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Chương 4: Chapter 3: the restaurant incident

"Done talking to yourself?"

A pair of worn-out nut brown loafers appeared in front of Shaianah's eyes as she stares at the floor. Slowly, she lifts her head up and met with orbs that had a shade of autumn colors. Though his eyes screamed softness, his expression remained vacant. You couldn't exactly tell what he was thinking. He was an epitome of unpredictable.

"I gave you a map. It's been an hour and a half. Why haven't you gone home?" You couldn't exactly tell if Asrial was concerned or just asking a plain question, and Shaianah badly wanted to figure it out for some reason.

"Well..." Shaianah trailed.

"Let's go." Asrial doesn't wait for Shaianah to come up with a response. He quickly turns his back and starts to walk away, leaving Shaianah confused. He notices this, so he faces Shaianah again and tilts his head a bit to the side. "What? Aren't you coming?"

"I am!" Shaianah quickly stood up, running to Asrial's side who started walking again. They were both silent and a bit awkward with each other. Well, it was only Shaianah who felt that way because Asrial doesn't seem to mind.

"Stop staring at me. You're way too obvious." Shaianah immediately looked away, hiding her flushed cheeks and biting her lower lips. She couldn't exactly tell if she really was starting to get attracted to the guy. She's been distant from people for years! Was this supposed to be how it feels when you start having a crush?

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when her stomach growled. She mentally curses herself for the embarrassment and smiles awkwardly at Asrial who was still expressionless.

"Aren't you going to ask me where I live?"

"Later. We should eat first."

"Eat? Where?" Shaianah started to panic as she secretly reaches for her wallet. She couldn't remember if she brought enough money with her, but she most probably didn't. She thought that she was going to be with her family so she didn't bother bringing an extra. "I should probably eat at home. We don't need to... I mean, I'm not that hungry."

"I am." Asrial says, pulling her towards a restaurant that stood outside the Cherry Blossom Park. The interiors were modern themed, painted with black and white. A part of the walls were made of glass and everything was screaming of elegance. The hanging light bulbs that scattered weren't only for lighting, they made a good decoration, too.

"I don't have money." Shaianah whispers as she tugs at Asrial's hand which was still holding onto hers.

"Just sit down." Asrial finally lets go, gesturing for her to sit at the table near them before calling the waiter. He orders their best meal and two slices of blueberry cheesecake for dessert. Shaianah thinks it was a bit too much, but stayed silent nonetheless.

"I will pay you later."

"Just forget it."

Silence followed after, but it immediately broke when a group of girls laughing entered the restaurant. They were playfully pushing each other, not minding if other people were looking or were thinking of them as a nuisance. The only time they became quiet was when they noticed Asrial sitting with a girl they're unfamiliar with.

"Am I seeing things right? Is Asrial actually with a girl right now?"

"Who is that girl?"

"No idea. I haven't seen her before."

"Kria is going to be so pissed about this."

Shaianah cleared her throat before leaning towards Asrial who raises an eyebrow at her. "They seem to know you." She whispers, but then she immediately realizes what Lila told her earlier. Asrial is an heir of some kind of a throne so it must have gained him popularity.

"Don't mind them."

Shaianah sighs and leans back to her chair. She was uncomfortable. For her, it was better to be invisible rather than having people pay attention to her existence. Because when people do pay attention, which rarely even happens, she'd always end up being in bad situations.

When their order arrived, Shaianah immediately grabbed a handful of Spicy Chicken and Broccoli and filled her plate before digging in. She ate quickly, stuffing her mouth with more chicken before grabbing pork and chunking it. Asrial looked at her with so much amusement, which was perhaps the first emotion he has ever showed since they met.

Shaianah's anxiety must be kicking off, making her eat more so she could die down the thoughts about those girls that were still looking their way.

"Why aren't you eating? I thought you were hungry." Shaianah notices.

"You should slow down and stop talking when your mouth is full."

A light chuckle was heard from the other table. Shaianah glances at them shortly before bowing her head in embarrassment.

"I said don't mind them."

"Okay..." Shaianah says softly, continuing to eat but now in a slower manner. When she stops to reach for the table napkin, the glass of water that stood beside it suddenly fell on her lap, spilling water all over pants. "Oh my god!"

Asrial immediately knew who did it when the girls from the next table laughed so hard. She glares at them as Shaianah excuses herself to go to the powder room.

"Who did it?" Asrial approaches them, wearing a deadly look that immediately sent shivers down their spine. The girls silently points at each other, none wanting to admit whose fault it really was. "Tell me what your problem is."

