C4 Melody Of The Night..

Melody Of The Night..

''Tttsch, he's crazy !! He's just crazy !! How could he touch me !!''

When Naria was sitting on the floor while holding her left wrist, the tears couldn't stop falling from her eyes, she felt offended and hurt.

She didn't know the exact reason why and what was the purpose of this, for her to keep experiencing the same thing every single time and receive no protection from this house. She couldn't bear it anymore.

The pain she felt inside her was burning her chest up - betrayal, disloyalty, broken trust, loneliness , agony, all these emotions were inside her broken soul, she knew she had no one to protect and support her, in this lonely world she could only rely on herself.

At first survival was the only option for her, but now it just turned into a big lost battle..

''I give up, I just give up !!''

I screamed and shouted in that dark room, I was begging God to change my life, I was begging someone to come and rescue me from this house..

I lay down on the cold, black murmur ground, and with one of my hands I was brushing my hair, the other one was comforting my chest. At that moment there was no emotion on my face, I knew that someone would be entering the room soon to let me know about my next client, but there was no way I would entertain him.

My job for today was done, I didn't want to see anyone nor talk to them. I just wanted to be left alone, so that I could gather more strength for tomorrow.

‘’Tomorrow will be the same.’’ I thought in my head and while I was deeply lost in my thoughts, a very bright light appeared at the end of the room where the door was installed, then a sweet female voice came from behind the door.

'' Naria, are you okay?''

She calmly asked and slowly entered the room.

When seeing Naria lying on the cold floor and brushing her with her finger tips, Mirai went near her cold little body to comfort her.

''Did he hurt you? Did he also break the rules?''

Mirai asked while trying to lift my body up, so she could hug me.

I slowly placed my arms around Mirai's neck and while touching her back with my finger tips, I laid down my head on her shoulder. I started crying and swearing at everything and everyone.

I'm so tired !!'' I shouted.

''These damn clients never follow the rules !! Why do they always mistreat me like this?? ''

I was explaining how tired I was of this house and their clients, but I was too scared to run away yet.

I snapped out everything that was on my mind right now. I didn't want to hold back anymore and while doing so, my body suddenly felt tired.

Mirai helped me to get up. We left the performance room and walked upstairs towards my bedroom. When we entered my bedroom, a sweet, light blue-colored wall felt more welcome than the room where I performed. This was the only place where I would feel safe, I knew I could lock my bedroom from inside and no roommates or strangers would try to enter it.

We were sitting on my bed surrounded by many cushions. I was looking at Mirai’s face and couldn’t stop admiring how beautiful she was.

''I could give everything to look like you for the rest of my life, to have the colour of your brown eyes and dark hair. To be able to live a normal life in this kingdom without being judged and wrongly accused of everything. I would really sacrifice everything to look normal like you.’’

The tears from my eyes began to fall down on my light purple pants I was wearing tonight. Mirai, having nothing to say, just sat there in silence and tried to comfort me.

''Naria, you silly little girl.'' Mirai spoke in a calm voice.

‘’You have no idea how beautiful you are and how jealous I get every time I see you dancing.’’

Mirai was thinking in her head not saying out loud any more words. When Naria fell asleep, Mirai quietly left her room and went downstairs to the main building, where the clients were staying.

A bright red light came out from a pile of clothes under Naria's bed. The Black Dragon's sword started to shine red, but no one was there to witness it. Naria was in a deep sleep and everybody else was minding their own business or working. No one could see the light shining out from that sword. That night for the first time in eight years Naria was able to sleep peacefully.

''Ohh.. My head.. Why does it feel like I was drinking last night?''

While looking at my crumpled clothes I was wearing last night and my messy hair with a ruby mixed on it, I began to question my own behaviour..

''What the heck?'' I said it out loud. ''What happened last night?''

I slowly got up from my bed and went to change my clothes, meanwhile I could hear someone shouting downstairs saying that breakfast was ready. ''Oh my Dragon God.. Just shut up, it's so early in the morning right now, can they just shut up?’’

I was feeling grumpy and angry at people who were so happy early in the morning. I hated happy people in the morning, when I just woke up a few minutes ago. When I changed into another set of clothes, I looked in the mirror and tried to fix my hair, while I was brushing my long blond, wavy hair, I thought how cute this dress looked on me.

