Chapter 53: Chapter 53

Marietta P.O.V

"Please..." Veward again said and Walter nodded smilingly. Did he read his mind? I wanted to read but couldn't find the courage to do so I decided to wait and let see what will happen. Veward grabbed my hand with a smile on his lips and started to walked inside the forest.

As we stepped inside the forest, the fragrance of moist mud reached my nostrils. Our steps were making the sound of crack dry leaves and it was pleasant to hear. The night sky was full of stars and the cold weather with the light freezing blow, making it more beautiful and my all senses were wondering together what was he going to do.

He stopped and looked around suspiciously. I looked around to acknowledged the forest that it was the forest where Mom had found me. There was supposed to be a lake in the middle of it. I again looked at him and he was looking at me.

"What? Don't tell me you forget where are we going?" I asked and he laughed.

"Don't worry. I'm not that much dumb." He said with a cute smile and I laughed. He was smiling too broadly. As much as I knew him when he does something fishy he always smiled like that.

"This way." He pointed towards where some dim lights were coming. I followed the direction of lights along with him. We walked almost 3 minutes more following the direction of the light and suddenly, I stopped with wide eyes. My heart started to pound so fast.

I gasped at the view in front of me. There were lights and lamps, decorating and illuminating the scene, hanging down the tree in a beautiful style. As if, that tree was only made for this decoration. Just beneath the tree, a cloth had been placed neatly on the grassy ground and around it, there were so many candles that lighted up the phenomenon.

Besides these all decorations, the lake was shining like all the stars of the sky had secured its shine. It was giving the whole scene a peaceful, beautiful, and romantic feeling.

"Oh my God!" These words escaped my mouth followed by my hands to mouth, stopping it from saying anything further in praising the beautiful view. My all sleep had already vanished and the feeling of fatigue had been replaced with the feeling of enthusiasm. I turned around to found Veward was nowhere. But he was walking behind me. Where did he go?

I turned back again towards the decoration and my heart skipped a beat and my breath stuck somewhere inside my lungs.

'Am I Dreaming?'

Veward had kneeled over one knee in a proposing manner in the center of the cloth and his head was bowed. I froze at my spot unable to have any reaction. I was shocked, surprised, stunned, and astonished. I couldn't find any perfect word to describe my state. It was something I hadn't excepted.

He lifted his head and looked directly into my eyes with his ocean blue eyes and a delicious shiver ran down my spine. His face was glowing in the lights and there was a cute smile playing on his lips. His one hand was resting on his folded lap and the other one was behind his back.

"Love is to express not to impress. So Love, from the very first moment I saw you, I always found myself craving for you. To just be with you. I always lose control whenever you by my side, you have become the light of my life, you have become my addiction that I wanted to spend each second of my life with you......I think I'm falling in love with you." He paused then winked and it wasn't a lie if I said that I was having goosebumps all over me and I had definitely become crimson because of the heat rousing from my face in that chill temperature.

"Call me selfish if you want or maybe possessive, I'm good either way." He shrugged, "But whenever someone looks at you my blood boils so I wanted to make you mine as soon as possible." He said and I could saw my jealous king of Europe in his words. I laughed.

My whole existence was screaming at me to go and hug him tightly and never let him go but instead, I choose to take slow and steady steps towards him as he continued, "At this moment, I want to say......" He stopped. By now, I had reached him and standing at just one step distance with my heart beating like a drum. But my sense felt someone's presence beside the two of us.

"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. Will you spend the rest of your life with me?" I smiled at his words as my heart filled with warmth. I kneeled in front of him. He held my hands in his and I felt complete and secured. But........there was a feeling which suddenly overwhelmed me when my eyes moved behind him, over the other end of the lake.

"You are the happiness of my life, you are the smile on my lips, I am alive to see you anytime, your cute smile gives me the power, please don't ever leave me." He said and I could feel the honesty hidden under his words but I found myself unable to say something. My smile had disappeared and anxiety overwhelmed me.

He closed the distance between us still holding my hands, giving me the beautiful warmth feeling ever. I could feel his breath on my face. He looked into my eyes with so much love that my heart melts.

"My eyes are eager to see you, my ears are eager to listen to you, my lips are eager to kiss you and my dreams at night are eager to welcome you. Set......." I didn't let him finished and hugged him tightly, feeling his warm presence against mine, focusing on the view behind him, over the lake.

Because I saw something over the lake, which happened to developed a conflict inside me.

A figure was standing over the other end of the lake and I could clearly saw his red eyes gleaming in the darkness. He was hidden in darkness but his eyes betrayed him.

Looking at him, a thought jumped into my mind 'What if Annabella harm Veward just to weaken me?', 'What if blue-eyes guy harm him just to show his damn power?'

I could maybe handle Annabella because she stayed most of her time in the dark world but what about the blue-eyed guy? I didn't even know who was he? I couldn't even imagine him away from me or harmed.

I wrapped my arms around his neck tightly and he clasped his arms around my waist. Then sternly and carefully, I move my right hand away from him and looking at that figure, I closed my fist hardly, using my power and that figure vanished. I could feel the burning of my blue eyes. I breathe in relief, not actually relieved because the worst part was about to come. I wanted to say to him, 'yes' but it seemed like I couldn't.

