cry, but there’s nowhere for me to go and that’s when Hela nips my ear playfully.
“Just tell me I’m the best and this will end.”
Defiantly, I shake my head. “But I don’t want to lie to you!” I cry. “I don’t want our relationship built on lies!”
He holds Hela at bay as he stares down at me. “Hela, I think we didn’t get through to him yet.” And he shoves her in my face again. I toss my head back and forth as she gets more excited. Her licks are now turning into air bites as she play growls at me. I pull my leg up, since it’s the only thing free, and hook Marcus’s leg, trying to drag him back. He leans back and I slip my arm free and turn around before trying to crawl away with Marcus riding on my back.
“I… must… prevail!” I cry. “Artie, help me!”
And that’s the moment Artie leaps onto Marcus, knocking him off me. Hela takes to attacking Artie and the two race off into the kitchen as I look down at Marcus who I’m finally free from. I leap up onto my feet and take off running. I make it to the bedroom and slam the door shut before he can reach me.
“Look who’s won!” I cackle and that’s when I hear the window open and see Marcus crawling through it. “Damn you and your superspeed.”
“Ah shit, my shirt is stuck,” he says as he twists from where he’s halfway through the window.
I walk over and realize the poor soul thinks I’m here to help. Instead, I slowly lower the window on his body, then drop the blinds on his head.
“Dammit, Finn!” he cries, but I’m laughing too hard to respond now that I can’t see him. I twist the blinds so I can see through them and catch his golden eyes glaring at me. “And people think I’m evil.”
I part the blinds a little. “What’s that, babe? I’m so blinded by your beauty I forgot to listen. Get it? Blinded?”
He scowls. “I got it. This is my favorite shirt. Come help me so I don’t rip it.”
I pull up the blinds a bit, extremely satisfied when they hit his forehead on the way up. “Outside?”
“Yes.”
I drop the blinds on his head again. “I don’t wanna.”
“Please?”
I pull up the blinds again. “But… it’s cold outside.” I snap a picture of him and put it in a group text between Marcus, Karsyn, Orin, Brooks, and Aria.
Me: There’s a pervert trying to climb into my room. What do I do?
Aria: He can climb through MY window.
Karsyn: Pepper spray right to the face might get rid of him. Or pull his pants down. Maybe the sun will burn his bum.
Aria: I didn’t know he was in the group text! Dammit, Finn! Now I look like a perv!
Orin: And somehow he’s still too good for you.
Brooks: He used to be this magnificent beast of a man. I used to look up at him with respect and now… just disappointment.
Me: I love all of you.
Me: Besides Orin. Orin, you’re just evil.
Orin: Truth hurts sometimes. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you.
“What… the fuck are you doing?” Marcus asks from where he’s still trying to free his shirt.
I lower the blinds. “Shhh. I’m texting pictures of you to the others.”
Marcus grabs the blinds and rips them off the wall before crushing them in his hand. “Excuse me?”
“My blinds!”
“Excuse me?”
I mourn the destruction of the blinds before facing him. “It’s okay, babe, I included you in the text so you know all about us talking about you,” I assure him.
“Fantastic,” he says sarcastically.
I decide to go over to the window and look at what his shirt is stuck on. I pull it free of the nail and he drops down to the grass before smacking the screen back in place.
“Next time, I’m going to eat you, you pesky little human.”
I grin at him. “I look forward to it.”
“Great,” he says before disappearing from my sight, probably deciding that doors are much more convenient.
When I pull open the bedroom door, he’s standing there, so I wrap my arms around him and squeeze him to me.
“You always know how to make my day better,” Marcus says as he hugs me back.
And that’s when his phone dings. When he looks down at it, I notice that we have a new text from Karsyn.
“Never mind. You’re pure evil,” he says.
“Good. I like being evil together!”
He sighs, but it doesn’t stop him from