I Don't Want to Love Him, but I Just Do...

Chapter Four

Previously on I Don't Want to Love Him, but I Just Do...

Lyn stood up from her chair, pushing down her dress, the wrinkles from sitting for that long period of time, disappearing. Then, she started to descend down the stairs, holding onto the railing, afraid that her numb legs wouldn't be able to support her. As she stepped down closer to the dining room, she caught a flash of shadowy black hair. She caught her breath.

Lyn stared at him straight in his blue- green eyes. She was shocked, her jaw dropping, internally hoping that this was just a terrible nightmare. She slipped on the last step, but quickly caught herself before she fell.

Her expression suddenly turned from being in shock to extreme irritation and disbelief.

"Sebastian? !"

Good or Bad First Impression?

The dinner table that night was very quiet and awkward as everyone settled down and waited for the house chef, Christopher, to hunt one of the most delicious delicacies, the Amur leopard. The Amur leopard -the second most endangered species of the world- has the sweetest, most thick animal blood vampires have ever tried. This leopard is such a delicacy to the vampire because of its almost extinction and the rarity of actually being able to drink its blood. Lyn's parents thought to serve this that night, hoping to give a good first impression to Sebastian and his parents.

Lyn was sitting in the chair across from Sebastian, staring down at table, making sure to not give him any kind of eye contact. So many thoughts ran through Lyn's head. How could it be Sebastian? Did he know all this time? She kept picturing how her life would actually look like marrying him. Nope, still can't picture it, she sighed. He was the jerk that has been bullying her ever since she started going school. She just couldn't adjust to this situation.

She finally decided to look up after fidgeting with all her fingernails and continuously shaking her leg nervously, wishing Christopher could hurry it up a bit. She knew the only place the Amur leopards lived was in Russia, but she couldn't help but curse under her breath after every minute went by.

Lyn -after staring at everything else in the room- took a chance and glanced at Sebastian. She felt her heart drop to her stomach, realizing that he had been staring at her the whole time she was avoiding eye contact with him. She looked deep into his eyes, suddenly feeling like she was being pulled into his blue- green eyes, completely trapped.

Sebastian blinked, breaking the eye contact, and he cleared his throat. He folded his arms across his chest and found the chandelier hanging from the ceiling suddenly very interesting. Lyn sat up straight in her chair, feeling her cheeks warm up with embarrassment. She felt relieved when she saw that their parents hadn't seen what had just happened between them.

What did just happen between us? We only looked at each other. Not that big of a deal, right? Lyn thought to herself.

"So, Lyn," Lyn's dad finally broke the everlasting silence, "what do you think about getting married one month from now?" he smiled.

Lyn almost choked on air. "Excuse me? One month? I'd like it if I got used to this first. Don't I need to order and pick out things to wear and decorate for the wedding? That takes many months. A-At least six months! That's enough time," she said, panicking. Hopefully by that time I haven't killed him yet. She frowned.

"Don't worry, sweetheart," Rose Giracho (Sebastian's very nice mother, who had strawberry blonde hair that reached her elbows. Her eyes were a very bright green, and she always had her nails painted with very detailed designs. She wore a necklace similar to Lyn's sun necklace, except the stone was a pink diamond instead of a ruby) beamed at Lyn, "Sebastian's sister and I will help you with all the decorating and stuff. I'm sure your mother will help, too. There's nothing to worry about," she reassured.

"Absolutely," Marie Scar nodded her head. She was extremely excited about helping Lyn pick out her wedding dress.

"Yes, I understand all of that, honey, but don't you already know him really well? He does go to your school. You don't need to completely know everything about him," Elijah explained.

Lyn rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know him really well," she said monotonously. "Tell him, Sebastian," she managed little fake grin, "tell him how much we know each other."

Sebastian's eyes widened, surprised that Lyn even spoke to him. He glanced over at King Elijah and laughed shakily, nervous. "Your highness..." he paused. He suddenly thought of something. He smirked evilly at Lyn.

Lyn squinted her eyes for a moment suspiciously at him, warning him to not try anything slick. If he did anything, she was going to rip his head off. She wondered what was going on through his head when he flashed her that smug smirk. She decided to just shrugg it off, and waited to hear what his response was going to be.

"You should be aware that Lyn harasses me nonstop during school hours," Sebastian declared.

It took a while for Elijah to process this. He turned very serious, his smile disappearing. "You expect me to believe that my sweet, little daughter would harass a boulder such as yourself, son?" he raised his eyebrow at him. He also turned toward Lyn, wanting an explanation from her.

Lyn couldn't believe her ears. "He's a liar, Papi! He's the one who harasses me! Oh, and Jandro!"She stared at her father, pleading that he wasn't buying Sebastian's charade. "Y-You can't believe him, Papi!" she stuttered.

