Chapter Three – In The Text
I woke up with an audible groan but kept it muffled with the thin sheet that had tangled itself in a messy heap on my waist as the cursed sunlight invaded the precious darkness I had been in for eight plus hours. I pulled the sheet over my head; it was too early to wake up. Just when I came to fall back asleep, a few birds began to chirp their usual tune. Cursing, I rolled out of bed only to fall flat onto my face instead of my feet.
Groaning and then cursing some more, I pulled myself up and trudged to the bathroom. Stripping out of my clothes and turning on the shower, I stepped under the water feeling the first burst of cold water wake me up.
I stepped out of the bathroom with a content sigh. A hot shower was probably the best invention man could create. Putting on a navy t-shirt, a pair of faded jeans, and placing a small white towel around my neck, I opened the door only to stumble backwards when a pair of angry golden eyes glared me down. Recovering immediately, I placed one hand on the doorway and leaned against the door frame smirking. She immediately thrust her phone towards me.
"Good morning to you too Amu."
"What. Is. This?" she growled through clenched teeth.
Leaning forward slightly, my eyes quickly surveyed the message I had sent her last night.
"That's a text."
"I know what it is! Who the hell gave you my number?"
Tilting my head slightly, I motioned towards the room at the end of the hallway. She gave me one last final glare before storming down to the room and mercilessly pounding on the happy couple's door. Not caring to stay for the unpleasant scene, I opted for breakfast instead.
Amu POV
The nerve of them all!
Utau giving him my phone number and Ikuto for texting me after I had specifically told him the day before that I clearly had no intentions of becoming friends with a perverted devil such as himself. I flopped onto my bed and hugged the pillow across my chest. Was I being too unreasonable? I mean all he did was give me a text saying goodnight. Utau and I did that all the time. But, he was a pervert. And a devil on top of all of that. Yet-
"Ugh!" I groaned slamming my face into the soft pillow.
This made absolutely no sense. Why was I getting so over worked on such a trifle situation? It's not like the guy freaking saw me in the shower. Getting up quickly, I got dressed and quickly went downstairs. Just as I had assumed, I found him sitting alone at one of the empty breakfast tables. Taking in a deep breath, I walked up towards him.
"Are you here to yell at me?" he asked calmly without turning around to meet my guilty gaze.
"No."
"Oh really?"
"I-I want to apologize! I…I'm sorry!"
He turned around now, his brows raised in amusement.
"What did you say? It's so hard to hear with all the noise."
My jaw nearly dropped and my eyes almost bulged out of their sockets. Was he serious right now? How could he not have heard me? There was no one in this hall other than us and the lady who was currently placing plates and silverware on the tables.
"You heard me," I muttered through a forced pleasant smile.
He smirked now and I could feel my temper inching up slowly.
"If I had heard you, why would I ask you to repeat yourself?"
"Because you're my personal devil!" I shouted.
Feigning a wounded heart, he placed his palm on his chest and put on a hurt expression.
"I'm hurt."
"Like hell you are," I muttered trying to remain indifferent.
Instead, I ended up smiling. When I looked up, he was smiling too.
"What?" I asked, annoyed once more.
"Nothing, it's just that I've never seen you smile."
Scoffing, I crossed my arms over my chest and turned around.
"I always smile."
"Yeah, but not when I'm around."
Shrugging lightly, I began to walk away when he quickly grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards him.
"Let go."
"What are you doing today?"
Sighing, I looked up to meet his dark eyes.
"Utau and Kukai have nothing planned for today, so I thought I would just study."
I was hoping he'd let me go when I said this and understand I had no intentions of going out with him today. Instead, he only grinned.
"Tsk, tsk. Wrong answer Amu. How about we go exploring today?"
"What makes you think I want to go out with you at all?"
He let go of my wrist now, and stepped back.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not forcing you to go. I just thought you may want to have a change of scenery."
I paused.
"Y-you're giving me a choice?"
At this he frowned, but I wasn't looking at him anymore. My hands were clenched into fists by my side.
"Fine," I whispered before walking away.
When I finally got back into my room, I closed the door behind me and slumped down against the door.
I'm so stupid!
'Y-you're giving me a choice?'
Groaning, I placed my head on my knee. I would never be able to forget those pieces of my past no matter how hard I tried to push them away. It was bad enough I had to go through the trauma, but did I really need to remember?
Not feeling sleepy at all but needing something like an escape route, I trudged over towards my bed and fell asleep.
xXx
My escape from the world was cut short when knocking against the door increased in volume. Sighing, I tumbled out of bed and opened the door to see the devil himself gracing my presence.
"What do you want? Didn't I already tell you I was going to out with you today like half and hour ago?"
Chuckling, he leaned against the door frame and shot me an amused look.
"Half an hour? You must've been asleep I assume, it's been six hours."
My eyes widened as I slowly turned around to check the clock on the wall. It was 2:36 p.m. My horrified gaze met his amused one.
"So do you still want to go out?"
"I-I have to get ready…um…make yourself at home," I muttered turning around and heading towards my bathroom while he took a seat on the couch.
xXx
When I finished changing, I opened the door and found him sitting on the couch with pout on his face. Raising my brow, I walked over towards him. He looked up at me immediately.
"Your place is boring."
"I'm sorry. What would you like me to get so I could make your next visit more enjoyable?" I muttered with sarcasm clearly dripping from my voice.
A smirk immediately played on his face which caused me to frown considerably.
"You should get those magazines where the women are wearing those cat ears and really exposing maid outfits."
I was sure that if I had anything in my hands, they would've dropped to the floor. Instead, my eyes widened and my cheeks flushed considerably.
