5. I Hate Horns

Amber's P.o.v.
From what I could gather, Loki was Thor's evil brother. Clint said he was a psychopath, Tony a maniac and Thor said he was misunderstood. But all of them agreed that I should hide while he was here.
And that's how I ended up again in the ventilation shafts. I was bored out of my mind and he wasn't even here yet. I decided to sneak a peek just to see what all the fuss was about. He couldn't be that bad, right?
From the safety of the top ventilation shaft I was able to watch everything happening in the living room without being seen.
I was dozing off when finally Thor announced gleefully that Loki was coming. The others responded in a not so gleeful way.
The elevator opened and out stepped the most ridiculous helmet I've ever seen. Oh and Loki was there too.
He had a slim built body (thin compared to his brother) and sleek black jet hair. His eyes were emerald green and he walked in like a diva. But I just couldn't get over the helmet. Who the heck wears golden horns? (Although they brought out his eyes)
As he walked near where I was, light reflected from his horns and blinded me. I tried covering my eyes with my hands but forgot that I was holding to the bars so I didn't fall.
I was so surprised I didn't even scream. I closed my eyes but the impact never came. When I opened them I realized that I was hanging from the back of my shirt. It had gotten stuck on the curly end of one of the golden horns. Loki kept on walking like nothing and I was left hanging there looking like a moron. I guess karma wanted to punish me for making fun of the horns before.
I was swinging from side to side as he walked. I could clearly see from my vantage point all the others stifling laughter.
"What are you laughing about?" Loki finally stopped walking but I still swung a bit.
"Nothing, Reindeer games." Tony was seriously going red.
'Help me get down!' I mouthed to him but he just snickered. Oh, I was going to get back at him once I was down.
"Come brother, I shall show you sleeping quarters!" Thor was not helping at all.
They turned and I swung into a full circle. I was beginning to get dizzy from all this moving. Thank Borrower God that I didn't suffer vertigo.
After showing Loki almost every room on the Tower (and I swear Tony did it on purpose) he finally said he wanted to be alone on his room. Well he actually said he was sick of spending too much time with them, but whatever.
He closed the door and I desperately started thinking 'Please don't get naked, please don't get naked'. But now that I thought it through, he wasn't that ugly. He was actually kind of handsome and I found myself reconsidering...
It didn't matter because he lay down on his bed and took a nap. I was disconcerted on why he slept with his horn-helmet. I seized the opportunity that was presented to me as best as I could. I reached behind me and tried to untangle myself from his horns (there’s a phrase you don’t hear every day). It was useless trying to reach so far behind my back so I gave up. I then tried swinging to at least reach the object of my doom. I don’t know how but I managed to wrap my legs around the horn’s tip. I tried to reach my legs but it was too hard. Great, now I was stuck upside down. Karma wanted to mess up with me even more because I started sliding down. My eyes went wide and I desperately tried holding on to something. My efforts were wasted because next thing I knew, I was free falling.
“AHHH!”
My fall was cushioned by the curve at the base of the horn. I landed face front and it acted out like a slide. I was sent tumbling on top of the helmet. I tried to stand up but I was too dizzy from the fall to stand straight. I slipped and went sliding to the front. With ninja reflexes I grabbed a loose strand of hair and hung on to it for dear life. I had closed my eyes and when I stopped falling, I opened them. In front of me with his emerald eyes crossed, was a confused and annoyed Loki.
“Hi there! I believe we haven’t met yet.” I tried sounding cheery but something told me Loki wasn’t the cheery kind.
Line break
After getting to know Loki better, he wasn’t that bad. Even if at first he tried to kill me and enslave me, we got along just fine when I told him of my plans to prank Clint and Tony. He also wanted to prank Thor so I tagged along in that one just for the heck of it.
We were currently sitting in the living room looking as innocent as a plotted plant when it began.
We watched as Tony, Clint and Thor appear and disappear from the hallway.
“Argh! Why doesn’t it open?!”
We could clearly hear their complaints from the hall and I had to bite my lip to not laugh out loud.
Tony was the first to realize something was wrong.
“Who glued the toilet seats to the toilet covers?!”
Now I really couldn’t hold it in and laughed so hard I had to clutch my sides. The uses of Super-Glue and a diuretic were limitless.
“Hey Loki, hold your finger by my side would you?”
He looked suspiciously at me. “Why?”
I rolled my eyes. “Because I want to eat it. I’ll show you soon enough.”
He did as I asked it and I high-fived his finger.
“What did you do that for?” He asked confused.
“Because that’s the victory sign when something turns up well for two people.”
Clint passed by us and grabbed some spear bottles from the kitchen. I laughed some more and Steve, who was passing by, looked at me like I was crazy.