LWHAYC The Devil Within part 9

Chapter 9: Give Mildred back this instant!

At school in the cafeteria, Layla, Nyle, Henry, Yandere-Chan, Bertha, and Skarlet are talking with each other about what happened last night? What did Absinthe do to Bertha? Did she try to escape or not?

“So when she dropped you off,” Skarlet said to Bertha, “did she even said where she’s going?”

“...No,” said Bertha, “Absinthe’s still have her big car parked right next to our home, so I guess she doesn’t have anywhere to go.”

“It’s still Mildred but okay.”

“No, she’s Absinthe.”

“She’s still your sister Bertha.” said Henry.

“She might be just having stress or something,” said Layla, “Or it’s maybe something that happened to her and putting it on her.”

“No, Bertha’s telling the truth,” said Nyle, “Mildred’s soul is in the mirror, and I’ve been talking to her.”

“Okay when did this even happen?” Skarlet asked Nyle, “What the hell does that even mean?”

“I’ve been talking to her so that Absinthe can get out of Mildred’s body and Mildred’s soul to get back into her body.”

“You mean to put her in front of a mirror?”

“Well she appears whenever I need her to appear, and said I have to ge-”

“So you mean to if I want to get Mildred through the mirror, then I just go to it like in the bathroom and talk to her?” asked Yandere-Chan.

“Well no, but I think it has to be a specific mirror,” said Nyle, “I just have to talk with Mildred so that Absinthe can be here so that we can get her out of the mirror and put her soul back in her body, but there’s a problem. Absinthe is in her body, so we have to get Absinthe out of her body in order to get Mildred back into her body.”

“I went through the mirror,” said Bertha, “and it was scary.”

“See even Bertha believes me.”

“Okay, maybe what I think,” said Skarlet, “Mildred had some sort of bizarre episode and maybe got a little violent.”

“Because Absinthe is bizarre and violent.” said Nyle.

“That’s not her, maybe she’s trying to be like that.”

“No, Mildred is never a bad person, Absinthe made her into one because she possessed Mildred and took over her body.”

“Well if Absinthe is a real person that possessed a person or whatever you said, we have to like get her back with a mirror?”

“We have to snap her out of Mildred’s body in order to get Absinthe out.”

“Well we gotta get her here,” said Henry, “because that’s what we need to do.”

“And get her stripped down so that she can stay there and not move an inch,” said Yandere-Chan, “and maybe force her to snap out of it.”

“If that’s what we have to do.”

“Okay but the forcing, ain’t gonna do much.” said Nyle, “We need to lure her in to get her with us and has to be a very certain mirror, but that I don’t know where it is.”

“Absinthe took it.” said Bertha, “When I got out she grabbed the mirror and carried it while she got me out of her car thing.”

“You mean an RV?”

“...I guess you can say that.”

“So it looks like we have to get Absinthe her for tonight,” said Yandere-Chan, “and the mirror and snap Mildred back in, but forcing her ain’t gonna do s**t right?”

“No it ain’t gonna yet,” said Nyle, “we just gotta take it easy.”

“So all we have to do is let her of what she tells us, and back off on the forcing.”

“Yeah, and it has to be a certain yet specific mirror, that’s what I think Mildred told me.”

“And it looks like we have to use a curtain mirror is what she said? In fact how are we gonna lure her in? She probably just hate us after what happen.”

“I’m sure she’s gonna give us another chance, I know it. I trust Absinthe.”

“Layla, Skarlet, Henry, and Yandere-Chan doesn’t know if it’s a good idea, but can give it a shot, no matter at what cost it’ll be, it might work.

“I guess,” said Layla, “but I’m keeping Bertha with me.”

“That sounds good to me sis.” said Nyle, “I’ll go call her up.” She picks up her phone and call her up.

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In the afternoon after school, Absinthe comes over to school at three in the afternoon coming over to see what’s going on; she looks around and was suppose to be meeted at the lockers.

