Book One of the Aurum Choi series.
Aurum doesn't like people. In fact, he absolutely detests the idea of being around anyone. Top grades in the state and the most wanted athlete; he doesn't need human interaction because it's a "waste of time". Bei...
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"The way I see it: The more people that hate me, the less people I have to please." –Unknown
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"So what you're saying is that you want me to jump out of a seven-story building," Aurum stated as he stared at the two kids who somehow broke into his office. "As much as that sounds appealing to me, I have to decline."
He drew a shaky inhale, trying to mask the fact that he wanted his body to go numb.
Aurum refused to breathe for he feared that the remains of the monster may contract some sort of terminal disease. The layer of dust that coated his body felt like flesh eating bugs gnawing away through his clothes. The itch crept up his legs and he felt out of breath. His skin burned like fire and he cautiously took off the blazer and dropping it on the ground. His fingers felt tainted and poisoned; Aurum desperately wanted to scrub at his skin until it turned raw and clean, but he refused to cause a scene in front of the two trespassers.
He calmly headed over to a nearby bookshelf which held a single bottle of medication. Hiding the fact that adrenaline was still running through his veins, Aurum twisted the lid off of the container and poured a couple into the cap so they wouldn't touch his dirtied hands.
Cecil leaned on the hilt of his sword and Aurum could only grimace as the blade's tip dug into his wooden floor. "What's that for?" The brown haired boy gestured with his chin.
Aurum licked his dry, chapped lips. "Schizophrenia," He spoke as he held the white pills close. "Sadly, they haven't been working recently, especially with today's events, so I've resorted to upping the dosage. I'll need to talk to my doctor for official permission, but for now, it will have to do."
He shifted the medicine in the cap; hating the daily dosages, yet knowing that it was his only opportunity at getting rid of the hallucinations. As he lifted his hand to his mouth, Lou Ellen swiftly leaped from the windowsill and slapped the medicine out of his hand.
She grabbed the young entrepreneur's wrist and dragged his face uncomfortably close to hers. "Don't you dare try to take those again," She hissed, her eyebrows tightly knitted together. Her sharp nails dug into his skin like the thorns of a rose. "These are known to mess up a demigod's mind worse than a siren luring a sailor to their death." Lou Ellen pushed him away and forcefully knocked over the bottle onto the ground. The pills blanketed the wooden floor like heavy snowfall and at the sight, anger immediately fumed through Aurum's body.
He exhaled sharply. "What in the world do you think you're doing?" Aurum did his best to restrain his frustration as he jabbed a finger at the fallen bottle. The messy room caused his eye to twitch. His words struggled against the wall of grinding teeth. "It was expensive as Hell. This kind of medication is hard to come by, even for someone like me. You should be groveling at my knees and be pleading for me not to call backup, you peasant."
