💘HEART OF A BEAST👺
(Love is the word💓)
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BY BLESSING SILVER
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CHAPTER 20✏️
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\\Kayla’s POV\\
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I looked from Melvin back to Clara who had just taken a bite from her meal and was chewing.
“Okay. I’m kind of not getting this, what do you mean by you know Melvin from the past” I asked.
“Well we used to attend the same school then and duh.. Are you really falling for this, I’m just kidding!” She exclaims with a small frown.. I sighed but gave her a skeptical look.
“What?” Melvin asked “that was a joke?” He asked, uncertainty in his voice.
“Well yes. Except you know me but I don’t know you. I can’t believe you took that serious” she said, smiling.
“It didn’t sound like a joke to me a-and well, why do you both look alike so much and your name’s Clara, it’s familiar” he said.
“Really? Well I’ve never met you before Melvin and yeah.. Nice knowing you so how or where do you know me from?” She shrugged.
“Well it’s- forget about it. It’s been so long and I can’t really gr-ab much from it so.. Um I’ll just head to clas-s instead” he said and left without another word, many stares accompanying him.
I turned to look at Clara.
“He’s pretty good looking tho” she said, with a mouthful of food.
*And he’s a beast*
I really don’t think she’ll say that if she was in my shoes, I don’t think anyone will.
I gave her a slight nod and took a sip from her orange jui-ce before getting up to gr-ab mine.
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√Melvin’s POV√
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I st©pped, took a de-ep breath and continued walking.
I can’t seem to get her off my head.. Those words, she said them like she knew me, everything about me and then she’s Clara and with Kayla’s face.. What the heck does it mean?
Could it be a coincidence or is there really something behind her? Who exactly is she?
Why did she talk about not being the Clara in my mind but a different one? She definitely has to know something!
I got to clas-s and just took the first seat I saw, going de-ep in thought again..
There has to be something about her.. And I nee-d to discover it.
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School ended that day with me not being hyped as I was initially, now I just nee-ded to see Belle.. I got out of clas-s, once more pu-lling the stares and attention seekers aside.. I got out of the building and almost immediately sight Kayla and Clara talking and smiling.. I didn’t bother going near, I’m still very much suspicious about her.. I don’t know how I got this bad feeling. I reached the cave in no time and Belle was on her usual sp©t doing whatever.
“Belle,” I called and she tilt her head to give me a look. “There’s something I nee-d to find out” I said, going towards her and she gave me a full look..
“What is that?” She asked and I told her about Clara, she suddenly had a frown.
“Her name is Clara?” She asked.
“Yes, and it’s the same name with my supposed ex.. She also said something about knowing me from the past.. It was like she knows me” I told her and she sighed then bec@m£ quiet.
“It can’t be that she’s Clara, right?”
“She isn’t. She’s evil” she said plainly.
“Evil?” I repeated “like she’s bad?”
“It’s a guess Melvin and I really hope it’s not what I’m thinking but when next you see her, I want you to check the back of her n£¢k for a print, it’s a letter ‘L’. If she has it then my guess will be completely correct” she said.
“That she might be.. Lucinda?”
“Yes or a co witch on a different mission, for now I can only tell that she’s up to no good. Witches have the power to shape-shift, she’s doing that to confuse and distract you from your aim. So you should avoid her, especially when you see the ‘L’ sign on her n£¢k” she said. “It’s a hint Melvin but on no account must she be aware of your mission, keep the distance and make it unnoticeable”
My brows narrowed and I gave Belle a nod..
Is Lucinda really that desperate to ruin me?!
“And Kayla, what if she says something to her or she harms her?”
“She won’t. I’ll find a way to make sure that doesn’t happen. She can’t harm her” Belle as-sured.
“Okay” I said and sighed.
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👧Clara’s POV👧
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I stared into granny’s inquisitive face.. I just do enjoy leaving her in suspense, I wonder why she didn’t re-ad my mind this time.
“Come-on, spill it alre-ady!” She snaps and I smiled, shrugging in pride.
