Page 1 of The Goddess is Angry
george
It was such a shit show. The Sigmis dorm was trying to figure out why all the Banshees on campus shrieked. Dot, our dorm mother, locked the dorm down and told us to get back to our rooms. She said we could go to each other’s rooms, but once we were there, we had to stay put until she counted us.
My dorm room was a nice size, but it wasn’t my sister’s two girlfriends and my four kinda, maybe boyfriends size. Especially since West was massive and hogging my bed. Mags and Matilda had Mina smashed between them and were snuggling with her because she’d had a bad night.
And West, apparently, figured out my secret and didn’t give a shit. It was a giant omen that the Banshees shrieked when I was going to tell them the first time, but I really should. West thought it was cool. I wasn’t dating Mina, but I could see the look on my twin’s face. Matilda had it bad.
I was about to open my mouth. I swear to shit; I wasliterallyabout to tell everyone here that I was really a god when a knock interrupted me. Dot stuck her head in with a clipboard. She didn’t even blink at all the people in our room.
“You’ll all need to stay here. I’m not sure when I’ll get the clear for you all to go home. It’s probably nothing, but we have to keep you here until we know the campus is safe. If it’s a revenant again, we’ll send your daddy out. He’ll use it as a teaching moment. Professor Morningstar is so dreamy.”
Ew. She did not sexualize my dad in front of me. All my dads took my mom’s last name when they got handfasted, but Gabriel was already Professor Morningstar and a legend for the whole revenant thing before that. So, he was Gabriel Bell at home and on all his paperwork, but people still called him Gabriel Morningstar. My mom didn’t care, so I didn’t.
I did care about my dorm mother crushing on my dad because gross.
“It’s not nothing. Someonedied,”Ren said.
“I’m not trying to make light of it,” Dot said. “One thing you’ll learn as students here. No one graduates from this university without hearing the Banshees shriek or shrieking if you’re a Banshee like Mina. I’ve been here for decades. Sometimes, it really is nothing, I promise,” Dot said, closing the door to resume her count.
“It’s never nothing,” Mina said. “If we scream,someoneis going to die. It’s never a false alarm. We can tell if it’s violent or not, but it’s still sad when someone dies of old age. They have family and people who love them.”
“They don’t wantusto know that,” Mags said. “Azren is here. I’ll bet the board tries to cover this up.”
“Going to be pretty hard to do that when everyone heard the Banshees,” Church said.
“Azren won’t let them,” Oscar said. “This is the first time I’ve seen them outside of history, but if they are really here to stop this, they won’t let them.”
No, they wouldn’t.
“Azren is the headmaster now, and they outrank the board. The board can tell them what to do, but it’s going to lookreallybad if they fire a primordial. All Azren has to do is make a big, stinky, bear shifter fart about why they fired them,” West said.
“Usually, I punch people in the face for saying shit like that about shifters, but you’re also a shifter and you aren’t wrong,” Matilda said.
“Please don’t. I’ve seen you in magical combat and you’re a fucking beast. You’ve never once broken a nail and your makeup is still perfect when you shift back. If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were a hybrid and doing some kind of witchcraft. I’m definitely not fucking with the Hellhound half of the twins,” West said.
“I don’t think any of us are,” Church said.
Church was leaning against my wall and before Matilda could say anything, Bethany rose through the floor and punched him in the dick again. Church shrieked and collapsed on the floor holding his junk. That was enough. Was Bethany seriously in here dick punching my boyfriend after what we just saw on the dodgeball field?
“Seriously, Bethany?” I asked. “I know this is your one night for mayhem, but do you really want to spend it punching my boyfriend in the junk with everything else going on? There’s a murderer on campus. You saw what they did to that witch. There are enough ghosts on this campus to get justice for her. Especially on Samhain. You know who did this. You could bring them to Azren to handle.”
Everyone who didn’t share a crib with me gasped. You just didn’t talk to ghosts like that. Church’s dick was case in point. They didn’t eat, and they didn’t sleep. They got all their entertainment from the living. Especially plotting their revenge if you slighted them.
Bethany could out me to this entire room. That wasn’t the worst thing that could happen. My secret wasn’t more important than the safety of the students here. I didn’t think Bethany would do that. The ghosts all had immense respect for gods. That should extend to me, too, even if I wasn’t a god of anything and I’d been born and not made.
Bethany just bowed her head.
“Even the pretty death god can’t stop him,” she said, flying out of the window.
“What does that even mean?” Church groaned.
“Come get in bed and snuggle with me,” I said.
I could subtly heal him under the covers, where no one could see my healing light.
“How did you talk to a ghost like that?” Oscar asked. “I speak to them differently, but you can’t disrespect them.”
“Yes, George. Howdidyou talk to Bethany like that?” Mags asked.
