NEPHLEM

CHAPTER TEN

“Nothing happened,” I argued as she interrogated me. She even went as pacing up and down while I sit on the chair. “We just had dinner and talk about our churches,” I added but the woman didn’t seem to believe what I was telling her. She was clinched to asking me if I was going to be dating her from now on.

She tapped her chin as she looked at me questionably. And she continued the same thing for as long as I can imagine. And I was tired, and all I wanted to do was go to bed and prepare for my meeting with Sunny. But she wasn’t letting me go that easily.

“Charlie if you have nothing more to say I would like to sleep. I told you everything that happened between me and Suzan. but if you still don’t want to believe me, then that is on you. Don’t keep me here for nothing,” I stood up, but she pushed me back on the chair. “Dude,” I argued.

She cleared her throat and let me have it, “the woman is a good girl. I like her for you. I think its high time you start dating, actually. You both look cute together,” she smiled and went on. “It’s like a forbidden love story. I mean her father wants you dead, and the daughter loves you,” she spoke and I just smiled remembering how joyous Suzan was about the whole thing. “See you even find this fun. You do like her, right? And you are not only doing this to get information from her, right?” she looked me deep into my eyes.

Silence grew as I thought about what she just told me. Her questions echoing in my head. You like her, right? You are not only doing this because you want to get information from her, right? But I didn’t have the exact answers to either of the questions.

Because I couldn’t say I liked the woman. I did enjoy her company and all and I realized she was chilled and I wouldn’t mind having dinner with her or hang out with her again. And I couldn’t entirely say I was hanging out with her because I cared about her. Part of me only wanted answers to my questions that only she can answer.

But little did I know I was going to enjoy her company. So, I wasn’t going to answer her questions just like that. it was more of a complicated scenario than she made it look.

“I don’t have answers to your questions Charlie. And I think it’s passed my bed time. We can continue tomorrow if you don’t mind,” I said politely.

She looked at me studiously, “you can go. But think about those questions. You don’t want to go doing something you will regret. She is a good woman and I don’t entirely think she can be as bad as her father. Though the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, this one might have been an exceptional.”

I didn’t even know what to say to that. She had never defended any woman that I went out with on a date than she is defending Suzan. Trying to make her look like a good guy and making me look like I was the bad guy.

I just got up from the chair, told her good night and matched to bed. I was exhausted that I just slapped the bed and right there and then I slept.

*

I appeared in a rather dark and creepy place. The only source of light that somewhat dimmed the place was coming from an opening that was about twenty feet away from me. I assessed my surroundings but nothing seemed to be dangerous. I allowed my wizard powers to asses my surroundings and there was nothing either way.

I sighed, trying to make sense of the place I was in. Why I was there and how I even got there in the first place. Because all I remembered was sleeping and that was that. The next thing I knew I was here.

The whole place was just an opening. A dark gloomy opening. I walked to the glimmer of hope in hopes finding a way out or something that will help me figure out what the place was. But I called my powers just for the in cases.

I thought about dreaming the whole thing, but it seemed to be so real. There is no way I would be dreaming about this place.

Walking for a while I reached the opening; it was like a door. Opened. I took a deep breath and allowed an orb to hoover on top of my hand. Then I stepped inside. Just as I took a step from the door it shut on me — making me flinch and the orb vanished out of existence.

“Be careful or you will burn yourself prince,” a man oozed behind me.

Swiftly turned and found a man that was in his thirties standing a good ten feet from me. As I looked over his shoulder, the door was not there. I just kept the fear inside me.

He had long brown hair that he tied in a ponytail. His gray eyes sliced me up as he looked at me from head to toes. He was not that tall, just enough to take about a baby born today for me to reach his height.

He wore a black suit that went well with his brown skin color.

“Who are you and what am I doing here? How the hell did I even come here?” I asked as I looked around and saw no opening.

It was just an open space as well. Like a vacuum.

“Relax,” he gestured his hands in surrender as I created a firebolt in my hands. “My name is Nameless,” he waited for me to process the name. Which made no sense to me at all. Nameless. “I wanted to see you. And the only way for us to meet without them noticing us is during this time. While they are all asleep,” he spoke.

I waited as I thought about what he just said. First, his name was stupid, and he called me here because he couldn’t meet me because he didn’t want someone to see us.

“I know this sounds crazy and looks crazy,” he smiled but his smile faded just as fast because I was as serious about the whole thing as hell. “But believe me you I had no other choice than this,” he assured me. But assurance isn’t an easy thing to give.

I assessed my surroundings again. But it was just an empty space. How often do you receive a visit from the tooth fairy?