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Jiwoo reads her syllabus over for the umpth time. Final 30%? She definitely wasn't going to pass this class thanks to that shit professor and her shitty policies and-
"Jiwoo maybe if you would've studied mo-"
"I did study! I studied so hard!" Jiwoo fights back. Her roommate, Jungeun, looks at her in disbelief before shaking her head once. Jiwoo wants to fight, they had studied together for god's sake!
"Sure, Jan." Jiwoo picks up the nearest object she can find, a tissue, and flings it at Jungeun. It flutters pathetically to the ground a mere foot away from Jungeun making Jungeun break down in laughter. Jiwoo pouts back, she needs to pass this class and Jungeun really isn't helping.
"Listen Jiwoo, you need the power of some sort of God to pass with the way things are looking now. Good luck, study hard, ace that final, suck a titty, I don't know!" Jungeun leaves the dorm, leaving Jiwoo stranded in the center of their dorm with a crumpled syllabus and a hopeless gut feeling.
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"Excuse me? I don't think I understand?" The bookkeeper boy questions again. Jiwoo huffs.
"I need a cult book. Like a book about demons and witch craft." She explains again slower. The bookkeeper boy still looks confused, maybe even a little frightened but Jiwoo isn't concerned about him. Last night after a fit of crying and fighting with Jungeun she fell into a fitful sleep where she had a dream of a baby wolf with devil horns. She had woken up with an epiphany, summon a demon and ace that final! It made sense to her when she had rushed out of bed to the bookstore, but now thinking it over with a frightened employee who's sweating bullets, maybe it wasn't the best plan, but, well, she's this far already, what has she got to lose? She stares the bookkeepr down and he finally gives in pointing towards an ail towards the back with shaky fingers, Jiwoo murmurs a thanks and sprints over. There's not many books that can help her, she decides as she scans the book titles. Odd, there's no specific demon summoning to help ace tests books. She takes the most interesting one, "Guide to Demons for Beginners", and buys it anyways, she'll do research online for more info.
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The book had been a lot more informative than she had expected she realizes as she stares at a huge salt pentagram she had done in the middle of the living room, thank God Jungeun wouldn't be home till late today. She looks over the checklist, 500 grams of rock salt, check, 200 grams of milk, check, chicken bones, check, graveyard dirt from her ancestors check, goat blood, check.
"Thank you, eBay." Jiwoo murmurs before lighting the candles. She readies herself, incantation printed out from Wikipedia in one hand and candle in the other. She took Spanish once in high school, Latin shouldn't be that hard right? She reads the incantation once, and almost curses, this was Latin? It looked like some bullshit, maybe Wikipedia had let her down? She tries again once, then another, and finally a third time, nothing happens. Jiwoo reluctantly decides to give up, maybe demon summoning wasn't for her. With a resigned heart Jiwoo begins blowing out the candles when suddenly the floor starts to shake, she gasps and falls to the floor unable to keep her balance. She looks at the center of the pentagram, a hole suddenly appears and Jiwoo finds herself shell shocked staring at the seemly endless abyss. Blue flames suddenly erupt sending Jiwoo flying back. Her eyes close on instinct from the blast of heat but she forces them open only to see a black figure rising through the flames, it cackles. The flames go out with a wave of the figures hand. Jiwoo finally gets a good look at the figure and… giggles. It pouts back. Why are its cheeks so fluffy?
"I'm Olivia Hye, demon in training at your service!" The demon, Olivia announces stepping out of the pentagram. Jiwoo remains silent taking in the demon? This is the cutest demon Jiwoo could've ever imagined, she has to hold herself back from squealing. They stare at each other, Jiwoo in glee, and Olivia in bored confusion. Smoke begins to cloud Jiwoos vision and she finally blinks in surprise.
"Your couch." Olivia points behind her, and sure enough when Jiwoo glances back, the couch is completely engulfed in flames.
"Shit."
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After a brief introduction and an even briefer house tour both girls get down to business, cleaning Jiwoos mess.
"You know, you don't need blood to summon me? What kind of bull poop are you guys learning on the human plane?"
"You know, math, reading, taxes all that good stuff I guess." Jiwoo sweeps up the last of the salt and dumps it into Olivias awaiting trash bag.
"What the heck is a taxes?" Jiwoo nearly drops the chicken bones.