Daniel Giracho (a very lean and proper man who always wore slacks and Guayabera- styled shirts. He wore sunglasses that covered his amber eyes, and his hair was a coal- colored black, brushed backwards from him constantly brushing his hair back with his sun ring hand) waved his arm, silencing Lyn, trying to get a turn into the conversation. "Did you say Jandro Pietra? That wolf boy who has threatened to kill my son several times? You're friends with that werewolf? No, no, no, that simply won't do. You do know werewolves carry bacteria and infections?"

Lyn furrowed her eyebrows with anger and stood up instantly, knocking the table with her knees. This created a very loud crashing sound as pieces of wood broke off. She threw a napkin on top of the table. "Okay, first of all, Mr. Giracho, I was already forced by my father to get married to the guy who has bullied me every single day since I first started school; second, I don't need my soon- to- be- father forcing me to let go of my friends now! Yes, I'm friends with werewolves and witches and wizards. There's nothing wrong with that!"

"Lyn Julie Scar!" her mother yelled at her, angry as ever at her daughter's disrespecting outburst. Her infuriated glare burning onto Lyn. "You apologize to Mr. Giracho this instant! What has gotten into you, young lady? !"

"You aren't going to force me to apologize to someone who doesn't need an apology, Mother. I'm tired of parents pushing me around! I shouldn't be the one getting in trouble; it should be Sebastian! He's the one who deserves to be punished for once." she walked passed the table, stomping as loudly as she could as she climbed up the stairs to her room. She slammed her door, the sound echoing throughout the mansion.

The door to the kitchen abruptly swung open. "Here's some Amur leop...ard..." Christopher came through the door, shock on his face as he saw the broken table. He came with the leopard hanging from his hand; its head pointing toward the ground. The teeth of the leopard was completely showing, dripping blood, ready to drink. "Did I miss something?"

Marie Scar exhaled deeply, frustrated. She placed her hand on her head, extremely embarrassed by her daughter's reaction.

"So, you still want me to marry her, Dad?" Sebastian raised an eyebrow.

"We'll talk about this later, Sebastian," Daniel got up from his chair and helped Christopher place the leopard on the table. "I would've never expected the princess of Transylvania to act so... so rudely," he ripped a leg off of the leopard, placing it on his plate. He grabbed a napkin and neatly tucked it into his shirt where the collar was. "Sounds like the type of girl we want for our son. She stands up for herself; I like that," he smiled and bit strongly into the leg.

"Can you believe him?" Lyn vented out to Ali, Catheryn, and their boyfriends. They were in Lyn's room, a day after the dinner. Lyn was standing up and pacing around the room, while everyone else was lying across her bed. She hadn't gotten in trouble from her outburst because Daniel liked the way she had stood up for herself. She still got a strict warning from her parents, though. "He lied right in front of the king and queen! Who does that? He's no good! I can't marry him! I rather marry Tom, and that's saying a lot!"

"Tom?" Catheryn sat up straight, raising her eyebrow. "Your old boyfriend? You rather marry a guy who cheated on you than a guy who basically only bullies and flirts with you?"

Lyn tilted her head, a little confused. "Flirts? No, he doesn't flirt, he annoys."

"He does flirt with you, Lyn," confirmed Catheryn. "Haven't you seen the way he looks at you and his body language around you? He always seems to flex more when you're around, and he's always flexing."

"Really?" Lyn grinned a bit. She noticed that she was grinning, and she quickly wiped it off her face. "That's not the point!"

"What did happen to Tom?" Ali asked, trying to play around with Adam's hair, but he kept grabbing her hand before she touched it. Most of the time, they ended up getting into full- on wrestling match. Adam always won, of course.

Lyn shrugged. "I don't know, and I don't care," she lied. "He broke up with me ten months ago; he could be anywhere and be doing anything right now."

"How do you think he would react if he found out about you and Sebastian?" queried Catheryn. She rested her elbow on Dominic's leg, laying her cheek on her hand. "Tom did always get into fights with him when Sebastian bothered you. They totally hate each other. Can you imagine if he found out you're gonna marry Sebastian, the guy he really despises?"

"Tom wouldn't care..." she frowned. "He has Monica," she said in a mocking tone and spit with her tongue. "Ugh, she always went after the guys I liked and dated! Doesn't she have anything better to do with her life than copy mine?"

"Eh, she's just jealous that you get more guys than her. Plus, you don't need Tom, you have Sebastian now," Catheryn smiled. "He may be a jerk, but he's very hott," she giggled.

"Oh, you think so?" Dominic's deep voice boomed. He got up and sat on the bed, facing Catheryn, his biceps naturally flexing all the time he had his hands balled into fists. "He's a moron. Plain stupid. Guys like that only care about how popular they are."

"Hey, he is my fiancee, Dom," Lyn laughed. "I'm the only one who can insult him."

"Yeah, don't insult L's man," Catheryn laughed along with Lyn. "Are you just jealous?" she smirked at Dominic.

"Me? No," he shook his head with that serious face he always had on, "I know you won't ever leave me for a guy like that," he grinned arrogantly.