Nyle came on walking by and Absinthe came over to her.

“Hey Nyle.” said Absinthe.

“Oh hey Absinthe,” said Nyle, “How are you doing?”

“You told me to come over here. Besides I get to hang out with you guys again.”

“That’s amazing...I guess.”

“Say, do you know where Bertha is? I mean I hope she doesn’t hate me or anything.”

“I’m sure she’s fine, Layla let her in when she saw her.”

Then Skarlet came on over unexpectedly which kinda made Absinthe and Nyle jump a little bit.

“Hey girls,” said Skarlet, “and hey Absinthe, it’s nice to see you. The names Skarlet, Henry’s younger sister.”

“Oh, Skarlet,” said Absinthe, “It’s amazing to see you again, even though I didn’t catch your name. Since the incident.”

“Ooh, about that. It was pretty cold once you’ve decided to take Bertha away last night. When Nyle called my brother and Yandere-Chan up she thought she needed help.”

“Don’t get me started on that please. I really don’t wanna get another headache after last night, when that kid decided to whine and all.”

“Hey at least you brought her back, that’s a good thing.”

Absinthe does feel a little stressed out after last night and the night before, so Skarlet decides to bring her a good stress reliever to rig off of her mind.

“Say Absinthe, how about we go to the pool area.” said Skarlet.

“What do you mean?” asked Absinthe, “I feel fine.”

“No, I meant look up on the sun, feeling the sunlight and all. I mean it’s such a nice day out there girl. Come on, you gotta have to feel the relaxation.”

“Hmmm, okay. As long as I get to find some rest finally.”

“See? Don’t worry girl. I’m sure this is gonna be a normal day for you.”

Then Skarlet and Nyle lead Absinthe outside to the pool area for some relaxation. While they are, they're still thinking how they are gonna find a right way to get her to change back to Mildred.

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Outside at the pool area, Absinthe, Skarlet, and Nyle are lying down on towels, wearing sunglasses, and looking up while relaxing on the sun.

“Ah, what an awesome way to get this stress away,” said Absinthe, she turns to Skarlet, “what a good idea Skarlet, this really got my mind off of Bertha.”

Skarlet turns to Absinthe.

“Yeah I know,” said Skarlet, “but don’t take my word for it, my parents taught me this.”

“To relax?”

“No, to be awesome. I know how to relax since day one of my existence. And also you should trust me too.”

“...Eh, sure why not?” Absinthe turns back to looking at the sky enjoying the sunlight.
Skarlet turns to Nyle.

“Hey Nyle,” Skarlet whispered, “don’t you think letting her do all of this of what she wants to do really gonna work?”

“Well yeah,” whispered Nyle, “I’m sure of it. I gotta trust her so just keep it cool until things get to maximum. Now we want to just be calm and relaxed. Well you gotta admit, what you said it is a beautiful day, so might as well enjoy it and then we get to her and fixing this problem.”

“Okay then.”

Nyle and Skarlet turn back towards the sky, looking at that it’s so clear and calm, not a single cloud in the sky not interrupting a thing.

Then from right next to the diving board, Henry and Yandere-Chan were hiding behind it and have towels in their hands and bathing suits on ready for a swim like it’s a regular day; they put down their towels down on a wrack, climbed up to the highest way to dive in the water.

Yandere-Chan jumps in first down in the water causing a big splash, some drops of water didn’t even reached Absinthe.

Henry goes next and jumps in the water, and caused a little big but medium sized splash; he
poked his head out and sees that he also missed as well.

“Damn it,” said Henry, “I thought it would hit her.”

Yandere-Chan then poked out her head out of the water, and also sees that she missed, not one water droplet hit Absinthe.

“At least we didn’t pissed her off,” said Yandere-Chan, “we have to get her as calm as she can anyway, and then we grab her and change Absinthe back to Mildred again.”

“Oh right...and how are we gonna lure her in?”

