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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light in scattered the night and made the day worth living
- Scott Fitzgerald
On an unspecified day of the week, sometime just before the star of a new semester in Nevermore, everything changed at the sight of her roommate with a pair of ice skates in her hands and her scars glowing thanks to the light coming from their window, from then, it just escalated.
Wednesday knew she was rich in knowledge, she was clearly ahead of her peer's, she could be calculated, insightful, witty, grouch, incessant, loathed, unceasing, assertive, and much more if she wanted, she was clearly no fool and no weak.
Since the beginning of her life, she was always ahead of everybody around her, even her family most of the time, intelligence came to her like breathing came for others, you could mostly find the girl with her nose buried in a book, playing some new sheet music, or her favorite, consumed by her typewriter with her novels, it filled her with enjoyment and helped her to keep her mind steady. It made her felt powerful, unstoppable, almost like torture and violence, so it was important for her.
Last summer made her sail into her mind, questioning herself how she could’ve been fooled like that, tricked by not just one, but two people, not only manipulating her with emotions (something she was still trying to figure out) but harming her friends. The whole school break was her brain trying to comprehend everything that happened without being driven into madness (something she wished occurred in other circumstances) and revenge (something she actually take pleasure). She reached a conclusion (more or less) at the very end of the school break, and it was that she needed to be clever this new year.
It wasn’t her best conclusion, but it was all she could muster into her mind, the stalker was also an important part of her school break, two months in ratio silence, she almost believed it was a sick joke from someone without a life, until her phone vibrated when she set foot into Nevermore’s territory, at least this year would be entertained and busy, just like the past one. She was ignoring the fact that Tyler escaped and was deep in the woods, healing his wounds or probably searching a new master and was hiding from his father (she couldn’t wait to see him again and finished the job she started).
Principal Weems was a delicate topic for her, specially after the funeral.
Her train of thoughts brought a dreadful realization too, one she was completely ignoring (barely trying) so she could not try to feed herself to her family mascot. The raven girl was painfully aware that she was touch starved, the assumption came to her after the hug she shared with Enid that night. She couldn’t stop her brain to draw her back to that day, seeing the werewolf girl covered in mod, sweet, leaves and blood, with fresh scars in one side of her face, she could feel how tired her own body was, being stabbed then possessed by her own ancestor and stabbed again but with an arrow, it left her body being a full bag of adrenaline. The moment Wednesday just accepted the embrace and buried her face into the taller, she swears that was the first time she breathed that nigh. God, how pathetic. The static she felt traveled into her system, leaving goosebumps around her body. It was all so overwhelming every time her brain reflected that imagen. This, was true torture for Wednesday in all its splendor.
“Wednesday! Hi! I would hug you but my arms seem to be not available right now."
Wednesday blinked, pulled out of her darkening thoughts by her roommate trying to upload four bags into her arms into their dorm, clearly struggling with the door. "Then it’s my lucky day." She saw how the grin transformed into a pout after hearing her. "Rude, you didn’t see me for two months and that’s how you received me?"
"It’s part of my charm." She murmured, raising an eyebrow at how Enid threw the bags into the floor beside her bed. "What’s with the big bags?"
"Oh right! I didn’t tell you." Enid exclaimed kneeling in front of a bag to raise a pair of Ice skates. "I joined the Nevermore's women hockey team." She shared. "It was mostly my brothers wanting to see me into the sports they love, seems that wolfing out finally brought a good relationship with them." The raven girl perked her attention at the words coming from her friend. “I suppose your family celebrated now that you can hunt with them.” Wednesday noticed how Enid tensed for a moment and turned with a tight smile. “Other than my brothers and cousins, my aunts and mother shared their opinions of me being a late bummer, nothing new.” The raven girl followed her roommate with her eyes while she was moving around, avoiding eye contact with her.
“My mom together with some aunts wanted to pared me with a mate, now that I can wolf out, they think I need a strong wolf to take care of me.”
"And you do? What about your relationship with Ajax?" The small girl asked.
"Gosh I kept forgetting to tell you things, Ajax and I decided to end things early into the break." Wednesday raided an eyebrow at the words of the girl (she couldn’t explain why her body was filled with relief after those words left her roommate’s mouth) "And no, I don’t need a strong wolf, I am a strong wolf, I took down a Hyde in my first time wolfing out, I think that’s pretty fucking amazing if you ask me." The dark hair girl couldn’t deny it even if she wanted, it was impressive (and majestic) to think about the girl fighting a creature doble her size and still get a victory.
"My mom also wasn’t that happy about the hockey thing, not because it could cause harm in me, but because she didn’t think I could be that good.” Wednesday perked at the words, realizing her disgust towards Enid's mother grow. "But I will prove her wrong, I like this sport a little too much, and my skates are too pretty to be bad at it."
