Chapter 24 - The truth
We sat there watching each other. Edward sat beside me without saying anything.
Kenny looked at him "Hey, why don't you get yourself something? It's on me"
Edward smiled. Even I knew why Kenny was sending him away. He looked at me "I'll be there on the stool…" he said and left
I looked at Kenny "It's ok, tell me"
"I knew Sam since I was a kid...I was 10 when my dad was sent to asylum and I had no one, no one to take care of, no one to love me, no money….I was alone…then one day I left house because I was out of food. I went out looking for food…"
Kenny looked around the market, he knew he had to get that apple without anyone catching him. He was hungry and no one was there to look at after him. After his dad was taken away, a woman came to take him to foster home but he ran away before he could go.
Now he stood here hungry wanting food. He looked around; no one would catch him if he were quick. He quickly picked up the apple and ran but the man saw him and ran after him.
"Catch him, thief!" the man said behind him
Kenny kept on running, he knew those men's were still running behind him. He was quiet far from them suddenly someone pulled him in a tunnel. A hand placed on his mouth and he was pinned against the wall.
He thought he was caught but when he opened his eyes he saw a boy his age. He couldn't see the face because the boy had a cloth wrapped around his face, only his eyes were visible.
The boy put a finger on his mouth indicating Kenny to keep quite. The men's ran past them without even noticing. The boy quickly grabbed Kenny and ran pulling him behind. They stopped far away from the market and far away from people.
"Who are you?" Kenny asked the boy
The boy took off the cloth and Kenny gasped "Yo-you-your Prince Samuel" he exclaimed
Samuel quickly placed his hand on Kenny mouth "Shhh…if anyone sees me, I'll be in trouble. Don't tell anyone, ok?"
Kenny nodded as Samuel removed his hand.
"Why were those men's chasing you?" he asked
Kenny looked down and pulled the apple out of his pocket. "I stole this"
"Why? Where are your parents?" Samuel asked
Kenny's eyes filled with tears and he burst out crying. Samuel made him sit down "Hey, it's ok"
"My mum is dead and my dad is gone…they took him somewhere" he said sobbing
"Oh…is there someone else to look after you?"
Kenny shook his head "I have no home…they came to take me but I ran away and came here…I was really hungry so I stole this"
"Come with me…my father will help you and you can stay with us, I'll give you food" Samuel said
Kenny wiped his tears "You'll help me?"
"Yes, now come on"
Samuel wrapped the cloth around his face and took Kenny with him.
When they sneaked in the palace, James was standing there playing with Anna. Same took Kenny to him.
"Sam, who's this?" James asked as they approached
"Dad, this is my new friend…Kenny"
"Where did he come from?" Then realization hit on James face "You sneaked out again, didn't you?"
Sam panicked "Uhm no"
"Yes you did…how many times do I have to tell you, you can't go out like this" James said angrily
"But dad-"
"No more buts…now what's your name?" James asked turning to Kenny
"Ke-Kenny your highness" he stammered
"Dad, he needs a place to stay. He has no food and no home, his mother is dead and his father is taken away somewhere…can we keep him with us?" Samuel said pleadingly
James looked at Sam 'Of course we can…come on, lets take him to your mother"
"Come on Kenny" Sam took Kenny with him.
"From that day on, they took me in….we grew up together. Sam and I joined the army with your dad; I was assigned as Anna's guard. We became so close that it was hard to keep us away…we were brothers" He said looking pained
"Then Delilah came along…Sam fell so hard for her that other relations didn't matter to him, the only thing that mattered was Delilah. One day Delilah came to me…"
Kenny sat alone in the school garden, reading a book. Delilah came up to him.
"I want to talk" Delilah said
Kenny got up "What about?" he didn't like Delilah from the start but he only tolerated her because of Sam.
"I was wondering…" She suddenly pinned Kenny against the tree that was beside him and kissed him.
Kenny pushed her away and glared at her "What the Fuck?"
