Lyan
Mark and Jack finally came back in the morning, when I was getting ready to go to class again and die of social embarrassment. I hoped everyone had forgotten about yesterday, but I somehow doubted that was possible after the show Orus had made.
" Where were you?" As soon as I saw them I crossed my arms. I couldn't understand why they'd go away from me for so long.
" Busy" Jack smiled at me and kissed my cheek before he went inside to change clothes.
I stared at Mark, who didn't look me in the eyes and just nodded my general way before running away into his room.
What the fuck was going on? Was it really true that they had betrayed me?
I asked those questions, but the truth was that I already knew they had betrayed me. I just wanted some way to forgive them. I didn't want to lose them, but I had to know what they'd been doing and whether they wanted to stay with me or had been working against me since that very beginning.
" Ruan" Ruan appeared as soon as I whispered his name, invisible to everyone. I only knew he was there because I felt his presence.
The dark aura moved to it's right and then left in what I guess was a question.
" Could you spy on Jack and Mark and tell me what you find?" I whispered lowly.
Orus was in the shower, but I wasn't willing to risk anyone evasdroping on us.
" What will you do for me?" The dark aura whispered into my ear.
My hair stood on edge when his breath reached my ear, sending shivers down my spine.
" What do you want?" I was willing to give up almost anything to find out the truth once and for all.
" You owe me" Ruan laughed and was gone.
I stood in the middle of the hallway, not knowing what to do. I was a horrible person. Guilt rippled all over my body. I had betrayed my guys just now. What if they were truly innocent and I was punishing and spying on them for nothing?
I was ridden with guilt when Orus finally came out of the shower, smiling as he held my hand. Now that I thought about it Orus had also gone out yesterday. Could I trust him?
I side eyed him, to which he tilted his head in confusion, and snorted. If he was the enemy then I was already doomed. I had told him every little detail and he hadn't done anything at all. He wasn't the enemy, but he might just know who it was.
Hope ignited inside me as I turned to look at him fully. I could just try what I wanted, and if he refused I could find another way. That was what Ruan was for.
" Where did you go yesterday?"
Orus leaned in and kissed my cheek with a smile before answering me.
" I went hunting, I already told you"
I nodded. That was right. My favourite shirt was now bloodied because of him, but at least I knew he was telling the truth.
" And Mark and Jack?" I finally asked what I had wanted to ask all along.
Orus's face went weird before he plastered a smile on his face.
" I don't know"
Orus was fidgeting badly, his fingers moving and touching the air as his feet went up and down, uneasy. He was lying. Why would he lie to me?
I plastered a fake smile on my face that didn't reach my eyes as my heart broke a little, the cracks that I had thought I had finally managed to close opening back up.
" That's fine" lie. " Let's go to class"
Orus looked at me with concern, but shut his mouth as he tried to grab my hand. I looked at him with sad eyes as I pulled away, walking on my own. Rage boiled inside me as I glared at him. How dare he try to be friends with me after he'd lied to my face? Still, if I was been honest I wasn't mad at him. I was just annoyed that he wouldn't tell me the truth, but by the time I reached the door to leave I had almost forgiven him.
" Where are we going?" Jack grabbed onto me as he smiled. I smiled back, but inside I was dying a little bit each second. He had betrayed me. One of them had.
Ruan
I floated along the halls as I followed the humans and the princess, only to make sure they wouldn't come back.
Once I saw them entering a class with no intention of coming out I teleported back to the dorm. Time to get to work.
I opened the blond's door first, although I was sure he wouldn't have anything important in a room that was basically public property.
As I had suspected there was nothing there, just normal stuff. I groaned as I went on to the next room, the fast healing one's. His room was equally empty of suspicion, but I had already expected that. That guy might've been a bitch and a dick like no other, but I didn't see him hurting the princess, much less betraying her. He was like her loyal puppy, which was kind of amusing if you took into account that he was an actual animal.
The last room I had to look into was the one with the highest chance of having something on it and was the one that gave me the creeps just by looking at it, which was a lot to say considering I had been to actual battlefields.
I replayed all my life decisions that had led me to this moment as I opened the door and chuckled. Guy was a psycho alright. My instincts never lied.
The whole room was like a graveyard, but worse. On the highest shelves there were jars that smelled of death. On the floor there was blood splattered everywhere, only noticable by the smell since the floor itself was red. It was a good strategy to cover up the blood without cleaning it. It was the same principle we used back at the castle.
My eyes darted between the door and the jars.
" Crap. Guess I have no other option but to do it" I sighed as I got closer, using my power to pull down one jar.
I opened it and the smell of rotten blood hit me just as I finally saw what was inside.
" He's definitely a psycho" I grinned as I looked at the multiple eyes stuck on the jar filled with alcohol so they wouldn't go bad.
I left the jar right where I'd found it and looked around. All the other jars were filled in a similar manner, filled with alcohol and eyes, all belonging to different people and of different colors, but except for that, which wouldn't had made me even raise an eyebrow if we were back in Jinasia, there was nothing else in his room worth my attention.
I was missing something, that was for sure. I glanced at the three rooms and sighed. I'd have to give up for now.
Just as I was about to get out and try to have some fun in the old celery filled with wine that I had discovered not that long ago Fluffy, I still couldn't get used to that stupid name, looked at me with his unnerving purple eyes and pointed to the princess's room with them before disappearing.