"It's nothing, Asrial... Really." One of the girls says with a shaky voice.

Though Asrial became popular after his father announced him as heir, everyone else was still hesitant to befriend or even approach him. His stares were always vacant and his aura screams of so much power that no one dared to even get in his way. He was also the best ice elemental among their batch, being good not only in his magical attributes but also with his physical ones. This created his reputation of being someone you shouldn't mess with.

"You. Give me your jacket." Asrial says pointing at the other girl who immediately obeyed. He figured that no one was going to admit their fault anyway and there was no use talking to them.

Meanwhile, Shaianah was panicking inside the powder room. She had been staring at her own reflection ever since she came inside. She tried to dry her pants using the hand dryer but she couldn't reach it so she gave up.

"First, you got lost at the park. Now, this!" Shaianah ruffles her hair and sighs. She was about to go back to their table since she knew that Asrial was waiting for her when a waitress went inside.

"Ma'am, your friend wanted to give you this." The waitress said, handing her a hooded jacket which made her confused at first. "The man you were with, ma'am."

"Asrial?" Shaianah mumbles to herself before taking the jacket and thanking the waitress. She wraps this in her waist to cover the part of her pants that got wet before finally coming out.

"Let's go," were the only words that Asrial said before grabbing her wrist and getting her out of the restaurant. She couldn't hold back her smile while they were walking. She was definitely having a crush on this not-so-stranger!


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Light chapters for now. Hope you don't get bored tho :(( "Elementals" would finally be explained on the next chapter so stay tuned :D

Chương 5: Chapter 4: the magical town and the elementals

Silence wrapped the insides of a 1969 Chevy Camaro after Shaianah had described to Asrial where she lived. No one dared to talk about what happened earlier at the restaurant but both had different reasons as to why. Shaianah was puzzled, overthinking things from last night 'til now, while Asrial was just unbothered of everything.

"It's strange..."

Asrial takes a quick side glance at Shaianah who had one of her elbows leaning against the door. "What is?"

"I didn't even touch the glass earlier, how could it fall?" Like most of her questions, this, too, remained unanswered. Asrial only purses his lips as he stares intently at the road, and so Shaianah sighs and sits back. He was struggling on how to explain that the glass was controlled by some sort of magic to a person whose identity he wasn't sure of still.

Asrial has probably memorized the whole town like the back of his hands. He was only given a sloppy description yet he knew exactly where the place was. Shaianah thought that perhaps theirs was the only house in town that looked like a castle. She was even wondering why their family weren't a part of that "royal family" Lila spoke of.

"Hey, thanks for the ride. I'm sorry for being a bother to you today. Perhaps I could pay you back sometimes." The Chevy Camaro stops in front of a ten-foot tall steel gate, and they both got out of it. Asrial couldn't tear his eyes off of the house, wondering how Shaianah could be related to the owners.

"Why did you come to Cassiopeia?"

"What?"

"You shouldn't have." Shaianah was taken aback by Asrial's words. It came off rudely to her.

"Excuse me?"

"It's not safe here." In that moment, all Shaianah wanted to do was to explode. She's never felt so frustrated in her life. She was just so pissed that everybody was so cryptic about everything when all she wanted was to know the truth.

"Why? Why wouldn't it be safe? What's going on in this town? I've only been here for a day yet many things have already happened. What's frustrating is that no one is willing to make me understand why they're happening!" She bursts out, looking straight at Asrial's eyes which seemed to show no emotions at all.

"I have many questions, too, Shaianah. It's not only you who's confused. No human is allowed to set foot on this town and yet you're here... and you live there." Asrial glances up at the house again and heaves a sigh.

"No human? Why? What are you people? Some kind of aliens that decided to live here on earth 'cause, hey it would be fun here, huh?" Shaianah says rather hysterically but stops when Asrial calmly raises his hand and aims it a nearby tree. Suddenly, ice flowed through his hands, freezing the trunk and leaving Shaianah in full shock.

Shaianah took a few seconds to process what she had just seen and when it finally struck to her that the person she was with wasn't "normal", she steps back in fear.

Asrial only sighs before hiding his hand inside his pocket. "I'm not going to hurt you."

"What are you?" Before Asrial could even utter a single word, the ten-foot tall gate behind Shaianah opens. A dusty red Impala, which was about to leave, stops in front of them.

"Shaianah, oh my God!" Christine got out of the car's backseat to rush towards Shaianah, with Lila following behind. "We were about to look for you again. The police wouldn't help us because you weren't gone for 24 hours and—wait who are you?"

