Khalid stepped away from the door and went to stand in front of her. Octavia was almost shaken, but tried her best not to look at him
"You really are so determined, aren't you?" He asked softly,,his eyes on her face, while her eyes stared at the floor.
"Mica" he called without raising his voice.
His dark eyes were still glued to Octavia's face.
"Yes, Master" Mica rushed over and bowed.
There was a short silence. Then, he said:
"Bring her to the hall at exactly 9 p.m."
"Yes, Master" Mica replied immediately and taking one last look at Octavia, he turned and walked away.
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"Octavia, are you sure about this?" Mica asked as they sat in the room together.
"You can still leave if you want to. I can talk to one of the guards to convince the master",
Octavia just stared keenly at her and suddenly lifted her hand to her hair.
"Why did you make your hair this way?" She asked in her timid voice, touching the ponk style on it
Mica scoffed and also touched the hair.
"Don't you like it?" She asked and Octavia smiled
"Its beautiful". She said.
The two sisters stared at each other for a few seconds.
"You've changed" Octavia broke the silence, her voice so soft as she spoke.
"I did? How?" Mica asked, even tho she already knew what she was referring to.
"Your...your ways - everything. You look more...bold now" she replied and Mica looked down at the floor and chuckled.
"Well....I had to blend with the others". She said.
"The firat time i got here, it was so difficult getting them to accept me. Master Khalid is very strict with his members.
"You know, his clan is one of the most powerful. So, everyone wants to belong and serve under him. It was very difficult getting to please him and make him choose me.
"I had to go through a lot, did a lot of dirty jobs just to prove myself. Back then, we were 12 and in the end, only 3 of us were chosen.
"I'd found it so difficult blending with them, tho. It was so difficult.but, I had to. I had to act like them, fight like them, and eat like them. So, that's the reason I became this way. Tho, I'm proud of it".
Octavia watched her sister as she spoke so enthusiastically. She stared at her like her whole life depended on the story.
She had so many questions to ask - so many questions about the X-family, what they do and how things were being handled. But she was scared of asking Mica because Mica might see the fear in her. Yes, she was damn scared.
"How's dad?" She asked after a little pause.
Octavia cleared her throat before replying:
"He's fine"
"And Agatha? Is she still being a pain in the @ss?" Mica chuckled and Octavia shrugged and nodded.
"She had actually been sick - severely sick. But she's fine now". She added.
"Does...dad ever talk about me?" Mica asked, a different look in her eyes and Octavia shook her head slowly.
She scoffed and stared down at the floor. Tho, she had expected her father wouldn't care about her anymore, she still felt bittered.
What an unfortunate way to have a father.
She breathed in lightly and stood up.
"Come on. Let's take a walk around" she stretched out her hand to Octavia, but Octavia stared at it like it was strange.
"I...I don't think I want to. There'd be...so many people outside" she answered shyly.
"Come on, don't worry about that. Its fine" she said, but Octavia still didn't take her hand.
"It'll be 9 p.m. soon, Octavia. Let's take a short walk around", she urged.
"Wh...What would happen at the hall?" She forced herself to ask one of the disturbing questions, but the reply she got from her sister wasn't encouraging - not at all.
"You're the one who insisted on staying, Octavia. You should be ready for the worst" she said bluntly and walked out of the room.
In the room...."Do you really have plans of taking the girl?" Becca asked as she stood behind Khalid who was taking off his clothes.A deep silence met her question and she twitched"Khalid...." She pouted."I'm yet to decide, Becca", he snapped and she kept her mouth shut.Despite the fact she was his girlfriend, she still knew her limits.She walked up to him and held him from behind. She felt so lucky - she was the only female in the clan who got to hold him that way - the Almighty Khalid."Khalid..." She moaned his name as she ran her hands on his bare tattood chest."How did the meeting go?""Well,,still the former. They're working on choosing a new leader of the X-family" he said simply and Becca smiled."Oh Khalid.." She giggled and rested her head on his back.
"You'll need to chose one", the words rang in her head.She wouldn't say she wasn't warned about it. Mica had warned her but she chose to stay. She chose this part - for her personal reasons.She gulped hard, her eyes unable to leave the floor. She could Khalid's cold gaze on her."I'll...I'll lose it" she swallowed hard again and Khalid scoffed.He lifted his hands to her chest again and caressed her b**bs."So small..." She heard him mutter.He scrutinized her and when he was done, he moved away from her."At this point", he began. "You only have two options: you stay, or die."You had the chance to leave, but you turned it down. So, now, you can only stay or die. I'll be giving you some tests and conditions, If you're able to pass all the tests, you stay. If you fail them, I'll kill you for trespassing.
