Chapter 4

Mia's POV

"Stay away from him before you regret everything."

The words from the creepy stranger stick on my head like a glue gun. I was supposed to ask him about what he creepingly said but he quickly turned around and walked fast away from me. I didn't try to chase him as I was stunned by his intimidating look. 

"Stay away from whom and why?" I whispered while I was washing my hands in the restroom's sink. 

I shook my head twice. Maybe he was just playing with me. He was a stranger. I shouldn't believe anything he says. I puffed a breath when I remembered that he was the reason why I lost my sight to Ken.

I flinched when someone held my shoulder from behind. I faced the woman laughing because she shocked me.

"You do like him huh..." Claire smirked as she pinched my waist.

"What's our next subject?" I asked to avoid the topic about Ken. I wanted to erase him from my mind.

"It's our vacant. Do you want me to tour you around or do you want Ken instead?"

I puffed a breath as I rolled my eyes. I was avoiding the thought of him, but Claire kept on bringing him back to my mind. His eyes kept flashing back on my mind, that emerald, good looking eyes.

"Can you please stop teasing me to him? I told you, he's not my crush. I don't have a crush." I started walking and she quickly stepped forward to follow me.

"He's freaking hot and handsome. Who would have a crush on him?"

"Do you like him?" I glanced at her with my right brow raised.

"No. I mean... he's handsome but... hey!" She slightly pushed me. "You're reversing me." 

I stopped walking and so did she. I looked at her with brows crossed and confused eyes. I heard her voice before, did I? The way she talks, it was familiar, like I heard it before from somewhere. I shook my head. Why did almost everyone here feel familiar to me? I might go crazy here.

"Have we talked before?" I asked. 

Her brows crossed in confusion. "Only awhile ago." 

I meant from the past. I heard her voice, I just couldn't figure out where and how.

"Nevermind." I walked again and so did she.

After exploring the whole building and the campus, Claire and I went to the cafeteria for some snacks. Luckily, our vacant was two hours so we had lots of time to chill and get to know each other, as well as take information about the school facilities.

While eating fries, I kept on looking around, finding a super familiar face. From the moment I saw Ken, I couldn't get her out of my mind anymore. 

"Mia?" Claire broke the silence between us.

"Yes?"

"Why did you move here?" She shrugged. "If you don't mind me asking." 

I slightly smiled. I might sound weird to her if I say I transferred here because I was having bad dreams and mom thought that it was because I'm not close with God.

But maybe she could help me. I had so many questions that I couldn't find the right answers like why was I seeing a mysterious man in my dream that I couldn't figure out who due to his blurry face. In my dreams, I felt like I know every people I was seeing there despite the blurriness and everything.

"Does it matter to you?" I managed to sound friendly.

"Just curious." 

"I just need God." I simply said. I didn't wanna tell the whole story so...

She looked and I was bewildered. I avoided her gaze when I felt like my reasons were not that deep.

"You need God." Her brows turned confused. "But you don't have to transfer to a new school or any Christian school to find him. He is everywhere; all you have to do is to believe and trust him." 

I believe that he exists but I didn't know why I couldn't trust him. Since I was a child, my heart was so away from him. 

"It's my parent's choice." They were the ones who wanted me to transfer. 

We started walking again after eating. Our feet brought us outside the building but still on campus. We were just walking, appreciating the beauty of the school. I could say that the facilities and the buildings were prettier than in my old school. 

I looked up when I noticed an unfinished building with construction workers upstairs. The wind sent relaxation to my face as my steps turned very slow while looking at the constructions. 

"New building for dorms," Claire said. 

I nodded. Seems like they have a lot of budgets. No wonder why the tuition was really expensive. Our steps turned into a normal phase again as we continued exploring the University.

"Mia." Suddenly, she stopped in front of a chapel and so I did. "Do you believe in God?" 

I looked at her. She was looking up somewhere so I chin up to see where she was staring at; cross, the big cross of the chapel. 

"Do you?" I asked back. 

