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? Tales of two worlds ?
?Season 3 ?
? Chapter 12?
?Written by Goddy Francis?
I thought I didn’t heard him well untill he said the same thing again. I was shy , same time I blu-shed. Arden is asking me to go out on a fancy d@t£ with him.
” Maybe I’ll think about it.”
He cackles.” Seriously ?”
” I really can’t think of everything right now. I’m still trying to process everything.”
” So you’re turning my proposal down ?”
” Are you upset ?” I pout as he laughs.
” I’m not. I know I’ve been an as-s lately. A really stupid as-s. I’m definitely gonna wait till that crazy engagement p@rty. I just hope I’ll be able to control myself.”
I chuckle.” Thank you.”
” What about my plus one proposal ?”
” I’m still gonna think about it.”
” Thanks. At least for considering my offer.” He smiled and k!ssmy cheek.
My cheeks were hurting from over blu-shing. I can’t believe almighty Arden almost confessed his feelings. Asking me to go out on a d@t£ with him and being his plus one. I nee-d to rock this opportunity. A vampire engagement p@rty will do the trick. Arden walked me out of my room to the living room.
Dylan prepared dinner for everyone including Arden. It was nice they are being nice to each other. I really haven’t seen Arden had a normal conversation with Dylan like this before. I liked it , at least they are getting used to themselves.
Arden left after having a nice conversation with us. He was always staring at me. His eyes were brighter than normal as he often meet my eyes with a friendly sm-irk.
” You guys are d@t!ngnow ?” Dylan asks after walking Arden out of his house.
” We’re not.” I reply rather blankly.
He Chuckles.” He looks genuinely happy when we were talking. The last time I saw him that way was with Derek. Derek’s like his older brother and they sort of mix easily.”
I nod abs£ntly and tap my f!ngerson the couch .
” You’re being my plus one right ? Or is Arden taking you ?” Dylan asks as he takes a seat.
” Nah. We’re going together.”
He nods without staring at me. ” You should give him a chance , he’s sweet.” I roll my eyes and smiled.
Yeah , i know he’s awesome. It’s not like he normally treats me bad when I was in his house. He was ba-rely ha-rd on me. I thought about his proposal ? Of course I’m not allowing myself to be his plus one in an engagement p@rty. I don’t wanna offend Jasmin or even his parents. And about the d@t£ , I swear I’d love to. A normal alone time with d!¢khead Arden.
” Thanks for the food Dylan.” I smiled at him as he nodded shooting me a warm smile.
” You’re welcome.”
” I nee-d a normal shower after everything that happened.”
He chuckles and nods again. I turn to leave but his voice st©pped me.
” Will you do me a favor and tell me whatever that is eating you up ? I mean if you ever nee-d help actually. We’ll be here to help.”
” Thanks Dylan. It’s sort of annoying I can’t have you both.” He raise his brows as I said that. He grins and smile.
” Maybe life is unfair then ?”
” I agree with that.” I responds as he laughs.
” Talk later buddy , gotta shower.” He nodded as I rush upstairs.
I locked my door and undress myself to have a long bath. After scru-bbing my b©dy , I walk out of the shower and clean myself up getting into my sweatp@n-ts with a really cool t-shi-t. I wanted to sleep at least that will help ease the tension that is growing ra-pidly inside of me. I don’t wanna hurt Arden , it’s not like he deserves it . But de-ep down inside of me , I want to wake up n-ked beside him.
I scrunch my nose to my damn imaginations and smiled. It feels awesome to hear he likes me. I mean I know he likes but ma-king his heart beat is an un-derstatement. Arden is like my homemade distraction. I always see Dylan as his reflection , maybe the lesser version of his reflection. Arden might be an as-s but it takes a normal human being a lot of efforts to resist his temptations. I can’t myself.
I closed my eyes and it’s really nice I fell asleep quic-kly. I saw her again , taunting me in my dreams. Saying a lot of weird $h!ts and i prayed I didn’t get to meet her in real life. I open my eyes and it’s morning again. I spre-ad my blanket aside and slouch to the bathroom to wash my face and mouth . I stand in front of my mirror and the reflection staring back at me startles me.
” No way..” I mutters batting my lashes.
” Hi , kitty. You’re so ripe.” She tease on the other side of the mirror.
” Himiko.”
” Add a little respect plea-se..”
” I think I’m imagining things. You can’t be my reflection.” I closed my eyes and open them. She’s still right there in the mirror sm-irking at me.
” Are you in my head ?” I question.
” I’m inside you , dummy.”
” Why don’t you just leave me alone ?” She chuckle , like I’ve made the best joke of the century.
” Not when you have what every single dark witch will cause a war to have. You must be $h!tting me.”
” Just leave me alone. Get out of me , just go.”
” St©p being sober it’s not like I’ve done something bad. Your pending b©yfri£ndis cute . Even if I’m caged I can’t help but admire what a beautiful man he is.”
” Oh yeah. You don’t look contended like always.” I scoff and cross my arms.
” I beg your pardon ?”