I was wearing a bright yellow, long silky dress that didn't look too tight on my body. The sleeves were short and on the top of this dress there was a very cute, small black ribbon on it. I felt beautiful again and quickly went to look for my light blue - looking slippers that would match my dress.

When I walked downstairs I could smell a fresh chicken scent coming out from the kitchen. ''Another day another victim.’’ I hought about it and went to the dining room, where Verna was staying.

''Good morning, Verna.''

I greeted my aunt and without waiting for an answer back I went and sat on the right side of the dining table.

There were four more chairs on that side and five more on the left. The table had an oval shape and it was painted in dark brown colour, it looked old with a lot of scratches on it. ''I hope someone will paint this table soon, it's getting too nasty to even look at it.’’ I thought.

Verna sat down next to me, when Mirai also came to join us, but she sat on the left side in front of us. Then waited for July and Veronica to bring food from the kitchen and sit next to her.

When Ahorno walked into the dining room, he saw Verna sitting next to me and seeing three more empty chairs, he went and sat down next to Verna, meanwhile Hesto joined the left side of the table, but two chairs away from Mirai.

Veronica started bringing food from the kitchen, while July brought the plates and forks. A lot of chicken legs were served that morning, with a lot of vegetables and fruits. Veronica also brought fish from the kitchen knowing July's weird eating habits.. When all of the food was finally served, and all of the plates were placed next to everyone, Veronica sat down next to Mirai and July followed her.

We all started eating and talking, while enjoying ourselves and pretending to be happy like one big family. No one was bringing yesterday's incident up, they all pretended like nothing ever happened and putting fake smiles on their faces were telling silly jokes and kept messing around.

At once I wanted to pretend that we're okay, that nothing bad will ever happen to me and when the sun goes down I wouldn't need to go back to work.

Hesto was seriously making fun of Ahorno, his face, his hair colour, his body type, everything was funny to him. He was making fun of all his insecurities and everyone just kept on laughing, it was funny to everyone, except Verna.

Verna wouldn't be herself if she wouldn't want to ruin everyone's mood. She decided to bring back the main topic of the day.

''Axel is coming back today.'' She said excitedly.

When that name came out of her mouth, I suddenly felt black, dark shivers going through my skin.

I dropped a fork on the ground by accident and while faking my smile, pretending to be happy that he's coming back, I bent my back to pick it up.

My inner organs wanted to stop working straight away, I felt my veins on my hands popping up, just this name itself makes me fall in agony and makes me tremble, that perverted brother of Verna.. ''He's already coming back.. I thought silently.

These two years went by too quickly, I was so happy when he was gone. I was able to stay in my room and feel at peace for once. ''There's no way !! No way he's coming back already !!’’ Hysterical and painful thoughts were going through my mind, meanwhile my perfect fake smile was shining outside.

''Who allowed that bastard to come back?''

Hesto said while laughing, meanwhile his tone was saying the opposite. I liked Hesto, he never made me feel uncomfortable and was always treating me with care, sometimes he might joke around, but if he thinks that his words were offensive, he would straight away apologise.

''What do you mean, Hesto?''

‘’It's his house, he can come back any time he wants.’’ Verna answered Hesto. Her tone was offensive, as if almost she meant that nobody else belonged here, except Axel.

''That bastard never works and just walks like a lazy slug around the house, drinks all alcohol and picks fights with random people all the time.'' Hesto was getting angrier.

''Yes, go Hesto !!’’ I thought in my head.

He was not wrong, he never does any work, just collects all the money we earn and goes out drinking, and when he comes back home drunk, the real nightmare starts happening to me.

I was madly thinking in my head, while looking at Hesto and giving him thumbs up, Hesto's brown eyes were staring at me and with a big bright smile on his face, he winked at me. Hesto was a good looking guard, even though he was five years older than me, I would still marry him.

Hesto had a nice brown, shoulder length hair, had an attractive nose that was not standing out too much, a sharp jawline, perfect thick brown eyebrows and nice, cute lips. He was tall, but not too tall. His shoulders were pretty wide, like the man from yesterday, he might not smell the same way he did, but his scent was nice too.

''Oh my Dragon God !! What was I just thinking??? Why when observing Hesto's appearances did I think about the mysterious man from yesterday??!!! That man hurt my wrist and violated the rules of the house. The main reason why I was so sad yesterday was because of him, so why would I think of him right now all of a sudden??!!’’

