Part 6 – Her Stubbornness Kicks In

Ai continued to stare outside the window, how would she escape this time? She started thinking to herself. 'Maybe if I continue misbehaving I can stay in this room and avoid marrying that idiot.' Ai sighed, what would she do? Her plan would probably last for a while, but what if he started getting impatient? There was no way out of this mess.

Ai couldn't believe this was happening to her, she had only just recently escaped this place, but now she was back where she started. She rose from the chair and looked around the room, it was alright, but she wouldn't call it a place that would located in a "Manor". The whole place didn't really seem like a Manor, more of a big house that was fancier than the rest of the village homes.

If Mahkio would have just stayed a little bit longer none of this would never had happened, she can't blame it on him though. It was her fault for falling out of the tree. And Mahkio doesn't even know what happened, hopefully he would save her.

Ai laid on the thick blanket that was on the floor, she thought to herself, 'What a stupid excuse for a bed, I can't stand it here.' Ai turned to her side, it was kind of cold in the room, and her legs were freezing. She laid there for a while, lost in thought. Eventually she fell asleep, even though it was still during the day.

An hour had passed and Ai found herself in a different room, it was much fancier than the other room she was stuck in. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, she thought to herself; 'Did I fall asleep? Where am I?' She stood up and decided to see if the door was unlocked, but she doubted that.

Ai tried sliding open the door but it wouldn't open. She sighed, what was she to expect? But then she saw the door open right before her eyes, the Lord had opened it. This must have been his room. Ai gasped as moved out of the way and backed up against a wall, the Lord walked in and looked at her. "I see you're finally awake; I was wondering when that would happen."

"W-Why did you bring me into your room?"

"Why else? You seemed to have calmed down now, so I made this our room now. We are getting married tomorrow." Ai's eyes widened.

"Do I ever get a say in anything?! What if I don't want to?!"

"Do you think I care what you want?" … Ai was silent, she felt so controlled, like she was nothing more than some stupid future trophy wife. He didn't even love her? He just, wanted her.

Shadow appeared over her eyes, she slid down the wall she was backed up against, and she pulled her knees up to her chest. The Lord noticed her, "You're too sensitive Ai; I don't see how that could possibly offend you so much." The Lord didn't seem to care, his expression looked bored.

The Lord walked over to her, he tried to grasp her arm to pull her up; but Ai shouted at him miserably. "Don't touch me!" Then she scratched his arm with her claws and stood up quickly. She ran to the other side of the room. Tears filled her eyes, which was very uncommon.

The Lord cried out in pain from the cuts in his arm. He shot a glare at Ai, "You wench! You will pay for that!" He walked up to her and grabbed her arm; then he walked out of the room with her. He took her over to the guards,

"I want you to trim her claws to normal nails, now!"

"Yes sir." The guards replied, they took Ai from him and started walking off with her. Ai's looked up at one of the guards miserably, tears down her face.

"P-Please, let me go…" The guard ignored her and continued walking off with her.

The Lord was having his arm healed by a female servant of The Manor, he seemed highly irritated, he thought to himself. 'Stupid wench, how dare she do this to me. Just when I was going to get busy with her…'

The young servant smiled at him, "All done!" The Lord took his arm from her and stood up, he walked out of the room and ordered one of the servants to prepare a dinner for him. The Lord sat on a chair that was in the main room to wait.

After about 12 minutes or so the guards came out with Ai, her claws sharpened down to nails. One of the guards spoke, "We are done sir? Is this suitable?" The Lord grabbed one of her hands and looked at it.

"Yes, it's fine. You may go back to your duty."

"Yes sir."

The guards left the room and the Lord was still holding on to Ai's hand. Ai seemed not so depressed anymore, more of scared. The Lord pulled on her hand causing her to fall onto his lap, he gripped her around the waist so she couldn't escape. "You look so much better now Ai, now that those nasty claws of your's are gone."

Ai was trying to pull herself away from him, she felt uncomfortable in his grasp. "Let go of me!" Ai demanded, her eyes shut tight.

"Stop struggling!" – Ai stopped, she still had an eerie feeling, she wanted to be let go of desperately.

Then the servant arrived with the Lord's dinner, he held it out. "Take that from him, Ai." Ai took the dish and chopsticks from him.

"Leave us." The Lord demanded the servant. He quickly walked off. The Lord spun Ai around,

"Now feed it to me."

Ai had a look of disgust on her face, she picked of some of the food with the chopsticks and placed it in his mouth. Ai thought to herself, 'This is so gross, I hate it! I wish he would just let go of me, his breath stinks.'

After a little while the plate was empty, the Lord called over one of the servants and they took the plate away from Ai. Then the Lord pulled her closer, Ai felt disgusted. "Look at me." Ai looked in his direction, the Lord started pulling his face towards hers.

Ai started pulling her face away, it was kind of difficult though; since he was grasping her so tightly. Ai started screaming when he got too close and bit his lips with all her force. The Lord let go of her quickly and put his hands over his mouth. Ai was laying on the floor, shocked. She could NOT give her first kiss to him.