Chapter 804: 792.5 (1/2)
Title: Bedtime Tales
”What next?” Felicia inquired while hogging the entire three-person couch. She laid on the surface on her side and had her head supported over her bent arm as her loose white locks fell over the armrest. Mary sat on the other sofa with Anna squeezed in on the seat while the others, extremely dissatisfied, sat on the carpet around the table while looking at Jennifer. She really took a shine to her mutated form and even took the chance to gain fame the moment she returned.
Jennifer clearly knew that Nik's stay in this world is a short one and her dream of opening her law firm cannot be accomplished in this world. Instead, she decided to make good use of her time. Trying to stop crime and help others now that she knew that the only way to escape torture after death is to feel good about oneself. Quite a strange way of judgment but on a deeper level, a fitting one. After all, what best a punishment set by oneself in a situation of great pain?
”And then—”
”I'm sorry,” Ava interjected. She had her dark hair tied back and wore a loose hoody and sweatpants, ”I just don't know why we gave an entire couch to that thief,” she looked towards Felicia and matched her glimmering green pupils with her dark orbs.
”Because rock beats scissor. Too bad I'm not racist, or I would have plenty more comments,” Felicia smiled, her plump lips stretching wider.
”That's plenty racist already,” Mj noted as she sat next to Ava with Gwen by her side and Cindy flanking Ava from the other. Tigra and Vertigo still remained in the Paradise, or otherwise known as the Savage Land, and Janet was not present either with her professional work demanding her attention.
”Give it a rest,” Natasha scoffed, sitting on a chair, ”What happened next?” She inquired.
”Next... it was a strange scene. Like Nik was growing out of Ice. And the ice looked like water...” Jennifer continued while Gwen, who seemed to twitch every now and then for obvious reasons showed a wry expression once again.
”What did she say now?”
Jennifer huffed in anger.
”She... said that you're, uhm, well, she meant that you're a little lacking in storytelling.”
”Come on, Poole! I can't see you but you can see me, right? Stop interrupting already. Or, you can tell describe the scene and Gwen can just speak after you. Word to word,” Anna groaned and hugged Mary as the short-haired redhead sighed and kissed the top of Anna's head.
”That would be interesting,” Natasha shrugged before realizing something and matching Jennifer's glare, ”Oh, come on. You're good in front of a court but right now, you're clearly struggling. Raise of hand to change the speaker,” she called out and raised her hand.
Mj, Cindy, Felicia, and Natasha were the ones who raised their hands.
Gwen, Ava, Anna, and Mary were the ones to refute the argument.
”Um... if we need to break the tie then Poole and Spider have raised their hands,” Gwen admitted with a blush.
”Hell, yeah!” Poole cheered, not that anybody could see her with Nik gone except for this world's Gwen.
Soon, Gwen stood up and Jennifer sat down, making others shift a little.
”Remember,” Felicia cooed, ”We want a word-to-word description. That ghost of yours claimed to be a better storyteller after all.”
Gwen flinched. When standing in front of all of them, she felt a little unnerved but the most intimidating of all, Angela, wasn't present, much to Gwen's relief.
”Fine,” she nodded, ”Poole says to prepare popcorn. This is a wild one.”
”We're out of it, sorry,” Mary coughed, ”We had movie night yesterday.”