SLS#4# Today's Cleopatra

Not Sure

Riley's POV

" F*cker!!! Bust*rd!!! Assh*le!!!" I gritted in my mind as I was taking shower. I was trying to remove his kiss from my lips.

"Monster. Haven't you eaten for years?! Wete you starving that you started to eat my lips!!! Ouch!!! F*cking bust*rd!!!" I said remembering him.

That stupid has bitten badly on my lips and there is marks of it. My lips are looking odd as they are looking so swollen. F*ck!! Are my lips for biting like this?!! I wish I could punch on his nose. Directly on his nose. I would get peace of mind.

I walked out of the washroom and changed into my PJs. Urrrghh!!! The marks are quite visible. Bust*rd.

" Dinner is served!!!" I heard Ann shouting from the Kitchen.

" I am coming." I said and ran to the kitchen.

" Here. Come on. Chop chop" she said and looked at me then she gave me a weird look.

" What happened?" I asked her.

" It should be me who should be asking you that." She said.

" Why so?" I asked her.

" What happened to your lips?!! Has any bulldozer ran over it?" She asked me.

" I hit myself with the door in my cabin." I said to her.

" But it looks like someone has bitten you." She said.

" Why do you ask so many questions, Ann? Come on have dinner." I said. She nodded unwillingly but then sat next me to have dinner.

" Have you tokd Bella to find out a groom for you?" She asked me.

" Yes. I have told her to do that." I said .

" But why are you trying to move to Greece then? You should be here with me." She said.

" Then you too come with me. We will stay together there." I said to her.

" But our headquarter is here." She said.

" Bella will be working from Athens. We can open another headquarter there." I told her.

" Why are you running away?" She asked me.

" Who is running away?" I asked her.

" You. Why are you leaving NYC like this?" She asked me.

" I am not leaving willingly. Situation made me do that." I said to her.

" What situation are you talking about?" She asked me.

" You will not understand my point, Ann. I feel suffocating here." I said to her.

" Why suddenly you feel like that now?! You shouldn't feel like that now when our biggest Drea is going to come true." She said.

" I know. I have worked for this as well. I also want myself to stay attached with it closely but my luck doesn't favor me. I will still be in GS but I will be working from Athens." I said.

" You can't leave me like that." She said frustratedly.

" Then come with me. I gave you options, Ann." I said.

" Alright. If you are feeling suffocating then let's go have a trip. It will make you feel better." She said.

" It will not, Ann. Some people will still be living here." I said to her.

" About whom are you talking about?" She asked me.

" I mean my parents. They are actually responsible for my this condition today. I feel caged here. Let me fly." I said.

" Alright. If you want that. Then I am also leaving. I also will not be able to live here alone. I will be leaving with you." She said." And I should have also asked Bella to find out a groom for me. It would be better if there are two brothers then we will be able to live in the same place." She said and I turned to her.

" No. Not at all. Never ever." I said and she looked at me weirdly.

" What? Why?" She asked.

" Because I don't want you to get married like this. You believe in love. Fall in love and choose your life partner yourself." I said to her.

" Then why are you not getting married like that? Why are you not falling in love with someone?" She asked me.

" I don't believe in love." I said. " I can't fall in love with someone. Because I have to create that feeling in me at first."

" Why do think like that?" She asked me.

" Because it's true. I am the product of two people's hatred. This is why I am cursed and the feeling called love is not given in me." I said to her.

" You think like that. The actual fact is not that." She said.

" The actual fact is worse than this. I am telling you in a better way." I said.

" RD, you should not think like this." She said.

" Ann, I am tired. Let's not talk about this anymore. I am tired of explaining the same thing again and again. Please, you too don't start now. Let me breath." I said and she sighed.

" Why are you talking like that?" She asked me.

" Because I am tired." I said and she sighed.

" Have your medicines after having dinner." She said. I nodded. " Turn the lights off before sleeping. Goodnight." She said and I sighed.

Little girl is upset now. But I also have a limit. Why don't they understand that?!! Damn!!!

I washed the dishes and took my medicines. Turning the lights off I went to Ann's room and laid down next to her.

" Someone is upset, huh?" I asked looking at her dreamcatcher.

" So? Does anyone care?" She asked me.

" Yes, she does. Definitely she does." I said.

" Then she should know it hurts." She said.

" Yes, she knows." I said.

" Has she taken her medicines?" She asked. I chuckled.

" She has." I said.

" Then tell her to sleep." She said.

" She can't sleep. If someone tells her a bedtime story." I said.

" Which one she wants to here?" She asked me.

I chuckled. I know we are acting childish. But this is the way we try to reduce the pain the suffocation inside us.

" Anyone that someone chooses." I said.

" Alright." She said and started to tell the story of Sleeping Beauty. I kept listening to her. Sometimes I think that I will record her voice when she tells me stories. In future that will work for my kids. If I have one day in future which I am not sure yet.