The way the colors illuminate Enid’s skin was mesmerizing, the window in her side coloring her skin with pink tint, highlighting her scars, the blue color dancing around her cheekbones and the yellow adding just the right coloring to her smile, all of them dyeing her features with a warm light on her face. Wednesday doesn’t want to light or harrow on the fact that not even the best writers in history could capture this beauty, so she just nodded her head toward the girl in front of her and turned to her side of the room.
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"I’m going to be sincere with you Wednesday, I didn’t expect you to come back into the hives, since you were using it to have an alibi." Eugene talked seeing how the girl stared at the bees in front of her. “My club is just me talking about bees and how to make honey, it is not that cool for a person like you.” The raven girl just stared at his eyes. "It has you in it, that’s enough reason for me." The boy smiled at the words of her friend. "Well, good for me to ask for this suit for you in your signature color."
"It was amiable of you." The raven girl answered returning her sight to the bees, wearing the big black suit.
"But again, I thought you wanted to join another club or something." The small boy talked while facing the back of her friend. "My mother was in every club I can think in this school but this." Eugene nodded with a frown "You can always see around the clubs; I didn’t see a picture of your mother in the figure ice skating."
"Nevermore has a figure ice skating club? Why I haven’t heard of it?" Wednesday turned her attention to the boy beside her. "You went through the obvious ones, archery, the choir and even fencing, and not because you wanted but because you were searching answers about Rowan, many people here ignore that club because skating can be a little hard."
“It’s not difficult, people just want to be excellent at it the second they set foot in the Ice.” Eugene gave her the reason with a nod before realizing something. “Wait Wednesday, do you know how to skate?” the boy asked with curiosity. “My father taught me how to move on ice, my mother however, taught me the tricks.” Eugene smiled at her, showing his retainers. “Is there something your family can’t do? Truly asking.”
“Multiple things.” Wednesday answered honestly, winning a hum from the boy.
“If you want, we can go there after we finish here with these bees and see if they want you in.” Wednesday moved her head towards the boy. “It is allowed for students to be in more than one club?”
“You can be in five clubs is you want; you just have to be careful with the hours and days, so the scheduled it’s not dammed.”
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Both teenagers have been standing outside of the Ice rink of fifteen minutes now, seeing the hockey team ending practice.
“Didn’t know Enid was in the team.” Eugene said while waving at the girl across the rink with a smile. “She joined this year.” Wednesday answered without returning the wave but tilting her head, causing a small smile in the blonde before disappearing. “Is she good at it?”
“Yes, she will be playing in a couple of days.” The boy clapped his hands. “The season its starting, the whole school is going to become a sports event.” Wednesday’s eyebrow twitches at the words. “It’s a big deal for nevermore, and since you weren’t here at the time last year you should know a couple of things about it.”
“I don’t care.” The boy winces at the cold words. “You know I will tell them later anyway.” Wednesday narrows her eyes, ignoring the smile in the boy. “Focus on the thing we came for.”
“Right, figure Ice skating, sorry, the coach office is on the other side.” the boy started to walk just to be stopped by a voice behind them, turning over was a tall man looking down at them. “May I help you with something Mr. Otinger?” Eugene wavered a smile. “I don’t need anything, but my friend over here does.” He pointed at Wednesdays who just stared at the man.
“An Addams, what a grateful surprise.” The raven girl tilted her head at the words. “Don’t misinterpret me please, it’s just that I met your parents years ago, they came into this place to skate sometimes, but they refused every time I asked them to be part of the team, they always told me they were in too many activities.”
“They never joined the team?” Wednesday asked with curiosity. “No, never, although they were excellent on it.” The man said with a smirk remembering the couple. “Anyway, what I can do for you Miss Addams?”
“I want to be in the team.” The man smiled at the girl, who noticed the fangs peeking out. “Do you know how to skate?” he won a nod from the girl. “Okay, lets do something, wait here.” He turned around and walked across the rink just to enter his office, after a couple of seconds he returned with a pair of black skates in his hands. “I think these are your side.” He tossed them towards the girl. “If you can do the same thing you did at the Queen Rave’N dance in the ice, you’re in.” Wednesday stared at the skates in her hands. “Can I pick the song?”
“Absolutely.”
Eugene saw how the girl positioned herself in the middle of the ice at the same time Enid walked toward him with a curious look in her eyes. “Since when Wednesday knows how to figure ice skate.” The boy opened his mouth just to be interrupted. “You know what, I don’t want to know, she’s good in a lot of things, some people say she’s actually an android.”
“She would have told us.” Enid looked at him. “I think.” The boy murmured before turning her head at the sound of the music. “Of course, she would pick Black Swan, in not even surprised.” Both saw the girl jump into the ice. “Maybe she’s an android.”
“A good looking one.” Eugene turned with a smirk in his face. “Not a word.”
Later, the two friends were congratulating Wednesday for getting into the team.
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“Why I’m here Eugene?”
