Chapter 2

Nova stared at the photo displayed on the screen of her cellphone.

It was her boyfriend Lucas kissing his new girlfriend or "old" girlfriend like he had put it.

When did it all end, she thought.

A week ago he was all over her, doing the most for her to accept him as her boyfriend but now that she had accepted him, he was already making her regret it by dumping her already?

Lest she forgot, she was not dumped, she was just used as a "stand in" like Lucas has put it.

He had just used her as a stand in to replace his girlfriend who had travelled out of the country for a summit her parents had registered her for abroad.

Never in her life had she felt so used and dumped.

The audacity to send her a video of him making out with his new girlfriend or the old girlfriend, whatever she was to him, how would he dare send her a video of them making out?

To spite her?

To make her feel jealous?

To feel superior?

Holy cow, he wasn't even that handsome.

His nose did not accentuate his face anyway, and he was medium height.

He wasn't tall like her dream man.

Did he know whom she was or what her grandmother was.

Did he....... She thought loudly to herself to herself, her visible disgust not hidden from her face.

She stood from the balcony of her house she was in and left.

Today was Saturday, schools did not hold and it wouldn't be until 8pm before her grandmother would return for her lessons on how to wield powers from different realms.

Sometimes she did not understand why her grandmother was going all the miles to ensure she taught her powers and chants even though she did not know how to perform them herself. Wouldn't it be better for her to learn the super powers or whatever it was she always called it by herself and exert her vengeance by herself for herself.

What was the use of always involving her in her own affair. She thought.

It was 6pm,she had two hours before her grandmother returned.

She thought of going to Lucas' house to confront him but thought against it.

It was useless anyway. Besides they didn't have a thing to begin with.

Perhaps he has sent her the video to spite her because she had refused making out with him the other day at the women's toilet at school.

He was crazy, crazy crazy.

An idea occured to her.

She decided to go to a club house and make out with anyone too and send the video to him too.

To spite him of what he couldn't get from her.

It seemed like a better idea to her. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" she owed him no loyalty anyway, considering how she had been used as a stand in for his main girlfriend.

Within a few minutes she was at the "Silver Phoenix", it was the clubhouse famous amongsts the students of Midnight Hollow School for the Supernatural, a school where both humans and supernatural beings schooled without anyone knowing who was who.

"You're not allowed in miss, your ID says that you are under 18" went the security who prevented her from entering.

" I am not under 18! I am already 18! Don't you see it in the ID card? I will be 18 next week. Today is already Saturday, I will be 18 in five days time" she yelled, transferring the aggression that filled her to the security who stood his guard on not letting her in unless she came with a guardian or an "older friend".

This disgusted her. Why wouldn't he just let her in since she had 5 days remaining to turn Eighteen.

"I will go in with her" came a voice behind her.

She looked back. He was handsome, that was all she noted. He was handsome.

She looked at the security and smirked and went in.

"Much for all the troubles" she said and went in, leaving him to confirm the age of her "helper"

"A goblet of Bacchanalian Brew please" she ordered, watching the waiter not move from where she stood.

"Sorry, but I was informed that you are still underaged, hence I can't serve you your request"

" Oh wow"

" A goblet of Bacchanalian Brew please" came the voice from her back.

It was her helper. Was he ordering her same order to showoff to her or what? She thought.

" Alright. I know that you helped me get in, but I think you should stop following me by now" she told him

" Follow you? I came here to behold Phoenixes newest dancers" he said pointing at the girls who stood on the platform, some vaguely dressed and some not, dancing to all who cared to look.

She smirked her face and left him to mix in with the crowd.

Boys she thought, he was just like Lucas, perverts always looking for opportunities.

"Oh yeah, shake your body!! Yohh yohhhh!!! " She screamed on top her lungs as she danced like other people she saw were. She tried to fit in while hunting for whom she'd use to spite Lucas, he wasn't that important to her but she would spite him too like he had done.

" You dance beautifully, though you still seem like an amateur" came a voice behind her ears.

She sighed, it must be her " follower", turning she realized he was the one truly.

She faces her back and moves without speaking to him.

She saw a boy passing her by and pulled him close to her and kissed him. But she was shunned by his girlfriend who came and dragged him away from her.

So much for men who couldn't turn women down. Were their girlfriends meant to be the ones to fight women in their behalf? She shaked her head.

She touched her lips. It had a weird taste. Perhaps the drink the guy she had kissed took. But the kiss was short lived and she didn't get to capture it.

She moved on, with her phone clutched tight to her hands, she moved to find the next prey.

" You won't find a guy to kiss that way. A word of advice from me actually. If you repeat what you did before, you might not walk away from here tonight alive. Hidden beneath most girls here are powers they inherited from their bloodlines, you wouldn't want to mess with any of them to avoid being killed"

There he went again with his unsolicited talks and advice, she turned again. This time, she did not speak to him.

Instead she took the drink her held from his hands and gobbled the remaining down her throat.

" What if I pay you then? What if I paid you to kiss me? Would a girl kill me as well?"

" Depends on the type of kiss you want to pay me for" be said advancing his steps towards her.

"Pervert" she muttered under her breathe.

" A pervert only for you" he said smiling. " Most women don't get to see this part of me" he continued.

" I'm not most women and I really don't care" she replied and turned to walk away.

"Where are you going?" He asked her, grabbing her by her arms. She noticed he was stronger than she and seemed determine.

"To see a friend" she lied, hoping he'd let her go. She wanted to go. This stranger smelled like trouble and seemed like one.

"I don't see anyone looking like your friend anywhere around here" he says, slowly moving closer to her.

His hand was gripping her arm and she watched helplessly as his second hand swiftly moved to her waist.

She did not know whether she was hypnotized that instant but all she knew was that she stood numb, watching him have his way touching her.

He looked down at her meeting her brown eyes, he lowered his gaze down to her lips.

He stared at her lips, tilting his head a little as he gets closer.

The tip of his sharp tongue nudged hers. She noticed she was bleeding and he did too, which made him hesitant to do anything further.

She didn't fail to notice it, so she leans closer, brushing her lips against his.

"That would cost you five Diamonds" be said, shifting from her and retracting his hands from her body.

"Oh well excuse me" she said waving her cell phone.

" I didn't tell you to kiss me yet, besides, I didn't get to capture it. Why would I pay you for what you did out of your own accord?"

Realizing she had come with the intention of recording herself kiss someone, he smiled.

" Why are you smiling?" She asked him.

"Do you want me to show you something better than being kissed?" He asked.

She shuddered, and accepted to take his arms which he had offered her, seduced by the sin lurking in front of her. She wanted to feel and experience what was better than being kissed.