"Dagi..." Sonata whined loudly, slumping her shoulders and following her eldest sister, Adagio, around their small apartment.
"I told you already! if you're bored, go do something!" exclaimed said sister, throwing her arms up in annoyance, attempting to rid herself of Sonata.
"But there's nothing to do!" Sonata complained.
"Then just, go- go watch your stupid cartoons or whatever on the computer!" Adagio snapped, glaring horribly at Sonata, who then crossed her arms and pouted in defeat, before stomping off to her room, where the computer the three sirens shared resided at the moment.
"Finally!" Adagio breathed quietly, returning to her routine. She planned to try and do a bit of laundry, then eat something, but when she had just barely started, she heard her other sister's raspy voice shouting to her from the living room/kitchen area.
"Adagio, we're out of food!" Adagio rolled her eyes at her sisters choice of words, wishing she would speak more accurately, they weren't really out of food, just low on things Aria wanted to eat.
"Then go shopping!" she bellowed back, hoping this would either subdue Aria, or that she wouldn't be able to come up with a decent comeback and would stay quiet. Either way, it worked, she was quiet, and a few moments later, she heard the door snap shut, a sign Aria had just left to go shopping.
Once Adagio had finished with the laundry, she went to check on sonata instead of eating, to make sure the idiot hadn't started a fire or accidentally choked herself with a computer wire or something while she was upset. As she entered Sonata's room, not bothering to knock, she was slightly puzzled, she was used to seeing Sonata watching these stupid cartoons about friendship and sharing and that kind of B.S., but instead saw her staring quite intensely at a video of someone playing a video game, the game in question looked like a F.P.S. Adagio didn't know which one, but judging by the person playing's language, she'd have guessed C.O.D. She left without speaking to her sister, having nothing to say, and instead went into the kitchen-ish area of the small apartment they resided in and poured herself a cold cup of coffee which she immediately warmed in the microwave. She didn't bother to put anything in it, besides a little cinnamon. She sat in a chair and began to read a book she had already finished, flipping through the pages to find an interesting part, and settled down for a while.
"Sup, biaches!" yelled Aria comically as she literally kicked the door in, effectively startling Adagio, and judging by the thump and the loud exclamation of "ow! son of a biscuit!" she had also startled Sonata off her chair.
"What is your problem!?" Adagio said angrily, wiping her shirt, attempting to clean off the last bit of her coffee, which had now gone cold.
"you are." Aria said, looking quite smug despite it not being a very good comeback. "get over here, Sonata!" she then yelled, and soon after Sonata was seen coming down the hall, rubbing her backside painfully.
"what do you want?" she said, annoyed by being interrupted in the middle of a video.
"I want you to help us put away the groceries I got, obviously, idiot" Aria said, beginning to put a jar of strawberry jelly in the fridge.
"I'm not a idiot!" Sonata declared defiantly.
"Whatever you are, start putting away whatever's in that bag" Adagio said, arranging frozen meals precariously in the freezer, the stacked boxes looking like someone had been playing tetras with their dinners. Sonata grumbled and did as she was told.
That night, after a dinner of hastily thrown together pasta, Aria decided to pick a fight with Sonata, as she was feeling bored.
"I am not stupid!" Sonata yelled angrily at her pony-tailed adversary.
"Agree to disagree!" Aria shot back, flashing a lopsided grin at Sonata, enraging her further.
"What does that even mean!" Sonata was practically screaming now, she punctuated the last word with a swing of her fist, she narrowly missed Aria's eye, and almost hit Adagio when she went to intervene.
"Shut up! Shut up both of you!" Adagio barked, grabbing hold of Sonata's wrists and holding them down, preventing further attacks.
"She's being mean to me!" Sonata cried, her face contorting slightly, as she struggled to keep her face looking angry. Aria merely smirked, crossing her arms and leaning her hips to the side. "she's always mean to me!" Sonata continued, fighting back tears in her eyes. Adagio shot a look at Aria that said: "great job, asshole" and Aria left, feeling satisfied with her self, and shut her bedroom door behind her.