Mica closed the door and turned back to face her sister."Get ready. We need to leave for the hall" her voice was hoarse, her eyes couldn't look at her.Octavia didn't need a seer to tell her there was a big problem"He...He wants to make me bleed?" She stuttered."But how?"Mica stood and looked at her, allowing ger see the dreadfulness in her eyes.""They're gonna finger you...till your hymen splits' she replied and Octavia froze.This time around,, she couldn't cloak her excitement.A brief silence ensued betwwwn the two sisters."Come on" Mica said huskily and left the room.Octavia found her legs too heavy to move. They were gonna do awful things to her - pretty awful things. How would she rake it?She gulped hard and took in several deep breaths. She co
Octavia laid,,crying on the table as the boys walked out. She couldn't move - out of shame - until Mica ran to her."Hey!" She caled and held her,,helping her down from the table.Octavia whimpered as she climbed down, tears strolling down her face.Mica picked her clothes from the floor and gave them to her. "Here, put them on, so we can leave".Octavia nodded tearfully and began redressing. Her thighs were stained with the blood, but she wore the clothes anyway.Mica signalled her to follow her and they walked out of the hall together.Octavia tried as much as possible to stop her tears as they walked out to the open. She didn't want the people to see her cry.It hurt her a lot, both the humiliation and the pain. It hurt her to know she'd lost her virginity in a crazy way. Like...who does that??And to
They walked out of the hallway quarters to the garage where some of the boys and girls were already waiting beside the bus.Octavia walked timidly behind her sister, wishing there was a way she could perhaps, get lost into her."You kept us waiting,,Mica. If it were someone else, we'd have left already", one of the boys growled."Yeah, I know. I'm sorry", she replied grumpily and got into the bus with her sister.Master Khalid has already left with his close guards."Hello, blue eyes" one of the ladies smirked from behind."Wow! Your sister's looking awesome, Mica. She looks like she's going for a ball",a boy said and the others chuckled.Octavia just bent her head and didn't say a word as the bus began moving. They were all strangers to her and she couldn't find herself communicating with them.&n
Octavia quickly bent her head again, shame and fear taking over her completely.She didn't want to look at any one, not even the master.Her sister's words rang in her head:"On no occasion must you disobey him. If you do anything wrong,,Master Khalid would kill you".She needed to do this; needed to get through this - no matter what."And it's time for the bid..." The boy on stage commenced."Who goes first?"He turned to look at Octavia and the rest of the girls on stage."Let's go with the blonde one. Highest bidder....!"Octavia listened as the men started dragging the bid, acting like they were pricing a commodity.Her breath became unleveled as conniption gripped her. She can do this, she kept assuring herself.Soon, the bid for the first lady was over a
Octavia felt her heart stop beating as she stared at the mess she'd caused.The Master lying unconsciously on the floor. She had hurt him!! She hurt him!!Oh! What has she done???She stood up from the bed and ran to him immediately, and he seemed to be asleep, his head still bleeding.How could she had done such a thing? How? Why did she have to cause such a mess?Consternation took over and reflected in her eyes. She had just made a terrible mistake; a terrible one. What would she do?No; she couldn't stay. She needed to get far away - despite the fact it was something she was scared of doing.She took off her shoes, opened the door and ran out of the room and doing that, she saw some boys coming her way. They'd been drawn by the clamorous sound from the room and immediately, Octavia started running away, taking the opposite direction.
Master Khalid remained silent for a while, drilling more fear into her.Her body was visibly shaking as she stood behind him, she tried to digress the movement into fists on the tip of her cloth.But she wondered....what became of the Master she'd hurt? Was he later fine?Khalid puffed out more of the smoke and finally, he passed out an ordered:"Go on your knees".Octavia didn't hesitate as she let her knees sink to the floor.She almost let out a light whimper, but restricted herself as she didn't want to sound weak in anyway. Mica had told her he hated weakness.After some more while, Khalid finally turned around to look at her.He put out the tobacco pipe and the smoke reduced."What the hell did you do?" He asked calmly, but even beneath his cal
"My baby... Khalid!" She wouldn't stop whining and Khalid, being the first of it's kind, could hardly comprehend what to do.Could it be possible it was time for delivery? Then, she needed to be taken to the hospital, right?She was still standing with her legs spread apart, like she was scared to bring them together or something."Octavia...Come here. Come here" Khalid cooed as he drew closer to his chest and wrapped his hand around her."Khalid...!""Santa? Draco? Who's there??" Khalid calmed out and the door opened immediately, revealing Santa."Mast...""Get the car ready! Now!" Khalid cut him off with a command and without hesitation, Draco turned and ran off.Octavia was still whimpering, fidgetting with Khalid's shirt and suddenly, an unexplained pain like ménstrual cramps hit so