“Well, he schools there now and he was really shocked when he saw me.. Well I pla-yed a little game on him, it made him so tense and At a time I thought he was going to change or pee in his p@n-t.. It was so funny I almost laughed” a smile crept to myl-ips at the thought..
It indeed was such a funny sight. I can’t remember when I had such fun last.
I looked at granny and she had a stern frown on, a scolding one. I rolled my eyes.
“Come-on granny it was just a harmless fun, quit giving me that look! And besides I gave him something to think on. Must you always be so old fashioned? Even Gita supports me, right girl?” I talked to the rabbit in my arm and she purred. I ru-bbe-d her back with a smile.
“That’s my bestie” I smiled at her.
“Fun isn’t what you can have in this case, it’s a delicate one” she scolds.
“Okay fine. Whatever you say!” I shrugged. “Well, they’re both doing a good job hiding that secret” I said.
“I know And now that I have them both where I want them- together. It’s about time I strike and do what I c@m£ here for” she said.
“Well, as usual.. Do your thing but I’m skipping school tomorrow. I’m tired of having to bear that fat man talk about ru-bbish” I said.
“No, you won’t skip school. We can’t tell what happens the day you do so you can’t take that risk” she said.
“Whatever. I’ll just go late instead and right.. I nee-d that L tattoo on your n£¢k, on mine.. I’m very sure he’ll check for it tomorrow-
“I’ve told you countless time that it isn’t a tattoo Nikita, i-
“It’s a mission imprint.. Yeah, I get it but I nee-d it anyways.. A copy would do” I told her standing up and walking away.
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%%Kayla’s POV%%
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Mom was at home when I arrived, she said she had just come in and I was very relieved when she informed me that the test results brou-ght out nothing vital. We had dinner together and then I went to be-d, as I undressed and changed into my nightwear my hand moved on the n£¢klace, I realized that the blue content in it had decrea-sed.. I sighed and picked a book from my shelf, la-id on my be-d and began re-ading.
Morning c@m£ the next day, mom dropped me off at the school gate and after a pe-ck or two, I was on my way to the school building.
I tuck my hand into my hoodie pocket and walked down the pas-sageway.. Suddenly I began hearing loud voices behind me and everyone in the hall was looking back while some were running.. I turned to see what the noises was all about and just immediately my gaze met Melvin at the front and flocks of students surrounding him, well female students. I sigh softly and was about looking away when I saw him waving.. I looked and his gaze was on me..
He’s waving…at me?! My eyes wi-den when I saw half of the attention he was getting being transferred to me..
Huh? I quic-kly pushed my gaze forward, put my hoodie cap on and hurried out of the hall to clas-s, forgetting about the locker.
I arrived at the clas-s and Clara wasn’t In seat..
Ever since we met she has always been an early bird so..?
Is she skipping school today or what?
I put my bag down and moved to my seat.. Taking a de-ep sigh over again.
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**Melvin’s POV**
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School turned out to be pretty great that day and yeah the lots of attention were ma-king me feel more human. Belle was actually the one that styled me this way.
I watched the board as the teacher taught, it looked strange because I couldn’t un-derstand but soon after he began explaining, I started gr-abbing the whole thing..
He asked a question and I was the only one that made an attempt to answer, I answered and got it right and I was applauded, even more than I had expected with all the flir-ty smiles from the girls..
Wow.. So this is what high school feels like?
After more teachings and talks we were finally allowed to go for break, I had so many invites but I turned them down with excuses.
After the clas-s was empty, I head to the cafeteria and almost immediately found Kayla at the farther, she had her hoodie cap on..obviously trying to hide from me.
I still wonder why Belle didn’t make us stay in the same clas-s cos it’d have been easier for me to talk to her that way.
She was re-ading and a pack of crackers was beside her book.. I reached her and noticed Clara wasn’t with her.
“Eating alone?” I asked, pu-lling into a seat beside her and immediately her gaze c@m£ to me, she quic-kly looks around and rests her gaze back on me.
“What’re you doing?”
“Keeping you company. It’s kind of tiring sitting and getting those looks from girls everywhere” I said and she rolled her eyes.
