Episode 30 - Slick like Mad Hatter
“Master,” I said then, watching Yumi as she sat next to me in the limo, “you look exhausted. Is something wrong?”
The rest of the seats were filled with our servants who insisted on coming along. Since we had little to no time to dress them, they wore their normal attire and were all mice from the beginning scene of Alice in Wonderland.
Yumi gazed up at me lazily as if just hearing my question, lashes lowered over tired eyes as she blinked. “What are you wearing?”
I smiled a little. “Well… you did tell me to wear bunny ears.”
“I asked you to look like the Mad Hatter,” she replied, annoyed. “You don’t. You’re wearing white bunny ears, glasses with chains that go over your ears… and your usual butler attire. What part of that fits Mad Hatter?”
“Well,” I said then, smile widening, “it’s in the details. You asked me to wear bunny ears, I decided to go a little farther with the glasses because bunny ears remind me of the White Rabbit. Although… the Mad Hatter is a very odd creature. Which comes his name. And I am a very odd creature, as well. So that is how I’m the Mad Hatter, my lord.”
She just set her head on the back of the seat, closing her eyes. “You find a path around everything, don’t you?”
My lashes lowered as my smile curled further.
“Master, are you a’ight?” Carter said then.
“Yeah!” Maddox said, brows drawing together. “You look amiss!”
“Do you need some water or some food?” Cammie pressed.
Scarlet just watched her nervously.
I gazed down at Yumi then, finding her lips parted as her head remained on the back of the seat. “Master?”
No response, but her lashes fluttered a little, telling me she was awake.
“Master,” I said again. “Master.”
“What?” she snapped then, glaring slightly at me.
“What is the matter?” I said then. “You’re acting off.”
“I’m tired,you idiot,” she said then, closing her eyes again. “I didn’t sleep well last night.”
“Oh, did master have another nightmare?” Scarlet said then, leaning forward. “We should maybe consult a doctor. Maybe they can help with your dreaming issues, my lord.”
“No,” Yumi said too sternly, making my lashes lower. “I’m fine. Just… just leave me be.”
We were all silent for a moment.
Carter broke the silence then. “Okay, erm… is there somethin’ I be missin’?”
We all looked over at him in question.
Yes, he was the last and final servant that was still in the cold about everything. Cammie was the first to know that Yumi was traumatized, and also the first to find out there was a romantic relationship between Yumi and I. Scarlet was the second to find out. Maddox knew master suffered some trauma and could clearly sense something between us after the carnival events a couple weeks ago. Carter didn’t know anything.
Everyone remained silent, clearly knowing that Yumi herself didn’t know that Cammie wasn’t the only one who knew everything.
She did tell me not to tell Scarlet and Maddox about us, but I wasn’t the one who told Scarlet. Cammie did. And Maddox figured it out due to master’s psychotic break in that manor with the carnival problems.
I was just by master’s side, obeying her command.
“You’re missing nothing,” Maddox lied, glaring sharply at Carter before mouthing, “I’ll tell you later”.
“Ah, I see,” Carter said then, nodding and playing along. “Nightmares do happen lots. Notin’ to be worried about, ey?”
Yumi remained silent.
I then turned toward her. “Master, there’s about an hour until we get there. Would you like to sleep until then?”
She nodded, keeping her eyes closed.
“Alright, then.” I smiled and caught her arm, tugging her down.
She yelped when she collided with my lap, fighting me seconds later. “Hey! Sebastian! What the fuck?!”
“You need a pillow,” I stated, grasping my jacket from next to me and draping it over her. “The most suitable and comfortable thing around here is my lap. We don’t need another migraine occurrence from neck pain, do we? So relax and go to sleep.”
She stopped fighting then and grumbled in annoyance, dropping her hands by her sides.
I just set my hand down onto her head, starting to run my fingers along her scalp.
She eased into me then, closing her eyes tightly as she shivered a little, but I knew it was in comfort.
But I looked down, finding her lashes parted slightly as her cheeks burned a bright red.
She got embarrassed so easily. It was adorable.
After a moment, her eyes closed, and another minute after that, she was dreaming.
I smiled and looked out the window, continuing to pet her hair in hopes of keeping her asleep.
After a couple seconds, my lashes lowered. “Stop staring.”
The four servants just yelped in response and scrambled around, catching an object around them and examining it.
I just looked back down at Yumi.
Ah, master… you cannot be resistant for long.
I will break you.
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