Here is the chapter 4. I had time to write one more chapter. I hope you will like it ^^
Chapter 4
Lina was in her room. She felt highly depressed. She looked at herself at the mirror.
" a girl… What a pity… I'm pretty but it won't be enough.." She sighed.
The teenage girl fet lonely. Since she was born she felt like something was missing in her life but she didn't know what.
She didn't have any friends of her age because she was too brilliant and it scared them away or she felt bored to death listening to things she hasn't been interested about .
She wasn't an unhappy girl. She was nice and friendly to people she met and her dreams was to travel around the world. She made a point to learn many languages, such as english, Italian, greek and was starting to learn chinese. She was that smart and she had a lot of times to herself.
She was spoiled by her father who was rarely at home. He was a very taken business man. All the money she got from him, she used it to buy pretty clothes .
She chose to go at the Sorbonne university because she wanted to work as a reporter around the world.
Her life has been more or less peaceful. Then one day, she met her new neighbour : Axel.
Until then, she had never fell in love or had a crush for a guy. But when she saw him. She knew it was her soulmate. Suddenly she felt very happy and not lonely anymore.
She felt extremely tensed as well. She was well aware , the man her heart chose was older than her. She was just a teenage girl and a very inexperience one. She tried everything she could to be noticed by him. Sometimes she just wanted to talk to him, to offer him a cup of coffee. But most of the time it turnt out she felt completely clumsy or panicked.
She remembered the time , her sister had told her to bring down the trash bags . They were heavy but she didn't care . She was not a porcelain doll. She was in front of the bin's room when suddenly she froze. When she thought something just slided under the door.
She ran away , fearing it could be a small snake. The next thing she knew was she was knocking at the door of his handsome neighbour.
"My trash bags are too heavy . Can you help me " she blurted. She didn't understand why she felt the need to see him and to seek him for help. Her sister knew about her snake's phobia. She would have understood.
He had been nice to accept to help her and she felt more peaceful.
Another day she had met him at the supermarket. She followed him and was very nervous. All she could talked about was about sweets and cakes. She was a very smart girl but at that time she felt so stupid that she couldn't bring a more clever discussion than sweets and cakes.
He had been very nice to her and he bought him some sweets to her surprise. The next day she unplugged on purpose her tv in order to ask him to fix it. It was just an excuse because she cooked a strawberry cake for him. He came and fixed the tv but she didn't have the courage to give him the cake.
It seemed foolish at that moment for her to give a strawberry cake to an older man.
And then , came the miserable day where she arrived late at his own class. She had been so excited she didn't find sleep until very late. when morning came , she didn't hear her wake up rings.
When she entered the class very embarrassed. He was glaring at her . She panicked and she started to wave at him like she had been a moron. Then she tried an attempt to seduce him and she regretted it because he looked upset at her.
The rest of the day hadn't been much better as she fell down the stairs. She remembered he had asked her to let go of his arm. But she didn't want to let go. She had been aware of her childish behavior but she stubbornely didn't want to let go like her life was depending on it. Then she lost her balance.
During her coma, she dreamt that she was someone else. A great king, the dreamt had been violent, bloody, full of wars, treasons, lust, luxury, conquest, glory and love. The only light in the tormentated head of the king she was had been Hephaistion. The love of his life.
Her dreamt had been vivid to the point she didn't knew anymore who she was. Lina or Alexander? What was reality?. She felt it again ; the pain , the enormous grief Alexander had when Hephaistion died.
8 months of suffering and when at last, death was there to take him away he heard that voice :
"Don't you wanna know who poisoned Hephaistion?"
Lina woke up with tears. Her life would never be the same.
She was still feeling it: the painfull loss Alexander went through when Hephaistion died. It was so fresh in her mind and her heart. Who was she? Lina or Alexander? She was under shock and she wanted to see if Hephaistion was real. She begged her sister to call Axel.
But there had been one big detail she had forgotten. Hephaistion never seemed to be attract to woman. Alexander didn't know why his friend didn't have any interest in them and at the time , he was pleased with the idea. No women would have been able to steal him .
The gods were cruels because, he was now a woman. She couldn't forgot the look Axel had when he saw that man who looked like Alexander. He was obviously more into men than women in this life too.
At the other side of the city, the golden hair man , Lina had bumped onto earlier was having dinner with his co worker, the new Egyptian assistant manager.
" It's a beautiful ring , you have " Patrick said. "It looks familiar to me "
" Oh, it's an old ring , my father gave it to me, he got it from my grand father who got it from "
"okay I get it , Nassor !"
Nassor smiled. He felt tired . Since he was wearing the ring he had strange dreams about ancient times.
Patrick ordered a beer but couldn't helped himself but staring at the ring. He could swore it was the same, than in his dreams. The one that Alexander used to wear. He remembered that ring well because few days ago, he dreamt about Alexander the great death and how , he or at least the one he was in this dream helpted the great king to take off his ring.
Patrick sighed. He didn't like to dream about ancient times. The dreams were too much vivids and he felt ashame because in these dreams he had been an euneuch.
Nassor stared at Patrick.
" You are so pale, Are you okay?"
"I am ! I was thinking maybe that ring is cursed.."
"What? You want to scare me.." Nassor laughed.
TBC
