"Rhea...What the...What did you do to Faye Wolfe?!" Aziel exclaimed as he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
Zeven sighed and lightly smacked him on the head. "...You dimwit. Rhea Everson is our beloved Faye Wolfe."
Aziel kept looking at Rhea without blinking, showing shaking his head at the both of them. "Hey Zeven, how come you don't seem surprised at all..."
"I'm completely surprised," as Zeven said this, his expression still seemed completely normal without a shred of surprise he claimed to have. "...Though I kind of felt like she was someone familiar and as it turns out it was Rhea...Aziel, you're deduction skills are lacking. If Rhea appeared before you in a mustache, I bet you wouldn't even solve the mystery."
Rhea drowned out their voices by the sound of her heart beating. Now that she revealed herself in front of the sex crazed twins, she was sure that they would despise her for lying to them. She closed her eyes and felt the anxiety kick in all at once, as it was hard to breathe again. Damn it. Her body couldn't take this much stress in one day!
Maya was the one to step forward but she even slapped Maya's hand away, "Don't touch me!"
For a bit, she felt bad that she had taken her anxiety out on Maya but at the same time everything was tumbling down to the point where only her own needs should be prioritized. That need was to get the hell away from this room. She ran off almost dramatically, leaving everyone staring after her figure dashing right out that door.
Now that they knew, they were probably enveloped in extreme disappointment and hatching a plot to get back at her. She didn't want to stand around to find out the outcome. So she ran and ran until her feet carried her out the hospital doors. Even though she lived in the city for years, due to Rhea's extreme anxiety about going outside, she wasn't too familiar with the streets.
She rummaged through her purse to look for her phone or some money to call for a taxi cab. But to her horror, the purse that was supposed to be wrapped over her shoulder, wasn't! Ugh. Rhea remembered that her purse was sitting beside the hospital bed. To hell with it all! She began to walk down the street to cool her nerves.
Even as she tried to cool her nerves, she kept remembering she was in the outside world full on curious onlookers that burned her little resolve. Someone grabbed her arm. Rhea practically shrieked.
"Hey pretty lady, why don't you hang out me?"
"...Excuse me? What..."
Some strange unknown man was grabbing her shoulder. Rhea shrieked away from the man and tried to separate his hand but he was too strong. His grip on her only grew bolder as he tugged her toward him. He was large and towering over her like a tall statue until she was nothing but a small ant.
Why is it that things always went sour whenever she stepped outside?
"I'm sorry! I don't want to...Please, let me go."
The man holding her arm wouldn't let go and stepped closer. "You're so pretty. Come on, just hang out with me for a little while and I promise to take you back...home!"
Someone's arm grasped the strange man's arm that was holding onto Rhea. Her eyes trailed to Aziel who was now beside them.
Aziel loomed closer over the man. "She said she didn't want to go with you. It'd be in your favor to let go of her now."
"Ha! What are you, her boyfriend?" the man asked, still holding onto Rhea. "I found her first so you let go!"
The strange man let go but instead of walking away, he took a swing at Aziel.
Rhea gasped. She couldn't believe this was happening. Everything was spiraling out of control. He punched Aziel in the face. Aziel staggered back a little but before he could make the next move, Zeven grabbed the man's shoulder from behind.
"Listen, hitting Aziel is my job. Frankly, it pisses me off that some stranger like you hit him so don't blame me for what comes...next!" Zeven grabbed him and landed a clean punch back on the guy's face.
The strange man staggered back so much he fell onto the ground. By now, there was a crowd of curious onlookers watching the whole ordeal take place.
They were whispering, 'That man on the ground...Is he causing trouble against that girl?'
'Why would he just attack them out of nowhere like that?'
He began to look around and hang his head down in shame. Before long, he simply glared at all three of them before dashing away from the scene. Rhea sighed in relief as his figure disappeared into the distance.
Aziel's face!
Out of character, she flew to Aziel who was beside her and stroked the side of his face. Her fingers lightly traced over where that man had punched him. He widened his eyes in surprise from her unexpected touch.
"...Y-You're hurt," Rhea whispered, running her fingers across his cheek that had turned red and bruised.
Aziel laughed and when he laughed, his face quickly contorted to pain as he held his cheek. "Haha...Ouch...This? It's more like a cool battle scar. I'm fine."
Zeven lightly smacked his cheek and Aziel nearly shrieked like a girl. "Your tough guy act isn't fooling anyone, Aziel."
"You cruel man...That hurt!"
"...It's all my fault," out of nowhere, Rhea's tears began to flow down and a flustered Aziel didn't know what to do but wave his hands awkwardly. "S-S-Sorry. If I didn't lie and run out of that hospital like this then none of this would have happened. You wouldn't have gotten hit in the face like that."
Zeven sighed because Aziel looked over to him for help. He walked over. Then, he placed his hand on her head and began to tenderly stroke her hair until her tears calmed down.
"Shh, it's okay," Zeven said and for a moment, Rhea felt like a tiny creature being soothed by his voice alone. "Nothing is your fault."
Rhea searched Zeven's kind eyes. "You guys aren't mad at me?...Your favorite author is your gloomy creature of a neighbor, Rhea Everson!"
Aziel was the one to shake his head at her. "I admit, I was surprised but whoever you really are, it doesn't change the fact that Faye Wolfe and Rhea Everson is still our favorite author."
Again. Rhea's heart was doing those weird twists and flips. Her body was melting. And this time, not out of fear. Were they angels? If so, she could barely stand to look at them. They were too blinding for her dark self to gaze upon. She had to take a step back because the shining brightness was way too intense for her soul.
She then jolted in place as she realized how close the twins were next to her. Zeven's hands were still rested on her head and Aziel was now wiping away her tears with his shirt sleeve. This was such an amazing scene that those walking by and herself was left speechless just watching everything unfold.
"...I-I owe you both another apology...For assuming you two are weird sex obsessed creatures..."
Aziel smirked. "I mean we do love sex."
Rhea just blankly stared at him. "Okay, you two are still sex obsessed creatures...The point is, I shouldn't have judged your character solely based off of just that. Thank you again but...At least get mad at me a little? It isn't normal."
"Huh?" Aziel said, soon heartily laughing after through the pain probably stinging his cheek. "You're so strange, neighbor girl...It's like..."
Aziel and Zeven exchanged glances and leaned in to whisper at the same damn exact time which probably could have dangerously caused all blood flow to stop circulating in her system.
"...You want to be punished for being such a bad girl."
Their tempting voices echoed in her ears. Right about now, Rhea was sure she looked like an unattractive tomato out in daylight. A very unattractive tomato that would soon burst. But then her cursed imagination actually got to wondering. She looked at the both of them standing in front of her, imagining that wretched scene in their room.
What would it feel like if she were just like Iris inside that lewd live video? To be more specific, what if she was blindfolded and Aziel and Zeven had their...
Aziel poked the area between Rhea's forehead. "We're kidding. Just a little revenge on our part."
She suddenly felt disappointed...Wait disappointed?! Rhea smacked her face with both hands as the both of them looked at her strangely. That was it. Being outside was getting to her. She'd surely return to normal once she went back to her safe haven.
At least, she was praying to the gods in heaven that she would!