Pov. Izzy
Monsters!
How much do you believe monsters are real?
Well, I didn't believe zero point zero percent until I accidentally tripped and fell face-first into their world. I've been asking myself a lot why soon I'm the number one hater of movies about monsters, gods, witches, among other fictional things that I thought were created by the fertile human imagination, but now I can see that behind every little story there is a little bit of truth.
But why me?
With billions of people around the world, it had to be me?
I shake my head seeing the blue-eyed girl who turned my world upside down concentrating on something she was writing in her notebook.
It doesn't even seem like yesterday I saw her ripping heads off with her bare hands.
Very animalistic.
Valentina McGauthier Leblanc.
"The devil's heiress", as I like to call it when we're alone.
Ever since she got here, she's been rocking the small town of Sunset Warrior.
Don't ask me why my city has that name, I have no idea.
If I were to depend on my job as a tourist guide in my city, I would definitely go hungry.
Returning the focus to the capiroto's daughter.
After the incident with Anne and Carter's return things had calmed down, we had two peaceful weeks where the blonde and I spent a lot of time together, talking, training, spitting our daily sarcasm in each other's faces, but the best part was the kisses, cuddles and caresses. In this last point, the blonde is a little stuck, but that doesn't bother me, I know it has to do with the way she was raised and educated, I know she will improve over time, after all, we've already made some progress in just a month and a half of your stay here, by the way. Neither of us talked about the bet anymore, I don't know why, but I... Well, I just couldn't organize what I'm feeling for her, I like Valentina a lot, but I don't know if I can say that I'm in love with her. , we need more time to be sure of what we feel.
Or maybe we are afraid to utter such words.
I'm in love with you.
This makes me feel a little sick to my stomach.
I can't deny that the blonde with blue eyes shook my world and turned everything upside down, but there are situations that still make me insecure like the fact that I feel like she's omitting things. I just wish she was more open when it comes to her because Valentina is a good listener, she can just spend days listening to you talk about yourself without getting tired or finding it boring, but when it comes to her, she just talks the basics or things that don't seem to have much relevance to her and that puts me on the back foot. I sigh, looking again at the blonde who seems to feel my gaze on her, as she turns and looks at me with a tight smile.
- This girl was sent by the devil. - Sarah says, catching my attention and I look at my friend sitting next to me. -I mean, how can she smile after what she did yesterday? She asks and I shrug.
-She was raised that way, so she's used to it. - I answer calmly trying to focus on the questions that Professor Yakuto passed.
- You're right, she kills the snake and shows her tail since she was a child, ripping heads off and what she always did before breakfast. - she says and I look at her confused.
- I'm not good with sayings, but I can say that this is not so. - I say smiling.
- Whatever. She says and looks at me. - What's wrong with you ? She asks and I get confused.
- Boring issues to solve ? I say and she rolls her eyes.
- Yes, like telling me why you're staring at the love of your life so much, not that it's not normal for you to drool, but today you're looking at her differently than usual, your muggle in love face is more like a muggle in love and anguished. - he answers and I roll my eyes.
My face is not like that.
Sarah is very exaggerated at times.
-She'll tell you soon. -she says when the bell rings indicating the end of classes.
I watch Valentina pack her things and look at something on her smartwatch, she packs everything and turns back looking at me and Sarah, she approaches, seeming to think about something.
- I have to do something, you can go with Nick, I'll meet you at practice. She says and looks straight at me.
- Okay, you can go. - I say and she seems to hesitate about going.
- See you at training? - he asks and I know that she is not referring only to the training we have every day after school, but to what we always do every night.
- I'll be waiting for you, so you better not be late or I'll have to put on my formal investigator clothes and run around behind you using a magnifying glass on everything while I say "elementary my dear Watson" to Sarah. - I say and she smiles.
"See you later Isabelle." She says and then kisses my cheek, waves to Sarah and walks out of the room.
I take a deep breath picking up my things seeing that Sarah had already taken hers, without saying anything just walking out of the room with my best friend following me.
- Now I understand what's going on. - he says, catching my attention.
- Then tell me, because I don't know. - I say ironically feeling frustrated.
- Don't you think they should talk about what they're feeling? - she asks and I look at her. - I know you, you're running away from the obvious, you've always been like that Izzy. I don't like to touch on the past and even more on that subject, but the same thing happened to Jake in the sixth grade, when he kissed you and said he liked you, you ran like crazy and missed school for two weeks pretending to be sick alone so I don't have to talk to him. - continues and I make a face remembering how terrible I am in relation to amorous bids. - Then came Carter's break-in, he said he wanted you, you even tried to have something, but always backing off when he tried to delve into the subject about feelings, now he has Satan's daughter. You are wary of what you are feeling, because you are putting paranoia in your head. - complete and I sigh.