"Sammy won't know, we can be together…I really like you Kenny" She said starting to kiss him on the neck
Kenny pushed her back "What are you doing?"
"I'm tired of being with Sam…I'm with him for a reason but forget him, he won't know. We can be together, we'll have everything we want after I'm done with Sam, just say yes." She said again trying to get close to him
"What!...you-you don't love him?" Kenny asked shocked
"Of course I don't, I just liked you from the start. I like you Kenny since I saw you" again she came close but Kenny moved back
Kenny grabbed her throat and twisted them around so she was pinned against the tree "You bitch! You've been using him when he's done everything for you"
"We can have everything we want. I'll give you everything, he won't even know"
"Not until I tell him" Kenny moved back
"Are you rejecting me!" She screamed
"I'll tell Sam and then we'll see how much rejection you can handle"
Delilah smirked "You can tell him all you want, he won't believe you…he's wrapped around my finger, he'll do what I say, he'll believe what I say…"
"What do you mean?"
"That he's my puppet until I'm done with him…"
Rage gripped inside Kenny as he took a step towards her "What did you do?"
He growled
"Oh…just a little spell or two"
"I'll tell him, I'll tell him everything" Kenny started to go back
"Oh I'm sure he'll believe you" She said laughing behind him
Kenny ran from there without hearing more. He needed to tell Sam. He ran inside the school and found Sam in the music room. Everyone knew how much Sam loved to Sing, music was his second love.
"Sam?"
Sam stopped playing guitar and turned around. He grinned at Kenny "Hey Ken…look I'm gonna sing this to Delilah, I made it for her"
Kenny stopped him "Stop it! Are you even looking at yourself! You fucking acting insane" Kenny yelled at him angrily
Sam placed the guitar down "Whoa…what's wrong? Who stole your nuts?" Sam said trying not to laugh
"I'm serious Sam…"
Sam held his hands up "Ok ok…what's wrong?"
"What's wrong? What wrong is Sam is that your Fucking girlfriend just kissed me"
"What?"
"Yeah and top of that, she done some magic shit to you and she's using you"
"Don't! I will not hear another word for Delilah" Sam growled
"Oh yeah, I forgot she fucked you up….Sam!, snap the fuck out of it, she's using you for something Sam" Kenny snapped
Just then Delilah came in crying. She ran to Sam and hugged him "Sam…Kenny tried to kiss me"
Kenny stood there shocked as she lied to Sam. Sam looked at Kenny and then lunged at him. He pushed in against the wall and punched him. Kenny pushed him away.
"Sam!...you believe her more than me" Kenny said hurt
"Of course I believe her, I love her damn it. I never thought you would such a thing, Kenny. I trusted you more than anyone"
"We've been together for years Sam, we grew up together, we're best friends and yet you believe her, who just came into your life just a few days ago." Kenny said pained
" before I hurt you" Sam gritted out
Kenny looked behind Sam to see Delilah smirking. She winked at him. Kenny turned to leave only to see Anna standing at the door looking hurt. Kenny moved towards her but she ran away from him. Kenny ran after her.
"Annie wait" He said as he caught up to her
"Leave me alone Kenny" She snapped
He pulled her to stop "Look at me"
She looked at him with tears in her eyes "What?"
"I didn't kiss Delilah, she kissed me. She forced me and now she's planning on something to hurt Sam, please believe me"
Anna glared at him "Your disgusting, first you do shit and then blame others. Leave me alone and never look back at me"
"Anna…"
But she was already gone from there and his life.
Oh my, who would've thought Delilah would do such thing. She lied to Sam and flirted with Kenny. I felt anger burning inside me but all that melted when I saw Kenny's face. His face full of hurt, betrayal and anger, he was trying all hard to keep it under his stone faced expressions but I knew him too well not to see it.
"That was the day when Sam started hating me, he wouldn't look at me, and he wouldn't talk to me. He just ignored me even when I tried to talk to him, he wouldn't listen to a word I say about the truth of Delilah. One day James called me and I think even god was on my side…"
James sat in his study as Kenny walked in.
