Mariposa

Somebody Please Kill Me

KYLE'S POV

I tried to pull her in but she hesitated. I tried again and same thing happened.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I don't wanna get eaten." She fearfully said.

"What?" I asked.

"That thing," She pointed at the car. "it ate your friend I don't wanna get eaten too." She was so terrified that she was visibly shaken up. This girl lives with wierd talking animals and she's scared of just a machine? All I could do was to laugh.

"Mari, this is a car. You move around with it. It is made so that you don't have to do excess walking." I explained.

"You sure its safe?" She asked, peeping at the inside of the the car.

"Yeah, come on." I urged as I pulled her in. She still hesitated a little but she gave in. I helped her balance well on the seat and she closed her eyes, probably expecting to be swallowed by the car but when she realized she was fine, she opened it back.

"Told ya." I said and she smiled.

"So Kyle, where did you meet Mari?" Cole asked. Okay, that caught me off guard. I can't probably say I found her in a forest in another dimension. Okay Kyle think!

"Hey dude." Cole called.

"Sorry, I zoned out."

"So where'd you meet her?" He asked again.

Ah God! Can't this guy just drive and stop asking questions? Mari gave me a "don't tell him" look.

"Well, um...she's from a village. A really rural village." I lied.

"Village? When did you go to a village?" He asked in confusion. Christ! Its me that will cut off this guy's tongue one day.

"Well, when I woke up this morning, I saw her seating on a bench, crying. I went to her to asked what was wrong. She told me she was lost."

"Did she leave her village?" He asked

"Um yeah, she said her step mother was maltreating her so she ran away." I'd probably need thorough cleansing for every lie I've told since I've entered this car.

"Oh sorry about that Mari."

"Thanks." Mari said shyly.

"Don't worry, Kyle and I are here to help you. You can count on us." He assured Mari as he flashed her a smile through the front mirror.

Cole may be a jerk, but he despises when women are mistreated or treated unfairly because his mother was once one of them. His father used to smack his mother for the smallest of infractions, and he used to wish he could kill his father.

His father has never supported him. We've known each other since childhood because his father and mine were best friends. We share everything, and he occasionally sleeps over at my apartment and vice versa. My father, despite his close relationship with his father, had no idea his friend was abusing his wife. Cole has always told me that his father threatens his mother with dire consequences if she tells anyone, so they appear as if everything is fine on the outside while suffering within in the hands of Mr.Ben, Cole's dad.

I couldn't stand watching my friend cry all the time, so I had to inform my father. We were both seventeen at the time. I'm only a month his junior. My father was so upset and disappointed that he had to rush over to Mr. Ben's house as soon as I told him, and we were just in time to save Cole's mother's life. The poor woman had bruises all over her body. It was clear that she was frail. All Cole could do was sit in a corner and pet his 7-year-old little sister, Betty.

My father was enraged. He called the cops right away. Mr. Ben was detained and charged with domestic violence. He was given a ten-year prison sentence. Cole, Cole's mother, Valarie, and Cole's sister were taken in by my father. Since then, he's been providing for them. My mother, as well as my father, were present for all of them. I wasn't left out. We all lived together as one large family. My younger brother, Nick, my mother, father, Cole, Betty, and aunt Valarie all lived in such harmony.

Cole and I moved out when we were twenty years old. Even if our mothers didn't agree, we thought we were old enough to live on our own. We finished college, and I took over my father's company. Not because my father told me to, but because it's something I've always wanted to do, and Cole is both a singer and an actor. He's a really gifted and well-known vocalist. C.White is his stage name, and everyone knows who he is.

Everyone is familiar with the most well-known and wealthy corporation, "Winthrop Company," but not everyone is familiar with the young, attractive CEO. Cole and I had the best teenage years together, but now that I'm twenty-five, I need to find someone with whom I can spend the rest of my life. Lily is my girlfriend, and I believe she will be the lucky one. Until Lily came into my life, I had no idea I could fall hard for a woman.

