"Mom's calling!"
Jody Alonzo snatched up her cell after taking another shower and tossing her dirty t-shirt in the laundry. Blood on it after cleaning up the front yard the best she could in all reality the shirt should have been burnt. Phone in hand she and Raven Mourn huddled side by side as Jody put her Mother on speaker.
"Mom?"
"I'm okay honey! I got a ride home. I'm going to get cleaned up then I'll drive over. Is everything okay? Wait! Don't tell me, do that in person."
"Okay! How long do you think?"
"Give me an hour and a half. I...have a lot to tell you."
"So do we."
"Alright! Be safe! I love you."
"Love you too." Both girls said aloud, Raven gritting her teeth and whispering, "Don't know why I said that." Jody found it cute. Gwen merely got a shiver and hung up. "Why DID you say that?"
"How the hell should I know? Love conquers all I guess and I needed the boost of confidence."
"You can tell me you love me." Jody jabbed Raven in the rib playfully.
"I think that's where this all started."
"Loving me?" Jody looked hopeful.
"No...with a rib."
"Huh?"
"Adam creating Eve from his rib."
"Oh! That's kind of dark."
"And, then there was light..."
"End of the tunnel?"
"End of conversation...get dressed Streaky."
"You get undressed." Jody attempted to take Raven's t-shirt off. That led to a firm no as Raven bulged her eyes at the brunette with a pucker of stop that.
"Not right now. I have things to do."
Rolling her eyes Jody groaned out of disappointment, "Like what?"
"Count birthday moolah." Raven turned heel and headed to the bedroom, Jody tagging behind closely and lifting the back of Raven's shirt to play with her butt. Swats became vibrantly playful until Raven finally had to grab Jody and growl, "DOWN GIRL!" Angel fell silent and flopped on the bed with a stare of obedience, almost puppy dog.
Plucking up her suitcase Raven rests it on the unmade bed and opens it up, sitting on one leg to go through birthday cards from the girls and the employees at Crowley Manson Girls Home. "Here's the card your dad gave me before all this crap started." She shares it with Jody. Seeing his hand writing made her tear up a bit.
"He gave you money."
"He gave you more money."
"True! I'm not surprised...Daddy was a very giving man. He got me anything I ever wanted."
"I think I know he was a great guy having lived with him for a day. I wish I'd treated him better...I nearly ate the guys soul I think."
"How did you pass his soul into me? I mean I barely felt anything when he was in me." She winced at how that sounded, eyes darting with almost an embarrassment. "You know what I mean."
"Maybe...the barrier gift I somehow conjured prevented you from pain or even feeling on the inside..." Raven shivered at her out of body experience yet again, fearing she might have hurt Jody by fisting her possibly worst she imagined. Then it dawned on her what she had just pointed out. Maybe she was invincible on the inside too. Interesting! "Anyway...you ditched Daddy into Gwen, I'm sure she loves spending more time with Hector."
"Are you kidding? They're probably at each others throats."
"He loved your Mom. I could tell, I felt his emotions, he mine. Oooo! My roomie Angela's card. Where did these wenches get out to buy me a card? I hadn't left Crowley Manson in a month or more before I got set loose. Pretty sure they didn't either."
"Maybe Dad bought cards in bulk for everyone."
"Maybe! Sounds like him doesn't it?" She opens the card and feels a wetness on her fingertip. Looking at it Raven bulged her eyes. "Oh crap! Blood?"
"Where? I don't see blood. Trust me after cleaning up the yard I'd know blood."
"Right here on my finger. The card's interior has bloody fingerprints...how can you not see it?" The card was signed, "H E L..." beside her name. Looking up at a bewildered Jody she mumbled, "HELL?"
"Only you can see it evidently."
"OH FUCK! Maybe it's H E L--P! Noigel must be going after the girls." A quick survey of the other cards found more bloody H E L's...on a male orderly's card the role changed to a batch of letter P's on their sides with a tiny notch on the rounded part of the P..."The P's are made to look like Penises. FUCK!"
Another male devoted card had the same P's on their sides but these were looking as if cum shooting up out of the tiny lines in the circular arch of the P. "SICK MOTHERFUCKER! How is Noigel doing this?"
"I don't see anything." She did find money. Technically...blood money. Jody then took the card and held it under her opened palm just to see if her abilities offered her a deeper insight. "Sure enough a faint glow illuminated the blood so that her eyes could now see it. In a panic she tosses the card back into the suitcase.
"He doesn't want me to use the money. He wants me to have trouble surviving out there."
"Then we use my money."
"What if he taints it?"
"MOTHERFUCKER!" The demon Incubus kind of was considering he tapped Gwen while possessing Brandon. Nothing new for Noigel...pussy was pussy.
"I have to check on the girls. Let me see your phone." A hand off Raven looks up the number but the Crowley Manson reception phone went to voicemail. Hearing the recorder say, "Hi! You've reached the Gates of Hell...I'm taking the girls on a field trip right now...if it's important leave you name, number, and reason for screaming at the tone..." BEEEEP!
Hanging up with a look of horror Raven's eyes began glowing red until Jody touched her hand. The second she did Raven's eyes returned to their normal baby blues. "Just breath!"
"He's going to hurt my friends. I have to do something."
Hearing sirens in multitude Jody looks away, "Hear that? It sounds like it's coming this way. Did the cops find you?"
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Raven leaped up and grabbed her clothing, tossing them back into her suitcase, uncaring if blood got on them from the cards. She simply felt the need to run. "I'll be in contact. Just act normal if they knock on the door. Better get dressed!"
"Right!" Jody grabbed another t-shirt from Hector's dresser and threw it on in a blur just to keep up with Raven heading for the front door. Before she even opened the door the Crowley Manson bus came to a loud crash into Hector's mailbox which was surrounded by a brick foundation. Demolished foundation now!
"OH FUCK! He brought them here." The picture window offering a nightmarish view toward the front of the crushed bus buried in bricks and mortar. A tree on the street adding to it's crumpled state. Driver's window down the bus driver obviously possessed was slapping the side of the bus laughing his ass off. The thing was the driver's arm looked twisted from a break, bone sticking out of his skin. Looking over at Raven as she rushed to open the door the driver chuckled pointing at the splintered
"BONER! HUMERUS!"
Raven at least could see hands by the dozens slapping murky smoked window panes from the interior and immediately sensed their trauma. Tears began to fall to the point Raven gave up and just tossed her suitcase aside. "I can't run. They need me to fix this. Somehow!"
"Right behind you Babe!" Jody lay her chin on Raven's right shoulder. Raven patting the girl on the cheek felt grateful, it was when she turned to her left shoulder that she worried. Angel on the right...little Devil on the left? Maybe she was the Devil...she knew one thing...she was pissed off.