"I didn't know you were interested in piano like this, Tiffany." Tiffany was surprised, spontaneously stopping her piano playing as she saw Xiel watching her with a faint smile from the doorway. "Mr. Addams... I didn't know you were there." "Well, I was on my way to my next class and heard someone playing the piano even though there was no music class today. It turned out to be you." "I'm sorry that I played the piano without permission; I should have come back sooner after dropping off those books." "No, you're not. I'm the one apologizing for listening to you play the piano secretly, but you played it really well. Have you ever taken piano lessons before?" Tiffany smiled a little at Xiel's praise, but then she looked sluggish when Xiel asked further. "I've never taken piano lessons, I just took the basics at my previous school," Tiffany said. "Wow... but your playing is really good." Xiel approached her, standing next to the open piano. Tiffany shook her head, smiling stiffl
Victor would go for his training. He had already arranged the schedule and was going to go with Vander. Vander was not his new martial arts teacher, he had only been following Victor since they went to the gym together and was interested in seeing Victor train. Maybe he just enjoyed seeing the process of Victor getting stronger. Victor seemed to laugh every time he remembered that line from Vander. Victor was walking towards the lobby when he bumped into Violet and they stopped to stare awkwardly at each other before looking away like they were strangers. It had been almost a month since what had happened at Giselle Leighton's birthday party, and Victor had granted Violet's wish to act like a stranger to her. Victor had never asked about how Violet was doing after that night, and Violet had never come to him to ask how Victor was doing after being injured from saving her, or to thank him. "She really wants us to go back to being strangers," Victor said, laughing bitterly, but he d
Tiffany walked the corridors of her school with a more cheerful face. Since she had a good relationship with her teacher and that relationship grew closer after becoming his piano lesson student, Tiffany felt she had a friend she always dreamed about after a long time. After her father became a suspect in the embezzlement of Denver city funds, Tiffany never had any friends. Even though she was very young at the time of the case and when Tiffany even didn't understand what crimes her father had committed and why she should feel the tremendous effects of what he had done. But after a long period of loneliness and hatred from many people, Tiffany finally felt what it was like to have a friend; someone who smiled if you succeed, who supported you if you feel insecure and who was on your side even though everyone hated you for no reason. Tiffany saw it all in Axelio Addams; the person who managed to change her life and gave her the opportunity to have great achievements such as being th
Xiel should have realized what was happening after seeing Tiffany who was not in class, unlike her usual. Tiffany was a rule-abiding child, she would ask permission from every teacher who would enter her class next if she intended to be absent for some reason. But there was no reason for Tiffany to be absent, and something had definitely happened to her. Xiel would know it wasn't a good one."Where did the girls take Tiffany?" Xiel looked worried, but he tried not to attract anyone's attention. Everyone in the class but he was in the corridor, looking around. "Those girls never seemed to like Tiffany, but did Tiffany get bullied at school too? Wow... if her father finds this out, he'll be broke into the pieces." Even so, Xiel kept looking for Tiffany all over the place, although sometimes he got a little lost because he didn't know the school environment very well yet. "Damn! Is there a hidden place in this school? Tiffany's not in the music room, or anywhere! Did they go outside th
With a hesitant tone, the woman answered. "I don't think so." Eve was still watching Victor's expression, looking suspicious for such a gray situation. Their leader had been missing since last night, no one knew where he was. Then when the only person who most likely knew where he was, that person looked confused too. That made Eve even more doubtful, she asked. "Do you know anything, Victor?" But she was ignored, Victor then waltzed away in a hurry, leaving her standing looking at the man's departure suspiciously. In just a moment of time out of every hectic second, William would pause to take in his surroundings. Too much blood he saw, too noisy screams that still echoed in his memory space. When he just stood and gazed at nature intently, a calm gust of wind took it all away. The vicious circle is sometimes not something that one wants to repeat over and over again, just like William Odolff who actually ignored everything to get this far. As he said, no one is born to be a sinn
In the end Ashtelle turned her back on her husband and wept silently. She tried to hold back her tears, it didn't work. Even when she tried to hold back the sound of her crying, it escaped some. William could see that his favorite woman's shoulders were shaking, but she again swallowed her tears and turned away with a mask of obstinacy that had not been put on perfectly. "So, what's your answer to my first question, William?" asked Ashtelle, making William think back to the woman's first question. William gave a small smile. "Cleaning things up," William replied, briefly. "Are you going to help Victor? Or choose Verlaine?" "I can't vote for Verlaine, Ash. After all, he's no longer part of my group. I must be a firm leader of my pack, for my pack." William paused for a moment, almost making Ashtelle think the opposite. "But I can't help Victor with this either." "Why?" "Because this battlefield is his." When she heard that, Ashtelle remained silent as she looked deeply into her h
No sooner was he back up to speed than the cell phone, which seemed to have been ignored, lit up-providing a sound and vibration that made Victor turn his attention back to the flat object. Victor pulled over again, picked up his cell phone and opened the message Adam had given him. When he read the message that Adam had managed to track William's whereabouts, Victor seemed to smile with relief. But when he found out where William was most likely to be, all the man could manage was a disappointed expression. Really, Victor didn't want to be prejudiced, nor did he want to think that William had disappeared after meeting his son. Victor didn't want to... he couldn't bear the thought of what might happen if what he was thinking was real. He took a breath, letting it out slowly before he started the engine again and rushed off to the location Adam had sent him. But Victor couldn't help it, his head was now filled with negative images of what might happen where he was going. Despite
Sahara was taken to a place, neat and luxurious-looking. She didn't know where it was, but she believed it was probably the place where the person who invited her lived.Verlaine."Welcome, Mistress Sahara."Sahara was momentarily taken aback, feeling her breath catch for a few seconds as she looked back at Verlaine's face-when she already knew who Verlaine was.Verlaine watched from her seat, Sahara's tense face that could not be hidden no matter how calmly she acted. It made Verlaine feel a little comforted."From your expression, it seems you already know who I am, huh...?" asked Verlaine, breaking the silence and again making the heart of the woman in front of him race faster. Verlaine crossed his legs casually and said, "Do not be afraid, Madame. I did not lie when I spoke about myself in front of you that time, did I?""But you are the enemy of Victor...?""Yes, I am his enemy." Right now every word that came out of Verlaine's mouth felt like an electric shock that made Sahara g