Sue and Cassie sneak into Lisa’s room

Lisa knew she should get some sleep. She knew she just should forget this day and the last hours. But she couldn’t. It had begun so poorly and it didn’t end well. Natalia, one of the maids and one the persons Lisa just liked because of her friendly soul, had told her that she didn't need to get to college.

“Why?” Lisa had asked confused.

“Your step-brother thought it was a good idea to drive with your dad’s car. He was drunk, crashed it into the garage, and Mister Milton is furious now,” Natalia explained as she took the rest of the laundry from Lisa to wash it. “The whole garage is in a mess. And you know your dad. He ordered a house-arrest for all of his children. That includes you too.”

Lisa’s didn’t know if she should be happy or worried with that. Whenever one of her step-sisters or her step-brother did something arrogant and stupid, her dad ordered a house-arrest for all of them. That means no college, no party, or anything outside the big mansion. But it also meant that Lisa’s siblings were here too and that didn’t cheer her up at all. They were all older than her and they treated Lisa like they treated any of the many employees, like being part of the Milton’s was something that made them a better person.

The whole day, Lisa had tried to stay away from her siblings and worked on her homework or drew a bit on her pad. She always liked to concentrate on her art and forget about her environment. But it is hard to concentrate when your stupid siblings, that hates you, come into your room to tease and bully you. Lisa couldn’t say what was more horrible: Sam, who called her a 'studying, blonde dumbass with hair that looked like a rag', Meg, who came into her room just to vomit because she was so drunk again (at 3pm), or Hannah, who found it very funny to throw stones from outside against the window until one smashed through it and hit Lisa on her head.

Lisa knew this sort of harassment, but she never really got used to it. After all, her step-mother or dad didn’t come to her to make her feel responsible for all that mess. Lisa wasn’t a child from the Milton’s, but even if her whole family didn’t like her, they couldn’t throw her out of the estate. Lisa, was the only one with true Milton-blood in her veins. Her mother was Mister Milton’s first wife, but they broke up before Lisa had been born. Mister Milton, who married her only to get rid of his silly last-name (Goosehorn) never participated in Lisa’s life in her childhood. But then her mother died of cancer and her last will was that Mister Milton had to take Lisa into the family to still keep the name Milton. He agreed, because he was at this point already very famous and probably didn’t want to change his name again. So he and his new wife took Lisa into her estate and gave her a little room, where she lays now on her bed and stared desperately at the ceiling. The smell of Meg’s vomit still lied in the air, even though Natalia had tried everything to clean it out of Lisa’s room.

Lisa wanted to feel nothing, but sometimes all of the harassment just made her sad and ****. She was so worn down from her step-brother's words and the fact that not one of her friends wrote back that she was in no state of resistance as the door knocked.

“Who’s there?” Lisa asked listlessly. No one answered. “Door is open, but I am dead anyway. Go on say something more, I am curious which funny insults you can make up, Sam. Or is it my lovely sister, so drunk that she pukes the trash-can full?”

The door opened and Lisa closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see anyone, she just wanted to forget this day. Like so many days in this mansion.

She heard quiet steps and was at least happy that it wasn’t Sam or her dad. They would be shouting at her immediately. Lisa just hoped it would be Natalia, so she can cry out a bit. She felt that on both sides of her bed stood a person now and looked bored to her left. For a second she didn’t realize what she saw and closed her eyes, pinched herself very hard, just to open her eyes again. But the naked girl with the auburn hair and the white fox-tail still stood there and looked at her with a pitiful look on her beautiful face, so it couldn’t be an illusion. Lisa looked to her right to see a purple-skinned, busty, naked and tailed girl looking at her and frowning.

Lisa just stared at the two girls and asked herself if she has gone completely mad. Then the purple-skinned girl talked, looking at the other naked woman. “She seems troubled.”

“Troubled…more like ****,” the fox-girl mumbled, looking at her with pity. She sat on the edge of her bed and eyed her concerned. Lisa just could stare back. It was such a strange scene that she didn’t know if she was dreaming or what to feel at all. A part of her wanted to scream and run away, but another part of her seemed to know that these two girls were not bad.

“Who are you?” Lisa asked breathing lightly.

“I’m Cassie,” the fox-girl introduced herself and smiled slightly. “This is my girlfriend Sue. We are not a danger to you, I promise.”

“Déjà-vu,” Sue mumbled and smiled, sitting on the edge of the bed too. “Don’t you think, Cassie? A shy girl with problems, just need to speak it out to another stranger that just wants to listen. I see a muster there.”

