Death in the Doorway

"Time is ticking, dear."

"For..?"

"Why, for happiness, of course."

~*~

She walks with death. She grew up with death. She is death.

For sixteen years, Dalia Margrave has lived with the undead. Every single day, the cold chill of death surrounded the air around her and her nostrils were filled with the smell of decay. But she was used to it. It was her life.

So when her father figure, Ridaan, sends her to the world above hers, she does not know what to do. Everything is bright all the time, and there is a yellowish, shiny orb in the middle of a blue sky that hurts to stare at. It was completely different from the dark gray skies in the underworld, with thin, dark clouds rolling past.

The person she is living with, Derek Mahone, ex best-friend of Ridaan and owner of internationally known company, Mahone Eastern Corporations, is nice enough. But its his son that's the problem, though. Arion Mahone is not exactly the nicest person Dalia has met. He's cold, arrogant, ignorant and most of all... rude.

But Dalia has grown up with people like him. So what can she do when she feels a strange, giddy, bubbly feeling inside her chest every time Arion's beautiful green eyes land on hers? Its all just a bit too alien for her. All a bit too happy. All a bit too bright.

But its not wrong for Death herself to like the world above, is it? Nonetheless, time is ticking for Dalia Margrave's only chance at happiness, at love.

And the hourglass is held by Death's own hands.