A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 125: Snowhide’s Birthday Party

Chapter 125: Snowhide’s Birthday Party

We waved back and she ran up to me and gave me a big hug which I returned in full. When we were done, she gave a curtsy to Cythistia.

"And of course, welcome to the party miss Cythistia." She greeted my girlfriend formally.

"Ah, no need to be so polite, your one of the few friends that Traytora’s made after all, and by extension, a friend of me as well." She replied.

"Thank you for your words, now if you wouldn’t mind, if you have any gifts, please put them on the table to the right and enjoy the party." She said with a beaming smile on her face.

We gave her a nod and entered the ball room that the party was taking place in, heading over to the table on the right which was already jam packed with several colourful gift boxes. We added ours to the pile and joined up with everyone else after grabbing a glass of wine each from one of the wandering servants that was handing them out.

We wandered around for a bit, saying hi to people, engaging in a bit of small talk before moving on. We didn’t really have much of an objective, we just wanted to engage with the party until it truly kicked off.

A little bit more time went by and we continued our wandering until we eventually stumbled upon the other birthday girl, Reyla.

"Traytora!" She shouted as she made a beeline for us, completely ignoring the people she was talking to."AAhhhh~ I’m so glad you could make it!" When she reached us, she grabbed my hands and began jumping up and down enthusiastically.

I just smiled awkwardly as she continued holding my hand and jumping. Eventually she stopped and apologised for her behaviour.

"Sorry about that, I was just so excited to see you is all." She further apologised.

’No worries. Though, if you wouldn’t mind, could you tell me why you’re so enthusiastic about my arrival?’ I asked her, as I was curious as to the abrupt change in her bearing.

"Uuuhhh..." She seemed nervous for some reason. "W-W-Well, I-I w-w-wanted you t-to give a perf-forma-"

*Bonk*

"OW!" She creamed as Runaq smacked her on the head.

"No." He said flatly. "You’re not getting her to do that, not here."

’Uhh... What are you talking about?’ I was confused as I didn’t know what they were talking about.

"Ugh..." Runaq facepalmed and answered, "She wanted you to ’perform’ for us." Putting an emphasis with quotation marks on the ’perform’ part.

It took me a second to realise what they were referring to but when I did, I looked at Reyla with a face that asked ’Why?’

She blushed hard like a tomato as she prodded her fingers together and meekly stuttered, "B-Because, I-I w-wanted y-you t-to."

I just gave her a look that was a mix of disappointment and a slight bit of disdain. I wouldn’t do that here, just thinking about it is enough to give me second hand embarrassment.

She knew she was in the wrong when she looked up at me shaking my head at her, so she just put her head back down.

"Wait, what’s this about a perfor-"

"Not that kind of performance." Runaq interrupted some noble asking about this with no emotion in his voice.

"Oh come on, it can’t be-"

"No. And that’s final." He cut the man off again. "It’s not a question of whether or not it’s a good or bad performance, but the performance itself."

"What kind of performance is it then?" the man asked.

"..." Runaq looked up, unsure of how to answer, so I did it in his stead.

’It’s a fetish for her.’ It took a second before the man looked over my way but when he did, he read the message I wrote to respond to his question.

He was taken aback at my method of communication as were those around us. I could then hear whispers about me and they quickly became more frequent as more people talked about it.

They were all whispering about ’the prophesised one’ and such things. To be honest, I’d completely forgotten about that whole thing, and I don’t want to acknowledge it either.

I tried to shrink my presence but that didn’t seem to work as people’s eyes were already on me.

"ENOUGH!!" Runaq suddenly shouted loud enough that his voice echoed throughout the whole room. "Have you all forgotten why you’re here? Whose party this is? Don’t forget that!"

I looked down whilst circling my finger around the top of my glass. I felt a hand land on my shoulder and looked up to see Cythistia smiling comforting at me.

"Don’t worry, it’ll be fine, I’ll make sure of it."

I leaned against her and thanked her.

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Some time passed and eventually everyone who was invited had arrived, meaning we could finally start the actual party.

There was a dance to start it all off with the Snowhide family beginning the dance. And that meant their extended family as well, so there were a lot of energetic bunnies prancing about on the dance floor.

After they were done with the first song, that was the time for others to join in if they wanted or dip out of they were either exhausted or just didn’t want to dance anymore.

Cythistia and I weren’t dancing because that would just be awkward because of our respective species, making it difficult for us to do so, so we just watched others dance instead.

After that, some servants brought out several party games for everyone to play, there was a game where you had to toss a bag into a hole, there was one where two sides had to bounce a ball into a cup and if it went in, the person on that side had to drink a shot.

There were even pinatas in the shapes of carrots that people would whack with a stick while blindfolded.

I felt Cythistia to play some of these games, including the ball game. I ended up getting a little tipsy because of that, it was some seriously strong alcohol, and Cythistia had to come and fetch me to take me home.

Unfortunately for her, in my current state I wanted to stay and play some more games.

I whined a bit and managed to make her relent so I went back to play this ’beer pong’ that I’ve grown so fond of. That may have been a mistake though, as I ended up passing out because of it.

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(Cythistia POV)

After letting Traytora spend a bit more time here at the party after getting drunk, I found her passed out on the floor not even ten minutes later.

I sighed and picked her up and her body instinctively wrapped itself around my lower half.

*Sigh* "Really, what am I going to do with you?" I said to myself, wondering what other shenanigans she’d get dragged into next. Despite that, I still had a smile on my face, this was the kind of thing that made me love her after all.

I took her home and cuddled up with her and went to sleep alongside her.

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