Page 31 of The Goddess is Angry
I pulled my Aunt Ravyn aside since Freya was staying at her cottage. She passed the message along that tonight was about everyone meeting our parents and we had a tendency to dominate the conversation when we were together. Freya passed the message along that she absolutely expected me to bring them by for tea soshecould meet them.
My dad’s rotation taking over for Azren was about to be up. Freya had literally been here this entire time to teach all of Azren’s classes, but the board wanted Loki next. Theonlyreason they seemed to be shitting on Freya was that they didn’t know all the contributions she made when she was hiding in witches.
Campus was all aflutter. The dodgeball team Zion put together was good enough to win championships. Oscar should technically be training with a pro team and he showed that on the field. Michael, Drake, and I were signing for him, but the rest of the team had taken up the torch and were learning sign language just in case they were near Oscar and we weren’t. Rescinding Oscar’s pro offers because he lost his hearing was premature. There were plenty of famous deaf players and it wasn’t holding Oscar backat all.
Dexter was a short, lean guy, but he was also the fastest person on the team, both on land and in the air. He told me in high school, he played dodgeball and ran track. I’d already talked to Azren about Dexter’s request and they said not only was it possible, they had done it before on their realm. They were going to walk me through it, but told me I needed a huge understanding of anatomy and how the muscles would connect, even if I was using cosmic powers. I was hitting the anatomy books every night until I felt ready.
The cheerleaders were another story. I watched practice to support my sister since she always came out for dodgeball practice. Matilda had an amazing group of talented athletes and dancers. Belladonna and Matilda had theexactsame vision for the squad. Like, I’d never been a cheerleader a single day in my life and even I could tell they were totally sympatico on the direction they wanted to take the cheerleaders. They both wanted to cheer the dodgeball team on, but they wanted the squad to compete, too.
It was like they agreed on everything, but they fought about it, anyway. And it was like, when Belladonna justlet goand got caught up in something she enjoyed instead of trying so hard to be vampire royalty with shitty beliefs, she just lit up and I couldalmostforget the shitty things she said to my twin just because she was a hellhound.
Belladonna would cut up and get silly with the team then it was like a switch flipped and she remembered she was supposed to think she was better than everyone. I couldseethe thorny stick getting reinserted up her ass, and she usually said something racist to my sister. I’d feel bad for her that she couldn’t let herself have fun, but she was taking it out on my sister, so I wasn’t a fan.
The next moon orgy was coming up, so if someone wasn’t excited about dodgeball or cheerleading, fucking multiple people under the full moon was sure to do it. It wasn’t just the fucking. It was the prowling for people to fuck or the anticipation of getting invited if you weren’t a witch or a shifter.
“Now that your mom told me about those books, it’s even weirder when a witch invites me to join them at the moon orgy. Now I’m not just worried about my hair. They probably have all these weird expectations. Kaylee Krauss invited me and then Paris came right behind her two days later when I told her no. I don’t even know what’s happening right now,” Drake said.
I wasn’t dating Drake, so I shouldn’t even be worried about who he slept with. But I was butthurt people were asking him. And I wasfuriousKaylee and Paris did. And I knew I had no right to be, so I just savagely bit into my bread and sulked.
“It’s not just the books,” West said. “I’m telling you this as a very secure straight man. You’re a sexy ginger, a college dodgeball player, everyonelovesthe goalie, and you’re a musician and composer. Everyone in Sigmis dorm has walked by your dorm and heard you playing. Fucking you has that added level of danger because your entire body is venomous. You’re walking sex.Of course,you’re going to get invited to the moon orgy.”
“Dude,” Ren said. “You can’t say shit like that and go around kissing men and insist you’re totally straight.”
“One, I never slipped anyone the tongue. You can totally kiss your friends if there’s no tongue. Two, would you prefer I be one of those toxic bros who insults you and starts fights rather than compliment you when youclearlyneed it?”
“He has a point,” Church said. “And he hasn’t kissed me yet.”
“‘Yet,’” Oscar said.
“Do you need a pick-me-up lion kiss, Church?” West asked.
“No! But I’ll take a George kiss.”
“This is big,” West said. “This is the last moon orgy before Yule break. We have to make it big for everyone because we’re going to be apart.”
West, Oscar, and Ren were going back home to California. Church lived in Profane. Azren was bringing Drake home to visit with Ketura and take care of business back on their realm. Mina was from New Orleans and she was going home. Dexter had a bit of a tumultuous relationship with his parents because they wanted him to pay for his transition himself and they didn’t know his grandfather was paying for his T. Dexter was going to be staying with us.
“I’m okay with not doing the moon orgy,” Drake said.
“You can come play with us!” a thirsty witch at the next table giggled.
I stared her down, even though I had no right to. Drake wasn’t my boyfriend, and I was still processing the fact that I was even mad about it. And then I realized Drake was staring atme.Shit. I wasn’t trying to get caught because I didn’t even know what I was feeling yet.
“Can I talk to you in my dorm for a second?”
Fuuuuck.
I followed Drake to his dorm, and the door was open. I didn’t think much about it since he had a roommate, but when we walked in, Kaylee came out of his bathroom. Drake immediately changed. His eyes changed to slits and his fangs came down. He was probably calling his venom. Shit. I was immune to him, but he looked scary.
“Whatthe fuckare you doing in my dorm room?”
Kaylee just giggled like an idiot.
“Relax. Your roommate let me in. I thought I’d give you another chance to reconsider joining me at the moon orgy.”
“Try again. My roommate knows I can’t stand you,” Drake growled.
“Because you don’t know me. You should definitely go to the moon orgy with me.”
