Once outside, Lilith hands Sasuke and I each a small rectangular device. I remember these from old movies. They're pagers. I look at her. Where am I going to keep a pager? She hands me something else, without me asking. It's a band.

"You'll need to keep these charged and with you at all times. If you get a page you're to meet here for further instruction. You have at most thirty minutes to comply, unless otherwise instructed, so don't go more than thirty minutes from this point." She says.

I put the strap around my arm, but Lilith stops me. She takes the strap from me and kneels on one knee. "Lift." She instructs, gesturing to my leg. I do as she says, and she slides the strap up to my thigh, so it is well hidden under the near floor length dress.

"Aesthetic is important." She states simply, returning to a standing position.

I nod, my skin still tingling where her fingers touched. I need to pull myself together. Sasuke just glares at her. She glares back for a moment but must decide it's not worth a fight.

"Wait in your rooms. I'll send someone to give you a tour, shortly." She orders, glancing at her watch again. She seems stressed.

Sasuke follows me to my room, disregarding Lilith's command.

"What the fuck is with that guy?" Sasuke demands, closing the door to my room. "He is repulsive. These outfits are ridiculous and Lilith. Either something crawled up her ass or she has a stick up there." He fumes.

"It's disappointing." I agree, sitting on the edge of my large bed. "But the rooms nice." Forced to be the optimistic one, now that Sasuke is spiraling. "Maybe we'll, like, never get paged. Then we won't have to deal with either of them and just hang out. Maybe there's a movie theater within thirty minutes of here or a mall or maybe a Ceilingmart. Ooo remember, Ceilingmart." I gush, thinking of all the normal life things we might get to do.

"Maybe." He agrees, pouting instead of fuming now. He plops on the bed beside me. "You shouldn't shop at Ceilingmart, though. They're evil." We meet eyes and bust out laughing.

"Maybe Master Asmodeus." I say all dramatically. "Owns Ceilingmart." I joke.

"That would make sense." He chuckles. "We have to get out of here." Sasuke insists, a serious thoughtful expression replacing the moment of humor.

"Where would we go? They would find us and then what?" I ask.

"I don't know. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life like this." He says sadly.

"Then we'll go." I agree, feeling emboldened by the look on his face. "We get paid right? We'll save up some money then I'll teleport us out of here. We'll live our life on the move. We'll go to Thailand, Paris, Fiji, all the best places." I conspire, grinning at how ludicrously wonderful my plan sounds.

He smiles up at me. "Why not?" He asks. "I wonder how much we'll get paid, though? How much will we need? How long will we have to be here to save enough to get what we need?" He ponders, figuring out the logistics. Why not? I don't know but I'm sure there's a reason. I guess that's the pessimist in me.

There's a knock at the door, and I go to answer it. It's a tall woman with bright red hair. She's taller than my friend Michelle. I don't think I have ever seen a woman this tall. She must be at least six feet tall.

"Hello. I'm Julia." She greets softly, sticking out her hand.

"Hi. Sara." I respond, shaking her hand.

"Hi. I'm Sasuke." Sasuke greets, coming up behind me. I move aside so they can shake.

"Lilith sent me to give you both a tour." She says meekly with a small smile. She's wearing a maid uniform, luckily not a skimpy costume one. It's long sleeved and comes down to about mid-calf on Julia. The sweetheart neckline reveals a portion of cleavage, but her neck is covered with a sort of collar of her own fringed in lace. Her outfit is topped off with a frilly white apron and hair band. A very modest outfit but it's made less so by Julia's generous curves, and I think the general underlying sexual connotations that go along with a maid uniform.

"Your uniform is so pretty." I say awkwardly when she catches me staring at her. It is pretty.

"Thank you." She says brightly, blushing a little. She looks around nervously for a moment. "Oh yeah, the tour." She says as if just remembering. "I will show you the kitchen first." She says, walking off down the hall. We have to run a little to catch up because she's so tall and seems to suddenly be in a hurry.

She leads us down the hall past the foyer and the large double doors through another hall and down a small set of stairs, then through another smaller hall, past a door that leads to a spectacular dining area into a set of swinging double doors. The kitchen is unsurprisingly large. Four stoves. A massive island. All the appliances. Another dining area is attached and there are a few people sitting at the table here. Two women dressed the same as Julia and a young man dressed in a butler outfit. I can even see the fancy tail of the coat hanging over the edge of his seat. Like a cartoon character butler.

