II. Ambiguity
Amethyst eyes stared at the curiously serene cityscape. The moon was full and radiant; its luminescent rays bathed the city in pale, blue light giving it an ethereal feel. Millions of tiny, yellow lights flickered against the dark, midnight sky. The usually lively city, the city that could not seem to distinguish night from day, the city that housed many sleepless individuals and the city she called home was peacefully sleeping that night. Peculiar, but not unpleasantly so.
It was like the night at the auditorium. Peaceful. But some crazy idiot had to ruin her peace. Disrupting peace… it was what most men were good at. That and ruining her life. First her father, then Kaidou and him…
"What are you thinking about, Rei?" A deep voice asked. She didn't even bother looking. Speaking of the devil. The only person bold or stupid enough to tread into her room and provoke her was the man who regrettably made himself a permanent fixture in her life. He was someone who, no matter how hard she tried, she could never divest herself of.
"Why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?"
But he didn't know. He never knew. People's minds were his playground, his source of perverse amusement. Unfortunately, unlike the hoards of weaklings whose minds were as easy to read as bold, newspaper headlines, he could not read her. It was like there was an insurmountable wall around her mind blocking him from reading her thoughts. But that was what made her interesting, challenging and oddly alluring. But she didn't have to know that so he kept up the charade. After all, what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
"Good girls are supposed to be in bed by now."
"What are you doing here?" She asked with palpable disdain, hating him for disrupting her peace. It was a Friday night and she expected him to be entertained in someone's bed or him entertaining someone in his bed.
He walked over to where she stood and leaned against the balcony's iron railing. "I couldn't sleep."
Her face remained relatively calm, but her words came out vehemently, "I'm no sleeping pill. Go find yourself a hooker so the two of you can bore each other to sleep."
His mouth lifted in a smirk. Always the one with the smart retorts… "Permission to stray again? You're beginning to hurt me, Leibchen."
"I don't care if I hurt you- or if you die!" She declared fiercely. Why couldn't he just leave her alone? Must he always torture her with his presence?
He languidly reached for her and hauled her agitated form to him. Her back was against his chest, his hands firmly clamped at her waist, "You know that's not true, Rei." He whispered hotly in her ear.
With much effort, she freed herself from his tight grasp and coldly glared at him. It was that voice, that husky yet silky voice that made shivers run down her spine and have her hair standing on ends… She hated that feeling. Thankfully, she had quite a lot of self-restraint that night… She wasn't going to let it happen again! She would not let her body betray her and become a man's plaything. Rei Hino was nobody's whore!
"I suggest you find solace elsewhere, Schuldig."
He grinned at the raven- haired beauty coldly glaring at him. Rarely did she use his name, and though it was spoken furiously, it was still music to his ears. Five long strides took him to the open French doors connecting the balcony and her bedroom, "I will be back, Liebchen." With that he went out of the apartment, leaving her to stare angrily at his retreating back.
Rei watched him go… Uncertain of what she's supposed to feel. True, she detested the man… but she couldn't help regret sending him away. He was a part of her life, no matter how much she hated to admit it… He was also responsible for turning her world upside-down…
