Here's the next-hold on, before I do...I'M SO SORRY YOU GUYS HAVE TO WAIT FOR 5 FREAKING MONTHS FOR THIS CHAPTER! 5 FREAKING MONTHS, THAT'S UNFORGIVABLE!

*Ahem* Well, here's the thing: I've been on my other account, Misty Rain The Water Mage, updating one of my stories pretty often. However, I realized that it took away the time I need to update the stories I have here and my other stories on my other account. I'm so sorry. But now, I'm taking a break from it and I'm free to update my other stories! Yay!

However, school's coming near and I won't be able to update much. But I'll try anyway! :D

With all that said, here's the next chapter! Enjoy!

I'm serious, Damien and I didn't talk until we both entered into my grandfather's office and closed the door. I wondered why. "You weren't really thinking about talking about anything, so..." Damien replied. True, I was expecting him to start conversation, but I guess he was expecting that from me. He looked at the books and smiled a little. I decided to ask him something.

"Why were you here earlier?" I asked.

"Oh, I was just looking at the books here," he answered, looking at me. "They're all interesting topics, in my opinion." Curious, I walked to the book shelves and scanned the spines of the books. All of them were about either business and psychology and varied in thickness. I didn't think either are interesting to me. "That's fine if you don't find them interesting." I looked at the orange-haired incubus. I wondered if my grandpa ACTUALLY studied all of them? That's a shitload of books to study from, coming from a girl that has to study her ass off by reading too many textbooks about economics. "Do humans really study this much, Alice? Including you since you've said to study a lot?"

Sighing, I nodded and leaned my back against the bookshelf, still looking at him. "Kind of. It depends on what you study on," I answered.

He looked puzzled, making me feel puzzled. "What do you mean?"

"Liiiike...say you were interested in astronomy or something, learning about space and all. There's a LOT to learn about space, so we have materials like textbooks and the Internet to help us learn more about astronomy."

We walked closer to me. I tried not to blush. "Are there things you can't study?" he asked.

I shook my head. "There's books and all that crap about anything really," I answered.

"Even the demon world?" He stopped next to me and leaned against the bookshelf as well, smirking.

I smirked back. "Nah, there's no textbook about that, but stuff like the demon world is told in fiction or religion." It actually felt nice to talk to Damien about learning. It felt like teaching a kid how to live life the way they want it. I suddenly felt like the older, wiser person the more we talked about learning.

"So, humans can learn anything at any time?" Damien asked once more.

"Yup," I replied. "Though kids who're about 5 or so start school because of the law, but then graduate in high school and college when they get older. Besides, when people aren't in school anymore, there's bookstores and the Internet that are reliable in information about everything."

He looked away from me and at the window with the raindrops pounding on it. "I see. Humans are free to learn anything..." he muttered in a serious yet sorrow tone. Thunder crackled. That made me concerned for him. He sounded jealous yet sad about it...

"What? Don't demons learn anything too?" I asked. He shook his head at me, which surprised me. Demons can't learn jackshit in their world?

"No," Damien answered. "Demons don't have schools to learn from like you humans do. Everything we learn comes from either experience or verbal mentoring. Books are only permitted to higher nobles." Jesus, to have a world without SOMETHING or SOMEPLACE to learn from...he continued, "James and Erik were the only two of my brothers to ever touch a book. Sam and Matthew chose not to read..."

"What about you, Damien?" I asked. "Didn't you read?" He shook his head again. "Why the hell can't you?"

Damien sighed before answering, "Because I'm technically not a noble at all." Thunder crackled again. My eyes widened. What?! How the fuck is he NOT considered royalty?! His other brothers are, so that would make him one, right? "No, we are all half brothers. We only share the same father." My eyes grew again. Half brothers? That would explain why they all look so different, but...what about their mothers then? "James, Erik, Sam, and Matthew's mothers were all nobles and now queens..." He paused to look down. "My mother was not a noble nor a queen." I could see the sadness in his eyes, making me feel like shit for asking. Damn. I felt so sorry for Damien...

"For what?" he asked, his voice cracking a little. "You didn't know and were curious. It was only appropriate to answer."

I patted Damien's shoulder, making him blush a little and look at me. "Still, I'm so sorry." He stopped blushing and looked down at his feet, thunder cracking yet again. I sighed and wanted to change the subject. Maybe I should ask about the Abyssal Plains. What questions to ask...what did it look like? What was it like? Are there more kingdoms or just one kingdom? What was the weather like?

