The Mask Of The Monster - Chapter 74

(From Leandro’s Perspective)

The next morning, she went to the castle as usual. She did not talk much. Perhaps because of our talk last night. But she seemed to be so deep in thought. I did not try to talk to her either because I knew when she wanted to, she would surely talk to me.

I told her that she had to come back to the cave herself. I just wanted to see how she was going to react. But then, I ended up going to the end of the forest to wait for her.

“What’re you doing here? You said you wouldn’t come tonight,” she said as soon as she saw me waiting for her.

“I didn’t have anything to do. Come on now. We’ll leave for the pub.”

“We can go now. I don’t need to change clothes. You look handsome too.”

“No. You’re wearing your pink dress.”

“There is no need…”

“Let’s go. You need to get ready,” I said and took her hand, pulling her with me.

“You wouldn’t believe how boring today was. I almost died in boredom,” she said, yawning.

“Why? You haven’t got into any trouble today?”

“You’re bad,” she grumbled.

“Don’t tell things that have two meanings. I might get the wrong idea,” I warned her.

“What did I say? I just said you’re bad. You’re in a way. I didn’t say evil, just bad. There is a massive difference.”

“You’ll know the meaning one day.”

After we reached the cave, I saw that she was blushing and smiling for no reason. She was covering her mouth with her hand to stop herself.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Nothing… Well, it’s so embarrassing…,” she mumbled, trying to suppress laughter.

I raised an eyebrow at her. I knew she was going to tell me no matter what. That’s how she was. No matter how embarrassing something was, she would tell me that anyway.

“Well, when we_ kiss and you_ kiss my throat and touch me like that_ Remember the noise comes out of my mouth? Dear lord, it’s so embarrassing! Those purring-type noises… Honestly, I sound like a cat, worse than a cat. You don’t make too much noise though. See? I don’t want to make them, but it’s uncontrollable. I know it happens during this kind of time, but I never thought I would make them too. I mean, it’s really…”

The things she was talking about without knowing what they were doing to me- I had to stop her before she started talking about something else too. It was getting too much for me to bear. Yet, a part of me wanted to see how far she was going to take it. I wanted to see how much she knew. She talked like she knew a lot about them and was not surprised at anything I did.

“You talk like you’ve experience,” I said.

“No, I don’t. You don’t need to have the experience to know about certain things.”

“What did you say? You don’t have experience?”

“No. What gave you the idea I have? Didn’t you see the way I kiss? It’s awful.”

Now how could I say that seeing her skill in kissing, I thought that she had done it a lot of times before?

“You mean, I was your first kiss?” I asked while wanting badly for her to say yes.

“Come on, Leandro. When I told you that I never had any boyfriend, what did you think? How can I do those things with someone other than my boyfriend?”

“People do these things with other people too even when they are not in a relationship.”

“Sorry, but I’m not that type. I was not in emergency need of doing that,” she said, rolling her eyes.

“That means I really was your first kiss?”

“Of course.”

“And you haven’t had sex before or done anything like that?”

“No,” she said without a hint of hesitation. “Honestly saying, you’re the only person I hugged so intimately.”

She had no idea how much happy she made me. But she surprised me as well. Before she talked about these kinds of things as if she had a lot of experience, but now I knew that she knew a lot of things without having any experience. I truly had to praise her curiosity. I had to admit that even though her curiosity was a bit too much, in some cases, it came handy.

“Should I get ready now?” she asked.

“Yes. But you got to tell me later what you know about this thing.”

“What thing? Mature stuff?”

“Yes.”

“Why would you want to know that? Don’t you know about them?”

“Are you afraid to tell me? Or are you afraid to admit that you know less than me?”

“Of course not! I know a lot. I can give you free sex advice if you want to. I read a lot about this kind of stuff. And besides, I gave Jed anal sex advice. He is pretty satisfied with it. He hasn’t tried it yet. He is a virgin. He said he will tell me after he tries.”

“What am I going to do with you, little Ella?”

“You and that boy talk about this kind of thing?” I asked.

“Of course we do. We talk about everything.”

“Everything?”

“Everything,” she said proudly.

“Then why don’t you talk to me about everything?”

“I don’t know,” she mumbled, her cheeks reddened.

“You’re shy with me?” I asked. She was truly amusing, when she was shy and when she was open- she was always the perfect one to me.

“You make things sound weird and awkward.”

“And why is that I wonder…”

She did not say anything but looked up at me with her deep set of eyes. Her cheeks were still red. I had the impression that she was looking for something in my eyes, in the same way, I looked for an unknown thing in her eyes every time she looked at me.

She then cleared her throat and went towards the closet. She brought out her backpack and started to look for something inside it.

“Go now. I’ll change,” she said and I smiled. How could someone be like this? Sometimes I would lose words to describe her. But it did not matter. As long as she was with me, I would never need any words to describe her. She was always in my mind, described in the best way possible.

As I waited for her in the study room, I pondered if telling her about starting a relationship was a good idea or not. I knew she would not say yes, but I still said it to her. I wanted to hear what her explanation would be for not saying yes.

Now that I thought about it, I realized that she was right. In a relationship, both people should be open to each other with no secrets between them. Ella was open with me. She would tell me about everything. She even told me about how her life was before coming here. Perhaps it was time for me to open up to her as well. She was brave and she was not afraid to let go even if it would hurt. I feared if I did not open up soon, perhaps I was going to lose her. In that case, where her heart did not belong, that silly mark was going to be of no use. It was true that the mark would bind us together till death, but she was brave enough to still leave if she did not find peace and trust.

“Are you done?” I asked, through the door.

“Almost!” she yelled. “Damn it… I can’t get the zipper. It’s stuck! The zipper is stuck!”

“Do you want me to help?”

“Why is it so hard to pull? I can’t… Leandro, can you come in?”

I sighed and opened the door. She was trying to get the zipper, but she could reach it. But she was trying very hard in every angle possible. It was kind of funny and adorable to see her like this.

“Help me,” she muttered.

I went up to her. The zipper was stuck at the bottom, perhaps because of her pulling it constantly from the wrong angle.

As I tried to get it free, I could not help but notice her bra that was visible on her bareback. The need to run my fingers on her back was almost too much.

“Got it?” she asked, snapping me back to reality.

“Yeah,” I said and pulled the zipper up. Her hands went to tie the ribbon, but I grabbed them before and tied it for her.

“Do I look okay?” she asked, turning towards me.

And I had to admit that if I was ever supposed to come across an angel in my life, I had already met her.

[By the way, even though Leandro has already met his angel, Ella’s guardian angel is clapping his forehead to think they are supposed to look over this girl]