Pharaoh

Evil Beauty.

He quickly snapped out of his thoughts and responded with a nod before making his way to a couch. As he sat, his eyes were fixated on the TV as if trying hard to understand what was being shown, which was a Chinese vibrator commercial.

Pandora noticed this and giggled at him but when he turned to look at her, he sobered up. He scoffed and turned back to "focus" on the TV.

"Uhh so, you understand Chinese ?" Pandora asked nervously.

"Yeah. Yeahh I do" He answered.

"Can you uh.. help me translate? If you don't mind" She was playing with him.

"Uhh yeah. There's a vibrator, and woman holding it and smiling. And uh, she's giving it a thumbs up which means it's good" He replied.

Pandora giggled once again. "I didn't ask about the summary of the commercial, I meant you translate the writings".

Ramses just glared at her, clearly frustrated as she looked back at him for an answer. He just let out a sigh and requested for the remote. Once he had it in hand, he changed the channel and lay on the couch.

His attention was no more on the television, as he looked up to the star ceiling. Damn he wanted her. He wanted her so much. And her dress was making it even harder to resist.

She had a short, rather skimpy red nightdress on. She obviously wore nothing else underneat and it only made it more seductive in his eyes.

"Jezebel's here looking even hotter than she was when she shattered your soul. Don't give her the chance." A voice whispered in his head.

"She's here to make things up to you. Can you be kind to at least give a listening ear?" Another voice whispered.

He looked over his shoulder with the side of his eye to see an obviously remorseful Pandora staring at him and rubbing her thumbs together.

And as time passed, they peered into each others eyes. In search of answers, in search of questions, in search of the unspeakable.

"Hi?" He said, breaking the awkward silence.

"Hi" She responded in a dry tone.

"Wanna see something cool?" He asked.

"Huh?" She reacted puzzled.

"Do you want to see something cool?" He repeated counting his words.

"Okay". She said simply & stood up.

Leading, he led her through the passages to a large glass double door. The inside seemed to have a blue glow that dimmed & brightened slowly. Grasping on the silver door handles, Ramses flung open the doors. As he did, the light brightened blindingly into her eyes, but when they dimmed, her breath was taken away.

As the doors swung open, Pandora's eyes were met with one of the most beautiful sights she had ever seen. It was a courtyard, but not an ordinary courtyard. The walls were all black and had tiny silver borises placed in them, at the edges of each boris were round glasses which seemed to hold them in place.

The room slowly glowed and when she looked up, she was in absolute awe. As much as it was a courtyard and was supposed to have no roof over it, this one had what she thought was a glass roof placed horizontally over it. The edges of the glass glowed a dark blue tone, and as it did, little star-like lights lit up in the glass, each time revealing different constellations.

At the edges of the courtyard were flowers and clay vases.

And at the middle of all these was a grand swimming pool. It shone like auroras in the sky, it didn't even look like a pool. Maybe a portal to another dimension... or to hell she thought.

While she was trying to convince herself of what it was, she heard a loud splash. Startled, she turned around and Ramses was gone.

"Wanna swim?" Came Ramses's voice.

She looked over to the pool and there he was. Half submerged in the porta... I mean pool.

"You know I can't swim Ramses" She responded.

"I don't know anything about you. At least not anymore". He spoke nonchalantly but it still held some hints of emotion.

She was silent to his reply and simply stared at him. She heaved a deep sigh, and in the blink of an eye, she was in the water. She was floating and all seemed to be going well, till she felt a force pulling her down into the water.

Try as she could to get away, but to no avail. She couldn't even paddle.

She looked over to an emotionless looking Ramses, his arms spread on the edge of the pool.

"Help! Ramses!! Help me! Helppp!! Please!" She screamed and struggled.

With each scream came a mouthful of water choking her and weighing her down. She looked at him and he didn't even flinch. With tears in her eyes, she felt numb to everything and eventually blacked out.