Chapter 8: Part one

Autumn POV:

I love Vivaldi.

I. Frikin. Love. Her.

The entire time we were bathing together, she and I were talking about the nonsense of men, how arrogant, stubborn and selfish they all were.

"They think they can rule a woman, only because she has a smaller frame and breasts!" Vivaldi scoffed, her fast wrapped in disgust. "Little do they know, our tolerance for everything is much higher! Do they think birthing and maternity is a piece of cake? It would be the most painful and exhausting cake to eat, if it were so!"

I nodded my head in understanding and encouragement. "I feel you, sister." I said, scrubbing more of a delicious smelling shampoo into my long hair. "They think we are weak and fragile, like china glass!"

"Especially the roleholders here," Vivaldi said, dipping her long violet hair into the sweet rose smelling water. "And that horrible Blood. He thinks all we think about is dresses and makeup! That is only half the battle as a woman!"

I threw my hands up above my head. "I know right?! Like, what about periods and stuff?! They don't understand because they're guys! They wouldn't last a day as a girl. No, not even an hour!"

She and I spent hours in the tub, sharing our mutual hate for men. I mean, I'm not a feminist, but gosh, Vivaldi was so relatable! Well, actually I was just releasing my anger at Blood by saying I hated men in general, but hey.

You would be too.

After we took a bath, it was a day time period. Vivaldi ordered a maid to show me the way to the dining room, insisting that I must eat breakfast, because it's "the right thing for a woman to do."

How? I have no idea.

When I arrived at the dining room, I was greeted by a high rise ceiling, paintings covering them as if this were the Renaissance period. A huge chandelier hung over the long, thing dining table. The windows were about 6 times my height, and the curtains were drawn to let in the morning sunlight. The table was filled with sausages, scrambled eggs, sunny side up eggs, omelettes, pancakes, orange juice, apple juice, milk, yogurt, bread, waffles- basically a breakfast fit for a queen.

There was only two people sitting in the huge room though, and it was Ace and Summer. They sat beside each other, laughing at some sort of joke Ace just cracked.

But they were sitting quite awfully close.

I stood there for about five minutes, and they still hadn't noticed me. They were in lalala land, alright. I squinted at them, put my hands on my hips, leaned forwards a little and said very loudly: "Ace, are you like, wheeling Summer or something?"

Ace looked up at me with wide eyes, egg still on the corner of his mouth. "Autumn! Good to see you!" He grinned widely, then he cocked his head to the side. "What's wheeling?"

I walked over across from them, pulling out a chair, whilst glaring at a embarrassed Summer. I looked at her with wide accusing eyes. "How about Summer explains it, hm?"

"Uh...It means...um...that you're ah...pretending to like someone you don't like...and telling them you, ah, like them." Summer said, swallowing the rest of her pancake. She immediately grabbed her glass of orange juice and started to chug it.

"I'm not wheeling Summer!" Ace exclaimed, laughing. "She's my wifey!"

I had started to drink a cup of milk when he said that, and it jumped out from my mouth, spraying all over the food. I slammed the cup on the table and screamed "WHAT?!" I then started to cough, choking on my own spit(smart move, I know).

"He's kidding Autumn!" Summer screamed, climbing over the table, her foot knocking all the plates of food aside, spilling them all on the floor. She quickly raced behind me and started to pat my back.

"He'd better be." I said, hacking. "Or I will kill you."

"Awe, are you against us that badly?" Ace said, making a frowning puppy dog face. I glared at him.

"DEREK AND SUMMER WILL ALWAYS BE MY OTP COUPLE, OKAY?!" I screamed at him.

"OTP?" Ace laughed. "Your slang is so weird, Autumn."

I was done coughing by now, and I just simply rolled my eyes. "And your sense of style is so old fashioned, Ace."

He looked at his cosplay/costume/knight outfit. "I disagree."

I raised an eyebrow. "Whatever you say, Mr. Knight in Shining Armor."

Summer rolled her eyes and sighed at our quarrelling. She then turned to me, fishing an object out of her pocket.

"And that is..?" I questioned.

"Your phone."

I immediately grabbed it and stared at the broken screen. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I wailed, hugging my iPhone close to my chest. "Baby, what happened to you?! Speak to mommy, please!" I desperately clicked the lock button again and again, but the screen remained blank. "My baby!" I cried.

"Same thing happened with mine too!" Summer whined. She also showed me her white iPhone 4. "I miss it already."

"Watcha got there~?" Ace said, eyeing our phones. "Oh those gadget thingys."

"Gadget thingys?"

"Yup."

"...Okaaaaayyyy.."

"Anyways, they're broken, huh?"

"Yeah..."

Ace grinned. "I know someone who can fix em'!"

