VD - Political Part 4

The Red House is actually red, but they make it look cute instead of evil by having lots of white flowers.

Demi once told you that the part of being vice president that she would expect to hate would be not getting to do anything. As someone consumed by anxiety who doesn’t want to screw up, not having to do anything is actually a perk. The job involves the occasional speech, which is usually written for you. Sometimes you have to drive through places in a convertible with Morrigan, and she’ll discreetly grope you to get your aura going so people can feel it.

Once, after a cabinet meeting in the Heart-Shaped Office in the Red House, Morrigan is suddenly called out.

“Cover for me,” she says, patting her chair behind the Waffley Desk. Nervously, you take her place as the other cabinet members follow her. Alone in the Heart-Shaped Office, you eye the row of knobs and levers on the desk. Several minutes pass in silence.

Hesitantly, you reach for the knob labeled ‘Inflation’, intending to turn it down slightly, but the door opens and Morrigan returns.

“Thanks for covering,” she says.

Being famous and also considered extremely hot by the majority of demons has perks, but it mainly means that you spend a lot of time hanging around the Red House with Demi. It’s neat that Tari isn’t around all the time now, although you’re basically living with Morrigan, which brings its own complications.

The Red House is luxurious, but it doesn’t offer any particular comforts that Demi’s house does not. Seeing that up close only drives home how silly your castle idea was. You and Demi don’t need a castle. It reminds you of stuff that your mother explained to you back in the human world: how science had concluded that money and happiness were related, but not because being rich made people happy. It wasn’t about being rich; it was about not being poor. The Demon World is weird, but at least everyone seems to have what they need.

Although they still find things to protest and complain about. Most recently, some Demon Scientists made a pitch to try to synthesize your Lust Aura. You quickly found out that the scientists who did the study suggesting that your Lust Aura would benefit society had been subsidized by several struggling Demon Pharmaceutical companies who want a bump to their stock price. Morrigan suggested that the Demon Justice Department prosecute them for fraud, but they never did. She said that they were probably paid off.

That’s none of your business. You’re just the hot VP. Everywhere you go, you see the flags, bumper stickers, and signs for the campaign, even though it was weeks ago: Morrigan in her cool outfit with the singlet and the tights standing with her foot on your back and you on your hands and knees in a bikini, naked with an erection sticking out that’s drooling precum. In that campaign image, you’re wearing a sultry expression that you don’t remember making; they must’ve Demon Photoshopped it. You wish that Demons would take those stickers off their cars already.