Kaidon Cross, top-notch assassin of The Order of the Black Knights, had only one mission in his life, exact revenge for the death of his mother until he met the innocent Alice Reed, and his priorities changed to keeping her safe from the clutches of...
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I rarely used my powers on her. I didn't like doing that, but sometimes she drove me to the edge. It was important to make her give up the role. I didn't want her anywhere close to him, even if it was just for a stupid drama night.
I recalled the auditions. Everyone kept staring at me, and I was reminded of the night I was brought to the headquarters of The Order for the first time. All those adults had their eyes on me, some whispering, others scared. All I could do was glance at was my father's back. I wanted to scream and run out, but I blocked my emotions to steel myself up. A void engulfed me.
The next three days were surprisingly peaceful. Her father returned on Friday and therefore much to my dismay, I had to drop her home. We had our first match on Sunday, the same day as the drama night.
"Pass the ball!" I barked out.
I was playing as the centre forward for the team. I had stopped after middle school, but we often practised at The Order. I was an agent under training till I turned eighteen and we had an entire evening academy for that. Football was considered as the best way to maintain our stamina, and there were no gender-biased teams. All girls and boys were treated as equals.
We were waiting for the second half of the game to start, already leading by 2-0. I crouched down to tie my shoelaces when my ears caught hold of a voice cheering my name at a distance, so I got up, and my eyes searched. I noticed Alice, waving at me, at the opposite end of the field.
As I had asked her to, she dropped the role and settled into playing the part of one of the girls in the background. She was dressed for that already. A light blue-coloured evening gown, the same colour as her sapphire eyes, touching her feet at the back and just below her knees in the front. She had tied her hair into a braid and let it dangle down her left shoulder. I could notice traces of a little makeup too.
Does she want to steal away the spotlight from the main actress?
At that moment, I could hear my heart thrumming in my chest loud. Without a doubt, Alice was a gorgeous girl. Not just a girl, that was seven years back, she was a woman. I had followed her for a while, but when I first met eyes with her at that fresher's party, into those ocean coloured eyes, as deep as one, after those seven years, I couldn't look away.
It was one of those awkward moments in a best friend's life when he doesn't know what he is feeling for her, but he can't watch her walk away with another man either. That was the problem with being a best friend, falling in love becomes complicated.
She sure was one of those women who make you stop in your trail and turn around to get a proper look, but I knew it wasn't love, not yet at least, because my powers still worked on her.
My monologue got halted by a sharp hit to my face. The football landed on my cheek and bounced away, and agitated, I glared at the direction it came from.