“Excellent question Wednesday, I actually made a short list so you could understand the very reasons of your presence here today.” The boy unfolded a piece of paper from his pocket, winning a snort from a large figure beside him, Wednesday snapped her eyes at Bianca, who raised her hands in surrender with a smirk in her face. “Okay, first, I know you aren’t busy today, I have all of your schedules memorize.”
“Not creepy at all, Eugene.” Bianca interrupts him, causing a small punch from the small boy. “Don’t mind her, anyway. Second, this is our hockey team, we have to be here to show support, almost the whole school is here.” Eugene continued, pointing at his list with his finger. “Third, we all are here mostly because of Enid, it’s her first time playing and although we do not show our excitement like them.” Wednesday followed the thumbs of the boy to see Yoko, Divina, Kent and Ajax with a big banner jumping and laughing. “We are here to support our friend in her first game.” Wednesday moved her eyes to the rink to find the team already in position, her sight caught the attention of Enid, that smiled at her before turning around with a serious look.
“He’s right.” She snaps at the voice of Bianca, who just looks at her with some kind of look, like she knows something she doesn’t. “Which one is the fourth?” she asked, ignoring the girl. “Right, last but not least, hockey is a violent sport, one of the few that allows people to punch and shove without a big repercussion, so I know you will enjoy it, or at least tolerate it.”
“I find it bearable, and I’m here just because you all dragged me here.” The look that Eugene gave her made her averted her eyes from him. “And because of Enid I guess.” The boy grin at the words, proud of her, but before he could say something the group calls for him so he moves away from both girls, she cannot keep disregarding the look of Bianca.
“What?” she grunts at the girl. “Nothing, I’m just looking at you.” She smiles, turning her attention to the players. “I’m aware, I want to know why are you looking at me like that.”
“Figure it out.” She said with a smirk, not looking at her. “I didn’t know Enid liked the game.” Wednesday knew she was trying to divert her attention from the main reason, she concluded she would get answers later, with others methods. “Since she’s so pink and everything, and the position she’s in its kind of violent.” The raven girl frowned at the words. “She’s a lethal werewolf, not because she seems soft it means she’s soft.” Bianca turned at her with an amused look. “And she does like it because her brothers injected her with it since she was a child, she just grew to love the violent sport.”
“And you know this because?” She asks with curiosity adorning her face. “She told me over the phone in the break.” She nodded before changing her look at one offended. “Wait, did you really used the phone? Why didn’t you answer any of my text?”
“Because I told you all I wouldn’t.” Bianca raised her eyebrows. “But you answered Enid?” she asked with an eyebrow raised.
“Yes.” She just stared at her for a couple of seconds before nodding. “It makes sense.” She turned her body towards her. “That she’s the only one to get a text or a call back from you.” She averts her eyes to the rink where Enid scores a goal, causing a fuss in the front row where everyone is, she sees how the team celebrates with the werewolf girl, without missing how the girl search for her with her eyes and tilts her head with a grin, feeling how thing throws a thumbs up, making her smiles grow before turning again at the game.
“I guess it does.” She says, seeing how the same girl tackles someone to the ground without effort.
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Her practices are usually two hours before the hockey ones, so for that reason she’s not surprises to see Enid sitting on the grades while she does her exercises, every so often when Wednesday looks up from what she’s doing, she captures the other girl staring at her with soft, azure eyes, studying each movement, the girl never tries to hide it, she simply waves with the gentles smiles, looking back down at the phone in her hand and blows a bubble of her chewing gum, pink as her cheeks. Wednesday is curious about why the girl is there, early than ever, just to see them (she concludes it’s mostly for her) practice. It’s not the first time she notices the girl, since a month ago she has been doing it, every time she asks the werewolf just shrugs her shoulders and answers with a “I like to see all of you skate.” She doesn’t believe it’s the only reason, and the mystery is calling for her to be resolve, but she guess Enid will tell her the true when she’s ready.
She gone soft for the girl
After some days, Wednesday stays later to see the hockey team practices after hers, of all the days they practice, the only days they coincide are Tuesdays and Thursdays, so she stays and see how the girl steal glares at her, almost like making sure Wednesday is still there, sitting with thing waiting for her to walk together to Ophelia’s Hall.
"Addams!" Her attention changed at the trainer at the end of the rink, she skates towards him. "Can you do this routine?"
"I like the one you did today" Enid said hours later, walking down the hall, the low light reflecting her features. "I can do it better." Wednesday answered. "I know you can." The girl said with a smile. After a couple of seconds in comfortable silence Wednesday asks. "Will you tell me why you come early to see us skate?"
"Will you tell me why you wait for me to finish practice?" Enid asked back, without averting her eyes at the sight in front of them. "Because you come to mine, so I considered fair, although I never asked for it." The werewolf stayed in silence for some seconds. "I already told you why I come."