Catheryn shoved him playfully. "Tonto," she said in Spanish and laughed some more. She kissed his cheek and rested her head on his shoulder, tucking her arm under his arm, squeezing him tightly.

Lyn shook her head at their usual play fights and smiled. She sat down on a chair on the far corner of her room, next to the window. She looked out of the window, her eyes fixed on the shape of the clouds. She imagined herself acting like that with Sebastian. Though, just like everything else she tried to imagine with him, the picture just wouldn't form in her head.

She tried to remember if she acted like that with Tom, the boyfriend she had freshman year and a little into sophomore year. He had been the cutest guy, most thoughtful guy she had ever met at the time. He had the dirty blonde hair, the green eyes, the perfectly chiseled abs, the thick eyebrows. Lyn had instantly fallen in love with him. Everything came crushing down on her when she found out he had been cheating on her with her worst enemy, worse than Sebastian, Monica.

Lyn remembered the day as if it was just yesterday:

She had found Tom wearing his favorite jeans and the white and gray- squared shirt that she had given to him as an anniversary gift. He was standing in back of the school where no one really went, leaning against the fence, by himself. Lyn was too busy staring at him and thinking about how charming and lucky she was to have him to wonder why he was by himself out here in this part of the school. She sometimes went back there because it was a faster way to get to her house, but most of the time, she left out through the front of the school.

She joyfully started sprinting up to him at normal speed, with a huge smile on her face, when she saw someone else run up to him a lot faster. Lyn stopped in her tracks and hid herself behind a wall, her mouth wide open in shock. She immediately knew who the girl was;it was Monica. She knew it was her because of her extremely long black hair and the design of the backpack she had on.

What is that bitch going to do to my boyfriend? she thought, infuriated.

Lyn decided to wait behind the wall for a little while longer to see what would happen next. But she wished she hadn't seen what had happened next. What she saw next made her fall to her knees, feeling her frozen heart break in half. She didn't even know a frozen heart could break the way it did to her at that moment. Tears immediately poured out of her eyes. Her tears made the vision of Tom and Monica kissing foggy. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She knew she was dreaming. Tom wouldn't do that to her.

As she realized she wasn't going to wake up from this nightmare anytime soon, she stood up and ran up to them. She grabbed Monica by the hair and yanked her off of Tom. Monica fell to the ground and hit her head on the concrete.

"Ow! What the hell is your problem?" Monica rubbed her head.

Lyn found amusement to this, so she laughed angrily. "Really? You're asking me that? You were sucking face with my boyfriend!"

"Well, it's not my fault he likes me better than you!" Monica smiled as Lyn became so furious, she felt like she was going to explode like a nuclear bomb.

"You bitch!" Lyn grasped her by the neck and started to choke her to death, her head starting to crack a bit near her collarbone from the force Lyn was exerting on her neck.

"Lyn!" Tom tried to pry her off of Monica. He was pulling on Lyn from her arms.

Once Lyn couldn't handle Tom's force anymore, she let go of Monica's neck. Another minute of that, Lyn wouldn't killed her for sure. She turned around to face Tom, Monica coughing in the background. She slapped his face, tears welling up in her eyes again as her broken heart brought pain to her entire body. He held his cheek as it stung his face. He knew he deserved it.

"How can you do this to me?" she looked to the ground, not wanting him to see how hurt she was. "I thought you loved me, Tom. I thought you were nice. But you're no different than any other jerk out there," she wanted to just crumble to the ground again, but she didn't allow herself to.

"Lyn, I-I didn't mean to hurt you..." Tom placed his free hand on her cheek, caressing her with his thumb. "I wanted to date other people."

"Oh?" she pushed his hand off of her face. "You couldn't come tell me that instead of doing this to me? You know what?" she held back her tears. "I never want to see you again," Lyn ran off, leaving Tom there, looking as miserable as ever. She ran as fast as she could to her house. She managed to get there in less than two minutes.

Lyn ended up crying nonstop that entire weekend. She had never been hurt the way Tom had hurt her that day. She never wanted to experience that ever again. Yet, she still hadn't gotten over him. Now with Sebastian as her fiancee, this was a chance to finally drop her feelings for him. Though marrying Sebastian wasn't any better. She really hoped her dad made the right decision about picking Sebastian for her.

"Lyn," Ali called to her, "have you picked a maid of honor yet?"

"Huh?" Lyn lost her train of thought. "Sorry, I was daydreaming over here," she laughed shakily.

"Have you decided on a maid of honor?" she asked again.

"Oh..." Lyn didn't even think about a maid of honor. She had been so caught up with the groom and his parents, she forgot about who was going to help her plan everything. She had promised both of them that when she got married that they would be her maid of honor. She didn't think she had to choose between them now. She looked between Ali and Catheryn. "Do I have to choose now?"

Ali and Catheryn looked at each other, then, back at Lyn. "Yes," they said simultaneously.

Lyn laughed at their pushiness.

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