Though I cannot shake off the idea that Mistress had already read the letter and planned this from the onset, there is nothing any of us could do about it
The drive to the house was quiet, Coco surprisingly quiet too.
Reaching Ari's place, I thought everything would go haywire.
But for some reason, it didn't.
Infact, it went better than I expected.
The boys, all dressed rather normally, were being fed attention from the huge family in the house.
It was at that moment I even remembered who they were.
The top four richest beings in all of Aeira and Vnio.
And everyone, old and new loved them.
The children stuck to Mel who seemed happy to be around them.
The elderly ones kept basking Coco in their attention.
And Ber and Coco who seemed to get interviewed by every single male and female teenager and adult.
I was somehow the only one left alone.
Ari who was too busy on errands could not sit down and talk to me so I just sat at the backyard, staring at the stars and sipping some red wine before I see Ari walk up to me and I sigh "Finally. I thought you'd never...."
He suddenly grabs me by the hand and pulls me up "Come on"
"Wait, where are we..."
He starts running with me and for some reason, because he's gripping me so hard, we keep moving together till I pull my hand away from his and pant, resting my hands on my knees as I say "Where are we going Ari?"
Ari, who is panting too says "I just needed us to be away from the house before those boys come and interrupt us like they have been doing all day"
"What?" I ask as I stay straight "They haven't interrupted anything. You're the one that has been too busy to even talk to me"
"You think i haven't tried?" He says "Every single time I move towards your direction, one of them suddenly brings up a stupid thing they want me to do and I have to do it because they are guests. That's why I've been too busy to actually reach you"
... What?
The boys... They...
Ari sighs, raking a hand in his hair "Can you just tell me who it is?"
"Who what is?"
"Who you're dating amongst them" He says "Because I want to punch one of them so bad for your sake, I want to refrain from hitting the one you're dating"
Oh...
I stay quiet there as he says "Well, who?"
"Ari, I can't..."
"Tell me?" He asks then chuckles "Why? Are you suddenly ashamed of the fact we're friends now? Because they're rich and I'm not?"
"No. Don't say that..."
"Then who is it?" He asks.
"What difference does it make if I tell you Ari?"
"I'd know who to punch that is it" He curtly replies.
I stare at him, not knowing what exactly to say before I see a flash of a silver blade and quickly push him away as I feel something slice into my skin.
The pain comes up immediately as the person has his hand around my neck, squeezing it and slamming me to the wall "Well, well, well. Guess who is being left alone without her knights to guard her?"
This voice...
Though the person is wearing a hood, I can recognize the angry glint in his eyes as I try to pry his hands off me before I knead him in the stomach, making him move away as I cough and turn to a frozen in shock Ari "Run! Go call the boys! Just go!".
As I say that, he suddenly jolts running off as I am being picked from the floor, slapped and pinned to the wall again as Court uses his elbows to crush my throat "Now now, stay still. I just want you unconscious. Besides, this is the nicest thing i can do for you after the way you and your useless toys humiliated me"
I cough as I say "What.. what are you talking about?!"
He grins "There are some people who would like to have you. I suppose you must really give good sex for them to be after you this way"
I want to ask what he is talking about but I black out before I can.
*
Two shadows watch from above as a scuffle ensued between the red haired one whose temper was presumably very fiery and the white haired one who was checking the girl on the floor, possibly checking if she was still breathing.
One, had black hair and round glasses on, a go lucky smile on his face as his purple eyes lit in the darkness with his hands in his pockets while the other one, who was sitting at the edge of the roof, a scowl on his face, was holding a teddy bear that seemed to have worn out due to constant holding and hugging, his green eyes lighting the entire place.
They both seemed to stare in silence, knowing that their plan was going so well, so well that it was almost impossible to believe, after all this time, after all this years.
The one with glasses phone suddenly began to vibrate as he picks it, his voice soft and polite as always "Yes?"
"Have you found her?"
A smile came across his face now as he stares at the now growing crowd below as an ambulance rushed to pick two unconscious people "Yes. I suppose the boy is dead by the way. That red haired seems to be quite the terror"
"That is why you must tread carefully Young Master"
He laughed now "Do you care about me or am I reading intents of pedophilic tendencies in your tone? I am but a child kind sir, and I am interested in only one being at the moment"
The girl was laid in the stretcher first before the male who seemed to have possibly bled out completely.
"Master..."
The male hung up, letting out a sigh as the crowd began to drift away, until nothing remained except the silence, blood on the floor below and his little brother next to him, who finally spoke.
"Brother. Should he have hurt her like that? I didn't like it"
"Neither did I, but this little steps are necessary to get her back to us, where she belongs"