Opening the fridge with emptiness eating all its portions, Ellen decided to do the grocery before going to her job. When she was putting the carton of milk in her trolley, the sudden appearance of someone made her all giddy up.
"Ellen?"
"Castiel!", she squealed in joy hearing the voice. Castiel was a dear friend of hers she met two years ago. Castiel, Ellen and Chloe hanged out for a while before he fully disappeared from their lives saying that he was moving to Canada.
"What a surprise! What are you doing here? When did you come back?", Castiel chuckled finding Ellen still the same over years. The same active and excited soul.
"Hit the break, Ellen. I'm doing what a normal person does in grocery stores. And yeah I moved back last week", Ellen stored every heard piece of information inside her brain and walked to the counter to pay the bill.
"Thank you", after both of them paid, they both agreed on a cup of coffee. When they exited the shop, what they encountered, to be more accurate Castiel, was out of this world.
"Jeremy?"
"Castiel?"
Both of them said in a unison, their voices laced with confusion and shock. Yes, that was the same Castiel. The elder brother of Jeremy. The question to be asked was what Castiel was doing down on Earth when he was supposed to be present in the southern realm of skies.
Ellen blankly stared at the boy she met yesterday. Mr. Rude. He was wearing a black outfit, his three buttons of the shirt opened, revealing his tattoos, eyes fixed at Ellen as a smirk appeared across his lips.
'She just walked towards her death by herself. Good, little fawn.'
The awkwardness led all of them to a coffee shop where Ellen sat next to Castiel with Jeremy and grim sitting across them. Ellen implied that she would leave but Castiel insisted her to stay since he wanted to catch up on the old times with her.
"So..", a bold attempt from Ellen to break the silence growing more with the clock ticking nonstop.
"Oh sorry. Let me introduce myself. I'm Jeremy. Castiel's b-", before Jeremy could finish his introduction, another voice across the table halted him from finishing up his sentence.
"My best friend", Castiel shot Jeremy a pleading look to play along with his lie. Years ago, when Ellen insisted Castiel on meeting his family he told her that he had nobody left as his parents and brother died in a car accident.
"I see. Nice to meet you. I'm Ellen. Castiel's long-time-ago friend", she held her hand which Jeremy accepted gladly.
"Pleasure meeting you", Ellen reverted her gaze to grim waiting for any of them to introduce the man sitting all serious, virtually boring daggers inside Castiel.
"This is Shawn. My best friend", Jeremy spoke up.
"So you're Castiel's best friend and Mr. Rude is your best friend. Doesn't it make the three of you, friends?", Ellen asked all confused.
"Yes!"
"No!"
Grim and Jeremy spoke at the same time confusing the already confused Ellen to the heavens. Grim and Castiel were never on good terms. Castiel being the son of the king never withstood grim's cocky attitude. However, he acted all cool around grim since he believed that they had nothing to be competitive over. He was a spirit, soon-to-be king of the southern realm and grim was a grim reaper like all other reapers.
"Okay?", Ellen said, more like asking them to clarify but her phone ringed, indicating a notification. She pulled out the phone from her pocket. Her eyes widened at the sight of her phone lock screen being lit up with notifications.
@Tyler10 added your Underworld to their reading list!
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"Oh my God! Who are you my lucky sunshine!", Ellen squealed with joy when she tapped on one of the notifications that had lightened up her lock screen, more like her life, and found her underwriting book Underworld being added in someone's Reading List of Webnovel.
She had been writing since she was sixteen. She started with poems and short songs reflecting her emotions. For more details and to give her work more of a professional look, she started writing and publishing her books on the social platform called Webnovel. She had always wanted to be a well-known, successful writer not only because she wanted but she deserved it. That's what she thought. Response on her writings was fair good but still not enough.
After the death of her parents, not that she only distant herself from everyone but her hobby as well, however, continued right after a year with a hope that she would make things right for her and one day her parents would be so proud of her looking down up from the heaven.
She was thriving to be recognized by some popular writers. Of course, she didn't expect JK Rolling's message popping up the screen saying 'Ellen I just found your books. You're an amazing writer. Wanna work with me?' But imagining wonderful things doesn't hurt. Does it?
"I thought I was your only sunshine", her gaze shot up to look at the source of the voice, Castiel. Ellen used to call Castiel sunshine when they were friends back in university days.
Grim practically drew daggers at Castiel for being clingy with Ellen. Not because he had any trouble with both of them being together, they could f*ck right there all to his care, let alone sitting next to each other. He was just getting irritated by only seeing Castiel. True, he certainly never liked the latter.
"People change. Well, you proved lucky for me. You just walked into my life and I already found my sunshine", Ellen held the phone right before Castiel's face, letting him take a glance at the screen.
"Anyway, if I don't want to be fired from my job, I shall get going", Ellen stood up.
"I will drop you off at your house", Castiel said holding her grocery bags.
"That would be great cause I'm getting late", lifting up her face from the phone lock screen she smiled.
"You don't mind if I lend your friend for a few minutes, Ellen?", Jeremy said standing up from his seat.
"Sure. I will ride myself a taxi", Ellen took the bags from Castiel.
Grim wondered why Ellen would ride a local transport when she had her own car. The grocery store wasn't far from her house. Plus, she always preferred walks to ride cars.
"Shawn can also drop you", taking bags from Ellens' hands, Jeremy dropped them in grim's lap. He quickly turned his face towards Ellen, wishing not to be dead by the death glare of grim.
"No. It's okay I wi-", at first, Ellen thought taking a ride from someone whom she also gave a ride wouldn't be a big deal but upon seeing grim's expressionless face, she decided not to go that lane.
"Since I'm lending your friend, I'm lending you my best friend as well. Give and take. That's how I work. Please don't refuse", Jeremy wanted to have some words with his brother in privacy regarding his presence on Earth.
"Okay then", Ellen gave in before shrugging her shoulders as she heard an audible sigh from grim.
"Help her take the bags inside the house", Jeremy knew that once this was over, one thing grim would do was sending him to the Underworld with his hands. For fuck sake he was bossing around grim!
"Why not~~", grim shot him gritted smile, stood up and left for the car that was parked outside the mall.
Opening the back seat door, he propelled the bags in a corner and got in the driver's seat. Soon after Ellen also joined him to the other side.
"Couldn't you speed it down?", catching her breath, she asked.
Grim ignored her and started the engine. The drive to her house was quiet except the moment when grim asked her for the address.
"There", grim applied brakes in front of Ellen's house when she signalled at her house.
"Thank you."
Both of them got out of the car. Grim opened the back door and took the grocery bags out. Handing two bags to Ellen, he held only one in his hand. Ellen was surprised by the action. She could carry three of them inside on her own but having a boy letting you carry more weight than himself was a little bit rude of him.
Of course grim had other plans for her.