"I don’t buy the lame excuse you told me." Wednesday shares with a little frown. "I know that, but it’s all I will tell you; the rest will be when I’m ready." Enid murmured with a clear smile in her face. "How long it’s going to take?" Wednesday asked with honesty, she didn’t enjoy the uncertainty this cause in her. "What? Are you going to get into detective mode?" The taller girl smiled at her, her eyes dancing with a certain twinkle in her eyes. "Probably." It’s all Wednesday says, welcoming the silence that fills them for the rest of the walk towards the school.
"Hey Wednesday." The raven girl straightened up her posture, showing she was listening at the girl. "I was thinking."
"Can you do that now?"
"Okay rude." The girl pouted. "Anyway, I was thinking about your visions, I have never been in one?"
Wednesday’s eyebrow shudder, tilting her head with a serios look. “No, you have not appeared in one until now.” The girl answered without moving her eyes from the girl. “They are not a device you send a command and they answer within seconds, why you ask?”
The other girl shrugs her shoulders, Wednesday noticed how she played with the end of her bag. “I know! I-I know, it’s just,” Enid smiles shyly. “I wanted to ask; to see if you think about me in some way.” From where she’s standing, the raven girl can see her canines peeking out, bringing memories of the night they shared a hug, with the girl covered in blood and dirt. “It kind of sounds selfish now that I think about it.”
Wednesday narrows her eyes, tries to ignore the flutter in her stomach at the sight of Enid’s smile and the memories. “My prophetical visions are dark, like me, full of woe, you don’t want to be in one,” Wednesday mutter simply, turning back to the road in front of them. “Don’t expect one. It’s unbecoming.”
Enid just stares at her back gentle, knowing what the girl meant if they are not what you want, I will disappoint you, at this point Enid understood that it was impossible for her to feel disappoint towards the small girl. It’s unfeasible now. After that hug and what followed, Enid hopes the girl know how much she mean to her, how much she’s willing to do for her safety. She wouldn’t get covered in blood, sweet and mud for anyone; her teeth are covered in blood because of her. She hopes that Wednesday will reach the conclusion one day.
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What surprised her even more, it’s that she actually gets a bunch of vision with Enid on them a couple of weeks later, just by the brush of their shoulders, or Wednesday touching something in their room, she even gets one when thing taps her shoulder one morning after brushing her teeth, but nothing too macabre or violent, not even dark, the only one where she notices the girl’s hurts, its Enid in a lake, and the girl was clearly mad or disappointed about something, she’s skating with her, while gold light highlighted her skin, Wednesday saw how the girl trips with something and ends on the ice, bleeding a little from a scratch on her knee. When she came back from it, the werewolf was holding her steady, with curious eyes and filled with worry. "Are you okay?" The girl whispered at her, trying not to get much attention to the raven girl. She just nodded confused. "Don’t worry, it was nothing bad." She assured the girl. “Are you sure? Do you want to share it?” Wednesday just stares at her for a couple of seconds before shaking her head. “No, like I said, its fine.”
She found the lake later the same day after she finished with Eugene at the hive, thanks to the curiosity filling her, the boy ended following her behind because he didn’t have nothing better to do, and wanted to make sure she was okay and not doing something illegal. Her mind couldn’t understand why the girl would be out here, in this lake. It was a little far from the school and it was dangerous, something Wednesday found entertain but knew her roommate thought different. For the little she got from her vision, she assumed it was in dawn or in the sunset, thanks to the gold light filling the girl. Again strange, why Enid would be out here in those hours, skating with her.
"And you just saw her here?" Eugene asked while walking (trying) on the ice. "Yes." She answered while looking around. "Just like that? What was she doing?" the boy asked again, struggling to stay put. “She was skating, and tripped, I didn’t see more.” She answered, noticing the cold around them. “That’s weird, maybe she’s gonna trip and then fall into the ice and die because she can’t breathe.” Eugene said with wide eyes, moving around. “Let me just.” He murmured erratically, falling into his knees into the snow aside from the frozen lake. Wednesday just stared at him, causing a nervous laugh in the boy.
“I got scare.” He said, flushing at the situation.
“If she falls into the water she would die for hypothermia.” The boy grimaced at the image his brain made. “But that’s not the case, because I would have seen it.” Wednesday stated, clutching her hands at the thought of Enid dying. “She just tumbled over and ended scratching herself, that’s not something I would get from my visions.” Eugene hums, with his fingers in his chin, deep in thoughts. “You once told me your vision were a reflect of your personality.” The boy waited for an affirmative to continue. “They were going to be dark and macabre because that’s what you are, like a raven.”
“That’s what my mother told me, and Goody wanted me to understand.” Wednesday explained. “You also shared with me that he told you they weren’t always precise, that you didn’t have to believe in then all the time.” The boy moved closer to the girl. “In others words, yes, he implied that.” Eugene smiled at her. “Well, they are both right in some way, you get bad visions and some of them aren’t even real, it’s from the past or it’s a possible future.” Wednesday twitches her eyes at the words. “What do you suggest then? We can’t ask about it, I already got answers, they don’t know how they work.”
