END ROADS

CHAPTER 15: WHEN LOVE MAKES YOU THE FOOL

“Who am I?” I took a step back confused “you seriously can’t ask me that!”
“And why do you think I can’t?” he moved forward.
“Because you knew me even before I knew that you even exist.” I exhaled heavily “Now you are telling me that I know witches exist?!”
“I did not mention that, you released Reni and now you used the spell book when I was ill. You want to tell me you are normal?” he was now standing in front of me.
“Before you captured me, I lived a normal life. My parents were human as far as I can remember, please don’t let me think I got amnesia and now I can’t remember that I was some witch!”
“Stop yelling!” he barked at me furiously.
“Am yelling and I will keep yelling because you are annoying me. Am not a witch or whatever shit you are calling me.” I heaved a sigh “come on please, you are making me go crazy”
“I will keep on doing that till I get the truth out of you!” he was now barely an inch away from me.
“You are sick if you think your threats are going to give you anything, it is more of hitting the wall and hoping you will not get hurt in the process. Excuse me please, am tired of talking to a deaf vampire!” I took a step to the side brushing against him as I went away. He grabbed my hand to yank me towards him, I pushed on his chest. It came to him as a surprise that he ended up stepping on my foot. We stumbled back and fell on the bed, he on me. Everything was still for a moment, nothing moved and nothing seemed to. Yeah, now it was my time to notice how huge Grey was. He was as heavy as a rock. I was holding my breath fearing his weight would crush my lungs. He was not moving, or even making an effort to move at all, I noticed his mouth was only an inch away from mine. I closed my eyes my heart going wild. I have to learn on how to control my heart and mind around this guy. I was going crazy only to have him so close to me, I will try to control this. I opened my eyes breathing in deeply.
“Can you try getting up now?” I said to him huskily. I thought my voice was okay. I thought I was doing alright till I lifted my eyes to his.
Oh, no! They were dark, hiding a lot of secrets that I could not get my hands on. He was unfocused, like someone who is lost in the dark and not working at all to find his way out. I swallowed…at least I was sane, I could stop some things from happening. I lifted my hand to his face, he leaned into it closing his eyes. He looked delicate lost and trying to hold himself together in some way. When he opened his eyes, they were deep red shade. I tried to search for any speck of sanity in his eyes, there was none…he was lost and dragging me along!
“Grey…” he didn’t even react to my call, let alone answering.
When his eyes shut, my heart leapt to my throat, when his mouth was settled on my own I forgot to think or even move. I could have resisted every other thing in this world but not Grey. My hands slowly slid across his large shoulders till they united at the back of his neck. I took him with the same passion and want he was offering. We were burning with it, flowing with it, dying with it with nothing to hold us up and knock some sanity into our minds. We were alone, something I wasn’t sure I hated or liked, I was just fine with it…flowing with it as it was. His hands found their way to my chest, my heart gave a mighty hit, knocking some sanity into my mind. This was wrong…an abomination…insane. I played along well aware of the mess we had indulged ourselves into. His hand raked beneath my shirt, fingertips dancing at the swelling of my breast. I was about to shut all the windows of sanity and follow the route that was giving me pleasure when I heard the creaking of the door knob. I broke off and gave Grey a rough shove on his shoulders. He stumbled back stunned, I shot to my feet trying to compose myself. Ari entered the room quietly as she always did. I was working hard to control my breathing, unlike Grey who looked like nothing happened at all. How could he?
“Master Dermot… you are awake!” she rushed towards him and threw her arms around him in a hug. I faced the other way and sat at the dressing table watching them through the mirror.
“This is so wonderful, but so quick…how what…” her eyes shifted to the spell book on the bed. “The spell book? I thought Dermot destroyed it back then!”
“I thought of it too…she knows where she found it. And worse, she has been using it” Grey answered as if throwing the situation at me.
“I found it in the bathroom okay? It was Dermot himself who showed me. You can go find out where it is written on the wall. And the fact that it is only a witch who can use the spell book, I don’t know. Stop blaming everything on me as if am a god to know what happens to non-humans” I bluttered angry and infuriated.
“Go check” Grey ordered Ari who disappeared into the bathrooms. I rolled my eyes at him and lowered my gaze.
“Yeah, there are some writings” Ari answered as soon as she got out of the bathrooms.
“But that doesn’t clear everything, there is still a question. She is able to use the book!” Grey pressed on.
