Babysitting the Fire Priestess

Chapter 7

I let out a loud sighed.

"Ssh, keep quiet" she said while busy picking the doorknob in her late mother’s room.

She got her hairpin inside the keyhole. She said she doesn’t have the key to that room and she doesn’t want to ask her dad about it. He might suspect that we’re up for something.

The sun is almost rising and we don’t even have a wink of sleep.

"There! Finally" she said when she finally opened the door. We immediately went inside and closed it.  

The old room smelled musky and there were a lot of dust and cobwebs. It seems that this room was locked for such a long time.

"Dad locked this room without any intention to open it again" she whispered.

"Yes, obviously" I said.

I looked around and saw a huge vanity mirror with a lot of rust around it, a big cabinet and an old grand piano.

Mandy’s gaze landed on that old piano.

"W-we used to play piano together when I was a kid” she said.

I can’t see her face. Her back was at me but she sounded sad.

"What song?" I asked.

"Fur Elise, just the basic" she said.

She pressed down a key but it didn’t ping.

She turned to me and a small smile was playing on her lips.

"Oh well! Let's get back to business. Search the cabinet and I'll search the drawers in the vanity mirror" she commanded.

I nodded in response. It seems she’s trying to hide her sadness. I didn’t pry.

I opened the big cabinet and coughed from the dust that surrounded me. It’s completely empty.

"Negative" I told her.

She’s also busy checking the drawers in that old rusty vanity mirror.

"Also negative" she said, pouting.

As if on cue, we both looked at the old piano.

She came closer to it and ping some of the keys.

Some keys were still pinging.

"Open the back part of this piano” she said to me.

I did as she told me.

It’s also really dusty and again, I can’t help but coughed.

"Sssh" she said.

"It's so dusty in here" I protested.

She came closer and looked at the back portion of the piano.

"There!" she quickly said while pointing to a square thing that’s been twisted around the piano strings.

I leaned forward and reached it.

Some of the strings ping when I got the square stuff.

It’s a red box.

We both looked at each other, confused.

"I think we found it" she said.

She quickly snatched the red box from my hands and opened it. Inside the box is a red notebook. The cover is red velvet from front to back. She then opened it.

"Diary of Celestine Ashitara" she read the first page of the notebook.

She looked at me and she smiled sweetly. Like real sweet.

"We found it" she said and I can’t help but smile too.

I woke up with a jolt. Disoriented and confused, all I can hear and feel was a phone buzzing underneath me.

I searched for my phone that’s still vibrating. It's 3pm already and Mandy is calling me. I sat upright.

"Hello?" I said.

"Where the f**k are you? Don't tell me you are jerking off on your sheets or are you f*****g someone right now?" she asked me angrily.

I am speechless.

I don’t know how to answer that kind of question. Her vulgarity always caught me off guard. I shake my head in amusement.

"What? No! I was asleep, sorry" I said to her.

"Meet me here in the mansion, we need to plan. ASAP" she said and cut me off.

Unbelievable!

She didn’t even wait for my answer.

I quickly got off from the bed.

I came home 5 in the morning after we found her mom’s diary.

I should be awake at 2 in the afternoon, I guess I overslept.

I grabbed some brunch, a cereal, coffee and a pancake.

I’m living alone in a studio type apartment.

One of the benefits of living alone is that you can be butt naked everywhere in the house.

So here I am, wearing only my briefs, eating my cereals and pancake, drinking my coffee while watching TV.

I’m not the type of guy who liked bringing different girls just for s*x.

I don't do casual s*x.

I only slept with my previous girlfriends.

Mandy's accusation was really off the cliff.

A uniformed maid greeted me when I arrived at Mandy’s mansion. Mr. Christian Sevilla will not be around the house for a couple of days. He did not tell me where he was going away. The maid handed me a sticky note.

MEET ME AT THE LIBRARY. NOW!

That’s the only thing written on the note so I quickly shuffled towards the library.

I knocked 3 times.

"Come in you asshole!" Mandy shouted from inside the room.

I rolled my eyes before I opened the door.

"You're 2 hours late. How was the f*****g?" she asked me when I went inside the room.

Her arms were crossed against her chest and she was sitting on her father's executive chair like a boss.

"I did not f**k anyone for your information. I don't do casual s*x" I told her.

She raised an eyebrow at me before speaking.

"O-kay...so how was the jerking instead?" she asked me while smirking.

Unbelievable!

I cannot stop myself from rolling my eyes.

"I did not. Please, just stop these awkward questions" I told her.

"These questions are awkward to you? p***y" she said.

Before I can even protest she continued talking.

"Anyways, I have read the first five pages of my mom’s diary. She just talked about how her life as a Yakuza princess. The diary started when she eloped with my dad. How she hid her secrets from him, how did they get here and when daddy proposed to her. No relevant information yet" she said.

"Can you just please skip pages so that we can find some relevant information?" I asked.

"No, that cannot be. I want to read every pages of it so that I can have a thorough understanding of her point of view. We’ll get there, eventually” she said.

"But you said we need to have a plan" I said.

She stared at me.

"Yes, we do. We need to plan for my birthday party. Tomorrow" she said with her best poker face.

I raised my eyebrows.

"Oh!" I exclaimed, surprised.