I closed my eyes then hid my face in the crook of his neck and felt my lifeline presence against me, giving shivers and goosebumps all over my existence yet giving the best comfort ever. I stopped the urge to cry.

Should I tell him the truth?

Should I tell him the real story?

'What do I do?'

"Set a place for me in your heart and not in mind for the mind easily forget but the heart always remembers." He whispered in my ears that gave a light tickle but I wasn't in the condition of laughing rather ready for crying.

He placed his head against mine and whispered, "I Love you......" He closed the distance between the ocean and the sky and I closed my eyes. He kissed me.

For a moment I stay quiet but then I pushed him because if he took me further to the height of the sky I won't be able to dive back into the ocean, and the ocean really needed me.

'I'm not an ordinary girl anymore. I have to find that blue-eyed guy first then I should reply to him.' I made a decision and looked at him.

He stumbled but succeed in balancing. He looked at me with wide eyes.

"I'm sorry," I whispered with my gaze fixed to the ground. I was trying my best to fight back the tears by blinking and it was more difficult to control than Agrokinesis and Pyrokinesis.

"What happened?" His voice was worried and full of concern.

"You...I mean.....I don't know......" I said and my voice sounds like coming from deep down the sea to my own ears. I felt lost in words. Why me?

'Why it's always me?'

"Stop kidding, princess." He chuckled and added, "Don't try to piss off me. I'm telling you....." He tried to touch my face but I jerked his hand away and stood up.

"Veward. Listen, I'm serious." I used my full strength to make a poker face and stated directly looking at him. He stood up immediately and looked at me with the same poker face, hiding hundreds of emotions.

"Why?" Just one word in a straight voice and broke my heart more but I was aidless.

'Okay princess, don't make it worse.' I was talking to myself. Look, I went mad. I gulped and looked at him with a straight face.

"None of your concern," I stated sternly and turned around to walk away, anywhere away from him but he grabbed my wrist. My heart thumped and I blinked hard to stop tears but they betrayed me.

I was going to mess up. I turned around and looked at him with an expressionless face full of tears. There was hope in his eyes but I broke it right away.

"Let me go!" I whispered.

A sharp pain ran on my wrist and I winced, "Let me go!"

His hold was getting tighter and tighter. His ocean eyes were full of rage, his whole appearance was ready to burn me with his gaze but I refused. That explained the next move I did just to escaped me from his hold. I pushed him hard with the other hand and released my hand from his hold with an aggressive jerk and then.........

His eyes were shocked or afraid, I couldn't calculate that but they were bulged out of his sockets. He lost all his colors, including anger and he became deadly pale. Tears were continuously running on my face.

"That's the reason. Let me go!" I yelled frustrated with my action.

"Please......." I whispered and at last, kneeled on the ground over my knees. He looked at me for a moment then started to take steps backward. Soon, he disappeared somewhere in the darkest place. A dark place where I couldn't find him again.

I ruined it!

I watched him disappear in the darkness and when I totally lost him. I burst into tears. I cried and cried and cried, sobbing loudly. I looked around only to found the mess, I had created. I didn't mean to do anything like that. It just happened.

The beautiful decoration had burned totally because of fire. The smoke was increasing and wandering along with the direction of the air. The burned aroma reaching my nostrils as I was sitting in the mid of the mess.

My vision was growing blurry with every passing second as I coughed more vigorously, the harsh smell was blocking my oxygen. Tears were nonstop running over my cheeks and I was sobbing, coughing, and shaking.

"What the hell!!!" Walter screamed as he ran towards me with the speed of lightning. He abruptly stopped because of the flame all around me and heat and started to look around. I was sitting right in the middle of the fire.

I ran a quick glance at my surroundings and here everything was burned. From tree to lamps, who were kissing the ground by now and the candles helping the fire to grow wider. I looked at the sky to found pitch black darkness beneath the smoke.

I heard the incomprehensible sound and when I looked only to found Walter had splash water on the fire.

He rushed towards me and kneeled beside me, "Where is Veward? What happened here? Who did this?"

"Marietta Amino messed everything once again!" I yelled with blurry vision and looked at him. "I didn't mean to do anything like that it just happened. I just jerked my hand with anger and fire came out of it which burned everything." I whispered in a cracky voice and more tears fall from my eyes.

"He saw me doing this. He must be thinking that I am not normal......" I said, looking around with panic.

I felt afraid.

Walter hugged me and spoke, "It's okay. It's not your fault." He caressed my back to comfort me.

His act made me remembered Alessandro when Caro accidentally broke my first doll and I cried for the whole day sitting in the middle of the stairs. He bought a new doll for me and scolded Caro. I hugged him like that and he always let me drench his shoulder with tears.

I wish if he was here with me, saying 'Oh my monkey! Why are you crying? Who stole your banana? Just tell me his name!'

I rested my head on Walter's shoulder and whispered still sobbing, "I miss my brother."

"I know." He said and added, "Let me tell you a secret." I angled my head to looked at him. The faint smell of burning was bothering us in breathing.

"Geez, I never thought I'll tell you this in this kind of situation but......" He stopped to calculate my expressions.

"But......" I asked, dumbfound, and wiped my face.

"Your biological brother is still alive."

"WHAT?"