Are You My Enemy? Part 3
"Why did he attack Karis if he says he doesn't work for her? But he did mention him on nobody's side, so he could be our enemy anytime. Was he protecting us, when he saw how badly injure we were?" I said, wondering to myself in my room. I couldn't come up with a reason why he did all that, but sometime suspicious tell me he maybe up for now good. But I may be wrong, which I hoped is true.
The Meeting.
"Okay guys, we have defeated the highest boss in Sander, Karis. I'm afraid I bring bad news as the battle isn't over just yet." Elsword said as he looks happy for a second, then changed his face to look sad when he said the second part.
"That's alright, battling is fun when I'm with you guys. As long as we're there to protect each others, we will never fail." Rena said as she gets up from her seat to make a point. I agreed and so did everyone else except Mastermind who just stared out at the open space.
"Thanks you all, I'm really happy to have a party like you guys." He said as he was crying for joy. Everyone just smiled back at him except me and Mastermind. I just nodded, saying I agreed and he just again looks out in the opening.
He has to be thinking of something, a plan? I wish I knew if he was on our side or not, so it doesn't make it hard for the rest of the people in the party wondering if they should trust him or not. I decided. I will find out if he on our side truly. I looked at him as he looked up for the first time ever during the meeting and just smiled. I looked quickly away as he must of saw me staring at him. Why did he smile just for me?
His' thoughts.
She seems to take some interests with me, should I see if I can get more information from her? I do need her code after all. But why every time I get stared at by her, I get this weird feeling in my chest. I probably just like her as my toy, maybe that's why I have this sensation. I heard she kept her servants, most of them downstairs. There must be something down there I may need to know to get some information. But I can't go downstairs for now, I'm not authorized through the system just yet. The only way, if someone else brings me in, I wonder if asked her nicely, will she take me there. Most girls fall for guys if they asked them to go somewhere with them. I remembered reading that from a book, I never experienced real loved. Now I don't need love in my life, I have been researching the Nasod stuff my parents been secretly illegally researched.
The meeting was over as everyone was dismissed. We all headed back to our room since it was starting to get late.
Back to her's thoughts.
I must see what he up to, how can I do that without being too suspicious. Maybe I should try to think of it when I go to sleep. I lay down and I just lay there with my eye wide open, I couldn't sleep in a long time. Last time I wasn't unsecured yet as I had my servants stood by me. All of them even, Ferdinand, I didn't know what I could do without them. But that still solved on why I couldn't fall asleep, maybe I have too much on my mind like figuring what's up with him. Just when I tried to think of something, I heard a knock on my door. I asked who it was and I knew the voice right away and asked what he want. He replied, "Opening the door would be nice, my queen." I didn't answer him as he went to sit back down against my door and sighed. I asked him if he wanted something again and he just gave me a simple reply, "You always think I want something?" I didn't know what to say, so I stayed quiet for a bit and he continues his talking.
"I was going to ask if you would like a cup of tea with me?" He said as I heard his voice from behind the door. I looked up surprised as I was in shock, he wanted tea since he didn't drink his at all at the meeting. I stayed quiet for a second and he gave me a second to respond as I heard him get up from behind the door. "So is that a no?" He said as I can visually see him even with the door in front of me. I looked up again and I didn't know when I said it, but I said after a paused, "...Sure..." I opened the door slowly as I saw him standing right in front of me, he was about 5 inches taller than me as I looked up at him then back down and look out from behind him. I wondered how he knows I was still up, I asked him and he gave me no answer. A second of quiet, he told me he could hear noises coming from my room. I was surprised someone else could have heard me from inside my room, usually the others couldn't.
Bring back the flashback when she had a nightmare and she was making loud noises and groaning, believing someone would hear her and wake her up from the terrible dream she had. But no one did as she worked up by herself scared, it was on the first night when she joined the party.
I came back to reality after I remembered that memory I really didn't want to remember, but I couldn't think of that now. I looked at him and said, "My servants are still charging, but I can make the tea if you like?" As I went out the doorway of my room as he moved aside to let me through. I closed my door and went to the kitchen that was down that hall as he followed me from behind. I gesture for him to sit as I go prepare the tea for both of us. I took the kettle that was in the closet above me, I remembered I was an inch too short to reach the kettle. He just looked at me and his face, wondering if he should help me or not. But I was fine, I took a stool from the side counter and step on it and it brought me up the inch that I was missing. I grab the kettle and went back down from the stool and placed it back on the side of the counter. I took hot water from outside as we had a waterfall on the side that was cleaned. I turned on the stove and place the kettle on top of it and waited till it steamed. It takes about 5-10 minutes to get pretty hot as most people liked it, so it wouldn't get too cold too fast. I sat down across from him like I didn't have anything else better to do unless I stand, but I felt awkward as he watched me from behind. He smiled as I finally sat down for now, but I just turn to look outward. I saw the time it was like around 9:30pm, it wasn't too late, but it was usually when I fall asleep.
"Sorry to keep you up," he said as he must have noticed I was looking at the clock. I shook my head no and put my hand in front of me signaling him saying it was fine. He just looked happy for second when I told him it wasn't any trouble at all to keep me up. I couldn't sleep anyway, so maybe having tea will relax my mind like it always does. I heard the kettle steaming as I went up from my seat and went up to the stove. I took it carefully by the pot holder and poured it into two tan teacup with a flower design, that was my favorite. I placed the kettle in the sink and turn the heat dial down to turn off the stove. I placed a spoonful of tea into the hot water of both the teacup and started to mix a bit until it dissolved most of it. I left the spoon in both in case he wanted to stir it more or add something else to it. Then I took the two teacups and carefully walked to the table that was only few inches away. I saw him looking at me as he had an astonishing face when I was walking so slowly to avoid any spilling. When I landed, I told him here you go as I gave him the teacup with the spoon.