"This is the kitchen." Julia says, redundantly. She opens one of the fridges. "You can get snacks from here. Would you like a drink?" She asks, gesturing to that portion of the fridge that holds several beverage options.

"Yes, please." I say, grabbing a bottle of water.

"Sure, thanks." Sasuke grabs one of his own.

"You're welcome." Julia smiles, closing the fridge.

"This is where employees eat." She informs, leading us over to where the other three people are seated.

One of the women stands as we approach. "Hi. I'm Jillian." She greets, shaking Sasuke's hand, then mine. She is older, maybe in her forties with grey hair and smile wrinkles. She has bright blue eyes and is rather petite.

"This is Jasper and Heather." She continues, introducing the other two at the table.

Jasper smiles, standing to shake each of our hands. He has shaggy blond hair and kind brown puppy dog eyes. He's on the thin side but tall and seems very young. Like maybe even younger than us. Is that possible?

The other woman just nods, sipping her coffee. She's beautiful with long wavy brown hair and big blue green eyes. She's wearing the perfect amount of eye makeup and bright red lipstick on her well-formed mouth. She leaves a little behind on her cup. She's even curvier than Julia, her bosom heaving out of the top of her maid's uniform. Even seated in the long skirt, I can tell her waist is tiny and she has major cake.

I wonder where the rest of the staff are. There must be more. There are around ten rooms in that employee area, and it would take an army to clean this whole place.

"Nice to meet you all. I'm Sasuke, this is Sara." He introduces me. I wave awkwardly.

"You both are angels, right?" Jasper asks, his large brown eyes lighting up in childlike wonder.

"Yeah. Well, half- angel, sort of." Sasuke chuckles nervously, running his hand through his long black hair.

"That's so cool." Jasper says enthusiastically. Heather scoffs. I glance over at her but she's still staring off, sipping on her coffee.

"More to see." Julia says, gaining back our attention. She leads us out another swinging door. This one leads directly into the spectacular dining room. This room has three massive chandeliers hanging over an incredibly long wooden table. The floors are a stunning marble with gold leaf finish. The walls are off white with golden roses delicately painted over every square inch. A window takes up the entire side wall opposite the kitchen entrance, revealing a gorgeous garden and pond. It's drizzling, the grey clouds wispy enough to allow rays of sunlight to break through. Sasuke gently closes my mouth, pushing up on my jaw with his index finger. He's grinning at me, and I giggle.

"It's a beautiful view, isn't it?" Julia ponders.

"Yes." I agree emphatically.

"Wait until you see it from the balcony." She says with a bright smile.

"Can we?" I ask excitedly.

"Yes." Julia leads us out of the dining room and back into the kitchen. There's a small set of stairs beside the staff dining table. She takes us up two flights. The second floor has a door with a lock. The third floor, she leads us through. It leads to what appears to be another smaller kitchen. She takes us out of the kitchen into a large dark room.

"This is a ball room." She informs. A ball room? Are we in some kind of 17th century romance novel?

Julia pulls back large curtains, revealing large windows with doors set into their frames and the spectacular view. It's even better once we step out onto the balcony. Tall trees surround the property so that all you can see is the beauty of nature. The reflection of the sun on the pond is mesmerizing. The drizzle tickles my skin, running down my exposed back.

I feel something buzzing on my leg. What is that? Sasuke pulls out a small box from his pocket. It's the pager.

"So much for never being paged." Sasuke grumbles.

We report to the foyer to find no one there. Was it an accidental page? There are a couple of cushy chairs adorning the area and I plop down in one after a few minutes of standing around. Sasuke joins me.

"How long do we wait?" He ponders.

"I don't know." I mumble.

"I'm leaving." Sasuke announces after twenty minutes, annoyed.

"Don't do that." I reply, not wanting him to get in trouble. This is so unlike him. He should be used to this after all our time with Janine. What happened to that calm, cool collected guy that took a nap when Janine vanished for half the day?

"He's probably in there having forgot he even paged us." Sasuke says, glaring at the large wooden double doors.

"Maybe." I agree, twiddling my thumbs.

Suddenly there's a knock. I look over and Sasuke is rapping his knuckles on the large wooden doors. Before I can jump up and stop him the door swings open and Sasuke's neck is seized by a very pissed of Master Asmodeus...

Out of the Cupcake Tin into the Oven

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Do you like Julia so far? What do you think of the other employees? 

What is Master Asmodeus going to do to Sasuke? Find out what happens next in the first chapter of book two (:<3