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I landed lazily on the pale couch. We've just finished our first practice with the sorcerous and I have to admit it: It-wasn't-a-piece-of-cake.
Okay, perhaps I did underestimate those idiots, but they gotta give me some credit! I have no damn powers that can keep my butt safe nor smash within seconds my enemy to the ground and that made me feel really useless and with control out of hand. I must always have things under my command and in my way, or else everything just gets…'complicated'
There's nothing worse than to feel powerless in battle. Well, you don't need exactly to possess powers. A great warrior knows that your mind is the best weapon you can use. If you don't think straight, if you can find puzzle pieces to pull up with an improvised plan, if you can't figure out how to save your life. You're dead.
But powers can be really handy of course, I've proven this fact recently. The worst spell you can ever get on you is 'illusion' and I'm not talking about mind persuasion, heck I've sensed that perfectly to detect those kind of trickeries with some sort of ease. It sucks when they can multiply into tons of bodies of themselves, surround you and leave you at their mercy. Which they happen to don't have.
That's just something I've been trying to improve on, the rest I can do just fine. Nabu has taught me well. He was the one who gave me a taste of the 'wizards are hard to play with' thing, and as hard as wizards are fairies. Not that I can't fight with a pixie! For fuck's sake that would be ridiculous! I'm just saying that you can feel quite lost whenever they fly on their precious wings of them and all you can do is watch as they mumble something to their fingers and blow you, or at least try. Ugh, but I did learn through the years that you can underestimate as well what fairies can do to you, in every single way. They can get you attention in a blink of an eye with their revealing and glowing outfits, which free their long legs, their tempting glossy lips, the blue pools that reflect perfectly yourself weakening at their stare. They could put you at their mercy in one big different way. Your mind doesn't work anymore, you feel trapped, as if you start having an out of body experience where you just can watch yourself kneeing like a loser to their alluring figure. Years of practice trashed in nanoseconds, it's uncontrollable and I've already mentioned how things turn up when that happens. Then you just realize that it isn't completely out of your power, you still have it, but it doesn't belong to your head anymore, but to your heart.
And you're simply fucked up.
It gets worse when they consume you completely, it starts at the heart and it grows like a tumor, widening everywhere, installing eventually in your brains. They simply ruined you.
Or should I say she?
Dragon, why did it always have to go straight to her? Damn this is hyper ironic! Me, the grumpy, stubborn, sexist and hot headed specialist has fallen madly in love with a pixie! And the universe, just to make sure I get screwed enough, sends me one with a siren's voice that keeps on dragging fiercely into her spells and she's completely out of my league. I didn't deserve her, no, I don't deserve her.
But I was the stubborn wasn't I?
I found myself pulling a sweater out of my bag, covering my exhausted body and now mind. As I was about to grab the door knock a faster hand does it first.
"Where are you going?"
"Getting some fresh air"
"Well you seem ruining out of oxygen cuz it's the fifth time today!"
"Go play mummy elsewhere Luc!"
I shut the door in his perplexed face.
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"Riven, please."
My feet guide me to the closest pub.
"Please what?"
"Scotch, please"
"Please stop doing this."
I'm on the third glass. Three glasses already. One for Humiliation, other for Shame and the latest for Rejection.
"I do love you but not enough to hand out my heart to you once again."
"I'll just take the bottle" I hand out the earth money leaving meaningless a generous tip. I head out to the Gardenia streets, approaching my apartment and by then the bottle has already past the middle.
"So please, please, Riven, if you still love me, if you want to save what lasts of this friendship…just let me go"
Her almond eyes revealed fear and despair, her petite frame was shrunken and her vivid red lips trembling.
"FUCK!" I screamed as I through the almost empty content against the wall. I was panicking, I rubbed my fingers furiously on my hair and sat on the floor shaking with my hand still on my magenta messed locks.
"What did I do?" I whispered
Oh I know, I just turned down my big fat ego, made a fool out of myself, hurt the girl cherished more and literally caged her to convince her that I still deserved her, that we still deserved a chance. Or it myself I was trying to deceive?
