Chapter 6

Man in black stood steadily and lined-up in their post as the vehicle enter the subdivision. It's only just the sight of the entrance, and I can only guess how guarded the whole division are. They wouldn't budge as this vehicle entered, only they bowed their head in their somber face.

I can't contain my shocked and amusement to everything, their expression so cool that their looks so creep doesn't matter at all. They are the most cool sight I've ever seen so far!

“So many...” I murmured, my eyes can't get off the grand sight. “Wow. Are they some sort of bad gentlemen?”

“Crazy,” a tired voice cut the fantasy.

The pair of black alluring eyes what's meet my glare, and I can only look away. I said, a hint of pity, “They are so cool... How comes you don't compliment your men?”

“Why would I low myself to complinent them? I'm not crazy as you, woman,” his voice cold as he said those words without blinking.

“So you haven't compliment them!” My brows furrows and abruptly turn at him with a deadly face. “You should have greet them earlier too! They risk their life for this place, and yet you're not show your greatfulness?”

“You're such a headache. How can you sure they are risking their life anyway?” he said just as the engine died.

His voice is somewhat strange. There's a hint of certainty in it, and I thought it's the bitterness. But it's unlikely. His face didn't change, and it still as serious than ever. Given he is good-looking, there's an air of coldness that is deadly. I can only look around to look away.

The biggest building I've ever seen in my life instantly brought me into my usual self. The brightness in my eyes exceed that of the blinding light covering the grand building.

“Wow!” I burst out, while he can only curse behind me.

I'm so impressed to the sight that I'm only seen through the painting at home, and the very sight of sent something I can't explain. Mom and dad instantly came to mind. Yet, I can only push the thought away, and force a smile in my lips. The way the light from above the grand building is illumunating the place, it creates an aqua-blue surrounding that remind me of the water... yet this fragment is majestic as ever and shockingly almost cover the whole world!

I shook my head to regain my senses. That is just a fairytale that I strangely visualize now and then. And there's no way it's affiliated to the reality.

To all the five floor, I barely notice the balcony, but the blue plants surrounding it shine bright, causing a sudden burst of emotions inside of me. For some reasons, I remind of the darkness, how the blue light surrounding the plant cause them to somewhat rotten and in a verge of withering.

“A garden in the balcony?” I turn to him, only to meet his mocking face.

“That's just placed there, nothing especial-”

“Still a garden, and is a grand in its kind!” I cut him with frustration. For once, I did tolerate his breaking my fantasy, but this is too much!

He instantly halted, his face trouble. My glare is one of a dreadful and frightful, and he warily smile to somewhat touch my heart. I don't know why he is in a hurry, yet to suddenly halted. His clothes somewhat unbutton, he is in the process of unbottoning them.

“W-what are you doing?” The coolest wind blows to embrace me, and my glaring eyes slightly flickering, and I know for sure it will budge completely by his almost naked figure. Just what's of taking his clothes off?

My widened eyes suddenly close, and I groaned to the pouring dust that blows together by the embracing winds. This in turns an opportunity for him, and he getting near while my heart slowly boom.

My fantasy just break out and he seem really changing in here. This is sure a nightmare!

Just as his hand make contact to mine, I open my eyes with a wonder. There's seems to be something about his hold, given the gentleness, there's a longing in there and familiarity I couldn't at all explain with an empty mind.

His eyes especially is softened, and the way he stares, there's accompanied a feeling of sorry in it. But for what? His muscled arms wrap me, and I can only push away the thought and feeling his expose chest. It's not that he has no under-shirt, but the feeling he brought me feel like he has no clothes at all!

“Don't burst outside with your expose,” his whisper just behind my ears. Slowly, his polo rest at my back, and somewhat feeling the warmth it brought me. There's something about this warmth though, as if it's not about the polo, but the unexpected and new sight to behold.

His hold so grip but it only in the way that cause me tingle and not hurt. I want to express my confussion, of what's this all about. However, I can only stare at him, feeling the strange he brought upon.

Is it even a nightmare, or a lost fairytale? But within the question lingering in my head is the dread of possibility. This warmth... I instantly thought the hospitality of that woman!

“You-”

“Sshh, please,” he pointed his forefinger in my lips, sealing it. He as if so sure of what's to come next, and can only smile weakly. His white cover bulge his muscle into sight, but my attention been on the warmth he gives me. But I wonder, if having none at all, is the warnth will exploded out?

My face have been soften, even though the woman's mockery have been in my mind the instant. For some reason, this warmth is a danger I must get off my system, it's the very reason I can't be in my usual!

He glance at the Right, and glare his eyes out. This for some reason set my mind at ease, and that there's no way he will brought danger to me. Hhe grab me tightly but with gently as he said, “You want dress, so be a good woman and follow what I'm going to say from now on. First, don't burst recklessly with your dress stripped. Are we clear?”