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Jiwoo learns very quickly after that, that summoning Olivia had been a very big mistake, an incredibly cute one, but a mistake nonetheless. After cleaning up the pentagram and sweeping what was left of the couch into a corner, Jiwoo had tried to explain the specifics of why Olivia was summoned, but Olivia was too busy staring in wonder at everything but Jiwoo.
"What's this box thing?"
"A T.v."
"And this rectangle?"
"A chocolate bar." Jiwoo sighs. Olivia hadn't been able to sit in one spot once they had finally finished cleaning, instead she chooses to sprint very gracefully from item to item questioning everything. Jiwoo had to admit, Olivia taps the microwave and practically hisses when it beeps back at her, Olivia was really adorable. Olivia raises her hand, blue flames beginning to form before flinging them at the poor microwave.
"Olivia no!" Thankfully Jiwoo had made it just in time, the microwave only suffered a slightly melted door, she could live with that.
"Olivia you can't just burn things! They're mine I paid money for them!" Jiwoo tugs Olivia to the living room. Olivia pouts, and Jiwoo actually feels bad for scolding the demon until she opens her mouth.
"Just get more money." Jiwoo nearly face palms. She sits Olivia down in the middle of the floor and tries to explain again why she had been summoned. Olivia for the most part listens and eventually when Jiwoo manages to finish babbling Olivia nods in understanding, and oh my god Jiwoo thinks, her fucking apple hair bobs, Olivia is going to be the death of her.
"Why was your immediate solution to summon a demon?" Olivia breaks her out of her thoughts. Honestly, now that she's sitting there, demon in her living room and couch turned to dust, maybe summoning a demon had been a little bit too much.
"Cause I'm gay and dramatic." Olivia, despite how confused she clearly is, doesn't question it and Jiwoo appreciates it. Jiwoo hands Olivia her syllabus and Olivia takes it and reads it over, once, then twice before chucking it away with a hiss. Jiwoo jumps back in shock as Olivia begins to sprout flames again and chanting in tongues, two devil horns suddenly sprout from Olivias head. Jiwoo panics and does the only thing she can of, yelling and somehow, by some miracle it actually manages to make Olivia come back to her senses. Olivia sighs tiredly and retracts her horns back, Jiwoo pouts.
"Sorry it's just I thought I lived in hell all my life but it turns out demons live on the human plane too" Jiwoo begins snuffing out the flames that have gotten on the rugs, she really is going to go broke.
"What?" Olivia gets rid of the remaining flames with a flick of her wrist, Jiwoo flops on the ground and groans.
"I can't help you. What is this?"
"Physics?"
"You think I know what physics are? I was born over a century ago and live in hell. Do you think I got a proper education." Olivia giggles and if she weren't so darn cute Jiwoo would be furios.
"Wait here." Jiwoo stands up and Olivia nods obediently. She runs to her bedroom and grabs her notebook and two textbooks before running back to Olivia.
"This," she points at the water droplet on her textbook cover, "is physics."
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Jiwoo is barely through the introduction of her textbook when the front door slams open.
"What is up my…dudes." Jungeun lets her bag slide off her shoulders to the floor in shock. Her eyes flicker from the pile of rubbish in the corner to Olivia then they land on Jiwoo, Jiwoo can't help but chuckle nervously.
"I can expla- "Before Jiwoo can finish Jungeun lunges across the room straight towards her, Olivia teleports out of the way before Jiwoo can grab her as a shield. Jungeun tackles Jiwoo to the ground and puts her a in headlock. Jiwoo screams and struggles but all Jungeun does is squeeze harder.
"What have you done! Where's our couch!"
"There." Olivia points towards the pile of dust and rubbish, Jungeun screeches and squeezes harder.
"And who are you!" Jungeun yells in Olivias direction, she smiles brightly.
"I'm Olivia Hye demon in-"
"Demon?" Jungeun screams, Jiwoo starts tapping out but Jungeun ignores in favor of cutting her airway off, Jiwoo chokes.
"Please, Olivia-Olivia save me, I'll do anything you want." Jiwoo manages to stutter out. Olivia looks her straight in the eye, devil horns reappearing instantaneously and bright smile intact.
"Then perish."
