⁰¹⁷ | Screwed as Hell

Mass release: 3/17

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🎧 My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark by Fall Out Boy

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Boston"What did you… just called me?" My voice was a whisper.

She smiled mischievously, "Your Imperial Highness."

I couldn't help the anxious chuckle that left my chest, "What? I am not following. Why are you calling me that?"

"Because you're Ravenna," she said and sipped her vodka. "But do not worry, your secret is safe with me. I'm not even going to tell Gregory, even less anyone else in here."

Dread spread down my spine, "I am not,"

"I think we'll work better together if you don't lie to me, Princess."

I stayed more than three minutes in pure silence, staring at her with my mind going insane, and she stayed cool. "How?"

"I can see the memories of objects, I got your ring," she winked at me. "It's a secret ability I haven't even told my brother. But it's helpful."

Oh, fuck, that explains a lot. "You haven't,"

"Told anyone? No. Neither will I. I'm a friend, Princess, and I am loyal. I will stay as your friend, specially now that I know how much you sacrificed to protect my baby brother. I almost died when I saw him falling from the dragon, but everything quieted when you jumped off yours to get him. You didn't even think twice, you didn't even think, you just saw him falling and went to save him, and I'll never forget that. So, I'm now loyal to you," she winked at me, sipping her vodka again, "Princess Ravenna."

"I wouldn't die, but he could."

"Still, you did it. And damn, you really are immortal, aren't you?"

I felt my skin burning, "I am, yes."

"You stole the immortality dew and made a fool of a God!"

"I did," sigh. "But at a high cost. I lost everything."

"And I'm sorry for that, really sorry. I get your anger, I understand your desire for revenge, and I'll help you in anything I can. I'm quite strong, you see," she winked. "I'm in the top 10 of our years."

"I can't believe you know this," I gasped in shock.

"I was dying to talk to you about it. You put on an amazing act up there, by the way, you even fooled the executioner," she laughed.

The what? "Executioner?"

"Yes, you know? The executioner of the God of Death?"

What? "I don't… I have no idea who that is."

Her eyes darkened, "You've been bickering with him, Ravenna."

No. No. Absolutely not. "You don't mean the arrogant bastard."

"I do mean him, yes," she scowled. "We don't know his name, we don't know what he actually is either, we only know he answers directly to the God of Death, and that he's the closest to him. Like his number One worshipper and some shit, I don't really know. All I know is that he has power over everyone in here, even headmaster Dove, and he has a strong word. Nobody likes him, and nearly everyone is scared of him, because, well, he's known as the executioner of the God of Death, and we, the ones who knows what is actually happening, know he only answers to the God.

"Some think he's a demon, but I highly doubt that. He does have some power over the demons too, just like over our kind, because he is that powerful, he is that strong. Maybe he made a deal with the God of Death and he's now his servant for eternity, maybe he's not truly alive, maybe he's a monster himself, we don't know. He's a mystery, and he's been here for 7 years. He's always on our toes, especially on the kids in our year, because Ravenna is our age. I mean, you are our age. So, you should be careful with him, because if someone, who doesn't have my power and the ring, can end up learning who you are, that someone is him."

Staring into nothing, I turned the bottle down my throat, "Well, I'm screwed, because I not only pissed him off to an extreme level, as I mocked the God of Death in a way nobody would, I mocked him, provoked him, poked him, pushed all his buttons, and I also called him a stressed virgin."

She choked on her vodka when I said that, bursting out laughing her ass of at my actions, "You did not call him that."

"What could I do? He sounds so stressed like he never had sex in his damn life, that I told him he needed to bang that stress out of his body. But then I insinuated that he's so unbearable to be near, that I doubted he would ever be able to be with somebody who would withstand his presence after he opened his mouth, because all he spout out of it was bullshit and nonsense, hence why he was a grown ass frustrated virgin," I sipped the last drops of the vodka. "He tried to jump on me, to strangle me, probably. Then he said he'll personally keep an eye on me."

Her jaw was on the ground as she stared at me, "You are doomed."

I feel like crying, "I'm doomed."

"Are you into him or something?" She giggled.

"What? Ew. No."

She narrowed her eyes, "You are attracted to him."

"I'm not," I insisted.

"It's okay to admit that, everyone is."

"Okay, I am, just a little," I chuckled anxiously.

"I knew it. No one is attracted to him," she laughed. "You are so, so, so, so beautifully screwed, Ravenna, shit. I mean, sure, he is hot, but he has such a nasty personality that it blinds his physical attractiveness to us. But you have no sense of survival, since you don't need to survive as you are immortal, and maybe that's why you lack a radar of danger."

"I'm not going to hit on him though," I rolled my shoulders.

"Well, I hope not. That would be insanely dangerous."

"You think he would know who I am?" I bit my bottom lip.

She narrowed her eyes, "Are you considering that stupidity?"

"No!" I gasped exasperated.

"Gods have mercy, you are," she slapped her forehead. "Of course, he will know who you are the second you try anything, Ravenna. You think you can hide your Imperialism that long from someone like him if you try anything? Finding you is literally his mission in WIA, girl, come on."

"I am not that reckless, Rose, don't worry. I have my priorities set up straight, okay?"