My heart beated faster, with fear or relief I didn't know, as soon as I saw him. When he went away my heart ached. I ignored the pain in my heart as I opened the door to the last remaining room, not really having high hopes, but if he had given me this clue I would have to try it at least, and when I found nothing I would tell the princess what I wanted. I smiled just thinking about it.
Lyan
We went to all the classes, but slept through most. There was nothing I wanted to do there, so I just slept on my desk while Orus petted me in the hair from the neighbouring chair and Mark and Jack tried to get my attention, but I ignored them.
After all the classes were over we went to our dorm in silence, no one speaking. Orus was comfortable just looking at me and Mark and Jack had finally discovered that I was not in the mood to talk, or even look at them right now.
I went to my room without talking to them, I was still pissed that they had lied to me, and threw myself over the bed, not noticing the person standing right in front of me.
" Do you want to look at what I've found?"
My head snapped to the door as soon as I heard the voice. My eyes narrowed as I looked at Ruan, who was smiling at me with a smug smile, as if he was the boss. If I was been honest it was kind of annoying. I was the one with the pan's handle around here, not him. I wanted to scream that at him, but I wasn't stupid, so I kept all those thoughts to myself and nodded instead.
" Here" Ruan threw a burner phone to my lap.
I stared at the old, black, and half destroyed burner phone that still worked for whatever reason. What was that doing here?
With a heavy heart I opened the phone, it didn't even have a password, and saw that there was one number saved in favourites.
I called the number with shaking hands as I hoped deep down that it was all a harmless surprise. Even as I waited my mind though about all the possibilities and not a single one was good. It could be the number of his affair mistress or the number of the guys that had killed me. No matter how much I thought about it there wasn't a single scenario in which this phone could mean something that wouldn't destroy me forever and make me hate the guys I'd come to love.
" Hello"
I paled and fear rippled through my body when I heard the voice. I threw myself to the phone and ended the call with shaking fingers.
I knew that voice. It was the voice of the same man that had told me someone I trusted had betrayed me.
" Turns out he was right all along" Tears streamed down my face as I broke a little inside.
The cracks in my heart grew as I stared at the phone, the ultimate proof that one of my guys didn't really care about me and would be willing to betray me at the drop of a pen.
Who was I kidding? I smiled sadly. He had already betrayed me, and for what?
I wiped my tears and steadied myself. Whoever had betrayed me was going to pay. He had had no reason to toy with me and then try to kill me, because that was what he had done, betrayed me. I could have believed it was a mistake and that he didn't know about me if he had come clean at some point, but after all that had happened and after he had killed me there was no way he didn't know he had hurt me, and that was what hurt the most. Knowing he had had a choice and he'd still chosen to hurt me as much as he could while he pretended to love me. That was way worse than anything else he could've done.
" In which room was it?" My voice was steady when I raised my head to talk to Ruan, my mind already made up.
I would find who had betrayed me and I wouldn't listen to him before I would take him down. He was going to pay.
The last lonely tears fell down my eyes as I looked at Ruan, determination on my face. I would know, no matter what.
Jack
Lyan was been cold and I didn't even know why. I tried to get closer to her and nuzzle against her all the time, but every time I tried she pushed me away with a face. What did I even do?
What pissed me off even more was that the treatment was completely random. Orus was fine. He still got love, unlike Mark and me, who she seemed to have a vendetta against, God's knew why.
" Do you know why she's mad?" As soon as Lyan ran into her room I turned to look at Orus and asked him the question that had been burning me alive since Lyan had begun treating us like that in the morning.
" You really don't know?" Orus sounded pissed as he growled.
" What are we supposed to know?" Mark crossed his arms and glared at Orus.
I was with him. What had we done to earn her hatred? I didn't remember doing anything lately to piss her off.
" Where were you last night?"
Mark's face paled and I stammered, looking for a convincing lie. In the end I settled with my usual lie, which came out of my lips as naturally as breathing.
" I was playing poker with some friends"
Orus raised an eyebrow and Mark looked at me too, but I stood firm. Sweat trickled down my spine as I hoped they'd believe my lie.
" And you?" Luckily the topic quickly shifted to Mark, which was more than fine by me.
" Yeah, where were you?"
Mark paled and shook his head, no doubt talking to Oscar about what to say. He seemed hella suspicious right now.
" I was out"
We both stared at him, but Mark didn't budge or give any more details. He stood still, not saying anything else. What on earth was wrong with him now?
" Anyway" I shifted the topic before it could came back to me. I was really good at that." Why is Lyan mad at us?" I still didn't know the reason and Orus hadn't exactly answered my question.
Orus snorted and walked away.
" Because you were gone the whole night "
I stared at Orus's retreating back and thought about it. I hadn't slept with anyone so I didn't think it was such a big deal, but to Lyan it must've looked as if I was sleeping with another girl.
I groaned and rubbed my eyes. From now on I would have to me more careful. I didn't want to upset Lyan, I wanted her to be happy forever.
It was a pity that my business had kept me away from her yesterday, but at least I had an excuse. What was Mark's reason?
I turned around to ask Mark, but he was gone. Disappearing while I looked at Orus in a trance.
I stared at the empty spot as my migraine kept growing. No one could do anything right at all and now on top of fixing their problems I also had to deal with whatever Mark and Oscar were planning, which was never good.
I sighed as I walked up to my room. I'd have to contact them later and tell them to fix it themselves. First I had to figure out why Mark was been so secretive. It would be fine if it was Oscar, but that was Mark we were talking about. Mark never hid his feelings or thoughts and the fact alone that he was doing it now was enough to worry me. Just what the hell could they be up to?