A little girl who was enjoying her ice cream caught a glimpse of a figure flying in the sky. When she looked up, the dazzling light of the sun blinded her eyes, making her shut them and took a moment to adjust back to the normal light. When she opened them again, she put her left hand on the forehead to block out the sun and looked at the same portion of the sky again. Nothing. Not even a bird flying. The ice cream had started melting in her hand, trailing down to her arm. Forgetting that she saw a man descending the sky a moment ago she started swirling her tongue, licking all the melted sides of the ice cream.
Sun was shining down on the top of everyone so grim made a fast landing. When he landed on the rooftop of the building near Ellen's house, it was mid-noon. He decided to take his car which was still parked on the side of the street and drive to the library. When Ellen left for her job in the morning, she was too sleepy to notice grim's car parked outside her house. Folding the wings, he made them disappear and held the doorknob to open the door on the terrace but it was locked. He rotated the knob again but the door didn't open. When he tried for the third time, the lock was in his hands. He just broke the lock without even trying.
Not giving a hoot about the broken lock, he tossed it on the ground and opened the door. Once he was inside the top floor of the building, he saw an elevator. In the hotel he and Jeremy were staying in, he always used the staircase. Not to mention that he rarely got to use those because of coming late. After parking the car, he would fly to the top floor without anyone noticing him. He didn't know how to use an elevator but he had seen people riding it and arriving quicker to the places than those who would use stairs.
Thinking that it would save his time, he walked over to it and saw two buttons. One indicated an arrow up and the other an arrow down. He pressed on the down button and waited until the doors of the elevator opened. When he stepped inside, he looked around himself. It was spacious and fortunately, there was no one. Wandering his eyes all around, he saw buttons on side of the door. There were different alphanumeric letters on the buttons.
Oblivious to which button would take him to the destination, he started pushing all of them. The door began opening and closing but the elevator wasn't moving. It continued for what looked like a couple of minutes before the buttons sparked and the lights of the elevator turned off.
"This is the shittiest of mankind's inventions", he stepped out and walked towards the stairs. Walking down the stairs, he finally reached ground level. When he exited the building, he saw people, mostly man giving him weird looks.
"They must have not seen someone this magnificent", smirking to himself he walked over to the car and got inside. People weren't staring at him because they found him exceptionally breathtaking, he was walking with nothing covering his upper half.
He took his phone and saw the new address Jeremy had sent him last day. It almost took him forty minutes to drive to the place. A penthouse. A sleek and luxurious penthouse that cost millions of dollars. He stopped the car and entered the house since the door was opened. Jeremy left the door unlocked for him. It was quieter and calmer in there. Above all, grim liked it. He walked over to a room and saw a walk-in closet inside the room. When he found his outfits hanging there, he changed into a casual one after getting a shower and soon was outside, in the car again.
This penthouse was far from Ellen's home and workplace, away from the noise and traffic busted streets. Putting the shades on, he rolled up the sleeves of a sky blue shirt, opened the first two buttons and started the engine. He exactly looked like a high school hot playboy every girl of the school would swoon over except the leading one, Ellen.
Applying the breaks on the car outside the building of the library he got out after putting the shades in the car.
When he walked inside the place was as quieter as usual. Readers were immersed in the imaginary world created by fabricated words of talented authors. He ran his gaze but didn't find the one his eyes were searching for. He asked one of the readers about Ellen. The reader informed him that he last saw her going to the back of the shelves.
He walked over to the last shelf and saw the girl on the floor, her head hung low with a phone tightly clutched in her hands.
"Are you hiding from me, little fawn?", when he found Ellen on the floor he thought the girl might be embarrassed over what had happened last night as most of the mortal girls, playing hard to get once knowing the boy is up for them, acting all innocent and shy and whatsoever. If anyone was to tell him, there were more things in her life for her to sit and think about than frittering away an afternoon while thinking about someone who she already knew for sure was the biggest pervert and freak on the earth.
"For heaven's sake, you thickhead! Have you ever heard about making your presence know?", the sudden voice of grim startled Ellen. One, there was pin-drop silence in the library. Second, her brain was playing last night's scene while her eyes were still stuck on the same lines of the article.
"I don't have to. My existence itself does it for me", slipping the hands in the pockets of the pants, grim proudly responded.
Ellen could only sigh at his narcissistic response. She wasn't going to put a fight with him because she had something to discuss with him. Something she didn't know would change the course of things shortly.
"While your arrogant, egotistical self was ridiculously busy admiring its own self, I did some search and you will be surprised to know the results", getting up from the floor, the little fawn vocalized.
Once up, she gestured grim to come near to her. The lines on his forehead that barely lasted for a second disappeared assuming that his little fawn might be pulling a prank on him. He didn't reflect it from his expressions but the steps he took towards her were fused with excitement and anticipation of what the little fawn had planned to do. Once he was enough close to the little fawn, she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him down, near her face that had grim surprise for a moment but what came next alarmed him to the depths of the underworld.
"I think that the someone who was present here last night wasn't an ordinary being", Ellen leaned towards his ears and kept her voice low to not be heard by anyone since the place was too quiet.
"I believe he was a demon", she enunciated each word in grim's ear slowly.