Chapter 3

Aemilia stumbled through the front door of her apartment and flipped on a light, which revealed her father, who stared angrily at her from his seat in front of the door.

"Aemelia Zanzabar Blake, where have you been all night and day young lady." He screeched. Aemilia glanced up at him drowsily and glanced up at him, her hazel eyes glazed over with drugs. "Oh shuddup ol' man." She slurred. "I've only been to ten or twelve bars tonight, the rest of the time I was with my home-fries." Her body spasmed violently, and her eyes widened significantly. "Oh shit I need the loo." She sprinted to the bathroom near the kitchen, and retched into the toilet, ignoring the disgusted look on her fathers face.

"Your disgusting." He said scathingly. "You are not my child, get out now." He pointed stiff armed to the door. Aemilia glanced blearily up at her father, momentarily then turned back to the toilet murmuring. "Oh, thank the porcelain gods." Before retching into it again, and resting her head against the cool toilet seat.

"I said get out, I told you about the partying and the drugs before, and now you need to leave." Her father screeched to the best of his ability. Aemilia just glanced at him again before speaking sarcastically. "Oh yes, throw your only living family member out onto the street because she got fucked up, and I mean really fucked up for the first time since her mother died." She laughed bitterly. "This is of course exactly the example you want to set for your daughter you fat fuck." She turned her head back to the toilet again and began to sing to him mockingly. "Drink up me hearties yo ho yo ho." She then cackled evilly and pulled a large bottle of rum from her purse and watched as her father sighed resentfully and walked away. Aemilia grinned at his back and continued to sing as she swigged from the bottle. "Yo ho, Yo ho, a Pirates life for me. We kindle and char, Inflame, and ignite, drink up me hearties yo ho. Weeeeee burn up the city, we're really a fright. Drink up me hearties yo ho! We're rascals and scoundrels, villains and knaves. Drink up me hearties yo ho! We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs, drink up me hearties yo –" She retched again, and laughed drunkenly at the look her father gave her as he took the rum away and forced a piping hot cup of coffee down her throat. She choked it down and he flushed the toilet, grimacing at the mess that spiraled down the drain. He grabbed a hair tie from the counter, and gently pulled Amelia's hair away from her face before saying one last time, "By morning you have to be out of here." And walked out of the bathroom. Aemilia just made a noise of conformation, and leaned on the cool seat again, sighing as she pushed her short bangs out of her face. "Shit."

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Aemilia grabbed the backpack she had stuffed the majority of her clothing into, and bounded out of the apartment. After taking a shower, and getting the rest of whatever it was out her system, she was refreshed and exhausted, but staying in the small apartment with her father was not an option, so she had called Aelin. At which time she discovered that Aelin was going to Japan for a while, and she could stay in her empty apartment. When she reached the small building, she quickly climbed up the stairs only to find Aelin manically packing a large suitcase.

"My flight leaves in two hours!" Aelin screamed. "And last night when I was supposed to be packing I was partying!" She clutched her head dramatically and collapsed to the floor. "Ohm, my poor head, I was so wasted yesterday. Oh and did I have sex on a wall?" Aemilia just stared at her friend inquisitively and allowed her to explain herself. "Oh sorry, I just feel like I did something whorish, and there are claw marks, and word imprints on my back, so I think that equates to sex on a wall."

At this point Aemilia had fallen to the floor laughing. "Oh." She managed between her loud guffaws. "My, goddess, are, you kidding me?"

"No." The other girl replied with a straight face. "I'm not kidding. Besides, I also found." She lowered her voice. "Pictures, of you making out with some dude, and some chick."

Aemilia's eyes widened. "No!" She yelled softly. "No way in hell I was that wasted!" Aelin nodded, her eyes wide. "Look." She said, and pulled her camera from the giant purse at her side. She flicked it on and began flipping thorough the pictures. "I remember that, we took these after we were at the Queen." Aemilia said proudly as she glanced at the shots of the two of them and Aelin's older brother. Then after a picture of Aelin pretending to write on the Arc, a shot of Aemilia kissing a cute guy popped up, and then there was a video, which Aelin decided to press play on. There in all her glory was Aelin, and the same cute guy in the previous picture, pressed up against a wall. "Well Aelin, I guess you were right." Aemilia sniggered at the horrified look on her friends face, then turned back to the small screen where she had appeared, and was kissing the cute guy yet again, when a random girl, who looked very bimbo-esque in a cropped tube top that barely covered her massive chest attacked the couple and began kissing Aemilia. "Noooooooo!" She screamed. "I got, like raped by a damn bimbo!" She began to fake cry, then cheered up immediately. "Well at least I can't remember it."

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Aelin's retreat to the plane was for the most part an uneventful ceremony that prompted tears from both girls and a brief conversation on what Aelin expected her apartment to look like when she got back. ("I want it to get trashed because of some hot party that people, will talk about for months, and I want it to still be going on when I get back.") The obligatory promises were made, and Aelin's bags were shipped off to the plane before Aemilia was released from her friend's death grip and she was told to. "Get you're ass home and nap." By Aelin's older sister, who made her monthly checkup on Aelin as she was running to her terminal. Then as Aemilia was leaving she noticed a head of curiously familiar straight-ish hair making it's way to the cab's outside the airport. She decided to follow the girl, ignoring the signals her body was sending her, telling her to stay away. The other girl stopped suddenly and whirled around, advancing on Aemilia with her teeth bared.

"What are you doing?" The girl growled. Aemilia simply raised a single eyebrow.

"Is that anyway to treat the locals m'dear?" She replied casually

"Yes." The girl said. "Especially when they are Kali." She growled again, this time sounding more wolf-like.

"But I am not Kali." Aemilia replied to the threatening growl with one of her own. "I am Lillith, same as you."

"Oh." The girl calmed down. "Well then, It's nice to meet you. My name's Kenadia." She held out her hand. "And you are?"

"I'm Aemilia." Aemilia grasped the girls hand tightly in her own and shook it. "Nice to meet you too."

A/N: sorry it took me so long to put up this entire chapter. But my aunt came into town, and she's really sick so I've been staying with her at the hospital and since they make me sick, I couldn't write anything for a bit. I'm going to have chapter 4 up soon I promise!