BEAST ACADEMY 2: LET THE QUEEN RISE

Fifteenth Chapter

Song! Turn on it! NOW! Somebody to you by Banners and Up by Olly Murs and Demi Lovato slowed down version.

Eveline's POV

Music.

Drinks.

Girls.

What can be better? Honestly, this is what makes me happy. Having a great time with my friends.

Ava wasn't so moody now, she was singing one of the countryside songs, Eleanor was dancing on the counter where Louis was watching her in amusement. Penelope and I were sitting at the round table and laughing at Ava's bad singing. I remember how I used to sing in the backyard of my house and play on the guitar...that my mom bought me on my fourteenth birthday. Dad didn't even know about her surprise and got mad because he bought me a sketchbook with a pink pen. I guess my mom was nailing all the present-making. She knew me so well...always thought about my interests and supported me in everything and tried to give me everything but did she know that she was my everything?

"Thank you, everyone!" I looked at the stage where Ava finished singing and I didn't even notice how she finished...my thoughts will get me to the grave someday.

"Your turn" I looked around and then noticed how Eleanor was smirking towards me. I coughed on my fifth cocktail and chuckled at her unfunny joke.

"Nah...of course, no" I replied and looked away from her fierce look but she wasn't joking at all. Eleanor jumped off from the counter and went to me pompously, making her short leather skirt go up a little bit and after that movement, we heard how mundanes whistled and cat-called. "Wow, babe, want to join us?" asked a dark-haired guy who drank beer with his friends who didn't look very pleasant. They are calling Eleanor just because they saw how beautiful she looks but do they know that she can kill all of them at once? Of course not.

Eleanor stopped and turned her head at perv making her horse-like hair whip the air, "You better shut up, babe. If you don't want me to break one of your body parts" she said so dangerously that...I honestly believed. "She is telling the truth, man! Her brother is in the infirmary" said Ava with assuring face. The guy didn't believe her at first but then Eleanor decided to...scare him off.

"Girls, let's show these dumbasses something scary" She eyed us and then smiled like a Cheshire cat. Penelope shrugged her shoulders not minding, Ava smiled and I rolled my eyes at this kindergarten. Alright then.

We came closer to Cooper before catching every guy's eyes and letting our eyes glow up.

"WHAT THE F**K?!" exclaimed the first guy who was looking at El.

"WITCHES!! THEY ARE WITCHES!" exclaimed the red-head whom I showed my purple eyes.

"Oh! Don't you compare me to this b****s! I am not one of them!" I yelled annoyingly at him and looked away and the girls did the same. After that, nobody dared to call us or even come near.

"Great job, ladies" murmured Tomlinson, and Eleanor flew him a kiss making Tomlinson catch it and put it to his heart.

"Aww! Tommo!" I clutched my heart and melted on the place but Eleanor just looked away with the same arrogant expression.

"Your turn, Evie" f**k I thought she got distracted and forgot but! No freaking way!

"Go!" chirped Ava with Penelope, "Yeah! Go! Go! Eveline!" all people in the bar began calling for me and this gave me anxiety...

"Eve-line! Eve-line!"

"Okay! Okay!" I stood up and fixed my bun and dark blue jacket after what, going to the small stage where was a screen for karaoke and microphone on the stand.

"WOOOO!" cheered Eleanor but after my glare, she began laughing.

I came before the microphone and took it in my hands...What shall I sing???

I thought for a moment and then in that exact moment, I saw how the boys entered the bar. Bern, Lark, Levi, Nathaniel, and Reece.

My breath hitched in my throat when I met with Reece's green eyes that glowed in the dark. I didn't hear them but I saw how they smiled and talked with each other after seeing me on the stage.

Not the right time...

Girls soon saw them too and now they were sitting all on the one big table except for Ava and Levi who went outside to talk. I hope Levi will apologize properly before her.

Eleanor was laughing with Lark, Bern was looking in anticipation for me as well as Pens and Nathaniel with bored expressions and only his grace looked at me with his small smile playing on his thin lips, and even from here, I could see his dimples. Sandy-hair was in a slight mess but unusually he was in black jeans and a blue shirt with a black coat that he put on the back of his chair.

I decided to sing something close to me...I wanted to show my emotions and tell what I can't tell to a person who watched me for the first time and maybe for the last time.

"Can you turn on a song 'Someone to you' by Ba--"

"Banners! Yeah, baby!" exclaimed in ecstasy a guy who controlled the technics.

I waited for the music and then when heard the first accords focused on the lyric. The 'DJ' showed me thumbs-up and I started singing the first verse, feeling sights.

"I don't wanna die or fade away"

"I just wanna be someone...I just wanna be someone."

