Aida
I stand outside waiting for Jinx to show up. Tapping one foot impatiently on the ground, did Madam Krea lie to get rid of me, I thought my lips tightening into a grim line. I run a hand in my smoothly styled hair, pulling strands out frustration getting the best of me. she's known for being honorable at times, I hope it's one of her honorable moments. Not her infamous rat moments.
"A beautiful evening to you," a slim figure in a hooded cloak says.
"May the dark-lanes always prosper." I say to the figure absentmindedly. And went back to my impatient tapping.
Caramel, slim hands pull the hood back to reveal a breath-takingly beautiful face. Wide neon-blue eyes set in an oval-angular face , a small button nose and generous full lips. Translucent silverish-grey hair frames her face in a wild, yet appealing look, her body is slender and lithe. She seems familiar, but I can't pinpoint where I have seen her before.
"You don't recognize me, do you?"
"I can't remember, but I have seen you before."
"Yes, you have."
"Aida," Jiinx screams running down the stairs and jump in my arms, she sobs, I run a hand down her back calming her.
When I look at where she stood before she's gone, I see a cloaked figure melt in the crowd of people.
"You saved me,"
"It's fine, it's my fault you came here, when you shouldn't have."
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have lied to you."
"It's okay, we all have our dark past. We need to go." I say leading her to the cruiser.
I jump in , and start the cruiser, Jinx stared at the huge building. The cruiser flies out of there, I took a different route, it's best to avoid the crazies as best as I could.
A sonic boom shatters the air, I stared back to see a plume of flames where Madam Krea's establishment should be.
"No," Jinx screams trying to get me to turn the cruiser back, but I wouldn't let her.
This is beyond us, I want to get away from here as fast as I can, she sobs into her hands, not trying to make us turn back .
"I'm sorry Jinx, we can't go back."
The cruiser races out of there fast and towards the huge ray of light on the border of the three hundred, the light goes green clearing us to go, I let Imsy fly us out of there to our level. The streets were alive as a hologram news reporter reports on the bombing of Madam Krea's establishment, showing the photos of the victims of the bombing. But none of them were of Madam Krea.
"Stay tuned, we're still searching for more bodies of this tragic bombing."
"See she's not dead, she's still alive." I say to Jinx.
She nods mutely, I fly to her apartment and start thinking how to prepare to journey out of there, my heart shudder to a stop for a split second, the thought of leaving everything familiar and dear to me.
The cruiser lands on her landing pad, and she jumps down and hurries in, shoulders slumped, sadness weighing her down. I fly home. I land on my landing pad, and hurry into my apartment. I tensed for a moment, something feels off, I turned around and gasps, stumbling back a bit.
Yu smiles at me from where he leans on the wall.
"Hi!"
My legs give out and I crash to the floor, he moves fast, his hand grabs my waist steadying me, I pinch his cheeks to see if he is real, and he let's me go clutching his pinched cheek, already turning red.
"Ah, what the hell."
"What was that for?" he growls.
" I needed to know if you were real," I smile sheepishly.
I pull myself up and watch him with huge eyes, he sits on one of my chairs. "Why are you here Mr.Jiangh'an?" I say snappily.
He winces, and stared at his shoes. "I'm sorry Aida, I did look for you the last two years, but I couldn't find you. I know I deserve that. But there were too many things to bat out of the way, I'm sorry I should have come to you sooner, if not for …"
"Yeah, miss pretty and wealthy." I say hotly.
"No, I had some amnesia when my birth family found me, I couldn't come back, because I couldn't remember who I was. I couldn't remember you Aida." He shoots up from the chair, and cautiously approaches. "I can't stay away anymore, and when I saw your cruiser in the footage just as Madam Krea's establishment was bombed, I had to come see you, my family's wishes be damned."
Tears fall down my cheek, and with a sob I launch myself into his arms, he lifts me up, his nose buries into my hair, he shushes me, running a hand on my back, just like old times. Oh how I missed this feeling, the sense of belonging somewhere, that someone cares for you.
I lift my head, sniffling and meet Yu's eyes. He gives me an affectionate grin, and set me in the chair he was sitting, "Here, you've made your pretty eyes all red and puffy. He hands me a hankerchief.
I wipe my eyes and blow my nose . I extend my hand to hand it back, and grimace, I chuck it in the waste basket.
"So when you were with your brother, you were messing with me."
"I'm sorry, I was little plum, I had to make sure, I can't let anyone suspect that I knew you, Gods know what Li Jiangh'an would do with that knowledge," he says bitterly.
"I'm sorry for going off on you, I should have kept my trap shut."
"It's good, I was reminded on how feisty you could be when irked," he grins.
I playfull thump his shoulder.
"Ouch, " that hurts, he winces laying a hand on his shoulder, just like before eyes twinkling.
"Oh does it?" I move int action, and launches a small pillow at his head, he dodges it .
"How long are you staying?"
"Not long, I can't stay here, spies everywhere, we don't want the paparazzi here."
"I know."
"Oh don't worry you'll see more of me."
"You coming to the dinner party?"
"Yeah, I am, but I need to go on a trip the next day" I lie.
Panic slips in his eyes, and he grabs hold of my hands, "Where ?"
"Um, just a trip to ausbutch with Jinx on a girl's trip, I promise I 'll come back."
"You promise,"
"I promise," I say lying, meeting his gaze.
If only he knows.