“I don’t know, probably Nyle will, because she told us that Absinthe wants her to be trustworthy.”

“Give me a break, there’s no way that’s gonna f**king work, and besides if it does, where are we gonna put her?”

“In the Occult Club room, where no one is there except us, Nyle, and Skarlet, and Absinthe on the chair with her mirror right in front of her.”

“Then we snap Mildred back to this world.”

“That’s what Nyle said...I think.”

“Where’s her mirror? It’s gotta be here.”

“Ugh, alright, let’s ask Absinthe where it is.”

Then all of a sudden.

“Cannonball!” Yelled Absinthe and she splashed in the pool right next to Henry; she pops her head out of the water and swam right against him, “Hey Henry.”

“Uh hey Absinthe. Say why don’t you have a swimsuit on instead you have your clothes on? Isn’t it tight enough that they’ll might shrink?”

“Nah this dress doesn’t shrink. It’s made with a smooth material. So anyway, did you two say you guys want my mirror?”

“Welp we want to borrow it for...a fitting.”

“Hm, really? What kind of fitting?”

“Uhh, a tuxedo.”

“...Oh okay, I thought you are gonna make me go back to hel- I mean my home where I came from.”

“What? No, besides I never met a girl that looks so hot.”

“Really? Y-you think I’m hot?” Absinthe asked as she blushed and turned a little red.

“Yeah, pretty much.”

Absinthe kisses Henry in the lips again and swims away, and runs off away from the pool in pure (maybe Yandere) love as she yelled.

“See you later Henry! Make sure to return the mirror okay?!”

“Got it!” When Absinthe is already gone, Henry wonders of how she heard him and Yandere-Chan were talking about, but has to ignore it. Right now he and Yandere-Chan have to solve this problem, “Okay let’s just find the mirror.”

Then Henry and Yandere-Chan get out of the pool and to find Absinthe’s Mirror.

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Still around the school, Henry and Yandere-Chan looked around the whole area. Even through the garden and the hedge maze to see if it’s there, but nothing there at all. Then they just realized that they just looked around outside, but not the inside of the building.

“Are you sure it’s suppose to be in there?” asked Henry, “I mean come on, it’s gotta be outside. You said it yourself Yan-Chan.”

“I said it might be,” said Yandere-Chan, “but it ain’t. Looks like the inside of the school is our last resort.”

“...Ugh, I knew we should’ve looked inside.”

Then they go inside the school building to the lockers; they looked through every locker and nothing is in any of them, just either some stuffed animals, birthday cards, or packed lunches.

“Nope, not in the lockers.”

“Try looking harder. Bertha ain’t gonna live a miserable life with Absinthe around.”

Then all of a sudden, they heard some footsteps from the left hallway.

Henry and Yandere-Chan hide inside their individual lockers as Absinthe walked through the hallway not noticing a thing, but also carrying her mirror.

Absinthe walks by looking suspicious wanting to know why Henry needs the mirror for a fitting for a tuxedo? It’s a mirror just half the size of his body like a window. She then feels a little itchy off the chest; so she puts down the mirror right next to the locker where Henry’s hiding in as she reaches in and scratches the itchy area on the chest.

“Ugh, even in Mildred’s body,” said Absinthe, “I have no idea why she has an itchy chest, has a good looking body, but this is getting ridiculous.”

Henry looks through the holes from outside the locker knowing that Absinthe is distracted; he looks down, opens the locker very slowly and quietly so that Absinthe won’t hear a thing, and carefully reaches for the mirror. He grabbed it and quickly closed the locker now that the mirror’s with him.

Absinthe’s itch was finally gone, in Mildred’s body it can be itchy for her sometimes; she puts her hand out of the dress and turns around for the mirror. When she did, the mirror is gone.

“Huh? Where did it go?” asked Absinthe in confusion, “Ugh, I guess it’s Henry. Although he did asked me to use it for a fitting awhile ago. Might as well wait until he gives it back and I’ll try to speak to Mildred later, or I’ll talk to her in the bathroom mirrors.”