I needed to stop this. This was going too far and I've had enough of this shit, it has been two bloody years! I must stop this or else I end up degrading myself. Hahahaha, who am I'm kidding? I'm preventing to degrade myself any longer! Worse than this...heck it has to be my end. I have a reputation, a goal and a life. I played soup operas foolishly and withdrew from my obligations.
I finally enter the apartment, tossed away my upper clothing and staggered to my room.
"SHIT!" I bumped my hip against the sharpy end of the table. As I massaged the soared area I realize that Lucas wasn't here. Where did that little bastard go? Probably went out for one night stand. That sly doggie.
I laid on the unmade bed and fell into a restless sleep I won't let the alcohol take the best of me, at least not until tomorrow morning.
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"Lucas, where are we going?"
"You'll see when we get there…"
After a few blocks I can get a better sight of our destination, long dark doors of black iron between marble walls,
"I thought we could go to the "Garden of Roses"
"But at this time it's closed!"
"I think there might be there someone to open the gates for us" He shrugged. Oh mother, this guy's crazy! Who the hell would stay up in the middle of the night to open the garden for us?
Lucas turned right and there was nobody there.
"I told ya" I sang giving him a triumph grin.
"Shh…don't make too much noise, we'll climb them"
"Are you nuts?! Nuh uh, I'm not gonna do it" He smiled at me, pressed a foot on the wall and begun to climb it. He jumps and he's already on the other side. He stares at me between the iron bars, but I can't follow his gazed. I'm enchanted.
I also press my foot on the marble and shook my head.
"I couldn't guess our date would be like this" I stated as he waited for me on the other side.
"Think of it as a very unique date. Come on hurry up!" He screams still smiling.
I found myself landing my feet on the soft solo and I loose myself in my mind for a moment: I jumped.
I just wanted to call Tecna and tell her that I just jumped to a closed garden with a half stranger, or my partner in crime, and I jumped without my wings through a high gate!
There we are, the two of us, protected by the darkness, in a garden that doesn't belong to us, but which is ours now. Two shadows take off their shoes and feel the fresh grass between their toes. They walk, with no light, no talk, no plans.
And each step is a risk.
But sometimes it feels so good to risk…
Two shadows that search each other on the darkness and that suddenly met with their mouths… Lucas kissed me slowly, with no rush. Here I am, with this handsome guy which happened to meet me a few days ago but whose eyes caught me and I kept on wanting to read them better. I opened to him ridiculously, he listened, he helped me , he cared about me and he was a stranger.
But it felt so good.
Flavors get mixed, my cherry wine lips with his sweet orange lips, the scent of roses and lavender, the smell of the fresh grass and land.
A drop fell in my forehead and I parted. A drop?
He didn't seem to get what caused me to part and he frowned
"I felt a drop"
"Well you could've gotten a better excuse" He smiled sadly.
"No, Luc, it's raining!"
It wasn't raining… a few moments later we get surprised by the automatic irrigation system.
"Shit! Let's go!" He grabbed my hand.
I was startled and I didn't wanted to go, but this time he didn't waited and lift me off the ground taking me out of there. We went to his car and he grabbed a dry jacket from the backseat and gave it to me.
"Fuck, I'm so sorry Musa, I sho-" I silenced him with a finger pressed against his still swollen lips.
"Thank you" It's all I could say and sealed my gratitude with another kissed.
It feels good to be happy.
Hey! Here's another chapter! Sorry for not being updating , imagination takes its time to show up, but anyways I've got a few things in mind. Happy birthday to my sis ahaha today's her b-Day so this chapter goes to her, even if it doesn't have to do with her lols...ANYWAY.
Guest I know it seems confusing but Musa's a pretty girl so more men, more drama. Andy- the poor fella whom I think we won't see gain, or at least soon, Riven & Lucas the love triangle's base!
I just loved teh date scene, I've always dreamed to have a date like that :3 Though I feel terrible for Riven , I want to give him a big hug.
Thank you so much for staying with me!
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-AladdinJasmine100
