Deal among Devils

In front of Kara's door, Pace shook her awake. At the sudden jerky movement, Kara awoke from her daze. He had been standing here for the past five minutes waiting for her to open the door, and all she been doing is staring at the door.

"Why are you shaking me?" Looking around Kara realized they were already at her room.

How did we arrive so fast?

Looking at Pace and his hands on her arms, Kara immediately put space between herself and Pace.

"What do you think you are doing!?" Shaking her arms free from his grasp, Kara crossed her arms over her body.

"Tsk...What do you think I want? Open the door so we can talk about your little helper..." Hearing about Lila, bought back to the reason why they were here in the first place.

Opening up her door, Kara welcomed Pace into her room.

Once inside Pace felt all his hard work at following Kara and her friend around bare fruit.

"I knew from the first time I met you, you were a fraud." Pace said as he turned around waiting for her to deny it.

Kara closed the door and pretended she didn't hear one word he said. She will not admit nor deny his accusations, leaving his statement up in the air.

"I sincerely feel bad for your friend. To have a leech like you taking credit for her talent." Pace continued his taunts when he saw she wasn't going to argue with him.

*Sigh*

"What do you want? You want to tell the Commander everything, go ahead. With Lila already telling him, it's only a matter of time before they rush in here to arrest me for stealing my seat."

Facing Kara's pathetic face took the wind out of Pace's sails. This was not how he saw this conversation going.

Taking a seat on Kara's bed, Pace scrutinized Kara from head to toe. He understood why people admired her so, her body was lean but with womanly curves. Her face was soft and fair, her dark hair fell down her back making her seem angelic.

Pace has never been one to pay attention to the opposite sex for attraction, this was a first for him.

Kara who was stood in front of Pace felt his roaming eyes all over her body.

"Have you never seen a woman before...?"

Caught staring Pace's face flamed with embarrassment. Clearing his throat Pace tried to rectify the situation.

"What are you planning to do?"

"What can I do? I never thought the Lila had the balls to go against me..."

Hearing such a word come from Kara's mouth after he was caught staring made Pace's face red again.

Finding it cute, Kara giggled behind her hand.

*Cough*

"So you're just going to give up after faking it this far?" Pace didn't think Kara was such a weak opponent.

Kara looked at Pace angry face, she couldn't understand why he was so interested in her problem if he wasn't going to tell the Commander?

Of course, she had seen how he was looking at her, but she didn't think he was that kind of guy. He's more the type of person who would forget a naked woman standing in front of him for his own ambitions.

So what's his deal?

"Do you want my help?" Pace's question shock Kara, making her even more confused.

"Why?..."

"Why?... Why What?" Pace couldn't understand what was so challenging about his question.

"Why are you trying to help me?... This doesn't seem like something you would do."

"It's not. After I was humiliated by the Commander in front of you, I sought to expose you for who you really are. Yet, as I observed the way you handled everyone around you, even the Commander, I knew you were a different type of genius."

"Studying has been my life since I was in kindergarten, and the teacher gave me my first gold star. Being first and having everyone idolize you become my drug, however as I got older it took more than just good grades to reach the top and receive everyone's love."

The light in Pace's eyes captured Kara's heart. This feeling Pace had described made Kar remember the first time she took Lila work as her own and received first place. Everyone fond over her, she felt on top of the world.

The feeling of standing above others and being idolized was too hard to give up, which was the reason she was in the predicament she is in now.

"I understand what you mean, at first I only did it because I forgot to do my own homework and Lila was always sick so no one would know." Kara sighed as she recalled the first time she erased Lila's name and wrote her own.

"It became easier once people showered me with admiration. Privileges were given, and respect from peers and teachers was natural..." Kara and Pace sat on her bed reminiscing on their childhoods.

"And you right, things got harder as I got older. Everyone expected more, Lila had found out what I was going at by that time, so she was no longer an option..."Kara stressed.

"...at times I thought about stopping but then how will everyone look at me! There was no stopping once I started, I had to continue."

"And you can....with my help of course." Pace held out his hand to Kara.

"What do you want in return?"

"Credit for helping you, I lost the Commander's favor I need to get it back..."

Seeing hope at the end of a dark tunnel, Kara was tempted to grab Pace's hand.

"Lila...she'll expose the truth. Everyone will know...the Commander will know."

"I have a plan, but first we need to be in an agreement. If you grab my hand, then that means that we are one."

Kara looked at Pace, he wasn't exceedingly handsome, but he held his own with his tall height and his lean muscular body. Thinking it might not be so bad to team up with him, Kara shook his hand.

"Okay, we are one."

"Good, now let's bury the past."