Chapter 19
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While at the restaurant they are eating breakfast. It was suggested that they attend church before returning to work.
"There a church near the resort?" the gay manager asked Lixue.
"It takes an hour to go to church," Lixue answered as she turned her gaze to the gay manager.
"One hour? What time is the afternoon mass at the church?" the gay manager asked Lixue.
"Four o'clock in the afternoon often, and in other churches the mass is at five o'clock," Lixue said as she finished the food in front of her.
"That's okay, I'll alarm at three thirty so we can get ready before going to church tell our driver where the church is, We'll just be in the same car so we don't have to wait." the gay manager immediately answered everyone.
After eating they started the photoshoot.
"You go first, Erika." the gay manager called her model.
Lean over there, Erika, and your face is a little annoyed because you saw something bad." the photographer instructed.
Erika nodded and the make-up artist fixed her.
"You are good at posing different angles of your face." the photographer said.
Erika's make-up was reduced to her face. She smiles at the modesty of their photographer.
Then Erika was fired along with another model who was photographed. Hyo invited her cousin to go for a walk while their photographer hadn't called her yet.
"Darling, are you with us?" Erika asked her boyfriend beside Lixue.
"Sure, because I can't come to the church, Leatrice and I have something important to do that Papa we are being asked to do something–Leatrice, text me when they're going to find me or Hyo," Shuji said to Lixue.
"Oh? All right, Shuji." Lixue replied, she just smiled at the two cousins who were looking at her.
Couldn't understand why Erika felt so different from her chest.
"What are you going to do? Darling, you can't go to church with me." Erika asked her boyfriend with her arm all over his hand.
"We don't know either, but what Papa said can't be told to others, not even to you," Shuji replied to his girlfriend even if he wanted to say he couldn't because he didn't want her to get hurt.
"Honestly, for me, your father doesn't like me even though we've been in a relationship for two years, he only treats me civilly." Erika bluntly said to her boyfriend, and she moved away a little.
"Papa is really like that, except for Leatrice, he's taking care of her because he hasn't seen her in a long time," Shuji replied to his girlfriend.
On the other side, Akatsuki and Lixue posed for their photoshoot and waited for their friends.
"You're next, Akatsuki." the gay manager called Akatsuki.
"Like you, they are also good at posturing." the photographer approaches to other models.
The photographer told everyone they had moved to another place, he saw a yacht and he asked the person standing there if he could use the yacht.
"Sure, you said just a moment." the person answered as they talked.
They are back on the beach Lixue feels back pain when she and Akatsuki talk.
"Are you okay? Does something hurt you?" Akatsuki asked Lixue.
"Yeah, maybe I'm just tired," Lixue replied that she didn't understand why her wings wanted to come out from her back.
Lixue used her powers secretly to talk to her father.
"Dad, I need you, want to get out of my wings without knowing, why?" Lixue whispered in her mind that she had used power.
"Where are you? Stay away from your fellow models." Jiang answered in his daughter's mind.
"No, they curious why, what should I do?" Lixue asked her father.
"Does it hurt that much?" Jiang asked his daughter as they talked in their minds.
"Daddy!" Lixue cried, she couldn't control her wings coming out.
"I will make the pain you feel go away, but we can't stop this from coming out, even though I didn't know it had happened to me before," Jiang replied seriously to his daughter in his mind that he felt sorry for what she was going through now.
"They'll see my wings, dad," Lixue replied to her father.
"I'll use a power to make them think it's just magic that you'll suddenly have wings," Jiang replied to his daughter.
Lixue invited Akatsuki because she couldn't take the pain she was feeling in her back anymore. Everyone was surprised to see wings appear on Lixue's back.
"What—what—happened to you—" Akatsuki asked Lixue in shock.
Shuji, Hyo, and Erika are going back to the beach. The three of them were surprised when they saw Lixue's appearance.
"Ahhh!" Lixue shouted as her wings finally came out of her back.
"Leatrice? What's that wings on your back?" the gay manager asked.
Lixue didn't speak, she looked away and looked at Shuji who also looked surprised.
"You're going to have a surprise, Leatrice for the photoshoot." the photographer answered Lixue.
"It's good for you, Leatrice, you're like an angel." the gay manager replied happily as Lixue tried to smile.
"I'll take you the picture, Leatrice." the photographer approached.