Khalid turned slightly to look at Octavia, then turned back to face the judges."Really?" He scoffed. "And did you ever stop to wonder what the reason behind her actions was?""Whatever the reason, Khalid, it doesn't matter anymore. She broke a rule and must be punished for it". Another answered."Speaking about rules..." Khalid bent his head and moved a step. "only the current leader can".Master Klaus stared at him suspiciously."If that's what you want" one of the judges replied and turned to the Next man beside him."Get Tha...""Thaddeus stopped being the acting leader the moment the elections started. His tenure's expired already and right now, we don't have a leader to pass a judgement. So... I'd suggest you move on with the coronation and give us a new leader already" his lips pushed slightly with a smirk.&
Octavia laughed hard as Khalid twirled her around in his arms. She clutched him tight, holding onto him like her life actually depended on him."Hey..." Khalid cooed and managed to put her down on her feet, then cupped her chin in his hands."You did it" Octavia muttered, staring directly into his dark eyes."You're alive"."No. You did it" replied answered with a light smile and crashed his lips on hers.It was a snogging kiss, tempestuous and breathtaking.Khalid's hands were still cupping her cheeks, while she moved here to his shoulders and held him tight.The flavors of their tongues were exchanged and when Khalid purposefully give her bottom lip a hard bite, she couldn't help but give out a light moan."Octavia..." Khalid paused the kiss and whispered into her lips."What
Octavia opened her bleary eyes on the bed, her hands fisted, and her back ache."Hey" she heard a voice call and turned her head slowly to see Sapphire sitting close to her."You're awake. How're you feeling?"Octavia arched her brows and tried recalling what had happened.Sapphire...She'd cut her wrist open, but Octavia was able to save her. And afterwards, she felt so weak and passed out."Octavia, can you hear me?" Sapphire cooed and touched her arm and Octavia forced herself to sit up.The memories of what had happened came flashing into her head; how she'd acted so crazy, attacked Master Zack...Goodness! Did she really do all that???And Khalid? Was he awake already? How would she know?Her hand went slowly to her tummy, caraasing the flat surface.
"Khalid?" One of the men called as they moved closer to him.They looked so surprised. It wasn't a dream, was it?"You're awake?"Khalid closed his eye lids shut, then opened them again. Where the hell was he?He looked around, the soft feel of the bed feeling familiar. And tbe voice he'd heard....The only thing he could feel at that moment was weakness and emptiness."Can he hear us?" One of the men asked and slowly, he turned his head to look at them.Some boys were in the room as well, holding a white sheet. Despite the fact he couldn't remember, he had this strong feeling that soemthing big had happened.How come he's alive? Because he's pretty sure he was so close to dead, if he wasn't already.He fisted his hands and forced himself to sit up, his entire body aching a lot as
Octavia stopped Immediately, turning back to look at her.Her eyes were heavy and red.Sapphire bent her head and wept more, her fingers sinking deep into her ruffled hair."I.... I had no idea" she whimpered, her voice cracking feafully."I had no idea Khalid was behind it, Octavia. All those while...I thought it was Tabitha".Octavia watched silentlyShe could recall the pains in Khalid's eyes when he narrated the story to her the previous day. The pains that'd hurt her terribly."For so many years,I harboured nothing but hatred towards him, thinking he was just like his father" Sapphire continued."And when I heard of the terrible things he's done in the clan...""Khalid didn't chose to be what he is today" Octavia cut in gruffly, taking a step closer to her."He grew
Octavia panted heavily as she ran towards the road, her right arm bleeding profusely.It'd been a rough journey getting out o the camp as she had to hurt herself trying to sneak her way out.But one thing was for sure; if they ever get to lay their hands on her, she'd definitely be dead. Definitely.What she did to Zack was totally off limits and had the death warrant. But hell! She didn't care as Khalid was more important to her at that moment.She got to the roadside and boarded a cab to her destination even if she had no fare with her."Take me to St. Thomas Street. Hurry!" She yelled at the driver who took off immediately.**Mica was lying quietly on her bed when one of her room mates rushed in with deep breaths."Mica! Mica!" She called. "Can't believe you're sleeping. Do you have any idea what your sister's been do
The rise and fall of her heavy chest was so obvious as she marched angrily towards the block.Her head wasn't straight, normalcy was very far from her at that moment.Octavia walked indefatigably to the block and met the guards outside the door."Hey; where do you think you're going?" One of them asked as he blocked her way.The lines around her eyes were so red as she glared hard at the door."I need to see Zack" she stated bluntly.If the boys were people that knew her, they'd have known her voice was sounding deadlier than it used to."You mean...Master Zack?" Another chipped in, correctibly, but Octavia didn't reply."What do you want with him?""Just let me in. Its important" she glared."You need to be specific, young lady, cause we've got no time f
The following morning...Octavia had woken up to behold two eyes staring directly at her - two dark eyes. They were eyes she was familiar with, but that morning, something was different about them.She adjusted lightly, registering the fact that she was still nãked because she'd slept that way the previous night."Khalid..." She called lightly.She couldn't understand why he was just lying and staring at her."Good morning, Master".Khalid didn't say a word but only continued with the stare and fpr a moment, Octavia cringed. Hold on; shouldn't they be getting ready for the coronation already? It should be happening shortly."How're you feeling?" He finally asked and for the first time since she met him, Octavia could detect some weakness in his tone."I'm.... I'm fine. And you, Master?" She replied, but Khalid only respo