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Chapter 15

Day 7: Eastbell,Icewynne,Notsuoh lounge and bar,Opening Hours,The kitchen,Dark Hour

Nova stood by the sink slicing lemons in silence. She recalled what Azure had said after the incident.

Don't think ya'll can freeload, everyone's gotta do their part. You eat here, you sleep here, and you work here. No questions asked.

Nova and Shadow were now certified waiters at Notsuoh lounge and bar.

Crash!

Well...sort of certified.  

 Nova bent down to pick up the bowl of lemons she had dropped on the floor. Her mind was still hazy from the news. Her and Shadow were specially chosen by the creator of a digital world to save imaginary people from dying. Oh and if they die in the digital world, they die in real life as well. Was this some sort of sick video game? Why did she have such a desire to keep playing?"

"You'd think they would give us some kind of instructions."

"You'd think you would know how to cut some lemons."

Nova glanced up to see Shadow, with a playful smile spread across his face. His posture was stiff and his motion seemed limited. She assumed it had to do with the fall her took earlier at Sage's hand. Still, he looked a lot different than he did on the roof.

Nova had to admit he looked a little scary when mad, but he seemed to recover quickly and return to his normal lighthearted self. Correction. His normal annoying self.

Nova stepped on a lemon slice sending the bitter juice flying into Shadow's right eye.

"Argh! Damn! Did you do that on purpose?!"

She chucked waving her hands in a mystical manner a light grin played on her own face, his smile was contagious, though she would never admit that. "The world may never knooow." 

She finished cleaning her mess while Shadow flushed out his eye under the sink.

"Now I see why they call you Snow. Your soul is frozen over."

Nova flashed him a dangerous look.

"I'm kidding, I'm only kidding geez."

Shadow sat on the counter playing with a small hand towel. Nova glanced at him and did a doubletake. His hair was neatly combed unlike his usual messy slightly tangled hairstyle and his face seemed to be glowing. His body suit was replaced with a neat suit and tie; the arm cuffs, buttons and tie glowed the same aqua color as his LED suit. It reminded her of the embers of a blue flame. He looked...neat...slightly attractive almost.

Almost.

"Where do you get that?"

"Hmm? Azure gave it to me. She says she has something for you too when you're done attempting to cut lemons."

"Why?" He smirked as he hopped off the counter doing a little pose. "You like what you see? Ah shit!" He slipped on a spot of lemon juice and face planted on the hard tile floor.

"You idiot."

"Dying! Help I'm dying!"

"No, you're not you're overreacting"

"No, I'm for real! look I'm bleeding!"

"Ugh let me see."

Nova examined his face, he was indeed bleeding. There was a trickle of blood flowing out of left nostril. She glanced a bit closer, there were tiny bits of n

"Is it a bad doctor? Am I gonna make it?"

Nova rolled his eyes at his melodramatics.

"It's just a nosebleed you'll be fine"

Shadow sniffled.

"Really?"

"Yeah just keep your head tilted upwards"

He nodded obediently and kept his head tilted towards the ceiling.

"Aaawww!"

"What?"

"I can feel it dripping into my mouth!"

"That's sick!"

"I really am gonna die aren't I!"

"No just keep your head up let me get you some tissues!"

Nova scrambled around in search for some tissues or paper towels, something anything to keep his nose from bleeding.

"There's no time Doc just use those!"

Nova followed his Shadows finger to see what he was pointing at.

"Grapes?! You want me to shove grapes up your nose?!"

"Yeah just do it!"

His nose was bleeding uncontrollably at this point and was dripping onto the counter. How many health code violations were they making right now?

Nova took a grape from the fruit basket on the countertop and began to ram them into Shadow's left nostril and then in the right one as well just for good measure.

"It's too big it won't go in!"

Even despite all of this Shadow still managed to sneak a sly smirk...well as sly as a boy with grapes jammed into his nostrils could be. His nose was stuffed and his speech was impaired.

"Heh. Dats wut she shaid."

"Seriously?!"

He chuckled.

Nova jammed the grapes so far up his nose it hurt.

"Gyaa! I dink iz sthuck!"

"Good."

"Ah are you both done with-"

It was Azure, she stared at Shadow with his graped clogged nose, and Nova who was struggling to keep Shadow's head up.

"...What in the hell are you guys doing?"