Lixue didn't smile, everyone saw it and Shuji couldn't understand why he should hug Leatrice. Lixue immediately stood up after taking her picture, Akatsuki was about to follow her when Lixue shook her head.
"I will just go somewhere." Lixue/Leatrice said seriously to Akatsuki before she left and entered the resort.
Shuji was about to leave when he followed Lixue when his girlfriend held his arms.
"Where are you going? The photoshoot isn't over yet." Erika said to her boyfriend.
"Yes, brother." Hyo approach.
Akatsuki tapped his friend on the shoulder and he shook his head. The photographer called Shuji and he didn't say a word.
"Where is Leatrice? She never came back, she still looks beautiful." the photographer said to them.
"Must be embarrassed, sir." the model meets the photographer.
Shuji says goodbye and that there will be dinner at Leatrice's family's house. The gay manager just nodded as his girlfriend held Shuji's hand again.
On the other hand, Lixue returned to the back of the resort and flew upwards. She does what the people she left on the beach do.
"Leatrice, where have you been?" Shuji shouted when he got home.
"She's outside, sir, she's not here." the woman in black approached.
"Is it true what we saw in her earlier?" Shuji asked the girl in black.
"If what you saw is true for you and if what you saw is not true, feel it because only your heart knows the truth." the woman in black answered and pointed to the side of his heart.
Their companions were surprised because Shuji and Lixue did not return.
"Why?" Erika said to herself.
"Why?" Akatsuki asked also waiting for the return of his friend as well as Lixue.
Shuji went out of the resort again but not so that the colleagues he left behind could see her. He looked around to find Lixue and saw her sitting on the sand.
Lixue screamed as she felt someone hug her back.
"Who are you? Leatrice?" Shuji asked as Lixue struggled and removed her hand.
"We are not ordinary people–" Lixue said seriously, Shuji moved away because he was afraid of the aura he saw in Lixue.
Shuji knelt in front of Lixue when he saw that the wings were gone after she moved away from Shuji.
"Whatever you saw, forget it because you will only be afraid of me," Lixue answered Shuji seriously.
"I don't understand myself but I'm not afraid of what I saw, If it's true, just tell me the truth," Shuji said looking into Lixue's eyes.
"What do you want to know?" Lixue asked Shuji.
"Who are you? Does Papa know your true identity?" Shuji asked.
Lixue stared at Shuji before she spoke and told the truth that she had nothing to hide anymore.
"My family are our father's disciples, not including my daddy's second family—dad is an angel, me and my sister who died except my mommy but one of the father's chosen to be chosen, Shuji do you understand?—ninong Raiden is your Papa, he knows about us because he was chosen to be with dad on earth, I know you won't believe it because in your heart what you are seeing right now is not true." Lixue replied to Shuji.
"I don't really believe it but—when you mentioned that Papa knew about your true identity, I heard a crash and caught you on the floor—" Shuji said as he remembered something.
"I was flying outside when you caught me and I slipped when I landed haha...I hope you don't tell what you saw especially to your girlfriend and your close friends I will entrust everything to you." Lixue answered as she stood on the sand afterward.
"Because they will look at you differently, am I right? You immediately trust me because I'm Papa's son." Shuji answered as they both got closer.
"Yes, and they will not believe unless their hearts are true to what they show to others," Lixue replied to Shuji.
"Leatri–" Shuji was about to say when Lixue covered his mouth.
"My real name is Lixue Snow Chen, not Leatrice Snow Chen I use that name to protect my family from our enemy," Lixue replied, she looked at Shuji who was also surprised by what he found out.
"What else should I know?" Shuji asked, he couldn't believe what he knew.
"You are the person he chose to be chosen for the prophecy." Lixue seriously said as she was about to leave, holding Shuji's hand.
"What am I? Chosen—for what?" Shuji asked Lixue.
"I'm not in the place to say anything about the prophecy but someone will tell you—and about Aiya Gayag and his daddy, ninong Raiden and I found this out when I noticed that someone was following you I will continue to teach you martial arts because you know she threatened me," Lixue said to Shuji.
They went underground where they practiced martial arts and other weapons. When they were tired they both lay on the floor. Shuji still couldn't believe what he found out about Lixue's true self.
'I won't break the trust she gave me.' Shuji said in his mind as he looked at the closed eyes of Lixue.
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