” And why are you begging my pardon ?” I huff thanking my subconsciousness for starting a fruitful conversation.
” I know what you did. I saw everything. How you dropped yourself so low for your tiny vampire fling.” Okay that didn’t come out as expected and I regretted why I said it.
She chuckle insanely.” And like she’s better. You are willing to sleep with both of them even without them pleading. How are you different from me ? Hmm ?” She sm-irk and furrow her brows.
I bit my l!paggressively and point to the mirror opposite me.
” Get out of my head. Don’t try to ruin my life like you’ve alre-ady ruin yours.” I scoff and picked up my tooth brush.
” Let’s see whoose person would be ruining their life anytime soon , punk.” I heard her cuss and I feel dejected.
Maybe we can even help each other. I walk back to the mirror and my reflection greeted me this time , she’s gone. I sigh and slightly shake my head to go brush my teeth. Two nights from now and I’ll be attending a vampire engagement p@rty with Dylan. Getting to see Arden with Jasmin gives me goosebu-mps. I’ve not even decided how I feel but I know for sure each time he’s around me I think i loose my mind right away. And I could ba-rely conceal any of my emotions towards him and that revolves around my S-xual de-sires. He’s like my damn distraction.
I brush my teeth and quic-kly shower before going back to be-d. I think I learnt how to paint with pencils and it’s my new found hobby. I pushed the sheets to the corner and rush downstairs to eat something. Dylan was eating cereal with his eyes glue to his phone.
” Good morning.” He smiled as I return the greeting.
Without getting to reach for the spoon , it effortlessly slide to my grip. Dylan sh0t me a quic-k smile as I eat from his bowl of cereal.
” Thank you.” I tell him shoving the content into my mouth.
Morning with Dylan was fun and short cause we had to pl@ysnooker all throu-gh. He was always winning since I’m just a novice. That weekend , I scramble throu-gh my wardrobe looking for what to wear for an engagement p@rty. I hated the idea , I feel things were gonna go wrong and plus Arden told me he had a surprise for me today. What would it be ?
I finally settled with a lace go-wn that glued to my skin. I scoff at my reflection on the mirror and shake my head sideways. ” Too revea-ling..”
I take it off and try different random dresses and it looks like I’m the one getting married. I don’t feel like going anymore. I put on a floral white dress that hvgs my w@!st down to my h!ps and it expo-ses my th!ghs to my leg. I hope this looks better. The back is a bit open but I don’t care , my hair will do justice. I sit opposite my mirror and brush my hair. I wanted it to look tame so I just had to straighten it.
” Ooh…” Himiko weird appearance on the mirror almost made me jo-lt.
” Seriously..” I stumble on my words and keep the damn object aside.
” Kitty is getting re-ady to get la-id.” She tease with a sm-irk. Why is she talking normal ? I expect a frightful looking himiko not a teaser.
” What do you want ? You nee-d to leave the mirror so I can see my reflection.”
” I’m your reflection buddy.” She smiles with a weird grin.
” If I were you , I won’t get carried away. He’s h0t , I’ll do anything to see him grind un-derneath us.” I roll my eyes at her words and it’s so weird I imagined it.
” I would advise you don’t d@t£ him. It’s not worth it. They will use you just as they used me . But never mind I’m almost ripping off this damn curse caged and I’ll gr-ab your request. Returning you back to where you should have been.” I ought not to be frightened but she succeeded. I gulp and run my f!ngersdown my straightened thick hair.
” Thank you , now plea-se leave my mirror.”
” I will , say me hi to your pending downfall.” She wi-nks and disappeared.
I sigh at my reflection and I’m getting fever alre-ady. I put on the average stilettos and stand up to check my reflection. I turn around to look at my back on the mirror.
” You’re alre-ady h0t.” Dylan’s tease made me jo-lt.
” You scared me.”
” Sorry sweetheart. You look beautiful I must confess.”
I blus-h and smile.
” Who were you talking to ?” Dylan asks still gripping to the doorknob.
” Nob©dy. You heard something ?”
” I thought I heard you talk to someone.”
” No.” I as-sure him as he nods.
” You’re re-ady ?”
” Yes.” I walk to the door as he takes my hand down the hall.
” Someone’s gonna faint tonight. I bet you look like the bride.” He tease holding the pas-s£nger door for me as I get in.
” This is casual. I hate to be noticed.” I tell him once he was on the driver’s seat. He chuckle and ignite the engine.
” Thanks for being my plus one. I would have been stranded and at that point , I’m just gonna sulk because I’m single.” He says and I couldn’t help but laugh.
” You should get a girl then.”
He scrunch his nose in disappointment and sm-irk at me.
” I’m good princess . I can’t handle one.”
” So you can handle two ?” I wi-nks at him as he Chuckles.
” Don’t take it the bad way. I really can’t help bmyself that long. I don’t really see how I can be able to handle a p@rtner. You’ll have to be committed and all that $h!t. Chill I’m fine.” He says tapping slightly on his steering wheel as we st©p for a red light.
