"Sir, coffee with cream." I placed the cup down on his desk while he was on the phone.Holding his index finger up, he walked to the glass window with his broad back facing me.Standing by his table, I managed to eavesdrop. He wanted me to wait, so I might as well listen to what stress he's got in his head."That is why I am making up with you tonight," he said, begging in tone. "Why can't you understand me? I'm doing this for us."A selfish and irrational wife, good luck to him."When did I ever do that? I have proven my loyalty to you. I never cheated. All the women you never liked are out of the way. What else do you want me to do?"I'm perfectly amused. How can Eric be so calm like this when the Eric I knew, one wrong word, he'll explode like a super active volcano?"I'm working, Marie. Why can't you trust me? Did I ever look at any women? Did I bring a woman to our house? No, Marie -"For some reason, I felt bad for him."Marie? Marie!" He checked his phone just to find out that
My smile fell just like how Eric's laugh faded and was turned into a gape of worry."Marie..." Eric uttered.There's wrath in her eyes as she looks at us in anger, jealousy, and pain. Her fists are balled on her sides, her breathing is uneven, and her whole face turns red."Don't jump to conclusions, we were just talking," calmly uttered Eric as he stood up from his chair and approached his wife, who was glaring at me.Standing up on my chair, I felt uneasy.If eyes could kill, Marie had committed a bloody murder right now."Don't touch me," With so much enunciation, Marie uttered. Her gritting teeth made her already-defined jaw clench and boast.She's tall, so tall that she's almost taller than Eric because of the three-inch heels she's wearing. With one kick from her, I'd be flying in the air without any wings to flap and fall dead."Who is that woman?""She's my new secretary," he simply answered the question, Eric had a deep sigh when Marie pushed him to the side and stomped her f
"It's the truth," I convinced Monica about the truth, about everything I had experienced and about everything that happened to me.Sighing, she joined me at the chair and held my hand. "Nicole, I know that everything goes rough and hard and rough, yes? But you should also know that even how fast things happen, I'll always be here to keep up."Lifting an eyebrow at her choice of words, I was exasperated. "You're saying that you don't believe me, right?""I believe you, I do. Even if you tell me that you saw a double-headed sheep or a flying pig. I will believe you," she lied."You're not taking me seriously," I told her. "I know that if I told you everything, you would think that I'm crazy.""What? No, I don't," she denied."Yeah, you do.""Alright," she cuts. "Why don't you give me evidence that this world you're talking about exists and then, let's solve it together?"Her tone is so good to listen to, she's understands my situation the best she can and I'm very ecstatic to know that
Tapping my forefinger on the white mug, I watched how Monica paced back and forth in front of me, and I was starting to get dizzy."Can you sit and calm down for a second?" I asked when I noticed that she didn't seem to stop moving around while flicking her hands in the air."Nicole, not now, okay? This is me trying to calm myself, okay?" She said, and I let her be."Okay.""I can't believe it. It was real. He was real. And whatever world you guys are talking about, it's real. I just saw a monster," she mumbled to herself."You can't calm yourself.""Yes, I can." She took a pitcher from the refrigerator and drank from it like a drunken master."Look, Monica, I'm sorry."Burping, she confusingly looked at me."All of these happened because of me." Placing my palm on my chest, I admit. "And I couldn't blame anyone else because I was being foolish and taking everything unserious. So, it all ended up here, and I messed up."She paused for a second. Finally, I saw the stress in my face."T
Standing behind the tall bushes, Monica and I peeped inside the mansion where Eric lives.It's peaceful, looking like a palace that was kept clean and away from dust at all costs. It's so quiet."Are you sure that this is the house?" Monica whispered to me while adjusting her glasses."Yeah, I've been here before. I'm 79 percent sure that this is his house."Turning at me, she gave me a look. "Seventy-nine? That's our lifeline depends? Girl, if we're caught tiptoeing here and acting like burglars or paparazzi, we're dead.""Not really, but in jail, maybe?""Wow, what a nice encouragement. I'm moved," Sarcastically muttered Monica. "Can you be specific, at least? What if we get inside and your speculation is wrong? What are we going to do?"Stepping on a higher rock, I saw that there were a couple of dog houses sitting by the garden. Who does that?"They've got two Dobermans, I don't want my bones chewed by those nasty dogs!" She yelled in a whisper."They could be nice," I tried lookin
"Eat it," I strictly commanded over Mellon who's eyeing on the pizza with a disgusted face. "You won't die from eating dinner."Monica agreed while stuffing her mouth with a huge bite of it."This is poison," Mellon uttered. "What I need is a bowl of fresh greens, not this strange-looking little."I began convincing this man from another world to eat something and the slices of pizza decreased it's number because of Monica who eats like a monster with eleven stomachs.Mellon lifted the soggy and cheesy pizza and watched it flop up and down in the air."If you don't eat that, I'm not going to save your world." Alright, Mellon the Great, fight me!With his squinting eyes, his lips thinned. "You dare make an utterance of threat on me?""It's the only way to make you eat it.""If you don't have any plan on eating that slice, give it to me." Monica pointed to her plate that only held crusts and blots of ketchup."Your choice, Mellon." Taking a bite of my dinner, I closed my eyes and savore
Mellon helped me find where Eric was, and we found him being strangled by the smoke.He's fighting, but none of his punches could hit anything but air."Eric!" I screamed for his name, and it called the attention of the dark entity holding him."Ack- Allen, r- run!"His face is turning pale, and in no less than any second, he will lose consciousness.A blinding light occurred at all corners coming from Mellon's hands. The white smoke spread everywhere, conquering the darkness the entity brought with it.Lifting my arm before my squinted eyes, I saw it disappear, and eventually, Mellon withdrew his power.Eric fell on the floor, weak and pale."Eric!" I ran to him and knelt on the floor.When I touched his face, I hissed from his burning skin. He's as if he bathed himself with lava, and his skin became one with the burning stones."What's happened to him?" I exclaimed as I watched him becoming weaker and weaker by the second."Half of his soul had been taken by the darkness," Mellon an
"And you didn't even call me?" Monica immediately nagged at me as soon as I stepped my foot inside the house.Her left arm is on her hip while the other keeps on making uncoordinated motions in the air and throwing me her glare."If something comes up that raises a red flag, the very first person to know every single detail is Monica Allen. Me. Your sister. And nobody else. Just me," she croaked.Pointing her index finger at her chest."Do you know how worried I was when I got home and I couldn't find you anywhere and you didn't even try making any effort to call me?""I'm sorry, okay?" Gesturing my hands to her that she should calm down."Sorry isn't enough, you're going to clean the whole house.""What?" Massaging my forehead, I groaned silently. "Eric knows everything."As soon as I spilled those words, Monica paused and asked for more details that I completely uttered."So he believed you that easy?"I threw her a look. "Well, he almost died in the hands of a thing that looks like