"calm down" Adagio said, annoyance lining her sisterly tone, as she lead Sonata back to her room. She then returned to her own bed and promptly fell asleep.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Adagio heard someone scream, she thought of who it could be, and, several moments later, she realized it was Sonata. But, that didn't make any sense! just yesterday sonata said "son of a biscuit". Adagio continued to wrack her brains for reasons as to why her youngest and most childish sister would scream that, 'okay, reason one: Aria somehow influenced her, but I doubt that after so many failed attempts she'd be so successful suddenly. Reason number two: Sonata has begun to sleep fight again. But I doubt that as well, we resolved that pretty well, so why would she be-?" But Adagio couldn't finish her thought, because Aria had burst into her room, hair tangled, and makeup-free, with a look of angry annoyance on her face - well, more angry annoyance then usual -.
"You. Have got. To shut her up. Now." she hissed fiercely, pointing out Adagio's bedroom door and in the general direction of Sonata's bedroom. "She's been screaming all night, Adagio. All. Fucking. Night.". her sister now wore a crazed expression that was so unfitting for this cool, laid back, siren that it was all Adagio could do to keep a straight face.
"She has?" Adagio puzzled.
"ugh. of course you wouldn't notice, you sleep about as lightly as a sack of potatoes!" Adagio was slightly offended by this remark, but bit her tongue for a moment to restrain herself from shooting a comeback right at Aria's immature face, then said through gritted teeth:
"Then go and ask her to stop" Adagio took one look at her sister's face and knew her attempts to salvage what was left of her once-peaceful morning were fruitless.
"What do you think I've been doing all this time!?" Aria yelled, sending a drop of anger-filled spit at Adagio's face, hitting her in the cheek. Adagio wiped it off calmly and stood, her sister looking anxious, and said, with the maturity of a mother who has learned to deal with six children;
"get the hell out of my room! out! out! OUT!" She punctuated every "out" with a hearty shove, so that by the end of her yelling Aria was back in the hallway. She then face planted onto her pillow, and muttered to no one in particular: "why, out of all the people I could have been exiled with, why did it have to be those two?".
. . .
Despite the ruckus of the morning, the rest of the day was relatively calm, the only disturbances were when Aria's music would beat-drop, and startle Adagio, or when she would hear brief exclamations of "WHAT THE SHIT!?" and "FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!" from Sonata, Adagio wondered briefly what she was up to, but dismissed the thought, as long as she stayed out of her way, Adagio didn't really care what was going on. Until dinner, that is.
Adagio was just sitting down at the table to eat her meal, expecting Aria to show up soon and join her, when Sonata came bursting in, singing a song that was, as Adagio would have guessed the younger people on twitter would have called it 'cringey'.
"SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA RULE ME-" Sonata belted at the top of her lungs. out of the three sirens Sonata's natural singing voice wasn't the best, but it wasn't bad when she tried. however, right now, she wasn't trying very hard, so her song was quickly interrupted by,
"DEAR GOD SONATA, SHUT THE HELL UP!" Aria stormed into the room, shoving Sonata as she passed, and plopped down in the chair opposite of Adagio.
"Ugh, Aria, why you so salty?" Sonata's sisters just stared at her, confused, until Adagio spoke up,
"Sonata, what have you been doing in your room all day?" her voice was calm and slow, as if she were talking to a dangerous psychiatry patient.
"I started a YouTube channel!" Sonata replied proudly. Aria seemed to be struggling with something, and Adagio said, still in her collected voice,
"What kind of YouTube channel?" The way she spoke suggested she was asking her 'what kind of poison did you put in my drink?'.
"a gaming channel!" Sonata replied. At these words, Aria lost the struggle she seemed to have been having and burst out in a fit of laughter.
"You? you!? what- what- what kind of games do you play!?" Aria stuttered as she tried to catch her breath, gripping the table for support "Freddy fish!?" she succumbed to another fit of laughter, as Sonata grew slightly red.
"no! I've been playing call of duty!" Aria stopped laughing and looked confused, Adagio looked like she wanted to say something but she couldn't find the right words.
"where did you get an Xbox?" Aria finally said.
"I... I found one at the thrift store, it was pretty beatin' up, so I got it with my personal money" Sonata said with an air of finality. the rest of the night passed in silence, except for Sonata mumbling something about love and life.
After dinner, the three sirens went to their rooms, and fell asleep. the night passed without any more complications.
Adagio rolled over in her bed, wrapping her blankets around herself, not unlike a self-stuffing burrito. Not quite asleep, not quite awake. Then suddenly very awake. -Now, the night had gone without incident, seven in the morning is not night, but still, a very unpleasant time to be woken up by very loud screaming-.
