The next heir

30. Ice cream

Henry's pov - "No Daneil, you can't discuss your wildest sex fantasis with me" James said crunching his noes in disgust towards Daneil.

"Yes I totally can. You are my best friend and you are experienced" Daneil said smirking. I was tired of them already. It was going on from morning and now we were in break. I was so bored and Rick was busy in library doing his science project.

Everything was normal back again. It has been six months we last did any mission. I was so shocked that gang knight riders managed to kill our big enemy, the leader of blackblood. But his daughter is still alive. I know for sure she will take revenge. But while blowing down the whole hotel, carter made one big mistake. He killed many innocents. Pia's and hers friends parents were also in that hotel somehow. Me and carter haven't told her that he was the one who blew that hotel, I know she will be furious and devastated. She will distance herself with us and I really don't want that. I learned to somehow stay just friends with her and I can't lose her completely. I know I still love her, even carter still loves her but our guilt is keeping us from telling her. If she finds out it was carter who killed hers and hers friends parents, she will never forgive him and will also start to maintain distance from me too, so it's better to keep quiet.

Right then she walked in the cafeteria with her friends. She looked tired but still somehow managed to look beautiful. She was so pale after the funeral but now she looked slightly better. Which only added more guilt in me for not telling her. She deserves to know but I am selfish, I can't lose her again.

She sat with her friends at the back. She ate slowly chatting with her friends. Besides our table Carter's table was empty, we are still enemy but atleast we don't want to kill each other when we are together.

"Bro what do you think?" Daneil asked interrupting my train of thoughts.

"About what?" I asked. James frowned.

"You are again not paying attention" He said looking at me questionably.

"Nevermind I'll repeat, if jacob and renesmee are going to be together then Jacob will be Bella's son-in-law. Means Bella kissed her son-in-law? In twilight?" Daneil asked in all seriousness. Even James was thinking same. I rolled my eyes at them. I looked again backside but pia was not there, their table was empty.

"I don't know. You guys carry on, I need to go" I excused myself from those idiots. I went in the hallways and there she stood. Putting books inside her locker. I immediately ran towards her, not to lose some alone chance with her.

"Hey" I said. She looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes and smiled almost melting my heart.

"Hey" she said softly.

"Where are you going?" I asked her.

"Actually I was craving for ice cream, so I thought why not. But everyone except me is having test today so I am on my own" She explained and shrugged. I smiled at her beautiful eyes again.

"Can I join?" I asked. She simply shrugged.

"ok" she said.

We were walking to the parking till that hers mobile beeped. She read the message and replied immediately.

"Is it fine, if I call carter with us?" she asked me. My mood suddenly dropped. But I nodded stifly. She smiled and messaged someone.

"Carter wanted to hangout so I informed him about our ice cream plan and invited him" she clarified.

"ok. We will go in my car?" I asked.

"Sure" she said.

We sat in my car and I started driving.
She was silent for some While but then she handed me the address of some ice-cream shop. I started driving there.

"So how are you?" I asked.

"Why, fine" she said fake smiling. This car ride was so different from last ride with her. Where she was so energetic and now she is so silent. I am not able to bare it. I want to see her as a same girl which she was before. Happy.

"You know we haven't finished our 20 questions game last time" I said. She looked at me and raised her eyebrows.

"Really?" she asked. I nodded.

"let's continue. My chance First" I said. She nodded.

"Seriously how are you?" I asked. Hers smile dropped. I looked at her in concerned.

"I'll pass" she said looking out of the window. My smile dropped suddenly. I remembered she made a rule that we can pass 3 questions. I sighed.

"My chance" she said trying to lighten the mood. I smiled for her.

"Why do you like black colour?" I cringed but I really wanted to share everything with her.

"After my grandma passed, my mom, dad became different person. They started drifting apart from me and I started finding myself less lonely while doing gang work so I decided to join my dads gang. They were never home, I couldn't remember last time I spend time with them. First I thought gang work was cool but when the time came to actually kill someone, I started doubting myself. But my parents forced me mercilessly into doing it. They wanted me to continue their legacy of gang leader and take our gang on no. 1 position" I sighed. She holded my hand for comfort. I relaxed slightly and I knew I can trust her to listen to me. So I continued.

"When I started killing, I lost my peace slowly. It became difficult for me to survive into this world. I learned that sometimes alone is the real peace and to shut off the world. I used to go to place where I took you and used to sit quietly for sometime. It used to calm me. That's when I knew dark is beautiful and from then I liked black colour. It indicates peace, silence and night" I said. We were silent for sometime. It felt so good to share something to the person you love.

"I understood why I liked black colour" she said suddenly. I can't help but feel concern for her. I know she was going from a lot with her parents gone.

"Want to talk about it?" I asked. She stayed silent and started playing with her bracelet.

"It's really hard. I am trying to cope with their dead but Jenny she is getting nightmares. I try everything to be there for her but I dont know how to stop her from suffering. I can't... I am not a good sister for her... She is suffering and I am not able to do anything... " She tried to say but tears started to flow from her eyes. I stopped my car at one side of the road and took her in my arms. It broke my heart to look at her like this. And again my guilt started to overcome, I can't see her like this. She was so different from last time I saw her. She was breaking. I tried to soothe her and hold her firmly in my arms till she got back normal. She wiped her tears.

"Sorry, I just.. " She tried to say.

"You don't have to apologize. I am here" I said holding her beautiful face in my palms. She smiled and also made me smile. I wanted to kiss her so badly but I know she will not like it so I shifted backwards. It hurted to not kiss her. It also hurted to love someone so much but to not be able to be with them.

"So which flavour ice cream?" I asked to lighten the heavy mood and also to lessen my guilt. She chuckled and it made me smile.

"Choco chip. You?"

"Vanilla"

"Ew. Plain ice-cream, so boring"

"No. It is actually really nice"

Theres where I found old Pia again. It made my heart full to think that she laughed because of me. Just like that we chatted full ride to the ice cream shop and laughed. It was best feeling ever.

I knew I was screwed.