Page 56 of The Goddess is Awakened
“Comes with the territory, little god. And it feels nice when they don’t make it weird with cults and murder. It’s also much different in this era. Your dad didn’t rub off on you at all, did he?”
“Have you met my mother? If my dad starts getting ridiculous beyond his usual shenanigans, she totally calls him out on it.”
Yes, I’d met both Ripley Bell and her twin sister Ravyn. They were probably the only two people in the history of this universe who could balance the massive ego and extreme fuckery that came with being in a relationship with the God of Chaos and Loki.
“She worships him in her own way. It’s about balance. That’s what youwantfrom these boys you’re about to reveal yourself to. It’s what I’ll give you. I fell for you because you give that to me.”
“I was just being me.”
“Exactly. It’s not the same if it’s forced. Now, you have classes to attend and I need to get this school a dodgeball teamanda cheerleading squad or I’m not going to have just your twin after me. Angry mobs arenotmy favorite thing.”
The board was just waiting on an answer from the headmaster to get the dodgeball team up and running. Matilda was so fucking thorough, it should be easy to get them to approve the cheerleading team, too. She didn’t just want to cheer the dodgeball team on. She wanted to compete in her chosen sport.
She earned that and the students who didn’t want to play dodgeball deserved it. I was going to make it happen.
george
Igrew up with the exact same strong role models as the rest of my siblings, but I definitely handled pressure the worse. My little brother was eight, and he was much better at it than I was. I puta lotof pressure on myself because of what I was.
Azren calmed my nerves, but I was nervous as hell. The guys were great. They accepted everything about me except the one thing I lied about. They were amazing. The guys didn’t give a shit my dad was a god, and I didn’t think they would care I was either except for the fact that I lied to them about it. I probably should have told West and Churchbeforewe had several threesomes under the full moon. That was totally my bad.
I was proud of myself. I became a total fucking idiot when I was nervous. And sometimes, I worked myself up over nothing. I knew damned well I was getting into the Academy of the Profane because my dad taught there, but I had myself convinced I was going to do so terrible on the placement exam, no college would want me. I accidentally set the trash on fire in the testing room.
I didn’t mess a single thing up today. Nothing exploded or caught fire and I was pretty focused. Even Mags and Matilda noticed and said they were proud of me. I got through theentireday without fucking something up.
It was time. I was in my dorm room waiting. Matilda and Mags gave me one last pep talk before they went to find Mina.
“They seem like great guys,” Matilda said. “They aren’t going to care. They are just finally going to know how awesome you are.”
“And if they don’t, I know some really old curses your momma never taught you, but I doubt it. Those guys are going to worship you like the god you are when they find out.”
There was a knock on my door. Mags let everyone in. Matilda pointed two fingers at her eyes, then pointed at the guys.
“My revenge will be epic if any of you get stupid,” she said, shutting the door.
They all spread out on the two beds in my dorm. There wasn’t a ton of room to pace, but I did it anyway. Why was this so hard? I had multiple people in my life try to prepare me for this. Loki tried to make it weird by shapeshifting into a teenage vampire so I could roleplay. It was too strange for me at the time, but now I was wishing I’d taken my trickster uncle up on that because I really didn’t know what to say.
So, Church spoke instead.
“We all know you have this massive secret. Energy vampires can sense that. Your’s tastes delicious and I know it’s not a bad one or it would make me feel weird to be around.”
“We thought Church was stalking you to turn you into some weird sex slave and had an intervention. It turned out you just had a delicious secret. We all knew you had one, but we were just waiting for you to be comfortable enough to tell us,” Ren said. “I thought I was going to have to start stealing better shit to make you more comfortable around us and let you know it’s not going to change anything,” Ren said.
“I’m pretty sure Chantico knows,” Oscar said. “She’d never betray someone, but she wanted me to chat you up way before you asked me to paint something.”
West just shrugged.
“You could tell me you eat baby livers and I wouldn’t give a shit. My lion and I have decided you’re our lioness, even if you can’t shift.”
“That’s gross, West,” Oscar said, wrinkling his nose.
“No, that’sromance.When you meet a girl like George, you ride or die on everything. You get her baby livers if that’s what she wants. I thought Ren gave you his porn books.”
“He’s not wrong,” Ren said. “Do you want baby livers instead of trinkets?”
I laughed. These guys. They knew damned well I wasn’t eating body parts. I was nervous, and they were trying to relax me.
“Okay, sono oneknows this except my family. Eventually, everyone will know this, but I’m not quite ready for that yet. Idowant all of you to know. I’ve been keeping this secret forsolong. It’s easier if I show you.”
