Loving the Dead

Chapter XI- Just a Few Days

"You remember!" Adelina gasped. Her face broke out into a grin.

"No, it just came to me, I am sorry." And the grin fell off her face, although she tried to hide her disappointment with a tight-lipped smile.

We all spend some time together. Everyone kept asking me how my life was, what I did, and everything else. We intentionally didn't speak of Angelo. To make things more awkward than they already were, Czar asked me if I had a boyfriend. Everyone was visibly tensed. I had no problem sharing my personal life, but the way Hades was looking at me made me falter. When I informed them that I had none, Hades let out a grin. Rather a grin that said, 'good girl'.

I had no intention of poking the bear, but I wanted to put him in place. It's not like he is the reason I had no boyfriend, "Although...." the smile vanished from his face, and I inwardly high-fived myself for bringing out the reaction I wanted.

"I do have a girlfriend.... whom I do not intend on leaving." I continued all the while not breaking eye contact with Hades.

An awkward silence prevailed. I, with a smug look on my face, and Hades with a glare, none of us were willing to submit. The tension was broken by loud laughter from Ryker and Oscar.

"She's so out of your reign now.." Ryker said while trying to catch his breath. Everyone except for Hades had a smile on their faces.

Adelina took my hands and smiled bashfully at me.

"You have no idea how much I have missed you, it has been so long, Nyx," Adelina said. The relaxed smiles were wiped from their faces, replaced by a gloomy look.

"It's been just a few days...I mean you guys were unconscious for all these years, and you have woken up for just a few days, so to be honest, you have not seen me only for a few days." I said, diffusing the sadness. Although I have no memory of my own with them, I feel so at ease with them.

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Hades and I left after a few hours. I told him to drop me off a bit far from my house. I don't want them to think I am with Angelo. But Hades, being Hades, had to take it another way.

"Why, you don't want your girlfriend to know about me? Or wait you don't want your parents to not know about me?" He said, while glaring at me.

"Okay, first off, I didn't want anyone to think I was roaming around with Angelo, and also Angelo could see me with you and harm my family. And secondly, you are no one to me that I will introduce you to my parents.' Saying so, I left the car and walked towards my home. I saw the hurt in his eyes, but what's true is true.

I don't know him, he was partnered with someone whose memories I have. I have nothing to do with him. Just because some woman says we are some chosen s**t of each other, doesn't make him my boyfriend automatically. And if the visions are any proof, then he was terrible to my past self. My past self might be spineless and love him irrespective of his f****d-up behavior, but I am not.

And at the end of the day, I don't think he has had a drastic personality change in just a few days.

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