“Are you complaining now? What were you expecting with that look?”
“I’m not. I’m just so hungry” I pout, holding my stomach..
I should tease her a little.
“Well you’re in a cafeteria, go get some food and leave” she said.
“No.. The food here are totally not my kind of foods.. They’re strange and tasteless” I said, well with a bit of truth tho.
“Oh really.. So what exactly are your kind of food?” She asked.
“Blood..lots of them” I said and her once curious look got replaced with a shocked frown.. I laughed inwardly..
She looked cute on that face tho and..funny. I laughed out.
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CHAPTER 21✏️
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🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
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🍯Melvin”s POV🍯
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She gave me a look after I bur-st into laughter..
“I was just kidding!” I said, trying to suppress my laughter. I can’t remember when last I’ve laughed this ha-rd .
“It’s not funny” she chided.
“You should’ve seen your face” I blurted out, still laughing.. She reached for me and sl@pped my arm as my palm covered myl-ips.
“Anyone would’ve acted that way and I wasn’t all that shocked at it. I mean you’ve killed people after su-cking their blood, so-” she shrugged nonchalantly “I just hope this joke doesn’t get real and takes me as a victim” she said with a slow sigh and I frowned..
Wow..I can’t believe she’s this scared of me.. Did I freak her out that much?
As I push my gaze back to her, she was getting on her feet and gathering her books..
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“Lunch period’s over, I have to leave before I get pitch forked by your many esc-rt” she said and walk away.
“Wait for me!” I called after her and stood up too but she only increa-sed her pace.
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💄Kayla’s POV💄
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I walked towards the hall, heading to my locker to fetch my books before beginning my journey back to clas-s. I was drawing closer to my locker when I heard distant footsteps, gradually they drew closer and before I knew it I was r0ûghly pushed and my back hit a wall, s£nding a sharp pain to it in the process. Suppressing it, I caught my glas-s from falling but couldn’t save my books and I looked up to see whoever pushed me that ha-rd . It was Becky.
“Why did you push me so ha-rd ?!” I asked but got a sm-irk as a response. I ignored it and bent to pick my books but they were brushed aside carelessly by a foot, I looked up and immediately got dragged up by my hair, I whimpered.
“W-what are you doing?” I skrie-ked, trying to pu-ll myself off.
“Just cut the act and bring it out!” She bellowed, ti-ght£ñing her grip on my hair.
“Let go Becky.. I don’t know what you’re talking about” I defended.
“Oh plea-se Kayla, you know exactly what I’m talking about and you better hurry up before I beat you real bad” she said and I shut my eyes at my burning scalp.. She was pu-lling my hair pretty ha-rd and her friends were preventing me from helping myself.
I have no idea what she’s talking about..
“But..I don’t even un-derstand what you’re saying” I cried, “plea-se let go” I said.
“I will if you quit the pretense. Just because I let you get off with the first one doesn’t mean I’ll do the same for this one, okay. So just bring it out now!” She yelled and I managed to look around to see so much stares at us..
“Tell me Kay, how do you think Melvin will feel knowing that he’s hanging out with a shameless thief and a low life. Someone who can’t admit her wrongs, huh?” She asked me and I didn’t know where the strength c@m£ from but I successfully yanked her off me and gave her a frown.
pain itching my sides.
“This is about Melvin?” I asked, catching my breath.
“It’s about you stealing my designers silver ban-gles, I saw you staring hungrily at it in clas-s so you must’ve taken it!” She spat at my face. “And then you push yourself around Melvin like a desperate bit-ch! Aren’t you the most shameless thing ever?!”
I gulped the hurt.
“I know nothing about your ban-gles” I replied her simply and bent, gathering up my books and I felt it being pushed off my grip. I looked up to see one of Becky’s friend..
“You lying thief!” She s£nt a sl@p across my face, disarranging my glas-ses.. “You had better bring it out it out now or I’ll report you to the authorities”
“I said I didn’t take them, okay!” I yelled “I don’t even know what you’re talking about” I defended.
