Heart desired

//chapter 1//

I looked around the rooftop in confusion.

There was a letter in my locker, telling me to come to the rooftop during lunch break. I figured that it would be another boy trying to confess, so I decided not to go, but my best friend, Daniel insisted that breaking a heart by words is better than just ignoring a poor soul. After I found out that he would not stop talking about it, I decided to come here just to shut him up.

And here I was on the rooftop, five minutes late. There was no single soul to be seen. Did he leave? Oh, boy, with that kind of patience, he would never tolerate me. Because I was also getting angry for having to climb three flight of stairs for nothing.

I looked at the giant water tank to my side. Maybe he was on the other side of it. Just to make a purpose of my climb, I walked a little to the left and peeked. That's when I heared the click sound from behind. Wait a second. Did somebody just locked the damn door?

I whirled around to see three girls standing in front of me, staring right in to my soul. I recognized Penelope, one of the girls from my class. The-wanna-be was her nickname. Rumors said that she slept with the principal to be the prom queen. I mean, I was the new girl so I didn't know if it was true or not. I had no idea about the other two girls, but from the way they stood behind Penelope, I guessed they were her henchmen.

I didn't like the way they were looking at me at all. They reminded me of myself just a few years ago. Looking down on everyone and thinking so highly of myself. I spoke first. "Did you guys see anybody coming up here?"

Penelope laughed. "Ha ha ha! Yeah, we saw. Someone who runs to the rooftop thinking her prince charming finally came to pick her up!" Her friends laughed at that. "What a loser."

I planted my feet on shoulders length and crossed my arms. "So you guys asked me to come here, figured. What do you want?"

Penelope came towards me and put her face right in front of mine. Up close, I could see her cracked make up and smudged eye liner. Guess everybody was not so perfect after all. Well, maybe except me.

She pointed her index finger and tapped my nose. "What I want? That's not the question. The question is, what do you want?"

I looked at her. What I want? I just wanted to make my best friend to shut up. She didn't give me a chance to say anything before speaking again. "Ever since you came, everybody talks about you. You get the perfect grades, you look fabulous even in an ugly sweater, you can sing, you can dance, YOU ARE THE MISS PERFECT! WHAT THE f**k DO YOU WANT?"

She shoved me back, making me loose my balance and fall on my butt. I gritted my teeth. This was just an attention seeking girl with a very fragile ego. That was not a reason to kill her.

I looked up and made myself comfortable on the floor, despite the pain in my ankle. "I don't want anything. I'm just good at everything."

All three of them laughed at that. A fake, hysterical laugh. "Girls, let's take off her make up. I bet she's ugly as f**k inside."

I blinked. Make up? Me? What make up?

They advanced towards me and grabbed me by my arms. I just let them take me to wher eever they want, because fighting back would just made them f**k with you more. The best thing to do was wait for the right opportunity and hand their asses to them so they won't ever bother you again. You see, I was an expert in this field.

They dragged me to the water tank and open the maintenance valve and pushed my face towards it. I tried to control my rising anger as the water ran from my face to inside my uniform and hair, making it all wet. I hated being wet. Still, this wasn't a reason to kill.

They pushed my face back by pulling my hair, and my scalp screamed in pain. I looked up at them, grinning. "You see, unlike you, I don't wear make up."

All of them stared at me, open mouthed. Then Penelope started shaking. Het hands were fisted and her teeth was grinding against each other. "You! I hate girls like you the most."

The girl who had ponytails spoke. "What should we do now? At this rate Chad will really break up with you and go out with her."

Hey, girl, don't provoke your crazy friend over a boy. Have you ever heared about being a girls' girl? I thought back to my friends. Natalie would kill the guy if he ever choose to leave me. Cassie would kill the guy the moment he looked at another girl, eveb by mistake. And I would do both.

Penelope stared at me and pulled out a thin blade from some where. "I'm going to deface het perfect face."

Oh. I can't use blades but they can? How unfair. I sighed as she brought the blade closer to my face. That was enough.

I pushed back the two girls who was holding me away in a single move, making them fall sideways with a scream. Penelope lunged backwards, and I took her arm and twisted it so the blade would fall from her hands. She screamed and struggled, but eventually I succeeded.

That's when I felt a blade piercing my back, just underneath my left shoulder.

Pain flooded my entire body as I twisted and looked behind. The girl who provoked Penelope was standing behind me, still thrusting the knife inside as possible as she can. I realized that she was aiming for my heart.

I grabbed and twisted her arm. She eventually let go of the knife, but kept staring at me with full of hatred. My clothes soaked the blood in no time and I could taste iron on my mouth. Did she really manage to stab my heart?

My vision was blurring. I looked up at her. "What did I ever do to you?"

She eyes flashed. "I want Daniel. But he loves you."

I wanted to laugh, but the pain was too unbearable. My vision almost went out as I sank on to my knees and fell on to the floor, face first.

"Let's get out of here." I heared Penelope saying. There was a rush of footsteps, and I could tell that they left by the sound of door opening and shut.

I laughed to myself. So, I am going to die because of Daniel. I came here because of Daniel, and I got stabbed because of Daniel. Does every mortal stab their love rivals? It was so different from what I have experienced before.

Well, if I was going to die because of him, then it won't matter if I got him in trouble.

I mustered my remaining strength and pointed my index finger towards the sky and signaled to the realm beside this. A blue fire shot from my finger, going to the sky in a second and vanishing. Now the rescue team would come. Hopefully I would be alive by then.

I closed my eyes and waited for death or rescuers to come. Then I felt someone turning me over and gently lifting me up. Was it Daniel? I couldn't hear his footsteps. This didn't feel like Daniel or any other elf.

I opened my eyes, alarmed. A black clothed figure was carrying me to the edge of the rooftop. I concentrated on his face, fighting the slipping conscious. I have seen him before from somewhere.

He must have noticed me looking, because he leaned down and smiled. And I could finally see his face.

It was the mortal from my dreams.

I began to struggle, to break free. His smile was so cruel and amused just like I saw in my dreams. My blood ran cold. If I had a chance to survive before, I didn't think I can now. Was he going to throw me over the building?

Hurry up, please. I prayed to the gods.

"Relax, princess." He spoke for the first time. His voice was silky smooth, deep and seductive at the same time. I could feel myself relaxing in to his arms. Despite his smile, his voice was so assuaring. "You are safe with me."

Then he jumped off the building.