The Inconceivable Flame: A Fallen Angel's Disguise

While both Ru and Adrian were making there way out of the bar, Ru heard a sweet and melodious voice making her halt to turn and look towards the stage on the first floor where a young girl was singing with her guitar in hands.

"♫♫She was a little girl

hiding her colossal dreams

in her big blue eyes

She grew up in her golden cage

trying to see the world

through her castle’s stage

They told her, to hide

there were demons waiting outside

She sat there, on the rooftop

Telling magic tales to the howling moon

But no one knew

she could hear the wind screaming, and telling her

Listen to your heart and fly with me

There is a whole world ahead to foresee

Don’t run, don’t hide

Dance to the rhythm of your own heartbeat

Listen to the magic bursting inside

There is everything you’ve been dreaming of outside

No one to break you

No one to shake you

Just, dance to the rhythm of your own heartbeat♫♫"

"Grab your brolly[1], it’s drizzling outside." Adrian’s voice broke Ru’s daze who was so lost in the meaning of the lyrics that she forgot where she was standing.

"Huh?" She looked at Adrian in confusion and then heard the sound of pitter-patter making her gape. "This surely is a dog’s dinner[2]. Why is it raining again?" She was feeling exasperated to see the rain.

Adrian scowled at her reaction. "Why do you look so gutted?[3]" He questioned clearly.

Ru glared at him hatefully. "Today is the match of my favorite team. Now, the match is going to cancel. How unfair!"

Adrian pressed his lips together not knowing how to reply to that. But there was an irk in his heart to question something and so he did. "Did you fly all the way from Imperial Capital of China to London just to support your favorite football team?"

Ru rummaged out a ticket from her pant and shoved it right before his face saying, "Why the fudge did I bought these tickets for?" Clenching her fists, she really wanted to smack someone’s head or butt. "This is why I don’t like London, it’s always crying."

"Don’t talk rubbish. It doesn’t rain that much in London. You’re exaggerating now." Adrian felt the need to defend the pride of London.

Ru gave him a sideways glance that was enough to shut his mouth. She snatched the brolly from Adrian’s hand and walked out in the rain.

Adrian looked at her tall, straight posture that seemed to scream confidence and whispered, "There he goes again, gallivanting[4] all by himself."

Although Ru had snatched the umbrella from his hand, she didn’t open it for herself. As she had told Xiao Zhi Ren, she really wasn’t afraid of rain. If anything rain was something she would say she loved. After all, no one could tell whether she was alone, tired, miserable, and crying or it was just the raindrops stuck on her gorgeous face.

Walking down the alleyways, she saw a youth covering his head with his schoolbag as he ran to find a shelter for himself. She didn’t know what came to her shambled[5] mind that she actually opened her umbrella and covered him with it. Before the youth could lift his head to look at her, she had already pulled up her hoodie and walked ahead.

"Thank you!" She heard a frisky voice from behind. Instead of turning, she raised her arm over her head and waved at him.

It wasn’t like she was in need of that umbrella anyway. She just snatched it to piss off Adrian. Her mission was accomplished so there was no need of the umbrella at all.

She didn’t even notice that a pair of bright obsidian eyes, followed her ’till she had turned to enter another alley.

It took her about thirty minutes to reach her townhouse in downtown. Opening the door, she clapped her hands twice and said, "Raven, say hello to daddy!"

The virtual assistant replied monotonously, "Welcome home, mommy!"

"I’m absolutely zonked(tired). So, mind your words." Ru said in a slightly irritated voice and peeled off her wet jacket and then the hoodie underneath.

"I’ll take note of that." The assistant answered being less irritating.

Ru had not even been under the hot water for about five minutes when the blaring sound of alarm actually startled her. She turned off the water and wrapped a towel before running out in bathroom slippers.

"Raven, turn on the systems and brief me on the situation. What’s going on?" She hurriedly threw the orders as she clutched the towel, not letting it fall from her body.

"It seems you have caught a fish lurking in the ocean of your server," came the voice of the virtual assistant being all cryptic like it’s master.

Ru sat on her swirl chair and not bothering with the towel, she started typing on the keyboard. Outside the window was a calming sound of pitter-patter while inside the house, there was only the sound of tic-tic coming from the keys as her fingers flew over them.

With a sly smile, she said, "Not a fish... I’ve caught a sneaky rat." Pressing the enter button dramatically, she whispered, "Busted!" One could hear the sound of victory in her voice. "These fishes should know there are always sharks hiding in the ocean."

The screens before her flashed before her eyes and the location locked on to the supposed ’rat’.

But...

Looking at the location from which the attack was originated, her smile fell.

[1] ’brolly’: Umbrella

[2] ’dog’s dinner’: A Mess

[3] ’gutted’: Extremely upset

[4] ’gallivanting’: roaming

[5] ’shambled’: Disoriented or chaotic

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