Paint was all over her brown curly hair, she took her napkin and tried cleaning the paint off but it only spread more. She rushed home, because she didn't want the paint to get stuck on her hair, she had already lost this dress.
Immediately she got home she rushed straight into the bathroom. She pulled her clothes then entered the shower, she tried everything she could but only few of the stain removed. Audrey used all the shampoo trying to get the paint off my hair, some paint had washed off, while some part of the hair were stained purple. She rewashed and rewashed even with her bathing soap, but nothing changed. Audrey got out off the bathroom to look at the mess she had on her head, her hair looked like it had purple highlights. It didn't really look that bad, but it was sticky and rough.
Tomorrow is the event and my hair looks like a chickens nest, she whined.
Audrey's shift was in an hour's time, she used up all her time in the bathroom, she tidied her house and headed off to Dean's place, using a beanie to cover her hair which she tied in a bun.
Audrey always goes over to Dean's place so they'll go to work together, since they were partners.
Audrey knocked on the door, but heard no replies. She knocked again, this time harder, still no reply. Can't he hear me?, Audrey asked herself.
Audrey stepped away from the mat, and bent over to raise it but the key wasn't there. Where does he keep his key?.
She frantically searched everywhere that the key could possibly be hidden in, but to no avail. Where is this key?! AHA!.
She moved the chair that sat close to the window, behold the key.
She unlocked the door and walked in closing the door behind her,"Dean!!", She called, but no answer.
"Dean?",Audrey called out for him, still no reply. Has he already gone to work?, She asked herself rushing to his room.
She opened the room door to see Dean crouching on the ground, out of shock and worry she rushed to him.
Something about him seemed off, his hair, she thought. His hair was unusually white,Audrey remembered the conversation they had when he said he felt insecure about his hair, so seeing Dean's hair white made her even more worried.
"Dean are you alright?", She asked squatting beside him, she was about to touch him when he moved away,"don't!"
"What do you mean don't?!", she asked closing in.
"Don't!", he said looking up at Audrey, the whole time Dean had his face to the ground, what's wrong with him?, Audrey worried. Deans eyes were so light it looked almost transparent, it looked as tho the colour was drained out.
"Please go", Dean said in a strained voice, his voice held alot of pain.
"Are you kidding me, I'm not going anywhere! I am not leaving!",Audrey said walking closer to Dean, but the closer she came the farther he went.
"It's Time",Dean said. " Time? Time for what?", Audrey asked confused. "Dean you're scaring me".
"He. He has finally come in real life",Dean said emptily and stressed.
"Who has come? What are you talking about?", Audrey asked scared and confused, what Dean said made no sense, who is coming, who has come?.
"Mortem", Dean said with short of breath, coughing hard.
"Dean, who is Mortem? You're scaring me", Audrey asked. "Please", she said tears in her eyes.
"Mortem",Dean said taking in deep breaths like he was finding it hard to breathe. "He is my dad's right hand man, for a long time he kept coming to me in my dreams. Kept pressuring me to take a role, to rule my father's kingdom, but I kept on refusing. I couldn't, how do I rule over something I have no knowledge of?".
"Dean?", Audrey called. Everything was too much to take in, she still didn't understand what he was talking about. All this while he was troubled but he played it cool, im sorry Dean, for not being able to see through, for not being able to sense your distress.
"Everywhere I go I see him, he's making me go insane", Dean said sitting while he clenched his head with both his hand.
"He says my father awaits for me".
"Isn't that a great news, you can finally meet your dad", Audrey said. Dean unclenched his hands then looked up at Audrey," Great news?".
"He abandoned us, left my mom crying every night in hopes to see him. Didn't even attend his wife's funeral!", Dean said in anger. "You wouldn't understand".
"Make me understand then, because all you've said is confusing. Your dad is still alive and is waiting for you, but you don't want to meet him. I didn't know you were royalty because what kingdom are you expected to rule?", Audrey asked.
"All you care about is me meeting my dad, if you were in my shoes would you meet such a man. Audrey I am 20 years old, so many years and he decides to come for me now, when he doesn't have the power to rule anymore. worse part is it's not by himself, he sends someone, ", Dean said in frustration.
No one ever understands, Dean said to himself. It has always been a struggle for him, after his mother died, his uncle adopted him, but to Dean he felt as tho he was living off someone. Even with everything he was given, he didn't feel the happiness he yearned for. He still couldn't fit in whereever he went, even tho he lived with his uncle who worked to get the things he wanted.
"Audrey please leave?", Dean said in pain and anger looking up to her.
"I won't go-"
"Please, I can handle it myself, besides you here wouldn't make me concentrate", Dean said using all his energy to get himself off the floor.
Audrey felt a sting in her heart, that feeling of rejection,when someone doesn't need you. Audrey stood up fighting her tears back,I should have read the room, i just upset him more, she thought .