Chapter 2:

Chapter 02

The Ice Bucket From Hell


“You lech!”

“Pervert!

“Go die!”

That was Lily’s reaction when I told her she turned into some form of demon and was aggressively kissing me to the point I ran out of breath. Red faced and gripping my collar, each insult was accompanied with a violent shake that I thought I was going to get whiplash.

She fell silent after her short tantrum, still gripping my collar and pushing me to the ground. The way she was looking at me didn’t seem like she thinks I’m lying. The expression on her face tells she was more confused than anything.

“I-I don’t know what came over me”, she eventually said as averted her eyes away from me. “It’s like something took control over my body and did… those things!”

Turning her face back at me, she then said, “So don’t get the wrong idea, okay?!”

I wasn’t sure how she saw the incident, but considering I felt like prey rather than sensing anything romantic out of it, it wasn’t hard to say to her, “Okay.”

Standing up, she started complaining about the sudden growth of her hair.

“Geez, I have class all afternoon, I don’t have time to go to the salon to have a haircut”, she said as she inspected them. “And it smells spicy!”

I picked myself up off the ground as well, and couldn’t help but muse, “Still, I wonder what happened just now?”

“I already said I don’t know”, she said, annoyed. She seemed more concerned with her hair as she further commented, “I wonder if shampoo is enough to get the smell off.”

Not much I can do if she doesn’t want to talk about it. Although, it does make me wonder.

I took my smartphone out to try and search the internet if there had been similar happenings before.

While I was starting to think Lily turning into a demoness was an illusion, the hair growth and her eyes turning red was an undeniable fact. I mean, it's right in front of me. The sudden changes to her appearance was hard to dismiss.

“Hey”, Lily called for my attention as I was lost in thought. She looked angry.

She then covered her chest area, and that’s when I noticed.

I had been holding my smartphone in a way that pointed the camera lens towards the direction of her wet blouse and the bright pink bra it exposed. Her drenched top also accentuated her modest curves.

Kicking my shin without removing her arms from what she was shielding, she screamed “Don’t take pictures, you creep!”

She then confiscated my phone and kicked me - figuratively this time - out of her house.

“I’m not taking pictures, I swear!” I pleaded.

“Even so, I don’t want you hanging around while I take a shower”, she declared while glaring at me suspiciously, implying I would try to peep on her.

I wouldn’t do that, of course.

Although, I guess, I wouldn’t be able to help myself imagining her in there.

“Disgusting”, she said as if she read my mind.

There was no room for negotiation at that point. She slammed her front door on my face, even though I still had my backpack inside. The tripod was also something I brought with me, not to mention my smartphone was still in her custody.

The joke’s on her, though. She can’t stop my imagination!

But, that had to wait as I also have classes to attend in the afternoon. I went home to prepare for them without collecting my stuff. I just lived next door so I could simply return for them once we both got home from college. And, hopefully, Lily would give my smartphone back to me when we’re both on campus.

She didn’t bring it, however.

After class, we went home together.

Well, I say “together”, but she was purposefully walking ten paces behind me the whole commute.

“I feel like you’re going to have lewd thoughts of me if we’re walking side by side”, she said, genuinely looking concerned, when I asked her about the distance.

“What? Why would you think I would do that?” I asked.

“I mean, you’re thinking of me in my underwear right now”, she claimed.

“Huh? How did you know?” I unwittingly said.

I covered my mouth as soon as the words left my mouth, but they couldn’t be put back in anymore.

“See? I knew it! You’ve been giving me that perverted look all afternoon!” And she took another ten paces back.

In my defense, I wasn’t exactly thinking of her in her underwear. I was thinking of her with a drenched shirt and her underwear showing, like earlier. It was not something a guy could easily forget after all, so I couldn’t help but replay the event in my head whenever I looked at Lily.

But, try as I might to hide it, the muscles on my face apparently betrays me.

When we arrived at her home, she brought out her phone and said to me, “You have ten seconds to get your things and leave.”

“What? That’s unreasonable”, I objected.

“Two seconds”, she said, ignoring me.

Two seconds had already passed to protest her demand. It took another two seconds for me to realize she wasn’t going to budge, so I hurried to the living room to get my backpack.

I was a step away from the sofa where I had placed my backpack this morning when Lily grabbed me from behind.

“Time’s up”, she said.

I wasn’t counting the time, but I would guess all of that was ten seconds.

I half expected her to chase me out of her home again, but then she sinisterly said, “Let me have a taste of you again!”

I felt dread. But, despite this, I slowly look back at Lily.

She had again turned into a demoness, the same form she had when we were engulfed in smoke earlier this morning.

Her bright red eyes locked onto me as I looked at her in horror.

I tried breaking away from her hold, but her grip on my waist was tighter than my belt. 

I tried to shake her off, but she just wouldn’t let go.

“Just a taste!” she begged amid the struggle.

She then grappled me onto the floor. That’s when she removed her hold on me. Not because she gave up, but because she was about to pin me to the ground like she had before.

She was able to sit on top of me as I lay on my back, but, unlike before, she doesn’t have the element of surprise. I was able to react and grab her wrists before her hands could reach my shoulders.

This didn’t stop her from closing the gap between her face and mine, however. While I still held both of her hands, she slowly overpowered me and forced my arms towards my chest.

I would like to say she was using the entire weight of her body to do this, but, considering Lily’s petite stature, there was obviously more to it.

She was still holding on to her smartphone for some reason. I could see the stopwatch app still ticking. But, this served as a momentary hurdle for Lily as it blocked her path towards my lips.

Or, accurately, my mouth.

Recognizing this, she dropped her smartphone.

I saw the screen showing six minutes had passed before I reflexively closed my eyes as it fell on my nose.

Once I opened them, Lily was back to normal.

Well, normal as in she was back to her usual self except the long hair and the red eyes remained like earlier.

“W-what was I doing?” she asked, looking spooked.

I was trying to catch my breath, gasping, before I could answer her. We barely shifted positions when I told her, “It’s happened again.”

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