“You-
As she made to hit me again, I caught it and I didn’t know how but I was suddenly able to look throu-gh the purse she held in her palm and in it I saw three ban-gles, pretty and very attrac-tive and I had no idea why but I felt like they belonged to Becky.
The missing ban-gles she was talking about!
“Why don’t you bring it out” I said, pushing her hand down.
“What’re you-
She couldn’t complete her words before I dragged the purse away from her grip and to-re it open..
Wait what.. How did that happen? Tearing something as thick as that in one try, I didn’t even have to put in much effort.
She tried collecting it from me but by then the whole content of the purse was alre-ady on the floor, including the ban-gles..
I noticed the sudden shock expression on her face.
“What?” Becky said walking toward me. She bent and picked the ban-gles from the floor “Tina. It was you?” She said, turning to the girl with a flabberg@sted look and I could see the shocked expression on everyone’s face..
The Tina girl suddenly bec@m£ speechless as she stared at her shoes.
“You bit-ch!” She glared at me and I didn’t know when I sm-irked. I could swear I wasn’t myself.. I didn’t know what was inside my b©dy..
Or controlling it.
She mmediately raised her hand to sl@p me and I caught it and gave her a sl@p..
Okay.. What! That wasn’t me. What’s happening to me.
I twisted her hand backward and pushed her, it was so ha-rd that she fell on the lockers, the handle meeting with her nose and I think I saw blood falling from it. My glas-s fell in the process and I suddenly bec@m£ p@rtially blind and she must’ve taken that as an opportunity cos I felt myself landing on my bu-tt to the floor. I heard whimpers and then angry shouts/g@sps, then footsteps.
The footsteps gradually began to go down and while I sat on the floor, I used my palm to sweep the floor hoping it’d t©uçh my glas-ses but I couldn’t reach it.. I didn’t even see where it was.
I felt a pres£nce and saw the dim figure of a person.
“Here” I heard the familiar yet distant voice and I immediately caught sight of my glas-ses and I gr@bb£d it from his hand and put it on.. My sight bec@m£ clear..
Finally!
My gaze immediately rested on the figure that had become clear and a blank stare rested on my face..
My heart beat with sudden anger.
“Y-you have a cut” he bent and made to t©uçh my cheek but I sl@pped his hand away, giving him a glare and at the same time a gob sma-cked look.
How dare him!
“Mind your own business, Jake” I said angrily and stood up, ignoring his offer to help me up. I pushed past him and felt his palm encircling my hand, preventing me from walking.. I gave him a glare.
“Look Kayla-
I yanked my hand off his and walked away to clas-s..
“Kayla wait,” Melvin ran up to me.
“Stay away from me!” I told him “All of you!” I yelled, tears blinding a side of my eye and I changed direction and ran to the bathroom, hiding my teary face.
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💪Melvin’s POV💪
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I stared after her as she ran past me, confused about running after her or just staying away as she had said.. Why does she always want me to stay away..
I mean this isn’t my fault right?
Or is it?
But how?
It’s normal for her not to really see me as a friend but I can’t be that bad right? Geez..I must’ve really scared her..
Well, what else could I have done.. It was the only option I had.
I just really hate myself..
I looked down.
Dejected.
“What the heck happened?” I turned to see Clara staring at me questioningly and breathlessly. Alarmed,I quic-kly shifted away from her..
“Where’s Kayla?” She asked again and I only pointed at the direction she went to without uttering a word.. She nodded and started walking towards it and as she walked, she fli-pped her hair to her shoulder and I caught sight of it..
The ‘L’ tattoo?!
I cringed immediately as fear rose up like a bile to my throat..
C-clara is…?
My throat dried up.
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So who else remembers Jake? Kayla’s ex-b©yfri£ndfrom chapter one.. Why’s he suddenly here?!
plus who can tell what really happened to Kayla??
☺.. So our shares and comments are really going down.. plea-se guys 200 comments+shares can’t be too much na.. Fulfill it so I can post the next chapter ASAP💛💚
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T.. B. C
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BY BLESSING SILVER