A Deal With the Devil

Chapter 19

Kassandra's POV

Ravanna walked out the door to follow someone, Lucifer, I'm assuming.

Is he taking her back?

Is the deal off?

I check my shoulder to ensure that his mark still lays on my skin and sigh in relief at the sight of it.

I try to calm down but my mind races at the assumptions as to why Lucifer is here.

Maybe she wanted to speak with him, have you thought of that?

I close my eyes and take a deep breath, Ravanna cares about me, even if she did call to him maybe it was about something else.

What else could it be? She probably wants someone else to take her place.

No. She wouldn't do that.

Are you sure? She saw how you're treated here, maybe she came to her senses about much of a freak you are.

No, just .... no.

She cares about me.

Does she really? How much could she actually care about you? What's in it for her, what is she getting out of this? When she tires of you, she'll leave. Just like they all do.

I try to quiet the voice in my head, she wouldn't do that.

She wouldn't just leave me.

I try to return my focus on what's being taught, it's my favorite subject after all, but my mind wouldn't stop.

Ravanna will be back, she said she would.

She said she would.

The clock ticks on and still I see no movement from the outside of the door.

She wouldn't just leave me... would she?

I think she would.

Shut. Up.

I glance around me and students are talking quietly amongst themselves, some are on their phone while others are periodically taking notes.

I try taking deep breaths without looking like I'm about to have a panic attack.

I try to fight off the start of a racing heart, the tightness beginning to constrict my chest, the tears that are gathering in my eyes.

She'll come back.

Just give her time.

I feel a sharp, unforgiving pain sprout from my mind and I have to make an effort not to yelp.

I don't know what's happening as I'm thrown into a mirage of images, passing far too fast for me to understand, though I catch glimpses of a woman and some of a man.

I grasp my head in my hands as it feels like it's about to explode.

The pain becomes almost unbearable until suddenly, it stops and I can breathe.

I open my eyes and look around the room to see if anyone had witnessed anything.

What was that?

Where did that come from?

I feel an unmistakable spike of fear course through me and I know it's not mine.

Ravanna?

Fuck, is she ok?

Ravanna?  I try reaching out to her but receive no response.

I wait a minute before I try again, Ravanna?

I feel eyes on me and turn to look.

My eyes flit back and forth across the classroom but each time they saw nothing.

I call out to her again in the hope that she'll respond.

Ravanna?

Please, I plead, don't have her leave me too.

I try to calm the rising fear within me but it becomes too great.

Kassandra

I almost cry in relief, Ravanna?

I'm here my sweet girl, I have just been a little... preoccupied.

I nod as if she was able to see me, ok.

I will be there shortly, Lucifer and I just have matters of business to discuss.

I try not to worry about what she might mean when she says matters of business, I just try to focus on the fact that she'll be here soon.

She'll be here soon.

She'll be here soon.

She'll be here soon.