█║▌│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║▌│█│║▌║││█
█║▌│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║▌│█│║▌║││█
█║▌│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║│█│║▌║││█║▌│║║█║█║▌│█║▌│║║█║▌│█│║▌║││█
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE...
тo вe тнe вαd мαɴ
тσ вє тнє ѕα∂ мαη
BEHIND BLUE EYES
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE...
тo вe нαтed
тσ вє ƒαтє∂
TO TELLING ONLY LIES
╔════════════╬ARTHUR ZAVIER MYLES╬════════════╗
Julius watched with attentive eyes as Eva returned, and was now tracing the rim of her glass with her finger. Little things like that seemed to remind Julius of the things form their relationship they had missed. But, those little things didn’t matter now, and Julius was surprised how Eva asked him about what he planned for the future. How far ahead did she want to know? His plans for tomorrow? Next month? Next year? Retirement. He chuckled slightly, rubbing his chin as if to think it over.
“I don’t know if you remember, Eva. But I used to tell you about how my father runs a family business. Arthur’s family is involved in it as well. Our family has been doing this for several generations. My intentions are to go back to Sweden to study, then come home and take over for my father. It is interesting you ask that. I imagine Arthur has the same intentions.” Julius began to dig into his own food, and Arthur ate at his slowly. It was lucky Julius kept his mouth, for the most part, shut about their family affairs. Otherwise he would be getting another swift kick to the shin. However, Julius wasn’t wrong. Though Arthur didn’t really have intention so leaving the country like Julius did, he was fully intending to continue down into the family business alongside, if not one day surpassing, his father. The only hardship now was figuring out how to get through it all without Eva finding out. Could Arthur hold up a façade from her for her entire life?
“Do you still dream of being a concert violinist?” The question quickly caught Arthur off guard. How had he known something about that? But the conversation seemed to continue with the flow from there. It was strange to Arthur. Eva and Julius seemed to be getting along relatively well, besides the occasional spouts of annoyance Julius would demonstrate. Otherwise, one would consider this to be a relatively pleasant evening. The sun seemed to set faster as the trio returned to Arthur’s car, and returned home. Arthur wanted nothing more in this world than to collapse on his bed and fall asleep holding Eva in his arms. However, this dream seemed to be slightly stunted by Julius. It came as a rather last minute announcement that Julius would be sharing Arthur’s bedroom, sleeping on the futon against the wall. Arthur didn’t have to make sure that Eva was well concealed from her normal night ware, or occasional lack of. She wore the same large t-shirt that he had got her at the beach, and the two climbed in h is own bed, while in the slight distance, across the room, Julius was trying to get comfy on the rather lumpy bed.
It seemed like instantly that Arthur had fallen asleep, but the slight buzzing of his phone beside his ears stirred him. It was almost one in the morning, as he looked down at the illuminated screen in the darkness of the room. A quick side glance towards Eva and Julius told him that they hadn’t be stirred by his phone, and Arthur looked at the message.
Come to my office. Shit, Arthur had completely forgotten about the message from his father that they needed to talk. Moving slowly out of the bed, Arthur threw on some shorts, and made his way out of the bedroom, closing the door silently.
Rather than to continue sleeping peacefully, as he should, Julius had stirred at the sound of the opening and closing bedroom door, and he peaked his eyes out from his covers. Arthur seemed in a hurry… wonder what that was about. As the minutes continued to tick by, Julius began to realize that it didn’t seem that Arthur would be coming back anytime soon. Perhaps, it was time to instill a bit of mischief. Tiptoeing out of the futon, Julius snuck his way over to the side of Arthur’s bed where he had been sleeping. With the faint amount of moonlight that was drifting through the blinds of Arthur’s window, Julius could just see the sleeping outline of Eva on her side of the bed. Moving slowly, Julius climbed into the bed, pulling the covers over himself, and softly scooting closer to the sleeping Eva. Sorry, Arthur, this was nothing personal towards you. Julius moved his head towards the back of Eva’s neck, placing a gentle kiss on the back of Eva’s neck. His hand moved slowly through the sheets and rested on her hip, pulling her body closer to him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alexander scratched his cheek slightly when Gigi mentioned she couldn’t see herself doing anything else. This was hard for him to believe, he could see her becoming just about anything. As a hired gun, she had to be skilled with weapons, calm, cool, collected, she had a level head, she was realistic. Perhaps in another life she would be a cop, or even a FBI or CIA agent. Alexander could definitely see her as something along those lines. But, perhaps Gigi was really happy doing what she was doing. Which was fine with Alexander. Besides, if he were the normal one, and wanted to go on to be a chef, how hard would it be for Gigi to tell him the truth about what she did for living? Perhaps it was a lot better, in their favor, that their lines of work made it easier for them to get to know one another.