- I already told you, I feel like she doesn't trust me and that has made me feel bad. I say and she looks at me seriously.
- Don't you think you're being half a donkey? - she asks and I make a face and she rolls her eyes. - You know Valentina better than anyone in this city, we all know that she is not very open, she only tells what is necessary, but we all know why, she is not like you, like me, like the others, she has not had what we had. - remains thoughtful. - Izzy, she was created to be a mixture of robot with killer doll instinct, if Chucky had seen what she did yesterday with those guys, he would feel humiliated. - complete with a laugh.
- You always have to make a joke. I say and she nods.
- Returning to the focus of the conversation. Don't think she doesn't trust you just because she doesn't tell you how her day was, what she did, how many she killed in her life and etc. We know little about her, but what little we do know is enough to understand that she grew up without time for affection, dialogue and laughter with her friends. -she says and makes a face. - We have to do our best, try to understand and teach her how to live with friends and a future neurotic girlfriend. - he scoffs and I give him a pinch on the forehead.
- I'm not neurotic and I'm not her girlfriend, at least not yet, in fact we haven't even talked about the kiss, we're just letting it happen. - I say and my friend smiles.
- Then maybe it's time to talk about it. She says and I nod.
Yup.
Maybe it's time to talk about our feelings.
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Pov. Valentina
I park the car near the location indicated by Griffin and am surprised that it is a typical American roadside hotel, I look at the time and see that it took me exactly two hours to get here. I look around, spotting some parked cars and some at the gas station next door filling up the tank.
As I said a typical American roadside hotel with a gas station and a grocery store next door.
I think I should take a trip across the country.
I get out of the car calmly heading to the hotel, I know I shouldn't come alone, but due to recent events I can't leave Isabelle and Nick unprotected while I'm away, so I ordered Griffin and Klaus to go back to town and let me take care of them. of it alone. Now here I am about to open the door indicated by my guardian, he said that the man who had met Fergus had left so I would have time to look for the envelope. I recite a spell to unlock the door and then I enter the room, close the door again and without wasting time I start the search for the envelope, I look for each drawer in the dresser and then I look under the mattress and nothing, I go to the closet and no I find nothing again, I sit on the bed and think for a moment where he could have hidden the envelope and something catches my eye. The carpet near the closet was different from the others, I go to the place and pull the carpet seeing a scratch in the wood and smile.
Clever.
He made a hole in the floor to hide the envelope.
I pull the loose piece of wood from the floor and I see the envelope, I take it and put it in the fake pocket of my jacket and then I recite a necessary spell for situations like this and when I go to pack things the way I found I hear voices outside so I run to the side of the door and recite a visual confusion spell so that my face is distorted to whoever enters here. It doesn't take long for the door to be opened by a man, he enters and walks to the middle of the room leaving the door open, so I take the chance to apply a rear naked choke to him and when he feels my arms around his neck he starts to debating, he gives me several elbows, but I don't care, after all I'm Genevieve Leblanc's daughter. She trained me for situations like this, I always had to deal with the various odds of a fight, no time to whimper or feel pain or show mercy.
With her, it's all about destroying what's unnecessary.
Feelings and friendships are a waste of time for her.
My mother often says that this leaves us weak and vulnerable to accepting anything from an enemy in an attempt to protect someone close, so she made sure I had no distractions during my training and when I had one, I was stuck until I was focused on being your perfect soldier again. I feel the man's body weaken and then he goes out and I release him letting him fall to the ground, when I turn to leave I find myself face to face with the guy in the hood who met Fergus.
- Are you lost around here, young lady? - he asks smiling devilishly and I freeze, for a moment I forget about the visual confusion spell, but then I'm reminded when he asks. - Who are you ? Who sent you here? I can't identify her face, she must be a witch. - complete and I look at the open door behind him is the wall next to me and then I have a stupid idea.
I take a few steps back and when I try to run towards the wall the man appears in front of me, he kicks me but I hold his leg and then with my knee I hit his thigh of the supporting leg causing him to fall to the ground.
- Muay Thai. - He says and when I run out of the room he pulls my leg making me fall. - Calm down, show me some more blows. - he mocks getting up and I do the same.
I don't say anything, after all I don't want to give away who I am, so I just ignore his jokes watching him get ready to attack me, punches and more punches, I dodged and blocked everyone skillfully and then he stops and stares at me.
