????Journey To The
Beauty Land????
(Once upon a kingdom…)
CHAPTER 31&32
By: Tofunmi Nikky
★★★★★
“Will you be my girlfriend?”Seth suddenly knelt down on one knee, pulling out a diamond ring from his pocket and stretching it towards her.
Sabrina looked down at Seth and then back at his face, not hesitating to shift backward a little distance away from him. It was like a nightmare to her; a bad one that even if she had it, she would never wish for that nightmare to come throu-gh.
“What’s all this, Seth?”Finally, she was able to get words out of her mouth.
Seth sighed inaudibly, looking up at her with a whole lot of anxiety bugging him.
“I like you, Sabrina. I thought it was so obvious and…”
“Seth, can you get up please?”Sabrina cut into his talk, ushering him up. Though Seth looked reluctant, he stood up on his feet when he saw her giving him a convincing smile.
Seeing as he was now standing right before him, she looked around before looking at Seth’s hand that was still holding the ring, she took it from him with her index finger and smiled at it. With was a beautifully designed type of ring; it has a diamond round stone enclosed on top of it.
Seth smiled internally, waiting for her next line of action. He knew he was going to be the happiest person on earth if she accepts.
“I like the ring, but nevertheless; I know this isn’t for me. I’m not the right person for you, Seth. You should keep it for someone who wouldn’t hesitate to take it from you and be yours, not me.”muttering so quietly so only him could hear, she moved closer and put the ring inside his chest pocket, with a lovely smile that immediately has Seth’s heart arching.
“Rina, you don’t like me?”he asked, his eyes staring into hers so de-eply as if to see if she feels the same way.
“No, I don’t.”she shook her head negatively and Seth dropped his gaze to the ground immediately, not able to brace himself up to look at her face nor take a glimpse at her.
“Bye, I have to get going.”she said, and patted him on the shoulder before walking out of the garden and out of the restaurant.
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NEXT MORNING★★
Anita slung her backpack across her shoulders before walking out her room and heading downstairs. Descending the stairs, she saw her father at the dinning hall taking breakfast with her mother.
“Dad, good morning.”she beamed cozyingly, wrapped her arms around her father’s neck as she hug-ged him from the back.
“Mom, morning.”she looked towards her mother and greeted, her jaw still resting upon her father’s shoulder. Her mother smiled back at her, dishing out Anita’s meal and occupying her seat.
Anita unho-oked her arms from her father’s neck and took the seat right next to him. It was with a huge smile that she took her first forkful of lasagna with cheese but it wasn’t long before it soon vanished.
“Dad, so what about my request?”she asked, chewing on her food while watching her father.
“Though I don’t know why you want her out of the school but I worked on it. But to my surprise, the school’s management reported back to me that there’s no student with such name under them. Which means, she was never in your school, daughter.”her father responded, shrugging and taking a sip from the glas-sof red wine before him.
With a frown, Anita loudly whisked away her plate of food, shifting back chair and making her way to the floor.
“Anita, you haven’t even touched your breakfast.”her mother called after her.
“That’s the least of my problem, I don’t freaking care if you pour it into the damned bin.”Huffing in annoyance, she opened the front door, slamming it shut behind her.
Why is it so ha-rd to get that freaking devil away from her life?
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8:30AM★★
Aria walled into her first clas-sand always being the first person to arrive, she was surprised when she saw someone else in her seat. Scrunching up a brow as she walked further into the cla-ssroom, she doesn’t know why she felt the need to see the person’s face.
Maybe because the person occupying her seat right now was seated rigidly, her back not even the least leaned against the chair. She stopped before her desk and her gaze picked up the person’s figure from below her foot.
The feminine figure was seated with a leg crossed over the other, with a red boot that reached up to her knee.
Aria shifted her gaze upward but when she heard a cough emit from her front, she snapped her eyes up to the person’s face.
No doubt, the unfamiliar face was pretty but couldn’t be compared to the most beautiful girl they have in their school named Sabrina. Aria shifted back awkwardly when she saw the lady eying her from head and down to the toe.
“Sorry, I’ll just take another seat.”Aria shuttered and quickly started walking again when the lady looked at her with a hot glare. Aria didn’t bother taking another seat just like she said, instead, she fastened her pace and walked out of the cla-ssroom as fast as she could.
Roselia just kept her gaze fixated on the air evolving the atmosphere without a single word, the expression on her face giving away nothing than a blank look.
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Beauty Land★★
A sorceress fli-pped a door open and casted away the tunnel after successfully getting into the room. One of the palace elders jumped out of bed on sighting the old sorceress.
“You’re here? Is anything going wrong?”the elder inquired, noticing the unimpressed frown plastered across the sorceress face.
“I have a message for the palace, a very disastrous one…”the sorceress started and the elder nodded, urging her to continue.
“Queen Anita will force the King to come back any moment from now. The Queen is going to send a devilish creature from our realm to fight the King. The creature will fight the King until the King will get angered and his powers will be brou-ght out. As you know the King can control fire and water. If the King’s anger brings out the fire instead, then it has to be quenched before the space of one minute. If not, the King will be envoked by the power and before he knows it, he’ll be back to our world.”
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Luciano climbed out of his car, signalling for his driver to stay back. He didn’t make it past the parking lot where a whole lot of student where still parked up instead of being in their cla-ss.
A huge muscularly built-up body all of a sudden appeared at his front, causing Luciano to take a step back as he almost bumped into the giant man.
Expecting the unknown huge figure to stir clear and shift aside, Luciano stayed back. He looked throu-ghthe giant man’s face and knew it wasn’t a coincidence; he knew the figure had purposely obstructed his way.
Smirking, Luciano looked away from his face and walked to take the other side when the giant stretched forth his veiny arm and throwed his fist into Luciano’s stomach, causing him to almost stagger back.
???? Look… The prince is being fought with????
????Where did that giant person come from? Doesn’t he know he’s hitting the prince????
????Perhaps we could call for help????
????Do you think just anybody can fight off that huge figure?????
????Hell, Prince Luciano is fighting back????
Luciano was fast to hit him a punch on the face but it was as it has no effect because the next second, the giant stretched forth his two veiny arms and jerked it straight into Luciano’s stomach, causing him to stumble onto the floor.
Anger courses throu-ghLuciano’s joints, his eyes turned red and wanting to stand up on his feet, he was taken aback when a pit of fire shoot out from both of his palms, his eyes widening at what was staring back at him.
Fires had took position on his two palms and the unbelievable thing way, it wasn’t burning up his body nor his palms.
The giant figure smirked triumphantly, staying back to watch the scene.
???? Goodness! What on earth is that?????
???? Fire?! It seems as if am daydreaming. ????
????Shut up! You’re daydreaming huh? Get your brain out your pocket and see that it’s not only you witnessing this????
Sabrina ran into the scene, fell on her knees before Luciano, her eyes holding a horrified expression.
She didn’t know of when she held his face and cupped it in her palms, she leaned closer and started packing each and every inch of Luciano’s reddened face.
“Lucian, c’mon… Tell the f*vking power to get the hell away from you! I need you here, Lucian. You can’t just leave me alone and go. C’mon, tell off the rubbish enchantment.”she yelled hysterically, sobs emitting from her voice as she throwed herself into Luciano’s arm.
A gasp escaping her li-ps as the fire starts to burn her shirt…
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TBc