"Ah Kenny, come in son" James said
Kenny sat down and looked at James "What's wrong your highness?" Whenever Kenny was being professional he would be formal with James.
"You know that Sam has proposed Delilah" James said
Kenny nodded but he didn't understand where this was going "Yes"
"I don't know why but I don't like this girl, she doesn't look right for Sam. I want you to find out her background information and report back to me and it should be confidential"
Kenny nodded "Your right, she isn't right for Sam" Kenny muttered angrily
"What do you mean?" James asked frowning
Kenny explained the whole scene to James about Delilah kissing him and about the spell.
James was furious "That girl, she tried to compel my son. I will have her executed."
Kenny sighed "That's the problem Sir, Sam wouldn't let anything happen to her, he is deeply stuck in the dark magic she possessed on him."
"Then what shall we do?" James asked worriedly
"Sir, how do you know about magic?"
"A lot, I have witches all over the place, they'll help me with anything." He glanced at Kenny suspiciously "What are you up to, Kenny?"
"Sir if you know about magic then I wondering if you could tell me, what if we kill Delilah, will the spell be broken by her death?"
James frowned as he thought deeply "I don't know, this is dark magic we're talking about, it dark and dangerous…"
"Sir, is there anyone who would know?" Kenny asked
James sighed "There is someone I who could help…"
"Who?" Kenny asked eagerly
"Esmeralda, I know she can help us and I know she will. She's a really good friend of my family since years"
Kenny sighed sadly "If this works…Sam will be heartbroken…"
"He will be…but it's for his own good"
Kenny looked away "Yeah it is…"
He sighed "James had talked to Esmeralda. She said there are 50-50 chances of breaking the spell, because its dark magic but we still took the risk. On the Christmas night we had planned on killing Delilah. We sent Sam out for the Christmas decoration while Delilah was alone in the Palace…"
Delilah walked down the grand stairs. Kenny came in front of her "What are your intentions on Sam?" He asked
She smirked and ran a finger down the side of his face "Oh Kenny, your so innocent, if only you had agreed I wouldn't have to break you up with Sam"
Kenny slapped her hand away while glaring at her "Answer me! Why are you doing this?"
She sighed "Well let me think because after marriage, I'll have all this. This palace will be mine and all his money. Once James hands over the throne to Sam, I will have no use of him"
"Why? Why would you do that? He loves you so much that he'd do anything to protect you"
She rolled her eyes "Of course I love Sam but I love money more"
"You bitch!" James said as he walked up to them
Anna walked in "What's going on?"
"You dare betray my son! I can kill you in a blink!" James roared
Delilah smirked "You can but you won't. You kill me and Sam is stuck forever"
Anna gasped "Dad, what's going on?"
"Anna, go inside" Kenny said without taking his eyes off Delilah
"Don't you dare order me around." She snapped back
Finally he looked at her "Anna, this is not the right time to argue, please just go inside"
Anna huffed "Not until I know what's going on"
James ignored them and looked at Delilah "Break the spell and I shall spare your life"
Delilah laughed "I'm not gonna break the spell no matter what"
"Then you brought this on yourself" Without thinking, James plunged the dragger he had in his hand.
IT was a special dragger that Esmeralda gave him to use. It's a dragger to only kill witches.
Anna Screamed "What have you done!"
She tried to get to her but Kenny held her "No Anna, don't go near her, she's not safe"
Just then a voice spoke "What's going on?"
They all turned around to see Sam standing there.
Sam's eyes widened as he saw Delilah lying there taking her last breaths, the bags he had in his hands slipped down. Anna who was standing away from her father was crying her eyes out while Kenny held her.
"Delilah!" He ran over to her and kneeled beside her.