"Christine, go back inside. Don't go near him."

"What? Why?" Christine looked so confused. She assumed that the guy Shaianah was with was the person who helped her get home, and yet she seemed angry or perhaps afraid of him.

"Let's just go, Christine." Shaianah glances at Asrial before pulling Christine back inside the gates. She was still in shock, not knowing what to do next or if she even wanted to stay in this town a little longer. She wanted to leave, take her siblings with her, and go back to Manila where life was hard but at least normal. She's not sure anymore if they're safe at Cassiopeia because based on what Asrial had said, it seemed dangerous. But why would their mother want them to come here if it's dangerous? It just doesn't make sense.

"Shaianah! Thank goodness you're back! Where have you been? We've been looking all over for you at the park." Mammy rushes to Shaianah with worried eyes as soon as they entered the receiving area. She immediately pulls her granddaughter into an embrace, but Shaianah remained rather impassive.

"We decided to go home for awhile so Mammy, Pops and the kids could rest. Jillian and Joseph are already upstairs." Christine said. She had already completely forgotten about the guy Shaianah was with earlier.

"Mammy, is there something you need to tell us about this town?"

"We were so worried about you and then you're just gonna ask that weird question?" Christine almost rolled her eyes at her sister, but their grandparents seemed to have taken Shaianah's question seriously. They both glanced at each other as though they were communicating through their eyes.

"It's not a weird question. If we're going to stay in this town, we need information, like what kind of people are living here. I just saw someone emit ice from his own bare hands!" To Christine, Shaianah sounded insane. She's always known her sister to be a bit different, but she never thought her sister would believe in such fictional things. Let alone say something as ridiculous as that.

"You're crazy."

"Lila, can you tell the twins to come down at the grand hall for a bit? We need to discuss something with them." Mammy finally said. This was what Shaianah has been waiting for since the moment they got here yesterday. Though she already had a bit of a headstart from Asrial, she still needed an explanation for everything.

The rest of them continued at the grand hall. Mammy and Pops sat on the couch as they waited, while Shaianah and Christine took time to admire the marvelous design of the castle's interiors. A fireplace was standing near the couch and the windows were covered with beige curtains that matched with the gold accents. Everything screams of elegance and beauty.

"Shaianah! You're here! We were worried!" The twins exclaimed, running towards Shaianah and hugging her legs. Shaianah smiled a bit before patting their heads.

"I'm sorry I made you worry." She says softly.

"Now that you're all here..." Mammy started, getting the attention of everyone in the room especially Shaianah. Her eyes drifted from the twins to their grandparents who seemed calm about everything. They were preparing for this. They were supposed to tell the siblings about this when they get home from the park but Shaianah got lost. "We do plan on telling you this but I guess Shaianah has already found out about it."

"What is it Mammy?" Jillian asks innocently.

"Cassiopeia is a magical town full of elementals—"

"Hold up. Is this serious?" Christine tried to hold back her laughter. "Are we really doing this? Are we really talking about this? Come on! We're not in some kind of a fantasy world."

"Christine, let's listen to them first." Shaianah calmly says, determined to learn everything no matter how impossible it sounded. After all, her experiences were already evidences that Cassiopeia truly was a magical town.

"Elementals are creatures who possess magic that are mainly related to elements. We can either control the elements or create them by using the energies in our bodies." Pops continued what Mammy was explaining earlier. "Your mother was an elemental. She kept it hidden from you to protect you. She wanted you to live a normal life in Manila but she knew this day would come. You were all destined to come back here someday."

"I hope you don't get mad at your mother for keeping this from you. It would've brought you danger if humans found out it." Mammy added.

"You mentioned that our mother was an elemental. How about dad?" Shaianah curiously asks while her siblings were silent. Christine was still a bit puzzled while the twins found it amusing.

"Your father was human, dear." Mammy answered. "Your mother wanted to know about the human world so much that she decided to go to Manila for college. That's where they met and fell in love."

"This is still hard to believe, you know?" Christine crosses both her arms in front of her chest as Mammy smiled before raising her hand and letting water flow through her arms. She formed it into a ball-like shape and let it disappear right after. The twins clapped in excitement while Christine was left shocked.

"Do it again! Do it again!"

"Excuse me, but I think I have to go and take a rest now. Today has been... too much." Shaianah says before making her way to her bedroom. One of her questions already got answered, but something else was bugging her. She knew she had a lot to learn about this town and perhaps she still has to rethink about leaving and going back to Manila.


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