Finally you'll have no one to protect you
Lenieve snickered and his female partner, Jeneve, wrapped her arm around his neck and caressed his stomach.
"You're the real hell, always burning hot Leni," Jeneve said as she kissed him on his cheek.
"Your skin is always soft like a lamb's flesh for sure," Lenieve replied.
Jeneve giggled cutely as Lenieve picked her up and twirled her around.
He was her knight in shining armor and his female partner was his damsel who clearly wasn't in distress.
They dramatically kissed each other and with arrogance, they turned towards Lenieve's minions and colleagues.
His minions and colleagues watched with disgust while some of the females looked on bitterly.
"Do you mind?" one of his colleagues asked.
"No, we don't mind," Lenieve replied.
It was late at night and everyone in the Tsukikage family but Kurai was sleeping.
She was too busy staying up flirting and talking dirty to Gengyo on a video call.
At that same time, Gengyo felt the same heavy presence pressing down on his chest, a guilt so tremendous that he didn't wish to admit to Kurai despite the overbearing heavy presence pressing against his ribs, keeping him on edge.
However, he refused to let her know and tried to change their inappropriate conversation.
"Hehe, let's stop now, we said we want to get closer to God but keep talking to each other like we're hungry animals," Gengyo said.
Kurai adjusted her phone camera to capture her face properly and pouted cutely.
"Sorry," Kurai replied, feeling rather flustered, "It's just weird, I just can't help but really like you, it's like we're soulmates!"
Gengyo became all smiley.
"We must be, I've never felt like this for any girl before." Gengyo said.
"Awww," Kurai squealed.
"But Kurai, I know we're together now, so you can trust me, right?" Gengyo added.
"Of course, babe," Kurai replied.
Kurai turned off her camera and opened her bedroom door, and she put her phone on speaker to hear Gengyo's voice clearly as she searched through the fridge to make herself a late night snack.
Aha! Some leftover fried shark!
Closing the fridge, she placed the plastic bowl that had a good enough piece of shark on a ceramic plate and got a slice of whole wheat bread and heated it up in the microwave for twenty seconds.
"Kurai, are you there?" Gengyo called.
Kurai rushed over to her phone.
"Oh, sorry! I was getting something to eat." Kurai replied.
"My family members do witchcraft, and they don't like my mother, so they tried to kill her," Gengyo confessed.
Those words should have been a huge red flag to Kurai, ringing all sorts of bells off in that silly little brain of hers and made her flee from having any form of contact with Gengyo but what can I say, she was deeply in love because of a love spell that Lenieve casted on her.
My mind tells me to never speak to him again and pretend I never knew he existed, but my heart screams how much I love him so much!
"I'm sorry to hear that, Gengyo, but when you mean your family members do witchcraft, do you mean…all?" Kurai asked, her tone in her voice sounding concerned.
"Many of them do, but please don't leave me, I don't do witchcraft." Gengyo quickly replied.
Kurai didn't know what to do; she relied on her parents' guidance for nearly everything in her life that when she encountered a guy like this, she felt like a headless chicken walking around, trying to make sense of whether or not it would be bad to stay with him.
Does this count as being unequally yoked…? No, it can't be! He said he doesn't do witchcraft; his family does.
"I don't know, though. We were also talking about our future a while ago, and wouldn't that mean my entire family would have to meet your family? What would they think?" Kurai said, thinking of all the possibilities of what could happen.
"We don't have to invite my mom's side of the family, then, problem solved," Gengyo said, trying to calm her down.
"But then wouldn't it look a bit odd if your mother's side doesn't attend our wedding, but only your father's side shows up?" Kurai asked, sounding horrified by the idea of a wedding ceremony where many seats were half empty.
"Kurai, boo, you worry too much, a wedding's a wedding, it only happens once, so why care about what they think? We can run away to another country together and not have to worry about their opinion, and you wouldn't ever have to worry about my family ever again." Gengyo reassured her.
Kurai sighed.
She given Gengyo a chance, was it too late to break up with him now?
"Fine, but I always wanted to check up on my mom and dad as they grow old, not be that far from them." Kurai hesitated.
"I never said we won't be able to visit them, ya know? And come on, it'll be fine, parents can sometimes be leeches that won't stop getting up in their children's damn business, even if we're fucking adults, even moths were meant to fly."
I guess he's right, my parents can be super annoying.
She proceeded to prepare hot chocolate milk to go with her bread and shark and ate and drank in the dark living room because the dark isn't so scary when you've got someone on the phone and a dim light shining.
They kept planning about what could take place in their future, like how many kids they wanted, what countries they could go to, you know, the sort of stuff some teenagers liked to fantasize about.
"I'm going to wash my dishes then use the bathroom, okay?" Kurai said.
"And we can't speak when you're doing that just because?" Gengyo asked.
"You pervert," Kurai laughed, heading to wash her dishes.
After washing her dishes, using the bathroom, and brushing her teeth to get rid of the fishy taste in her mouth, she unmuted her mic to talk to Gengyo.
"I don't know anymore, Gengyo, would God and my parents approve of our relationship? I know you don't do witchcraft, but you are still related to them."
"So what are you trying to say? I thought you loved me, I thought nothing could separate us from our love."
"Me too, but I'm just curious because I don't want to partake in anything that'd pull me away from God."
"How am I pulling you away from God? For the last time, we don't have to do anything with them, baby, please calm down."
But at that very moment, a few feet across from her, by that very grey couch, came a feminine humming sound that went from crisp enough to hear to faint.
Kurai looked up from her phone, not scared, just confused, trying to figure out if the sound was coming outside from her neighbor's house since it felt like they had a party almost everyday.
Then the sound stopped and she began to speak but before she could even finish a sentence, the humming didn't return but an audible "hmmm" came from what seemed like the opposite side of where she was standing.
The only thing her mind could think was 'run' and her legs had a mind of their own and she sprinted to her bedroom and closed her door quickly, hanging up the call with Gengyo.
What the heck was that?
Kurai rubbed her temple and lay on her bed and turned on her air conditioner.
I'm not going back outside for the rest of the night.
Her door knob turned and there came her mother standing by her door frame, smiling saying, "Come outside." Then her mother closed her door.
Thinking it was her mother, Kurai pulled off her bedsheet and quilt and before she could even step foot out of her bed her mind started saying.
Don't go outside.
It's all a dream.
Confused, another thought came in.
But what if it wasn't?