Suddenly, I heard the orange-haired man chuckling. Oh right...he could hear my thoughts. I blushed again and chuckled with him. "Sorry," I apologized.

"You always keep saying sorry when you don't need to, Alice," Damien stated with a smile. "It's actually kind of cute." Now my whole face was burning red. I was actually really flattered when he said that-and I thought Erik was the flatterer! I stopped leaning on the bookshelf.

"So, uh, how about we-" I began to ask before I heard a groan from Damien himself. I quickly looked at him to see him put his hand on his head and get off the bookshelf. I then asked in worry, "Dude, are you okay?"

He nodded. "Y-yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about it," he answered as he tried to hide another groan.

I scoffed. "Yeah, of course you're fine. I'm really convinced," I said sarcastically before turning serious.

"I-it's just a headache, Alice. I always get it when I'm...mnnah...out of energy. I'll be fine." He was out of energy right now? Didn't he get enough of mine when I was- "N-no. We didn't...nnrgh...get enough energy to heal..." he replied, almost on his knees. Fuck, I needed to help him! He sounded like he was very pained. I suddenly remembered Sam and Erik kissing me for energy...should I kiss him for energy? Shit, I don't think I'm that good of a kisser...but I was willing to try anyway. Anything to help Damien get energy!

He must've heard my thoughts though, as he instantly stood up and turned away from me. "N-NO!" he shouted to me. "No! I-it's fine...I'm used to this." Used to this? Used to feeling like his skull's cracked open?! No way in fucking hell am I letting that happen to him! I walked in front of Damien and put my hands on his shoulders.

"Damien, let me help you with this, alright?" I asked of him. "It feels freaking terrible if I won't help you with your headache." Damien could only make a startled noise. Both of us just stood there, I was waiting to see if he'll make the first move on me. I wanted to do this, even if I'm possibly a sloppy kisser. I want to help him. I don't want to see him in pain anymore. Suddenly, I saw the orange-haired man's face turn from startled and nervous to...seductive.

I felt that familiar desire to kiss him flow in me again. He then wrapped an arm around my waist, my whole body heating up when he did so and pull me to his chest. I looked up at him, my whole face feeling like it's burning, to see his lustful gaze. He cupped my neck with his open hand and muttered to me, "Thank you." I felt nervous about this, but I was willing to do whatever it takes to get him back to normal.

He leaned his face down to mine and kissed me gently, but passionately. I felt pleasure down my body when he did so. I rested my hands on his chest while he kept his hands where they were. I got more nervous as he timidly deepened the kiss, but loved every second of it, enthralled and truly. I felt my energy drain from the kissing, making me feel light and warm. I had felt nervous during it, but I still had no regrets. Besides, I loved every second of his gentle, passionate kiss. It was what I imagined an amazing first kiss would be like-well, minus the energy drain.

Soon though, Damien stopped kissing as the energy drain stopped. We both stared at each other, panting for air. I've never been kissed like that before...but I loved it. I fucking loved every second of it. The orange-haired male moved a strand of hair from my face and said, "I'm okay now...but...I..." Did...did he want to continue, even though he's fine? I was unsure. But, I loved his kiss...I...I wanted him to kiss me some more. There was no time for logical thinking for me at this moment.

However, as I was going to make my move...Alicia leaped in front of us as thunder crackled once again. Both of us shot back and looked at her. She was looking up at us, blowing raspberries at us-specifically, me. I furrowed my brows at her angrily. Damien, however, laughed.

"Are you looking for revenge, Alicia?" he asked. Alicia tilted her head a little, as if she was confused. Like I said, as if.

"Ha, ha, very funny," I said wearily since I gave my energy to him. "Now shoo." She then blew raspberries at me again and ran off. We both saw that the door was opened-why the hell was it opened? Well, I'll probably get her back later. I suddenly felt faint and almost fell down, only for Damien to catch me.

"Whoa! Are you alright, Alice?" he asked.

"I'm...fine..." I answered in a weary voice again. I actually wasn't. Due to that kiss, I was feeling...tired. Probably too tired to continue making out with him...although I REALLY wanted to...

"No, you're too tired. I'll carry you up to bed," he offered. Without any retorts, I let him carry me bridal style and he walked me up to my bedroom and lay me down on my bed. "Rest now."

"B-but..." I tried to protest before yawning. He chuckled.

