Blood Blaze is an interesting person to say the least but if he wasn't such an overachiever, he probably wouldn't be where he is today. I should know, I'm his younger brother.
Right now, he's sitting in the garden on a bench, his medium length, wavy, red hair a mess in the wind. I stood in front of him, with my wig in two long braids. I had accidentally stumbled upon him when I tried to escape the home while crossdressing.
"Who are you?" Blood asked.
"I'm called Lydia," I lied in falsetto. I couldn't tell him that his little brother, Lucian Blaze, was crossdressing.
"Why are you here?" Blood asked.
"I was with your sister," I said in falsetto. It was true that I was with our sister, Noelle, as she helped me crossdress, but he didn't need to know that.
"Oh," Blood said, "Can you not tell anybody that I was here in the garden waiting for someone? Especially not Lucian, he would laugh at me for secretly meeting my lover here." I don't know why he thought I would do that.
"I don't think you should worry about that," I said, "Well, I best be off. I have to go meet my friend."
"Safe travels," Blood said. I nodded and left. As I was leaving the mansion grounds, I heard a blood curdling scream. I turned back, but saw Cyan Drago running towards me.
"Get out of my way," Cyan said. I quickly moved aside and then informed my friend, Kylie Krause, that I couldn't make it. Kylie was disappointed, but understood that something had happened. I ran over to where I heard the scream to see Blood laying on the ground in a pool of his own blood. I called the emergency number and told them about what I saw and heard, they said they're on their way. I called for someone in the house and luckily for me it was Noelle who came to the rescue.
"What happened?" Noelle asked.
"I don't know," I said, "I was outside when it happened, but Cyan Drago left here right afterward."
"So, you think Blood died and Cyan killed him?" Noelle asked.
"No," I said, "Blood is still alive."
"How do you know?" Noelle asked.
"Because, he's still breathing," I said.
"You called the emergency number right?" Noelle asked.
"Of course," I said. Just then, the ambulance arrived and took him away. Noelle went with him in the ambulance and I went and got changed back into my usual attire to follow them later on.
When I arrived at the hospital about an hour later, Noelle was sitting by Blood's bedside crying.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"The doctor said that he's lost a lot of blood," Noelle said, "And his blood type is very rare so getting him blood will be a race against time. Your blood type and mine are the same but are different than his, and even our other brother, Killian, has a different one."
"So they're just going to let Blood die?" I asked.
"No," Noelle said, "They're going to try to get his blood type. In the meantime, we need to go find out who did this."
"I think it might've been Cyan," I said, "He was running away from the scene."
"But was he covered in blood?" Noelle asked. I thought back to what Cyan was wearing, but couldn't recall if he had any blood on him.
"No," I said, "He didn't have a speck of blood on him."
"For someone who just stabbed someone to not have any blood on him is a bit odd," Noelle said.
"I was thinking that too," I said, "But that means that there's a would-be killer loose in our mansion."
"I don't think I'd be able to go home for a while," Noelle said, "Can you go home and pack some things for me?"
"I just said a killer is loose in our house," I said, "And you want me to go back there?"
"I'm sorry, Lucy," Noelle said, "But I have to be here for Blood."
"You're just looking to get me killed," I spat.
"You know that I love you more than Mr. Overachiever Extraordinar," Noelle said, "But I'm still closer to him than you are."
"Can I sleep with your boyfriend then, Noelle?" I asked jokingly.
"What boyfriend?" Noelle asked, "If you're asking about Marlin, we broke up two weeks ago. He said he would rather have you anyway."
"Marlin sucks," a voice I wasn't ready to hear said. Noelle and I looked over to see that Blood was awake.
"He does, doesn't he?" Noelle asked.
"Marlin stabbed me last June," Blood said, "The scar on my upper arm was his doing."
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