Courtney had no idea what was happening to her. All of a sudden her mouth felt dry, her head hurt, and she was having a really hard time forming coherent thoughts.
Is this what people felt like whenever they saw her parents? This sucked!
No wonder everybody wanted to kill them all the time!
"You, umm... feeling alright?"
"H-Huh? Why do you ask??"
"Your face is like... really red." The young man nodded.
Courtney pulled out her phone camera and realized that the handsome stranger was right. She looked like a blood clot with black lipstick.
"I'm probably just a little hot because I just left workouts." she lied.
Suddenly the man's eyes showed a glint of recognition. "Ohhhh, you're that track girl. Andrea, right?"
'Oh my god, he knows my name...' (Courtney has once again forgotten that over half the campus knows her name.)
'Hm? Did you say something, sweetheart?' A feminine voice asked.
'False alarm, Granny Asherah!'
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'Oh, alright. Have a nice day, sweetie.'
Courtney exhaled in exhaustion. Adeline wasn't even shadowing her anymore, and yet she was still hearing voices of family in her head.
"Did I get it wrong...?"
'Shit!'
Courtney had been so deep in her own mind that she hadn't actually responded to the guy she was talking to.
"N-No! Sorry, I'm just... Do you know a girl named Kayla by chance? The two of you look a lot alike."
"That's my sister. You know her??" He raised a brow.
"We're roommates actually..."
"Oh really? I never see you when I come over there."
Trust and believe that Courtney would be in her dorm room every single day for the rest of her semester.
As a matter of fact, she was going to head straight there and interrogate her roommate for every single bit of information about her brother that she could give.
"Y-Yea, well I was just a little bit busy with track 'n stuff, plus I was feeling a little homesick... b-but I'll be around a lot more now." Courtney nodded her head just a little bit too hard for it to be considered natural.
"Well I was going to come over tomorrow so that I could beg- I mean, ask her to help me study a bit. I'll probably see you then, superstar."
If Courtney's face became any redder, then there was a serious risk of her suffering permanent damage.
"Courtney!!" A new voice called.
'Oh, hell...'
Courtney and her new friend slowly turned around to see a very nice sports car slowly rolling towards them.
Sitting in the front seat with the top down were twin girls with long blue hair.
They waived to her excitedly before their car rolled to a stop and they both hopped out and embraced her.
"Hey, sis!"
"Why's your face so red, it's like sixty degrees outside??"
"U-Uh..."
Courtney turned to her new acquaintance with a shy smile on her face.
"So embarrassing... Why do our parents have to be gods? Can't they just be a funny factory worker and stay at home moms..?"
"You've been watching 'George Lopez' late at night with dad again, huh?" Yemaya accused.
"Maybe..."
When it became clear that their sister really wasn't going to get up anytime soon, Yemaja just used her own impossible strength to lift her up on her own.
"Cheer up, sister. It's not that big a deal. In fact it's a good thing that you're finally starting to show some interest in adult areas. Or did you wanna end up like that one back there?"
Movement came from the backseat of the twins' car and a familiar young woman with heterochromatic eyes popped up.
"Are you talking shit, fish-slut?" She asked as she pulled her hood off her head.
"Of course not, my favorite virgin goddess." Yemaja smiled innocently.
Mira flipped off Yemaja. And Yemaya too for good measure.
About 3000 years ago, Mira became frustrated when she felt like she wasn't catching up to Thea, Thrudd, and Apophis fast enough.
As a result, she did a lot of studying, hunting, and training before she came to a suitable conclusion for her.
After undergoing a ritual, she tied her powers to her chastity.
The longer that she holds onto it, the more that her growth explodes to an unfair level.
She has become Tehom's first Unongendi- similar to a nun or a Greek virgin goddess.
Yemaja made fun of her older sister for her decision a lot, but Mira didn't really have any regrets.
She had never found anyone sexually attractive as long as she'd been alive, and she had seen many different worlds in many different universes by now. She felt that she wouldn't be missing anything as a result of her decision.
And even if one day came where she eventually wanted a child, her Aunt Nyx told her she'd teach her how to make them with no father.
Her decision had been set in stone for quite a long time now, but Yemaja still gave her shit for it. Even though she had yet to find a man yet either...
"Now that I think about it, that Aj guy may have been my type..." Yemaja rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "If you're too embarrassed to try anything, then I suppose I could-"
"Don't play with me, bimbo!!"
Courtney leapt up from the ground and slapped her sister across the breasts.
"And why would you show up to my school dressed like this! How am I supposed to compete with this pornstar aesthetic?!"
"Ow!! You're just as pretty as me, just stop dressing like an edgy teenage boy!"
"Don't tell me what to do, you walking fuck doll!"
Even though she was the oldest here and should have taken on the responsibility of breaking this up, Mira pulled out her phone to start recording.
It fell on Yemaya to act as the responsible one and break up the pair of sisters.
"Alright, you two, that's enough. We all know that Yema is just being overly playful and trying to get under your skin, so just don't let her, yea? She feeds on your discomfort."
Yemaja nodded as if she could not refuse such bulletproof logic.
"...Why are you guys even here?" Courtney finally asked. "I know you didn't come all this way to just to take a drive and make me miserable."
Yemaya smiled proudly as she picked bits of gravel out of her younger sister's hair.
"I think we've finally found them... and I would like it very much if you would come with us."
Courtney almost forgot all about her prior embarrassment as her heart began to speed up.
"Y-You mean I can go on a mission..? Did you ask mom and dad..?"
"Welllll I figured that the risk of danger will be so low that it'll basically be like going to the grocery store. I don't think we should bother them with something like that, do you..?"
Courtney became uncharacteristically excited and giddy.
She threw her arms around her elder sister in a fit of joy that erased all of the negative feelings of the last ten minutes.