Jokers

32

Aria's Pov:

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get to sleep but all you can think about are the pretty eyes of a certain tyrant. 

Bloody hell. 

I got no sleep at all. I mean this figuratively as in I eventually got to sleep after around 2 hours, this wasn't figuratively because I literally lay awake for 2 hours thinking of his stupidly pretty eyes. 

God. There's something wrong with me. 

Anyways so I woke up and when I looked at the clock I wasn't surprised. 11:03. I was so ready for breakfast.

I really hope they make pancakes again because I swear it tasted like I was eating a cloud. Clouds have never tasted so good before. Not that I've tasted a cloud before, but basically what i'm trying to say is I love the pancakes here.

I rolled around in the bed. I also really didn't want to leave my bed. I struggled out of  the covers and this time I was extremely weary of the side table corner, it actually really hurt when I slashed my shoulder on it last time.

I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and washed my face. Then once i'd finished in there I opened my wardrobe. It was filled with my clothes that I had recently bought. 

My eyes skimmed over all of the choices, there were so many possible outfit ideas. My eyes stopped on the plaid green skirt. I smiled. 

The moment I saw this skirt in the shops I fell in love with it because the skirt came with a small cropped blazer and if you wear a black turtle neck with it then it would be the most perfect thing ever.

I looked at myself in the mirror and damn. I looked really good. 

Just as i was admiring myself in the mirror, someone knocked on my door, indicating that it definitely wasn't Athena.

"Come in." I shouted. 

The door slowly opened and Chase peeked his head through the door.

"Do you need something?" I asked him. 

He smiled and walked into the room. 

"No not really. I just wanted to let you know that Leo's siblings are going to be arriving here soon." He said while looking absently around the room, his hands behind his back.

Taking a closer look at Chase I could see that he was dressed a bit more fancier than usual, probably because such important people were coming.

Leo's siblings? Well this was going to get interesting, I mean if Leo who is basically the leader of the world is such a crappy guy then I can only imagine how bad his siblings would be. Then again, it would be very interesting to meet them.

Then again I don't think i'd want to be killed by them. From what I've heard all of them are insane. Crazy bastards. 

I know I don't care much for my life but imagine surviving for such a long time under King Leo's tyrannical reign to only be killed by his siblings. No thank you. Such a dumb way to die. 

"Aria?" Chase seemed to notice that my mind had wandered away

"Oh. Yeah, sorry? You were saying?" I jolted back to the present

"I was saying that you don't need to worry about them, they wont bother you. So if you were thinking that you needed to stay away from them or anything then don't worry." He was looking at me now, trying to see what I was thinking.

I raised my eyebrow up at him in return "You really think i'll be alright with tyrant Leo's siblings?" 

"Oh you will be fi-." he sopped and looked at the ground "Ok maybe there is a risk of dying, but other than that its ok." 

I rolled my eyes at him. He chuckled in return. 

"Is that all?" I asked as he hadn't left yet. 

"Ye- No. No it isn't. So uhm. I got. Well you see I got this." Chase stuttered again just like he had when he gave me the dress.

I looked down to see him extend his hand in front of me. He was holding a box with the words "iPhone 13" and then a picture of a fancy looking phone on it. 

"Thats...thats very nice." I commented. Why the hell was he showing me what he had bought?

"No. Its- its for you." He sighed.

Me? I blinked. 

"Me? You bought that for me?" Why was he doing this. 

"Yes. I did." He looked really awkward.

Why was he buying me things constantly? Just who was he? how the hell do i know him? I refuse to believe that he was Oliver. Oliver died in front of me. He died in my fucking hands, I saw his eyes shut, I saw as he stopped fucking breathing. No matter how much alike he was to Oliver he could NEVER be him. 

"Why, why the hell do you keep on doing this? Just who are you?" I was so frustrated at the fact that I was supposed to know him.

"I cant tell you." He shook his head and dropped his eyes from my face. 

"Then at least tell me why your doing this." I sighed.

Now he looked at me confused. "I told you already. I owe you a lot. Call it a debt." 

I really wanted to slap him. He just made me even more confused then I already was. Fuck this. I'm not getting into all of this because he will never give me a straight answer. 

I sighed again, then smiled. "Thank you." i said as I took the box from his hand. 

All I'm saying is, I don't even know what I've ever done for this guy but if he truly believes that he owes me something, to the point where he buys stuff for me. I'm not gonna complain. Why should I? I'll be gone soon anyways and when I am i'll have 10 billion dollars.

I stopped, processing what I had just said. 

God somewhere along my life my moral compass must have spun in the complete other direction. Perhaps I really was a gold digger. Maybe tyrant Leo wasn't wrong for once in his tyrannical life.

Oh well. I didn't have it in me to worry about that. 

"I've put the sim of the phone inside the box and the phone comes with a clear, transparent phone case as well. Oh and I chose a white phone just in case because I didn't know what colour you wanted-" He rambled on, looking excited that I'd accepted his present. 

He reminded me of the time when Oliver got a new Lego set from dad on his birthday. Oliver rambled on about just how he planned on assembling it for the whole car journey and then dragged me to help him.

I shook my head, reminding myself they were not the same person. They just weren't. 

"Thank you." I mumbled suddenly. 

Sometimes Chase acted like an older brother to me to the point where I had to convince myself that he wasn't. 

"Want me to add my number to your phone?" He looked at me hopefully.

"I haven't even set my phone up yet." I reminded him.

He laughed then. "Right. Anyways! Leo's probably depressed, better check on the guy before he decides to fully end his life." 

"And that's a bad thing because?" 

Chase rolls his eyes at me "Do you know the amount of paper work i'd be drowned in if he decides to actually do so?" 

Now I laughed. Chase truly was like a brother to me.