“We should go to the Nightshade’s library, try to see if we can find something about your prophetical visions, something that explains why you get them.” He speaks with enthusiasm in his voice.
“Okay then, let’s go.” The squeal the guy left after the words left her mouth almost caused a smile in the girl.
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"This is impossible."
Wednesday ignored the boy standing at the other side of the nightshade's library, while she and thing read a book called shapeshifter: a gift or a curse.
"We have been here for two hours, TWO HOURS." Eugene exclaimed. "I have read at least twenty books about different creatures and other things, I found even one about my kind." The boy complained at her friend, that was ignoring him. "Who in his right mind would not put the names on the book cover, why made them black without names, we will be here forever."
"You can go, you know that right?" Eugene jumped at the voice of the girl, closer than he expected. "Yes, I know, but I want to help you! So, I will stay until we find something useful." The girl just stared at him for some second before averting her eyes with a deep breath
"Let’s do another round, if we don’t find something functional, we can get back other time, we can’t fool around anymore, I have things to do." She looked at the boy for a confirmation before turning again towards the shelf with thing in her shoulder helping them. With the silence falling into the three, Wednesday finally contemplates why she cares that much about simple visions, it shouldn’t bother her this much. But she can’t deny the curiosity she feels at the fact that she finally gets to see her roommate in one of her visions, mostly because they are not a harmless one, like the usually ones she gets. Wednesday was understandably annoyed by that. More than that, quite frankly insulted by the idea.
“I found something!” Wednesday turns her head, pulled out of her thoughts by the boy’s voice at the other side of the room. “It’s not a book but a chapter, see it yourself.”
Premonitions: a leap into the future
She reads out loud, with Eugene peaking from her side and thing jumping into the table. “This states that premonitions tend to be about a certain subject the person is thinking, be it animals, family members, friends and more, these visions can be an imagen or a door for a desire to understand the unknown.” She frowns at the words. “Psychics rely heavily on what they see, yet do not fall into the desire of wanting to know everything, it will become a terrible thing.”
“This would have been useful last year.” Eugene murmured, causing a hum from Wednesday.
“ If you keep seeing a future you do not understand about someone, it is, in some way, a part of someone you do not know, and if the visions persist for weeks or months, it is certain a subject of your desires its connected to it, and it’s likely due to an emotional or mental block. Although this phenomenon has currently happened, they aren’t studies for it.”
Wednesday purses her lips at the words, noticing how they explains other things. Driven mad at the idea of people not studying this kind of premonitions, beside her Eugene just tilt his head. Thing scrambles down to the small table in front of them, signing quickly and jaggedly as both teenagers pay attention to his actions, leaning forwards a little to read.
Emotional block. He says, tapping the letters in the book, then pointing at her like he knows something they don’t. “What do you mean? If you are implying that I have an emotional block you are a dead hand.” Thing trembles against the table, resembling the imagen of a kicked puppy. Wednesday is thrust into the memory of the knife through his palm that night, of her terror and tears for him, and she relents a pained furrow of her brows at the reminder. She offers a hand for him to scurry at her shoulder again as a sight of an apology, witch he responds tapping with a thanks.
“I think this is enough, we should head back to our dorms.” Wednesday mutter at Eugene, who just nods her head and grabs the book to read it one last time before returning the massive tome to its place on the Nightshades’ shelf.
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“What are you doing” Wednesday averted her attention towards her dorm’s door, where Enid was standing with her bag on her shoulders, and a tired but confused expression adorning her face.
"Trying to choose the correct song for my skating routine, for the competition in three weeks." Wednesday answered simply, turning her attention to the sheet music in front of her. "Where have you been by the way? You were supposed to arrive two hours ago since you don’t have practice today." The raven girl commented, without noticing how the werewolf girl tensed at the words. "Did you notice that?"
"I always do." She stopped herself from saying.
Weird
"Thing noticed."
"Right, I was at the rink, preparing myself for the game tomorrow." Wednesday noticed the presences of the girl at her side. "I know that one!" The girl followed the finger pointing to a sheet on the floor not too far. "From where?"
"From an animated movie, it’s called Howl's Moving Castle. It’s Japanese, the piece is really pretty and calm." Enid commented before turning toward Her friend. "We definitely have to see it! Wait I know these too!"
"I would rather put thumbscrews through my eyes than to see that movie." Wednesday utters without moving her eyes from the floor. "First, if you could, you would try that for fun, second, I can be very persuasive if I want, I will get you to see the movie, just wait." The raven girl stares at her roommate, who just smiles with a twinkle in her eyes, Wednesday breathes at the sight, deciding to changes the topic.