"Of course." She looked at me. "What about you?" 

"Yes." I swallowed hard.

"Do you trust him?" 

My stares at her filled in confusion. I couldn't figure out her point. She didn't have to know about my beliefs. 

She looked back at the cross on top of the chapel's roof.

"I don't know. I have doubts." 

I didn't know why but ever since I was a child, I didn't trust him. I believe he exists but I didn't know why my heart never wanted to hold onto him.

My heart almost jumped out of its ribcage when I found myself rolling on the floor with a guy whose wrist was wrapped around my waist. My chest drummed when I heard a heavy object fall on the cement. 

I felt like I just died but then I saw Ken; I stared at him when our bodies stopped their force to roll as he ended up being on top of me. My heartbeat got more eager like it wanted to explode from my chest. His emerald eyes melt me. I looked away, only to see the cross on the floor beside us. I looked up at the chapel and realised that the cross fell and it almost hit me. If Ken didn't forcibly grab me, that heavy object probably killed me on my first day of school. My heart was still beating fast, mixed with his presence and the thought that I almost died. 

His body on top of me felt warm until he stood and walked away quickly. My lips parted. I thought he was gonna help offer his hand to help me stand. 

"Oh God, hey! Have you gone deaf?" 

I looked at Claire who's standing beside me. I didn't hear her talking. Ken occupied my mind too much. I looked around and realized that students were starting to gossip about what just happened.

"Mia!"

"I'm okay," I answered Claire to calm her down. She helped me stand while hearing whispers around me. Some asked me if I was okay and others just looked at me like I was on television and what happened was all an act. 

"I almost died," I whispered as I looked at the cross on the floor. 

Kash' POV

I let out a silent cuss as I pushed Claire into a wall of the school's parking lot. This silly girl. I was surprised to see her here. I didn't know if she had any mission or something but I wasn't liking her presence. 

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I asked as I gripped my hands on her shoulder. She shouldn't be here. She wasn't supposed to be here. Whatever her intention was, sure it was bullshit.

"I'm trying to help you, Kash. I mean Ken causes people to call you Ken." 

I bit my lower lip, calming myself from cursing again. Help? Wow. Just wow. I was suffering for years and they'd just help me today? Cut the crap. 

"You almost killed her," I remembered Mia. 

It was almost over. She was supposed to die. She was about to die again but I couldn't help myself to just watch her dying clueless. My heart was punching my chest with the thought that she almost died again right in front of my bare hands.

That woman, Mia, was also annoying to see I couldn't stop staring at her beautiful eyes. My heart couldn't deny, that I missed her. I missed her for years but seeing her again would just cause pain to the both of us. 

"You saved her," Claire whispered. 

I didn't even know what went through my mind and why I saved her. I was well aware that it would be best for us if she just died quickly like an air travelling through time. She was gonna die anyway. She was meant to die. Lucifer cursed him to live so she could die and I'd witness it so I'd suffer harder every moment that my heart beats for her. Avoiding her was the easier cause. She will die soon and I couldn't bear to see that, to witness that again.

"What if I didn't see it coming huh?" I hissed. "You shouldn't be here. Return to heaven, that's where you belong."

He pushed my chest and glared at me. "Don't you understand, Kash? The highest ups sent me here to help you!"

"I don't need your help." I was calming my heavy chest. I've been in pain for a hundred years, living immortally in this sinful world; a hundred years of pain and now they were willing to help me as if they didn't shut me out long ago when I needed them the most. 

"Kash, what's wrong with you?" She was frowning, couldn't believe what I'd become. She would never understand unless she'd be on my feet; unless she was the one cursed by the devil to live forever with so much suffering. 

"You've changed." Her voice sounded surprised and disappointed.

"Pain changes an individual, Claire. You don't know that because you've been living in Kingdom your whole life. A place where no pain and suffering ever occurs.

"You know that's not true. Angels feel things and you know that! You're an angel, Kash. You still are!"

I shook my head. "Not anymore."