After my dear uncle left I sat down to take it all in because for some reason when I saw Alex I felt as if I'd known him for a long time. Even though it was the first time in my life I'd ever seen him, he just seemed like someone I knew...have known...want to know.....agh I don't know but when I saw him for the first time, even though it was crazy and so not like me but I just wasted 20 minutes thinking about it and when the door opened in came a completely different Alex.
This time he had a very different vibe. He looked the same but something was different. It was like he had suddenly transformed from winter ice to summer heat wave. He had a lighter atmosphere around him and before I could ask him about the tour he took off his shirt. I was really shocked. I mean I didn't really take him to be that type of a guy and because he seemed so different I didn't question his act and went right into the bathroom.
The bathroom was gorgeous with a grand bathtub and a separate shower. There was another door in the bathroom and I didn't find out until after I got changed, while brushing my teeth Alex opened it. I thought to myself that that was it. I mean I get it that the dude was heartbroken and all but he should follow some rules like not coming into my bathroom wearing nothing but shorts. He slowly walked towards me and reached behind my back.
'HEY!' I objected
'Is there a problem?' he asked with a devilish smirk.
'Um yes there is' I replied trying to move his hand.
'What is it, does me being here bother you?' He asked as if he couldn't care less
'Look I don't care what you do seeing as this is also your room but you better keep 1metre distance from me' I yelled backing off.
'Why? Do I scare you?' He asked coming closer
I hesitated 'Nn-o!'I could tell that my hesitation amused him.
He walked even closer and mocked 'and here I thought you were your father's daughter but I guess I was wrong.' And here I had no reply to that jerk's words
He continued 'Guess after all the family trouble it does leave one defenseless and I also heard that you were abandon by your mother you poor thing' and he said that with no remorse what so ever. This time it pissed me off .Who was he to mock me. I grabbed by the neck and pushed him against the mirror.
I warned 'Look I'm not bringing up your dead girlfriend so you better watch it before talking about my dysfunctional family. You think you know my weakness well guess what I know yours'
I think for a second, just a second at the mention of his girlfriend he went back to his older well composed self. Suddenly expressionless and the atmosphere around him also went back to being winter ice and so did his vibe but he went back to being the heat wave.
He moved my hand from his neck. He was angry now. He picked my face up with his index finger and said with a quirky expression 'Look here I won't bother you with your so called father or your mother so don't ever bring her up again. You got that' letting my face go.
I made it clear 'If we are going to be roomies then there should be some ground rules'
He agreed 'there should.'
I went first 'You are not allowed to enter my bedroom without my permission'
He criticized 'your room and my room are connected and the only way I can enter my room is through yours so shouldn't it be the other way round'
I hated it but I knew he had a point but I still insisted 'I don't care if you enter my room you knock, you leave you knock got it'. He smirked and I took that for a yes.
I continued 'You are not allowed to undress in front of me and you will not talk about my family especially that women and last but not the least you will not tell anyone in the school that we're roomies. '.
He was irritated but he agreed anyway and now he was going to lay down his ground rules. His first rule was that I was not allowed to bring any guys in the room. Second, I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without him (it was on my uncle's orders so I would've followed it anyway) and 3rd I was not allowed to lock the door between our rooms when I slept. I found the last one stupid but I didn't have the time bother with it anymore so I agreed. And the suddenly when I was about to leave I remembered I had a favor to ask him.
'Hey I need a favor to ask you?' I asked very politely
'Well alright but you also have to do something for me; they say you can see a lot of things when they look into my eyes so would you clarify that for me' He implied with a little evil smile.
I didn't like the thought of it but I looked anyway.
Looking into his violet eyes it suddenly got dark and soon the darkness turned into a dark forest with nothing but the full moon to give light and in there I heard a scream and I think there was a dark figure beside the tree and I was about to put my hand on the figures shoulder when Alex blinked.
'That's enough!' He said turning back to his winter self.
I was in a daze 'but...'
He cut me off 'So what was the favor you waned?'
I spoke in a haze 'I want to know more about you. You know as in research on you'
He backed 'You can ask your father's permission' and kicked me out of the bathroom. We left the room for the tour 5 minutes after that.
I didn't really see where I was going but I was holding Alex's hand so I thought I'd be ok, somehow he made me feel safe. I was thinking that interacting with the devil Alex was easier then interacting with the winter Alex when we reached a train station. I got confused and looked at Alex for an answer as he was the only person I knew here except my uncle who was nowhere to be found. He gave me an assuring look saying he knew where he was taking me and soon we entered the train.
