I Still Love You
Chapter 14: Scary and Romantic
Musa POV
"Damn! Get a hold of yourself Musa! You nearly told him the secret! Keep it together!" I hissed to myself. I knew I had to tell Riven that Melody is his daughter one day. But not now. Now isn't a good time. But he does have a right to know I suppose. But I don't think he deserves to know! I know he's supposed to-
My chain of thoughts broke when I heard a voice. A rough but wonderful voice that I love so much. But my eyes widened when I heard what he said...
"What secret?"
I turned around to see him standing a few metres behind me with a serious look. I was speechless! I don't know what to say! I can't just tell him that Melody is his daughter! I have no idea what his reaction will be like if I do tell him. I'm sure he'll be furious that I kept that secret for 4 years...
"I..u-umm...well I..." I stuttered and noticed him stepping closer and closer to me. I started to step backwards as he got closer to me.
He stared into my navy eyes with serious eyes like he was waiting for my answer. My eyes were still wide and my mouth was slightly open. I then felt hard, rough feeling behind my back. I was already leaning on the rough tree bark as he got even closer.
"Riven..." I gulped, looking into his eyes, still trying to think of a reasonable explanation.
"Musa, what's the secret that you're keeping from..me?" he asked again, his body and face only a few inches from mine.
I sighed nervously, "I can't tell you,"
Riven got a bit closer and his handsome face still had a serious expression, and I didn't like it at all. He can't make me tell him the truth; now isn't a good time to tell him. Or was it? Should I tell him?
"Look, I know the thing you're keeping from me sounds very serious coz I can tell by the look in your eyes, so I want you to tell me, Musa. I'm serious," he whispered. He put his hands on either side of my head and touched the tree bark, caging me in his arms.
"Riven, don't" I whispered, closed my eyes, and turned my head to the side.
"Why Musa?! It's been freakin' 4 YEARS since we broke up?! And I think this stupid 'secret' you're keeping from me is something to do with it! Why can't you just tell me?!" Riven shouted. I flinched at how loud his voice was so I finally opened my eyes and looked into his beautiful amethyst eyes.
"Riven do you expect me to just tell you every single thing that happened in my life AFTER the break up?!" I snapped, my eyes glaring at him. He can't just force me to tell him the secret! How could he?! But when I thought about it, I think he is right. He kinda does have the right to know that Melody is his daughter. He definitely is her father... but I'm worried that bad things will happen if I do tell him!
"Well, YES!" Riven scoffed.
"Pffh! That's lame! You really expect me to tell you now after you just said 'Well, YES'?!" I teased annoyingly. Riven sighed and shook his head.
"This is not a joke Musa!" Riven hissed.
"Well I'm SORRY if I do think it is! Coz it freakin IS!" I screamed at him and tried to go away from him but his hands and body were still caging me in. I put my hands on his very muscular chest and tried to push him away. But he's way too strong! I blushed when I touched his strong abs. He really has worked out more after the break up and he's even more muscular then before!
I grunted as I tried to shove him away but he wouldn't budge at all! Instead, he's getting even closer to me! He ran his rough fingers down my arm, up to my elbow and he gripped my wrist firmly. I tried to push him again but his grip was quite tight.
"Musa, you know you can't push me away" Riven whispered and looked into my navy eyes. I sighed.
"I give up!" I scowled and crossed my arms in front of my chest. He was already closer to me now and I could feel his hot breath near my neck and it tickled a bit.
"I'm serious, Musa! I'm not joking about this" Riven said with yet another serious expression.
"It's nothing! Okay! Now can we get going?! Don't you care about Melody?! If you do, we should be looking for her right now!" I yelled. But then I felt my face heat up after thinking about Melody. Oh my god, I'm so worried! What if something bad happens to her? What if..what if she really needs me right now and she's in danger! All these thoughts came racing through my mind.
I then felt hot tears run down my face as I sniffed. Riven let my hands go but put his hands on the tree behind me again so that I was still caged in his arms. But I didn't feel trapped; I felt protected.
"Musa..." Riven whispered, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to shout at you,"
My eyes wandered up to his face and I could see a frown on his handsome face. His eyes showed hurt and it broke my heart.
I shook my head and sobbed, "I-It's not you.. I'm just...just worried a-about M-Melody"
Riven looked into my eyes and frowned again. I wiped my tears that were still falling down my cheeks and I saw Riven's hands drop to the side.
