Velvet what we had wasn't healthy and I never wanna feel like how I felt with you ever again."
"Shhhhh you're being too sensitive about this baby bro plus I wouldn't have said that or done those things if you hadn't provoked
me." I could feel poppy vibrating in anger at her nonchalant words towards me but I looked her dead on and wasn't going to let her walk on me ever again,
"I'm not being sensitive, you literally hit me, berate me and I've worked countless hours to make sure that sketches were done and lyrics were written! I was your backbone you lazy bitch!" I ignored the magma that danced around her eyes in unbridled psychotic rage.
Her mask was slipping away and I could tell by the way her jaw clenched and her fingers digging themselves deeper into the glass creating streaks in the solid material,
She took a breath in and soothed her anger before she ran her index finger again in front of me on the glass,
"You know I am only hard on you because I love you. I mean I got stuck with you the most ungrateful person I've ever met, I mean I gave you all that work because I wanted you to thrive especially after I saw your sketchbook in high school." I tried to hold in my tears squeezing my actual sister's bubblegum colored hand. She was trying to make me feel like I was the crazy one, I was blowing this out of proportion and I was the bad apple out of the two of us.
"Velvet, what did you mean you couldn't let dad take me?" I stuttered hoping that I could distract her from trying to tear my walls down to force me to give in again. I wasn't ungrateful, I wasn't this terrible person she was attempting to make me out to be. I had to keep calm to maybe persuade an answer out of her,
"I cut their brakes." My heart shattered at that simple sentence, my eyes prickled and filled with tears as my guts twisted again in such a horrific way that caused my abdomen to clench.
"YOU KILLED THEM!" I stood and snarled at her as I pressed my hands into the glass above me, I didn't care about how I was going to get out of here but when I did I was going to rain hell upon her.
"I had to otherwise you'd leave!" I slammed my fists into the glass as the limo came to a complete stop. The driver telling Velvet and her lover that we've arrived.
"YOU'RE SO LUCKY I'M IN THIS GLASS!" My voice strained as I cried out, Poppy immediately hugging me with her nose digging into my shoulder as her arms wrapped around my midriff. I sniffled as I leaned into her hug.
"Whatever Troll~ with you we're going to Glitz City right my velvet cheesecake~" her stained red lips pecked my sister on the cheek and My sister just stared at me with a paper blank look on her face and spoke up to this new character,
"We're only using the pink one to get into Glitz City, I'll deal with my brother and his disobedience once we get there, so don't worry Champagne." That made sense that her name would be champagne with her pale yellow to beige palette. But her words about my 'disobedience' made my stomach roll in unpleasant ways.
"Come now Velvet~ let's put these two inside," the lid was suddenly opened and I was immediately grabbed first by my shirt and lifted into the air, this Champagne character smiling as she cooed towards me, I Closed my mouth and suck air in through my nose before I spat out a thick ball of mucus in her face effortlessly hitting her in the eye.
She screeched as she harshly put me in a large decorative glass chest that was littered with aquamarines and sapphires. I looked to see my sister silently giggling about her girlfriend being hit in the face by my loogie.
But as she came to, I noticed how her eyes were glassed over as if she was in extreme pain, her face was clammy and sickly pale as she held onto the chest I was thrown into. Her breast area was rapidly rising and falling almost as if her heart was giving out on her.
I looked to Poppy who smirked at seeing her appearance as she moved her gaze from our kidnapper back to me and mouthed the word 'venom' and suddenly it clicked in my head what she was referring to,
Well that certainly takes care of one problem but what do we do about the other?
My thoughts were intervened by both women moving me and Poppy into the manor, the familiar walkway made me nauseous as these were the same steps I used to escape from this hellscape once before.
As we moved along my stomach was riddled with cramps probably because I haven't eaten since me and Poppy were stolen from the river. But I wasn't going to let them know since they'd probably hold out on food purposely.
I knew that because that's what happened to Floyd, my sister left him starving for days on end before I discovered that she purposely kept him hungry and dehydrated because it was more fun, plus she claimed her voice had a sad raspiness when she used his essence so frequently.
My thoughts were interrupted by Velvet's lover placing me down on my old vanity away from Poppy and everyone I've know and love.
I watched with silent tears rolling down my face as Poppy was taken into Velvet's dressing room and now I was left alone with her girlfriend who loomed over me with a sadistic smile highlighting her face.