"This is Sydney", Amsterdam introduced Sydney to Ray. "Hello Sydney", he greeted as he shook hands with her. Amsterdam glared in anger as she saw his gesture.
"YOU TOLD ME YOU DON'T SHAKE GIRLS!!!", she raved and smacked his shoulder. "ASSHOLE! YOU LIED TO ME", she continued and ran away. Sydney and Amsterdam gave confused looks and started laughing. "Is she always like this?", Sydney asked. "Naaa, but I'll go and check up on her, just in case. And by the way, feel at home", Ray said and walked out of the office.
Home, she signed and looked at her wrist, stroking her tattoo.
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Kobie's POV
I invited Blades over and trust me, I don't regret, halfway. "But why do you want to work as a waiter still?! With this money, dude you can buy a mansion and stuff!", Blades shook my body back and forth(I swear I could have heard my bones rattling). "It's not that I can't.....", I signed and took another glass of whiskey. "Then what?", he asked.
I signed again. "Think of it like this : if you had a secret wouldn't you like to stay low so that you won't pull attention to yourself?", I asked him. "Yeah, I guess so. Maybe you truly have sense, after all", he chuckled and slapped my back playfully.
"YOU. SAID. WHAT?!", I growled at him(Anak imma kill this guy by mistake). " Kidding, hehe, just kidding", he chuckled and made a praying sign, "but you'll have to stop eventually". "I know; so I intend to stop when the First Fire Phase starts".
He stared at me and shook his head. "Then you need to be prepared for something. Anything".
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Cass walked on the path in solitude and drowning herself in thoughts.
Nass: So.... Sissie....
Cass: What now Nass?
Nass: Hey lower your voice. You don't want to invoke preying eyes.
Cass raised her head and noticed a man with shabby clothes gauging her. "Do you mind?", she retorted. "Or else?", he slurred. She gave him a mysterious evil grin and showed him a spear. Pointing it at him, she said, "This is called Black Admonition. I can just poke you with it and POOF! you're dead".
He cried out of fear and ran like a cheetah.
"Now.....", sheathing the spear, "let's continue our conversation".
Nass: About Ray....
Cass: Leave him out of this. We still have 36 days till the Fire Phase. He'll...
Nass: 'They'll' be ready. Don't forget you're obliged to Kobie too.
Cass: I thought you liked Kobie.
Nass: Ding! Ding! Wrong. It's Ray.
Cass stopped walking. "Did.... you... Just mention..... Ray?". "Yes Cass. I also have feelings for him".
Cass suddenly started jumping and throwing her hands in the air. "HE'S MINE! MINE AND MINE ALONE! I LOVE HIM! YOU CAN'T LOVE HIM! YOU'RE HEARTLESS AND SELFISH AND MEAN AND I'M NOT! WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEPARATED A LONG TIME AGO!"
"But....". "You've taken everything from me Nass. And now him? Never", she knelt down and broke down into tears. "If I'm everything you say, then why did I ask you to help me take care of Sydney?", Nass asked Cass but got no response. Nass slowly got up(having exchanged control over the body) and walked to the porch. She rang the doorbell but no one responded. "Cass?", Nass heard Ray ask. "No", Nass quietly sobbed, trying to hide her tears, "it's Nass". And before she knew it, she had collapsed.