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Jungeun, surprisingly, calms down as soon as she notices Olivias newly acquired horns, "a skill", Olivia had said as she retracted them again. After a brief introduction courtesy of Jiwoo, they both begin questioning Olivia with a newly acquired interest, sitting her down on the living room floor and pushing the learning materials aside.
"Well like I said, I'm a demon in training. I'm only a century old, this my first time being summoned."
"What are you training for?"
"To cause hell on Earth of course!" Olivia exclaims, and Jiwoo chooses to ignore that last part and instead focuses on the way Olivias cheeks pull up when she smiles, Jungeun nudges her suddenly.
"Your eyes are practically twinkling, I know what you're thinking and no." Jungeun whispers at her. Jiwoo pouts, but ignores her anyways.
"Are…are you guys going to kick me out?" This was Olivias first time being summoned and she has already failed? She can feel tears beginning to well in her eyes but she holds them back bravely. Both Jiwoo and Jungeun jump up.
"We're not heartless, you're staying her until further notice." Jiwoo exclaims.
"Yeah, there's plenty of ro- we'll figure something out…" Jungeun trails off. Jiwoo and Jungeun both barely fit in the one-bedroom dorm anyways, both of them make do with a kitchenette, a small bathroom, a living room that was barely considered one, and a bedroom with two twin sized beds separated by a nightstand. Honestly their dorm was a glorified closet.
"I mean there's no couch anymore, so I don't know where you would sleep…" The three of them turn towards the pitiful remnants of their once beautiful couch, now black and mostly ash. They couldn't just make Olivia sleep on the floor or outside, Jiwoo had summoned her after all. Jiwoo opens her mouth to suggest something, but Jungeun stops her with a wave of her hand, Olivia opens up instead.
"I'll just levitate in the air over your bed." Olivia grins, and gosh Jiwoo supposes in some other lifetime it could look intimidating, but she really did resemble a baby wolf. Jiwoo thinks the proposal over, the thought of waking up in the middle of the night to Olivia staring down at her from the ceiling…
"Yes, please!" All Jiwoo can think about is seeing Olivias cheeks being pulled down towards her from gravity.
"No wait, sleep over my bed instead!" Jungeun cuts in raising her hand.
"No, I summoned her, she gets to sleep over my bed!"
"You deserve some sort of punishment for burning the couch so no privileges!"
"Olivia burned the couch, not me!"
"Well you summoned her anyways!"
"You guys are weird I'll just sleep in the kitchen or something." Olivia interrupts.
"NO!" Jiwoo and Jungeun shout at the same time. Jiwoo isn't sure why Jungeun would want Olivia to stay over her bed, she isn't very fond of cute things, unless…
"Oh my god you like cute things!" Jiwoo exclaims suddenly. Jungeun splutters, face turning red. She waves her hands frantically in denial, Jiwoo sees right through her.
"You're so tsundere, you like cute things." Jiwoo giggles, Jungeun resigns with a sigh, her face still red.
"I don't like cute things," Jungeun pauses, Jiwoo opens her mouth to object, "I love them." Olivia face palms. They spend the rest of the afternoon arguing over whose bed Olivia gets to levitate over, and when Olivia eventually announces that she'll just hover in the middle of both beds with a finality neither girl can oppose to they finally actually start getting ready to sleep. Jiwoo shoves a new toothbrush into Olivias hands, and Jungeun forces her into the bathroom. The three of them huddle over the small sink together, Olivia mentions once, that she doesn't really need to brush her teeth, but both girls gag at her and shove the toothbrush back in her mouth anyways, she supposes, this is her life now. With clean faces and begrudgingly clean teeth, the trio go to the bedroom sleepy from a long day. Olivia walks to the center of the room ready to show of her levitation when Jiwoo shoves something into her hands. Its soft, Olivia observes, and covered in penguins? Coral penguins? Olivia is one hundred, well maybe ninety percent sure those don't exist. Before Olivia can question what Jiwoo has handed her, Jungeun strides over and shoves another material into her hands. Red owls, Olivia notes. Jungeun and Jiwoo glare at each other for a few seconds before the shouting finally begins.
"She would look better with my pajamas! Red is her color!"
"Oh please, penguins, Jungeun! Penguins!"
Olivia looks at the alarm clock sitting on a night stand, 1:03 it reads. The shouting continues. This is going to be a long night, Olivia sighs.