* The Black Prince in my Closet *

* Four *

He lowered his head but I slapped his cheek. "Stop!"

Hard. Darn, I forgot that I used all my strenght.

He was bewildered and involunatrily sat beside meas I sat down. "C-Chris--"

Instead of being angry, he chuckled which surprised me. "You're the first person to slap me."

"Why are you chuckling? I mean, I slapped your hard!" I demanded.

He blinked. "You did? Maybe I'm numb or it's because I felt worse pain before." he retorted.

"I thought I was--"

"First Mortal." he corrected and fixed his hair. "I need to go, Melissa is already shouting and cursing me; I'm sure of it." he mumbled and went infront of my closet, opened it and opened the door inside it.

"Who's Melissa?" I asked and removed my ponytail.

"Someone I know but..." he started.

"But?" I prompted.

"But.." he continued but cut off by a yell, "Christian!!!!"

"Speaking of the devil." He sighed and disappeared without continuing what he was saying.

I went down and ate with Mom and Ran but I couldn't taste the food.

Who is that Melissa to Black Prince? Why do I call him Prince anyway? I don't even know if he's just an Earl, Marquess, Duke, or Baron.

"Ris?" Ran called out and wrapped his arms from behind me. "Are you alright?"

I punched his arm. "Let me go, will you?"

"No." he retorted and tightened his embrace. "What's wrong? You're not yourself again. Earlier, when you got home, you're like...hm, in the best mood I've ever seen so far until you came out of your room. Is it about that guy in black earlier?"

Guy in Black? Oh, Christian.

"Nope." I replied and huffed. "I want to sleep."

"Did you already do your assignment?" he asked.

I smirked as I head towards the stairs. "When did I ever do my assignments?"

He laughed. "Oh, yeah. I forgot."

I went inside my room. Yup, I don't make my assignments. But I do them when class is almost starting.

I went to bed and tucked in my blanket. Sleep quickly overtook me.

My closet is moving again and I stood up to open it. It's just 11: 35 pm and he's already disturbing me.

"Ungghh...Christian, sorry to tell this but it's just 11:35 and you're so--" I started but blinked upon seeing an arrow in his shoulder. And blood coming out from his wound and there's also an arrow there. "Black Prince?! What happened?" I panicked and placed him on my bed.

The answer is obvious but I couldn't help asking and he answered anyway.

"An enemy tracked me down and before I could even get here-- he shot an arrow on me." he explained between pants.

I ran towards the bathroom and took the medicine kit as I approached him. was literally shaking because I don't know how I'll be able to remove the arrow in his shouldern without hurting him more. Those eyes of his observed him and saw everything through my expression-- he took a hold of the arrow and removed it in a flash. "Urgh!" he groaned in pain.