ABOVE & BEYOND : IF WE ARE MEANT TO BE

CHAPTER 24

ERYX

The familiar jasmine scent wrapped around me as I hugged the pillow tighter. I was pretty sure I was smiling in my sleep. This was one of the best sleep I have had in a while.

But before I could continue sleeping I heard a scream and before I could process anything I was kicked on my crotch and thrown away from the bed. And it does not end here. When I fell down it felt like I was thrown into water. I swear it better be a dream or even better, a nightmare.

A groan left my lips as the pain of the kick or whatever it was spread through my body. My eyes snapped open. I looked around and saw the whole room filled with water. The water layer was three four inches thick, maybe. But what the...how the heck did it happen?

"Astagferullah! Is that water?" I looked up at her, who wrapped the whole blanket around her. Literally from head to toe. I don't know if I should laugh at her or be concerned about the situation. "nah, it's fire. Can't you see I'm burning?"

She ignored my joke and tried to get down from the bed with the whole blanket still wrapped around her. "Be careful, you are gonna.." before I could finish the sentence, a scream left her mouth and she fell. A loud laugh left from my throat this time. I mean what was she thinking?

I finally got up, making it to her side to help her but she obviously didn't accept it and got up on her own. "How did this happen?" she asked me, observing around the room as if I had any clue. "How am I supposed to know? Before I could process anything, all I knew was that I was kicked off the bed. So you tell me."

She rolled her eyes and made her way to the washroom, still carrying the heavy blanket over her. I couldn't help but snort another laugh. She turned to me and nothing about her expression said she was being funny. In fact, she had her serious manager expression on.

"Is there something funny, Eryx?" she asked with her serious voice. "Why are you carrying this heavy blanket around like that? You aren't naked, are you?" The thought of her being naked never really came to my mind until I spoke it out loud like that.

Before I could picture her like that she picked up a candle which was on the table beside her and threw it at me. I groaned loudly even though I didn't feel shit. "Oww, what was that for, brownie?" "to stop your mind from going wherever it was about to go!" damn.

She carefully opened the door of the washroom and the water wasn't coming from there. I looked around to find the source as another wave of water came through her door. "I think it's coming from outside." I said before making my way towards the door.

"Aren't you coming?" I asked as she wasn't moving. "Yea you go first. I'm gonna put on..." "your clothes? Yea yea sure. Go for it." I joked, knowing damn well that she wasn't naked. I mean why would she be naked? It's not like we did something. We just slept on the same bed last night.

Last night. Blurry memories of last night started to fill in my mind before her voice pulled back to reality again. "You ass, I'm not naked!" she said angrily, gritting through her teeth. She loosened her grip around the blanket and guess what? She was completely dressed. "I was just gonna cover my hair, you dumbass."

Ah yea, right. Her hair. And I had no idea how it looked. I would be lying if a part of me wasn't curious about it. I was mad curious to know how she looked with her hair open. Especially the last couple days.

"Are you gonna go now or do you want me to throw the lamplight at you?" I quickly came out of her room because she actually would.

I closed the door behind me and looked around.

Holy crap.

The whole living room was filled with water. Enough high to keep my whole feet to my ankle inside the water. Man..what is it? Titanic 2.0?