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We finally got home after thirty minutes. I helped Mari out of the car and she opened her mouth in awe.

"Are we in heaven or you're royalty?" She asked, gawking at the mansion before her.

"This is our house, silly." Cole chuckled as Mari's shocked expression.

"Come on." I held her hand as we walked into the house and a wow escaped from Mari's mouth for the second time.

"Come freshen up." I said

"Where? You have a stream?" She asked and Cole bursted into laughter but I glared at him to make him stop.

"No, just come with me." I said as I turned to Cole. "I'm gonna go take a shower." I told him.

"With Mari?" He asked with a mischievous smirk.

"You're crazy." He laughed as he turned to the direction of the kitchen. I pulled Mari by the hand and climbed the stairs up to my room.

"What is this place?" She asked.

"My bedroom." I replied

"Bedroom." She hummed, "What do you do here?"

"You sleep, relax and do a lot of stuff." I explained.

"Seat here and wait for me while I go to the bathroom to bathe." I said as I pulled her to the bed and she sat.

"Wow." She exclaimed as she balanced on the bed. "This place is super comfy." She lied down and stretched.

"You sleep on this." I told her.

"Really?" She asked and I nodded. "If I ever sleep on this, I'd literally never get up." She said as she closed her eyes took a deep breath. "Ever." She added.

"Very funny. I'll be in the bathroom. I wanna wash my stink off." I said as I entered the bath room.

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I made sure I washed everything corner of my body because I'm really dirty and that's one thing I hate, dirtyness. Feels good to be home. I turned off the shower, wrapped a towel round my waist and I hung one round my neck. I placed my dirty clothes in the washing machine and I stepped out of the bathroom.

I came out and I saw Mari holding a baseball bat. Wait a sec it seems she wanna use it to hit...Oh My God! My TV!

"Mari, what the hell are you doing?" I exclaimed as I rushed to her, collecting the bat.

"They won't stop fighting." She said.

"Who?" I asked and she pointed to the TV. Oh! It was a movie and the scene was about two guys fighting.

"I wanted to enter to separate them but I couldn't enter. I told them to let me in but they ignored me, so I thought I could break the door to get in, in time separate them before they killed themselves." She explained like an innocent two year old.

"Maaari." I whined, pulling her to seat on the bed.

"That's a TV." I pointed at the TV. "Hmm l, a TV. What's a TV?" I was expecting that question.

"It's a device. Just as you have a car to take you anywhere you wanna go, a TV will show you anything you wanna watch." I explained.

"Really? It's just like a witch's crystal ball!" She said in amusement and I chuckled.

"Nope, not like that but it's similar to that."

"Wow! You humans have a lot of amazing things." She said

"Yeah, we do." I smugly said.

"Now, it's time for you to get cleaned." I pulled her to the bathroom.

"What am I supposed to do here?" She asked, feeding her eyes with everything in the bathroom. Well.....

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I went through everything she needed to know about the restroom with her. I showed her how to use the shower, or as Mari referred to it, the water vomiting thingy. I demonstrated how to wrap a towel over her body and hair, as well as other bathroom-related skills. Mari kept asking what everything was during the lesson, and it didn't go well. When I was certain she understood all I said, I locked her in the bathroom. I returned to my room to change..

I went into my closet and I picked a black sweatpant and a white T shirt and placed them on the bed. I bought out my deodorant, hair drier and hair gel from the cabinet in my dressing table.

I applied the deodorant, wore my clothes and picked up the hair drier to dry my hair..I combed my hair backwards and I applied the gel.

"Yeah...this is me." I winked at myself in the mirror, doing some models poses. Isn't Mari supposed to be done yet?

"Mari." I called and she replied but the reply wasn't clear. It was like something was stuffed in her mouth. What could she have done this time? Oh lord let it not be something stupid.

"Mari are you done?" I asked from the room and she hummed a yes. I walked to the bathroom door and knocked. She mouthed a come in and I went in. That was when I saw Mari on the toilet seat, stuffing her mouth with toothpaste. Some body should please kill me.