"Thank you." He said as he took the stir for a second to make sure the tea had dissolved and took it out to placed it on the table to the right side of his cup. I just gave him a nodded and he took his right hand and grab the handle and started drinking it slowly because it was still nice and hot. I started picking up mine right after he did his and I blow on it before I started to actually drink it. I can't really handle hot things in my mouth until it like a warm temperature. "It's really good, it's the first time I had tea ever since my parent made it." He said as he looks at the tea he was holding in his hand. He wrapped around both of his hand liked he wanted to warm up his hands then placed it back down.
I didn't know what to say and I was happy someone liked my tea, I usually only make it for myself. He the first that ever tried it, so I was scared if it didn't taste right or he didn't like it. I didn't know how to start-up the conversation, so I just brought up the story about the tea. "Thanks, I never really did it for anyone else yet. I was still learning, since one of my servants knew how made delicious tea, I wanted to try making it. I thought it was going be easy, not. I learned that they placed the kettle in the cabin I couldn't reach, so they decided to get a stool for me, Aisha and Chung because we were shorter than the others." I said as I ramble on about story about tea. I didn't realize, but I quickly stopped as I saw his face had liked no interested, I thought. He noticed and told me, "You didn't have to stop, continue your story, I like hearing it." He said as taking another sip of his tea. I did as well and was surprised he wanted to hear more of my story about tea. I look at the teacup and trying decide what else to say, then I remembered the story about why I liked this teacup. "These teacups, it's my favorite set, I picked out when I was starting to join the party. They all went shopping as I didn't know what that was as first, but when we went there I saw this set of teacups that caught my eyes' attention. I looked at them and Elsword and Aisha came up to me and said, "You like them? We can buy them if you want it, we do need a new set of teacups after all." He said and Aisha smiled repeatedly nodding her head yes saying, "Yes get it." I didn't want to be burdened so I told him it was fine, I just really liked them as I didn't understand why the others would get it for me as they barely know me. I came back here as I told them I wanted to take a longer walk, I told them I would be back in about 10 minutes and they just trusted me and waved saying, "I'll see you back at home." Some of them went on with at least another party member, but I was still new, so I didn't have anyone special that I could trust. So Elsword was kind along with Aisha, who agreed to invite me to tag along with them, I took the nice breather for about 5 minutes and started heading back to the base. When I was back at the base, I surely heard someone, but I couldn't really tell since it was getting dark out. I was already there and I just thought it was just an animal returning home like I was. When I opened the door and it allowed me in I saw a surprised as the light went on from the inside, and they all came popping out like they were hiding. I was surprised and scared at first but realized it was just them. I didn't know why they did that to me or yelled, "Surprised" when I opened the door. Everyone was there and they all welcomed me back and they all chipped in on a gift they said they got for me. Aisha told me to open it up as I saw everyone around me nodded and smiled. I opened it up and it was the same tea set I laid my eyes on when I got there for the first time. I was really happy and felt really better as I felt them really caring about me as they gave me a gift and a welcomed back when I got back.
"That was an interesting story I have heard in a long time." He said as he laughed a bit, but in a happy way, showing he was happy. I was happy that he was happy, but I remembered I have to be really careful with him first.
His Thoughts.
I wished I had friends like that, maybe they would treat me the same like her? No, it's impossible for me to get friendly with them. I know the only way to survive it to stay away from anyone to protect myself. It's how I lived from now and my only way I know I feel secure. Hearing her story, I felt a warm feeling as I felt her joy when I listened to her story. I put my hand on my chest to feel that feeling and not just that. The same weird feeling came up again as I didn't understand why. I put my hand back down and took a deep breath and listen back to her story. Maybe she the one? But no one ever could move my heart ever since I kept a distance from the people I used to know and the rest of them died, along with my parents. It was a couple years ago, but I was tracing someone back here at this exact spot. Was it her, I was tracking? I wasn't sure as I only remember the signal I was following all the way back here and then it just vanished so I just headed back believing it was just an error.
Back to CEm's thoughts.
I saw him about to open his mouth for a moment, he was about to say something, but the clock ring as it ring 10 times for it was 10 o'clock. He closed his mouth as he heard the bell ring the second time and waited until it finish and said, "It's getting late, we better go to sleep." He said as he got up to put his teacup in the sink. I was surprised he finished it all and looked at me and smiled again. I just gave him a look as I went up from my seat to put my teacup in the sink as well. I waved to him for the first time and he even waved back and mouthed, "Night my queen." As he turned around and walked to his room. He gave me no time to say night back, but I had a good moment with him. I realized what I was saying and shook my head as I entered my room and closed the door from behind. What am I thinking, I need to snap out of it, I told myself I need to find out if he can be trusted. I replayed that memory when I just had tea with him a few minutes ago and we just talked, well, mostly I did but as he listened like he was interested. I put my hand on my chest and asked to myself, "What is this strange pain I have, it doesn't hurt but it's weird?" I better sleep, maybe it's just because it's really late so I better get some sleep, this is the first time in a long time I had stayed up this late.