Miki batted her eyelashes and flicked her hair over her shoulder. "Oh, he certainly wasn't interested. Not like that."
Silver smacked her arm, hard. "Oh my word, Miki, shut up. Gabriel is about to eat the nasty thing you bought him."
"Wait, he is? Where?" Miki asked, looking around.
Ben rolls his eyes, mumbling Russian under his breath and rubbing the back of his neck.
Violet bites her lips, giving him a smile.
These kids, am I right?
Cage turns to watch Kissa eat it. “What? You like that?? Does he like it?”
She shrugs. “Gabe how is it?”
He’s silent, finishing it on the couch.
Silver shuddered. "You are so strange."
"Well, seaweed is better than those nasty peeps Cage bought for them." Miki said.
"Who knows, maybe they eat those too back in their homeland."
Kissa glares at Miki. “No. We don’t eat glorified marshmallows at home.”
Cage opens the peep package and eats one. “These are heaven. Y’all are weird.”
Miki shuddered and Silver gave Cage a weird look. "They're so nasty sweet." to Kissa Silver asked, "Have you ever tried one?"
"Unfortunately." She answers, pulling another seaweed wrap out of the package and taking a bite.
Cage sits on the couch with his peeps, eating them with a smile.
(If you wanna time skip to later so Dio! can come we cannnn)
(Suresure)(maybe Sil and Cage can get their hair dyed the next day?)
Miki finished dicing the vegetables Vi had asked her to prep. "Okay, Vi, these are done. What do you need next?"
Silver sat on a barstool, stirring the cake batter she and Cage were putting together. "I think we just need to preheat the oven and grease the cakepan now." She said to Cage.
(Or maybe Vi will let them do it downstairs while Dio visits to keep them occupied XD)
Violet pops the lid off the steak for a second to check on it. "Would take a few pillows and blankets downstairs? Have Cage help."
Cage bounces over to Miki. "Ooh! Ooh! Are we gonna have a slumber party downstairs!?"
Ben and Kissa reenter the room from the basement, both sweaty and half dead. Vi raises her eyebrows at them as he leans on the counter.
Realizing Cage is distracted and probably didn't even hear Sil, Gabriel decides to help with the cake. "How… Do I preheat an oven?" He asks quietly.
(oooohhhh yes. more chaos i love it)
Silver smiled at him and slid off her stool. "Here, I'll show you." she lead him over to the stove and showed him the buttons to set the oven. "You just hit 'bake' and then use the arrows to tell it what temperature you want. We need it at 350 for the cake." she pressed the up arrow until the numbers read 350. "And then you hit 'bake' again and wait until it beeps."
Miki ruffled Cage's hair. "Totally, kid." she jogged up the stairs and opened the hall closet, only to yell, "VIOLET, Gabriel has all the extra blankets in the attic, remember?"
Violet sighs. "Grab the ones off of your beds then and I'll make sure to wash them after tonight."
Cage peeks up into the attic for a split second before closing it and scurrying down the ladder. "Ew. Yeah. Not touching those blankets."
"What's tonight?" Ben asks as Kissa heads into the bathroom to shower.
"Diablo is coming over, don't you remember? Now go shower."
He gulps.
No.
Gabriel blinks, overhearing Violet's words. "Who is Diablo?"
Miki snatched up all the blankets and pillows on hers and Silver's bed and brought them downstairs. "Yeah, Mom and Dad don't want us to scare him away."
Silver glanced up, taking in Violet and Ben. "What's… you're having company?"
Violet bites her lip and closes her eyes.
I thought he was purposefully waiting to tell them.
This wont be smooth.
"Sorry about the short notice, but yes. You will all be having an early supper and heading downstairs with the cake. Cage and Miki, will you set the T.V. from Cage's room up down there?"
Cage nods, heading back upstairs."
With another sigh, she continues. "Ben and I have been meeting with him. His name is Diablo and he is an elemental. Perfectly trustworthy, but we want to be safe. I'll text if you guys start to get too loud and don't be afraid to message me with any questions."
Diablo….. Have I heard of him?
Kissa peeks her head out of the bathroom, hair drenched and touching the floor.
Gabriel inhales and nods.
Miki tossed her arm load in the basement and ran back up to help Cage.
Silver bit her lip. "Is this…?" she stopped and turned back to pour the cake batter into the pan.
Violet rests a hand on Silver's shoulder, giving it a gentle rub. "We're just trying to sort a few things out and we can't do it out in the open."