God dammit...
The poofy haired siren groggily sat up. She wasn't being urgent, the scream wasn't one of fear, but one of -she supposed- humor. This soon changed. A door slamming could be heard down the hall, loud stomps, a second door slamming, then more screaming. angry screaming, accompanied by a bit of colorful language. This was quickly joined by a loud, high-pitched, drawn out scream. it was pretty clear to Adagio what had happened, Sonata had woken up Aria (something akin to waking a bear mid-hibernation) and thus, the most logical course of action for the purple siren was to attempt a homicide on her sister.
"GIRLS!" Adagio's well trained voice rattled above the din of screaming. Sonata's dramatized exclamation ended in an EEP!
"Aria started it!" Sonata declared.
"Not really...!" Aria huffed in response.
"I don't care who started it, I'm ending it before the neighbors call the police on us! Again!" Adagio spat through clenched teeth. "so, would you two rather make me my breakfast, or feel the wrath of a siren woken before her alarm clock went off?" both sisters ran out of the room and down the stairs, where Adagio heard a pan clank against the stove. She smiled to herself, and re-entered her room, sitting up in her bed, playing on her phone.
Burnt.
Breakfast was burnt. the eggs were rubbery, the bacon was beyond crispy, and they somehow ended up burning a fruit smoothie. Adagio shook her head,of course it was a bad idea to trust them to prepare food properly. In fact, now that she thought about it.... Yes, there was a strange aroma coming from the smoothie. It smelled of Windex. It wasn't hard to guess who made the smoothie. She eyed her sisters suspiciously, especially Aria, who seemed to look too innocent.
"So uh... " Aria trailed off.
"Are we forgiven!?!?!?" Sonata fell to her knees, her hands clasped together, shaking above her head, which was turned down. her eyes squeezed shut.
"I suppose." Adagio dumped the poison into the plant next to her. It wasn't a big deal, even if she did sip it, she wasn't human, even without her pendant she was still powerful. it merely would have made her sick. Aria looked like her one and only birthday gift was just thrown into a fire. Sonata leaped to her feet and strut down stairs, presumably to get her own food. Aria retreated to her room, crestfallen. Adagio discarded her "food" and decided to go back to sleep instead. she would eat later.
In the kitchen, Sonata hummed happily as she sat down with her plate of three tacos, hot sauce in hand. she crunched down onto her first taco and took note to enjoy being in the kitchen while she could, it had been awhile since the last time she was somewhere in the house alone, besides her room. She began to count how many subscribers she had, quite pleased with herself. She had recently beaten a hard spot in her game, it took her twenty minutes to figure out what to do. but after that she died, and hadn't reached the save point yet, which was her reason for screaming. something she came to regret. She moved onto her next taco, splashing hot sauce on it. Crunch crunch crunch... Now she was bored. She picked up her plate and went to her room. She could probably get some minor recording in before her live stream started, nothing to big, just a quiz or something.
"Howdy doo! Sonata here with another video for you peeps! today i'm going to take some quizzes, I've always wonder who I would be from toddlers and tiaras, thank gosh for 'technololigly'! " Sonata addressed her computer screen, wishing she had a camera, she made that remark while loading up a quiz.
Aria swayed groggily in front of the coffee maker. Her fear-induced adrenaline had worn off, and she now stood fuzzy eyed, in need of caffeine, her best friend. She fiddled with the fluffy belt of her robe, waiting. Waiting. Waiting...... W A I T I N G . . .
"ugh!" She threw her head back in annoyance and stomped towards the coffee table where she selected her magazine of choice -well worn from being read, and re-read over and over again- and trudged back to the coffee maker, sitting down with her home-edited edition of some random fashion magazine she stole from a waiting room a few months or so ago, she took out her pen and flipped threw the pages, most of which were adorned with... Tasteful, and mature doodles and slight alterations, such as; a lady who was making a very fake seductive look at the camera, while smoking a cigarette in some elaborate squat -it might have been attractive if it weren't for the horrible quality, bootleg clothes, and, you know, the monocle , top hat, and Kermit the Frog sipping iced tea- and; some girl with a stripper outfit in disguise as "Cute lingerie for the minx inside of you~" with a very disturbing face over her own.
She found an image that hadn't been tampered with, and let loose her "creativity". Lets just say it involved bajongers.