"Dive and disappear without a trace"

"I just wanna be someone"

"Well, doesn't everyone?" I looked at my friends who clapped their hands in sync with the melody and this made me confident...I wanted to sing for the first time in front of everyone... "And if you feel the great dividing, I wanna be the one you're guiding"

"Cause I believe that you could lead the wa-a-ay" and then I put my microphone back before pulling it to myself, "I just wanna be somebody to someone, oh, I wanna be somebody to someone, oh. I never had nobody, no road back home. I just wanna be somebody to someone!" the music began getting faster and I was now singing energetic and people in the bar stood up. Some were jumping, singing with me, or dancing with their partners for example Bern and Lark who just played around.

"And if the sun's upset and the sky goes cold"

"Than if the clouds get heavy and start to fall"

"I really need somebody to call my own!" I looked at the person to whom...I was singing from the heart?

"I wanna be somebody to someone!"

"Someone to you..." I didn't notice how my eyes were not leaving his. The song was going on and on and the lyrics were like for him...I was singing for him...and he felt that.

"Someone to you-u"

"I don't even need to change the world"

"I will make the moon just shine for your view"

"I will make the starlight circle the room!" I was swaying my body while singing and I saw how now a wide smile showed on his face and this gave me the motivation to keep going.

"I wanna be the one you calling! Cause I believe that you could lead the way!"

I didn't know how it was amazing to sing on the stage...people were having a great time and they enjoyed my song. They enjoyed watching me and most important is...I was happy to confess my feelings to the person who meant something to me. I screwed all the proprieties and just forgot how it is to be miserable and heartbroken.

I enjoyed the time. This was the only thing that was important.

When the song ended, people and my friends applauded and whistled...even that guys who were scared of us.

I went down and now only soft usual bar music was playing. I smiled as I came near the table.

Listen to the song "Feel Good" by Gryffin & Illenium ft. Daya

"Here comes the popstar" called Bern making me laugh and blush. I hugged him and sat near him, eyeing everyone except for the lord who gave me shivers...I felt his look on me and this made me bite my lip multiple times.

We began chatting and drinking. Nobody was mad anymore. Lark laughed as Eleanor told a story about how scared perv guys are. Bern was listening too and Penelope talked with Nathaniel about something but they did have a good time because each time Nathan said something, she smiled widely.

I pretended that I looked at the cocktail but I was looking at Reece who obviously knew...because he was looking at me from the side too, pretending that he was listening to Ellie.

"Reece, can you check my car please?" asked a blue-haired guy quite unexpectedly making me look away.

"Uhm...now?" asked annoyingly his grace.

"Yep, now" Bern threw Reece his keys and winked at him. When Reece was outside, Elsher looked at me and licked his lips, smirking.

"What?" I asked chuckling at his weird expression.

"Go after him." I didn't believe his words at first but then he repeated, "I know you want to. Go, Cam. Go! Or you want me to give you both a company?" I stood up instantly and he nodded, "That's what I thought" he chuckled and turned back at the friends, distracting them as I slipped outside.

How I love this blue-hair guy!

It was cold late evening and I saw a grey Porsche a few meters away and a young Lord who was standing near it. I slowly went to him and called him as I came near. "Hey" muttered I and looked at his damn hot appearance in this setting. Autumn weather, alley of bars and barber shops, trees with decorations on them.

"Hello" he replied making his dimples flicker a little. I stumbled on the place not because it was awkward, I was scared to ruin this peaceful, comfortable silence in presence of this dreamy guy.

"You was great on the stage" he complimented with a proud voice and I looked away to a tree just not facing his astonishing eyes in what I can see sincere and love towards me...I don't want to see this unless I want my death.

"Thank you" I looked up at the sandy-haired before he slowly walked towards me.

"So?" I questioned making him rose his eyebrow.

"How did you come here?" I tried to start a casual conversation and he saw that on what he smiled widely, "Bern is very good friends with Louis" I nodded and kept looking at him. His wide smile didn't fade away as we talked about our friends and how they forgot everything so easily.

"Yes, Eleanor is a troublemaker. Now I understand why Lark told me to stay away from her" we laughed off and he put his hands into his coat pockets before slowly moving closer to me till I felt his arm rub my arm.

Inhale. Exhale. Why he is doing this?!

"I wanted to ask you about a song" he started. Oh my God...why I am feeling how my guts are having a party?!

"Yeah?"

"How you came up with it?" he looked inside my eyes and I bit my lip in nervousness.

"I listen to music a lot and I just remembered that song because it speaks to me...a lot" I replied and shrugged my shoulders, looking away from his persistent eyes.

He huffed, "It speaks to me too..." my eyes met his and now it was his turn to look away.

"I wanna be somebody to someone too," he said and chuckled at himself.

I didn't say anything. I just looked at him with a soft, adoring look. He understood...He understood what I tried to tell him!

"You finally understood..." I widely smiled like a psychopath. I was in ecstasy! Oh, God! I don't care will it change something but anyways I was happy...

He looked at me, his smile faded slowly and his eyes turned serious, "I always knew. I don't know how to explain what I felt towards you...I wasn't sure at first, I mean who would be sure, right?" he shrugged his shoulders and exhaled making a small fog appear.

