Two cars spearing their way to the countryside, tearing through the midnight mist. The people inside the vehicles were cold and in rage. This rage they did not know they had in them. The rage that was painful to the heart.
Akeno was looking out of the window of the car. The hands he had placed over a sleeping Ace were now being held by her own hand over her cheeks. Akeno's fingers were busy twirling her long locks of hair. He was trying to figure out what compelled him to rush to them. But, rage is a heavy emotion isn't it? He crushed his teeth nerves tensed on his forehead yet his hands held by those small hands were soft. He glanced at moon and then at Ace. The view was similar he thought and turned towards the window.
Leaning her head on Evan's shoulder's Ria was half conscious. She wanted to ask where she was, she tilted her head to look at Evan, as she moved she felt uncomfortable once more. She immediately rested her head with a bump on his shoulders once more. Evan had never done this before but he felt as natural as ever. He rotated his neck a bit so as to treat the numbness in his shoulders, as he moved Ria started sliding away, he grabbed her in his arms and let her head rest on his chest. He felt a tug on his shirt. Ria was clenching at that shirt hard. Her wrist had finger marks; red from the pressure as Evan saw those marks once again he blew up in rage. He turned his eyes towards the dark night, his eyes as cold and cutting as the night and the wind outside.
In all this silence there was a muffled war going on between a heavily drunk girl and a rageful sober man. There was an atmosphere of unnatural calmness in between them.
"Take your clothes back I said." Sash.
"I said keep them." Ichiro.
"Don't tell me what to do. You brat." Sash.
"Huh! Who do you think this brat is." Ichiro.
"I have clothes, take yours back, and I can wear what I want to." Sash.
"I am not telling you how to dress I am telling you to protect yourself. Dumb." Ichiro.
"Protect from whom?" sash said and lifted her head to look straight into ichiro's eyes, like she was asking if he would harm her, with those innocent eyes.
Ichiro felt bound by those brown orbs. He sat still looking at her for a few seconds. As the car sped up he came out of his utopia. He turned away his eyes in haste. Sash once again held her head, and then started to look out of the window clenching the overcoat closer than before. She was conscious of the warmth of the embrace she was in since earlier. She rested her head on the window glass. As she shifted she felt the grip tighten. She turned around and found Ichiro looking at her.
"Everyone." Ichiro said. He had done the thinking about her question and those deep eyes.
Sash was amazed for the first time from a guy's side. She smiled and turned to look out once again. She was drunk but she will surely remember this she thought and closed her eyes. Two cars on an empty highway cruised along.
In the mansion.
"Are they back yet?" Asked worried manager Kym.
"No sir, no news." Butler Samuel.
"They should comeback now." Kym.
"Please don't worry sir you will get informed by our men of any mishap isn't it?" Butler Samuel.
"Yes, but what if they run into those CEO's." Kym.
"They don't look like in a situation to harm the ladies." Butler Samuel
"Yes, but still, it's dangerous." Kym.
"We know they will not let their guard down deliberately. Sir please rest up." Butler Samuel.
"okay." Kym.
As the car approached their destination, Evan came out of his reverie and shook Ria a little; she opened her eyes to find herself at an unknown location. She looks out at the guards. She remembered their uniforms but didn't remember from where. Evan stretched out his left foot out of the car and felt held back. "Is she still holding?" He thought and turned, to find her struggling to get up clutching his shirt. He wrapped his arms around her and said, "Calm down, let me help." Hearing this she calmed down a little. Evan pulled her out of the car and made her lean on himself and strode towards the villa entrance. Looking at the silence of his rage, everyone stepped aside at once. Ichiro followed close behind holding sash's hand s firmly and the overcoat still draped over her shoulders. Her sparkly eyes glued to the figure leading her.
As the other car rolled up the guard held the door open. But Akeno didn't move. He didn't want to disturb her. The guard saw he wasn't moving and thought it was because of the imprudent missy on his boss's lap. The guard leaned in and tapped Ace on her forehead and said, "Hey missy, get up you are causing inconvenience." As he completed his sentence a very low, rageful and soft sound came. Akeno spoke coldly looking the guard dead in his eyes, "you are fired." He waves his hands telling him to move aside. He very gently released his hand from Ace's grasp. He shifted her fully into his lap and strode out carrying her in his arms. Her face buried in his chest. This scene and their arrival had added more commotion to the fact that these were the same girls from a few days before. There were talks like wildfire about them.
"Who are those ladies?"
"Weren't they confined that day?"
"Why are the masters angry? We better keep our mouths shut?"
A girl entering the villa was already abnormal; adding to it taking the girls to their bedrooms looked even more scandalous. As Ichiro already went up and Akeno couldn't wait for his hands going numb rushed up. Evan stopped abruptly and side eyed the servants.
"No one is to know." Evan.
All the servants bowed their heads down until Evan disappeared into the upper floor.
Ichiro left as soon as he made sash sit on the bed.
She was in a daze. It was already 1'o clock in the midnight. The drinks were taking an effect now. Ichiro immediately left the room and closed the door behind him and headed to his study in the adjacent room. Sash just sat there looking at the game controllers' stream across the table. "So, he is a gamer", she thought and lay down at the bed.
Across the hallway on the left side was the room Evan stayed in, the room was silent. As he let loose of Ria on the bed she bounced on the bed still holding his shirt tightly causing him to fall beside her on the bed. But the comfort sent her exhausted body to sleep in a minute. Evan very softly made her release her grasp, and stood up. "Why am I angry for this imbecile creature?" he thought and went to his wardrobe for a change of clothes and left the room to her.
As Evan came out in the hallway he found akeno walking slowly to his room, with ace in his arms.
"Need some help there brother." Evan.
"Yes, open the door for me." Akeno.
Evan walked his way and opened the door for him.
"Don't shout at her. She won't remember." Evan said softly and patted Akeno's shoulder while leaving.
"Where are you going? I mean where do you want to sleep?" Akeno.
"Maybe my room. Maybe the study." Said Evan.
Akeno looked at the retreating figure of Evan entering his study and then he went inside his room. He softly laid Ace on the bed and removed her beanie letting loose her hair. He kept looking at her for a few seconds and said in a very low voice, "repulsive". He covered her up and left the room.