Its not safe Val, the people around are dangerous

“What are you doing here?” Raven Blackwood questioned.

I could feel his aura getting more heavier to endure. I instinctively took a step back. I mustered my courage to respond him. I opened my mouth, and for a second I felt no words were going to come out. I took a deep breath, “I was just Curious.”

Raven Blackwood paused for a while. Seemingly, he was mulling over my answer. But the silence didn’t remain for long. “Curious?”

I nodded slowly. I could feel displeasure from his body language. I looked up a little and my gaze fell on his arm where that woman touched him, and my heart tightened again. I needed to leave. I couldn’t stay. And since he found out, he wouldn’t let me stay either. So it was best, I would leave on my own. “I was just leaving.”

Another silence followed.

I felt myself going insane from everything at once. Since when had I ever been in such a situation?

Another minute passed, and he finally spoke, “It’s not safe. I will let Eliot drop you home.”

I looked at him in denial. He was too tall at the height of six-four, and I was merely five-six. But still, I met his gaze. He didn’t need to. I didn’t need his help. Trance was here, and he could drop both me and Elara home. I gestured towards Trance. “Trance is here.”

Raven Blackwood glanced calmly at Trance. But there was only dissatisfaction in his eyes, even though he remained calm on the surface. He emphasized. “He is also UNDERAGE.”

I tried to reason with him, so he would let us go. “Please, we will be careful.”

But it was like he wouldn’t listen at all, he brought out his phone. “Or I can ask your father to take you from here personally.”

I stared at him in disbelief. Was he serious now? Did he just say, to call her Papa? I looked into his eyes to see if he was merely threatening her. Or was he being real and would actually call him?

But to my disappointment all I saw was seriousness, he was not joking at all. I could imagine Papa’s expression if he came to pick me here and afterward’s wrath. Although, he never denied me for anything, but clubbing was a strict no for him. I didn’t dare to refuse him anymore, and nodded, “Fine.”

Moments later, Eliot dropped Elara at home first, then me, and finally Trance.

The next few days were back to normal. I didn’t see Raven Blackwood again. School was almost ending in next two months. And then I would be able to go for holidays. May be, then I can ask Papa to join him in work, so I could see Raven Blackwood more often?

Few days later:

Elara and Trance my not so cheerful mood since last few days, so, they dragged me today to the beach. It was weekend, and most of school girls and boys were here partying, having fun, playing around with each other.

Well me, I looked around, I had no mood to even be present here. I sighed, as I walked against the shore. The waves hit my feet. I looked as far as I can. The sun was almost on the horizon. The sky had the shades of purple, orange and red. I thought about last few days. That bastard told my papa about my sneaking out at club. Which led to me and him not talking for days. I tried explaining, I just wanted to see how it looked like, and for god sake, I didn’t even stayed for more than some minutes, but he didn’t listen. His only reply each time was basically ‘Its not safe Val, the people around are dangerous.’

I knew, he just wanted good for me, so I just nodded my head, and stayed at home like a good child.

I heard the waves, it did nothing to lessen the storm inside me.

Moments later, I walked back to where Trance and Elara were making sand castle, when someone bumped into me. The impact was too hard, that I almost fell down. I looked up and saw it was the same person with the blonde hair from that day in the bar.

Somehow, fear crept inside me, and I pushed myself to get up.

The blonde hair man looked at me, our eyes met, and then he, within no less than one second, turn around and walked away. I was startled to watch his reaction. Ugh. Shouldn’t I be the one to be scared?

My heart raced, as I wondered. Why did he look so terrified when he looked at me? Like what did he even see…?! I stood there, frozen, even after seconds, and more minutes passed since he ran away.

I took deep breaths to calm myself, before I took a step to walk to Elara and Trance. But then I felt something like glass under my feet. I paused. If there was glass under my feet, I could get injured. I cautiously pulled my feet up as I glanced down.

And there it was, lying right on the surface of the sand, like it had just fallen. I hadn’t noticed it earlier. It wasn't a glass, but a phone.

I looked at it, it wasn’t my phone. May be someone dropped it here. But it was still warm, so I concluded may be it was Blondie’s phone. And then I heard a low voice coming out of it.

I turned the phone and saw there was a video playing on it. My eyes squinted slightly. I watched the video. But the more I watched, the more my heart dropped into the pool of ice cold water. The phone dropped off my hands again, and I felt my knees giving away. My body felt heavy, and I fell besides the phone.

The video on the phone played again and again. I heard the screams of the girl again and again, followed by Raven Blackwood’s indifferent and ice cold voice. He didn’t sound humane as he talked. He didn’t look like a human the way he act. Instead, his drop dead voice, and blood cold eyes made him look like a devil on the hunt.

The time passed slowly, the people before my eyes already looked too blurred. My mind played the scene before my eyes again and again. Even if I tried to fight it, fight my brain, it remained the same.

The girl, it was her. The same girl in the bar that day, the one who kissed him. And now, I saw the video, where Raven Blackwood had mercilessly killed her.

Why?

Why did he kill her?

He looked so close to her that day, so happy with her. They looked so intimate with her. Then why?

So many questions arose in my head, and I had no answer to any of those questions.

I didn’t know how much time had passed, I just sat there motionless. And then I felt the tap on my shoulder. I was zoned out. I knew someone was touching me, trying to get me back to present, to reality. I heard voices, but none of them truly entered my brain. It was like darkness was pulling me towards it. I wanted to fight, but my body lacked strength. And before I knew it, the world spun on its axis, and I fell into a deep slumber.