We took the window seats. We sat in both the corner seats. Soon a girl with honeycomb color hair came and sat beside me.
She asked smiling 'Hey my name's Jennifer Callum & yours?'
I answered 'I'm Alice, Alice Darkworth'
She smiled and informed 'hey! That's the same last name as the head director of the school; what a coincidence'
I agreed 'yeah!'
After talking to her for a while I was complaining about a school having a train when she said 'I wouldn't say that in front of him if I were you.' looking at Alex.
I asked laughing 'Why?'
She was shocked 'you don't know?!'
I got confused 'Don't know what?'
I turned to Alex 'What is she talking about?'
He was sleeping with his head down so he raised his and said 'You should talk to your father about that' and went back to sleeping
Jen asked surprised 'You know him? You know Alexander Phantom?!'
I was confused yet again 'Why, is that a big deal?'
Jen didn't believe what I had just said that Alexander Phantom wasn't a big deal. She gave me a look of disbelief 'Big deal? BIG DEAL!?! He's not only the chairman of the school he's also the coolest guy in school & excels in everything he does!!!!!' And she rambled on and on about how great Alex was till she still didn't know how I knew Alex 'So how do you know him?'
I was hesitated to answer because I didn't want her to find out that we were roomies when Alex's voice came out 'Our families are close'
Jen looked at me to see if it were true & I assured her it was. To my greatest surprise I was saved by Alexander Phantom that day.
Half way through the tour we reached the dining hall where we crossed a huge door which was the only room in the school that was off limits when Alex grabbed my hand and pulled my away from the group. That was the return of devil Alex. He pulled me into that room.
'You waned to know about me right?' He asked letting go of my hand.
'Yes' I answered confuse why he brought me here.
'Well then let's start with my family. He suggested looking at an old painting of a stormy night hanging over a fireplace.
I took his suggestion 'ok'.
He's eyes were locked on the painting as if he were there 'Do you know the story of the Phantoms?' He asked still lost somewhere in that painting.
'No' I answered staring at that painting. I don't know why but that painting had a very sad feeling as if it was drown at a very tragic time.
He began still lost in the painting 'This story's been passed down from generation to generation. We the Phantoms descended from the first Phantom'
I asked 'What's so new about that?'
I think he didn't hear my question so he continued in his own pace 'Do you know what Phantom's are?' He asked me for the first time looking away from the picture at me.
'Yes, they're a sort of monster right?' I asked expecting an answer
He turned back to his painting and continued 'Yes, they're beings which can disintegrate in to thin air. They were one of god's strongest creations; they could disappear and reappear in a heartbeat. They could travel the world fifty times in the blink of an eye, each of them had the power to carry a continent with just one hand, they could read a person's thoughts, change it and even alter it. They could change in to anyone anything according to their will. They feed on blood even though they didn't need to except the females, the elders and the Oracle in the clan who drank the blood from the male clan members .The females needed the blood for breeding, the elders for the powerful rituals they performed and the oracle needed the blood for connecting with the deities and for seeing the future. They could not be killed with a steak, a cross, flame or even silver; the only way for them to die was by the elders who released the soul from the body. Their bodies stopped ageing seventeen years after their birth. Their only flow was that they could not transform other humans and most of the members of the clan were male. There were very few females in the clan and only two or three of them could breed a child each ten thousand years so the clan was very small. There was a female Oracle born each thousand year and she was forbidden to fall in love with a phantom for it was disapproved by the fates and destiny itself and if she did her lover would be killed by the elders of the clan. There once was a Phantom who fell in love with the Oracle and she fell for him but their love was a tough one for at first the weak phantom had to resist the alluring smell of her blood. For phantoms this was normal when they fell in love their craving for their lover's blood increases to a point of insanity. But they controlled and got use to each other's smell yet their love was short lived for the elders had found out about them and the Oracle took her own life to save the phantom's and hearing that his beloved had taken her own life the phantom tried everything to kill himself and when he finally figured that it was only the elders who knew the ritual to take a Phantom's life he went to beg them to take his life and right before his soul was about to depart his body he heard one of the elders saying that the Oracle would reincarnate in a thousand years and that was when the devil himself offered the phantom to make a deal. The phantom agreed and for the power the devil would bestow on him the devil decided to merge both of their souls together and after the merger the devil too fell in love with the Oracle. Now the phantom knew who he had to go to for help .He went to the very first phantom who decided to start living as a human and left the clan. And when he did meet the most powerful phantom, the phantom asked for his help and the most powerful phantom after seeing the love for the Oracle in the phantoms eyes decided to help.' The whole time he spoke it seemed like he was in another universe, a place where time and space didn't matter anymore; he seemed sad and a little terrified as well.
