• Shock Horror

    Tory


    Seth hadn’t said I had to stay in the room he gave me; I guess that meant that I could walk around this big building. From what I had seen when we walked up here, the house was huge and extremely furnished to suit the needs of many people. Doors lined the long hallway, there had to be at least a hundred people here.
    My stomach growled at the idea of finding a kitchen, I was getting pretty hungry and I really hadn’t noticed. I got up with my arms wrapped around my aching stomach; I could feel the growl vibrate through it.
    “Shh, tummy,” I said out loud.
    Opening the door, I looked out into the hallway to check if anyone was there but I couldn’t see anyone with my eyes. I could see them with my fire vision though, could feel the body heat coming off them; they just weren’t in my line of view, which meant I wasn’t in theirs.
    I sighed and thought, well I’m too hungry to be scared shitless right now. Then that got me thinking about what I would eat, I paused that thought because I didn’t know where the kitchen was.
    I groaned at my stupidity and in disappointment, my stomach growled at me louder. “Shut up, stomach!”
    Ignoring the hungry howls and the painful cramps of my stomach, I ventured out in the bowels of the haunting building.
    •
    I could find nothing, just nothing. No kitchen, no fridges and no pre-packaged food. Nothing at all. I sighed, where the hell was the food in this place? Besides it was like a maze in here, I seriously doubted that I would make it back to my room without being seen.
    There was one door at the end of this massive hallway that I hadn’t tried yet, I just prayed that it was the kitchen otherwise I would die from starvation. Walking towards it with hope in my every pore, I only noticed the sound of voices coming from behind it when I got close.
    I paused where I stood; what if it was those guys I had met before in Seth’s office? They would ask questions that I really didn’t want to answer. My stomach growled louder than before; stuff that, I was too hungry.
    Just to make sure who was on the other side of the door, I opened it just a crack and peeked inside.
    I froze, my whole body shut down at the sight of the men in the, can you believe it, kitchen. Not only were those guys from before in there, Noah was in there as well. I thought seeing him at night was bad but in the day it was twice as worse. I could literally see his features now, not just his body figure.
    He hadn’t changed that much, tall with six’ two at least, not too long brown hair with those bronze highlights and I knew his eyes would be the brightest shade of hazel there was.
    When we were younger, eleven or twelve, they were the only thing I knew as truly beautiful. I hated seeing Noah get teased at a normal children school because of his eyes, when he had gone off, more or less crying, I had given those guys a mouthful and comforted him.
    We were the best of friends back then, which was until he got his power of Telekinesis. He didn’t have time for me anymore, he was never at normal school, an official drop out they had called it, and at the Drake building I barely had got a ‘hello’ out of him.
    That’s when my parents died, everyone tried to get me to talk, tried to get me to say something about it but it didn’t work. They had put me up with Seth, just in case those people were going to come back to finish the job and to give me defence lessons.
    Jamie had come to us a week or two later, stayed with us for periods of time that just kept getting longer.
    Noah came to me a few days after that. I hadn’t seen him in weeks and I barely recognised him but I talked to him. I told him everything that had happened that dreadful night, I had made him promise not to tell anyone and he did promise. We’d started dating then. We were fourteen but that didn’t matter, at the time it seemed like he cared about me. But I guess we just started dating too early and got sick of each other by the end of it.
    Looking back on it now, I doubted very much that he had kept it. If it would get him brownie points in being the boss, he would have told them everything I had said. I wondered if he felt guilty about it and perhaps that was why he went out with me.
    I could feel my heart ripping into two; feel the hurt and agony that was caused just by thinking about it. It just wasn’t like that anymore, we couldn’t talk about anything, and we weren’t friends at all because of something he had said. We were nothing to each other, or more like, I was the problem standing in his way and he was a bulldozer ready to run me over.
    Looking at him from the doorway, everyone seemed to be drawn to him like magnets and they had to praise him in some way. But none of them were really his friends; they just wanted to be in tight with the new boss-to-be.
    My eyes went to the little pixie blonde that was hanging off his arm with a sudden smile to whatever he had just said. My jaw tightened, seems like he moved on to different standards. I guess he heard my advice somewhere along the line and took it.
    I couldn’t stay here any longer; I just had to leave this alone and not bother with it. If he was here, which was stupid of me not to realize now because he was there with Seth last night, then I had to leave quickly. I gently shut the door.
    I took a step back and into a hard body, the suddenness of it made me jump to the side. How’d he sneak up on me?! I spun around quickly to see the Blondie from Seth’s office standing behind me, a giant smile across his adorable face.
    “Spying?” he said, his voice was deep but friendly and soothing.
    “No, I just got lost,” I said, stepping away from the kitchen door. “This building is like a maze.”
    He took a better look at my face and recognition hit him. “You’re that chick Seth recruited, the one from this arvo,” he said, smile getting bigger.
    I was confused for a second; Seth hadn’t recruited me, where was Blondie getting that idea from? I tried to gather my thoughts because I didn’t want to screw up Seth’s plan.
    “I guess so, I mean, I haven’t officially been invited in but Seth had a great pitch for me,” I said, trying to act non-complacent.
    He crossed his arms and leant against the wall next to the door. “You’re special, Seth has taken a real shine to you,” he said, looking me up and down with a cheeky look. “And made some other people have as well.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Don’t play the player, Blondie.”
    He laughed and I had to shake off the urge to stroke his face. Oh my God, he is hot! No wonder he always gets the girls his goes after.
    “Is that what you’ve called me? Blondie?”
    I shrugged. “Sorry but I didn’t have time to catch everyone’s name when I was being shoved out the room.”
    He just smiled and titled his head to the side. “Yeah, sorry about that. The Gentleman’s club is very strict about letting women in the den,” he said, voice dripping with seduction. “Unless they take their clothes off for us.”
    I crossed my arms over my chest. “In your dreams, p***k.”
    “Oh certainly in my own dreams, maybe not Felix’s but definitely in mine,” he murmured, giving me a heated look. “I’m Sebastian Luke and it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
    “Tee, and I haven’t decided if I like you yet,” I said as he laughed again. When everything went quiet, my stomach rumbled.
    He raised one of his eyebrows. “Looks like you wanted to go in the kitchen, lets go in.”
    I paled. “No, no, it’s fine,” I flustered. “I’m not that hungry and I have some food in my room anyway.”
    He frowned. “You’re scared, why?” he asked.
    I stared at him for a second, how’d he know that? Then it came to me. “You’re an empath,” I stated.
    “Hm, guessed it in one hit, you’re good,” he said, peeling himself off the wall and walking over to me.
    “Thanks, I think,” I said, watching his every move. I flinched away from him when he tried to thread his arm through mine.
    “Hey, its alright, cowgirl, I’m just going to help you get unlost,” he said soothingly, being the friendly empath that he was.
    I gave him a gauging look before taking hold of his arm. “Like I said, the name is Tee, not cowgirl, pumpkin, possum, princess, flower, sweetie or any other annoying name that you can think of.”
    He made a saluting gesture. “Yes, ma’am!”
    I elbowed him in the side but he didn’t flinch. “Lead the way, Sebastian, before I decide that this was the worst decision of my life,” I said, walking when her starting walking.
    “We wouldn’t want that, would we,” he said, smirking and tightening his grip.
    I smiled, he didn’t need to worry. I’d made worst choices.