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" How about we help each other?" He says and I look up at him, eyes still wet from the tears streaming down my cheeks, heart freshly broken from the public humiliation and betrayal that was Lucas's breakup. I can faintly make out the first droppings of snow floating magically under the light of the street lamps. It's that time of the year, a time for wool coats, a time for relaxing, none of which I'll be doing. "I'm an orphan with a wicked aunt and a boyfriend who left her because she has nothing to her name, how could I possibly help you?" I say another sob escaping my lips. "Marry me" he replies and my eyes widen in anger. Is he mocking me?. I look into the eyes of this stranger and see he's dead serious. "I need a wife, you need a home, marry me and you'll have all you want". I nod.

A Snowy Marriage (A Christmas agreement)

I catch it though. I catch it shortly all the same and my stomach drops.

My stomach drops in trepidation because exactly why should be looking unsure.

I mean I practically just carried out an assessment now and I'm pretty sure that they are well suited to each other, they are well matched to fighting each other and so there should be no other problems.

I know Adrian will not die, and neither will Pale guy get hurt but yet Alice is still worried.

I take in the look on her face and I focus back on the fighting grounds, abandoning my cheering for a moment as I try to see what she sees.

She might be the expert at martial arts, but yet I am still the one who has a very inquisitive mind, i am one who has a very perceptive mind now so I should be able to see something at least, a little flaw or what she was seeing earlier.

They look evenly matched to me, they look evenly matched so much so that none of them should be able to get the upper hand on the other, but yet something happens.

Something happens right in front of me as the Pale guy smiles. He smiles a little deadly smile that tells me that I am not going to like what is going to happen next, and neither is Adrian.

Suddenly his moves become faster, suddenly he is moving faster than anyone else I have ever seen move in my life, and it is hard to keep up with his form, it is hard to keep up with the flashes of him that are going about everywhere.

It is almost like he disappears the moment his feet touch the ground, he's already in another place, looking for another opening to strike.

Adrian tries to match this, he tries to make himself fight as fast as this but yet I know he cannot, I know he cannot because Adrian isn't that sort of person.

He is the sort of person to take his time when he is doing things, the sort of person who should have enough patience to make me angry because patience is not needed in this sort of a situation.

Yet it is in him. It is already in him and so my heart is beating in my ears as I see the flash and the first draw of blood.

The first draw of blood is on a little slash across his forearm and this guy stops moving.

He shoots him a smile and he stops moving.

For the barest moment Adrian's eyes meet mine, his eyes meet mine and I can see the panic that is in his eyes.

This scares me, it scares me so omuch so that i can not find anything to say to him I cannot find anything to say to him except look back at him with a reassuring look in my eyes.

I look back at him and conjure up all the bravery and the hope and the belief that I can ever bring up.

"I believe in you" I whisper and he nods.

I seriously want to believe that myself.

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