Nekobi: Ahhhh! Summer school is killing me! Anyhow, yeah.
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READY, here we go!
Aiolia continued to 'enjoy' his little 'treat' that had been unbeknownstly presented to him. He felt that she was somewhat softer, more gentle when she was like this...then he realized one big difference in her...her mask was off. He took this rare chance to admire her wholesomely. Her delicate facial features, her body, her grace in the moonlight. Everything. In that one moment, he captured Marin's true image in his mind./Wow. Pretty face, slim body, feisty nature. What a rarity./ he thought as he turned his back to retreat into his room when suddenly something hit him square in the back of his head. "Ouch! What was that?" he cried, one hand nursing the back of his head. He turned around again, only to see Marin, looking up at him. "Aaa!" they both yelled at the same time. "How-how long have you been standing there!" Marin yelled, pointing an acusing finger at Aiolia.
"Wh-what? I just came out here for some fresh air, and I was just about to go back inside, until you threw the soap at me!" Aiolia cried in response, this time his tone was accusing. However, try as he might to hide that he had seen her bathe, the blush on his face betrayed him. "That's not true! Don't lie! Your face tells me you've been peeping on me!" Marin countered, based on her senses as a woman. /Crap! She's got me figured out! She'll definitely blow now/ Aiolia thought as he struggled to find another answer, until----aha! What she said about them at dinner! He'll use that to counter her. She can either admit that she didn't think he was like the legends, or she can only disregard him being there. Either way it was Aiolia's victory. "How can you be so sure? After all, I am not MAN, I am a VAMPIRE. A horrible, heartless, blood thirsty monster. What could I possibly want with your body other than its blood? It obviously doesn't serve me anything to peep on you. And besides, like you said, I'm just like your legends...cruel, evil, heartless, wicked, and forceful in getting whatever I wanted. That's what vampires are in your legends, what I am in your eyes, right? IF I wanted you, I could've just came down and taken you by force. I wouldn't need to peep. In common sense terms, I'm obviously not peeping on you. Don't flatter yourself." Aiolia reasoned with her heartlessly in a cold tone.
"W-well, I...um..." this time, Marin struggled for words. /Crap, he's got me cornered...if I just let him go, I'll regret it. If I say that I see he's not like the legends, he'll get smug. Either way he'd get the advantage! Damn/ "Pssh. If you can't say anything of sense, I'm going to sleep. Thanks for wasting my time." Aiolia retorted, keeping up his cold act. He turned away, feeling bittersweet; he had done it. He had thwarted her completely, and (taking her silence as response) she hadn't responded, she had given up on him. He walked back into his room, still feeling bittersweet. Bitter for having thwarted her to protect himself, sweet with love for her.
Meanwhile, Marin stood in the pool, stunned. /Had he just said what I thought I heard him say? Had he actually admitted to being like the legends? But so far, he was nothing like the legends…/ Shaking her head to clear her mind, she promptly dressed herself and returned to her room. After that nightly incident, Aiolia avoided Marin to the best of his abilities. If he ever had to talk to her in any circumstance, he made his answers as short and clear as possible. He took to a self-imprisonment in his room daily, leaving it only to eat meals. His actions shocked everyone, especially Marin. After his third week of self-imprisonment, Marin took to monitoring him, out of curiosity. She stood outside his door, ears pressed against the door, listening intently. But all she could ever hear was silence.
She waited and waited each day, hoping to find something else other than the normal silence. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She burst through his door one afternoon, and what she saw scared her.
Nekobi: Dun,dun,dun! What could she have seen?
Marin: Oh, Aiolia…..why would you do this?