Ebony

Chapter 2 - Omen

"Mmm" A moan is heard as many books fall onto the floor. There's a man, with short, curly, hair that falls just above his shoulder blade, and broad shoulders. Covering a brown skinned girl with long black hair, and skirt push up slightly above her knee. He holds her, with both hands firmly on her waist, pushing her up against a book shelf.

The devilishly handsome man moves himself closer to the girl, but is stopped when she says with her head turned to the side in a whisper voice and a serious tone. "You know...this doesn't change anything"

"Yes, it does." The devilishly handsome man says as he gets closer and starts slowly kissing her neck but only to be interrupted again, the girl pushes him back. Now arm's length apart, leaving her hands flat on his defined chest saying "just stop ok." The girls voice started to tremble a little as she continued, looking straight at him with pain in her eyes "look Durellium..." the girl takes a deep breath and sighs "you're the last one."

"What do you mean?" Durellium says with confusion as he backs up.

"I mean you're the last person I took a chance on, and you screwed up, I just can't date people like you anymore ok?

"People like me?" Durellium says with a scoff as he backs up and folds his arms.

"Yes, GUYS like you ok!" the girl says in irritation to how slow he is. She pushes her skirt down, so it is just above her ankles again, and walks toward the exit. But is quickly pulled back by her wrist making her back slam against the book shelf dropping more books on to the floor and off the shelf. She lets out a small peep of pain making Durellium laugh.

"Canta, what do you think you're doing?" Durelliums face had changed, from a charming prince to a wicked smirk that was just barely made into a smile. His arms folded again while he walked closer toward Canta leaving only the slightest of air to pass by their faces as he spoke. "Oh, I'm sorry did you think you were special now? Ha, I didn't get the memo."

Now his face was straight, but eyebrows still narrowed with anger when he continued. "No one walks away from me, and especially not a girl. I decided when things end, ha, I am the man after all." Canta looks down as her anger overwhelms. She then balls her hands into fist trying to hold back her feelings but his words keep popping up in her head 'not a girl' 'not a girl' 'the man' 'the man'. She shakes her head, but the thoughts stay making her angrier. Until almost immediately she takes a deep breath, leans her head back, while he moves in to kiss her, and headbutts him as hard as she can.

He stumbles a bit trying to catch his balance, as he trips over the plethora of books that have already fallen. During this moment, she runs down the steps and on to the 4th floor exist. There is a small trail of blood dripping down her head when she gets to the exit door, but her escape fails when she walk into Anastagio and Christof walking into the library, making her hit the book shelf and fall on her knees.

"Are you ok Ms.Canta?" Anastagio says while helping her up from the floor. She brushes her skirt and green sleeveless vest off, while Christof picks up a few books. But he stops when he sees Canta's forehead dripping with blood.

"Canta?! What happened!?" he hurriedly finds a chair and sits her down while calling for a maid to get a towel. Anastagio is in a panic when he says "well?! What happened?!" She stares at them for a minute with a look of shame and pitty and says with a sigh "I'm fine, I'm fine really! It was... just that...um a few books fell, and I got hit in the-" but before she could continue Durellium ran down the steps shouting "wait wait!" in a high pitched voice, but his tone swiftly changed back low to in front of Christof.

"Whats wrong Durelliumn?" Christof says.

"Um..." Durellium says as he gives a glare towards Canta and says "...oh nothing..."

"It doesn't look like nothing, you have a bruise on your head, what happened to the both of you?" Christof says furiously. Durellium pauses at his fathers anger, but brushes it off as he puts on a big smile and walks towards Canta's back. Acting as if he was walking on wings, he says " you know father something did happen, right C-a-n-t-a?" Canta's face was now in confusion as she answered saying "yes" very slowly. Then Durellium hopped from behind her to her front were everyone could see his smile and know something was wrong with it, Durellium continued. But as soon as he did his emotions changed up into a sad puppy with nothing but sorrow in his eyes as started to talk again. "Well I guess it's time to tell them the truth Canta, I can't let you black mail me anymore!" Now Anastagio and Christof were as confused as ever but kept listening for Durellium to continue.

"She's been...taking our...books for years and selling them for loads of money and gold! Stealing! And when I found out she said she'll...kill me! And she wasn't talking about surprises, she meant murder! Now I finally have...the courage and the...audience to let this truth be reveled!"

There was a long silence, Christof and Anastagio sat in shock, but it was broken when Christof said slowly "Why...why this can't be true...Canta has worked with me since the beginning...there's no way she would..." but Durellium countered now walking over to his dad saying "I know it's hard to believe but...didn't you have these books in the beginning to?" Anastagio now just sat in silence with his father until Canta said in a panic while forcing herself to stand up in front of Christof. "It's not tru-". However, she was cut off by Christof speaking with a slow rising anger "you...I've known you for the longest...and because of that...I'll let you live but...you can never work here again!" Canta's eyes started to fill with tears and her voice trembled as she yelled "How can you trust your own son over me! He's a liar! And you know it! We've known each other all our lives!" Nevertheless, Christof retaliated with "Don't you think I know that! That's why this hurts now. Go before I change my mind!" And with those words breaking her heart Canta left without another word.

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Meanwhile Ebony, in her room, is sitting in her chair in front of her, dusty desk, pushed against the wall. She lays her head straight down on the desk, with her arms hanging making them just barely hit the floor.

"Why?" she said in a low under tone "why, why, why!" Now she started to bang her head on the table to the beat of her words "I don't understand!" The pieces of wood, sticking up, started to break into her skin as she banged her head, keeping a straight face. "I can't take this anymore!" Now Ebony was sitting up strait, letting the small trail of blood run down her face and drip on her old night gown. After waiting a moment, she hops up suddenly, and walks over to her ratted sheets.

She drags them with her over to the small window in the corner, it stopped at her stomach, and was as high as her head. Then looked outside and said, "all I need are these sheets, and my mother will be with me-." Yet suddenly there was a bang and all she could see was darkness.

"Hello again, this time I'm here on business."

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