I looked through my dress and could feel the heat of rage in my face. Is he ashame to have me with him?

In my frustration, I roared that shake everything, “Make it a thousand, then! I'll cover my body with dress, alright! But don't you dare so show off that you shame having me with stripped dress!”

He blink, whether to amuse or to confuse, his expression turn unsighty. “What are you saying, woman?”

He is so confuse and I can only grinned. I throw away the cloth that cover my showy skin, and show to him what I really am.

“Don't be so high of yourself,” I said, bitten my lips as his chest bulge in a pant. “Y-you are a good-hearted man. Why shame?”

“Oh,” his look up, his expression is one of strange.

His polo slowly lifted up, and my mouth hung open as I gulp. It such a waste to throw it away, but it's too late to even realize that. I try to catch it myself, only to be distracted by the manly cologne. It soot through my nostril, and I can't help but felt a tingling sensation. The smell so fresh, and I can only hope to sniff for more!

I shook my head and just instantly, he already caught the polo. His smell given him opportunity while I'm distracted, and I can only feel defeated!

“It's mine,” I snatch away the polo. He seems don't offended at all, only his eyes widened a bit. His mouth slightly open, and his breathing of a pant only intensified.

I already immerse to the polo to even mind him. In an instant, I feel the headache coming. The polo barely had the manly cologne, and I look at him with too much confussion. The smell is coming from his under-shirt, then?

“Well,” I shrugged the thought of even try to snatch that away from him, and I can only hug the polo as if it's the reason of my life. Still, his scent of manly in it gives me a relaxation, though not so intense the smell coming from him. I said when the silent given me any idea that he must trying to snatch the polo away, and that is murdering me for sure.

“It's an accident!” I smiled warily. “I accidentally throw my clothe, hm. What a pity! It almost reach the ground,” I said while sniffing in it.

His eyes fully widened, a gasp escape his mouth. “Your... what?” His expression is one of amuse, but it's more true that he's weirded out. His eyes flickered as if alive again, while I only shrugged. He chuckled as he said with excitement, “I get it! You sure stubborn to the extreme, even use such a trick to covet my clothe?”

“Who covet your clothe?” I glare, and pointed my forefinger right at his very eyes. “Don't you dare to look down on me, you monster! I warn you... You don't like a maddened bitch!”

“I'm not looking down,” he said, his voice somewhat become serious. “And you are not a bitch. What's wih your words, hm?” his expression shivered me. Though his voice serious, it becomes l soft in my ears, and my heart thrown into chaos.

“Can we go in?” I can only look away.

Just as we entered the building, I feel like I've been transported to another dimension. Just in the entrance: the floor already shine brightly. It strangely reflected to the moon; which bloody bright somewhat flickering and flowing like water.

I shivered as the sight reminds me to those men in the dark. Those are the bad guy shoo away by the woman, her army that lusted my very skin. However, the flowing bloody light gives me dread, as if those eyes in the dark is flowing just above my head1

“You okay?”

I hugged tightly to the polo. For unknown reason, I am reminded how the woman doesn't at all to identify herself, and turns out she has the interior motives!

With my shaken voice, I said, “I'm not yet know your name.” There's something about it that instantly gives me the dread, and I reluctantly ask him. However, if he is really had the good intention, he wouldn't dare to dislike my question, right?

But strangely, he said with a deep rooted rage, “She doesn't deserve to be named. Is that why you are asking my name right now?” He's serious, but not in the way I had to think of running away. He look closely, the rage disappear as he said, “You fear I'm going to hurt you?

“How...”

“It's all over your face, stubborn. Just forget it, hm?” His voice comforting, however it's deadly serious.

Though strange of how he seems to read what's in my mind, I can only look away. My mom said once I am.so easy to read, and she weirdly see through me just like dad. Perhaps, I'm really is easy to read, huh?

But mom said it's a deadly quality, and even though she's been teaching me how to collect my mind and thought, I can't just fully determine what's the danger she's talking about?

Not until the woman show me...

“Almiro,” he disrupted my thought, his hand hold me gentle.

“Hm?” I meet his kind smile. It's such a heaven bless, giving me hope that the world really not in its worst. That he... really is not at all dangerous!

“Stubborn,” he shook his head, yet his amusement only deepened. “Anyway, you have to change. You will catch a cold in this point!”

I can only let him hold my hand like a puppy that lose to the world. I can only follow his lead to the peace that I once again find because of him. I'm looking to his brood back and I can say he is a man that every woman's dream.

But my wish isn't just that... I wish he will be the peace I'm searching about!

And that the world really is not that bad.... That my walk on my own is not a risk for harm, but risk... to see the new light.

Light on what thought to be a dark side of the world!