Undying Love-Chp3

CHAPTER 3: THE GIRL

Raziel sat on the balcony stairs all night until the sun rose at the east. He was quite grateful that he was sun-tolerant, or he would’ve turned into dust straightaway. He heard the girl with the strong aura awoke from her sleep by the ringing of her alarm clock. He looked in and saw the girl walking groggily towards another room. He sat there and watched. He really wanted to know what this girl was doing.

A few minutes later, she walked out of the room fully dressed in a black long-sleeved dress. She had a ‘Peace’ pendant hanging around her neck made out of fake silver. She gathered her books and walked out to the front door.

Raziel climbed down the stairs in a jiffy and waited behind the wall of the apartment. He saw her walking out of the building and towards the bus stop which was a few feet away from the building. Raziel decided to follow her. He grabbed a very old and very torn robe from somewhere near the big trash bin and wore it in haste. He grabbed the rear of the bus and had his feet on the bumper of the bus, ignoring the surprised look of passers-by. The bus took him to a tall building that said ‘Yonderland High’. He saw the girl got off the bus and he followed suite.

He waited outside the gates of the building until every human around the area has entered the building before passing through the gates with ease and flew up to the tallest, densest tree available. He saw the girl at one of the windows, sitting among a whole bunch of humans listening to a man teaching in front of the room. He realized that this was a school. He continued sitting up at the tree, watching and waiting, not wanting to lose sight of the girl.

Finally, in the afternoon, school time was over. The humans all rushed out of the building to do their own stuff. Raziel saw the girl walking swiftly towards the bus stop to catch the next bus. He got off the tree and followed suite. Again, he grabbed the rear of the bus and let it take him to where it might take him. When he saw the girl got off the bus, he didn’t think twice.

That was when he realized that he was in the big city, filled with humans here and there. All those potential souls around him. It was like being taken into a land where food was abundant. But the girl was still his first priority. He wanted her soul no matter what—she could be beneficial to his existence. He followed her all the way down to a…playground?

She sat on a swing as if waiting for somebody. Her darkly dressed attire made her look mysterious and sleek among the people in the playground. Everyone cowered away when they saw her, as if they, too, felt her aura.

“Melissa! Melissa Celestial!”

The girl turned around to face the person who called her. Raziel began to comprehend.

“So,” Raziel said under his breath, “her name is Melissa Celestial. Interesting.”

“What are they doing here? I told you I don’t like too much exposure,” the girl whose name was Melissa grumbled. Her voice had a lot of spunk, like she had been around the big world long enough to make herself street-smart.

“Sorry, Melissa, but they didn’t believe me when I said I passed my test with your help. I hate being called a liar for nothing!” A girl no older than 12 years old complained. Behind her was her gang of friends consisting of another girl and 3 boys.

“Alright, alright. It’ll earn me more bucks anyway. So what are your questions for today?” Melissa waved away her complaint and got right into business.

“I wanna know about tomorrow’s science test!” the girl announced quickly.

“I wanna know if my crush Lavender has the hicks on me!”

“I wanna know about today’s weather, ‘coz I got a football game later.”

“I want to know if Patricia is still angry with me.”

“And I wanna know when our Social Studies teacher is going to ask the Home Science teacher to marry him!”

“Oh yeah, that’s a good question!” the rest of the gang agreed.

“OK,” Melissa said as she took 5 chalk-like pens. She opened the covers of each pens and out came 5 little fox elves no bigger than her own palms. It was obvious that only Raziel and she could see those elves, judging by the confused looks on the children’s faces. She explained to the children about the fox elves and their ability to see things normal people don’t see.

“I’m using these fox elves because they see things like what people are thinking, pass through walls, flying higher than a Concorde and other things. I know you can’t see them, because it takes a person like me to be able to see them. Go, my pets, seek for the answers these poor souls need.”

Raziel saw the fox elves flying out of her hands and out into the street. One of the fox elves passed by Raziel and it shrieked like a frightened puppy before rushing away to do its job. Raziel decided to follow it to see what it was doing. The fox elf led him to a girl with ebony-black hair and the purplest eyes you’ve ever seen. It actually flew through her body without as much as making the girl flinch. It was as if it didn’t really exist at all. Moments later, Raziel saw the fox elves gather together at one spot before returning to the playground.

One by one they approached Melissa and told her the answer. She took out a notepad and scribbled something before handing it to the girl who asked about the test.

“Here you go. You’re lucky it’s a multiple choice question kind of test. These are all the answers.”

“Thank you so much, Melissa!” the girl grinned in delight.

“You’re in luck, boy,” Melissa turned to her second customer. “That Lavender you were talking about, well, she definitely has the hicks on you. She wished that you would ask her to go for that latest horror movie ‘Revolution’.”

“Her wish is my command!” the boy jumped with glee, blushing like heck.

“It’s gonna be rainy today, boy, so I guess you should cancel your football plans for today.”

“Oh, man! That is so not good!” her third customer groaned.

“Patricia is not angry with you anymore, girl,” Melissa turned to her fourth customer. “She thinks that maybe you were just joking about her grades after all.”

“Thank God she understands!” the girl sighed in relief. “I keep forgetting that she’s very sensitive about her grades.”

“And you, little boy, your answer won’t be so satisfying. Mr. Norbert is still contemplating whether to propose to Ms. Rita. He even thinks that maybe it’s not worth it because she might have a boyfriend of her own.”

“Oh man! Mr. Norbert thinks too much!” the children groaned. “We gotta give him a piece of our mind tomorrow!”

“Alright, people, pay up! 10 bucks for each request!” Melissa brought them back to reality. The kids complained about it being too expensive but they paid it in the end, thanking her before they left. As the day went by, there came more and more customers of all ages young and old. Again the fox elves spread themselves finding the answers for their mistress and whispering them to her. They were actually doing all the dirty work for her. By the end of the day, her money jar was pretty much full.
Then something unthinkable happened. When the mystical Melissa got off the swing and patted herself off the dust, she looked towards the wall where Raziel was hiding and said, “Alright, you vampire. There’s no use hiding. I know you’re behind there. State your business.”

Raziel didn’t expect her to know that he was there watching her. Could it be that the fox elf that saw him had told her? It could be. Anything’s possible now.

Soon Raziel found himself standing face to face with aura-filled Melissa Celestial.