I then felt him get closer and closer to me until his face was right next to my neck. I felt his strong arms wrap around my body as he pressed his muscular body on mine, in a hug.
I leaned my face on his neck and cried a bit more until I wiped my tears away with my hand. The hug lasted for about 2 minutes until we both pulled away. Riven coughed a bit and looked away.
"We should...uhh...get going" Riven said. I nodded my head at him and stepped away from the tree that was behind me. We then packed all of our stuff and started walking.
It was kind of awkward between us after what happened a few minutes ago so it was silent between us.
"So where is Mel anyway?" Riven asked, looking around the forest.
"I think she's in some type of hideout with Cadence and the boys. The hideout must be in some sort of...cave" I replied.
We carried on walking until we got into some type of jungle.
"We're going through this jungle, unfortunately" I sighed, looking into the jungle that we're about to go through. I had lots of trees and long stems that hung around...EVERYWHERE! Oh boy, it's gonna be hard getting through it!
"Are you serious?! I'm not going through that hell hole!" Riven scowled, crossing his arms.
"Well deal with it! I never asked you to come with me in the first place, right?" I smirked, placing my hands on my hips.
"Whatever" Riven said coldly and walked past me. We were walking into the green jungle and there were always trees everywhere. Some of the branches were pretty sharp and could easily cut my skin.
I walked next to Riven awkwardly with my hands to my side and my eyes wandering to his. I'm not even sure what we are anymore! Maybe we're friends, or maybe we're just acquaintances...we'll never know.
"So...umm...what are Melody's powers then?" Riven casually asked like he didn't really care but I could tell that he did.
"Well, I think it's Rhythms and Tunes...something to do with my powers. She has various music abilities, some I can't even name but there are a few simple ones she can do like she can turn invisible when she plays a flute, she can make extremely loud sounds that is able to make earth quakes, she can read people's thoughts, she has the power to make people fall in love by using her music" I explained, and finally noticed him staring at me.
I gave a small smile at him and looked in front of me, ahead of the jungle.
"Ooh! She will have really good fighting skills when she's older, but I have no idea why!" I blurted out. Damn it! I accidentally blurted that out! He wasn't meant to know that! Shit! He's going to be suspicious on why Mel will have those abilities now!
"Fighting...skills? uhh...you can't fight" Riven said simply which made me sigh in relief.
"Yeah...it must have been from her father...he had those skills" I sighed and looked to the side.
"Her...father?" Riven whispered, "Who is her father?"
I really couldn't answer that question right now. I couldn't. All of a sudden, I saw a monkey coming towards me, swinging on one of those long hanging stems. Oh my god! I'm terrified of monkeys!
"Ahh!" I screamed and immediately ducked so the monkey landed on...Riven's HEAD!
I'm so scared of monkeys! What should I do?!
Suddenly, the monkey started running around Riven's head and before I knew it, I burst out laughing!
I put my hands on my stomach and kept on laughing as Riven struggled to get the crazy monkey off of him! Oh my god! It's hilarious!
"MUSA! Get this stupid little thing OFF OF ME!" Riven shouted, "Don't just stand there! Do something!"
I giggled a bit more and said, "You are a hero you know! Getting a crazy monkey off of your face should be easy!"
Riven growled loudly and the monkey eventually went away, and I immediately stopped laughing. I stared at him. His magenta hair was messy and his face was emotionless. He looked kinda hot when his hair is quite messy...
He gave me a deadly glare and walked off.
"Oh come on! Don't ignore me and be grumpy just coz I didn't help you get that monkey off of you! Believe me, I was terrified of it! What was I supposed to do?!" I snapped. But he just ignored me.
"What did you expect me to do, huh?" I sighed.
"Do me a favour by leaving me alone. By the way, my hair is practically ruined right now coz of you" Riven rolled his eyes. I stared at him which made him look at me.
"You care about your hair the most?!" I giggled a bit and tried to stop laughing. Riven glared at me and scoffed.
"Well, I think you kinda look...hot when you're hair is messy" I mumbled and turned my head away shyly.
Riven looked at me with a sly smirk on his handsome face.
"Get that stupid smirk off your face!" I snapped, hitting the back of his head playfully.
"Ow! What the hell is your problem?! I just think you're cute when you blush, like what you're doing right now" Riven rubbed the back of his head and smirked again.
Oh my gosh! I'm blushing? I didn't even notice!
"You idiot" I muttered and glared at him for smirking at me. Riven chuckled and looked away.
