Two

Miles Gonzalez knew he had to have her the minute he saw her. He was drawn to her as soon as she walked out of that cafe. A lot of people were laughing. It's New York City, but her laugh was what drew him closer; her voice was what captured his attention.

He was on a phone call with one of his business associates when he heard it, that laugh that sounded like waterfalls and rain. He looked across the street to see three people. Two beautiful black women and a white woman walking out of the coffee shop.

It was the darker-skinned black woman who sank into the background of the other two that he was drawn to. The way she stayed in their shadow. It's obvious she didn't like it, and it wasn't like her friends were forcing her there; it's just that she was the one who put herself there because she was shy.

But she was never destined to be, and she was destined to be his.

He didn't understand how he could be so drawn to a human; he didn't understand anything. He had sleepless nights; he couldn't stop thinking about her, her smile, her little laugh and her beauty.

Yes, he has had sex with human girls, but this has nothing to do with lust; it has nothing to do with sex. This is entirely different.

This human has clouded his mind and his soul. It was so bad that he even began to stalk her. He knows a lot of things about her because he has been following her around from January to June. Studying her, getting to know her.

He knows that her name is Jessica Humphrey, she's twenty-two, born September two thousand and two, she's a Virgo ruled by Mercury.

Both her parents are therapists. Her mom died of breast cancer when she was seventeen years old, and she goes to visit her grave once a month to leave flowers. Her mother's favourite is tulips. She would always get her tulips and tell her about her day.

Miles found it sad because he could relate. He lost his dad, but it was different; they weren't close. They were always fighting.

Another thing he found out was that she was a people pleaser who always said sorry even to people who bumped into her, and she loved to smile at people who didn't deserve it.

Her job is hell because she works as a personal assistant at a magazine company called Limerance, and her boss is super mean to her, well, not just her but to everyone else as well, but meaner to her because of the basic way she dresses.

Miles has no problem with her dressing, but it's obvious she's not dressing like her real self. She's a fashion designer who has sketched a lot of designs and has made a lot of clothes. Miles has caught her looking at the window of very sexy clothes resting on the mannequins of a store. She contemplated whether she should buy them, but she wouldn't not do it at the end of the day.

She's lived in New York all her life; she has never left. Although she has gone to Nigeria because her mom is from there. And she's gone to meet her family from her Dad's side in Texas.

She majored in business at NYU, and she wants to be a fashion designer, but she's always shy when she tells people that.

Miles would sometimes want to buy those clothes for her, but he would shake his head against it.

When he found out about her boyfriend, Jeremy, he was extremely jealous. And he knew they weren't going to last because he knew he was cheating on her. He was the one who tipped her off so she'd catch her boyfriend and shitty best friend in the act.

Which leads to this day of her being killed by that truck. It was hard for Miles to watch, but when he saw that truck hit her car, he believed that there had to be a pattern, why he was so drawn to her, why he couldn't stop thinking about her.

His people believe in fate and destiny, and what has just happened here serves a purpose as to what he's supposed to do.

So he had to do it.

It's against the rule to bring a human back to life, turning them into a Nytheri, but somehow Miles believes that Jessica Humphrey isn't just any human and that Jessica Humphrey is destined to be a Nytheri.

So when she died and the doctors gave up, he decided to step in. Bringing her back to life through a kiss, lending her one of his nine lives. But the outcome isn't easy because once you lend a life, you become weak and sick for days.

As soon as Miles gave her his life, he became sick; he can barely walk out of the hospital. Some of the nurses and doctors try to offer him some help, but he declines and tells them he's fine. He can't go home on his own, so he had to call his sister, his less strict sister.

And she arrives as soon as she can.

"Oh, Miles, what have you done?" His sister, Pilar, asks him. He looks up with weak eyes but a bright smile.

"I saved my mate."

And of course, Pilar is confused; she doesn't understand what he's talking about, but she knows there's an easy explanation for this.

She takes her younger brother home immediately.

Miles knows Jessica is going to be okay.

And days later, Doctors are confused as to how Jessica is still alive and why she's healing so quickly. They've never seen this before, but of course they've never seen or heard of a situation where a girl came back to life through a kiss. They believe science has a real explanation for that.

But in the meantime, Jessica is free to go home. She sits down on the chair as she waits for the doctor to be done with her dad. She stares at nothing, and all she wants to do is go home and touch her sewing machine, but she's not going home right away. That is the apartment that she's staying in with Renee.

She's going to be staying with her dad first.

But she'll be reunited with her sewing machine soon enough, that she's sure about.

"Right now she looks fine, but make sure she takes her medications." The middle-aged doctor with the bald head says.

"Okay, doctor."

Medication.

She thinks.

Does she even need it? She doesn't even look like someone who got involved in a car accident. She barely remembers what even happened. All she can remember is that kiss, although she's not that sure if there was a kiss; she's confused as hell. Was it a dream? Did she imagine it?

She doesn't know; all she wants to do is to go home.

Her dad takes her to the house she grew up in back in Brooklyn. he keeps asking her questions, and she responds with a nod and a shake of her head.

She still doesn't understand what happened to her. Yes, she caught her boyfriend and best friend having sex. Yes, she got involved in a car accident, and she is pretty sure that she died. She did die.

So how is she still alive? She doesn't know, it's a mystery.

"Let me know if you need anything, okay? I'll order pizza, your favourite pepperoni." Her dad says to him with a smile, and she nods. Then turns and walks up the stairs to the room she grew up in.

As soon as she walks in, she heads to the bathroom to start the water for the tub. She has to destroy the stench of the hospital; she's not going to be missing that smell. She looks at herself in the mirror, but then she jumps when she notices something strange.

Her eyes have gone from honey brown to emerald green.

That can't be.

She closes her eyes and shakes her head. Then opens them. Her eyes are back to normal. She lets out a sigh of relief. She's not crazy. The accident is probably what caused that brief scare.

She just needs a shower and then to eat, and then she'll be okay.

She begins to feel something strong on her fingers, something heavy. She looks down. Her eyes widen, then she screams.