“A bit,” Cassie answered and looked at Sue with a very loving look, then she turned her gaze to Lisa, who stared at her with big eyes. “What bothers you, Lisa?”

Lisa didn’t know why this girl knew her name, or what Sue meant by her sentence. But something inside her told her that these strange nude persons weren’t bad and she could trust them. Lisa opened her mouth, feeling that she was shaking in sadness and anger. “I…I…I hate them!”

Then she started to speak, about her family, about her life and with every word she spoke, every harassing she mentioned and every memory of the horrible things she had to endure, she started to cry. Soon her words were swallowed by hefty sobs and she had to stop her stories for minutes again and again, because all the painful feelings inside her just needed to come out of her. Cassie and Sue didn’t interrupt her, they just listened and with every minute, they looked at her with more pity. Lisa told them everything, from the early years in the mansion, where she got only one Christmas-present and her step-siblings got a dozen, from her puberty, the most cruel time while her step-siblings learned how to unite against her and bully her because she was not happy with her body. She told Sue and Cassie about her step-mother, how she treated her like a worthless no one and from her dad, who left her mother to ignore her and didn’t even show up to her funeral.

“I expected that she didn’t have it easy here,” Cassie mumbled to Sue as Lisa was sobbing heavily into her hands after half an hour of bad experiences. “But this…this is awful.”

“These people need to pay for this,” Sue hissed, clenching her hands to fists, staring at the door angrily. “They treat her like the bad dog that always wallows in its shit.”

“It’s horrible,” Cassie said shaking her head. “It’s just horrible. But is **** the right thing? I know we want to infect them, but...I mean, can we really make them part of our 'safe home'?”

Sue opened her mouth, but didn’t say a word; she thought about that and frowned. Then she looked from Lisa to Cassie and bit her lower lip thoughtfully. For a minute she thought about it, looking around the room, like she was searching for some kind of evidence. Her look stopped at Lisa’s desk, where a photo stood, from the young Cassie arm in arm with her mother.

“No…we don’t need ****,” Sue said slowly. “Lisa does.” She turned her head to the sobbing Lisa and said softly. “Lisa? What do you want?”

Lisa needed a minute to calm herself down, wiping the most of her tears away. She looked at Sue confused. “What…do…I don’t know. To not get bullied anymore. To be accepted.”

“And how can you be accepted?” Sue asked again. “What do you think, make them accept you?”

“I don’t know,” Lisa said and cried again. “They are never gonna like me. I’m just…just a girl, without any…”

“You are a beautiful, young woman,” Sue interrupted her. “And if I understood you correctly, you are the only real Milton here, right? This so called 'family' stole your name, which made them famous. Right?”

“What do you want?” Lisa sobbed and looked from Sue to Cassie. “What are you saying? Are you some sort of 'good fairy', fulfilling my wishes?”

“You can say so,” Sue said shrugging. “We can make you different. A different person. A different woman. You endured so much. We can give you the recognition you deserve, Lisa.”

“How?” Lisa mumbled. “Should I strip naked like you? They will laugh at me. I’m not that perfect-build like you two. And why are you naked anyways…isn’t it embarrassing?”

“Do you find it embarrassing?” Sue asked and raised her eyebrows.

“I…no…I,” Lisa looked confused and blushed, stuttering a bit. “I, ehm…actually like…nude, ehm, girls. I…” She blushed even more and stared at her knees.

“See?” Sue said softly. “And if you want to make yourself the person you want to be, you just need to kiss me.”

Lisa looked up, unsure if Sue was joking. “I…just need to kiss you?”

“Well,” Sue said and came with her face very close to Lisa. “I can make you look like you want. Cassie can too. But we need something in return, you know?”

“What do you want?” Lisa asked immediately.

“Loyalty,” Sue said simply. “With kissing us, you are gonna be infected. Infected by a virus that turns you into a horny…let’s say being, because I don’t know how you are gonna change. Some girls just get more busty, some get new additions, like horns, tails, wings, everything, that makes you different to 'normal' people. Some even lose their minds, because they are drowned in their endless lust. But we don’t need that here. We need a leader of the family, a sane, but infected leader. You are the only Milton in this mansion. You want **** on the bullies who treated you like shit. So here is my…our offer: we infect you and after you get infected, you show the Miltons that you are the only one here with the right to command over such a lovely big estate.”