Dangerously Yours Till Eternity

As promised, Elsa was doing all the work in the world for them to get back to how they used to be, and they were getting there, slowly and steady but it was still progress.

Elsa spent a lot of time around but she was always having to leave in-between conversations to answer her phone calls, send back emails or text back messages. Ivy assumed that whatever work Jett was always doing, some had now been shifted on her best friend and that was what she always had to do on the phone, so to Ivy, this was absolutely normal.

“I’m sorry about that,” Elsa said setting her phone back on the table before leaning back in the sofa.

Today was different, instead of going out to party, they both decided to stay in watch a Romcom.

Ivy could not be more grateful that her job wasn’t a real job – no, it was real! She couldn’t be more grateful that her job was created majorly for her and her sudden disappearance from the workplace wouldn’t affect anyone, also she would go unpenalized.

That sounded spoiled, right after she thought about it, but it was true.

If she had indeed had a job at this moment of her life and she wasn’t who she was, she would be battling with a really difficult situation of asking her boss for an “Emergency Heartbreak Leave” that would only expire once she felt her heart was whole again.

A Emergency Heartbreak Leave?

Did that even exist?

Would they understand?

Ahhh.

She doubted it.

How lucky it was to be her. Maybe Elsa was right, she was indeed, a spoilt princess.

But seriously, heartbreak sucked.

It felt– it felt so– aaargh!Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

There was no word to desire this non-physical pain.

It felt so painful.

“What did I miss?” Elsa’s voice snapped her right out of her thoughts.

She tsked, “nothing much.” Then titling her head towards the phone set face down on the table, she asked, “Online work?”

Elsa said with a smile, “Hmmm, something like that.”

“We are watching horror next,” Ivy said, her gaze on the moving figures on the TV.

“Absolutely not. I’m not in the mood for all that scary nonsense.”

Ivy’s gaze flew to her immediately, “scary non– do you think you have a right to say that?!”

Elsa shrugged, “why not?”

Ivy sat up quickly, really to debate this to the end.

“A vampire’s world is just as scary as a horror movie.”

Elsa busted into laughter, throwing her head back before fighting it, in order to stop laughing.

“Come on, Princess. It’s totally different.”

“How?” Ivy’s eyes twinkled with curiousity.

Maybe this would be her chance to know more about them once again. She would gladly take it.

“Well,” Elsa started, the Romcom forgotten. “The vampire world is just like the human world, it’s not like a movie. There are laws, the way things are and there is even a bigger world,” her voice pitched with excitement as she dramatized how large it was with her hands. “There are Houses and so many—” her words stopped abruptly.

“And? Go on.”

She shook her head, folding her arms across her.

“I’m sorry, I can’t tell you.”

Ivy frowned, “You might have forgotten about this huge detail but I’ll remind you, we are best friends. We tell each other everything!”

Her mind immediately flashed to that one secret she was keeping from Elsa but she shook it off immediately.

“I know,” she started, her voice apologetic. “But my Sire doesn’t want me telling you about us.”

Ivy observed the use of ‘us’ but made no comment about it.

Elsa was really adapting to all these fast.

She was happy for her best friend.

What seemed to bug her mind though was the mention of Chris.

“And you are going to obey him?”

“I must, he is my Sire.” Then she added, “besides, he is good. It makes obeying him… good.”

Must be strange for Elsa. She wasn’t really a type to strictly obey.

“You’ve changed,” Ivy said quietly.

“Because I now suck blood!” Elsa giggled, dramatizing.

“You blood sucker!” Ivy joined in the joke, dramatically trying to get away from her.

The moment of fun died down in a few seconds and they were back to where they started.

Breathing heavily, Ivy nodding before she chuckled lowly and said, “so a day would come when someone would tell you to keep something from me and you’ll actually do that.”

“I’m sorry,” Elsa wrapped her arms around her. “How do I make it up to you?”

“You could order pizza…”

Elsa let her go, reaching for her phone, “just that?”

“And ice cream.”

“Just that?”

“Well, since you are asking, you can also buy me a planet. Having a planet to my name will really soothe my pain.”

“Ah, Princess! You drive a hard bargain but I’ll agree on your terms.”

That sent Ivy crackling with laughter once again and Elsa joined in.

While Elsa returned back to making the order, Ivy’s gaze turned to the TV but her mind was far away.

The mention of Chris earlier had got her thinking of him for the umpteenth time today.

How was it that he had easily moved on from her?

For her, moving on from him was hard. These past few days, she had gotten drunk, cried to Elsa about it, became really unproductive, had to stop turning in for work.

She was a mess!

How was he having it so easy while, it was the other way around for her!

How could he easily just not appear to her. How dare he stay away from her.

How dare he so as he had promised!

She missed him.

But how dare she wish for the result of a choice she had turned down.

How dare she be so confused!

How dare she still want him despite knowing the risk.

How dare the Universe make her life so complicated?!

She could feel her eyes ache as they turned glassy with tears.

She had been crying way too much lately.

This was back for her beauty care.

Thank goodness she wasn’t wearing makeup.

Another thank goodness that Elsa was sitting behind her, which didn’t allow her to see that she was tearing up again.

She just didn’t want to bother Elsa with a repeated narration about how hard she was having all these, she also didn’t feel like talking, it would only make it worse.

Talking would make her think about him even more and she would cry even more.

“Okay,” she felt Elsa standing up from the Sofa. “Delivery is here, I’ll be back in a sec.”

Ivy nodded, not turning around.

She heard the door close shut and she waited.

A second turned into more seconds then five minutes.

The phone on the table was vibrating from notifications.

Ivy picked it up.

If it was another party invitation, or date, she was ready to turned it down.

Respectfully, of course.

As respectfully as her sad state could allow.

But it wasn’t those, in fact these messages weren’t for her because this wasn’t her phone!

Elsa must have accidentally taken Ivy’s phone along with her.

She was ready to drop it right back on the table in order to receive a good pat on the back from the god of Privacy, but the next message that popped up changed that immediately.

Then there was an inflow of messages, popping up on the screen, messages she definitely shouldn’t have seen.