Chapter 4

It indeed was true. Her instincts were right. Huo'er and Aqua had something going on between them. On the day of Aqua's coronation as the crown princess officially, Volca noted the two. The spark between them, and how Huo'er was looking at the princess during the crowning ceremony after he came out of her spending time in the name of guarding her.

All the unimaginable things circled around her head though she wasn't sure Aqua's stand on it since Volca has already confessed how much she likes Huo and how Aqua reacted funnily saying she would root for her friend. Volca stood next to Huo during the ceremony with a broken heart seeing him smile wide for the first time, for another girl. It hurt her. She badly wished that day that she was an angel and a princess like Aqua, growing envious every moment she spent with her friend that moment on. She hated herself for being a Demoness from Hell living amidst of her friends school who were all angels and human. She was the only one from the Demon Clan.

That night when Aqua fell asleep, Volca stayed awake looking at the sky, the whole night, watching the stars. Watching the constellation. She was upset about Huo, she didn't know how to handle her emotions. Hating everything around her where she lived and then coming to school and finding Huo was like a miracle to her. A person who made her feel better just by his presence though he was not a bit aware about it. Seeing Huo'er was enough for her to put away every single rubbish from her heart. Huo became her flashlight who guided him and she got addicted to it, obsessing over him, thinking how she will not be able to live without him. And finding out slowly how Huo'er has stayed paying attention the ignorant water princess seriously pissed her off.

Volca walked back to school the next day and for her bad luck met her mother in the entrance waiting for her. She walked towards her mother only to be dragged away to a less crowded place close to the woods nearby the school to have a conversation.

"Did I not ask you to bring her out and give her time me?" Fiona questioned her daughter. Anger raised and made her slap her daughter hard across the face. Volca stood there getting them all.

"You know I will not do that," she replied. "Did I not tell you about how am unwilling to cheat them?" she asked back her mother.

"How dare you?" Fiona slapped Volca again. Volca controlled her temper.

"I will not do it," she said again. "No wonder people hate demons for the nature of their heart, no wonder I cannot get accepted anywhere," Volca declared feeling disgusted.

Fiona stood frozen realising how much her daughter hates being what she is. And it didn't feel right. Fiona felt as a mother, as the military head of the Demon Realm, she should teach her child to be proud of who she is and decided to put a bait that her daughter might catch on.

"I was trying to hide this from, but I guess if you want your dreams to come true then I should let you know about this," Her mother said. "You're truly a worst daughter one could have anyway though, but listen, I plan on telling you this for only once. But little did Volca know that she is being watched by her senior brother Huo from the distance. Fiona started narrating the story to her daughter. "Do you know...?"