CHAPTER 31

AMETHYST'S POV

I called Bella earlier at eight in the morning but she said she was still at work and I should just call her by 9:30 am.

And since it isalready 9:30 I will call hee. I just want to talk about her suggestion. Instead of being able to relax, It just foulage me.

I dialed her number and called it.

It just rang for a few seconds then she picked up the phone.

"Oh, what's wrong with you?" this was what she asked after she answered my call.

"You despise me!" I said this with wide eyes even though she couldn't see me.

"Huh? How? Where?" her voice was full of confusion.

"Your suggestion! It didn't help, then something bad happened!" I said here and pressed the pause button on the remote to pause what I was watching.

"I don't understand you. That candle didn't work for you?" In the way she speaked, I can already tell that she was making a face.


"It worked I guess. I think because of the flame of the candle, Aivan felt heated!"

"I really don't understand you. What did you buy?"

"Aphrodisiac candles." He burst out laughing at my answer.

"Hey! What's so funny?" I yelled at her because she laughed so much.

"Why? What's wrong?" I asked here and I could hear that she was having trouble in breathing because of laughing so much.

"Why did you buy that?" She couldn't stop laughing again.

"I'm being serious here! I'll hit you with ten-handed strength when we meet!" I really don't know the reason why she was laughing so much.

"Eh, because what you bought is really for boost! Then you will talked there and even said that Aivan felt heated!" she was still laughing as she spoke.

"What do you mean?" Now I'm the one who doesn't understand what's going on.

"Aphrodisiac candles are for s*xual drives, twin! It's for adding a heat effect! Especially for us women!" I covered my mouth at what she said. It has different effect so us girls? So, that's why I was turned on last night?!


"Come on, you haven't told me what should I buy!" I complain here.

"Hey, why didn't you ask?"

"I forgot! You should have preceded me!"

"Oh, why! Why am I the one to blame?" She couldn't stop from laughing.
My pout just got longer because of this.

"What you should have bought is Crate & Barrel. Calm Mood Candle. And not that aphrodisiac!" The silly burst out laughing again.

"It's also the fault of the crew at the store where I bought it from. That's what she taught me!" I just fell and leaned on the sofa.

"What did you ask anyway?"

"I asked what kind of candle is good for bed, before going to sleep to be exact. I think the lady misinterpreted me." My pout just got even longer because of this.

"Why didn't you do a search before you bought it?"

"I forgot,"

"What the freak? You're going to a fight unprepared? Tsk tsk tsk." I feel like she was even shaking her head now.

I just gasped.

"Wait, how are you? Did you already say it to him?" Bella said after a moment of silence.
I just immediately sit up because of this.

"Oh, well," I said while looking around and seeming to be looking for a miracle that I could find what I could say to her.


"First of all, where did the Mayon volcano explode last night?" I couldn't answer her additional question for a while.

I can't lie to Bella.

"Amethyst?!" I put my phone away from my ear for a moment because she just screamed.

"Yes! Yes! I can't say it yet! I have my reason." My snout grew longer again.

"Is there a sign that you're pregnant?"

"I think there is none," I said while looking at the upper left and remembering that I didn't feel any sign or that it happened to me.

"When is your next visit?" she just asked.

"Next week," I answered.

"Okay, okay. Watch if you will get delayed, huh?"

"Sometimes I'm really delayed, tho,"

"When there's still nothing after a week or two, then start getting nervous! Actually, even it just passed after one week, you should be suspicious already." I could feel that she was irritatedly scratching at first.

"Okay, okay, noted," I just said here.

"Oh, okay then, bye for now. I still have things to do so," she just said.

"Alright alright. Thanks!"

"No worries. Always be careful there,"

"You too, always be careful,"

"Alright see you soon, byeee and mwah!"

"See you soon! Mwah and bye for now!" She was the one who hang up the call.

I just slumped back on the sofa and continued what I was watching.


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Why do I'm feeling weird lately?

It's been almost two weeks since Bella and I last talked.

Then after a week I feel different.

When Aivan is not here, I am looking for him. But when he's here, I feel like I want to squeeze his neck or twist it.

Even he was getting confused by my actions but he can't hurt me anymore because every time he threatens me I will cry silently. After that, the crazy person will come out to left me first.

Like now, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, I asked him to find a green apple for me. There is none in the fridge. And yet I'm really curious about the taste of it. I also told him not to enter the room until he has the apple I'm asking.

My smile widened when I heard the door of this room open and Aivan entered. I moved from leaning against the headboard of the bed and sat up properly.


"Darn it, what's happening to you?" There was a trace of annoyance in his voice as he held out in his hand a plastic bag with three green apples inside.

I raised an eyebrow because of this question.

"Then why don't you just unfollow what I say." I quickly took the things he brought.

"The last time I didn't do what you want, you cried so loud as darn," he complained.

"Then you should just let me cry and crying or you should just have left me." I rolled my eyes before taking an apple and take a bite from it.

"It's annoying," he said in disgust.

"It's either me or you who will sleep in the living room," I just said here and took another bite of the apple.

"What?" His thick eyebrows met.

"I don't want to sleep next to you,"

"You can't do that! You can't decide where one of us should sleep!" I don't know and I just had tears in my eyes when he yelled at me.
Aivan saw that and all of a sudden his reaction seemed become he got nervous.