"How do you know about these songs?" Enid studies her for a moment before answering. "Movies, and sometimes I hear this music to study, it’s helps me to concentrate." Wednesday furrow her eyebrows at the words. "I know you are thinking it, yes, your cello sessions help me with it, I have kept some song you have played in my playlist." Enid said causally, grabbing some papers to studied them, not noticing the look Wednesday gave her at the confession, feeling a weird tug in her stomach.
"Can I help you picking one?" Enid asked after a couple of seconds in silence, Wednesday finds herself unable to denied it.
"Go ahead."
The smile that adorns the girls faces made the tug inside her grow, she doesn’t comprehend why.
"Some of these are too obvious." Enid declared, Wednesday tilts her head. "What I mean is, you know your personality, people at least try, miserable if you ask me, to pretend they know it." Enid says, looking at the girl. "They will suspect you will present with the Swan or the Muckraker since they will think you go with classics; you get what I’m trying to say?" The werewolf waits for an affirmation before continuing. "If I were you, I will try to go with orfeo ed Euridice.”
"Wait, why thing isn’t helping you?" The girl asks, locking her blue eyes with the brown ones. Wednesday just points to the girl’s bed, where the hand rest comfortable in one plushie. "He was worry about you." The raven girl murmurs, noticing how the werewolf's eyes softened at the words.
"Would you consider my opinion?" The girl asked with interest. "Maybe." Enid hums, with a spark in her eyes. "What if we make a bet?" Wednesday raises an eyebrow, showing interest. "If I score three goals tomorrow in each set, you will dance one of those songs." Wednesday stares at her. "C’mon, it won’t kill you Wends." The nickname scape Enid’s mouth without realizing it, and Wednesday seems not to care about it for the first time.
"I will think about it." She says, receiving a grin. "You should take a shower, you smell."
The squeal the girl does cause a smirk on the raven girl, and the tug just grows a little more.
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The field was full of Nevermore’s student and the other school, cheering for their teams, the environment was filled by happiness and enjoyment, the teams were just practicing around the rink, Enid waved with a grin and eagerness every time she spotted them in the grades, Yoko, Divina, Kent, Eugene and Ajax always responded with cheers for the girl, while Bianca just waved at the girl, Wednesdays stared at her each time.
“I love the idea of Enid in a hockey team so much.” For the look the vampire received from everybody she just shrugs her shoulders. “Think about it, she can finally be mean, shove someone and get away with it, because that’s how the sport is, and plus, she’s really good.”
“I heard you bet something with her.” Wednesday turns her attention to the siren beside her. “She told me, to make sure you were up to it.” She whispers while the group talks in front of them. “She has to win, and I will reconsider her offer.” Bianca just smiles at her, turning her attention to the rink, where the team was starting the game, hearing the cheers around the Nevermore’s students, swallowing the other team’s one.
One hour later, the game was tie, all nevermore saw how Enid skated around the rink with the puck, at the same time she scores the last goal for her team, one of the players from the other team tackles her, causing the girl to hit the glass with force and fall into the floor with the player on top of her, a brawl is formed after that, with the Nevermore’s team fighting the others, with Enid on the floor, one of her teammates goes to where she is and grabs her hand.
“She’s bleeding.” Yoko commented with a worry look, Wednesday stares at the girl, how she ask something at her teammate, who just nods with a grin adorning her face, then she notes how the girl raises her hand and touch her eyebrow and nose, noticing blood coming through, the raven girl twitches her eyebrows at how the girl gets distracted by her teammates, forgetting her wounds, she turns around to lock her eyes with her, with a big smile and blood adorning her face, with a raised eyebrow, Wednesday glares at her for some seconds before nodding her head, causing a bigger smile into Enid’s face.
Days later, Wednesday is bombarded by what she supposes are her friends, with Enid and thing in the front, smiling at her after her excelling the competition, reaching the first place by much. She notices how all are carrying their skates. “What are you doing out here?” she asked, walking closer to them. “We were supporting you inside, and we wanted to wait for you outside here so we could congratulate you.” Eugene says with a smile, stopping beside Enid. “Now we can go and actually celebrate together, you can’t say no.”
She raises an eyebrow at Yoko’s comment, she moves her eyes towards her roommates after feeling her hand tugging at her sleeve. “You can say no, do not listen to her, but it would be great if you let us celebrate your first win with you.” Wednesdays analyzes the girl and then at the people behind her with smiles.
“Very well, I guess I can spare two hours of my time.” She observes how everyone cheers and walks ahead, Enid just shakes her arm to catch her attention again, her eyes soften at the sight of the girl with a gentle smile. “I told you so.” She says later when they walking behind everyone, with shoulders brushing. “I supposed you were right about the music.”
“That’s a signal for you, that you should never underestimate me Wednesday, not when it’s about these things, you should listen to me more.”
“I already do it. I always listen to you.”