"How you understood that...we have feelings towards each other?" I was curious and I need to know and I am sure he needs to tell this so that in the near future if he will marry Melissa...at least we will both know that we loved each other truthfully...even if it will not change anything.

Lord rubbed his hands and ruffled his hair that looked darker shade in the small light. He did this when he tried to focus to tell, I often see him doing this when he talks and this slight movement gives me butterflies in the stomach and sometimes I want to do it myself.

"Being a Lord is...not tiring...I have servants, I eat whatever I want, I sleep in a comfortable bedroom, people obey my orders, not that I give them bad ones. I lived like a king all my life..." he hardly exhaled and I saw a wrinkle between his eyebrows.

"But?" I murmured almost quietly.

"But I never felt happy and this ecstasy of what I am doing, of course not in everything, I love training shifters, I like talking to different people and I love helping my uncle but I never did what I truly wanted or liked...huh...it's like I even forgot how it is to do something I like before meeting you..." he looked at me and I saw how his eyes glistened.

I wanted to exclaim, 'Me?! I am full of drama and problems, dude!'

I rose my eyebrows and widened my eyes, making him let out a low breast laugh.

"You don't believe me?" he questioned making me let out an awkward laugh, "Uh...how to tell you..." I sucked my lip looking into his now dark green eyes that changed dramatically fast. His narrow eyes traveled to my lips slowly and I saw how he inhaled hardly making his shoulders stiffen and jawline move.

At first, I didn't know why...but then I remembered the hall. He was turning on when I was sucking my lower lip unintentionally...as I said, unintentionally!

"Uhm" he cleared his throat and looked away, blinking multiple times. I stopped doing that and a smile betrayingly appeared on my face. "Well..." I muttered, checking him out. He was tall and the coat really fitted him and I saw how he still was getting over my movement because he was silent and didn't give a glance.

Wow. The impassive Lord Willer was nervous and couldn't get his breathing back to normal. And the cause was me. I was making him this way...I am affecting him this much. You don't even know what I am feeling right now...

"You was telling--"

"Yes," he replied and cleared his throat one more time, and this time he tried to continue to talk but of course, his voice was quiet and unstable.

"Remember when we went on the carnival in New Orleans, you wore that short red dress...your hair was down and the only iris was behind your ear" he smiled at the memories and I remembered them too, drifting into them.

"There were so many people, dancing, singing and just having their best time and then you asked me to dance...we learned from the couple who didn't even speak English but we learned how to dance anyways!" we both laughed in sync and gave each other genuine smiles. "You learned pretty quickly" I added.

"But you danced better" he replied with a grin.

"So you do admit that I am the best dancer?" I smirked and he as if only now understood what he just said. "Ouch...touche, Miss Campbell" he clutched his heart dramatically making me laugh...I love when he makes me laugh.

"So...this is the moment when I understood that I love...I love doing something new...learning new things and..." he slightly touched my cheek with his fingertips, "Realized how I fell for you so undeniably hard..." my breath hitched in my lungs. I was nearly going to cry...my whole body trembled and all I wanted is to jump on this man and never let him go!

"Reece..." I went closer to him, grabbed his cheeks, and kissed him again and again and again.

Damn how happy I am right now! He was in love with me...like I was in love with him.

His arms pulled me closer and clasped behind my back, while my arms were around his neck. We were kissing deeply and lovingly...and we both were happy about this. I knew that this is bad...and I knew that he will maybe regret it...but how could I not kiss him after what he just told me?! I don't care what's happening between him and Melissa, I don't care if he is a Lord that should marry a noblewoman, I don't care whether everyone will hate me! All I care about is him and me right now.

I recoiled for a second even if he didn't want to and whispered, "I want you to know that no matter with whom you will be...I will be in love with you, freaking Lord" he chuckled at my statement, closing his eyes before replying, "And I shall not want any other woman besides you, Miss Eveline Campbell" his words lighten me up and I kissed him passionately for this.

***

After some minutes we came back to the bar, together of course which made all our friends smirk or smile widely. The first one who caught my eyes was Bern who was wanting something to say, "Don't" I warned him and he raised his hands in surrender, "Chill out, Cam" he smugly said and continued to stare at me with his playful eyes making me want to punch him but instead we just enjoyed the drinks, food, and our crazy company who again argued about something. By the way, Levi and Ava came back and were sitting normally, he was talking with Lark and Eleanor, Bern was playing cards that his brother brought a few minutes ago, Penelope was quietly sitting with Tomlinson who actively explained something to her but by her expression, she was amused. Ava was talking with Reece who was sitting opposite me. I heard how she said that she doesn't want to be a coach of the garrison and instead she asked to be a teacher for children who were orphans and now future soldiers. Reece's expression was serious and focused on Ava but when she was talking, he was glancing at me, and every time he did this, a smirk appeared on his lips and I shared the same slight smile.

This is how the night went...glancing towards each other...talking, playing cards, arguing, and having fun with friends.

Who knew that our girls' hangout would turn into this?

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