- This way of fighting, you are from the elite. - he says and I look at him. - This way of fighting reminds me of someone. - continues and I say nothing.
He attacks me again, but this time taking turns kicking and punching, I feel the same weird feeling I felt yesterday when I ripped the heads off those three idiots last night. I feel that strange tingling in my neck and it only heat up on one side as if it would catch on fire at any moment, but the most bizarre thing is the urge to kill this guy by ripping off every part of his body slowly was starting to make me angry.
What is happening to me?
Is this my vampire side showing up?
- I'm going to make you a proposal, little girl, you give me back what you took and I'll let you go. - He says stopping attacking me.
- I'm sorry, but I don't make deals. - I say and then I trip him making him fall and without giving him time to react I give him a famous wrestling move, but in my own way throwing myself on top of him with my elbow hitting his throat squarely. - This I learned from watching WWE wrestling on tv sucker. - I say getting up as he rolls on the floor with his hands on his neck trying to breathe.
I smile at him before walking towards the door and when I'm out of the room I feel like going back in there and ripping my throat out, I take a deep breath remembering the incident last night and continue on my way towards my car.
I can't lose my self-control.
I'm not here to kill anyone today, just to get the envelope.
I get in my car and make my way back always looking back making sure I'm not being followed. When I finally see the sign for the entrance to the city I go straight to my house, I park, leaving the car in front of the garage and then I head to the forest to join the others, as it is already giving signs of and that it will be dark soon, I I'll just see how everyone did and then I'll return home. When I get close to the training ground I see Fergus leaning against the trees with sunglasses on his face and in a suit in broad daylight, his hands were tucked in his pants pocket, he was looking down with his hair starting a little gray combed to back and his freshly trimmed beard makes it look like he's dressed up for some important event. I look at him confused by his presence at training since he had left the city and when he was here he showed no interest in what we have been doing, I see him smile sideways and lift his head and look in my direction, I look away from him watching the others train normally while Isabelle was torn between facing Fergus with distrust and fighting Sarah at the same time.
- Look who arrived, I bet you were doing something very important to have left your duties aside. - he says with pure irony and a mocking smile.
-He should bet less on his assumptions and focus more on his duties instead of inventing trips and focusing on the lives of others. I say and he shakes his head.
- My dear, your sarcasm does not affect me, keep it because it is not needed here. - He says walking towards me without taking his hands out of his pockets.
- Do not tell me to keep silent in the face of your arrogance, you may be my uncle, but you are not superior to me in anything. - I say and he makes a bored face.
- Valentina, the long-awaited and feared child proves to be a predictable and weak creature. - he says, shaking his head. - You're just a spoiled little girl. - keeps standing next to me. - That's why I'll make sure that all your hard work ends. - complete and I get confused.
- What you mean ? - I ask and he laughs.
- Let's say I made some calls today while you were away and due to the circumstances mishandled by you I made sure you play your part instead of playing the role of an idiot teenager. - he answers and I look at him and he does the same. - How much are you missing the moms in ? - He asks and I grit my teeth understanding who he had called. - Don't make that face my dear, because in two days they will be here to take care of you. - complete mockery and I grab him by the collar of his shirt.
- What did you say to them you damned? - I ask annoyed and he laughs.
- That you will learn not to meddle in my affairs, now give me back the envelope you stole from that scumbag or I'll make sure you never set foot in this town again. - He responds and then extends his hand.
- I am not afraid of you. I say and he rolls his eyes.
- Should have. - He says and then takes the envelope from the fake pocket of my jacket and I drop it. - Even more dear niece. - he says and I hold myself not to rip his head off.
Enough of my lack of control yesterday.
And even though he has the envelope, I did a blending spell in case he was attacked on the way back and they took the envelope.
I look in the direction Fergus was heading, seeing that he had already disappeared from view, I decided not to look at the copy of the envelope now, after all he could be hiding watching me and I also have to call Emma and Genevieve and stop them from coming.
Damn Fergus.
He's not as dumb as I thought.
I feel Isabelle approaching and I take a deep breath, I turn and see her next to me, she looks me up and down, seeming to analyze every part of my body and then focuses her green eyes on mine.
- Something happened ? - she asks worriedly. - He arrived here an hour ago looking for you and didn't leave until you arrived. - complete and I smile.
- It's okay, he just came to give me a warning. I answer and she gives me a doubtful look.
- Okay, we're done with training so let's go home? - he asks and I sigh.
- They're coming. I say and she makes a confused face. - My mothers arrive in two days, Isabelle. - complete and she widens her eyes.
- Which ? - surprise question.
I'll try to stop it even though I know it won't help.
Fergus you damned.
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