Suzue Reed

Chapter 21

"I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I'm her knight in shinning armor."
― Simone Elkeles,

Chapter 21: Infatuation 

 While we walked in the town, hadley keeps on talking making me feel irritated so every time she speak i would not hesitate to make sarcastic remarks, hoping to make her mad but i failed.

the woman's patience is another level but seeing the twitches in her smile made me satisfied, so my effort wasn't futile. 

suddenly hadley bumped into a large man, as a prince who isn't fated to be the next emperor the large man ignored us, clive was a genius in combats, but he wasn't experienced enough so when the man made the girls as his hostage, he couldn't ddo a thing.

Tatum was mad not because it was her sister but because he was told to protect her by the people who called themselves as his parents, he couldn't do anything that time because, magic isn't allowed to be used in town, and 5 years i prison is the consequence of breaking that law.

so all we could do was scream in rage towards the man and being rooted on the ground, the large ma was amused and seems to be looking down on us, as a prince who was always being looked down on, it wasn't a bit pleasant.

the large man pulled an arrow and shoot it towards me while laughing, i manage to avoid it and gritted my teeth in anger, i know someone would do that to a noble but doing thing like that to a member of a royal family was to much.

angry i used the card's power of command, i shouted to let go of hadley, not because of favoritism but because i need to secure the most valuable tool. 

it might be selfish but it's the truth... i'm a selfish person after all, the man struggled to let go of hadley but a mad voice screamed causing us to stare at the owner's direction.

and there she was... White hair that seems like the clouds looking so soft and fluffy, a pair of pink eyes that was filled with anger and possessiveness, yet they seem like pulling you into an abyss, causing you gravitate unconsciously towards her.

and there i met her, looking proud and beautiful... i never knew someone could look beautiful in dong violence, i never knew that one day i would be charmed and bewitched by a girl with a brute personality. 

meeting her is just what i expected... no, it was beyond my expectation. her tiny smile was different from hadley's innocent yet disturbing ones, hers was lazy yet natural. it was amusing and infectious to look at. 

without knowing i started feeling giddy, all my attention were focused to only her, i began to think of seize every moment i have with her, but i think it was too fast because the next thing i know she was walking away.

I next meeting with her was different, she was staring at me with hate... i was confuse at first but when i notice her holding the hand of her sister who's staring at me with infatuation, i manage to decipher everything.

if i remember correctly, lilith become infatuated at me when i accompanied her on a stormy night in her room. i was visiting her that time and suddenly it rained, the heavy rain was loud paired with thunderstorm it was a bit scary, but i'm used to it and then i remembered most girls are afraid of loud thunderstorm,

i started asking myself if suzue was one of those scared girl and then i chuckled, definitely not. i am certain she would accompany her sister and comfort her, i wonder if she would do the same if it was me?

what i was thinking? i didn't know myself too.  Suzue just made me become like this so effortlessly.

my eyes landed at the huge portrait place on the wall in the center of the hall, it's a portrait of three. Duke avaleon who's sitting on a chair, on hr left side is a elegant looking Lilith and in the right side is a Suzue dressed in a men clothes which failed to make her look like a man.

i chuckled and walk towards the hallway when i noticed the maids panicking and then i found out that the young miss was missing.

i didn't bother to make any intention of finding her  then i remembered suzue, she might got angry at me and hate me so i searched with the maids.

and i found her on her wardrobe refusing to come out, and so i accompanied her and comforted her, thinking it might make me look good at the certain girl's eyes.

but i guess i was wrong it made her jealous at me instead.

"excuse us for a bit" i snap back to my thoughts and stared at hadley and suzue who excused themselves and walks out the dinning hall. 

"i wonder what they were about to talk, hadley sound so serious" i stared at tatum and then flashes of him and suzue pops in my head, i unconsciously clicks my head causing him to grin at me.

"what's wrong your highness are you jealous?"

"jealous? me ? no way, stop stating nonsense" yes, yes i am.. because you could freely do anything you want with her, while i couldn't, because just touching her made me feel euphoria, and the thought of her smiling at me, laughing with me, and talking to me, makes me feel intoxicated.

and i couldn't do anything but freeze and panic, and utter things i would surely regret. 

this feeling is something new to me..

my personal maid, told me it's just infatuation it would soon perish, which i'm hoping it is.. because the longer i feel like this the harder it is to talk to her.

i took a sigh and stood up, clive was about to stand up too, but  raise my hand causing him to stop and remained seated, i left the hall and walks my way toward the garden.

however i didn't expect to witness and heard something i shouldn't.

i lean on the wall and hid myself, wishing for them not to notice me. 

they were talking things that i couldn't decipher but i think i manage to figure is that, this two was gifted with reincarnation.

they came from a different world with different beliefs and with different lives.

otome? a game?

my eyes widen and i unconsciously clenches my fist, 

so i am just a character to capture? just like tatum and clive, lilith is just a villainess who will become a stepping stone for us to be together.

i see...  

"stop destroying my plans!!"

disgusting..

"you must be confuse hadley, i am not peyton, this is not earth, this is not a game.. this is reality"

ah... as i thought..

"wake up, transmigrating in a game is impossible, life isn't a game, we are not surrounded by NPCs, this world is real, snap out of your goddamn dreams and grow up"

this isn't... infatuation.