Poison Kiss
Chapter 14:
Ashlynn's POV:
I carefully stepped across the threshold and into the house, butterflies still dancing maniacally in my stomach. Sadie sat calmly at the kitchen counter, gazing at the door as if she had been waiting for me.
As soon as I had enter the house and closed the door, she pounced on me. "Why did you leave me alone with him?!" she asked grumpily. "He's been hitting on me for the past hour!"
I frowned. "Who," I asked. "Nico?"
"No!" she said in a frustrated tone. "Santa Claus! Of course it's that fucking annoying son of a-"
"Ahem!" we both turned to see Nico standing in the doorway, his face smeared with random bits of make up. "You!" he roared. "Conniving seductive witch in succubus form!!!"
I covered my mouth with my hand to muffle the laughter escaping from my lips.
Sadie raised her eyebrows. "I'm a seductress?" she laughed. "Last I checked, you were the one stalking me."
Nico scowled. "You seduced me into your room in order to splatter me with these absurd cosmetics!" he exclaimed indignantly, gesturing to his colorful face.
At this point, I could not longer contain myself and burst out laughing. "So that's w-why you resemble a f-five year old's Barbie doll." I choked out.
Nico grimaced and dashed out of the room, while Sadie gave me a funny look. I shook my head and slowly took control of my laughter, trailing off until my lungs were empty.
Sadie shook her head in amusement. "God Ash. I did think you had it in you."
I shrugged my shoulders. "It's been a while since I've laughed like that or seen something that amusing. It kind of reminded me of the time we chased our cousin around and splattered him in lip gloss."
Sadie snickered. "He deserved it for breaking the head off of my Barbie doll."
A loud grunting noise rang out from the bathroom. I rolled my eyes. "I'm going to go see if Nico is alright." A loud crashing noise echoed down the hallway and I began jogging toward the bathroom. When I reached the doorway, I peered in, and saw a makeup covered Nico sprawled on the tile floor. Part of me hoped that he was alright, and the other three forths was laughing it's ass off.
"N-nico!" I choked out in between my suffocating maniacal giggles. "What happened?"
Nico scowled at my obvious amusement in his current predicament. "Your devious sister thought that it would be hilarious if she poured oil on the floor and powdered half the floor with more cosmetics."
I heard Sadie cackling from the kitchen and grinned broadly. "That's Sadie for you."
"Humph." Nico grumbled, pushing himself up off the ground and attempting to dust some of the makeup out of his hair. After he realized that it wasn't coming out without some serious scrubbing, he sighed in defeat and let his hands drop lifelessly to his sides. "See if I come back any time soon." Nico shoved past me and stalked down the hallway. I heard him flop onto the couch and prayed that he hadn't made a mess. Mom would kill us if anything outside of our rooms was out of place when she got home.
Sadie scurried over to the bathroom and dashed inside. "Crap!" she exclaimed. "I really need to clean this up before mom gets home. I'm really not in the mood to be slaughtered tonight."
I scratched my head, trying to come up with a solution to the greasy makeup splattered floor. "I could help.." I offered halfheartedly.
"No, it's fine." Sadie shooed me out the door. "You go take care of Nico."
I nodded in reply and dashed off to the living room. Nico sat slumped on the couch, pouting like a small child that hadn't gotten it's way.
"You know that I can help you get cleaned up." I offered, taking a step towards him.
Nico jumped and stared at me, a very threatened look on his face. "You're lying!" he accused, his eyes narrowed to slits. "You're just going to smear more makeup on me!"
I rolled my eyes. "Not unless you flirt with me." I replied, firmly taking hold of his arm.
"Whatever..." he muttered, grimacing. "She wasn't that hot anyway."
"Is that sour grapes I hear?" I said teasingly as I tugged him off of the couch. He scrunched up his face and glared at me as I dragged him out of the living room and into my bedroom. "Go take a shower and give me your clothes, I'll put them in the washing machine." I said, shoving him into my bathroom and slamming the door. "Don't make a mess!" I called after him, getting an pissed off grumble in response.
I sat down on my bed and waited for him to throw his clothes out to me. It hadn't even been a minute, when a very stained t-shirt and pair of pants came flying out and smacked me in the face. I stuck out my tongue childishly at the already closed bathroom door, and gathered up his clothes, before stepping out of my bedroom and heading for the laundry room.
After carelessly flinging Nico's clothes into the washing machine and switching it on, I headed to the other bathroom to check on Sadie. I peered in the doorway and saw her furiously scrubbing away at the shiny tiles.
"Looks good to me." I commented idly.
Sadie gazed up at me, a weary look on her face. "I know!" she said, clearly exasperated. "That's what I said five minutes ago, and yet these floor tiles still feel like the king of slimeville peed on them."
I smiled sympathetically. "Sure you don't want any help? I just sent Nico to take a shower."
She shook her head. "I got this under control." she paused. "Wait a minute. You let that filthy excuse for a male shower in YOUR bathroom?" I nodded slowly, already expecting her to laugh at me.
Sadie snickered loudly. "Girl, you have some balls."
I shrugged my shoulders. "He's not that bad once you get to know him."
Sadie rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, Ash. Whatever you say."
