Dip - Heaven in hell

Chapter 1

"I don't want you to leave..." Pip says to me as he holds my hand tightly.

I look out into the distance. "I know. I don't want to go either. But I have to."

"Can't you just run away? Stay here on Earth with me?"

"No, Pip. My dad would know. He would check here first. He knows how I feel about you."

"Damien... love, I will miss you so much..."

"I know... I will too..."

Pip shivers. I use the hand that isn't occupied with his to ignite a small series of flames around us. 

"Pip, I love you. I really do."

He giggles, his accent makes it sound so soft. I would do anything to keep his laugh playing through my mind. "I never thought a demon could love a human."

"Well, I do. I love you."

I turn to him. The late-night breeze floats through his shoulder-length blonde hair. My hand traces the side of his face and I lean in to kiss him one last time. As we kiss, I turn his stupid little British newsboy hat to the side so that it's out of the way.

His hand tightens on mine, he doesn't want to let go, and neither do I.

"I love you too, Damien." He whispers between our kisses.

As our lips touch, the flames I grew around us begin to evolve and flicker. They must be feeling how fast my heart is beating.

I love him.

-

My name is Damien Thorn. My father is Satan. He rules over the lower layers of hell. He acts as what people on Earth would call a king, which makes me a prince. 

Six years ago my father sent me to live on Earth to learn about humans. Most of the beings sent to hell are humans so I was ordered to learn about their behavior to help with my father's rule over hell. 

I was put in a human school and I did my best to befriend them but the only friend I managed to make was a boy named Phillip, everyone calls him Pip. He and I became really close. He would tell me all about human sociality and I told him about how things were back home in hell. 

After a couple of years, I started to feel something new. I discovered that a very human emotion had started to grow inside of me. Love.

I fell in love with this boy. My father says a good amount of god-loving humans hate when two boys feel for each other the way I felt for Pip. I didn't want to hurt him. I may work for the underworld, but I wanted him to be able to get into heaven. He didn't deserve the kind of punishments we serve. So I hid my feelings. 

One day he told me that he was feeling the same thing I was. That is when I gave in. We loved each other for the next two years. 

When I turned 16, my father told me it was time for me to come back home. I had to leave him. I had to leave my Pip all alone.

It has been two years since we departed. I still think about him sometimes but my work as hells prince tends to keep me busy. I haven't felt emotion as strong as the love I felt ever since I left. I think it was due to me being on earth, it made me sensitive.

Everything has changed now. I am the prince of hell and I do what I must to keep the tyrannical rule my father has built.