I shot to my feet striding towards Grey “Am tired of fighting with you Grey…I can’t keep up with this anymore. If you really want to find out if am a witch or not, go to your so called experts and find out from them. I cannot answer your questions anymore”
“You will have to keep with everything…every-single thing of it. I know you understand what I mean” his eyes were dark and he was damn serious “Arianna, follow me!”
He walked out of the room followed by Ari. I stood there wondering what to do with myself. I was mad at myself, my feelings and all that. I lay on the bed starring at the spell book. I must be a very big fool not to know the book was made by a princess of the northern Crescent castle. It could only be used by a witch, and I was able to use it. I opened the book and used it for the last time to break the spell of restriction. I returned it back to where I found it, bowed and said.
“I want to say thank you for helping me save Grey, it is very important to have him alive. He doesn’t like me much but, at least he can keep me alive. I don’t think I need it anymore, but that doesn’t mean I am ungrateful. Am very grateful. Goodbye” I left the bathroom. I was sitting alone staring at the TV screen.
“It seems someone is sad”
“Yeah, it is such a disappointment to strive healing a very ungrateful vampire. It is so boring” I answered not sparing Sandy a glance.
“What happened?”
“He found out I was using the spell book of the princess of the northern Crescent castle”
“Gosh” she tucked some strands of hair behind her ear and joined me on the sofa “Where did you find that? I thought it was destroyed after the princess disappeared”
“I found it in the bathrooms, with some writings scribbled on the wall. You can go and check it” I pointed at the bathroom door.
“No, I don’t have to, I trust you” she answered to my surprise, I glanced at her with a smile
“Thanks Sandy”
“Don’t cry then. I have to leave and prepare for tomorrow, it is a big day for this coven” she rose to her feet
“Yeah, probably the day I will be executed” it was boring to talk of my death every now and then
“Look here Becky, you are not dying tomorrow. Grey might dislike you a bit but am a hundred percent sure, he will never let you die. I assure you”
“Thanks Sandy, I feel a lot better” she gave me the sweetest smile “come here” she jumped into my hands happily.
“You remind me of Regina, she was my sister” she said once we disengaged from the hug.
“I had no idea. She was killed by the Gala, and you are here hugging a Gala. Don’t you hate me for that?” it came to me as a surprise.
“No, Regina died in the hands of the Gala, not Becky, a human who barely knows anything about vampires. You are different Becky, I feel it…I know it and am never wrong. Someday you will give me my happiness…” I stared into her light brown eyes, they were innocent and as clear as glass. I caressed her brown hair and nodded though I knew not what she was talking about.
“I will”
“Let no one else know this. No one knows except you and I. keep it a secret”
“Sure” I said with a new determination.
“Bye, I will go then. We will be in touch, always. Don’t worry about tomorrow.” She smiled and disappeared.
The world was giving me surprises all the time, now there were sweet young vampires too? Interesting!
I was enjoying the good moments when the door was opened slightly. Ari was standing at the door
“I will be here early tomorrow to prepare you for the arrival of the two important guests and their escorts. I will bring in your meal” she was about to leave
“Don’t bother, am fine. Am saving your energy on that.” I didn’t even look at her
“You don’t have to starve yourself…”
“Can you please stop pretending that you care? All you care about is Grey and am not questioning that. Please leave me alone, am not in the mood of listening to your pathetic advice. Close the door once you are out” that was rude, but I was tired of her hypocrisy.
“Becky I…”
“Please leave me alone Arianna. Go to your master and tell him I don’t want to see you” she looked at me with eyes filled with pain and shut the door.
“She does not have to find me, am right here” Grey appeared at the door.
“I don’t have anything to do with you. Follow her and comfort her. Am sick of seeing you” I lowered my gaze
“She doesn’t cry, she fights back”
“It is good that you know her well”
“What is wrong with you? You are bitter all of a sudden as if something wrong has happened” his concerned tone only made me feel worse. I shot to my feet, folding my hands on my chest.
“It is not that something bad has happened, something is always wrong. Grey, am tired and you should know…all of you should know am human. You treat me as if I have no feelings as if am a rock or something. You think you are the only one who is hurting? I also have problems and they are making me sick. You don’t see that and how are you supposed to see that when all you think about is yourself” I blinked back tears avoiding to have myself breaking “Am sick of everything, am tired Grey”
“Hey, come on stop saying” he tried to reach for my hand I moved away opening the door
“Just leave me alone” I walked out of the room and shut the door. I caught a breath and began running.