Owned? - Chapter 86：A casual date

•Azalea

Days were peaceful in the mansion and it had gotten cold now.

I often missed Huang-fei and Ayaan’s presence. They both were pretty close to each other despite the huge age gap but they always hung out together.

Now they both were gone.

I never got to know Maria but I’m sure if I did she would have made a huge impact.

I never knew her yet I respected her a lot.

It was a cloudy day and I walked to the third floor lounge where I found Caesar painting Nora’s foot nails.

She had her hand nails already done and was blowing on them.

I smirked as I saw the scene and Nora noticed me.

I winked at her and she winked back.

She and Caesar became official a few days ago.

I’m happy for them. They make a nice couple even though they are polar opposites.

The sound of footsteps made me turn and look at the person.

Arius was staring at his phone.

“What’s wrong?”

“I have to call Lex. I need to tell him about something.”

“About what?”

“Just some information he asked for, I called him yesterday but he didn’t pick up.” He sighed, “Guess I’ll call him later tonight.” He placed his phone in his pocket and looked at me, “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Indeed I was looking at him like ‘that’ and by ‘that’ I mean expectation.

“Can you paint my nails?”

He raised his brows at me, “What do you think I am? Some shoujo manga male lead?”

I looked at him in disbelief, “No, but you’re a disappointment.” I pointed towards Nora and Caesar, “Even Caesar can do that.”

He looked at Caesar in awe when Nora stuck out her tongue.

“I don’t know how he’s doing that.” He looked at Caesar as if he was painting Mona Lisa, “But,” He looked at me, “I can try.”

I smiled, “Sure.”

***

I couldn’t stop myself from laughing.

Even though I put my hands on my mouth I still couldn’t help it.

Arius was doing such a bad job at painting nails that almost every stroke went out of the nail, yet he was concentrating like his life depended on it.

“Stop laughing!” He said, “I can’t do it right.”

I couldn’t, “You’re failing at it anyway.” I laughed again when I looked at my nails. It was as if a four year old painted them.

“I’m trying my best okay!” He made another stroke that was yet again another fail and went out on the skin.

He dropped the paint brush and looked at me in self disappointment.

I tried my best not to laugh and kept my lips tightly sewn together.

“I need some training from Master Caesar.” He said in a monotonous voice with dead serious expressions and I couldn’t contain it anymore.

I started chuckling, “Maybe you should.” I wiped the tear that came out of the corner of my eye.

“Whatever.” He stood up, “Let’s go out to the beach.”

I took out the nail polish remover, “Beach?” I dabbed it on the cotton and began to remove the nail polish on my skin.

“It’s a free day. Go get ready, it’s a good day for a walk on the beach.”

“Just a walk?” He nodded and I stood up, “Okay.” That meant I didn’t need to wear a swimsuit.

I began to walk towards the stairs when he stopped me.

“Azalea?”

“Hmm?” I looked back at him.

“I never got your answer.”

“For what?”

“If you wanted a tattoo?”

“Oh,” I did think about it. I never thought about getting a tattoo till the time he mentioned it but he gave me plenty of time to think about it, “Yea. I want to have one.”

He smiled, “Let’s get one today.”

“Hmm.” He nodded.

“Okay.”

***

We both wore casual clothes and had our bottoms folded till oue under knees while we walked on the sand. Ocean waves washed our feet after every small interval.

It was a sunny day but the weather was lovely.

We got some hot dogs from the stalls and ate while we talked.

It was the best form of communication. Simple but lovely. It was one of my favorite moments. Just talking while enjoying the surroundings

“Samurai Jack’s ending was too bitter sweet.” I said, “I couldn’t get it off my mind for days!” I threw my hands around in desperation, “He deserved better!!”

Arius chuckled, “I agree. They did him dirty but the ending was logical.”

“Who fucking cares about logic!! It’s a cartoon!!” I let out a groan.

“Yea well-” He was interrupted by his phone ringing. He took it out and I saw the caller ID. It was Lexus, “I need to take this.” He told me and I nodded.

He walked further into the water but before he could swipe the screen to answer the call a pointy stick came out of nowhere and went straight through the phone, destroying it.

It was an arrow.

As electricity sparkled through it Arius dropped it on the spot and looked at the direction from where it came from. I followed his gaze.

There in a distance stood Liana with a bow in her hands that probably belonged to the child standing next to her. She tossed the bow back to the boy and began walking towards us.

She seemed angry but Arius didn’t move from his place and maintained a neutral expression.

“Arius Alucard!” She yelled at him as she got closer, “It was you wasn’t it!” She stood directly in front of him, “You killed Ryan!”

Arius gave her an amused smile, “Ryan is dead?” He snickered, “That’s good.”

“Don’t you dare act innocent!” She was furious. I could see her ears get red with heat.

“What even makes you think it was me?”

“Who else could it be?!!” She had no proof.

“I wonder?” I just admire how Arius is such an outstanding actor. He should be given an Oscar.

“I-it has to be you!!” Liana got confused, “Who else could it be… But you?”

Arius smirked, “You’re just blaming me because you want to blame someone.” He stepped back, “Whoever killed that idiot has my thanks though. He did a good job.” He walked towards me while Liana stood there in confusion.

“Let’s go.” He held my arm and we began to walk away. As we did I turned to look back at her.

She was looking at us with murderous expressions.

As if, if she gets the chance, she would kill us both immediately.

I turned and smirked.

But she had no proof that we were the ones who did it.