"-Malin, sweetheart. Can you go and bring me some mushrooms?" said the white-haired woman to the little girl who was drawing.
Malin kissed her mother and left to the forest before two giant arm wrapped around her small figure and lift her up:"-what about me?" said the old green eye man pouting making Malin giggle then give him a big kiss on the cheek and a huge hug.
"-Love you father.
-love you more princess. Be careful and don…
-I know, be careful with poisonous mushroom and plants and not to go far away.
-Carol! … Let her go…it's getting late." Interfered the woman
"- I am just advising her.
-don't worry our daughter is smart and attentive…I trust her.
-Exactly! Like her father.
-I don't think so? ... She is more like her mother.
-let's wait and ask her then." Then they burst into a big laughter.
Malin heard them and smiled widely, she loved her parents' relation and the love they shared with each other, and how they take care of each other. She hoped to find a loving man like her father….Maybe not anymore.....
Mal watched the sunset before going back home with a basket full of mushrooms in one hand and two crowns made of flower for her parents.
She found the door open and a big hoarse outside, she thought to herself that someone came to visit. Malin got into the kitchen and placed the mushroom on the table and went to the living room to
"-MOM!!!" Her eyes widened; when she found her mother on the ground, covered with her blood and her eyes close.
The clueless little girl kept shaking her mother's dead body and calling her to wake up:
"-Mom…please wake up…please don't leave me alone…mom… look I made you a crown…you promised me that we will play like the queen and the little princess." The little girl put the crown on her moms lifeless body, her loud sobs filled the air, her breath was unsteady, her little eyes full of tears and her throat is burning. Even though, she kept shaking her in hope to wake up. She knew the truth, she knew that her mother is dead but she didn't want to accept her leaving.
Loud footsteps was heard to find her father with red eyes and his hand covered with blood and a look of rage, hate and anger filled his orbs. But when he saw Malin crying, a sense of regret and sorrow made his heart wrenched in pain
"-father…"
Years later;
"-my father killed my mom, I couldn't stay anymore…I ran as fast as I can…away from him but he followed me….i was afraid…afraid from death…afraid from my…" Malin took a deep breath and finished with a burning throat:
"-I was afraid from my father…the person I loved the most…my idol in life… but no one know the forest as I do…mom would take every day to explore it and I would find new places myself." She showed a small smile at the sweet memory.
"-and then I bumped in Pryor… I was terrified he would hurt me but I didn't have a way out… I cried and begged for him to save me…so he did. I told him about my parents and he promised to remain the story secret. I also knew that my father was an incubus who was faking his love for her…since then I took a promise to kill every incubus I meet. But, I can't face my father… or even go back to my old house that was once my home." narrated the girl and a hot diamond left her ear with a smile of sadness on her lips.
For the first time ever, Kieran felt like he cares about someone but quickly placed with indifference, feelings and sentiments were not his thing.
He showed a sincere smile and squeezed her shoulder:
"-I am sorry, I didn't know…. So …that does explain the attitude and anger issues thing." Malin looked at him and threw the pillow that was in her lap at him and laughed.
"-that's what I was waiting for. And now I will make you a chamomile tea with honey, trust me a good sleep with sweet dreams.
-no thanks
-I wasn't asking you, woman.
-hey… I don't take orders from people like you
-take it as a friend request.
-who said you are my friend.
-if you want us to be more than friends, I won't turn you down.
-another word and I will splash the hot water on your face." Mal said sternly, and Kieran zipped his mouth and locked throwing the key away, and went to the kitchen to make her the tea.
Meanwhile, Malin grabbed the pillow back to find a broken bracelet probably felt down from Kier's pocket. She took it and inserted secretly inside her pockets....