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- Prologue!,(:
- Chapter One!,(:
- Chapter Two!,(:
- Chapter Three!,(:
- Chapter Four!,(:
- Chapter Five!,(:
- Chapter Six!,(:
- Chapter Seven!,(:
- Chapter Eight!,(:
- Chapter Nine!,(:
- Chapter Ten!,(:
- Chapter Eleven!,(:
- Chapter Twelve!,(:
- Chapter Thirteen!,(:
- Chapter Fourteen!,(:
- Chapter Fifteen!,(:
- Chapter Sixteen!,(:
- Chapter Seventeen!,(:
- Chapter Eighteen!,(:
- Chapter Nineteen!,(:
- Chapter Twenty!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-One!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Two!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Three!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Four!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Five!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Six!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Seven!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Eight!,(:
- Chapter Twenty-Nine!,(:
- Chapter Thirty!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-One!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Two!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Three!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Four!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Five!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Six!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Seven!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Eight!,(:
- Chapter Thirty-Nine!,(:
- Chapter Forty!,(:
- Chapter Forty-One!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Two!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Three!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Four!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Five!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Six!,(:
- Chatper Forty-Seven!,(:
- Chapter Forty-Eight!,(:
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE!(:
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“Evil is where?” Scarlet asked, coming out of her room with red lips and widened eyes. “Evil is heeeeere!” a little girl danced around, a pretended scary look on her face. “What are you talking about?” she looked down at the girl. “Aw, cutie are you lost?” “I’m not cute!” the girl yelled, then turned to face her. “Ooh, you’re pretty!” the girl said, smiling up at her. “Aw thank you, how old are you?” Scarlet squatted down in front of him. “I’m 4!” she hollered with a wide smile. “You’re adorable,” Scarlet smiled, combing the girl’s dark brown hair. “But what’s Evil?” “Aunt Minnie’s coming!” the girl shouted, pounding on Oliver’s door roughly. “What, Ronnie?” Oliver grumbled, opening the door slowly. “Ollie, Ollie!” Ronnie held up her arms. “Alright, alright,” Oliver picked her up. “Why were you trying to knock my door down?” “Aunt Minnie’s coming!” she shouted. Oliver hesitated for a second. “When is she coming, Ronnie?” “She’s bringing Remy!” “Why is Remy with Minevra?” Oliver asked. “Mommy left him there this morning!” “Is mom here?” Spencer asked, coming down the hall. “Spency! Spency!” Ronnie yelled, jumping away from Oliver and into Spencer’s arms. “Hey Ronnie, how are you today?” Spencer smiled at the little girl. “How’s Minevra?!” Scarlet half-shouted. “It’s me, darling” a woman with a jersey seeming accent called out and walked down the hallway runway stlye. She was wearing a tight red leather dress and a cheetah fur jacket above it. Her heels were black, and at least 6 inches tall. “Hello?” Scarlet hesistated. Oliver let out a groan, and slammed his door as he retreated into his room. “Oliver Jace, you come and say hello to me this instant!” she yelled at him. “Hello, Minevra” Oliver said, shoving his head through the crack he’d made in his door. “Come give me a kiss” she held out her hand. Oliver dragged his feet, and kissed the woman’s hand. On his way back, he spit on the ground and wiped the back of his hand over his mouth. “Disgusting bitch” he muttered, slamming the door shut again. “Are you related to Mudusa, in any way?” Scarlet asked, looking at her snake-like hair style. “Honey, do you know what a gynaika fidi is?” Minevra glared at her. “Uh, no. I’ve only been here for a day and a half.” Scarlet looked over at Spencer. “It’s Greek for ‘snake woman’.” He answered. “What’s a ‘snake woman’? Is that like a breed of alien?” “Do I look like an alien to you?” “I don’t know, take off that ugly mask” Scarlet shrugged. “This isn’t a mask” Minevra hissed. You could hear Oliver chuckle softly behind the door, and Scarlet cracked a smile just at the thought of him laughing. “Aunt Minnie!” Ivana called. “Ivy, darling!” Minevra leaned in, and they air kissed each other’s cheeks. “Spencer!” a woman who looked just like him and his sister came walking down the hall with her arms wide. “Hey mom” Spencer put Ronnie down and hugged his mom. His mother practically broke his spine, he bit his lip and his brow furrowed but he didn’t say a thing to his mother about his bruises. | “Spencer, can I talk to you for a minute?” Scarlet asked tentatively.
“Uh, yeah…sure” he hesitated, taking a deep breath. “Who’s she?” his mom asked. “I’m Scarlet Conrad” she held out her hand. “Well, aren’t you lovely, where do you hail from?” she asked kindly. “New York?” Scarlet said, slightly confused. “My mother’s a novelist, and my father died before I was born.” “Milas ellinika?” she asked, in a foreign language Scarlet didn’t understand. “Ochi, den milaei ellinika” John put his arm around her shoulder’s, his hand brushing her ponytail over her back. “alla to kanete?” “Yes ma’am, I’ve been able to speak Greek since I was 2” John said, in English. “What was that all about? What did you say?” Scarlet looked up at him. “I told her you don’t speak Greek.” John said quickly. “Greek? How do you know how to speak Greek?” Scarlet asked. “In Elalum, it is our native language. We are taught to speak many different languages, when I was a little girl I could speak French, Dutch, German, Greek, Spanish, and Finnish,” Mrs. Carson said. “I was taught at an extremely young age” “So, their native language is Greek? Why? Shouldn’t they have like their own made up language or something?” “This isn’t a fairytale, honey, you must understand that. You’re not living in a book, nothing is ever as it is restated and told by those whom no nothing.” Mrs. Carson said, as if she were telling an important speech. “I can speak Romanian, if that helps? But not very much of it.” “Romanian and Greek are two very different languages, you ignorant child” Minevra said, waving her hand in disgust. “I see where Ivana inherited her unkindly manners” Scarlet smiled at the woman, “Unkindly manners? I beg your pardon! You know nothing of where I come from or how I was raised!” the woman hollered. “Would you like me to guess, Mrs. Minevra? Because I would be more than happy to provide a possibly inadequate answer to your crude comment” Scarlet said sweetly. “Play nice,” John rubbed her shoulder. “She hasn’t done anything to you yet.” “You use the term, yet, as if it’s not going to happen” Scarlet stated, looking up at him. He leaned closer to her, “but you must remember. You are staying under their roof, you must be nice to those related to the hostess”, the words were said so quietly no one else seemed to have heard it. “You, young man, what’s your name?” Minevra asked, looking at John skeptically. “It’s Johnathan Truman” he held out his hand. “Well hello Johnathan” she stated, shaking his hand. “I didn’t know your name was Johnathan” Scarlet grumbled. “There are lots of things about me that you don’t know” John murmured, hanging his head slightly. “And that’s fair, because you know everything about me but I know nothing about you” Scarlet grumbled, then turned and headed into her room. She closed the door behind her and the sound of the lock jamming echoed softly. “She’s more emotional than Anastasia is.” Minerva commented. “Actually she’s just had a bad day,” Spencer said. “Anastasia and Ivana are both so much worse than she is. She makes them seem like natural disasters” “I HEARD THAT!” Anastasia shouted. |