I began to question myself. When I was lost in my deep thoughts, Mirai kicked me in the leg.

''Are you okay?''

She whispered with her lips that had no sound. I nodded my head and put a big smile on my face again, as if I wasn't just thinking about anything weird a second ago..

''At what time is brother Axel coming back today?''

Veronica asked, meanwhile on her face was written ''love''.

She loved Axel , when Veronica finally turned nineteen years old, she was able to get married, but then was the time when Axel had to go to the military, so her dreams to get married with him got shattered into pieces..

Deep down inside I was actually hoping that Axel would marry Veronica, I mean she had a nice skinny body, long black, straight hair, her face was really beautiful too.. She had light brown eyes and her nose was very small and beautiful, her cheeks were not chubby like mine, and her head was really small.

She had a sharp character and a lot of arrogance. Veronica and I never got along, she was always jealousy towards me, but just because Axel was giving me the most of his attention, so every time she would get a chance to compete or bully me, she would never miss it.

Little did she know that I wished for Axel to love her and I wished for him to pay more attention to her, than he paid to me. Maybe then he would leave me alone and would stop tormenting me. I was like his punching bag, every time he would get angry, he would punch me or torture me, he's the reason why I'm so obsessed with my looks right now.

Until this day I can't forget what happened three years ago. When I was fifteen years old and he just turned eighteen, he picked a fight with a wrong person, that person badly beat him up. I was really happy to see his bleeding face when he came back home that night, but little did I know that the next thing he would do was to drag me by my hair into my room and kick me in my face with his left knee.

His kick was so hard and painful that one of the upper inner teeth fell out of my mouth. He then dragged me by my hair again in front of the mirror and told me how ugly I looked. He said with this nasty face of mine no one will ever love me, that night he was beating me up till early in the morning, but no one was there to rescue me. For some weird reason everyone was out that night, so no one could hear me scream.

When he left my room I was left on the cold ground, while my hair was soaked in my own blood and my left arm was so swollen and stingy that I thought it was broken. I crawled onto my bed and wasn't leaving my room for one full week, with a perfect excuse that it was that time of the month. No one bothered me or cared to check on me, Mirai was the one bringing me food into my room and taking it out. I was facing her with my back every time she was visiting, I didn't want her to look at me and see my bruised face. I knew I had no right to complain about this, this was the only home I had, since my mom gave me away, until now I think of that day..

I was tortured by him until he turned nineteen years old and was sent to serve in military, only then I felt at peace and was able to discover my inner talents. I started dancing and I became one of the most popular dancers in this city.

When Verna looked at Veronica with a kind smile, she kindly answered her.

''I'm not sure yet, I know it's today.''

Veronica stupidly smiled and looked at me with a strange gaze, I was sure that it meant a warning not to get close to him. ''Pppff, like I want to.’’ I thought.

I stopped smiling and slowly got up from my chair and in a kindly fake manner spoke.

''I need to go to the market, I must find new clothes for my performance tonight.''

And when I was leaving the dining table, Mirai quickly stood up from her chair and shouted.

''Me too !! I will come with you, Naria !''

And followed me from behind. July sighed and looked at us quickly leaving the dining room. She knew what was the reason, but she didn't want to complain about it. She looked at Verna, who was obviously flirting with Ahorno, and asked for her permission to clear the table, since everyone was done eating. Veronica showed obvious signs that she will not help her, since she had to go and prepare herself for Axel when he comes back.

Hesto surprisingly offered his help and started collecting all the dirty plates from the table. Hesto liked July, I mean I don't blame him, July was another beauty of this house.

She had short pink, dyed by magic crystal hair, a tanned perfect skin with no pores or spots on it, small cute lips, light green eyes that when you look at them, you can see green forests and a perfect body. She was a little bit taller than me, her bust and chest was bigger than mine too . *cries*

Her feet were small and her voice was amazing. Instead of dancing to her clients, she was either telling stories in her voice or singing, she was also very popular among the men in this city.

Hesto knew he had no chance with her, she was out of his league, but he didn't know that July also liked him back. She liked him back because he was kind to her, he was always helping her out and was kicking all of the clients that were annoying her, but Hesto didn't know that.