” I really wanna learn driving. Will you teach me ?”
He wears a sm-irk and smile.” Arden will , I don’t wanna step boundaries. He’s totally over possessive of someone whom he truly likes. I can’t afford to fight him again when we’re in good terms.”
” We’re not d@t!ng.”
” You’ll tonight. I see him ripping you off that dress and holding you against a bathroom wall telling you how he can’t breathe without you like you’re some damn oxygen.” Dylan chuckles and I pla-yfully swat his hands.
” That was funny.”
He smiles and look at me.
” You’re pretty , more than the first night I saw you on that killer red dress.” My cheeks were burning because of too much blu-shing. It’s so weird I didn’t add make up it’s not like I like it.
” Thanks Dylan. You’re fv¢king me up.” I tell him as his brows raise at me.
” Arden finally taught you foul language. He’s really crazy.”
I chuckle and shrug.
” You both are nice pairs anyways. You share same attitude like getting to annoy each other.” He nod abs£ntly as he drives into a carpark. It’s so crowded with expensive vehicles.
” Now breathe , cause in the next two minutes everyone’s eyes are gonna be on you.”
I roll my eyes and finally breathe.
” You’re re-ady ?” I nod as he get out of the car.
He turn around and open the door for me helping me with a hand. He shut the door and interwine our arms together like he’s my dad walking me down the aisle. I smiled and try to relax my nerves as we step into this weird hall. It’s fancy , pretty and really occu-pied. Glas-ses filled everyone’s hand and I’m certain it’s blood.
” Vampires..” I mutter un-der my breath as I walk slowly beside Dylan.
Truly enough a lot of people looked at us. Some smiled , some snorted like I’m walking with their dream b©yfri£nd.
” Dylan..” a brunette with super S-xy dress walks in as Dylan hvg her with one hand.
” Hi , Dani.” He greeted her with a smile.
” Your girlfriend ?” She ask staring intensely at me .
” She’s my friend.”
” A witch ?” She furrows her brows and shrug.
” It’s nice having you here. Wish we can hang out a little.” She k!$$£d his cheek and ca-ress his che-st before twisting her h!ps away.
” Ex ?”
” No way. Just a random person.” I nodded not trying to push further cause I un-derstand that reply.
A waiter gave us two glas-ses and I perceived mine to be sure it’s not blood . I gulp a little and smiled to it’s taste. It was weird standing beside Dylan greeting a lot weird vampire females and males too. Some didn’t like me because of their stares. There are a lot of vampires in here and no single human. I think I’m the only witch because I haven’t get to perceive another.
I haven’t seen Arden or even Jasmin. I think they are on their way since they are together. He wants us to d@t£ so how am I supposed to keep up with Jasmin ?
” Arden said he has a surprise for me. Like you’re also aware too ? You care to enlighten me what it is ?” I said to Dylan.
” It’s like I’m snitching. Wait a while longer. You’ll see it.”
Dylan drop his empty glas-s on a platter as he take my hands to God knows where.
” I nee-d to congratulate the couples.” He whisper like he heard my thoughts.
I smile and walk alongside him looking for Arden. We have a lot to talk about.
” Dylan buddy , you showed up.” The bride i think says as she slightly hvg Dylan.
” Congratulations Dawn.” He said to her as she smiled at me with broad eyes. I know what that means.
” Congratulations Damian.” He said to the groom as they both exchange greetings.
” Thanks man. I haven’t seen Arden yet.”
” Must be on his way.” Dylan answers as Dawn clears her throat.
” You care to introduce.” Dawn gesture to me.
” I’m sorry. Her name’s Alita. Alita meet Dawn and Damian. The D f0rç£.” He chuckle as I smiled at friendly Dawn and Damian.
” Hope he’s not stressing you out ?” I giggle and shake my head.
” Good. You’re pretty.”
” You’re more pretty.” We laugh as she smiled.
” You haven’t given her a ring yet ?” She blink holding my left hand.
” Oh $h!t.” Damian chuckle.
” We’re not together. She’s Arden’s property.” Dylan whisper and I pinched his back pla-yfully. Seriously how could he say that ?
” Really ?” Dawn ask looking at me.
” It’s not what you think.” I manage to say.
” She’s pressed , I nee-d to take her to the bathroom…” Dylan said at once. For real ?
” Once again congratulations.” She smiled at them and pu-ll me out.
” Thanks for saving my as-s.” I tell him as he chuckles.
” You’re welcome.” We st©p walking as I take in a de-ep breath.
” Look at that sp©t.” Dylan ba-rely points as my eyes scan the place.
I perceive vampires all over there and it’s really not welcoming.
” What ?”
” Look well.” He whisper with a grin.
I sigh and look carefully. They seem busy talking. A darker coloured girl turn to look at me as she grin with disbelief.
” No way.” I mutter looking at Dylan and over to the girl who’s still smiling at me.
” It can’t be her.” I mutters again. She drop her glas-s and made her way to my direction.
” Arden made it happen.” Dylan said with a warm smile.
” Elna….”
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