Past - Snake Eyes - 2

"759...758...757...Is he still staring at you, sis?" The white-haired girl asked her sister, while she still gazed at the empty ceiling, lying down on a pillow.

"I don't know, I don't wanna know, You just get onto counting"

"Ain't his creepy gaze giving you chills?"

"Ooh, now I get it. It was him all along. All this while I thought the chills were due to the air conditioning"

"Umm... Excuse me girls, can't you see me here cleaning your room., " The boy showed his dustpan full of translucent skin and white and black scales, to the girls, but none of them bothered to look at him. Their eyes were glued to the ceiling as if it was a television. With every passing minute at least one scale was falling from their bodies.

"755... 754.... Do you hear his voice, sis?"

"Yes, I can hear him"

"Are you thinking what I am?"

"Yes, his voice is annoying, tell him to shut up."

"It will be rude of me to say something like this to his face, why don't you say it instead"

The boy stopped sweeping the floor and looked at the floor, annoyed. A vein popped up on his temple, and he pressed his teeth strongly against each other.

"SHUTT UPP YOU TWO!" He yelled, shifting his view from the floor towards the sisters. "That's enough, what do you both think of yourselves? You are not my Mom to talk shit to me and expect me to stay quiet... I am getting paid to clean this room, not to hear this bullshit yatter of yours."

"...."

"....."

A long silence followed his dramatic outburst. His own reaction stunned the boy. He felt as if he took a stand for himself against a bunch of nasty bullies and made them shut their mouths. With a proud smile on his face, he resumed his cleaning work.

"753... 752...751...750..."

"Hey sis, is he angry?"

"Who knows, I don't want to see his face."

"But he just yelled at us, he is rude."

"Never mind him, I think he scored low marks in a test, that's why he is frustrated."

"I think his stomach is upset."

"Or he broke up with his girlfriend."

"You got it in reverse, It's certainly his girlfriend who dumped him."

"Because he is a good for nothing creep with no redeeming quality?"

"I can hear you bitches, cut your crap." Once again the boy yelled at them with the same intensity as before.

"*yawn* Hey Sis..." The white-haired girl yawned.

"Yes?"

"Tell him that the next time he yells, it will be his last."

"Why wait till next time, let's just get over with it? I don't think I like this new guy anyway."

The boy shivered, he was beginning to realize why he got this oddly high paying job so easily. 30 minutes on the job, and he knew exactly what not to do, do not annoy these girls.

"I am sorry, " he said weakly, and resumed his work in utter silence.

No one counted anymore, both the girls were silently lying on their pillows. The boy swept the black and white withered scales and hair off the cold floor.

"Excuse me, would you mind moving a little?" He asked timidly to the girls. It took him a while, but he finally realized that he was at the mercy of these girls for as long as he stayed in this room.

"No" the black haired girl said, this is the first time she answered the boy.

"..."

"Why?, " She continued after a long pause.

"I need to clean these scales," he pointed towards the scales scattered along their pillows.

"You don't need to. Just do whatever you can get your hands on."

"Or you can do it when we aren't here," This is the first time the white haired girl has talked with the boy. She scratched her cheek for a bit and there were two more scales on the floor.

"But...," The boy thought for a while before continuing again, "I can't lose this job... I am sorry if I am bugging you, but I will ask you again can, you please move a bit aside."

The black haired girl rolled down to have a good look at the boy in the jumpsuit, she raised her left leg which faced the boy and placed it on top of her right leg. "Do whatever you want, but I am not moving from here." She declared.

"As you wish." The boy replied. The girls were curious as to what the boy was going to do after this bold reply.

He took hold of the black haired girl's left ankle.

"Are you going to lick my foot?"

"Waaaa," As a surprise to her, he pulled her left ankle and didn't let go, he dragged the girl along with the pillow beneath her to the end of the room. Her face got covered by her own gown, and the white shorts she wore inside were now visible. Her milk white stomach felt a cool breeze as he dragged her on the cold floor. By the time they reached a halt, 80 percent of the girl's skin had been covered in black scales, her eyes turned like that of a reptile, it was as if the girl had transformed into something utterly monstrous.

The boy was horror-struck by the appearance in front of him. He stood in cold feet by the cold wall, people wearing white lab coats passed by the door, but no one cared about what may happen to the poor boy in that situation. His scream was audible only to him, his breath burst in and out in quick succession, and instead of letting her leg go, he gripped it even tighter. Even though he expected to see some abnormal things in this lab, it was too much for him to take at once.

The scales sunk back into her skin, and again appeared the cute and petite girl with black hair. But the boy wasn't the same. He kept looking at the girl with wide eyes, but she looked displeased by what the boy just did.

"Hey!" She shook her leg, which the boy held tightly.

"I am sorry, very sorry, really sorry," he continued to apologize and bowed with every 'sorry' he spelled.

"My leg!"

"Ooh! Shit, I am sorry, very sorry, very very sorry, really sorry," he released her leg. The boy was clearly scared of the girl. The white haired girl who still rested at the center watched all this with the corner of her eyes and smiled, as if she knew something amusing was going to happen.

"Shut up!"

"....."

"Take me there," she pointed towards the other end of the room.

"...." The boy looked confused, her response was too anti-climatic for him, and also for the girl who looked surprised by her sister's unusual request.

"Here," she stretched forward her other leg.

"Umm...."

"Fast, "she shot him a sharp eye.

"Ok Okay" He grabbed her right ankle and pulled her towards the other end of the room. This time no extra black scales appeared, instead she became more girlish than earlier. With a joyous expression on her face, she enjoyed her little drag to the other end of the room.

"Now there," she pointed towards the left end. The boy paused for a moment, but then again he pulled her to where she pointed.

"Now th..."

"Gottit," The boy saw the true colors of the girl in front of him. She was a childish young girl with a pure innocent heart like any other girl of that age. He dragged the girl on the pillow, around the room in random circles, and the other girl watched them in bewilderment.

"Hahahaha" The girl began to laugh as his speed increased. "Faster... faster..."

"That's enough," This voice came from the center of the room, but it was ignored by the other two who were playing like kids. This annoyed her.

She stretched her arm forward, white scales surfaced from inside her skin and covered her arm completely until it looked liked a snake's body. Her palm deformed to look like the head of a red eyed albino snake. The body of the now transformed white snake stretched and elongated with the same width as the arm. It stretched till it reached the boy and coiled around his waist, stopping him in his tracks.

"Wait, What the hell is this? A snake? Get it out, get it out.," He yelled while trying to uncoil the snake, the black haired girl was looking towards the panicked boy and then the white snake around his waist.

"Sis, is that?"

"Come here," The white snake pulled the boy towards the white haired girl's feet., "Here, do me the same." With a pinch of shyness and embarrassment in her usual poker face, she lifted her leg and ordered the boy to drag her across the floor.

This time, the boy quickly absorbed the unusual white snake's emergence and her sudden change in mind.

"Sure," he replied to her with a warm smile.