Anything Zeven or Aziel were telling her about the ceremony, flew right by her poor deaf ears. Rhea thought she was okay. She thought. Maya had explained that she should continue taking baby steps to going outside and interacting with people. But attending some junkies dark dungeon award ceremony, was definitely not taking 'baby steps'.
Rather, giant troll steps. Rhea could and should jump out of the moving car this instant. She should but then again it was her own fault for agreeing to help them. To further convince herself away from the idea, it wouldn't be at all a good image of her bloody body staining streets and other cars. Rhea shook her head to dispel that thought away.
Deep down inside, she wondered why she even bothered with the twins. Rhea could have just told them good luck in finding a replacement sub despite how much they've helped her. That's definitely what the old Rhea would have done.
And yet, the current Rhea couldn't explain why her mouth moved before she could think about the tremors plaguing her body. Even though a part of her tried to convince herself it was to not owe the twins, the other part knew it wasn't that big of a deal...
"...Hey Gabe we're here. Do you think you can meet us outside?"
They were here? Rhea quickly surveyed their surroundings. There were several other nice cars parked out on the lot next to them. The oddest thing was that they were in what seemed like a lesser developed part of town. It truly must be a dungeon like Rhea had imagined.
Graffiti stained the red brick balls. And most frighteningly, there wasn't a lot of light as they were surrounded by tall buildings and alleyways.
The sound of the car door opening made Rhea's heart leap. Zeven opened the door and gave Rhea a long look. And Rhea couldn't help but give him back that long agonizing look, distracted by the perfectly knotted tie and clean shaven jawline. She gulped down air. Surely it should be made illegal for the twins to look that good in suits.
"Before you get inside, I want to apologize. It's probably more than what you can handle but you're really saving our asses by just being here."
"...Let's just get this over with."
He nodded. "I'm with you on that."
When Rhea got out the car, she noticed Aziel had disappeared first into the sketchy looking building while on the phone with this Gabe person. Suddenly, Zeven's unwilling words came to haunt her. The way they were both against attending and even opening the letter made her start to question things.
"...You know, both of you sound like you don't even want to attend so why come?"
"We don't particularly like the drugs and the unnecessary display of sex but the boss can terminate us anytime or cut our pay. In a way we're slaves bound by contract to do as he says... He's not a bad man but he is a force to be reckoned with."
"That hardly seems fair..."
"Gyaaa, Zeven my man!" someone shouted.
Suddenly, a largely built man flew and jumped on Zeven. He had on tight black clothing and most frighteningly, a collar with chains on. It truly made it seem like he had just escaped out from said dark dungeon plaguing Rhea's worried thoughts. Was it really a dungeon? She wanted to run away but the outside world was scarier than the twin and their dungeon because at least she was aware of the danger before her.
The escaped dungeon prisoner kissed Zeven on his cheek, leaving him with a red lipstick mark.
"...Gabe, hey it's good to see you."
"Oh Zeven honey that's why I love you more. Unlike Aziel, you don't struggle, push me away, or say mean things that make me want to cry and eat a bucket of icecream at the same time."
Zeven gave him an odd look. "So you cry and eat icecream at the same time?"
"Men can have their man periods too. I do it all the time while watching sad movies once a month."
Aziel's voice boomed from behind Gabe the escapee. "It's just not my thing Gabe. Any straight man would make a big fuss. And you kissed me ON THE LIPS. Gabe, I'll seriously file for sexual harrassment!...But Zeven, he just so happens to be a nice straight man or heh, a man that has yet to come out of the closet...Ow!"
Rhea didn't know how or why but Zeven flicked a penny at Aziel's shoulder. "Shutup Aziel."
Gabe's eyes lit up as he spotted Rhea cowering away from the trio. He walked closer to Rhea as she kept taking steps back, hating the interaction of strangers. This Gabe dungeon escapee person was staring at her intently with large inquisitive eyes.
"Oh? And what cute little thing did you guys bring with you this time?"
"It's the neighbor girl I mentioned. We need you to turn her into our kinky sub quick."
He kept surveying Rhea so intently that she shivered, wondering what exact kind of torture she would be subjected to. Surely it wouldn't involve the torture devices from the twins videos!
"Come with me neighbor girl, I'll fix you up kinky in no time."
Gabe tugged on her hand. She could only freeze up and look to the twins for help. But they only smiled and followed after them as she was dragged toward the dungeon first.
The building was exactly as it seemed. Run down and ancient. The walked down stone steps that led to a wooden door. It was almost like a scene straight from a movie as eyes appeared from a small rectangle hole on the wooden door. Rhea nearly jumped and fled from the spot as she spotted dark pair of eyes behind the rectangle hole.
"What's the pass...Oh it's just you Gabe," the dungeon gatekeeper spoke as he opened the door.
What lay inside only both confused and made Rhea even more speechless, forgetting about the terrors of the man stringing her along.
Mainly, she was focused on the crowd of barely clad strangers.