Enid suddenly stops, with a certain look Wednesday cannot decipher, before the werewolf can respond, the guys scream at their direction, driving their attention towers them.
“Guys! C’mon.” Eugene screams at them while Yoko just calls Enid. “I bet you can’t do what Wednesday did today right now.” When Wednesday turns to the girl, the look isn’t there anymore, since she just laughing and running towards the vampire, with thing following closer.
Right there, seeing her friends having fun in the most mundane way, she feels her body relaxes, she studies them from where she’s standing, with the sunset light hitting them with a perfect gold and orange. Although the colors are revolting to her, she can’t deny that this is one of the best images she has have in the months she came back to Nevermore. A laugh drives her attention towards the boys looking at Enid with enthusiasm as she skates around with a smile brighter than the sun, and its right there with the orange and gold hitting at her face, coloring her scars and smile, where Wednesday understand the way her stomach feels like a storm every time she looks at the girl.
Its when the realization of what she truly feels for the girl hits her
Fuck
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She can’t stop noticing it, after that moment in the lake.
She starts to realize her relationship with Enid, is not the same as the relationships she has with the rest of her peers, (friends is what her mind says instead)
She starts to number the facts, the cursed facts that are currently all conspiring to make Wednesday’s life a living hell in her dorm one evening, with Enid being out with her teammates. Thing at her side, seeing how she’s entering some kind of madness.
The first she notices is that Enid can, apparently, tell when Wednesday is lying. Not because Wednesday lies to everyone around or just avoid sharing the entirely true with people, but because she doesn’t bother about keeping the true from Enid. She trusts the girl with all her being, somehow, and now she’s now realizing this. The second thing she notices, its that she’s conformable around the werewolf space, emotionally and more to her surprises, physically, since the hug after the Crackstone event, and even before that (thing exclaim) she finds herself tolerating casual touch with the girl, since it doesn’t feel like it burns in her skin, even seeking it, how her body just feels the need to have the girl closer. And she knows, she knows if other people try to touch her, she would walk back, trying to avoid it.
She also notices how she cares about the girl, about her relationships with her family and friends, she listen to her, to how her mother sees her as the biggest disappoint she’s not, how her father, although being a man of little words, is what supports her, but how its just the same time he cant get to say a word about the behavior of his wife, how her relationship with her brothers and cousins are now good, excellent even, but it makes her feel bad at the same time because “It’s just because I wolfed out.” She also cares about her relationships with her friends, she finally learns the reason she broke with Ajax.
“It was weird, I liked him, but more as a friend. It doesn’t help that I see myself as a lesbian.” (Is thanks to Enid that she can label herself as an aroace person.)
The obvious one (to thing) it’s that Enid it’s the only person that is allowed to call her Wends
She notices it after they come back to the dorm, how the girl just says it casually, and she wished thing hasn’t noticed, because if he didn’t maybe she wouldn’t be here, in the middle of the room with an imaginative board with the name of the girl, she could denied, pretend isn’t true and swallow it to die into her mind, but it’s something she can’t ignore, because when Bianca or Eugene called her like that, for joke or inconsonantly, it brought a urge of torture them, she doesn’t like it when its them. And she doesn’t know when she started, she just called her one day and she didn’t have the violent thoughts, because she’s fine with it, like Enid has knows her all her life and her family.
“Thing” Wednesday calls, with a frown in her face. Her voice filled with something has thing worry. “Thing, I’m fucked.”
She stares at the hand in the table. “How this even happened?”
its Enid, I guess it was a matter of time. He sighs at her, causing her frown to depend.
“Thing,” she says quietly after a couple of second in silences. “Was I wrong? When I came out, when she explained it to me? Was I just accepting something I’m no because it sounded right.”
I don’t know, Thing signs back, but the raven girl is already analyzing it over in her head. And the answers are still what she saw to the girl weeks ago, but like always, Enid has been an exception all this time, and she had been so busy she hasn’t notice it. What she feels for the girl is more
“I’m in love with her Thing,” she whispers on the dark of the room, sitting in her bed, staring at the empty space in front of her.
She needs to talk this with her, to say it.
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She doesn’t.
A month pass before both can talk about it
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Enid is filled by so much rage, that se leaves the dorm at five am with her skates, two sticks and punks, just because her mother decides to give her a call and number everything she has done wrong in these passing months, and how that, somehow, it’s a disappointment. She ends in the frozen lake with her skates, hitting her punks into the air with a force, into the early morning, with a cold breeze hitting her face, with tears rolling into her face because of it. It takes a couple of minutes to notices Wednesday standing at the side, with an extra coat into her hands as she analyzes the girl cries, when Enid finally notices her, she jumps, causing her to fall and scratch her knee, the blood makes her sadder, she doesn’t notice the raven girl skating at her direction, but she feels the coat around her shoulders.
“You can catch a cold if you stay here at this hour.”