The chef was preparing on the fried rice, and started to ask around the table if anyone wanted to attempt catching the rice in their mouth. Alex’s hand instantly shot up in the air, eagerly hopping up and down in his seat.
“I’m a pro, do your worst!” The chef gave him a sharp glance and with no warning, threw up a ball of rice to be caught in his mouth. Alex had to lean far back in his seat, the chair standing on its two hind legs, as to catch the tiny clump of rice in his mouth. He could feel the chair about to fully tip, but he was quick to get himself upright, happily munching on the sticky rice. Alex looked at Gigi, a slight hint of mischief in his eyes.
“Her next!” He pointed towards Gigi, playfully grinning towards her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Terrance’s eyes glanced at the clock on his night stand, running his fingers through is messy bed hair. Damn, had they really spent the weekend in bed like this? Ah, who was he kidding. He wouldn’t trade the past 24 hours for anything in the world. Good thing she was on the pill- or at least she had once been vocal about this fact before. He began to pick up his phone when Helene spoke to her. Her voice was so sweet and charming, yet this time there was a hint of seriousness in it. She wanted to air out dirty laundry. Terrance felt a slight tinge of panic in his chest, his finger somewhat nervously rubbing the side of his phone. She mentioned all four of them coming clean with their secrets to Helene. She was being fair, Terrance knew significantly more about Helene than Helene did about Terrance, or any of the others. But it wasn’t Terrance’s place to make a call like this. In fact, it rested more son in the hands of Mr. Patrone. Though Terrance had no doubt in his mind that Mr. Patrone would be more than willing to appease young Helene and answer any, if not all of her questions.
“I-I’m fine with that. But I will have to check with Jacob’s dad, and…” Terrance’s brown eyes locked with the warm eyes of Helene. Oh god, he could feel his heart melting in his chest. Don’t give him that look! He bit his lip slightly.
“It isn’t my place to tell you about Arthur and Alex… though you already know enough about Jacob’s family… If you really want to know about me though…” Terrance twiddled his thumbs slightly. It was weird, him being so nervous to reveal his secret to her. He had never told anyone, and this was one of the first few times he actually felt
nervous in front of a girl.
“My parent’s line of work… Well, they are international spies. In fact, they knew about you, the rest of the Carbones, and Bastien before you even came over here. As such, being a spy is also… my own duty. I knew who you were before you told me under the school bleachers that one day, Helene. My job from my parents was to keep an eye on you here. Learn more about you and your family. That kind of thing. But don’t think that is the only reason I was ever near you. Besides my line of work, I wanted to be around you. Y’know, I… I love you, Helene.” Terrance was supposed to feel better telling his secrets, but for some reason he didn’t feel better. It was as if telling the truth was an admission of keeping secrets from her, and he felt guilty.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner… But I just don’t want to get on Mr. Patrone’s bad side. At least, not again so soon… You can’t let anyone know what I’ve told you, unless he gives me the permission to.”╚══════╬ "We Swedes are used to the cold... I just don't want you to freeze beside me." ╬══════╝
BUT MY DREAMS... THEY AREN'T AS EMPTY
AS MY CONSCIENCE SEEMS TO BE
I HAVE HOURS, ONLY LONELY...MY LOVE IS VENGEANCE
THAT'S NEVER FREE
✖✖ Translations:
...✖✖ I Feel...
Tired✖✖ I am At...
Home, Downstairs✖✖ I am With...
Myself✖✖ I am Thinking...
"Shit, what does he want?..."✖✖ I am Wearing...
Pajamas