I retreated to the living room and waited for Nico's clothes to finish washing. To pass the time, I flicked on the television. Oddly enough, it was the news. For some strange reason, I didn't change the channel. The news lady blabbered on about some recent shootings in Honeycomb, which was forty miles from my little city of TownsDale. I sighed in disinterest, until a news update caught my eye:
"After recent escape of murderer and rapist, John Arden, the police have had little hope that he will be found, until now. Recently, a photo from a surveillance camera at Lucky T's convenience store in Townsdale, California, has captured the image of a man who resembles Mr. Arden. Police now believe that he has returned to TownsDale in hopes of coming to terms with the heinous crime he committed seven years ago. Now to Daniel with the weather!"
I scoffed. Come to terms with?! That asshole would chew off his leg before ever admitting that what he'd done was wrong! I switched off the tv before I could become any more worked up, and made my way back into the laundry room to check on Nico's clothes. Luckily for me, they were done. I hurriedly tossed them into the dryer, before heading back into my room to check on Nico.
I rapped my knuckles gently on the bathroom door. "Are you alright in there?" I asked when I didn't hear the shower running.
"Oh yeah, just peachy." was the irritated reply that seeped through the doorframe. "Thanks for leaving me in here for an hour with nothing but my boxers."
I blushed, suddenly thinking of Vincent. Before I could get butterflies or some other cheesy insect in my tummy, I pushed my thoughts of him as far from my mind as I could. "It's okay, your clothes should be done in about fifteen minutes."
I heard and irritated grumble as Nico trudged to the far side of the bathroom and waited for his clothes.
I sighed and slumped down lazily on my unmade bed, suddenly realizing how tired I was. I leaned back into my soft pillows, and felt my eyes begin to droop. My body began to relax as I shut my eyes and let the world fade.
"Ashlynn Eleanor Arden!"
I jumped into a slouched sitting position in response to the loud and obnoxious noise that had startled out of my slumber. I cautiously squeezed my eyes open and saw my my mother glaring at me suspiciously. "What is the meaning of this?!"
I rubbed my eyes sleepily. "Huh?" I asked, wiping some drool off of my cheek.
"You know exactly what I am referring to." she stomped her foot angrily. "Why is Nico half naked and hiding in your bathroom while you pretend to sleep?!"
"N-Nico...?" I asked, still dazed from sleep. Wait...Nico? "Shit!" I yelled, jumping up. "I totally forgot to give him his dry clothes!"
My mother raised a thinly plucked eyebrow. "And why would his clothes need drying in the first place?"
I opened my mouth, trying to think of a good excuse, but instead, I was interrupted by a new voice. "I decided to start a water balloon fight in the house."
I glanced over to the doorway of the bathroom, and noticed that Nico was standing beside it, fully clothed, a smug look plastered on his tan face. When my mom turned back to question me further, I saw him mouth the single most trapping phrase that he could to me: "You owe me."
I tensed up the second that the words impacted me. Of course he would use this as blackmail. My mother wasn't done with me either apparently. "Ashlynn. I've thought this over very carefully." she said slowly and dangerously, weighing out each word carefully. "I've decided to let this slip just this once as long as you promise to never have another water balloon fight in this household as long as you live."
I sighed in relief. That was no punishment. Why would I care if I was not allowed to have any water balloon fights inside? That was what the backyard was for. "Sure thing mom!" I said, suddenly smiling very brightly.
My mom arched an eyebrow at me suspiciously. "Alright." she said, clearly a bit more than confused at my sudden change of mood. "Say goodbye to Nico. It's time for him to go home."
I waved at him cheerfully as he exited the room with my mother, my smile as fake as Stacy's implants. He seemed to be just as confused as my mother, but more amused. My mother quickly stuck her head in again. "I'm not in much of a mood to make dinner tonight. Can you find something on your own?"
I nodded reassuringly, and she dashed out of the room, probably eager to see Nico's father before he left. Once again, I stretched out on my bed, too tired to have any desire to get up.
"Pssst!" I glanced up toward the doorway as Sadie poked her head through. "Are they gone?" I nodded and hurriedly entered the room and bounded over to my bed, taking a seat on the corner of my rumpled comforter.
Sadie began bouncing in place energetically. "I can't believe that he took the blame for us!" she exclaimed, tugging at her hair.
I frowned. "Yeah, but he's going to use every event of today as blackmail. Mom wouldn't be too happy if she found out that we used makeup against a boy, again."
Sadie shook her head. "It's quite alright, my naive Ash. I have something against him too."
I looked at her questioningly. "What? I don't think that mom will accept hitting on someone as a valid reason for torture by cosmetics."
Sadie grinned. "Silly Ash!" she said patronizingly. "It's called slamming my fucking foot into
his-"
"I get it! I get it!" I yelled, interrupting her. "Say no more! I do not want to go to sleep with visions of that in my mind!"
Sadie grinned, knowing that I had very clearly understood her point. "I always knew that my spiked boots had a good purpose. Now I've found it: Nico repellant."
I felt a disturbed expression wash over my face. How was it possible that we were even distantly related? Sadie is most definitely the evil twin.
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Hello my lovely darlings! Thank you so much for reading! Each one of you is so amazing. I finally got around to reading your comments and nearly burst into tears. I owe each of you a hug and a bag of skittles. Screw cookies! Yeah, that's right. You heard me Vincent! *sticks out tongue like a small child*
Anywho, I'll try to upload again sometime in the next few days. I'm going to go work on Alice now. I haven't even started the new chapter, and I left it on a terrible cliffhanger.
Feel free to tell me what you want to happen between Ashlynn and basically any character. Do you want me to make her set anything on fire? How about some cookies? *smiles deviously*
Well, bye my smexy lovelies!!!! *blows kisses like a stuck up sesame street character*
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