Chapter-3 No Longer Yours
Back on Earth, James and Jade were quite surprised but were quite convinced that they were royalty in another realm unknown to others.
"Your Royal Highness, I, Princess Odette Jardin of Swan Lake wish to thank you for thy beautiful locket last night," Jade said mockingly.
"Stop that. Stop calling me Your Royal Highness, Jade, please," James pleaded.
"Whatever you say, Your Majesty?" she replied.
"Jade! By that I meant nothing of the royal formal calling. Please!" he said.
"Okay! Okay! James I have a class now see you later," she said. She chuckled.
All of a sudden a girl from their batch walked over to him with her friend, a guy from James' gang. She had seen the necklace on Jade and she recognized it as the one she had seen James take from a jewelers' shop when she was spying on him.
"Oh, so that is why you went to a jewelers' shop, to make a locket for your precious friend. I know what is going on between you now and I am going to spread it all over the university if you, James, do not listen to me. And, you know James, I am part of a strong authority, if you do not listen I can if I want, put Jade into serious trouble. I could even get her thrown out of the school if I want. Anyone would believe whatever story I made up. So…" the girl said with an evil smirk.
James found himself at a loss. He couldn't let Jade be in such a trouble, so he was obliged to follow. "What do you want me to do?" he said in an annoyed and sad tone.
"You have to ditch Odette. Tell her you don't love her anymore and that you are in love with me. Stop talking to her," she grinned.
"No way!" he shouted.
"Oh that's alright. I guess I will just have to eliminate her from the university, destroy her career perhaps; unless someone is willing to obey," she said.
James sighed. There was no way out of this. He had to do it. "Okay! I will. Just leave her alone. But let me tell you, one can't gain love like this Vanessa," he said sadly.
After Odette came out from her class, James went to her sadly and unable to speak it out just slipped a note to her and disappeared. Jade was surprised. She had never seen James frown like that. She opened the note:
Jade,
I am ditching you. We can't continue this anymore. And I am in love with Vanessa now, so it's over between us. If you are smart just forget I exist.
James.
