ONE DROP OF BLOOD (ongoing)

CHAPTER 4: PRETENSE

I found them sitting in a wide sala, discussing something. I sneaked to listen while hiding behind a huge post, somewhere near them.

"So, what do you plan to do next? That girl just saw everything!" Orthyl says, sighing.

"I think I'm gonna die right there just like before!" He is drinking a tea and Erin too, sitting near him, a glass table with a fraglie flower vase on their middle.

The boy, Lucca, isn't there. Where did that kid go?

"What do you think?" Erin replies apathetically. "I couldn't do what I want since I feel restrained from doing it. Something tells me it's because of what happened 7 years ago." said he.

Then, he sips a cup of chamomile tea. I could smell it.

"Erin, you know that if we keep a mortal here, she''ll die! Have you forgotten about that? Humans can never set foot on this world!"

"She's not going to die. I know I'm right about this thing. You need to understand."

"What makes you think that this girl is really what you're looking for?"

Suddenly, Lucca appeared beside me and asked, "Why are you hiding here, miss?" I'm so surprised that I jolted so hard.

"Shhh!! Be quiet! They might notice me!" I whisper as I cover his mouth.
I crouched him down to hide him. I removed my hand and he looked at me.

"You're name is Allison, right? I'm Lucca." he says, introducing himself. He's got a curly, light blonde hair down until his shoulders. He has a sweet smile, and there's this pure and innocent look in his face.

"I know. I heard your name from them a while ago." I say, smiling back.
"Hmm.. So, what're you doing here?" he looks at the two guys on the sala, then back at me.

"Oh, you're eavesdropping them?" he asks and his expression suddenly turns into a cunning one.

"Eavesdropping.. H--hey, you're going to report this to them, aren't you? I heard you called them lord, sort of like they are your masters or something!" I said, pointing my finger on him.

"Well, yeah! But my loyalty for lord Erin is higher! He's my original master. And you're right when you said that I'm reporting what you're doing right now, so.."
He's about to leave.

"What? Wait!"

I grab hold of his hand tightly before he could even leaves me there to stomp his feet towards them. I'm gonna try to threaten him. He's just a boy, a 12 or 13-year old boy! So, I could perhaps scare him a little.

"You're not going to do that!.. You're gonna be in big trouble, if you tell them!" I made it sound so serious.
I don't know if it will work since I don't look scary or something. I'm not confident.

He just smirked at me. He's rather amused than scared. "Oh, miss Allison.. tsk, tsk, tsk! You really don't know anything. Pity you.." He says, smirking.

"What do you mean? Tell me, then. What do you know?" I ask.

He grins and says, "Aren't you eavesdropping them to know something? Aren't these guys strange to you, including me?"

"Yeah, you're all strange." I admit, but what's the deal with this boy?

"If you want to know, I'm gonna help you." he suddenly offers me a help, this boy? What does he know?

"How are you going to help me then?" I ask, so he tells me what to do.

After hearing it, I feel like he's a psycho.