Lace

9.

They kept the door closed yet the noise still insisted to barge through.

It was a hot night, and the room airco was barely a relief. The sky was clear, with only a crescent of the moon lighting up the night sky.

For once, the neighborhood was quiet. No battering from the neighbors, or howling from the hounds.

The night was meant to be special, but in the end: what do I know.

"I'm tired of this." He said.

It's all it took for the night to spiral into an outrageous turmoil.

It was the night that my mother had returned from the trip my father had insisted apon. She'd agreed, wanting my father to feel the pain of her absence. But she was wrong.

"I'm tired of this." Was the loving words uttered by dear ol daddy the moment he'd entered the comfort of their room.

I could hear the sobs of my mother from the other room, and the tired sigh of my father.

He'd put her through hell and became the monster she'd ways told me to never settle for, and she stuck with him. Not because she was stupid, but because she had a responsibility and made promised as they sealed their vows while walking around the fire during their wedding. She also knew that she had me, and believed that I'd deserve to grow with a propper male role model.

And in the end I did. Riley was everything I'd never had. He was everything I'd never known I'd wanted.

He was a father, growing up before his age. He thought me from the little that he knew, and forced himself to learn sothat I could. He thought me the difference from right and wrong, and thought me how to grow as a person. He took me through puberty, and put up with me during my boy hungry phase and loved me unconditionally.

He was my brother: he'd protected me from myself nomatter now much I protested againt it. We fought over the smallest matters but still made jokes together by the end of the day. He'd beat up anyone who tried to disrespect me in even the slightest of ways. We had a bond so unconditional and so unexplainable that even we could barely understand.

Riley was also my best friend. He was someone that I could share literally anything with, from a headache to the dark thoughts that began clouding my mind as I grew older. He was the one I could rant about, and imagine a future with. We planned our weddings and escaping the dreads of reality.

He was my everything. The reason I could stand after everyone pushed me down, my first love, my savior and the reason I'm even here at all.

He's the reason I'm doing this.

For my Riley.

I thought as we walked into the dimly lit room. It was much like a conference room, with buffy, bulky and skinny men sitting around a long table. Some had glasses filled with liquid amber while other chartered among themselves.

It all stopped when the two men walked into the room, with power radiating off them while I followed cautiously.

It's been a week since I'd first woke. I was given time to rest while being thought the rules I'd need to follow.

I compiled. There was no reason to risk any chance and saving Riley.

The men all looked at me strangely. Some looked with eyes filled with lust and a speckle of mischievous thoughts. While others looked at my with utter disgust. Not surprisingly, both looks stemming from the same reason: my sexuality.

Erebus greeted the men with a nod then began introducing me. The men all seemed confused especially when he'd ranked me a fighter.

There was controversy, disagreements and an outbreak of battering.

Orlando and Erebus didn't seem to care. Erebus looked at them with a deadly eye and silence greeted the room.

The night flew by like a gust of wind and before I knew it, it was done.

And the tattoo that marked my skin was proof enough.

I'd officially began the first chapter which leads to my ultimate goal. And I'll do whatever it takes to reach it.

Nobody I'd going to stop me.

***

This chapter sucks. But to be fair, I was in a really bad mood when I wrote it. But I can't find the willpower to change it.

I'm a lazy writer, I know... what did I do to deserve such amazing readers that actually put up with me.

But I'm gonna start heating things up. I promise.

Its gonna go from fights to kisses very soon.

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~Virgo.