Otherside

[Mai Everstone]

It was a bad idea, Mai knew it would only lead to more isolation feeling but she sent the confirmation text to Vivienne as she picked up the first cage from the dinning room setting her white rat snake’s cage on the table, Eve for her part understood the assignment meant meal time and crawled towards the top of the cage.


Vivienne: Hey here is Mai’s phone number. Mai, here are Eternity and Abby’s numbers.

It was Vivienne’s idea. Mai was pretty sure how this would play out. Vivienne had suggested making a good step forward. She had advised that since Eternity and Abigail had not broken during the confrontation that they were likely innocent so she had encouraged Mai to try to make the best of the push from management. So Mai figured the best she could do was send a text to the group chat Vivienne had set up.

✨Mai✨: Hey. Did you want to come over for tea and discuss strategies?

She grabbed the dead thawed rat in the tongs and lifted it into Eve’s cage. Eve for her part strikes at the rat and took it head first into her mouth.

“What a good girl you are, eating for Mommy right away.” Mai cooed at the snake who was too busy slipping her food down her throat to get some out of cage exploration time. Mai put the cover back on the cage nd moved her back to the shelf of enclosures.

Abigail: Not much to strategize about. Screw me & you screw yourself out of an IM spot. So yeah, don’t do that & we should be fine.

Mai sighed, so much for that idea. She kind of had a feeling Vivienne’s suggested to try and mend bridges was not going to go over well. What did she expected?

Two girls who leaned into the goth aesthetic and avoided socializing with anyone else. It was just like moving out of her home town all over again. Spanish Fork, Utah she’d been a freak, but every movie she’d sealed and every book she wrote gave her the grand idea that the wider world was more accepting, that she could be herself outside of Mormon capital of the world. But she was a freak everywhere and very few people got past that.

✨Mai✨: No worries, just thought a get to know you session might help. See you at the show then I guess.

Mai set her phone down and grabbed the next enclosure, Tesla Coils, her Sunkissed Corn Snake looked up at her from her water dish, “Feel like eating today, little lady?” Mai asked grabbing the thawed baby mouse from her tray of set out foods.

Tesla was her problem child in many ways but thankfully she seemed to at least take the mouse from the tongs and slowly start to eat.

“That’s my good girl.” Mai smiled as she glanced back at her phone.

Abigail: Sure. See you then.

“I told Vivienne it was a bad idea. Why the fuck would they even bother getting to know me.” Mai said outloud as she moved the enclosure back it its spot before moving onto the side shelf with the smaller cages.

“Need some more water, thirsty this week huh Helena?” Mai spoke to her pink-toed tarantula who was sitting on her hide away. Mai quickly took the water dish out, cleaned it and refilled it setting it down. Helena crawled slowly over to Mai and allowed her to pick her up in her hand, “I got enough friends right here though, don’t I?” Mia smiled grabbing the cricket bag and dropped a few in setting Helena back in to hunt before closing the lid to the cage.

She moved next to her oldest baby, “Awake today Mr. Nancy?”

The Brazilian Black spider moved his legs towards the top as she removed the lid, “That’s my big boy. Feel like some food today?” Mai dropped a few crickets into the cage and he grabbed one right away devouring it with gusto. “Always a gentleman.”

Mai closed his cage and moved the last cage off the shelf to the table. Her smallest and the one she had to be the most careful feeding in her entirely glass coffin shaped cage full of her web, Mai dropped a cricket onto the web and sealed the coffin to watch Scarlet scurry out and start webbing her meal, “Who cares if it’s just us, huh?” Mai smiled moving to set Scarlet back on the shelf.

Phobos and Deimos tapped the window, “Don’t worry, I’m grabbing your puzzle snack boxes.”

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Everyone probably has a lot of opinions on how they think this match is going o go down. And you know what? That's fine. I know I am not one that's known to be much of a team player. I've joined The Murder but it's not like I've been picked to be in a tag team match yet. Maybe management thinks I'm gonna choke. Maybe everyone else in the match thinks I am too. After all, I did help attach Abigail and her girlfriend the other week. I'm not going to say I didn't do that. The Murder are my friends. Someone hurt my friends and I am going to make sure we find out who. Because I don't have a lot of friends. And I protect the ones I do.



But I'm also not stupid. Two places in the Iron Maiden. That's what is on the line here. Everyone wants to get into that match so we can square up with miss Tits and Ass Jennie Fenix. I care about April a lot. But I'm not going to blow my chase to touch gold here. So I have to play nice with Abigail. That's fine. I can play nice. I even offered to have her over for tea and shit. Didn't have time for me. Whatever. I still am the one offering the olive branch. So she might not trust me and if she wants to shoot herself in the foot by fucking me over, that's her business. I know what I'm about.



The other girls in the match? Charlotte and April? April is a charmer I have no doubt she'll be able to charm the pants, not like that perv, off Charlotte and they will be braiding each other's hair and making friendship bracelets by lunch time. But they don't know each other. They haven't worked together well. There's gonna be some hesitation and some lack of awareness about each other. Perfect place to take advantage off. Sorry April. 




Natasha Walker and Serenity Holmes? I'd be surprised if they even made it down to the ring before beating the shit out of each other.  Team work is not gonna make that dream work.





Caroline Machado and Itami? Caroline will give a speech sop sweet we'll all need to go to the detist while Itami either goes strong silent type or talks about pain or something. I don't seem them meshing well either. Likely with Itami walking off half way in the match if I had money on it.



Either way. I'm putting my boots on and I plan to walk out of that ring with one of the Iron Maiden spots with my name on it. Because maybe I'm not a team player, but I know how to make the best of a situation.