The Devil's Angel (paused)

Chapter 4

Like the day before I found myself in Brian's room after waking up. Again he was putting a wet cloth on my forehead.

"Brian? Why do I keep getting sick when I'm around you?", I asked hesitantly.

"It's something I can't tell you right now. There is something more important than that at the moment", he replied in a serious voice.

Slowly I sat up and starred a my hands which were folded in my lap.

"What is out important right now?", I asked biting my lip.

"You will stay with me for a while", he answered.

"What do you mean? What's with my father? I have to go home! I can't be late", I tried to explain without giving my situation away but my voice was shaking.

"Does your father beat you at home?", he asked with a blank face.

My throat suddenly felt dry and I couldn't speak even though I tried a couple of times. After starring shocked at Brian I looked back down while my eyes began to burn. I couldn't keep the tears from falling down my cheeks like a river.

"H-How do y-you k-know that?", I sobbed.

"You told me. Do you remember the dream from last night? That wasn't just a normal dream. Our minds are linked now so you can't keep secrets from me. Please don't be scared and trust me. I won't ever hurt you. I promise it to you", he told me while grabbing my shaking hands and holding them in his own.

"I-I don't k-know why b-but I trust y-you. I'm not scared of you", I told him.

Suddenly Brian embraced me tightly. First I was shocked but I returned the embrace thankful. Slowly the tears subsided and my sobs stopped but I didn't let go of him and neither did he. Again it seemed like time stopped but deep down inside the both of us knew that the time was still ticking and that this unbelievably warm moment wouldn't last forever. Realising that I slowly pulled away and so did he. I looked him in the eyes while asking him the most important question I had at that time.

"How do we pull it of? I mean when I'm supposed to stay with you for a while I need some of my clothes but I can't just go to my father's house and take them. He would literally kill me when he sees me."

"Don't worry about that, Angel. I will take care of everything so you just have to relax for the time being. Lay back down and rest so your fever can subside, okay?", he told me.

I nodded and laid back down. Slowly I closed my eyes but I couldn't seem to fall asleep. I heard Brian leave the room so I sat back up and looked around 'til I found a stack of paper on his desk and some pencils. After carefully standing up I walked slowly to the desk and sat down on the chair. I took a sheet of paper and a pencil and started drawing. This time I drew Brian while he looked serious and  somehow I found this look on him really intimidating but also handsome at the same time. When I finished I put the pencil back and starred at the drawing. Somehow I did really like him.

"Do I have a crush on him already? But I only know him since three days! Maybe it was love at first sight? But can I really call this love what I'm feeling? I mean I do feel tingles everywhere he touches me, I do feel happy when I'm around him, I care about what he thinks about me, I care about him too and I don't think that I could live on without him. That all sounds just so crazy that I don't want to believe it but I still do. Darn, I'm in love."

As I thought all that I started to blush and by the end my face looked probably like a tomato. And just than the door opened and Brian stepped back into the room. He starred shocked at the bed and let the bag he was holding drop to the ground but as soon as he found me sitting on his desk he visibly relaxed. The next thing I knew was that I was suddenly pulled into a bone crashing hug but luckily my bones weren't more damaged than they were before.

"I bought you some new clothes so you don't have to wear these old ones. I also got you your camera. Please don't ask any questions about it. I just broke into your house and took the camera after seeing that your clothes weren't that good anymore", he explained. "And also don't scare me like that again, understood? I thought you had left me and I wouldn't survive much time if you left me."

"I won't leave you, Brian. I promise and thank you for getting my camera. This is everything I have left from my mother because she died giving birth to me. My father abuses me only because I look a lot like my mother and apparently he couldn't stand seeing my face", I tried to explain.

Brian smiled down at me and handed me the video camera. I pulled him by his arm over to the bed and sat down next to him. Then I showed  him the video of my mother where she was singing her special lullaby.

"I found the video camera in the basement one day and watched that video. As I was silently humming the lullaby and my father heard me he started to beat me for the very first time. I think I was just ten years old than", I told him.

"How old are you now?", Brian asked.

"Seventeen, and you? How old are you?", I asked curious.

"Older than you", he teased.

"Don't tease me, Brian!", I demanded playfully.

Again he closed his eyes for a short moment and took a deep breath before he opened his eyes again and answered.

"I'm eighteen."

"Come to think of it. Why do you keep closing your eyes and taking a deep breath when I say your name?", I voiced my thoughts.

"I don't know what you mean", he replied but I swore that I saw the faintest of blushes on his face.

"You know darn well what I mean, Brian", I told him.

Again he took a deep breath with closed eyes.

"There! Again. Every time I say your name you close your eyes while taking a deep breath before exhaling again", I explained.

"Okay, okay. You caught me this time. The thing is I really like it how my name rolls of your tongue", he admitted.

That made me blush like crazy while I laid the camera on the black nightstand. Just now I realised that almost everything in his room was black but it didn't bother me so I had nothing against it. Brian stood up and walked over to the door in front of the bed and took the bag that he had dropped when he thought that I wasn't there anymore and threw it over his shoulder.

"Do you want to take a bath? You can wear some of my clothes while I go and wash your new ones, okay?", he asked and I nodded.

So he walked out of the door and closed it behind himself again. I went over to the dresser and took a pair of boxers and a t-shirt. Then I went through the door next to the dresser and found myself in a black bathroom. First I let warm water fill the large bathtub, then I put some soap in the water and undressed myself. Then I carefully sat down in the bathtub after putting Brian's clothes on the sink. Slowly but surely I relaxed in the water and after some time my eyes felt heavy. Again. I fell asleep in the bathtub.