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A/n: I'm trying to tie up a few loose ends, like character descriptions and other details I forgot to include. Sorry for the inconvenience! Also all words in italics are probably in French, in the flashback she speaks French. XOXO-Sammi

Roxi:*silent*

Me: rawr

.I guess actions speak louder than words, but emotion trumps them both.

XXCHAPTER 12 my heart arranges a melodyXX

I was looking at myself. Or who I thought was me. I was wrong about it being the future, more like a very distant past. My appearance for one, was out of this world. A black silk dress lined with black lace, with a fitted bodice and a full skirt. Long black gloves on my bronze arms and in my chestnut curls was pinned a shiny tiara like clip . I lounged on an ornate love seat, set in a little alcove off a big ball room swarming with people all dressed up similarly.

"how I grow weary of you leaving me." I said in a cold tone of voice, I fanned myself with a black fan.

A man dressed in a very old fashioned black suit with a white waist coat walked in from the crowded room and knelt before me, grasping my free hand with both of his. The light shinned on his face and I did a double take at what I saw in the orb. Shaggy dark hair and black eyes, It was Patch.

"mon c'eleste beaut'e, what words of idiocy you speak. I'm never truly away from you." he said with a debonair smile, as he bent to kiss my hand.

I roughly snatched my hand away from him, a strange mixed emotion of hurt and hostility crossed my face. " So now I'm an idiot? I detest you, laissez-moi tranquille Au Revior." I waved him away, but he took the opportunity to reclaim my hand and hold it to his heart.

"no, you could never drive me away. Your words of hatred amuse me." he stood up and extended a white gloved hand to me. I ignored his hand and gathered my skirts, discarding my fan by throwing it on the couch when I stood up.

"Excusez moi, is everything between us just that? A form of amusement." I huffed, clearly something had happened to make me this upset. I knew I wasn't this much of a bitch normally.

Patch's face darkened, and I sensed his patience wearing thin. "Pray tell mon amour, what has bothered you so?"

"You and your philandering ways!" my voice rose a few octaves, tears brimmed my eyes. And covered my hands with my face so he wouldn't see. His hands grasped my shoulders.

"Foolish girl, what lies have reached your ears." he said in a gentle voice. "I am yours faithfully. Have I not pledged my undying love to you, and you alone? In front of all that are present none the less." he held my hands to his chest and kissed my forehead. "Some one has played a trick on you, perhaps out of jealousy that I have courted you instead of them." he said with his ever present arrogant smirk.

I stifled like a child, " I am not foolish, for what if you had heard the same of me?" I laughed.

"No man would dare try to steal something of mine, mon amour." Patch placed a kiss on my mouth.

"One moment then my sweet, there's some business that acquires my immediate attention." I hurried away towards the ball room , my eyes scanning the endless sea of people until they rested on a group of brightly dressed woman.

"Oh Lilith?" I said in a singsong voice. I approached a woman with elegantly twisted ebony hair , dark eyes, and bright red lips. Her red dress didn't flatter her in ways that mine certainly did. But we differed in the way we carried ourselves, she had grace but also had tramp almost visibly written on her forehead. Whilst I had the grace of a lady who commanded respect.

" Roxanne, always such a radiant beauty. Oui?" she asked the surrounding ladies. They all murmured agreements, but cast sympathetic glances towards me. A respectful action, done out of the information Edith had relayed to them about me.

"Merci, words I would repeat to you. If you were not a shameless whore." I spat. " your beau has attempted to kiss me, he courted me through the summer and denied any other lady." Lilith stiffened. She hadn't expected me to confront him, just accept the word of a friend and move on.

"Isn't that what she told us all?" on frightened young girl said to another.

"Excusez moi, but, where are you going with this?" Lilith said snidely. I took a few steps forward, now a few meager inches away from her.

"I think you have a very blurred interpretation of what is mine, I presume you tried your advances on him. I'm thinking your jealous of something you cant understand." I looked her in the eyes, the air static with tension between us.

"I don't want him. Any man that would choose you over me has no more sense than that of a pig!" she spat. All the other girls scattered at that moment leaving us by the door, she walked out side and I pursued her. We stepped out onto the steps of a grand mansion, glowing with light from the inside. Snow flakes fell down silently, and the air was still and icy.

"Lilith, I'm a lady. Something you would know nothing about. Leave my home, and don't come back. In fact," I said through clenched teeth. " I suggest you leave town altogether. I grow sick of seeing you."

"I'll leave your home, but I do not fear you Roxanne. These people aren't my real family, so no one has any right to tell me what to do. You think your above all us, like some heavenly being. But-" she smiled like a predator contemplating how to kill its prey. "There will come a time where we will meet again, perhaps then you will have come to your full potential. 'Till then I'll leave you one more scrap of information," her dark eyes, gave away no light. Like bottomless pits of darkness

"I have no use for your mindless prattle. Your speaking the language of the devil, and I will not have this brought upon my house!" I said with barely controlled rage.

"Leave Patch then, there is much you don't understand yet. He will bring you harm and misery, I bear no ill will against you, it was merely a show for the young ones, something for them to talk about. Heed my words, lest you separate yourself from that monster you will be pulled into a world of which the likes you've never seen before. Something mere mortals have no business being a part of." she said in an urgent tone.

"I guess were more alike than I thought, " I said blankly. "Neither one of us will be told what to do." and with that I walked back into the party.

The scene blurred and then went out all together.

I sat in the chair silently, "Who are you?" I said shakily.

"My name is Madame Serena, I'm a gypsy who has special abilities in the fields of past lives and life beyond death."

"This is some sort of sick joke!" I yelled.

"I assure you its not. if you wish to see more, come back around noon next Saturday."

I shook my head, "Fine." I said and got up to leave.

"Also, I saw you eyeing that dress." she smiled, "Take it I think you can put it to good use. Maybe tonight at the usual place where you sing." she suggested then went over to wrap the gown in a box for me. She placed it in my arms and sent me on my way.

"There you are!" vee said excitedly, "What did you get?"

"A um, dress." I stammered, I couldn't bring myself to tell her what I had seen.

"lets go get some food!" Vee's green eyes shone brightly. "Screw this diet, I want something fried." she laughed. I didn't know why she was always on a diet, she was gorgeous. A few pounds over curvy but also almost 6 feet tall.

"Ok, I laughed and we hurried back to the car and turned up the AC. Sweat plastered her blonde hair to her forehead.

"Man, is it hot out or what?"

"Yea it is, lets go to Enzo's." I said and picked up my chirping phone.

Patch: need 2 talk to u, where can I meet you ?

Roxi: going to Enzo's w/ Vee . Meet me there but make it quick k?

Patch: don't count on it being quick, k b there soon though.

I let out an aggravated sigh, "Patch needs to talk to me. He's meeting us here ok?" I said as we got out of the car and walked into the restaurant. The place looked like a speakeasy from a lifetime ago, perfect after just confronting my past. We were seated by a young ginger girl who had braces. Her name tag said 'Eden' on it.

"Thanks." I said and looked around nervously for Patch, my stomach tying itself into knots like a balloon animal. Someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around and saw a pair of dark, lightless eyes bore into my own.

"I got a call from some one," she started coolly. "So you've met Madame Serena?" he smirked.

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