"WHO?!" Summer and I screamed. WHO IS THE MAGICAL PERSON THAT CAN FIX MY PHONE?!"

"My best friend, of course!"

The best friend happened to be Wonderland's Clockmaker, Julius Monery.

Contrary to Ace, this man was cold.

Like, really cold.

"Why are you here again, Ace?" Julius sighed, poking his screwdriver into a another clock.

"My girlfriends here would like you to fix their gadgets!" Ace said, laughing.

"I am not your girlfriend," I growled. "But I don't know about Summer here."

Summer gave me a flat look, and said "Could you stop being so bitchy?"

I stuck my tongue out at her.

"What gadgets?" Julius said, now peaked with a new interest.

"Um, our phones." Summer said skeptically.

"Let me see these 'phones'." Julius commanded, extending his left hand, palm facing upwards. Gingerly, Summer and I placed our phones onto his gloved hands. He brought his arm back in, and examined both of them. "These are different models?" He asked.

"Yes-er, uhm, mine-the black one- is called an iPhone 5, while hers-the white one- is an iPhone 4." I explained, pointing to each one. "Mine's a newer version."

"Can you fix them?" Summer said, her eyes wide with concern for her poor phone. "I really need that thing."

"I've never seen anything like this before." Julius muttered. "Can I look at them for a little while?"

"Sure." We both said in unison. Anything to get our phones fixed, hopefully.

"Oh yeah!" Ace exclaimed, his eyes brightening. "I need to get to work."

Summer and I stared at him, aghast. "You have a job?" I exclaimed.

Ace laughed. "Well, I need to get money somehow, am I right?"

"Oh shit," I muttered. "I don't have a job anymore either."

"What do you mean?" Summer asked.

"I ran away from the Hatters-I was working as a maid- and now I don't have a job anymore." I shrugged, looking at 3 pairs of eyes staring at me. "Time to go job hunting."

"Why don't you work for Julius?" Ace said, his grin wide as hell. "He really needs help around here."

"No," Julius said.

"Why not?"

"Because."

"Cause of what? You scared of a lil girl, Julie?!"

Julius looked up from his clock and glared at Ace. "I just don't want to trouble her into thinking she has to do it because you said so; that's all."

"Oh no, I don't mind." I said quickly, mostly to be polite and also because I also really needed a job. "I don't mind doing whatever you need me to do here."

"Oh, like having sex with him?" Ace grinned.

In a flash, I threw whatever I grabbed on the table (which happened to be a book), and flung it at Ace. Julius grabbed his screwdriver and whipped it at Ace. They both hit him, causing him to yelp in pain.

"I didn't mean that." We both said angrily, and glanced at each other in shock. I smiled, while Julius just blushed and looked back at his work.

"You guys should date," Ace said, rubbing his arm and his head. "You're so alike."

"Just like how Derek and Summer should still be doing," I said, and shot Summer a look. She rolled her eyes.

"Nah, Ace and Summer sounds way better than Summer and Derek." Ace stated, thinking about this. "Yeah, and we c ould name our kid Sace."

"Say-ce?" Summer, Julius and I asked.

"Y'know, Summer and Ace put together." He grinned. "I like it! Sace!"

I facepalmed. "That's a ship name, retard."

"Ship name?"

"You know? When two people are dating and they have a cute couple name? Like Justin and Selena? You put them together and they make Jelena? You put the-?" He shook his head, not understanding. I sighed. "You know what? Just forget it."

"Well, anywhos, I'm off!" Ace said, saluting us. "Bye Julie! Bye Wifey! Bye bitch-friend-of-wifey!"

"SUCK MY HAIRY COCK!" I screamed at him, hearing him laugh when he walked out. I sighed and put my head on the table. "God, kill me now."

"You should go after him," Julius said, twisting the finishing screw to the clock. "He tends to get lost easily."

"Oh crap," Summer said, running out after him.

"DO YOU REALLY LOVE HIM THAT MUCH?!" I screamed after her. "YOU ABANDON YOUR BEST FRIEND WITH SOMEONE WHO COULD BE A RAPIST?!" I turned around and whispered to Julius: "Not that you are, I think. I'm just trying to make her feel guilty. No offense."

"Non-taken."

Summer suddenly appeared in the doorway again, her eyes wide with rage. "HE HAS MY MONEY! I'M GOING AFTER HIM! BYE BITCH!" and ran out again.

I looked back at Julius, and said "She's the only one who can call me bitch, you know." I turned around to face the door and yelled "BYE BITCH!"

That was just part one XD i was gonna upload it all as one part, but maybe ill do that later XD i really wanted to update the story though. Part two will be in Summer's POV!

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~Pink Peppermint