Page 3 of The Goddess is Angry
“You know, you haven’t kissed me yet.”
If she wanted to do that, we could do that, too. Oscar yanked her to his chest and cocked his head at me. I came up behind her to press myself against her back. Oscar took her mouth. I brushed her hair off of her shoulder and started kissing her neck. She moaned and melted against us.
“Is it wrong that after everything we just saw, I want this?”
“Fuck no. There’s a killer on campus. Some people get hysterical. Other people get horny,” I said, nibbling on her ear.
“We can do whatever you want,” Oscar said. “It’s also okay to be afraid.”
I loved Oscar to death, but he did not just say that to George Bell. I watched her on the dodgeball field because I didn’t want to look at that dead witch. She wasn’t scared. She was hyper-focused on finding out who did this and making them pay. Her dad was a primordial, and her uncle was Loki. We hadn’t said anything because she hadn’t, but I smelled Azren all over her more than once. I was pretty sure we were all dating a god by extension now.
“Pretty sure George isn’t scared of serial killers,” I said. “You’ve seen her in magical combat.”
“Distract me,” she pleaded. “There’s magical lube in my nightstand.”
Was she scared? George and Azren appeared to be working on this as a side project. The only reason the rest of us even knew more than a few details she gave us was that we happened to be in her dorm room when the Banshees started shrieking and Azren came to get her.
None of us were mad about that and Azren was transparent, but they were also doing their job on the dodgeball field instead of giving us every detail.
“One question and then we’ll be happy to distract you. Is the person doing this targeting witches?”
“No one knows. Bethany won’t spill, and we’ll know more about how they covered it up in the past with how they try to do it this time. Azren is in a good position to get the details we need while Headmaster Krauss is recovering.”
I started giggling. I’m sorry, but the shit that went down with Kaylee and her mom was probably going to be funny until I graduated. I already downloaded the video just in case someone made Dexter take his down so I could watch it again and put it right back up.
Oscar started laughing because Dexter zoomed in on Kaylee and Headmaster Krauss’s faces to get a reaction shot when they realized the hex didn’t hit George and it waspriceless. I didn’t know what Dexter wanted to be when he grew up, but he shot pretty amazing footage with a cellphone camera and could do whatever he wanted.
George melted and started laughing with us.
“She was trying to hex me while my back was turned because it’s the only way she could beat me. Every witch who saw that video is looking down on her and calling her a coward for not facing me like a true witch. I should be mad about that, but they also pissed off my brother’s boyfriend and his revenge was epic.”
I couldn’t stop laughing because Dexter and her brother were fucking hilarious. Not the fact that they were together. I didn’t give a shit about that.
“Your brother is doing the whole growly avenging angel, so no one is mean to Dexter, but I think this whole school is more scared of Dexter than they are your brother,” I wheezed. “Dexterfucked upthe headmaster by uttering one word in a way that absolutely couldn’t be blamed on him because he was warning you. Seriously, Headmaster Krauss can’t even open her curtains for at least two months without being in excruciating pain. He has the whole freedom of speech thing on his side with the video.”
Oscar started laughing.
“That level of fuckery can get a Kitsune a new tail, so Ren has a deep appreciation for it.”
Since the academy was warded, people walked around with their wings out if they had them. The Kitsunes half shifted with our ears and we wereallbragging about our tails. I had two beautiful bushy tails and you can bet your ass I was showing them off.
George gave me a sly look and started stroking my tails. That was highly erotic for us. I couldn’t help clicketing in pleasure. Oscar said he missed that noise the most when he lost his hearing. Foxes made it during mating season and Tanuki, my god, decided Kitsunes was going to make it, too.
“Undress me and tell me how you got a second tail so soon.”
Stroking my egoandmy tail? Yes, please. Talking about our tails was a favorite thing, and it meant a lot when someone asked. We took our time stripping her of her clothes, kissing and biting as we removed each article.
“I turned eighteen early, so I had my magic for a few months before graduation. Oscar and I used to hang with our other neighbor, who was a vampire and also turned eighteen early. So, we’ve got a vampire and Oscar, who nearly went pro at dodgeball, and me, with Kitsune magic and everything that comes with that.
“We filled a metric fuck-ton of balloons with mayonnaise and hung them all over the ceiling. The students ignored them because they had a pretty good idea it was me and my group that did it. The faculty gave the balloons a wide berth because they suspected me, too.
“Our principal was a huge dick. All he cared about was our dodgeball team and he gave the athletes special preference. Oscar was dead to him when he got hurt and Iowedhim. He tried to rip a balloon down and ended up covered in warm mayonnaise.
“Everyone who wasn’t an athlete and got bullied by them while he looked the other way jumped into action and started pelting him with mayo balloons. Then the jocks he always coddled got caught up in it and started throwing balloons at him, too. He went home to shower, but the balloons were everywhere. Every time his back was turned, he got hit.
“He looked like he starred in some extreme fetish video about cream pies and the mayonnaise had long spoiled, so you could smell him from across the school. He constantly threw me in detention and was always throwing cheerleaders at Oscar. I gained a tail and the power of telekinesis popping those balloons. I regret nothing.”
I really didn’t. That man loathed me. He didn’t care if the rest of his students were gay or bisexual. He thought dodgeball players were the epitome of manly men andtheyweren’t supposed to be bisexual. He thought they were all supposed to be with the cheerleaders. He also just ignored the fact that women had always played dodgeball and some of them were better than the men.
