Crush and Burn°

As soon as his text came in, my phone buzzed again. He was calling me.

I hurriedly picked the call

"Fae! Oh my-"

"-where are you?" His tone was urgent. And cold.

"Huh?"

"I said where are you?"

"I-I'm home, what's wrong?"

"Good stay there"

He hung up.

I looked at Aunt Dara, she looked nervous and was wringing her hands.

"Did you hear that? What the fuck!"

I began venting

"We haven't spoke in weeks! And look at what he says the first thing he calls back!"

"Okay...um...count one to ten"

"What?"

I looked at her with disbelief, I just got the worst 'hey I'm sorry for not texting for calling you back in weeks because I was sooo busy with work' and here she was telling me to fucking count

"Please trust me"

"..."

"Please just count"

I sighed and waved my hands in defeat

"...one...two...thre-"

"Count faster"

"..."

"Please"

"...three, four, five, six, seven, ei-"

"-i saw on the news that Faelan is getting engaged"

"...huh?"

I felt my head spin, like I was put in a washer and being spun around like dirty laundry.

"His engagement is set for 25th day on the 10th month, which is next month"

I felt weightless. My heart pounded in my chest. So hard I found it hard to breathe. It felt like I was hit by a whale train. I held unto the wall next to me for support, afraid I might fall over and die instantly.

"Is this a joke?"

I finally spoke up.

"I wish it was" she pulled her phone from her pants and showed me the screenshotted news flash.

It was a picture of Faelan and an elf. A dark elf. The two had their arms interlinked. It looked like they were climbing up a fleer of stairs. Faelan had a huge smile on his face, his free hand resting on the hand of the elf holding him.

Unlike make dark elves who had shiny dark skin, female elves had greyish and white skin.

Hers were so beautiful, her silver hair chopped into a bob. Her eyes glinted in the assault of camera flashes.

To sum all that shit up. She was very beautiful. Elegant almost god-like.

My face felt hot, tears spilled. My chest hurt as I covered my face. Trying desperately to erase what I had just seen.

The door to our home burst in and I felt his energy.

I didn't want to look up, I didn't want to see him.

"What are you doing here?" Aunt Dara snapped, I felt her energy shift, she was ready to attack him

"I just want to talk to her...please"