"Not right now. I can't afford to knock you out," he replied. I pouted at him, making him chuckle again. "But thank you, Alice, for giving me your energy."

I smiled at him. "Eh...no problem..." I answered.

"Sleep well." He then pushed the bangs of my hair aside and...kissed my forehead. I blushed pretty hard at that. He then left the bedroom. I was just laying there thinking about him kissing my forehead. Why did he do that? I liked it, but why? I then fell asleep before I could think about anything else.

...

I woke up again in my room, except...it stopped raining, at least. I heard no thunder either. I sighed and sat up. I felt...fine actually. I didn't feel anything weird in my body. However, that didn't mean I had the make-out session from earlier out of my head...and that forehead kiss Damien gave me. I blushed once again at the thought of it. Did he...liked that kiss? Does he...love me?

I shook my head. Of course he wouldn't. I mean, falling in love in only a few days? That can't be possible. But still...why? Also, did he really did my thought of continuing to make-out with him?

"God, I'm stupid..." I mumbled to myself as I grabbed. He did reply with "No", so he can't possibly be in love with me.

Suddenly, I heard my phone playing the pop rock ringtone. I got up from my bed, walked to it, and picked it up. I saw Suzu's number on it. I wonder why she's calling me now. I swiped "Answer" and greeted, "What's up, Suzu?"

"Yo, Alice! I got some good news for you!" she replied.

She sounded very excited, making me surprised. I sat on the edge of my bed, intrigued of what she was going to say. "Go on..." I said.

"Have you gotten the text that there's going to be no school for a few days?" I shot back when I heard that.

"Wait, what?! Seriously?!"

"You didn't get the text?"

"No, I was..." I trailed off, trying to make up an excuse for why I've never heard of this. I don't want to tell her that I made out with Damien so he won't get those headaches anymore. "Taking a nap."

"Really?"

"Really, Suzu. But I'm surprised. Why? Was the storm that bad?"

"It was bad enough to break the windows."

"Whoa, the windows?! All of them?"

"Every single one! There's broken glass in the classrooms, so the school texted that it'll be cancelled for a few days."

I could not believe my ears. Did the storm get worse after I slept? Before I did, it was just another thunder storm... "Guess that means it'll take a long time to clean all of that up?"

"Yup. And that means we can stay up and go play and stream Ikomana Warriors together!"

I gasped happily and smiled. "Hell yeah! You online?"

"Yup. Just waiting for you."

I nodded. "Right. See ya there, SheOgre!"

"Bye, Alicia!" We hung up. I never felt so happy in my life! No school for the next few days! And I go play on a stream for Ikomana Warriors!

I stood up and quickly looked around for my headset for PC gaming. I then found it in the closet of my room. It was black and neon green. I then found my laptop, turned it on, signed in, went into the Ikomana Warriors app, plugged in the headset, put it on, and then signed into the game. My little avatar, Alicia, appeared in SheOgre's (Suzu's) room where they were last talking to each other. She had long bright pink hair, one green eye and one blue eye, a blue and pink armored hat, blue and pink gauntlets, a pink cropped tube top, puffy blue shorts, blue and pink armored boots, and a matching sword and shield on her back. I had created her in the 8th grade and didn't like how her look turned out. Now, I don't mind and it fits her.

"Hey, SheOgre? You here?" I asked into the set. "I'm in your room."

"Alicia!" said Suzu through the set as well. "I'm outside, ready to kick some ass in the forest tonight! Are you?"

I scoffed. "I was BORN ready, SheOgre!" I replied. "Let's go!" Alicia then went outside and met up with SheOgre, Suzu's avatar. She's exactly her name: A female ogre. She practically looks like Suzu except for her height and muscles. She had a long scar across her head and had black survival face-paint on. She wore two dark green shoulder plates, a dark green crop top with light green accents and a turtle neck crop top that revealed the one underneath, a pair of matching gauntlets, short green and yellow shorts, and a pair of black metal boots. We both then journeyed into the forests in this game.

Done! What do you think? It's not too shabby, right? If there are any errors, please tell me!

So, Damien and Alice kissed! *fangirls a little* However, he won't be the only guy Alice kisses in this story...

Also, I don't live in Chicago nor have I even been to Chicago, so I have no idea what the weather's like there. I might as well be incorrect about how bad storms can be there. But...eh, I needed someway to extend the days so that Alice can get close to the incubi...

Anyways, review, follow, favorite, and I'll see you in the next chapter!