Chapter 21

I am sorry for being so late guys. I never thought about such hard schools stuff. Thanks for staying with me Miss bunny. And miss Ritsu too.

Pleased to meet you guest. It's a long time indeed. Would you reveal your name or something by which I can call you? I am Ema. If you are a girl I would be pleased. If you are a boy, I can think that my fanfic is popular among boys as well.

The blue head looked outside the window of his room. Since the day he kissed Nagi, he couldn't dare to sleep with her. He asked Erica to sleep with Nagi and he himself slept in a different room. He sighed as he felt the cool wind brush through his face. He hated it. He always did something which caused his mistress to be angry with him. Even after 4 years he was dumb headed and he had to pay several heavy prizes for it. Thanks to his thick headedness he knows what it feels to be defeated by fate. His mistress called him by his name once, the day he kissed her, but now she doesn't even faces him. Eating quietly during the meal times, she ignores him mostly. The unhappiness of his heart was quite prominent on his face too, and it caused those who were near him to grow suspicious. Thankfully, Erica had him called a 'childhood friend' or else the situation would be devastating.

He allowed his eyes to roam back to the diamond ring. Why was he wearing it in the first place? Was he wearing it because he loved Nagi? Or was he wearing it because she has given it to him? He sighed. No matter what he thought, he never found the answer. The answer…was lacking, because no one was there to explain him his answer. He was unhappy, because Haru noticed him to be a boy. Why? Who was his slave that clicked the picture? Haru would always smile in a malicious way towards him, as if he had his next step ready. He had warned Hayate to be away from Nagi. Why? What was he planning? Was he planning to kill Nagi? Or had he acted like a possessive boyfriend? No answer was convincing.

"Ayasaki kun?" Hayate heard Erica's voice. He turned around. The girl looked at him, doubtfully. She seemed to have guessed what was going on. Taking faint steps towards him, Erica stood beside him. Hayate tried to smile and before he could have greeted her, she asked, "Did something happen between you two?"

Hayate gulped. "Whom two? Whom do you mean?" he seemed to evade the question, as he thought she asked about him and Nagi. But he was wrong.

"You and my sister, Diana?" replied Erica eagerly.

Hayate looked surprised. What was she saying? What did she mean by Diana? "Why will something happen between Hinata san and me?" he asked in a shocked manner.

Erica then explained that Diana had been acting weird from some two to three days. She wouldn't talk to Erica and Erica was scared that it was an ill omen. "Well since sis is not saying anything, you spit out what is happening." Erica was on the verge of tears as she spoke those words. "Whenever I bring you to our topic, she stares deathly at me. I know she is extremely angry. She has always kept things inside her. I don't want her to suffer anymore."

Hayate seemed concerned. What was happening? He denied having talked to her at all and this just made them more confused. As Erica gave a defeated look, Hayate enquired why Diana kept her thoughts to her. After that Erica gave a sigh and related their story.

"When I was 10 our mother died. Although Diana is much matured, she is of my age. We are the daughters of one mother, but two fathers. We were born on one day, on the same day. Our mother was from a rich clan. She was forced to marry two men, which made the society shun her. She kept herself inside her room and never showed herself much, in front of the public. When we were born, our dads misused us and were almost on the verge of selling us since we were rich and had a high price. But human selling is a crime and mom brought this to the eyes of the police. Our dads were arrested for this attempted crime and were put to prison. But who will respect a woman who never cared for her husbands but married two people? She lived a hated life. My sister loved my mother more than her own life. She couldn't see her misfortunes."

"Our shameless dads had married a rich woman, our mother, and had enough money to apply bail and get free. They were furious when they got free. They almost wanted to kill mom for this but obviously couldn't have because of the public. They misused her, kicked her, lashed her often and we were unable to do anything about it. Our mom would always tell us not to cry at her condition since it was her fate, but Diana always thought it was her fault. If she would have been a boy, she said me she would have bitten her and my dad's heart out. But all these difficulties made her keep quiet. Our dads would often beat us too. As if it was not enough, they would often mix drugs and feed us. They had complete dominance over us. We had a terrible time. But then we got news from somewhere that our dads got money from someone for torturing us. A servant of mom brought this to our notice. Someone paid our dads, for almost killing us. That made Diana half mad; she was on the verge of killing those men, our dads. She had stabbed her own dad. Mom was shouting at her not to do so. When she would have killed my dad, he was able to somehow clasp a knife before dying and would have stabbed it on me.

That was when our tragedies began. Mom ran to protect me. Diana was wide eyed as she saw that man approaching to kill me. Suddenly mom stood in my place, pushing me to the other side and got the knife stabbed on her. I felt her blood all over my face. Diana was shocked as the knife from her hands fell to the floor. Mom gasped and fell down. Her blood ran all over the floor. My dad died and the entire mansion was silent."

Hayate's eyes were wide open hearing all that. He tried to but the words stuck to his throat and wouldn't come out. He closed his eyes as he couldn't bear to see Erica crying. Tears escaped his own eyes. What was misfortune? Was it the loss of a beloved one, or the loss of one's own self? Those answers can never be found. He tried to comfort Erica.

Suddenly the room in which they were standing boomed with Diana's voice. "So you went all ahead and told this bustard our hidden past, huh?"

The two of them saw Diana standing with her arms crossed on her chest. Speaking in a bossy and angry tone she advanced Erica and asked, "So this is your childhood friend, huh?"

"Ye…ye…s si..sis." Erica stammered.

Hayate gulped as Diana came to examine him. "Oh Hermoine, huh? So I never knew boys kept that name. And what, Nagi sama's butler you are. You jerk!" she screamed.

His eyes widened as Diana took him by his throat and tugged him away from that room. "Sis! Wait." Erica shouted after them.

Holding his maid dress's collar all the way, Diana took her downstairs through some underground stairs and opened the gate of a dungeon. Hayate stifled and she threw him down the jail. "Stay there until I have mercy over you!" she said. Her eyes were dark and her voice uncommon. Hayate wanted to say something but the words didn't come out. He quietly watched as she closed the gates and walked away.