The table was noisy, just how Mistress liked it.
Strawberry had his head buried into a book, spooning some hot soup into his mouth giving some snide remarks to something's Coco was saying.
Caramel was playing with is food, as usual, but he was eating it and giving some small speeches, which Mistress smiled at.
It was good, he was making progress and she would reward him later.
Cream still had the bored look on his face, except there was a bit of his mouth opening once or twice and all Mistress had to do was stare at Chocolate who although was speaking rapidly to Ber, had one of his hands under the table.
Mistress sighed "Boys"
The chattering stopped and they all turned to look at her.
She gave a small cough, her hands on the table as she said "Coco, please I'd like it if your hands are on the table. Yes, both of them, you and Cream can do whatever you're doing later"
Cream had slight colour on his face but Coco only passed her a grin "But Mistress, I'm only squeezing the ball you gave us"
"The balls I gave you to squeeze are filled with air" She replied "The one you're squeezing is filled with sperm"
Caramel choked on his food, Ber cleared his throat, Cream looked down at his plate and Coco chuckled, his hand now on the table "Okay you got me but you never complain about it. What's with the immediate change of mind?"
Slowly and steadily, Mistress said "We would be having a visitor tomorrow"
Chocolate eyes glazed up "Oh really?"
She gave a slight nod "You would be wearing your collar tomorrow, I don't want any stunts from you"
Chocolate gasped, hand on his chest "Stunts? Moi? Mon dieu"
"Shut up" Cream drawled, his voice ever so quiet and low as he looked at Mistress "We barely ever have visitors and when we do, they never stay till dinner"
"Unless of course it's a visitor visitor" Mel said, his small voice barely audible but their ears had been inclined to it and could hear him clearly.
Mistress knew she had to take it slowly "Yes, visitor visitor"
A squeal erupted from Coco's direction "Finally! Mel and I aren't the babies of the house anymore! Oh who is it? I bet he's some rich ass spoilt brat from that neighbouring city"
"I hope it's Stan" Ber said, his deep voice resonating all over the house "Still need to beat the shit out of the prick"
The chattering resumed as they all assumed who it could have been, mentioning the sons of top business men both in Aeira and Vnio that they knew was as damaged in the head as them (Ber's words and not mine)
until her calm voice said.
"She"
The noise ended as soon as it had come.
"She?" Coco repeated, his blue eyes contracting a little "But we never have a...."
Creams hand found its way to Coco's waist, now pulling him off his chair and to his laps "Mistress, you cannot be serious"
"I think that's it a good thing..."
"You think?!" Ber's voice snapped, ever so angrily, ever so violent "Chocolate's terrified of women"
The person in question sat straddling Cream, who had his head on Coco's back as the male said with a small laugh "I've gotten over it"
Ber scoffed "That's why you got Mistress to make sure none of the teachers that taught your classes were females huh?"
Mistress sighed "Berry"
"You don't get to call me that when you're being inconsiderate" He spat out, now facing her.
"I am considering" She said, still calm, still so calm Strawberry thought he might explode "Coco's needs to get over his fear of women. He was afraid of me too, until he got used to me"
"Mistress" Mel said softly "You're not like other.... Women"
She gave him a small smile "Thank you darling for the kind words but there is nothing really special about me"
"We all love you" Cream murmured, head still on Coco's back "That's not normal"
Still smiling, she reached out for his hair and patted it, raking her hand through it as Cream purred "Maybe we should get you a new haircut darling, it's starting to grow...."
"Don't change the damn topic Sweet!" Ber snarled.
Everyone visibly winced as Mistress sighed again and retracted her hand from Creams hair "I think I have tolerated your anger long enough, we all know there are rules. One being that you are not allowed to shout at the dining table"
"Damn..."
"Strawberry" Her voice went a notch lower, and it seemed like cold filled the air.
They all knew that voice.
It was the voice of 'don't make me mad, I don't like being mad'
As usual, Ber's angry face began to relax at that voice, possibly because his raging angry monster had met something that could be more terrifying when it was angry too "It's just not fair... And you waited till today to tell us? I mean... You're already forbidding Coco from giving handjobs at the table all because some girl is coming, and you expect me to be okay with that?"
"I needed Coco's and Cream's full attention, that's why I needed his hands on the table, both of them" She replied "But if I'm being really honest, we don't want to scare this girl away. Our lifestyle isn't something you see everyday"
Coco snorted as Cream reached up and kissed him on his cheeks "Tell me about it"
"And I don't expect you to be nice" She continued "I just need you people to behave yourselves and treat her like someone that exists, because I don't want what happened when Ber and Cream ignored you and Mel for the whole first week you both were here"
Mel reddened as Ber said "Mel always wanted to kiss me, I'm irresistible"
"No you're not" Mel mumbled, looking at his table as Ber kissed his temple and said "Adorable"
"Okay okay" Coco said "No ignoring her, no trying to get her join our little quintet and no handjobs under the table till she's one of us"
"Chocolate...."
"He's kind of right" Mel interjected "It would just be weird if she doesn't join us, you know. Wouldn't feel right"
"Love doesn't work like that baby" Mistress replied "You can't choose who would love us and who doesn't"
"Then we just make her love us, simple" Coco said "Besides, who wouldn't love us, right Mistress?"
Mistress faced him smiling "Right, and also, I think she'd be a good influence on the house. I just feel it"