Absinthe leaves the locker room wanting to try to talk to Mildred in some other mirror anyway since the new mirror she has, doesn’t seem to work anyway.

When the coast is clear, Henry and Yandere-Chan came out of the lockers and ran off to find Nyle and Skarlet, but this time, they have the mirror. So it looks like they might have the specific mirror Absinthe carries with her anywhere when she first came here, so that they can maybe, just maybe, bring Mildred back.

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At nighttime in the school where no one is around, Absinthe is standing around in the middle of the carpet in the Occult Club Room where she was told to meet here; she stands around looking at nothing but some ritual books and some candles.

She thinks that something’s acting a little strange, like something’s going to happen at any moment. So she pulls out her gun and awaits for someone to arrive.

Someone opens the door slightly, then was opened all the way revealing Nyle.

“Ay, come in here!” demanded Absinthe.

“Woah calm down Absinthe.” said Nyle as she closed the door.

“Then why did you lead me in here?!”

“So that I can check on you.”

“Just sit down dude! I asked you why you lead me here for two hours now! So why the f**k are we here?!”

Nyle takes a seat on one of the cornered chairs.

“Well I just saw someone pull over-”

“What the hell are you talking about?!”

“That’s it I just saw a car pull over here at the school entrance. Can you at least put the gun down? Just want to make sure you were here!”

“I’ve been here for two damn hours! Just standing in the middle of a circle like you told me to be at!”

“Well good be-”

“And why do you want me to be here?!”

“So that I can check on you, see if you’re calm enough. Just want to know that’s it!...Just please put the gun down...What’s up with it anyway?!”

“Well it was Roland’s until I got it back from him.”

“Then why are you carrying it for?”

“Because, I’m being paranoid right now!”

“Why are you paranoid?”

“I’ve been hearing some conversation from outside the school! I ain’t stupid!”

“Maybe it’s because of this whole kidnapping Bertha thing. If you wouldn’t have done it then you wouldn’t be paranoid this much.”

“Dude just- Ugh, just leave alright?”

“Okay, but before I do. Can I get the chance to know you better?”

“Really? Are you kidding?”

“No, you want me to trust you, so I decided to like want to know more about you. Just tell me how you got here? How you possessed Mildred? How you got in Mildred’s body like your in right now? Tell me everything.”

“Ugh...Fine...And let me guess...You want me to tell you about the mirror?”

“Yes, especially the mirror.”

“Well I don’t have it, Henry does.”

“Really? He told me to hold it up for me during his “fitting.”

“For like a date?”

“Uh sure, something like that.”

“...So, you honestly though, want to know more about me?”

“Of course.”

“...Okay,” Absinthe sits on the floor and wants to let Nyle know all about her, but her memories were nothing but darkness and pain, even if she’s a demon; she hates to tell it,
“...You do not know, all about me dude. My memories are as dark as it is.”

“Just tell me, that’s why I’m here.”

“...Okay fine, I’m a horned demon cat. You guys probably knew that, but some of you may think I’m not since I’m in Mildred’s body, but when I’m out of this body my appearance is a white cat, have red eyes, one red and one gray, brown horns, even nail sharp claws and can be a little nearsighted. You don’t have to know where I live though.”

“That’s fine.”

“It just sucks to let people live, the ones you do hate and just can’t forget about it, like you just want to get your vengeance. So when I was 10, I transported to Mildred’s original home, and then possessed her, by putting her in the damn mirror. And also Bertha was a baby kitten and didn’t know if I was the actual Mildred; she thinks I’m actually Mildred and just get my name wrong.”

“That doesn’t mean you can boss her around; you’re not her sister, you just appear differently and doesn’t know it.”