“How did you noticed I was gone?” she asks the girl, ignoring her words. “The room got colder.” Wednesday simple shares, Enid is surprised to see how soft the eyes of the girl are while looking at her. “That should have alarmed you that I don’t need a coat.”
“What happened? Why are you out here?” Wednesday asked, ignoring the words.
“My mom happened, lately it just my mom happening.” The werewolf girl explains while trying to stand again, ignoring the blood in her pants.
“What did she do this time?”
“What she always does, it doesn’t matter how much I do, how much I find myself trying, and trying and trying to be something close to the imagen she wants me to.” The girl starts, avoiding Wednesday’s eyes in front of her. “She will always find a mistake, I do one good thing and somehow she will find twenty I did wrong, and then she will find twenty more, but of what I will do wrong in the future, nothing I ever do is enough for her. It doesn’t matter that the team won for the first time in ten years, it doesn’t matter that in larger than my brothers in my wolf form, it doesn’t matter how much I try with my grades, with her, when it’s about me, it’s never enough.”
Wednesday observes the girl move her hands into her face, signing at her situation. “Maybe she’s right, todays the day I’m actually thinking I will never be enough.”
“That’s a lie, you are enough.” Enid gaze soften at the words, noticing how the girl in front of her is tense and something in her eye’s dances. “Its crazy that a mother can’t see what I learned about you in lest than a year.” The determination in her voice brings a light flush into the taller cheeks.
“There are so much things I could say, but I can’t find the words right now, but for what it matters, you were the bravest person I’ve ever met.” Enid is aware in the shift around them, but she knows she doesn’t what to break it. “Do you really think so?” she asks in a whisper, with uncertain in her voice.
Wednesday looks down to her lips, then back up into her ocean eyes. “Yes,” she says, without a hint of hesitation, and Enid feels her breath caught into her throat, and her heart beating without control.
“I actually need to tell you something since I’m open to talk more.” Wednesday says as the first rays of light break through the air, hitting them with color, she gazed at the girl’s scars, and feels the courage to be vulnerable with her. “What is it?” Enid asks her, eyes soft.
“I have reached a conclusion some weeks ago, about how I feel about you.” Wednesday starts, without moving her eyes from the girl. “I care about you so much somethings it’s kind of overwhelming, it feels like you have bewitched me into a curse I find myself unable to scape or ignore.” Enid blush at the words, feeling dizzy by the love she feels for the raven girl.
“it’s a torture for me, and although I love how it sounds, I can’t bare more these feelings, they are consuming me, reaching parts of me I never expect, every part of me is filled with you.” She states, not missing how her heart was loses his battle to stay calm. “It’s pathetic how much I seek for you.”
Enid just looks at her, lets the words sink into her brain, caught in the brunette’s gaze towards her. She stares, and stares and stares at the girl, praying that her eyes are expressing everything she can’t say, and after a beat, she remembers how she’s talking about, Enid knows Wednesday must understand that her lovely puppy eyes at her means something. She catches the wait her jaw clench, how she blinks at her, how her entire persona shifts, and finally sees it
How she’s blushing at her
Its barely there, pale like her skin, but Enid notices, she always does when it’s about Wednesday, her lips curls into a smile, with the corners of her lips softening at the sight of the girl, making a question with her eyes, that Wednesday understands, and find herself nodding.
Wednesdays stares at their intertwined hands, the side being perfect in each way. “I feel the same way you describe, it’s like a curse, but I don’t mind it if it means I share it with you.” The girl steps closer to Wednesday, finding cute how the girl tilts her head up to see her. “I almost always regret a lot of things I do.” The taller girl says, catching the attention of Wednesday. Her palms sweating, but she’s doesn’t care. Her heartbeat is so loud, and for what her ears caught, the girl in front of her heart is just the same, and she wonders how she never noticed, maybe she was busy trying to calm hers.
“But right now, right here, I find I would regret, for the rest of my life, if I didn’t kiss you right here, right now.” Enid whispers, finally noticing how good the gold light suit the pale skin of Wednesday, and the raven girl just feels herself nodding, because that’s what she wanted, and its not something she has to do because it was interrupted or expected. She absolutely melts at the emotions she feels, and she just thinks about kissing her. Kissing her.
Kissing her.
The sensation is something she can compare to her violent acts, it feels reliable, right. When they part from each other, Enid finds it impossible to not be closer, so she just kisses her cheek, and Wednesday melts again into the girl, causing a smile.
“We should head back before they notice we aren’t in the dorm.” Enid says, still closer to the girl, with her hand in the cheek, and Wednesday just stares at her, she knows there’s a question lying in those blue eyes, and Enid swallows thickly because she never knew the girl could look at her like that.
Wednesday hums distracted.
“Tal vez deberíamos.”
And before Enid can ask what those words mean, she feels the girl’s arms around her, holding her closer, proceeding to tug her into another kiss.