The Demon's Curse

Chapter 8

Once we arrived at Elliots place, he goes over to the phone.

"You're probably hungry. I'm gonna order pizza. What do you want?"

He smiles angelic at me and I smile back.

"Salami please."

He nods and turns to the phone.

The sudden pain comes back again to my chest and I cling onto it. Cursing my life, I walk away from Elliot to calm myself and it soon stops.

"The pizzs will be here in 15 minutes. Come. I'm gonna show you to where you will stay."

He waves me over and I nod, following him into a cute little room with pink walls and pictures of him and Iris.

"This room is lovely. Thank you Elliot. For everything. It must be quite an insane story to hear and then being asked to look after someone you don't even know."

I scratch the back of my neck, looking down as I hear him chuckle.

"Yeah. I admit. I heared a lot of crazy stuff from Iris and was in the weirdest situations because of her but I'm always there to help her when she needs it. And the same goes for her friends."

He winks at me and I nod in thanks. Then he closes the door, leaving me to unpack my stuff and getting comfortable. I throw myself on the bed, clinging on my necklace.

"Luke..."

I can't stop thinking about him. A mixture of fear, anger, love for him. It all melds together into what my heart right now is: a broken mess.

Why.... why did he do this to me... I want to know... I want him to say it's all a misunderstanding and that he loves me...

Tears dwell up in my eyes and overflow, dripping down my cheeks as I whisper his name over and over again...

"Tiana."

"Tiana. My dear Tiana."

"My angel where are you?"

"Please come back to me."

I open my eyes, heavy from all that happend the last 2 days and look next to me but Luke isn't there.

"L...Luke?"

I look around me but no ones there. I heared him talk to me... was that just a dream?

A knock on the door throws me out of my thoughts. The door slowly opens, Elliot peaking his head through.

"Tiana. Pizza's here."

I smile at him, sitting up in bed.

"Thanks. I'm coming."

I untangle my hair and straighten my dress as I head to the kitchen where Elliot already prepared the plates.

I sit down across him and start devouring my pizza, until I hear a hardcore laugh.

"Ops. I'm sorry."

I lower my head in shame for bad table manners but Elliot just laughs, shaking his head.

"No no. You're misunderstaning."

He holds his stomach laughing and I cross my arms infront of my chest.

"Oh? What am I misunderstanding then?"

I glare st him evily and he looks up, laughing even more.

"God. You're just way to cute."

I'm taken aback by his words like the first time we met a while ago. A blush sneaking to my cheeks as I look away from him.

As I thought. My necklace starts to heat up. Okay Tiana. You can learn to control it. Just take deep breaths. There. All okay now.

Elliot calmed down meanwhile as well and looks at me apologetely.

"I'm sorry, it just looked so funny how the little anxious girl all of a sudden devours a giant pizza."

I roll my eyes but then start laughing, making him laugh as well again.

After we finish eating, I head to the room, he let me stay in, falling onto the bed once more. But this time, I fall into deep sleep.

"Tiana."

There it is again. Lukes voice. I look around me but I just see darkness.

"Luke?"

I call into the darkness but no answer. Then I hear his voice again, farer away this time.

"Tiana... my lovely little kitten... where are you? Tiana..."

It breaks my heart, hearing his voice, still confused over how it should feel.

Slowly the darkness sucks me in and I drift off into deeper sleep, not hearing his voice anymore.