The Queen Wicked Deeds - Chapter 132
They were still inside the strange illusion and moving around the crowd. However, the only difference is that two crazy youngsters had fire coming from their eyes.
“I will not let you win, you crazy tomato hair!”
“HA… you are talking to me, little sunshine? I bet you won’t even have the time to breathe my dust when I leave you behind.”
“Are you out of your mind? You are the one that will only see a flash before your eyes when I finish this stupid game.”
“HA… then do you care for a bet?”
“I always care for a bet, bring it on, stupid tomato hair.”
“Stupid banana peel head.”
“You!”
“What?!”
The two idiots that didn’t have anything to do with the mission were more fired up than the real competitors. They were even making strange bets…
“Beth… wait…” Matheo was worried about the degree of competitiveness Beth can take out. She was even claiming now that she was the Queen of the world and will demand the shiny hair young man to kneel before her to kiss her shoe every morning for a week.
The young boy was also shameless in his request, he wanted to eat a chocolate box in front of her without her batting an eye. How cruel.
“I can believe you are requesting that… you know I can’t… ” Beth was now feeling destroyed. There was no way she can accept that kind of torture.
John knew it, “then… you will have to follow everything I request for a day.”
He smirked when she nodded without any choice. It was that or cruel but sweet torture.
“I will do that…” Beth was now returning to the arms of his dear Henry. She needed strength after such a terrible blow to her shameless heart.
Henry ċȧrėssed her hair and sighed, “don’t worry, my dear, we will win.”
“Yes, I know,” Beth smiled and then turned to see the other couple to show off her loving affection. However, now that John had his lover beside him, what kind of dog food can be thrown at him.
They were already kissing and is not in a sweet and modest manner. Beth could only open her mouth in a big O and hid her face inside Henry’s ċhėst.
“That… Henry… we… we should go first,” she was still hidden inside his ċhėst and distracted with her own thoughts that she failed to notice that Henry was also in a flushed state.
Henry nodded and grabbed Beth’s hand to run away from the scene before them. Matheo tried to follow them but he couldn’t when they ran away as if they were chased. “Sigh… they left me, a single dog here in the middle of people.”
“Whe… where should we start?” Henry asked when Beth was still looking at her feet with red in her ears and cheeks. “Beth?”
“Henry, why are we not… we are… a couple, right?”
Henry nodded, “yes.”
“Then… why are we not like them?”
“What… what do you mean?”
He was nervous. It was obvious what kind of couple were the two on the other side of the maze. The kind of affectionous couple that didn’t mind showing off how close they were.
“We hadn’t gone to a date, and… and you hadn’t met my grandpa… and Gandalf… also…” she blinked her eyes shyly, “you hadn’t entered my room.”
That moment his mind blew up with smoke coming from his ears.
“Don’t you like me?”
“I like you!” he pushed to the one wall, “I like you so much, but I don’t want this to be so casual… I want to have you by my side forever.”
Beth blushed even more. It was as if her heart had reached her face and suddenly flowers were raining in the background.
“Are you sure?” she asked while stepping closer to him.
Henry nodded, “I had always been sure,” he said as he stepped closer to her. “I had always felt this way.”
“Me too,” they were now one inch apart from each other. When… “I have the answer!”
She took Henry’s hand and ran after one man with a strange symbol in the back of his jacket. However, she was not the only one who had discovered him, but John was also running after that man. He was the only one who ran because Billy didn’t have the energy to move. After all, his health and condition weren’t that impressive as John’s.
“You stop it, you banana peel hair!”
“You should be the one stopping, tomato hair!”
The two started kicking and hitting while Henry watched the man with the strange symbol in the back enter a coffee shop. He followed him but the door didn’t open to him.
However, he knew that the man was the key to the answer. The symbol in the back was not the usual symbol but a map of the streets inside the illusion. He had looked at it for a brief moment and noticed, though, he didn’t make the connection that fast. He was impressed that Beth had the ability to see it from afar and relate it with the solution.
He felt somewhat proud and nervous. She will be able to help him win the contest and the deal with Mellie if he told her but at the same time, he was afraid of putting her in danger.
“Where did he go?”
“I don’t know,” Henry answered and looked around. “The doors are also a cycle.”
“Mmm… I noticed,” he nodded and sighed, “that girl of yours is quite impressive.”
Henry didn’t answer because it was evident that he was proud.
“Yous should take care of her,” Billie gave a bit of truthful advice. He didn’t mean any harm, after all, he won’t like to make his lover sad. That girl had been like a small sister to John and it would break him if something happened to her.
Henry knew that Billie wasn’t dangerous to Beth, and nodded. He was also worried.
If others knew what she was capable of… they would start their dirty tricks to play her.
“There he is,” Billie signaled to another door from one of the tall office buildings.
The man with the map painted in the back of his jacket was coming out with his head lowered. Henry followed him closely while watching the jacket.
“There are seven marks,” Beth linked arms with Henry while watching the picture.
“No,” John said while he moved on the other side of Henry. “There are fourteen marks.”
“What do you mean?” Beth watched the paint and narrowed her eyes. The marks were split in two as if they were separated by an invisible line. That made the marks fourteen.
Henry furrowed his eyes and watched the doors. “Some doors are used to enter and some doors are used to exit exclusively, however…”
“The ones with the marks have both uses,” Beth nodded, “you are so smart, darling.”
She kissed Henry’s cheek.
“We should start… hey!”
John was already in the line to enter one of the doors. “Stop flirting while in the work, Beth… sigh…”
He shook his head and opened the handle of the door. Beth couldn’t stop him when he entered and disappeared inside.
Billie tried to enter too but he couldn’t. “Where did he go?”
He took out his phone but the tracker he had put on John’s cellphone had also disappeared.
“Where is he?”
Beth was also worried, but then she remembered the picture and looked around for the other doors. “Go to a different door, they may lead to the same place.”
“How do you know?”
“One side of the marks had the same color,” she said but she was just guessing. “Let’s go.”
Henry took Beth’s arm and with his eyes, he tried to tell her that he didn’t want her to go, but he couldn’t detain her. Even if he wanted to, the answer to stopping the illusion could be on the other side of the door.
“Be careful,” he whispered.
She nodded and kissed his cheek. “You too.”
They all opened different doors from the six available. Matheo was also forced to enter, though, he was deep asleep on the floor. The many people had already made him enough dizzy and the only way to stop him from throwing up was to faint.
“Let’s see where this takes us,” Beth nodded and opened the door.
Henry watched her disappear inside and he felt a struggle in his heart. He entered the room from another door too and after he crossed the frame, only darkness was in front of him.
“Excellent,” a voice inside the room said, “good, very good.”
“What is going on?” Henry looked around but only the voice praising him was heard.
“You should be proud of you, little Henry,” the voice was growing bigger with each second, and then… the lights turned on.