They secretly crushed on each other without one of them realising it. The way they looked at each other was pure love, but neither of them had the guts to confess..

When me and Mirai were walking around the clothing stores, we talked about annoying Veronica's attitude skills and were complimenting each other's outfits. She complimented my yellow dress, while I was complimenting her blue set. She was wearing a dark blue , long skirt and a short blue top. It looked thin, but very beautiful on her body type, while we kept walking we heard someone shouting our names .. And then this very annoying voice became louder and more offensive.

''Hey you two, dummies !!''

He shouted, and when we looked back we saw no one else, but Everett.. He was our age and had a skinny, but tall body. He was pretty popular among the ladies, just because he had a nice - flirty face. His long brown hair tied in a ponytail, a skin full of little freckles, black thin eyebrows , and a cute nose made him stand out for some reason.

All three of us were best friends, we were all the same age, but Mirai and Everett were born a few months earlier than me. Mirai and Everett have already turned nineteen, meanwhile I have to wait a few more months to reach the age of marriage.

We knew each other since we were six years old, me and Mirai saved Everett from bullies who were beating him and ever since he followed us around.

''You two goats wait for me !!''

He shouted and ran towards us, out of breath he couldn't speak very fast, so he put his hands on his knees to get a little bit of rest.

''Whyy, II meann wwhyy you two didn't waaaitt foor mee?''

He asked while inhaling more air into his lungs.

''Goats?'' I sarcastically asked Mirai.

''I don't see any goats in here, do you, Mirai?''

I asked and looked at her while raising my eyebrows and putting a smile on my face.. Mirai looked at me and made the same face, while covering her mouth with her right hand, and pretending to be shocked she asked Everett.

''Is everything okay with your vision, Everett? Maybe you're hallucinating right now? If you see two goats, instead of two beautiful Goddesses.''

''Okay, okay.. I apologise.''

Everett answered to Mirai. When stretching his back up, he asked us what we were doing here and not letting us answer he asked if we knew anything about the sword of the black Dragon? Me and Mirai looked at each other and with worried faces and getting angrier we answered.

''No !!''

''Okay, okay !! I was just asking, as I've heard that the crown prince is going crazy over it, they say he will stop all the entertainment business to find it.''

He said and inhaled more air, me and Mirai looked at each other again, and knowing Everett's weird habit of interrogation we answered again.

''We know nothing about it, now if you don't mind us, we need to get back home and get ready for work.''

Not that we don't trust Everett, but we just had no time for his stupid questions and ideas. When Everett took our bags from us to carry it, he escorted us home and while walking back we all were having a nice conversation. He told us that he'll be leaving for the military in a few days and that he's going to miss us.

Mirai and I were happy for him, because we knew how badly he wanted to be a soldier. His dad was a war hero, but he always looked down on his son. He thought that Everett would never reach his level, but Everett wanted to prove him wrong.

When we finally reached our house, he gave our bags back to us, hugged us and wished us good luck for tonight, then walked away.

When I finished putting my outfit on for tonight, Mirai walked into my room and stared at my white long silky skirt with the ends that almost looked like waves. My white short top that had a golden dust on the top, she complimented me again and helped me to put my bracelets on my arms.

She put three thick bracelets on my left arm and four thin ones on my wrist, she then put one very thick and long bracelet on my right arm and two little ones on my wrist. When she was putting my favourite red ruby on my forehead, she admired my make up and complimented my hair..

I tied my hair up today, just in case I would have to run out of that room quickly, so my hair won't get in my way.

Me and Mirai both walked downstairs and while kindly smiling, we wished good luck to each other and went to our performance rooms.

When I was setting up my candles and placing them in the right places, someone walked through the door and while wearing a dark blue mask with a creepy black sad smile on it, he sat on that chair that was left in the middle of the room.

While I was trying to turn Rindu on and started dancing, he quickly got up from his chair and with such a great speed hugged me from behind.

My body froze. It made me feel really uncomfortable. I wanted to shout Hesto to kick this man out, but when his face got closer to my ear, he whispered seductively.

''Long time no see, my little angel.''

''Axel !!! I shouted in my mind and got scared in an instant.

I felt how every single piece of the hair on my body was shivering in fear, my head felt straight pressure, my vision was going blank, all I could see was darkness.