We were nearly at the end of the jungle and Riven couldn't wait to leave this wild place. I was so exhausted as well! It's been very tiring and all I wanted to do was sleep in a bed wrapped in Riven's arms... WAIT! I DID NOT JUST THINK THAT! Here I go again, thinking about Riven and how I really wished we were together again. But I just hope I don't have to think about that jerk again.
I turned to Riven and he was pretty exhausted too. I took my backpack and got a big bottle of water out. I was pretty thirsty too. It almost felt like we were stuck in a deserted island but I hated thinking about that coz I would have to be stuck with him. Of course, him. Ugh... I've seriously got to forget about Riven! And I promise that after this, I will never EVER see him again.
I drank some of the water and looked a Riven. I wondered if he brought some drink with him.
"Umm...did you bring a drink with you?" I questioned, not really caring about whatever his answer's gonna be.
Riven sighed, "Yep but it ran out a few hours ago"
I thought about it for a minute before handing him my bottle of water. He looked at me in confusion.
"Have a drink, you'll get dehydrated" I said.
Riven narrowed his eyes at me, "You don't mind? From my mouth?"
I chuckled a bit. "We used to share bottles a few years ago...don't see why this is any different"
Riven shrugged and took the bottle. "Thanks"
It was now night time. I yawned and decided that we should sleep and start looking tomorrow. We've only got a few more miles to walk anyway. We found a little place near another cave and it had a small lake next to it surrounded by trees. I made the tent and put it near trees and the tent was in front of the small lake.
Riven was sitting at the edge of the floor and lake. He was staring at the dark blue water and the dark midnight sky. I was sat on the edge of the tent. I actually thought I wanted to sleep, but then I realised I can't sleep. I wasn't much sleepy. I was only wearing a small white tank top that showed my stomach with short red shorts and my long midnight blue hair was down and reached my ankles.
I stared at Riven and decided to walk towards him coz I noticed that he was frowning. I sat right next to him and looked at the water.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
Riven glanced at me and sighed, "Just thinking..."
I shivered a bit coz it was cold, and it didn't go unnoticed by Riven.
"You cold?" he whispered. I put my arms around my body and shook my head.
"What were you thinking about?" I questioned, looking around the jungle. It was so silent all of a sudden.
"Forget about it" Riven said. That's when I thought he might be thinking about...us. Maybe about what happened a few years ago.
"Why won't you tell me about it?" I questioned, looking into his eyes but he wasn't looking into mine. Instead, he stood up and went inside the tent. I sighed in frustration and went in the tent too.
I was snuggled with a blanket and I was in the tent. Riven was right next to me with a blanket too. I closed my eyes, thinking about Melody. I just hope she'll be okay. I miss her. My thoughts went to Riven. God, I miss being with him. I mean, I was so happy before he broke up with me. Sure, we had our many arguments about the littlest and stupid things but that was what made us stronger. But maybe I just lost hope in us. We'll never be together again, but I honestly wish we could...
My eyes fluttered open when I felt something sliding on my leg. I was still so sleepy and it was in the middle of the night. I yawned and closed my eyes again, ignoring it. I was too sleepy to care.
But a few minutes later, I still felt it roaming around my legs. I quickly assumed that it was Riven's fingers running on my bare skin coz I've felt his excellent fingers caressing my skin before, and it was a great feeling...but why would he be touching me? Didn't we break up a few years ago? God, this is wrong!
I groaned lazily, "Riven, whatever you're doing, stop it"
I said that without bothering to look back. My back was faced to Riven and my face was in front of the tent. I closed my eyes tight and took a deep breath.
I then felt Riven's fingers going up my body, and my arm. Oh my god! I'm starting to think this isn't Riven! But it has to be! Who else would be running their fingers on my skin?! Riven's the only person in this tent with me...right?
"Riven, stop it NOW!" I growled. I suddenly felt afraid of looking back. No, it must be Riven...or some type of animal! I'm sure I zipped the tent after I came in... but I think I forgot to check..
I then heard a low hiss and my eyes widened. Oh my god! I hope it's not what I think it is! Please don't let it be what I think it is!
I turned around slowly to see Riven's back facing me. Oh my gosh! He's still sleeping! Then the thing that's crawling on my arm is...
I looked back and down and saw something twitching and without thinking, I screamed.
"Ahhh!" I screamed in horror so loudly and I sat up which made Riven jump up and stare at me.
"Musa?! What the he-"
"Riven! THERE'S A SNAKE IN THIS TENT!" I yelled.
