Levina darted her eyes between I and Raul, wondering if it was a good choice to leave the drama that was about to unfold.
When she stood up, I was sure that she had made the choice to hear a drama she wanted to happen, from ; for if she chose to stay, it might not happen. It amused .
I watched, keeping the amusent away from my face, as she sauntered away from , to the door. She was about to leave when Raul suddenly called her back, drawing my attention to him for the first ti since he had co into the store room.
"What’s my mother delivery doing here?"
It was then I realized that I was still squatting by the carton. Oh god. I ntally pald my head, since doing that physically would only toughen the uncertain situation we were already in. How do I convince Raul that I had not touched the carton?
"I don’t know. We had been offloading the cartons when we had seen it." Levina’s confidence was sothing to be envied.
Raul looked at her, and then at . I had stood up imdiately he had asked the question, never mind that he had already seen . "So, you two didn’t touch it?" He was looking at as he asked this, as if he could read my mind.
"We were curious. But we couldn’t get around opening it. It seed the plaque had been stuck sowhere, preventing us from opening it." I answered, knowing from the sudden softening of his eyes from panic to calmness that he had bought my answer. I had belived that saying that we didn’t touch it was unbelievable, to anyone else for that matter.
But why had he panicked? Wasn’t it just wine? Didn’t he know what’s in the carton already? Was he just protecting his mother blindly? Was that the reason he was working here; to make sure that the wine got to his mother, including her other deliveries?
Well, it was a good set up if I must say. I inhaled softly, when Levina nodded at , and left, having noted that the conversation involving her was over. Now, it was just I and Raul.
I didn’t ask him what he wanted with , why he wanted to see , rather I sat down on one the cartons and waited. He must have waited for today, seeing that I was only in the storeroom on Fridays. The other days were spent on the counter.
"You aren’t going to talk to really? You are rating together with the triplets?
I said nothing. It wasn’t a question that required my input.
He sighed, kicked a carton to my side, and sat on it. "Dora, are you angry with ?"
I shook my head in reply. "I just want to be alone at the mont."
"Is it because of what had happened last weekend?"
I looked at him then, to explain what had really happened last weekend, to explain his own point of debate. When his eyes left mine to gaze at my neck, I knew what exactly he was talking about.
"I see you are covering it. Who gave you the mark? Who bit you?"
Panic started in my belly then. I saw it first in the unsteadiness of my hands. Quickly, I placed them within my thighs, and then worked on stilling my mind. It was just Raul and he was just asking a question. "I don’t want to talk about that."
"Yeah, I can see that. How had you kept it hidden all this while? Why not attempt to do the sa now if you want it to stay hidden still?"
How do I explain to him that I hadn’t been the one that had covered the mark the first ti? How do I tell him I’ve been searching for ways to cover it, but to no avail? At the end, I settled for a shrug of my shoulders. There was nothing to say.
"Did soone cover it for you the first ti?"
I nodded; it didn’t seem okay ignoring him again, and the question was a harmless one.
"So, do you want my help in covering it?"
I hadn’t expected the question. I had thought he would make a remark concerning how I was unable to use a cloaking spell, despite the level of my magic. Could he really cover it? I soughed. I had been avoiding my helper all this while. I gave a nod again. He shifted closer to .
"My mother taught this spell specially. She says it would work in a case where other cloaking spells fail. Hopefully, it will work this ti around."
"Can it be removed?"
Raul cocked his head to the side, his hand suspended on the air. "I don’t think so. Only if there is a higher energy or power at work. Most tis, it stays put. Should we try it?"
I nodded. Of course try it!
I didn’t close my eyes, wanting to see his expression, when he gently removed the scarf from my neck. There was a note of surprise mixed with unbelief in them, but it was quickly pushed down to blankness, aloofness, right before he placed his hand above the mark, and shut his eyes.
Up close, Raul looked so beautiful. His eyelashes were thick black and long; the sa story with his eyebrows. His nose was aristrocratic, and his soft lips...I rembered the last kiss that we had shared in the storeroom. I was still thinking of that, when he spoke: "You are looking at my lips like you want to forget..."
He smiled then, his eyes still closed, ushering into the presence of his glittering white teeth that was evenly shaped. I chuckled, and then stiffened when I felt the tendrils of magic working on the mark, working on covering the mark.
I knew when it was done. It barely lasted thirty seconds.
"See, your skin is as good as new."
I stood up from the carton when he opened his eyes, partly because the view was distracting, and partly because I wanted to check out his work on the window.
"Thanks..." I muttered gratefully, when I saw that the mark was now unseen. I was still admiring the neat work that gave no pain, when I felt him behind .
"You didn’t ask why I didn’t speak any words..."
I shrugged my shoulders, my breath catching when he slithered his hands around my waist, and pulled himself closer to .
"I didn’t see the need. We are in the sa magic class after all; we mostly work with our minds." I answered softly, aware of the spike in my heart rate. We were two classes ahead of Rachel, and three ahead of Duke. The latter had graduated from the school, but he still attended the class, just like other people in the community.
Although the magic classes was conducted in the school environnt, it was seperate from our normal classes, and compulsory to everyone in the community. It was just a training ground with levels, with people training to be better.
"That’s right." He dropped a kiss on my neck.
I inhaled deeply, wanting this, but knowing that I didn’t need it, not when I wasn’t remotely interested in a relationship with him at the mont. So, I took his arms from my waist and let them fall to his sides. Then, I tuned around and stared at him blandly. "Were you expecting a paynt for helping ?"
Unbelief buttered his features. He scoffed in response, and folded his arms across his chest. "Are you being serous now, Dora? Why would you think touching you is my thod of collecting paynt? Is this my first ti of touching you?"
"No, but I didn’t give you permission this ti."
"You an like I didn’t give you permission to use on Friday to keep the boys away from you..."
I piqued my eyebrow as if I didn’t know what he was talking about.
"Don’t give that look. You know I had wondered why you had suddenly wanted to kiss , and then the next mont whilst we did so, the Lycan boys happened to be there. Seeing that mark now, I can finally understand it. You heard them coming."
I made no effort to deny, not like he gave a choice. He was on a roll.
"The mark on your neck was given to you by either a werewolf or a vampire; and since vampires are viler than death, they can’t bit you and you still remain alive...or wait...is that why you had been in a coma? You had been bitten by a vampire? How did you survive? That would explain your heightened senses... But doesn’t that an your blood is corrupted?"
He sure had an active imagination. I thought, relaxing the grip I had on my heart, when I thought that he was making a headway with his theory earlier. Well, he almost did.
But I wasn’t sure what that ant for , seeing the confusion mixed with disgust in his eyes. Yet that was understandable if he was correct. Only that he was not.
He was about to speak again, when Levina strolled inside the room without knocking. Girl was really intent on seeing sothing. She paused a few feet away from Raul and I.
The slight frown on her face told sothing was up. What now?
"A girl called Naomi is here. She said she is your friend...?"
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