She moved away from him. "Stay away from me!" She said angrily
"Wha-what happened?" Sam asked looking at his dad angrily "What did you do?" He shouted
"Sam…it's for your own good" James said grimly
Sam glared at his father "You think killing her would be good for me…Dad, how could you"
"I curse you!... you were too late to save me, to save your only love. I curse you that you will never find love again…a girl will hate you when she sees your true form…I curse you with the demon. A demon who shall tell you what you did to me, who will make you a monster and who will show you that you don't deserve love…I curse you" Her words died as she went limp in his hands. Yellow magic moved out of her body and went inside Sam's.
Sam sat there in shock. Then he finally took out his grief by screaming "Delilah!"
I snapped back to reality. All this was too much but now I know the whole truth. I looked at Kenny "Then what happened?"
He sighed "Then Sam threw me out of the palace; he took my job from me. I was lucky I had some savings, so I took off. I had planned to go to the human world away from here, where I lost everything but then a week later James came to my house. He told me to stay with Sam. He told me to guard him without him noticing so I stayed in school with Sam since then. James helped me a lot with money that's why I survived, he would send me a worth lot money in my account every month…"
"So you're here so you could keep an eye on him?"
"Yeah, after we graduate since he's decided to graduate this year. I'm gonna leave this world forever and start a new life…"
A part of thought he was leaving because of Anna but the other part of me was still compassioning him. I placed my hand on top of his "Do you love Anna?"
He looked away "No" that came out gritted
Before I could say more, Edward came by my side "Scar, I think we should leave"
I frowned at him "Why?"
He looked behind me "Cause we got trouble"
I looked behind me to see two men at the far corner, sitting down and looking at us. Both were big and muscular but what scared me the most was their tattoo. The men's who attacked us in the forest, they had the same red tattoo. Who are these people and what do they want? But right now was not the moment to find out.
"Who are they?" Kenny asked
My hearted thudded faster "Kenny, they're the same guys who attacked us. We need to get out of here fast"
Kenny nodded "Come on, follow me. I have a shortcut from here"
We followed Kenny out. HE helped us through the bar. When we finally reached out, my heart nearly fell out of my mouth. The guards who came with us were on the ground, dead. They're bodies were in their blood of pool.
"Kenny we have to get the hell out of here" My voice quivered
"Not while we're here" A man said coming out from behind the car. Then 10 or so more came from behind. They circled us.
"What do you want?" Kenny growled
The first one who came out smirked "We don't want to hurt you kids. Just give us the girl"
I nearly fell. They wanted me, why?
"Over my dead body" Kenny growled
The man laughed "Son, you're outnumbered. We can kill you in a sec. If you want to live, leave now"
The man came near us but Kenny stood in front of me "You came near her and I'll harm you"
The men's around us laughed. Yeah they found it hilarious. I knew we were outnumbered and I didn't want Kenny or Edward to get hurt because of me.
The man suddenly lunged at Kenny and threw him to the other men's. They held him as he tried to free but all in vain. Edward moved next but the men's had already held him.
The man came up to me but before he could touch me. A hand suddenly burst out from his chest holding his heart. My eyes widened. The man fell to the ground showing Sam's face. He threw the heart beside and hugged me.
"Are you ok?" I could feel his heart which was fast as a train
"I'm fine"
I looked around me to see the other men's were fighting the guards Sam bought with him. Suddenly more of those tattoo men's came. They were a lot to outnumber us. My fear arose as our men fell. They separated me from Sam. I screamed to go to him but they held him and me far away.
"Let me go" I cried out
"Not until you watch your lover die…" One of them whispered in my ear
I watched helplessly as they punched and hit Sam, Kenny and Edward. But then I was feeling every pain Sam was feeling and it hurt like hell.
I knew what I had to do. I let out my powers at them. Fire burned around the tattoo men's. They screamed and writhed around in pain. The ones holding me, let go of me and cried out in pain.
When they all were down, I then let my powers back in. The powers were too much for me to use and it drained out all my energy. The last thing I saw was Sam before I went in the darkness.