MISLEAD

why are you cooking yourself?  Where's Blue ", warming her hands from the fire rising from stove she looked around to search for Blue.

" He is gone " ,Saiph replied.

" the aurora thing too? ", she loved that waves of light, but the glass piece wasn't there that day.

" it broke "

" why is he gone so early?  Christmas is after one month "

" he is gone, Bliss. Not for Christmas, he got fired "

" What?  Why? Oh!! holly crap, that's why he was so upset yesterday. I am such a dork, I didn't know, I yelled at him so bad. "

" company fired him. I don't know why!  " he seemed uninterested.

" well , I don't see a reason!  I fought him ,I regret it so bad "

" how did your mom die? " he asked passively.

" where did that come from? " she laughed.

" just asking!"

" she.. Umm...  Poisoned her own food and ate it! " she said hesitatingly.

" is it a good way to die? " Saiph looked at her. She felt so disturbed by his words and his looks. It was a weird question.

" I don't have any idea!  Never tried it "

" I think it's really fancy , to savour food and death at the same time ", she suddenly felt  a terrifying loneliness with him. She felt  absence of Blue so badly, that his words cropped over her , the ' darkness ' he was talking about. What was it?

" I am going to visit Mia, I should apologize to Blue " she tried to flee.

" won't you eat with me? " he stirred the spoon in the Chinese food he was cooking.

she leaned over the pan, looked at the food and said " I don't think so . Ahm.. Okay, see you "

He held her wrist and said " is it something I said ?". He used to hold her before, but that touch was different, forceful and dangerous.

Her words choked her, she was unable to speak up. Saiph's dark eyes, dark hair, and how tiny she was in front of him made her terrified.

" no.... not at all " she tried to free herself.

" I'm sorry if said anything to offend you ".

She lost strength to look in his eyes, she held her head down and said

" I don't feel okay! "

" are you sick? " he was constantly firing questions.

" No Saiph, I am not sick. Just something's on my mind, I can't get rid of " she held his hand which was holding her wrist to pull it away.

" what is it? "

" I'll tell you when I figure it out " as soon as he let go she stumbled three steps back.

" I don't know what's up with you, but you seem kinda.. off " he said normally.

" OK, bye " and she rushed outside without waiting for him to say anything.

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" to poison one's mind is far more dangerous then to poison one to death." Bliss threw away the paper and fell on the sofa almost crying. Damien had written these words, but they were not just words.

She have had this conversation before, with Blue when he was leaving and with Saiph the very next day.

The last conversation with Blue echoed in her ears.

" I don't want to talk to you right now "blue said.

" neither I wanna hear you, your words are sick "

" why would I want to trick you? "

" because snakes injects poison "

" I am not deceiving anyone, will you ever stop blaming me? "

" are you not poisoning our minds? "

" I would certainly like to poison something else "then he looked at the dinner laid on the table and left.

"it's so diabolic " she said to herself.

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Saiph sat in the cold rain , night was horrific, strong winds were roaring everywhere.

He had his one hand held out still, in front of him and other going round in circles wrapping the black piece of clothing around it.

The slight burn which was left on his palm from last year was now masked by the fresh wounds, bright red irregular cuts.

He opened and closed his hand several times to become used to the pain. Then he covered it and closed his eyes in the rain.

The scene played in front of his eyes,

: he thrashed the glass piece and it broke into pieces,( the sound again rang in his ears ) then he picked them up with bare hand and tightly squeezed between his palm . The blood drop by drop became a stream, flowing through his hand to the arms and dripping at the floor.

"the aurora thing too? " her voice echoed in his ears and he opened his eyes.