Lucas coughed as he scrubbed the floor in the kitchen, as the first task that Pride had given him was to clean up the house, because in his words "A man should not be living in a pigsty". Wiping the sweat of his brow Lucas sat back after he finished cleaning the stove and began to look at the kitchen happy with his work, a smile crept onto his face.
"Feels good doesn't it?" Pride said while looking at Lucas who was proud of his work.
Lucas nodded and was about to agree when Pride said: "Now on to the next six rooms of the house!"
Lucas nearly fell over but was saved just in time "Hold on a minute! I think he should make some food first! It's lunchtime" hearing Gluttony request food was one of the most blissful things that could have been said to Lucas at this moment.
"I agree let's take a break, I'm tired," Sloth said through yawns.
Lucas frowned as he said, "What do you mean you're tired you didn't do anything!"
"Watching you work is exhausting! Next time I'm just going to sleep through it, I don't understand how the rest of you can deal with this" she said mentioning the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins.
"A man is most charming when he is hard at work," Lust said.
Greed nodded and said "I can understand hard work, at least when the end result is money. I'm with you on this though Sloth working for nothing is pointless. *gag* I think I might throw up just thinking about it" holding his belly Greed turned away slightly with a disgusted look on his face.
"He isn't working for nothing! He is cleaning his house! He has to be in a good environment before he starts to have some economic, or relational gain!" Pride frowned as he said.
"Enough talk! Let's start cooking!" Gluttony whined.
Lucan nodded and walked towards the stove and pulled out some pans that were in the counter below. He then walked towards the fridge and paused as he said "We have no ingredients! I can't make anything"
Sloth and Gluttony looked at each other and nodded as they said simultaneously "Take-out".
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After ordering take out, and having to go down to the street to pick it up, as the delivery driver was too scared to come up to the door, Lucas finished the Chinese food with tears thinking about how he was wasting what little money he had because Sloth and Gluttony wanted take-out.
After lunch, Lucas went back to cleaning and only finished up about six hours later, finally being able to clean the whole house.
He collapsed on the sofa in the living room and sighed, exhausted from all the work.
"And now we sleep!" Sloth said with a small cheer, her fist in the air.
"You've been sleeping this whole time," Wrath said with a grumpy voice.
"Yeah, I wanted to sleep too!" Envy whined, jealous that only she was able to sleep.
"Can you guys shut up for a bit...I'm so tired," Lucas said as he drifted into his dreams.
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Lucas woke up with a yawn and stretched out his arms.
"Alright! Get up! The first order of business for today is to look for a job!" Lucas heard Pride say as he was forced awake.
"I don't need a job! I'm a demon!" Lucas heard Sloth say before he heard a smack and a yelp.
"I'm not talking to you!" Pride said.
"Hurry up kid! We can start making money now!" Greed said with a twinkle in his eye as he rubbed his hands together causing his gold accessories to ring as the smacked into each other.
Lucas got up before he went into the living room to grab his backpack. He reached down and saw that the rope he used yesterday in order to try and off himself with was still there. He paused as the rope entered his vision practically taunting him.
"Come on kid! No use dwelling on the past! We need to get moving!" Pride said to Lucas motioning towards the door.
"OH HELL NO! WE NEED TO TAKE THAT ROPE OUT! ARE WE JUST GOING TO LET IT DO LUCAS LIKE THAT? DID YOU SEE IT! IT PRACTICALLY SPIT IN HIS FACE!" Wrath yelled as he began to walk towards Lucas and the rope.
Greed and Lust quickly went forward to hold Wrath back, and Envy said with a smirk "You better hurry up Lucas! Wrath is throwing a tantrum again!"
Lucas nodded and picked up the pieces of rope, taking the other down from the ceiling and placing them inside one of the desk drawers in the living room. As he closed the drawer he was closing the memory he had from that moment at the same time.
"PUNCH IT LUCAS!" Wrath yelled from behind "STOP HOLDING ME BACK! I SAW THE ROPE LAUGHING I NEED TO GET REVENGE FOR LUCAS!" Wrath yelled as they made their way outside.