"Holy shit!" Riven cursed and looked around the dark tent. I let a few tears run down my face and I squeaked when I saw Riven holding the snake. The snake wasn't big, and wasn't small either. It was medium actually...but still TERRIFYING!
"Geez Musa! Stop screaming! It's only a little snake!" Riven growled, still holding the scary thing in his hands.
"Shut up! And get that thing away from me!" I snapped. Riven smirked at me.
"Aww wittle Moosa is scwawed owf snakes!" Riven teased playfully and I stuck my tongue out to him.
"Stop it you jerk!" I scowled and crossed my arms in front of my chest.
"Nowpe!" Riven said as he made the snake get closer to me.
"Chillax Muse! This type of snake isn't poisonous" Riven said. I pretended to cry by putting my head down and letting a few tears run down my cheeks. Riven immediately put the snake outside and zipped the tent.
"Muse, I'm sorry" Riven frowned. I smirked and instantly pushed him to the floor so that I was lying on top of him. I chuckled and stuck my tongue out.
"Ugh...should've known you were still the little devil I knew" Riven muttered and stared into my eyes. But the way he stared at me was like he was in love with me. Like that time when we were so happy together...
I stared into his eyes too. Our faces only a few centimetres away.
"You look so beautiful...like a goddess" Riven gave me the sweetest smile ever and tucked some of my hair behind my ears. I blushed and smiled.
But that was when I realised how close we where.
I coughed a bit and got off of him.
"We better get to sleep and if you dare put that stupid snake near me again, I will kill you, mister!" I snapped.
Riven laughed and put his hands up to defend himself. "Okay..okay, I'm sorry and I promise, Muse"
I closed my eyes to sleep again but it suddenly got very cold. I shivered again and tried to get warmer by wrapping the blankets around me.
All of a sudden, I felt Riven's arms wrap around me so I turned my head to look at him.
"I you're cold, then get close to me, if you're not then feel free to pull away" Riven shrugged and closed his eyes to sleep. I thought about it for a minute before resting my head on his muscular chest and wrapping my arms around him. I guess it is warmer being around him...
The next morning...
We already got changed into normal clothes. I was wearing a pair of blue skinny jeans, a black tank top, and a pair of black boots that reaches under my knees. My hair was still down with my fringe resting on my forehead.
We already packed everything and we were now starting to walk again. We were very close to the area where Melody might've got kidnapped. We took another few hours until we stopped near the entrance of a cave.
"This must be it" Riven said.
I took a deep breath and nodded. "I hope Mel's okay"
"She is Musa. I know it" Riven smiled a bit and wrapped his hand around my hand. I looked down at our hands and looked up at him, grinning.
"Thanks for coming" I said. Riven smiled again and kissed my cheek. "Don't mention it"
Riven POV
We were walking through the caves until we reached to a part of a cave that had two caves leading into different directions.
"Muse, I think we better split up right here, just to make sure we cover every inch of the place and find Melody" I said.
"O-okay.." Musa whispered with a frown. I pulled her close to me and looked down at her, staring into her beautiful midnight blue eyes.
"Musa, I know you're sad about splitting up right here, knowing one of us or both of us could be in danger but I promise, it'll be okay. Maybe you can use your powers to communicate with me if something bad happens to you. We have to find Melody..." I said, closing my eyes.
Musa closed her eyes and let a tear roll down her cheek.
"Promise me you'll be careful, please? Those people who kidnapped Melody were so powerful. I just don't want you to be in any danger too. good luck, Riven" Musa sobbed.
I lifted her chin up with my finger and stared into her eyes.
"There is a chance that one of us doesn't survive to come out of here, but Melody will be okay, think about that. You love Melody, and I love her as my own daughter too" I said and smiled a bit.
Musa looked at me for a second and nodded. She leaned forward and kissed my cheek.
"Riven, I...I love you...as a friend" Musa whispered and looked away.
I nodded and leaned my forehead on hers. "I love you too...as a friend" I chuckled a bit.
Musa hugged me and walked away into the darkness. I knew that there's a possibility that one of us might not survive coz these caves look really dangerous. I knew Cadence, she's so powerful. I just hope my Musa will be okay... I love her too. But I wish we were more than friends...
I turned to the other cave and crept in...not knowing what I'll see when I go in it.
Hey guys! Soo sorry that this is late! I've been very busy and I had writer's block. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it! this story will be ending very soon, just a few more chapters left. I'll update as soon as I can and plz review!