I suddenly felt how his fingertips were touching my arm and slowly went down on my elbow, he pulled me closer to his body and slowly kissed my neck.

I was furious and speechless. My lips couldn't move and my tongue forgot how to make any sound. I've never felt more disgusted in my life, I wanted to throw up.

My body was in shock and my mind was not cooperating with me to tell him to stop. When his right hand started touching my naked belly he whispered again.

''You're all grown up now..''

His low sadistic voice was creeping me out.

He put his hand on my right thigh, while trying to squeeze, I then tried to push his body away from mine, and tears from my eyes began to pour on my cheeks.

''Pleeaaseee, Axell.. Please, don'tt ttouuch mee.''

I was stuttering in fear, while my body was still feeling frozen, it made me feel like I didn't know how to run anymore. I was just stupidly standing there and watching him remove his mask.

His dark brown, short hair was cut, his brown thick eyebrows were staring at me, his sharp , perfect jawline was moving when he spoke, his big lips looked scratched and his cheeks were drawn inside his face, it looked skinny.. He was handsome, but that sadistic and insane character made me hate him.

I was scared and terrified, knowing that if I make him angry right now, he will hit me.

''Pleaase, Axel leave.. Let me go for once. ''

I begged him in my shaking voice. He slowly came closer to me and while I was looking down and too scared to face him, he touched my hair and started smelling it. All of a sudden he tightened it and while grabbing my jaw forced me to look into his eyes.

''You don't miss your big brother?''

He asked slowly, yet his voice sounded raging.

The fierce look in his dark brown eyes was making me panic, I was frightened. At that moment I didn't know what he would do to me, when he grabbed my hair with force and pushed me to the floor, I fell on my back.

He bent on one knee and while I was putting my hand on my cheek he came closer to me and slapped me in the face.

I screamed and yelled, but no one was there to hear me. The music was so loud in every single room, that you would need some special powers to hear my crying voice.

''Shout all you want, no one's here to rescue !!''

Axel shouted back at me, then he pulled his belt out of his black military pants and started hitting me in the back with it.

It was so painful that I couldn't even move my body to run away, it felt sharp and stingy, my back was aching in pain, with every single hit my body was collapsing more and more. When somebody quickly entered the room, Axel stopped hitting me, but not even turning back to see who just entered the room, as if he already knew who it would be.

I slowly lifted my head to see what was happening and saw a tall black figure. I secretly hoped it was Hesto who came to save me. The man was wearing the same armour as Axel, his hair was shining and short black, his face had a perfect structure, and his nose was nicely shaped.

His black thick eyebrows were beautiful, his white skin was in perfect condition, his bright red eyes had a very fierce gaze, his shoulders were wide and his body was tall and very muscular, he was the most handsome person I have ever seen in my life..

''Oh you're finally here ! This is the woman we're going to have fun with tonight.''

Axel proudly said and while trying to look back through his shoulder, a strong and fierce punch flew into his face.

Axel fell down on the ground and his nose started to bleed immediately.

''Are you fu\0ing insane??'' He asked furiously, while trying to stop the bleeding with his fingers he pinched his nose.

This man who just punched him in the face ran closer to him and started kicking his lower abdomen. He lay down and grabbed him by the collar of his top and punched him in the face one more time. The man looked really strong, so I couldn't even imagine the pain Axel was feeling right now..

And again, and another punch, and again, when screams stopped coming out of Axel's mouth, he then released his hands off his body and started to walk towards me.

While I was laying on the ground covered in my messy hair, and with a swollen cheek on my face this man stopped by my body, and looked down on me with his fierce red eyes and out of fear I yelled.

''Please don't hit me ! I beg you, please !!''

I shouted while trying to cover my face with both of my hands. This mysterious man placed one of his arms around my back, and the other arm around the bend in my knees and nicely told me to place my arms around his shoulders. He slowly moved upward and started to lift his own body with his legs, he then pulled my body close to his, I felt like floating in the air, he then told me to relax and nestle in his arms..

''I'm so sorry I couldn't come and save you earlier.''

He said in a gentle and calm voice. I didn't know who this man's voice was, but the scent of his body felt familiar. I was finally feeling safe in his arms, it felt like he would protect me from anything and no one could hurt me right now. The feeling was peaceful, I fell asleep while he was carrying me in his arms.