"P-pervert!" I shouted as I made my way to the door.
Following me from behind, he shrugged and reached in front of me to open the door.
"You're too easy to tease," he declared before we left the hotel.
xXx
"Where are we going?"
"Calm down Amu, I'm checking the map."
Huffing, I crossed my arms over my chest when I saw something that caught my attention. Without even thinking, I grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the large monument. It was a statue of Shakespeare holding a quill in his hands.
"You must like Shakespeare."
"Of course! Have you even read his work?"
"Sure, when I was in school."
I didn't completely hear him finish his sentence as I wandered off to another monument. And this time, it was of the star-crossed lovers themselves. I gazed at the statue amazed at the detail and work that had gone into it. Just as I came to take a picture, I heard something that slightly interested me and irked me at the same time.
"Can you believe this Romeo? I mean first he found Rosaline and then he found Juliet."
The boy's friend looked to him in agreement.
"I sure wish I lived in their time period. There must've been some hot girls. I mean, I can't believe he got a girl like Juliet."
"It was destiny," I said to them clearly. "Destiny brought them together."
The boys gave me look that made it seem I was silly for even suggesting it.
"Hah, destiny. Yeah right, it was pure luck he found two girls that hot," they scoffed before walking away.
I gave their backs pointed looks before turning away and snapping a picture.
"A girl who doesn't believe in romance but believes in destiny. That's pretty weird."
After tossing him the same pointed look I had given to the boys earlier, I snapped one more picture before turning to look at him expectantly.
"So where are we going now?"
"Don't know. Maybe we could just wander around aimlessly."
Sighing, I crossed my arms in front of me and began walking.
xXx
There weren't very many places we could reach by foot – most of them seemed to be various statues or little cafés that dotted the streets. And seeing how neither the devil nor I remembered to bring much money, our only choice of transportation was the metro.
I handed the lady my ticket and approached the train like machine. What few seats were there were taken up by the handicap and old. I grabbed on to the strap that was hanging from the ceiling of the metro. Just then, a ton of people bombarded the already cramped space of the metro and I was sandwiched between people I hardly knew.
The doors shut and the train moved so sudden at such a fast pace, my grip from the handle slipped and I flew backwards into someone's chest. I whirled around rapidly ready to apologize when those familiar irritating azure eyes met mine. Frowning, I placed my hand on his chest to push myself backward, but he placed an arm around my back and held me in close.
My temper was overshadowed by the feeling of embarrassment when an elderly lady smiled at us knowingly. I was sure my cheeks had turned a bright shade of red. Before I could even explain the situation to her, the metro came to a screeching stop and she hobbled out.
I pulled myself out of his grasp and ran off the metro – he caught up with me easily.
"Amu! Where are you going? The exit is the other way."
Exhaling deeply, I turned around and stormed right past him. His amused chuckle pissed me off even more.
"Why are you so angry?"
Ignoring him, I started up the stairs that led back up to the 'world'. Just as I got on the last step, he grabbed my wrist – preventing me from continuing my path upward.
"Is it because I held you close in the metro?"
When I refused to answer, he laughed.
"You have a really interesting reaction – your face really flushes red when you're embarrassed."
Rolling my eyes, I pulled my wrist out of his perverted grasp and climbed up. I was particularly in the mood to do any real exploring, so I opted for the lake up ahead. There was a winding path that led down to the lake and a cool breeze that lightly brushed against my bare legs. Strangely, it was pretty secluded for a lake in the heat of the summer.
On the way there, I noticed a vendor selling loafs of fresh bread. I handed him some money and picked up a loaf before taking a seat on a bench that gave me a wide view of the sparkling lake. I sighed, feeling melancholy. It was at times like these I wished I had been born as a lake – not a human. It seemed so easy. All your worries disappeared once the tide crashed into the large, overwhelming boulders.
Shaking the thoughts out of my head, I watched the tide continuously crash into the stones. As a second tide began to form, the devil walked over and took a seat next to me.
"Took you long enough."
"Oh? Were you waiting for me?"
"Not in particular."
The silence between was quenched by a family of ducks swimming to shore. Their webbed feet made soft noises as it made contact with the sandy dirt. Taking the loaf of bread out of its paper, I tore off a piece and threw it to them. They voice their gratitude with happy quacks.
I silently had a large portion to the devil and the two of us fed the mommy duck and her little ducklings till we ran out of bread.
"So you believe in destiny?"
Sighing deeply, I turned to look at him.
"Is it wrong to?"
"No. I do too."
"Believe in destiny?"
"Yeah."
xXx
Much to my annoyance, the devil insisted on walking me to my door even after I argued with him the whole time relentlessly. I stopped in front of my door and whirled around to face him amused smirk.
"Okay, you can go now."
"Aww, you're so mean Amu. No thank you?"
"I never asked you to escort me."
I slipped the key into its hole and opened the door. I turned around again to see him still watching me expectantly.
"Thank you," I mumbled looking straight down at the floor.
"No problem. Goodnight Amu."
"…Goodnight…devil."
Stifling a chuckle, he walked to him room and opened the door.
"You never did ask about this morning devil."
"It's not in my place to ask. If you wanted to tell me, you would've."
"I see."
Closing my door behind, I leaned back feeling a faint smile spread on my lips.
Author's Notes
Hello (:
Sorry for my long-ish absence. I've just been writing this chapter over and over again. And then going over it like a hundred times. And let me tell you, that I am still not pleased with this chapter turned out. I don't know; I hope you guys like it though.
Hehe, did you guys notice that Amu never calls Ikuto by his name?
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