Gabriel glares at the ground, trying to remember the name.
"Diablo? Diablo De Angelo?" Kissa steps back into the living room, brow creased.
Ben closes his mouth and turns to Kissa. "You- You know hi- Vi I told you I didn't like this guy."
Kissa glares at Violet, a kind of serious glare that would harbor no joke. "Diablo is one of the first. He's water, is he not? I've never met him, but I know he was one of the first. Diablo, Etienne, us birds and Airrow. Water, Fire, Air and Earth. Everything comes from those."
Violet swallows. "He's… Is he bad, Kiss?"
Kissa grits her teeth. "I don't think so. I think he went rouge on 'em. I don't know."
Silver silently put the cake in the oven and washed the mixing bowl, then turned and looked for Gabriel.
This is what Ben and Vi were fighting about the other day.
Miki hauled the TV downstairs with Cage. "Are you sure you know how to plug this thing up again? That was a lot of cords."
Gabriel takes Silver's hand and squeezes it, staring at Violet.
"Should he really come here if we're not sure about him?"
She leans against the counter. "Well…. It'd just be suspicious to call it off now. You all will have to be quiet down there and we'll get some answers from him. Don't worry."
Ben runs a hand through his hair, mumbling in Russian as he heads up the stairs.
I'm worrying, Vi. I'M WORRYING OKAY.
Cage huffs as they set it down. "Yeah, no problem. I got it. most of them are marked with colored tape now anyways because Ben put it together wrong the last five times." He giggles.
Silver wrapped her arms around him as soon as he touched her, squeezing him and pressing her face into his shirt.
"Hey," Miki said as they walked through the kitchen. "You know Ben will just roast him if anything happens."
Gabriel instinctively turns himself and Silver invisible, if for nothing else than so nobody could see him kiss the top of her head.
It's gonna be fine. Ben wont let anyone hurt us.
Violet sighs. "Lets- let's not encourage roasting anyone. At least not literally." She rubs her forehead and turns around to make some tea. "Silver, Love. Why don't you all dye each others hair downstairs? You can at least do Cage's hair. I know I still have some bleaching solution in the bathroom cabinet."
Cage beams. "Yussssss. Sil, you could dye my haiiirrr." He looks around the room for Silver for a moment. "Sil?"
Silver nodded to Vi, before hearing Cage and realizing Gabriel had turned her invisible. With a sigh she said, "Got it." and felt with her mind int he bathroom for the dye and other items. She floated them out and plunked them down on the island counter. Lifting her head from Gabriel's chest, she looked up at him and mouthed, "Can we just hide in the library?"
Miki finished helping Cage get the TV downstairs and came back up. "You're a brave man, Cage, to let Silver bleach and dye your hair when she's never done anything like that before in her life."
Gabriel gives her a soft, sleepy smile.
I dont- I don't think we're allowed.
Cage shrugs. "I only want her to bleach. And besides, we'll have Kiss down here too and Kiss is good at everything she does."
Silver sighed and rested her head on his chest again for another moment, then let him go and turned around, picking up the hair products to bring them downstairs.
Miki nodded. "She is. It's gross. But be careful, if she decides to murder you with the bleach, she'll be good at that too."
Gabriel stands still for a moment, watching Violet tidy and clean a few things, before heading down with Silver.
Kissa says we don't need to worry.
Why don't I trust that?
A chill runs up his spine and he runs a hand through his tangled hair.
I gotta talk to her.
Kissa heads downstairs to join the rest of the group, holding a large bag and her pillow and blanket.
"Mik, if you touch my stuff, you will die."
Cage looks from Kissa to Miki. "Mmm, you're right. Maybe we should just stay away from her."
Silver raised an eyebrow at Kissa and deposited the items in the basement bathroom, then ran back up to her room and grabbed a portion of her large candy collection out from under her bed.
Miki made a face at Kissa. "Fine. Then don't touch my Cage, or you will die."
Kissa rolls her eyes, setting her things on the ground and positioning them. “He’s not yours you possessive creep.”
Cage bites his lip and whispers to Miki, “she’s in a bad mood, maybe we shouldn’t talk to her.”
"He's my friend." Miki said, wrapping her arm around his neck in one of her weird-hugs. To Cage, she said, "You're right. Let's go have us a hair-dying and video gaming party without her."
Silver trotted downstairs again, her arms full of candy this time. She stopped next to Gabriel and glanced up at him. "Do you and Kissa really know that guy?" she whispered.