The Johns

Paper Hearts

"Khyle, finally." Vonn stood up from the chair and came closer to Khyle and patted his shoulder. "She's all yours." Vonn looked at me and smirked. "Well, literally." He added then left us alone.

Khyle walked closer to where I was and grabbed my hand. He pulled me out of the control room. We walked through the hallways, I even saw Henry with Nate and Gale. They were jamming with some music and Henry was the most pumped up. I didn't even noticed Khyle already stopped walking causing me to bumped onto him.

"We're here." He shortly said and opened the door, the door to his room. We came in and everything was red, black hinted with some white.

"Nice room." I said.

"Thanks." He said. He twirled me around causing me to spin and he stopped me then hugged me. I was going to break the hug when he said. "Please, let me just hold you like this, something I couldn't do with her."

I was then attacked by a bunch of questions. Who is this Carat Annaislle? Does she really looks like me? How is she connected to him? Was she a chosen one?

"Khyle." I said and he released me. He lead me to the bed.

"Sit." I sat and he sat beside me. He looked at me as I look at him. "Did Vonn said anything to you?"

"He did talked about things." He looked at me as if that wasn't an answer. "Okay, that I looked like Annaislle." He laid down to his bed.

"That is true. You look exactly like her that I don't know what to believe anymore." He covered his face with his arm.

"Can you tell me about it?"

"No." Well that was harsh. But he slowly rose up to sat upright again. "But I can show you." He added and dragged me up and we walked to his room's foyer. Everything was still dark since it's still early morning.

"What is it?"

"We used to look at the scenery like this all the time back then." He looked down. "But, everything changed when Lea hypnotized her." I held his left shoulder.

"You said you wouldn't tell me about it." He chukled.

"Turns out I need someone to tell since I can't hold it any longer." He looked up and met my eyes. "I dare you to stay and listen to what I would say."

"You sure?"

"You want something harder?"

"No, no I'm good." He chukled again.

"Even the way you talk is the same with her's."

"So do I really look like her?" He nodded. "You can say it when you're ready."

"I've been ready for centuries."

"Centuries?" Does that mean Vonn said was true? But he didn't told me directly. Now that you mention it there are no paintings or picture around the mansion of their ancestors. Maybe,

"Carat Annaislle Hikari would always be my first and maybe not the last." He looked at me m with eyes that glitters under the moonlight. "I knew her heart was fragile like glass, so I never dared to hurt her." He fell silent. "But she also knew that my heart was like paper, it has nothing but her name written all over it, and there are many possibilities to make my paper heart disappear. But she chose the worst one." He sighed. "Can you guess?"

"She burned it?" He nodded.

"She burned my paper heart, and all that was left was ashes that I can never rebuild." He looked down again. "Like our House of Cards."

"I recalled that Vonn also mentioned something about her breaking your House of Cards."

"Our  House of Cards, we built with all our youth, when she was clover and I was her ace. We were the cards and she chose to leave causing it to break down to the ground."

"Is it literal?" He laughed.

"No, it's not a real house of cards like Nate asked you to do. It was a bond we made for one another and she chose to break it."

"But you mentioned something about a person called Lea."

"You really listened." He smiled then looked at me. "Lea was the reason she left, Lea hypnotized her, erasing her memories about her youth, about me. I tried to fix her but I was stopped by Vonn."

"Vonn?" He did say that he was involved.

"He stopped me because we need to do our new jobs as The Johns." He chukled. "Now I won't say anything further since it's classified information."

I was about to say something when he hugged me again. He's head was on my shoulder.

"Thank you, really." He looked up and met my eyes. "You passed, that means you passed the initiation. Welcome our new chosen one." He looked back at the door. "Let's go?"

We walked back to his room but I stopped from my tracks.

"What's wrong?" I grabbed the note that Jake left before the initiation started.

"Why did you wrote 'Pretty please, with you on top'?" I said. He grabbed the paper I was holding.

"Oh, I just finished the movie we were watching and I was amazed so I wrote what Spade and Virgil said." He said. I slapped his right shoulder. "Hey!"

"I thought you woul-"

"Thought what my princess?" He smirked. "Don't tell me you were hoping I'll do the sa,e thing Spade would do?"

"No, why would I even think such thing." I said then started walking out.

"Hey, we're supposed to meet the others at the living room."

"They already knew I already finished everything?" He threw his arm around me.

"Well, yeah. They already knew."

"How?" He showed a cheeky grin.

"Since they didn't heard any screams." He said then run outside to the hallways probably to the living room. Screams?

"Yah! Khyle!" I said and run to the living room. They knew since I didn't scream? So he was really going to dare me to do that with him but he replaced it at the last minute?!

When I reached the grand staircase to the living room, everyone was there. Gale was the first one to notice me and immediately run to my side.

"Did he do anything?"

"No, if he did I would do something about it." He sighed at relief. He then interwined my left arm to his right arm. "Wha-"

"I lost rock, paper, scissors a while ago so I should chauffeur you to the living room." He smiled at me. "But I'm glad I'm doing this."

When we reached where the others were.

"Dude, you only need to chauffeur her here, not make her your girlfriend."