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Outside the doors of the Occult Club Room, Henry, Yandere-Chan, and Skarlet have the mirror walking on both sides, Yandere-Chan on the left and Henry and Skarlet with the mirror in their hands on the right, ready to get in.

“Do you think we should go in?” asked Skarlet.

“I don’t know,” said Henry, “but we gotta have to keep quiet. You guys will never know if she decides to be crazy. Remember last time when she got crazy and captured Layla and Bertha?”

“Oh, right.”

“Yeah, so for this time, we got the mirror and we’re gonna change Absinthe back to Mildred.”

“But it can be a complete waist of our time.”

“What if it ain’t,” said Yandere-Chan, “well we don’t expect Mildred to be anywhere else, and Nyle said that we need to use that specific mirror. So let’s just get ready to bust right in til Nyle tells us to.”

The scene cuts back inside The Occult Club Room, where Nyle and Absinthe were talking to each other about how Absinthe went to this world and how she possessed Mildred.

Knowingly Nyle knows what Absinthe was talking about, but didn’t know she had a bad past back when she was little, before she possessed Mildred.

“Now don’t worry about it,” said Nyle, “all that stuff is in the past. That means that you have a bad life, doesn’t mean you can possess someone.”

And then Henry and Yandere-Chan burst inside the room while Skarlet got inside and grabbed a chair; they sat her down forcefully to the middle of the circle as Henry set the mirror right in front of her.

Nyle got up from her chair and got to Absinthe holding her down on the left side while

Skarlet’s holding her down on the right, while holding her gun.

“Yep, we got it,” said Henry, “we got the mirror!”

“What? I thought you are using it for a fitting!” said Absinthe.

“I lied! Besides I can’t afford a tuxedo anyway.”

“And you are gonna snap!” said Skarlet in demandment.

“You wouldn’t dare!” yelled Absinthe.

“Oh, I would!”

“Na, I ain’t gonna deal with this s**t! Hell no!”

Skarlet points the gun to Absinthe’s head wanting to change her back to Mildred, or else she’ll get a bullet through the head.

“I’m gonna tell you right now. To snap back to MIldred, or you’re f**king dead.”

“Good call on bringing Absinthe here Nyle.” said Henry.

Absinthe wouldn’t believe what Henry just said, hearing that the people surrounding her, including Nyle were tricking her this whole time; she turns to Nyle.

“You planned this?” asked Absinthe, “I trusted you!”

“Look, just stare at the mirror Absinthe!” said Nyle as she turned Absinthe’s head towards the mirror, “You’re gonna go back to the world you came from, and you’re gonna stay there!”

“No I ain’t doing s**t!”

“You are gonna look at the mirror!” yelled Skarlet, “And you are gonna snap your fingers when we tell you to!”

“But Mildred’s not in there! I know it!”

“Oh really?” Skarlet turns to Henry and Yandere-Chan, “Bring the mirror closer!”

Henry and Yandere-Chan bring the mirror close to Absinthe in front of her face.

“Real Mildred is not gonna be in there! I know I ain’t gonna snap it, it’s not gonna happen!”

“You are gonna snap your fingers in front of that mirror!” yelled Yandere-Chan.

“Bertha wants her older sister back!” yelled Henry, “so snap it!”

Skarlet holds Absinthe in place at gunpoint; she stays there until Absinthe snaps back to Mildred.

Absinthe doesn’t know what else to do; she didn’t know where to go, don’t know where to run, so it looks like she had no other place to go except through the mirror.

“Snap your fingers.” said Skarlet with a gun pointing to Absinthe’s head.

“...Do I have to?”

“Snap it…”

“She’s not here you know?”

“Then snap it back to Mildred then. Snap it, or die.”

Absinthe then raises a hand for a snapping position; she feels a little afraid of what’s gonna happen next. She looks at the mirror feeling afraid as hell.

“I tried to talk to her but Mildred if you don’t talk to me I’m not-”

“Snap it…”

“...Just...you’re just nothing but f**king jerks man…”

“F**king do it…”

“...Guess...I have to go back to the hell I live in.”

