Temperance

𝐷𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑈𝐿𝐴

𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑡
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CHAPTER FIVE
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"I... I like it" I smile at the new tattoo designed for him.

"Me too" He turns to look at me.

I smile at him. His eyes traveled to my lips and then back to my eyes. "I..... umm I should go," he said while grabbing the papers "Call me if anything happens okay."

I nod

He heads out the door.

Didn't he like the tattoo?

I start watching people pass by. We weren't too busy many people go out with friends, more than studying on Fridays.

So, I start filling out forms.

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I look at the clock and noticed its only 11 pm.

As I was filling out more of the inverter paper. The bell on the door sounded.

I look up.

It's him.

Omg, it's him.

He was looking at his phone and started walking toward me. He put his phone in his pocket and then looks at me. His eyes travel taking in my frame then back to my eyes.

"E..espresso?" I take a guess.

He nods.

I start to make the coffee. I hear him walking away making his way to the shelves.

It doesn't take long to make an espresso.

"S..so are you v..visiting someone here."

Way to sound like a creep Philo.

He turns his head to look at me.

"I... I ...it's just I have never seen you around here."

"Business," he says while grabbing a book and walking toward me.

"Oh," I hand him his coffee.

As he reaches for the coffee our fingers touch. An electrical shock travels through my body which causes me to jerk.

Did He feel that?

I ignore it, as he paid. But instead of walking out, he sat at a table opened his book, and began reading.

I couldn't help but gape.

The way his legs spread while sitting down as he flips from page to page.

"Your staring," he says while focusing on his book.

"I... umm sorry. "I quickly look down, playing with my fingers.

I couldn't help but think why he always comes here at night.

I need to stop watching vampire diaries.

"Can I a... ask you a question" I look back at him

"No" flipping to another page.

I wasn't even surprised by his answer, but I'll ask anyway.

"Are y... you a vampire." I lean forward putting my elbows on the counter.

"What?" he turns looking at me.

"A v... vampire you know, like d... Dracula." I walk to his table and sit down in front of him.

He stares at me for a minute. " What?"

"You a... always come here at night, and ...vampires don't like the sun, so I figured- " he cut me off "I could just be busy."

"Or you c.. could just be a  v... vampire." I smile.

"Or I could just be here to kill you." he takes a sip of his coffee while looking at me.

Woah, big guy.

"I... if you wanted to kill me, you w... would've done it already, am I right?" I question.

"You're annoying "

" I may be short, but I do have a black belt in karate," I say as I put my hands up to make a fist.

"Say's the one that's talking to a stranger."

"You don't seem that scary " I shrug my shoulders.

"Mm or maybe your trying to kill me sweetheart." he looks at my lips.

"W... why would I want to d.. do that.... do you like pineapples on your pizza?"

He shook his head.

"Then I wouldn't kill you," I say.

He almost smiles ALMOST.

"Can I ask for your n.... name?" I say  "Or I can just stick with e.... expresso guy, oh..  oh let me guest.. mm you look like an Ace or a Sebastian o.. or-" he cut me off again.

"You talk a lot."

"S... sorry, it's just your new and... and I... I hardly meet new people." I start playing with my fingers. He closes his book and stares at me.

Woah.

He got up, put the book away, and headed for the door.

As he opens the door he stops halfway. "Aelius" he left and got in the car.

"Aelius " testing it out on my tongue.

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Hello, that's it for chapter 5. So Aelius huh 😏😏😏? Too soon... ok 😭. This chapter was short *next chapter will be a little longer.... hopefully*. Don't get mad. I'm just trying to get more into the story.

Tell me, "What's your favorite scary movie 👻🔪📞"?

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Till we meet again my loves