I asked with a soft voice trying not disturb him 'Then what happened?'
Hearing my question he came out of his thoughts and smiling said 'Who knows?'
His story made me want to cry my heart out. It seemed very lonely. I was about to ask him to tell me more when my uncle came out of nowhere.
'What are you doing in here?' he sounded displeased
Alex grinned 'nothing just telling her the story of the phantoms'
Uncle looked disturbed by the idea 'You two should join back with the whole class before the tour ends'
Later at the end of the tour I found out that, the head director was none other than my dear Uncle Peter. I wanted some explanation but I knew better then to question my school head director in front of the whole school. So I quietly listened to his speech.
After dinner I went to my room to sleep. But it was surprisingly a stormy night. And as always I was having seizures. Usually my uncle would be there to calm me down but he wasn't there that day so with what sense I had left in me I sat in front of the window behind the curtains thinking that it would help if I knew when the thunder would strike but it didn't; instead it scared me even more .the sky seemed like the sky deity was mad at someone. I sat there looking at the sky quietly for a while I was shaking when Alex sat down beside me. He was his normal self and he put a blanket on me.
'I thought you probably fell asleep by now' I said still shaking. He put his arms around me but not in a bad way. I knew he did it to warm my body but his body was too cold to be of any help.
We sat there like that for a while till I broke the silence 'So what happened after that?' I asked.
He wasn't sure what I was talking about 'After what?'
I told him 'after the phantom went to the world's strongest phantom?'
Hearing my question he smiled for the first time. It was beautiful. It was like seeing the last snowfall of charismas. 'You're really interested in my family history aren't you?'
I couldn't smile even though I waned to 'No just the story of the oracle & the phantom'
He asked me very seriously 'Do you believe in it?'
I said 'I'm not really a believer but something about their story really appeals to me?'
He asked very curiously 'Like what?' it was as if he really waned to listen to me and not just so he could counsel me.
I answered his question without really knowing the answer myself 'I don't know maybe it the sadness or maybe it's the tragedy or maybe it's the kindness in the greatest Phantoms heart that really appeals to me'.
He asked very solemnly 'Does he remind you of your father and his kindness towards you in your darkest time?'
I agreed 'Maybe. I mean how many people are there who would adopt someone else's daughter and actually treat her like their own'.
'Right' He agreed with me genuinely and for the first time in my life I actually felt like talking to someone about my complicated life.
I asked 'Do you know the whole story behind my uncle becoming my father?'
His answer was negative 'No'.
'Do you want to know' I offered
He was very sincere 'Only if you want to tell me' it seemed he knew it was a sensitive topic and I didn't talk to a lot of people about it.
I started 'When I was about 9 years old my father passed away and because he meant the world to me my whole world shattered into a billion pieces. That woman who had given birth to me couldn't take the grief and went a bit psycho. She would beat me every day for two whole years and by then I had given up all hope that I'd ever be saved from her hands and it was then that my uncle came and adopted me. That woman, she didn't even care and now when she visits our house to greet grandpa she acts as if I was never a part of her life. My uncle on the other hand took me in nurtured me loved me & cared for me. He healed me. Before I met him I had started to stop believing in God. Although he's my legal father now I still prefer calling him uncle. Sometimes I do call him daddy even though it's very rare'. He listened to my whole story without making a single sound and by the end of it I was almost in tears.
He saw right through me 'You really loved your mother didn't you & I guess that's the reason you can't call your father in the proper way'
I couldn't take the fact that he called that woman my mother and my uncle father 'Don't call that women my mother and if you really have a problems calling my uncle by his last name or given name then please refer to him as my daddy not my father, my father is my birth father.'.
He didn't argue 'Ok'
I asked him with a lot of courage 'So what happed to your girlfriend?'
He sighed 'The fates sometimes let two people meet and fall in love only so that they can separate them'
I couldn't say anything else but 'Cruel fates'.
He agreed 'Cruel fates'
After that we just kept talking about things that made no sense what so ever like how hard death's job is and etc. We kept talking till I finally fell asleep in his arms. If it was some other guy then I'd probably feel uncomfortable but Alex made me feel safe. He seemed like the elder brother I never had, at the time I think that we could see a glimpse of the future of what was to come next at the time. Personally I think that we bonded a lot that day............
~END of Chapter 3~