Trapped With The Devil

Section 6

The historic day has arrived. Selena looked at her reflection in the mirror and sighed again. Occasionally, he stole a glance at Emilia who was sitting in a wedding dress and squeezed her hands together nervously. But what made him envious was the presence of two middle-aged women to the left of the woman's right. It was her mother Emilia and Lady William who tried to calm Emilia down before her core event began.

Selena threw her face away. It felt like he wanted to tear off the expensive dress that wrapped around his body and run as far away from this damn place as possible. It's just a tool. It means nothing here. Always was. It was always like that.

Selena almost cried as the door opened and displayed Eros coming in with a flat expression. The man's gaze immediately fell on her, commenting on Eros' fake smile saying, "are you ready, dear?"

Very good acting. If only they were just the two of them, Selena would have already darted into the bathroom and spewed out all of her entrails. Disgust!

Selena nodded softly, while Eros approached her and embraced her shoulders affectionately. "You're so pretty." His forehead was slowly crushed. And the surprised reaction could not be hidden from the three people in the corner of the room.

Realizing that Eros was staring at them with a conceited smile. Keep your head down for a while before leaving the room.

Madam Swan blinked slowly. "Actually who is that woman? I've never seen her with you" she told Mrs William.

The one asked only sighed softly while shaking his head. "I don't know either."

While Emilia was only speechless while bowing her head.

***

All was like a dream when Eros pinned a ring on one of his fingers. A ring with a simple look, but he could not imagine the price. The texture is very hard. And it seems to take a long time to destroy it.

Selena smiled bitterly. Why for this play Eros willingly made such a nice and expensive ring? Isn't that guy overreacting?

Throughout the event, the man smiled as if he really loved Selena. Kissing her lips softly made Selena almost forget herself. Almost forgot that the man had also broken his heart.

***

In the spring, a few years ago.

"*I can't possibly be truant..." Selena bit her lower lip while staring at the wall before her worriedly. "But it looks so high." He returned sighing. Coming to school after a visit to the hospital is risky, because Selena must find her school gate closed. But if his mother finds out that he's truant, she'll be disappointed.

"No." Selena nodded quickly. "It's not time to complain." He tiptoed to try to reach the end of the wall that was so contrasted with his height. But unfortunately, in several experiments, the girl still did not succeed.

"What are you doing?"

Selena squeaks. Hurriedly turned around and retreated as the young man with messy hair approached him.

"You mute?" ask him when he does not get an answer.

Selena nodded stiffly. "I-I.is trying to m-climb the wall."

The young man nodded. His stuttering tone was really very disturbing. "Why not just go home? With such a short body would only be a futile job."

Selena gulps. He knew the young man was in a class with him. And he also knew that the young man often arrived late, even occasionally caught sleeping on the roof of the school and missed some lessons.

That youth—Eros—decak. Talking to the girl was just a waste of her time. But seeing her appearance made Eros a little pity. Look at those messy clothes and those shabby shoes. How could anyone seem to be able to attend school in an elite place like this? Unless the girl has a watered-down brain and gets a scholarship. Yep. That just sounds reasonable.

Taking a deep breath, Eros crouched down before the girl and looked at her with a lazy expression. "Get on my back before I change my mind."

Selena gurgling. "But..."

"I won't say it twice. Hurry along!"

With a trembling body Selena held on to the wall and set her foot on both shoulders of Eros. Slowly the young man stood up, so that Selena could reach the end of the wall and climb it. After making sure Selena was safe, Eros only needed one jump to be able to climb the wall and pass through it at once.

"You can go down by yourself, right?" Eros looked up and patted both of his hands.

Although Selena was unsure, her head still nodded. "Umm, y-yeah."

"Good." Eros turned around while picking up his bag lying on the ground. Although he knew that the lesson might have begun, the young man still walked over casually.

Selena breathed a sigh of relief. He closed his eyes as he jumped down. Despite falling with a sitting position and his knees chafing, Selena remains grateful because today there is no need to ditch.

***

BRACKET!

"Are you Selena?"

In the afternoon. Near the deserted school shed Eros punched the wall behind him with a hostile expression.

"Take me, geeky!" The young man raised his chin violently. "Are you Selena?!"

Selena's body was shaking. Fearfully he nodded. Eros looks very different from the young man he saw a few months ago.

"You sent all those letters and chocolates?"

Again, Selena nodded. "S-actually.i-like you."

Eros rubbed his face and laughed lightly. "Like me? Rather than expressing love, it's better to make your appearance a little more attractive."

Selena's eyes are round. How could such words come out of his mouth? Was he that bad?

"Aren't you tired?" From the tone of his speech, it was Eros who sounded very tired. "Are you blind to see Emilia who's always beside me?"

Whatdoes thatmean?

Is that young man...

"Because of your actions, Emilia has been silent for the past few days."

Selena's eyes glazed over. Her tears could not be contained as she raised her head and looked at Eros who looked so wrathful.

"I love you, Eros."

"It's a pity that I only love Emilia."

And at that moment Selena knew that her love was clapping one hand. And it's possible that Eros has dated Emilia. Selena really does not know, because all this time the young man was only rumored to be good friends with Emilia because they both came from a conglomerate family.

Wait for...Selena is not a perfect girl like Emilia nor is she from a wealthy family like them. How could Eros be willing to glance at him for longer like the young man was staring at Emilia?

Why is he so stupid? Why was he overconfident just because the young man had helped him back then?

"Leo, bring that thing here."

Selena did not know that there were two other young men hiding behind the wall. Steve and Leo are two people who have always been next to Eros besides Emilia.

"It's not just you who's declaring love to me." Eros pulled her over so Selena could see Leo pull out the contents of Eros's bag filled with love letters from her. "Let me remind you, your feelings of love will only end in vain..."

Steve pulled out a match from his pants pocket, lit a fire and threw it right on the pile of love letters he wrote with all his soul.

"...like those papers."

The fire blazed and engulfed him in one blink of an eye. Everything disappeared, scorched to ashes. Not only his love letters but his heart. His body slumped to the ground with tears that did not stop flowing. Should he be treated like this just because of his appearance and status?

"Back him in the barn. Make sure no one sees this."

Selena's body was dragged by force. He could only cry because he could not fight the two young men who gripped each side of his arm. Then the barn door closed quickly before Selena could get up. He screamed and cried for help. But no one heard it.

Until the next morning, when a student happened to open the barn door to pick something up, Selena hurriedly came out with a limped step. Not caring about the gazes of the people due to her shabby clothes, Selena left the school. Remembering his mother who was being treated in the hospital.

But the world never took her side. Arriving at the hospital, Selena even found her mother's body that had been stretched stiff. Hugging the lifeless body of her mother, the girl cried, roared. From that day on he promised never to forgive Eros in his entire life*.