The Demon King.

Chapter 34

Nel went downstairs first but stopped in front of the kitchen's opening. She remembered Xavier good angry she entered the room he caught her in. And she though it best to wait till he came downstairs to enter.

"Why are you just standing there?" Xavier came downstairs with his music player as per her request and she named at the sight of it.

"I was waiting for you to come down so I could go in." She replied and shrugged her shoulders.

"You can enter where and when you want. You live here now." He said and tilted his head. "Why would you wait?" He asked starting at how nice she looked just wearing a baggy tshirt and shorts.

"Well... you got angry yesterday when I went into that room." She nodded her head to the door across them. Xavier paused to look at her face to see if there were any serious or questioning emotion. He felt relieved and hoped she wouldn't ask about those papers that were closing in on her. He wasn't ready to tell her anything yet.

He nodded and pursed his lips.

"Any room but that one." He said finally and walked towards her.

"Soooo..." She dragged with a wide smile.

"Here." He said and raised the mp in front of her face. "You asked for this." He said, returning her smile.

"I thought it was just wishful thinking that you'd have one. Thanks." She snatched it from his hand and skipped into the kitchen.

"What exactly do you want to eat?" He followed right behind her with his hands in his pockets wondering what exactly she liked about the kitchen.

"I dunno. I'm not really hungry either." She said as she worked on the music player, looking for a particular song. "No... No... Not this one either... Yesss." She gave the item a satisfied look before setting it neat the window, away from the cooker and oven.

"You... like... John Legend?" Xavier didn't get it. Why? Why John Legend of all people?

"Yeah. Minefields really touched my heart. I love it." She beamed. She was nodding her head to all she wanna do currently playing on the mp until she stopped and looked at him like he was from the wild.
"You don't like him? *Gasp* Don't Tell me you don't like him." Sha stopped moving and stared at him like he was a ghost.

"It's not that. It's just..." He was saying.

He's a pretty hot guy

And you're obsessed with him.

"Just what?" Nel raised a brow and he looked up at her after zoning out.

"His songs are so slow and some have even out dated beats." He said, looking away from her. She creased her brows in confusion.

"You can't even look at me yo tell me that." She slapped his shoulder and he flinched. Why was her hand do painful?

"Now you're gonna look into my eyes and repeat what you just said. How dare you say that of John Legend." She mused and held his face in place for him to look into her eyes. Xavier held his breath and looked at her with wide eyes. He could literally hear the drumming of his heart in his ears.
But those got louder and he could hardly breath when she brought his face closer to hers.

"C'mon. Repeat yourself." She pursed her lips in a mocking way and Xavier just silently looked into her eyes. He couldn't even hear what she said. And when he looked from one eye to the other, Nel paused and stared, floating away from the world.
His eyes were naturally a sea blue shade but now they looked deeper, darker and shinier. Like a sea crystal. And they were beautiful.

Xavier knew he could stay in that position longer than long. As long as he had the liberty to stare in her eyes and her soft fingers continue to grace his skin.

Nel was first to break away from this. She hastily took her hand and looked away.

"I... I'm sorry." She said looking everywhere but him. She couldn't believe that she, Nellyda King, would be able to look at someone head longer than two seconds.

"Yeah. I'm sorry." Xavi said back and they stood there in awkward silence, looking away from each other.

"Your eyes... They're really beautiful." She said and subtly scratched the back of her neck nervously. Xavier widened his eyes.

She said something nice...

About me.

"Yeah. Yours are pretty too." Xavier said back embarrassed that she was the bolder one to give compliments. He was the guy.

"Thanks." They both said at the same time and it got even more awkward. Nellyda rolled her eyes to relive herself of some of the tension.

C'mon.

All that happend was that the both of us stared just a little too long.

So calm down and stop being so weird all the time

"So uhh... what do we cook? Bacon, scrambled eggs, pasta..." She trailed off, wondering if she for his attention. Xavi turned to face her and he saw in her eyes that she was silently pleading with him to answer her and end the awkwardness cuz it was literally eating them alive.

"Hmm... Bacon is for another day, I don't have much eggs in the fridge and shouldn't pasta be later in the day?" He folded his arms and acted like nothing had happened much to Nel's relief. But his mind wasn't leaving that moment to forget it.

"What of greens? With beef... Boiled hot like soup." Nel blinked with a plain expression and Xavi tilted his head.

"Isn't that something that's cooked just in Africa?" Xavi asked blankly.

"Of course not. Everyone cooks that." She deadpanned and wondered why he thought of Africa.

"I think the woman mentioned 'pepper soup'." Xavier was still thinking absentmindedly. Nel clicked her tongue and slapped his head lightly.

"Earth to, Xavier." She mused and he pursed his lips, inwardly scolding himself.

"Sorry." He said with a sheepish smile and she rolled her eyes with a sigh.

"You've got beef, right? What about greens?" She asked and looked at the freezer with the intention of going to open it but paused, maybe Xavi had some restrictions to that too.

"There's beef. And I believe the greens at the back are still fresh sort of." He shrugged and nodded in the direction of the back door.

"Shall we?" He smiled and something about the way he said those two words coupled with the smile made her heart flutter and heat rush into her cheeks. She nodded with a smile of her own and followed him out the back door.

I decided two chapters will be fitting for this new year. Have fun loves🥰🥰

Author King 🌚👑🥰🥰