Chapter 4

I thought of a wish as he lead me to the far away place. We have one meter away from each other, and I watch him walk like a horse when its at rest. He's sexy in that way and I couldn't believe myself thinking that way. It's a kind of sexiness that never seen before. I wonder if others see the way I saw it?

“Are you with me?” He glare to notice where my eyes just now. “Like it?” he smile, yet his eyes chilly.

I gulp. “Huh?” 

“Pervert,” he mumbled and my eyes widened in response.

“How looking at your butt is a pervert thing?” 

“Seriouly?”

I try to reason out but he walk away the instance. Though it's not really the case like he thought I'm doing, it's the true that I find his butt movement as sexy.

“It's a misunderstanding-” I shut up when he face me the same way a person looking to his archenemy.

“So you mean you don't like it?”

“What?” My eyes glowed in confussion. He turn away and I try the harder to catch in his pace. Yet I just can't, his long legs is in a full course.

“Arsy!” There's something inside me tells me that if this going on, he'll use this against me. Who knows if he'll not change his mind of granting my wishes because of this?

I give all my might and run to stop him, grab his arms and face him to me. “What?” his voice echoed and I felt the shivering winds pass us. 

“Quite,” I told him, feeling that someone looking in our direction right now. 

He didn't move and intently looking at me. I wonder if he also felt the presence that just pass us? Yet his eyes say otherwise. 

“You're pervertness overloaded, Pyro!” 

“I'm not-”

“You're telling me I'm not worth your pervertness?” His smile sent me to the highest sky, all by myself.

Though there's a feeling I can't let go about, the presence becomes deadly that I chuckle in his claim. I close the distance and look up to meet his curious eyes. “You really want to know?” I ask playfully this time.

“Stay away, Pyro,” his voice threatening, yet he step back as if realize I'm unstoppable.

I grab him before he even thought of step away for good. Though he's taller, just a few inches that looking straighfully will gives sight of his lips, I'm towering him with my gaze. 

He gulp, and I kneel to whisper in her ears, “Where are you leading this pitiful soul, Arsy?” 

“What are you talking about?” He's taken aback though, look away as if looking at me will expose him. 

I still don't know if my decision to adapt is the right thing. And even goes so far to search with this strange man. Just to ask for a favor?

“You came here for a wish?” He can't believe it the first time and eyed me suspiciously. “You really are on drugs!”

But he didn't push me away, and strangely said, “If you think so I can grant a wish, then who I am to think differently?” His expression is serious when he said that, even goes so far to smile that shook my heart greatly. He added, look up the brightened night sky, “But first, help me with something, Pryro...”

I fell the deepest and my shoulder tense when that very words couldn't leave my mind. He lead me in this silent place that strange me, didn't reveal what help he wants me to do. 

But the tense of my shoulder is done by something else, and my heart shook to no end. A strange presence...and the forest itself reminds me of how I trully sinned!

The strange feeling only worsen as we neared the place. There, a familiar symbolic and the weird shape and line-up of trees shook my heart even more. It race the height I almost couldn't breath!

“Are you thinking I'm some sort of a cult?” He notice the shaken of my knees, his brows straight up. 

It only worsen the dread in me. It's as if he's aware of something. Something will point to my sin! But he need me, right?

The familiarity of the forest only deepened, yet there's something I can't trully figure this whole time. How can I don't know it if it's really familiar? 

I look suspiciously to him, and the feeling I of disappointment dread me. It dread me not the thought he may lead me here to shaken me, but the thought he know and done this to me despite that! 

Yet my mind thought of a wish, and the feeling of disappointment becomesb irrelevant. But what's pity is my heart trully shaken, and I wonder if this is cause of this place?

“I'll lead the way, Arsy!” I can't stop myself to scan the area, lead the way as if I've here the whole time, but only to meet the curiousity in his eyes. 

I smile bitterly and look away. To be cautious, I must think this is the plan of that woman! 

He slowly nodded, yet I didn't pay much attention to it, and proceed with caution as ever. It's better than hating him if things goes wrong...than trust him this early, right?

I remember the moment in the bus. How he's the person who my eyes first laid to. And the way that woman appear just after he gone to my sight! 

Why he looking that way, yet didn't even aware of who I am the moment in the crowd?

“That woman must done something dreadful,” I thought, gritted my teeth.

I watch him the whole time after in the bus, and it wasn't coincidence I appear before him. People looking at him weirdly from the crowd, yet I try all my might to cover their line of vision!

Their weirdness turn to me and I only raise my brows. Definitely expected by that mysterious woman. It's part of her punishment, maybe?

I don't care the crowd...yet deep inside I care to how they look at me. It's reminds me of that time... I was destroyed by the townspeople!

They said hatefully, “Gone away, you sinner!”

Yet I kind of debating whether they are those people, however it came to mind this is the changing world!

And then I realize perhaps this world really is far from what I know. Or was time been flow so fast in here than below-ground that everything change this way? 

People though is the same, the way they let me feel I'm no one, only my name determine how they will going to respect me!

It's only my name... that I lost the moment I follow my heart and set-aside the restriction...

To love, to being alive!

“Who's that?” someone look at me the same a person look at the prisoners in the dungeon. 

There's despise in there, and fear to unknown...

My heart tremble. “You saw-”

“So I'm not dellussion,” he murmured. “Good thing to know...the diety also sinned!”

“Trees... It's you,” I bitterly said.

“You disgusted me!” he shaken to cold, look at me as if it was my fault. “Don't call my name freak! You, sinner!”

I gulped, my world crumbled to pieces. I realize he saw something to disgust this way! I can see my end to the way he look at me. 

Yet I didn't felt anything afterward, and he gasped to find how I smile after all his hardwork to spied on my business.

“You-”

“Sinner?” I shrugged. “Sinner...is when everyone knows I'm sinned. Yet, you?” I look at him as if just him...is not everyone. 

Is not going to imprisoned one into the basement!

“So you tells me-”

“I told you you're dellusion,” I said clearly, without an ounce of regrets when he react violently. He punch me so hard I felt the world shaken, yet I let him and even chuckled that echoed in the long hallway.

It too late for him to realize what I'm thinking. Prison Guard flock in the area, saw how he punch me and very evident is the cut in my lips and how the the white robbed stained in blood. Naturally they will stop him, lean him down and his head bang in the ground.

He's unconscious and I felt scared upon the sight. Though the Prison Guard thought it was because I'm beaten by the bastard. Not they even consider how I fear...to be one lean in the coldest and rough floor of the hallway.

That moment, though no one knows and just Trees, I begun to consider myself... a sinner.

Trees... died horrible the other day.

“He's curse by the diety Arsy,” one says, trace the reason of his imprisonment and died miserably.

“I hear he stain the sacred child!”