Sold?

•Nora

I followed Caesar as he lead the way to a warehouse.

"You know you're far too quiet for your own good but nah you will always keep your mouth shut. I mean come on man talk a little bit, I mean why not? Isn't it frustrating not talking? Don't tell me you have demons you talk to. Well I have demons too, you know, inner demons. Everyone has them. I think. But whatever I have them, love them honestly." I saw him sigh, "Hey why are you sighing? Are you thinking I talk too much but let me tell you this isn't even the start, I can talk so much that if you stay with me you'll want to rip your ears out but let me tell you one thing it won't work because just ripping your ears won't help you would still hear everything I say you'll hear what everyone says you'll have to rip out all the internal organs too to not listen to me but the point is can you do? Of course you can't so the simplest solution would be to just let me go or you can throw me out too I really don't mind."

He stopped and I crashed into his back, "Hey! Why'd you stop suddenly? Do you finally wanna throw me out?"

He raised his sword, "We're here." He pointed at the warehouse.

How is it he still doesn't want to get rid of me? I've been eating his ears ever since we started going out for some work but he just quietly listens to everything.

"So, what are we here for?"

"Money."

"We're getting back the cash someone owns us?" He nodded, "How much?"

"10,000"

"Wow. We should definitely get that back. Come on!" I gestured him to follow me and he just shook his head at me and followed along.

I opened the big door like I owned the place. All the people looked at me.

"Where's my money bitches!!" I yelled, "Return the 10,000 dollars you owe the Alucards!"

Four men stood up from their seats and began to walk towards me, "Who are you girl?" One of them said.

"I-uh- I'm a new recruit obviously."

"Don't lie now. A new recruit and they send you alone?"

Alone?

I turned around and saw that there was no one behind me.

Fuck

I turned to face them again, "So what? I'm here to claim what you didn't return!" The men stood in front of me with their arms folded. I gulped, " Would you please kindly return it?" I smiled.

That bastard Caesar!

"No." One of them replied, "Get outta here missy."

"Umm, No?" I showed them my awkward toothy smile, "Fight me?"

***

I sat outside on a footpath with a bruised bleeding lip and a purple eye along with few scratches here and there. My shirt ripped a bit from my collar and knees scraped.

Footsteps approached me but I didn't bother looking at the person standing by my side.

Caesar sat down by my side and I glared at him. He just looked back at me innocently.

"What!?" I yelled at him and he pointed at my injuries, "Isn't that your fault!!? Why did you leave me?!!" My eyes landed on the case he had in his hands. I scoffed, "Ah~! So you got the money back. Nice~ I was a good distraction wasn't I? So what did you go straight to the owner?! Leaving me behind to those barbaric men? You got no shame do you? I mean I don't really have any either but you- wow." I clapped my hands, "It didn't occur to you, not even once that something could happen to me?! Huh?" I poked his shoulder, "HUH!" I poked him again, "HUH!!??"

He moved away from me, "I trained you well."

"..." What's wrong with him? He's looking at me with those big eyes of purity? Did he really think nothing would happen to me? Is he sure of himself or me?

I did beat the four but of course I got injured too and was finally kicked out when the rest came in.

He stood up to leave but I didn't follow.

"Let's go."

"Hmph!" I folded my arms and looked the other way.

There was a few minutes of silence then. Anyone would assume he had left because of the silence but I could see his shadow. He tilted his head from side to side thinking about something.

"You're mad?"

I turned to face him with an expression of disbelief, "WOW! You couldn't even tell that?"

"..." He just blinked at me in confusion. "Let's go?"

I rolled my eyes at him, then stood up, "Buy me food." I started walking, "When you make someone mad you should compensate right?" I asked him and after thinking for a while he nodded his head, "Then buy me food. I need to eat something to recover from these injuries I got BECAUSE of YOU." I stepped closer to him, leaving little space between us I looked into his eyes that looked so dark even in the sun, "You will right?"

He observed me, my face, my expressions then slowly nodded his head.

Oh yea~!

These injuries were worth it.

***

I arrived back in my room satisfied as hell.

Ah~ Food is the best~ Especially when someone else buys.

Caesar maybe hard to take down in combat but he listens so well~

I flopped on the bed to relax when the door burst open making me sit up immediately.

"Lea?" I stood up to walk over to her. She seemed sort of scared. "Hey, Is something wrong?" She sat down on the floor at the end of the corridor. I did the same.

"Nora, I'm done for." She looked at me desperately, "Let's run away."

"Huh? Run away?'

"YES! Let's just run away."

"What happened?" I stared at her stress filled face.

"Arius decided to make me his personal guard."

"What? Why would he need a personal guard?"

"He doesn't! He's just found a new doll to play with!" I felt her trembling body as I hugged her.

Run away?

But how?

"Azalea... How? The security is too tight. His men are always here."

"I don't know..."

I understand why she's so scared, Arius is too difficult to even understand. To deal with him everyday and all the time would be horrendous.

It may be bad of me to think like this but I'm so glad I got paired up with Caesar.

"Lea, Just yesterday you told me he might not be so bad."

"Hmmm."

"Well-" I sighed, "Want some medicine to calm down?" She nodded her head and I stood up to get some pills I borrowed from one of the maids a little while back.

Azalea is probably more nervous because she never had to face such a scary person before in her life.

Well, I guess neither of us had to.

I got the medicine from the cabinet and turned around to go to her but she had already fallen asleep.

I sighed.

Oh well, I guess this is better.

I took her to bed and sat beside her wondering about things.

Running away is too difficult. We don't even know how long this collar has the range of.

But then again are we going to just stay here?