Xaiden's POV.

My eyes staring at the beauty in front of me as my lips curled up into a slight smile. My heart hammering in my rib cage and my mind relaxed.

The way she had her eyes closed and the way the cold wind was striking on her face, it made her blonde hair fall on her pretty face. Only one word to explain that moment. Sweet. It was our sweet moment.

This girl had wrapped me up in her charm. I knew my heart felt something when I first saw her. The quite, innocent naive girl. The way her fingers swayed delicately on piano keys, I wondered how her soft fingers would feel against my skin. Would they touch me roughly or with this much delicacy? How would her touch affect me? I knew she was trouble the moment I entered that class on that day. I knew she was going to be something for me the first time my eyes met with her emerald ones.

Despite all those love warnings, all that battle I had with my heart and fear. I couldn't control myself but to fall for her. My mission was to kill that Austin, to avenge my mother, my empire and I ended up being a lovesick teenager.

Life!

It's so cruel...

So enchanting...

So surprising...

A Mystery for every person...

The person you hate or the person you fall in love with. The person who will be a part of your life or the person whom your life would be deprived of...

It was all a game of fate. A fate given to us by our lives. Life could give many beautiful things but it could take many things as well. Life isn't just a mere person's existence but a cruel game playing him as his pawn.

And this life gave me Ella. My cruel life for once gave me something I could treasure. It took my mum, it gave me a beast and it gave me my aim. My life was cruel and merciless until she came in.

And I won't let her go... For she's my everything now.

For once, my life gave me someone whom my heart belongs and now I won't let her leave me.

I brushed her stray lock behind her ear as her eyes slightly opened. Her eyes staring into mine and this time I felt something in them. Not just liking but something intense, something deeper...

"Xai!" She breathed out and I descended my head closer to hers. My hand rested on her face as her hand holding mine. Her lips parted and her breathing rapid.

I want to taste those lips again...
Again and again...

"Xaiden... I lo-" Before she could finish her lost words, my phone rang making my attention drift to that.

I took out my phone and seeing the caller's identity, my hands turned cold along with my heart. Turning my hands into a fist, my eyes were blazing hot with the fire of revenge. This person's name made me realize the purpose of my life. It made me wonder why I had driven this innocent soul in my life. It made me furious knowing what my so-called dad would do once he'd find out.

It made me fucking crazy...

I didn't pick up the phone but it sure did ruin my mood. The atmosphere had shifted into a tense one and I could sense as Ella was giving me space...

Or it's just that she was scared...

She was afraid of me...

Shit!

I tried to swallow my anger but it was of no use. My beast was at bay to release his anger on something, on someone. It wants to kill someone...

"Ella!" After a moment, I called out her name through my gritted teeth.

"Yes," she whispered.

"Do you know anyone named Ellen Austin?" I asked the question which I wasn't planning to ask at all. My tongue controlled by my mind and it asked on its own accord.

My head was hung low as my mind waiting for her answer. I wanted to know if she knew anyone by this name in this school. She was an older student and had been studying here for almost three years and for me, I just came here the last year. I couldn't find anyone by that name but I hope she would know. Maybe that bloody Austin had already changed school before I came here. Or maybe the information that we got wasn't true.

My ears waiting to hear her reply but she didn't reply. I turned my head this time towards her to meet her eyes staring into mine. Her eyes wide open and it felt like she had just seen a ghost, her face was going pale as all of the colour was drained from it.

What happened to her?

"El-" I tried to ask her but she averted her eyes and stood up.
"Where are you-"

"No. I don't know... I don't know anyone by that name." Her voice raspy as her back was facing mine.

I was confused at her reaction. Why did she react this way and why she felt like she had just seen some horrific thing? Why her eyes showed insecurity this time?

"Ella! What happened?" I asked standing up and holding her arm before she could leave.

"I need to go." Her voice just a mere whisper.

"No. Tell me did I say something wrong?"

"It's not that. I... I just need to go."

She freed her arm and went ahead, leaving me all confused. I sat down on the bench and started to think about what could have happened to her. Why she suddenly started acting strange?

I was in my thoughts when I sensed a presence beside me. Turning my head, I saw Jack.

"Hey, dude! Why are you looking like you just broke up?"

Broke up? Do I look that devastated?

"No. It isn't that. Actually, I don't know what just happened to her. She was fine a minute ago." I shrugged.

"Who?"

"Ella."

"Oh! What happened?" Jack crossed his one leg over the other and placing a hand on the back border of the bench, he listened to me.

"I just ask her about another girl. I mean if she knew that girl." I told him.

That's just it. Why she overreacted? It's no big deal.

"Dude!" He started laughing, throwing his head back.

"Dude! You don't ask your girlfriend about another girl. You are such a dickhead." He was laughing and I was trying to comprehend what he was trying to say.

"Why?"

"Because she would get jealous."

Jealous? Ella got jealous? And just because I ask her about that bloody Austin?

I am such an idiot.

I should go talk to her and tell her there was nothing to get jealous. It was her whom I love the most. That bastard Austin was the one whom I hate.

"Crap! I need to go." I pated his shoulder and rushed to find her and explain it to her.

"Ella!" I called her name as I spotted her in front of her locker.

She looked in my direction for just a second and then closing her locker, she started taking quick steps towards the other direction. My heart collapsed on seeing she was ignoring me.

Please, do not start this again. I don't think I can handle it...

It felt like she had become that earlier Ella whom I met the first day. The one who ignored me and hated me.

No!

"Ella! You need to listen to me." I stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Ella! I was just asking about her from you because...."

"Because?" She asked, raising her eyebrows. Her eyes, for the very first time, looked void.

I tried to think of a lie. I couldn't tell her I seek that Austin's blood. It would scare her out. And that's the last thing I wanted to. I won't tell her the truth.

"Ella! Actually, she's my cousin."

Damn! Cousin? Shit! She's a bitch! My damn foe.

"Ella! I heard she was studying here at this school. So I asked you. It's nothing what you are thinking. I..."

"Xaiden! It's fine."

She escaped my grip and without glancing at me, went into her class; leaving me all lost, once again.

Why did it feel like my life had taken that one something from me as well?

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