"Dang!" He came to me and then took two pillows.

His jaw clenched as his eyebrows met in annoyance.

He turned his back on me and then walked towards the door. But before he opened the door, I stopped him.

"Wait a minute!" He stopped turning the doorknob and then he looked at me from behind him.

"Do you want an apple? Because if you want it, just go ahead and buy one because I should have these three." He just shook his head at what I said before he left the room.



IT WAS ALREADY two o'clock in the morning but I still can't sleep.

I can't find my comfortable position or maybe I'm looking for something to make me comfortable?

I sighed before getting out of bed.
I removed the blanket from my body before standing on the edge of the bed.

I was just looking at the door while wondering if I would do what I was planning to do.

I sighed again and then I took the plastic from the bedside table that contained my mess from eating the apples earlier.

I went out the door and only a few steps away I saw Aivan sleeping on the sofa while wearing boxers only.

He's just lying down with a pillow on his chest and I can see his abs with the help of the night light.

His head is slightly tilted.

I passed by him and then I went to the kitchen to throw away my trash and also to drink water.

I also went to the bathroom because I felt my stomach was hurting.

When I came out of the bathroom, I approached Aivan.

I bent down to reach him and was about to pat his cheek but I stopped because of his face.

You wouldn't really think that this one was a brutal guy. Wait, is he really still brutal?

The light in the living room has been turned off and only the night light illuminates it, but that is far from Aivan's place.

Because of the light from the moon, I can see his face now.

His thick eyebrows with a perfect curve, his eyelashes that although his eyes were closed I can still see the thickness of it, also because of the moonlight so his aristocratic nose has different effect and even his red lips. I shook my head first to wake up.

"What am I thinking?" I said and then sighed softly.

"Aivan," I said to him while gently patting his cheek.

After a few taps, he opened his eyes.

He looked at me with his sleepy eyes and seemed to be waiting for what I had to say.

I scratched the back of my ear because I suddenly forgot what I was going to say to him because of his staring.

"G-go back in the room. You may now sleep there," I said to him while trying to avoid my gaze.
A just pinched myself lightly for stuttering.

"How about you?" My forehead furrowed because of what he asked.

After a while I got what he wanted to say.

"I'll probably be there too! Let's go!" I gently patted his arm first before I stood up and entered the room first.

When I entered the room, I quickly went up to the bed and lay down properly.

I immediately closed my eyes and feeling the entering of Aivan.

After a while I heard the door close--- I left it open when I entered.

I can also hear his footsteps until he climbs on the bed and lies next to me.

I was able to breathe easily when he was able to lie down next to me.

In just a few moments, I fell asleep.

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"When are you free?" I asked Aivan while we were eating breakfast.

"Why?" he asked me but he was focused on his phone.

"Although it's only a few days and our deal will be end." I couldn't stop the excitement in my voice when I said this.

"We don't have much grocery anymore, I don't know why I'm kinda eating so much lately," I added.

"Okay we'll buy later," he said causing me to looked at him.

"Huh? Why so fast, huh?" I said.

"Aren't you busy? Later on, you really have a lot to do," I said to him.

"I will cancel them," he replied.

"I will?!" What is he doing?

"That means, you're really going to do something later and you're just going to cancel them?!"

"I already decided,"

"Don't come with me. I will just have Rex and Toby with me, instead. I shouldn't have told you," I said before sipping my coffee.

"We will buy later," he said with such emphasis that I couldn't do anything but to roll my eyes.

After that, we had breakfast in silence.


While we were grocery shopping, I helped an old lady there who was having trouble in getting a cart.

She was even told me that I am beautiful, as well as my personality and I don't know but I felt shy.

But before we finally returned to the hotel, we passed a mango seller and I bought some.

I bought one kilo each of sour mangoes, ripe and really ripe mangoes.

While we were in the car I was already drooling over them but I just stopped myself.

And when we got back to the hotel, those were the things I immediately ate while watching anime.

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When I woke up I felt very heavy, like I had a fever which is weird because I was just strong last night.

Even though I didn't want to stand up, I forced myself and immediately ran into the bathroom and then threw up.

I think Aivan heard me nauseous so he approached me in the bathroom.

"Are you okay? What happened to you?" his voice shows concern but I can't look at him because my head is heavy.

He came closer to me.

"Do you want me to take you to the hospital?" I hit him because of what he said.

After a while I felt better.

"You are really an OA as in!" I said here before I gargle with water.

"Just a little bit of vomit then you will already take me to the hospital right away?" I said here as I shook my head after I finished my gargling.

His mouth was just closed while looking at me.

"Maybe the old lady that complimented me and has something like you know, it's a Filipino belief that if someone you don't know complimented you, especially the old ones or just someone who has this ability, you might get sick. Didn't I help an old lady yesterday? Or maybe I had just too much mango yesterday," I said to him and waved him off so I could leave the bathroom.

"Just buy me some paracetamol and I'll just get some rest. I'll be fine, too! You're reacting too much," I said, but instead of leaving the room, I returned to the bed and put a pillow on the bed's headboard.

"Okay fine," he said and quickly left.

I just closed my eyes while leaning on the headboard of the bed.



/W.W/