Darkest Seduction

Aria

"ARIA," Helen screams. Her face is a picture of true horror.

I yell loudly as I grab the steering wheel and swerve it to the left, "It's fine I didn't hit it," I say to reassure her and both myself.

Helen groans loudly, "How the hell did you ever pass the driving test? This is torture."

I laugh a little, maybe I wasn't the best driver in the entire world but I got us places alive and mostly unharmed.

Me and Helen had taken her car to drive out to the lake together. Mamma had allowed it because I told her we had fallen out and needed bonding time.

I mean it was technically true but me and Helen fought all the time, Sometimes it ended in screaming matches but we always made up.

She was my sister and I'd do anything for her. And I'd like to think she'd do the same for me.

"So...you and Phoenix..." I say, looking at her out of the corner of my eye. I could only look at her for a second before keeping my eyes on the road or we'd veer off and fall into the ditch.

"There is no me and Phoenix okay? We just hooked up. Once. Could have been twice but then you...well...hit him." Helen says, rolling her eyes and she takes out a cigarette.

"Helen!" I protest as she grabs a lighter.

"Aria I either smoke or do a line on the dashboard," Helen replied dryly, which shuts me up.

"Why would you ever even...fuck Phoenix?" I ask her. Partly to be nosey but I also wanted to know.

Phoenix was attractive, he was only an inch shorter than Ares and he had soft amber eyes. I always thought they were the only sweet thing about him. He had a sharp nose and a sharp jaw with hair as black as Ares's.

Ares.

My cheeks heated at the thought of him, last week I had practically killed him. I didn't know what I was doing leading him to play a poker game. I wasn't planning on kissing him.

But then he was standing there and I could see how much he wanted me, hell half the shit I said to him was true.

My body did want him. Badly.

Too bad it doesn't make decisions for me.

I had heard from Papa Ares was alive. His brother, Zeus has walked out and seen him and taken him to a hospital.

He did almost die I heard, a couple more minutes and...

"You okay? You look sick..." Helen asks me, as I turn a corner.

I nod weakly at her, it was a lie. I wasn't okay. I was terrified. Ares was going to kill me surely. I was just biding time.

I parked the car and we both climbed out, Helen wore a simple black bikini and I wore a white one-piece. I didn't plan on getting in the lake. It was deep and though I could swim just fine when I panicked in the water I couldn't keep myself above the surface.

Me and Helen placed our towels at the little pebbly shore and chatted. I loved moments like this.

When the world fell away and it was just me acting like a girl, chatting and gossiping with my sister while the sun shone down on me.

After an hour I sat up, I couldn't lie still for too long. Not like Helen, she could lie in the sun for hours, though with one glance at her, I was pretty sure she'd fallen asleep.

Quietly, I got up and walked towards the mini pier. I couldn't jump in here, the water was too deep.

But I did stand there watching the dark blue water swirl around. It was a truly beautiful lake. I loved being in the city but god did I like the quiet serenity of the countryside.