ELLA :
"I want to see all the sunsets of my life with you."
If this sentence was said by any normal person, I would have been overjoyed but when a devil said those words to me, my heart skipped a beat for a moment and I froze.
I didn't know how to react to his sweet words. I have no idea if this change in him is a good sign or an indication to me about the worst beginning of my life. Just like fire and Ice, we both can never become one.
He is different and so am I, and this love whom he keeps talking about was a deception in the beginning and even now if he has told me the truth, it's still difficult for me to accept the truth.
"Hah, I have watched it in a movie," The devil said with a chuckle trying to hide his embarrassment and I looked at him, confused.
"The lines I said were from a movie." He explained and I sighed with relief. "Oh... yeah... It was impressive." I praised him, after all, I don't have any choice instead of being nice to him because I needed to see Oliver before the wedding. Once I will meet him, I am sure, I will surely find a way to save him.
He is the only family of mine left in this world.
He smiled and then his hand went to my waist pulling me closer, my hair stood up in the alert and my eyes started blinking in nervousness, should I stop him? Push him away? Or refuse him?
But a part of me wasn't really scared of him at all and my heart that always sank when I saw that darkness in his eyes, today seemed to be unusually calm. I closed my eyes, shut my mind from thinking anything, and started counting in my heart to distract myself from the devil's closeness.
"It's getting cold," The devil whispered into my ear after a while and I trembled from the slight touch of his lips rubbing on my earlobe. I immediately opened my eyes, flushed completely, and when I saw that devilish smirk on his face. I felt like digging a hole and hiding inside it.
How could I be so idiot? He isn't the one in s*x more than I am... Why do I always keep thinking about s*x with him even when I know he is a devil and a dangerous creature?
I looked away embarrassedly and he chuckled as he opened a shawl and then covered us both with it. I frowned a bit looking at his actions, "Did he too feel cold?" I thought but when his hand touched my body I realized why suddenly he had started feeling cold.
I rolled my eyes at the thought that devils too needed flirt in their life, seriously? What else is left for me to watch now? I sighed and then habitually I put my head on his shoulder as his grip on my waist tightened and we both sat in that position for quite a long time.
After we returned home, I was too sleepy, but the devil insisted on having dinner. I wasn't in the mood to eat anything and simply shook my head, refusing. Just then, in the next second, I was on the table tied with some invisible rope while he fed me forcefully.
I didn't even have the strength to argue or resist as I quietly ate the dinner and then the next second I was in my bed. The room's lights went off and panic rose in my heart as I managed to shout, "Don't leave me, alone."
There was no response, and my eyes were getting really heavy but the fear and panic in my heart didn't let me fall asleep. After a while, I turned, frustrated and then I was hit by something.
"F**k," I groaned but with a deep joy in my heart. Thankfully, he didn't leave me alone in the dark.
I then pulled his arm and laid on it, as I hugged his waist with one of my hands and snuggled in his chest. I felt so relaxed and calm that I immediately fell asleep not paying any attention to his words.
***
I looked around with my eyes widened in surprise, I was in the middle of a huge lawn filled with flowers. I looked down, I was wearing a wedding gown, it's the same wedding gown that I had bought today, I am wearing white and the whole view was also white.
It was relaxing as I walked on the grass with my bare feet, and then suddenly I noticed something. There was someone standing a little far away from me, his back was on me and I walked to him with slow steady steps.
My heart started beating fast as I closed the distance between me and that person and then BOOM
I finally saw that person's face, when I touched his shoulder, he turned and it was Ethan. I squealed with joy and jumped happily right into his arms. "ETHAN..."
"Ella..." He exclaimed with the same intensity of surprise and shock.
After a while, I pulled away and looked down at his clothes, he was wearing a tuxedo and looked very dashing. "Are we...?"
I opened my mouth, confused. What's happening? Is this a wedding? Mine and Ethan?
But Ethan erased all my confusions as he shook his head slightly, staring calmly into my eyes. "This is your wedding," I widened my eyes at his confession and asked nervously, "What do you mean? Where are the people then? Who is the groom?"
I asked multiple questions in one breath and some complicated emotions appeared on his face while frowning. "You're marrying the devil, the murderer, look behind you." He whispered into my ear and I felt a shiver run down through my spine.
I blinked my eyes while looking at his emotionless face, feeling scared, I turned around slowly and then froze on the spot as the lawn that was before the calming and beautiful view was filled with the pool of blood and there were multiple dead bodies of people floating in it.
I yelled in horror and covered my mouth as I staggered back and then hit my back into Ethan. I turned to Ethan to ask for help from him but he has also turned into something else and his clean tuxedo was now drenched with blood as he stuttered.
"He...Did...This...To...Us... Ella... Avenge Us... And... Save Oliver..."
Before I could open my mouth and ask for anything, his body suddenly burst in the air and a pool of blood splashed out on me making my whole wedding dress turn red. I yelled in fear and shock, feeling suffocated from the blood all over my body. "Ahhhh...."
***
"Ella... Ella...." A worried voice and a warm embrace calmed me down, I opened my eyes and realized that I was dreaming. I pushed the devil away and looked down at me, there was no trace of blood. I immediately stood up and rushed to my wardrobe checking on my wedding dress, it was white and clean.
I heaved a sigh of relief and then weakly sat on the floor, my eyes filling with water and soon I burst into crying, remembering all the unpleasant scenes I saw in my dream.
"Ella..." A voice called out, I looked up at the devil, he looked anxious as he sat in front of me and then asked, "What happened?"
What happened? Should I tell him that he is a bloody murderer and he has too much blood on his hands and if I will get married to him, that blood would come on my hands too? Would he stop killing people if I marry him? Would he turn into a good soul if I asked him to? Would he stop killing innocent people because of me?
My mind was filled with multiple thoughts and didn't know how to say them out loud as I kept weeping silently, my gaze lowered to the ground, and my heart was getting as heavy as a rock.