“SNAP YOUR F**KING FINGERS!!”

Absinthe snaps her fingers while looked at the mirror, but then when she did, it just build an eerie silence. Maybe she changed back to Mildred, no one knows.

“Hey Mildred,” said Henry, “Is that actually you?”

The grey cat opened her eyes, and shows that it’s a green color looking like it’s a lazy emotion.

“...My names Lynn…” she said, “...I’m the foreign cat from the intergalactic tribe…”
Henry, Yandere-Chan, Skarlet, and Nyle looked at her in confusion, didn’t know if it’s actually her.

“What, who is this?” asked Skarlet.

“All of you have destroyed my planet…”

“Oh for god sakes!” Skarlet holds the cat at gunpoint again to change to Mildred, not someone else, “Come on snap to Mildred!”

“Do not point the firearm at me...All you do is take and destroy…”

“SNAP YOUR FINGERS!!!” Skarlet raised the grey cat’s arm to a snapping position. “You better snap it for god sakes!”

The cat snapped her fingers and then her eye color turned to purple, then feels a little crazy.

“Woah hello! Little miss Mia’s here! Haha, man I like how this snapping and lapping haha.”

“Ugh Snap to Mildred you b**ch!”

Absinthe snapped to someone else again, but the eye color changed from a purple, to a orange color, representing someone else.

“Yo Mildred.” said Nyle.

“Mildred come on.” said Henry.

“Ugh, I’m Mary and I usually drink and that’s what I am…” said Absinthe, “Say, have you ever got a question from a wizard...Then said put it on my bill?” She weirdly laughed, then was grabbed by the neckline by Skarlet.

“Snap your fingers!” yelled Skarlet, “Just snap it!”

“Why the grab hold girl?”

“Snap! Your fingers!”

“Woah don’t touch me. Stranger danger...Stranger danger…”

“For god sake!” Skarlet then drops the gun and shakes Absinthe back to Mildred, “Snap back into Mildred! Snap it!”

Then Skarlet accidentally got the orange mass out of Absinthe and went out the mirror and then a red mass came out of the mirror and came inside Mildred’s body, and seemed that it’s still Absinthe, still in Mildred’s body as her eye color came back. Looks like the snapping didn’t work.

She got back up and grabbed the gun and hold at gunpoint.

“Back the f**k off! Back the f**k off!” Absinthe then tripped Skarlet, Henry, and Yandere-Chan to the floor and grabbed the mirror, “This s**t’s mine! Stay away from me!” She turns to Nyle, “I trusted you! And you lied to ME!”

“Absinthe I thought this was gonna work.” said Nyle.

“I knew it! I knew I shouldn’t have came here! I ain’t gonna deal with this s**t no longer!
All of you know how capable of now! Nothing’s gonna happen if Mildred’s not in the damn mirror! And I can’t believe you Nyle! I told you all about my life! There’s no way I ain’t gonna live a damn life of a f**king underworld pain!”

“Absinthe, just please lower the gun and please snap Mildred back to her body please.”

“...I’m leaving, and you guys are not gonna follow, or you guys are never gonna know what’s coming, of what I got in store.”

“Come on Absinthe what will it take to give Mildred back?!” asked Henry.

Absinthe turns and points the gun at Henry.

“And I can’t believe I loved you but you betrayed me! And I know one of you had been talking to Mildred! I know it!...” Absinthe moves to the closest door she’s in; she opens it while still holding at gunpoint, “You guys are not gonna follow me, but you Nyle,” she then points the gun at Nyle, “if you see Mildred, if the next time you’re gonna talk to her, then tell her to kindly f**k off!” She runs off out of the room, out of the school running away somewhere to hide.

Henry, Yandere-Chan, Skarlet, and Nyle were left with no idea why the snapping didn’t work. Looks like they have to wait again and find out.

To be Continued...