"ARIA!!!!" Sonata wailed in despair as she flopped onto the tiled floor. Aria chose to ignore her, saved by the ding of the coffee maker, her savior had arrived, she poured a cup and drank it almost immediately, somehow avoiding severe burns."AAARIAAAAAAA!!!!" She poured another cup and took a sip, pointedly not turning around to glance at her sister. "THE WORST EVER THING TO EVER HAPPEN HAS HAPPENED!!!!" Aria couldn't help herself, despite how satisfying it was to ignore her, she just had to take this opertunity to bully tease her.
"Actually Sonata, Your wrong. YOU are the the worst ever thing to ever happen."
"Are not!"
"Are to!"
"D2!" Aria had no response to that one, the almost impossible had happened, Aria was out of sassy, snarky remarks. She took another sip of coffee. Sonata slipped back into her portrayal of despair, and on her knees, she said "I WAS TAKING A QUIZ, TO FIND OUT WHAT COOKIE I AM, AND THEY SAID I'M OATMEAL RAISIN! OATMEAL RAISINNNN!!!!!!! THATS THE WORST ONE!"
"Well it fits you. 'cause, ya'know, you're the worst" Aria smirked.
"ARE NOT!"
"Whats wrong? Is the wittle baby sad that the big meany siwen is huwting her feewings?"
"Stop it!"
"Caweful baby, we don't want to make a big big fuss ovew someting so smaw, Dagi wiw get maaad."
"I said stop it!" Sonata looked like she had a sudden idea, no good could come of this. "Hey, Aria, wouldn't it be a shame if some dumb ol' prankster on Youtube, I dunno, ruined your room?" Aria went rigid, to this day no one knows if it was from anger or fear, but her pupils dilated, her fists clenched as she fought back the urge to rip out her siblings wind pipe with her teeth and shove it somewhere she'd rather not think of.
"Don't you dare- Dont. You. Dare touch my room, if you do, I will get that knife sharpener, sharpen a knife, take that knife, use that knife to widen your asshole, then, I will shove the knife and knife sharpener up your ass. Then I will shove various candies down your throat, with the wrapper on, and seal your neck shut with a plastic zip tie, hang you on the ceiling by you ponytail, and wack you with a metal baseball bat in the stomach until you either throw up that candy, or you burst. And finally, I will shove the stomach-acid-covered-candy up your ass with the knife and knife sharpener, and leave you there, before yanking you down, ripping out your hair, and making you fix whatever it is you did to my room, all with everything still up your ass." Sonata could almost see the dark aura surrounding Aria, she almost regret her threat, but didn't.
She merely smirked, stood up, and walked away singing some song that inclined that everything was hers. Aria stood stupefied, not knowing whether to bolt her door with train track nails, or leave it wide open to give her an excuse to skin the little fucker. She decided she would have to walk down to the train tracks near their apartment.
Adagio pulled on her robe over top of her night clothes -the ones that Ari said made her look like a "slutburger" despite Adagio's threats- sighing in annoyance. She had just heard the two screaming about something, she briefly considered finding out, then realized that would only end up with Sonata hanging out the window by a rope with a candle under it, Adagio herself trapped in a closet, and Aria cackling maniacally.
Not going down that road again.
She heard the door slam. She gathered it must have been Aria who left, because she heard clicking sounds from Sonata's room. Now was her chance to have a peaceful breakfast, uninterrupted by grumpy sirens, or dumbass sisters. She opened the fridge, then realized she didn't want to cook. She then opted for the freezer, choosing a microwave meal. Dinner for breakfast. yum. She punched in 3 minutes and made herself some coffee while she waited, humming to herself. She had been trying to get her natural voice back, not because she wanted to do any conquering...... Any time soon..... But because she honestly just loved singing, it felt good, and it was fun.-and a way to seduce people- So she honestly wanted the talent back.
She sat down to enjoy her dinner-for-breakfast and coffee when Sonata walked in, but she didn't say anything, she walked through and into the tiny basement. She heard tools clinking, then a large crash accompanied by
"OH JESUS FUCKING A CRACKER!" Adagio snickered, not worried about their tools, she didn't really use them, that's Aria's thing. Soon after Sonata came back up, with rope, a pulley (where did that come from?) and various wrenches screws and metal bits. Adagio paused mid chew, staring quizzically as Sonata crossed the room.
"What the fuck..." She whispered to herself.
