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SERAPHINA’S MANSION***
“WOW, I can’t believe your still here, after what happened between you and ma Seraphina yesterday”. A maid said.
“Why”. Lucian asked.
“Well, according to my friends who have worked here, they said she never gives a second chance even to slightest mistakes, one little mistake, and your fired, that why we all surprised that your still working as her manager despite the display between the both of you yesterday”. Ina said.
“I guess is because Lucian is so handsome, and she doesn’t want to stop seeing his handsome face”. A maid said.
And they all laughed Including Lucian.
He looks upstairs like Seraphina was there, she hasn’t come out of her room since yesterday, and Lucian wondered why.
The door bed Rings, waking Lucian from his thoughts.
“I’ll get the door myself”. He said and went to open the door.
“Hi Lucian!!”. Jamila screams so loudly.
“Mila… Vance, how…how do you know both know the location of this place”. Lucian asked looking surprise.
“Your working for the face of Australia, of course it won’t be hard to know where the great Seraphina Rodrigo lives right”. Vance said and Lucian smiles.
“Ain’t you going to let us in”. Vance asked.
Lucian smile and let them in.
“Wow, Seraphina is really freaking rich, her mansion is so beautiful”. Vance said looking around.
Jamila Scoffs and said.
“She won’t have made it this big, if not for her crazy fans…. anyway Lucian I Miss you so much”. Jamila said cuddling her arm around Lucian.
“I guess I missed you too”. Lucian reply.
“Really”.
And he nods with a smile, and Jamila giggles
Vance looks at them and felt sad.
“Where’s Seraphina”. He asked.
“The witch is upstairs”. Lucian said.
“Your still calling her a witch”. Vance muttered.
“That what she’s, Lucian am tasty can I have some juice”. Jamila said still holding Lucian.
“Sure… Ina”.
“Yes Lucian”.
“Please bring her a glass of juice”.
Ina nods and leaves, while the rest of the maids look at Jamila, wondering if she was Lucian’s girlfriend, with the way she was cuddling her arm around him.
Ina Came back with a glass of juice and gave it to Jamila.
“Here you go”. She said.
“Thanks”.
“Lucian, is she your girlfriend”. Ina asked, and Jamila smiles.
“No she’s not”. Lucian answers, and Jamila became sad.
“She’s Jamila and he’s Vance, we all friends, since we grow up together”.
“Ohhhh, I see Nice meeting you both”. Ina said.
And Jamila forcefully smile and Vance could read her sad expression.
“Should we play a game”. Vance said, so he could brighten Jamila’s mood.
“Sure, that’s will be great, are you in Mila”. Lucian asked, and she nods.
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Seraphina has been in her practice room, composing a song, and when she got tired she removed the headphone from ear, and that was when she began hearing voices.
*Am going to win this time around*.
*You both should take it easy on me, I thought am your princess*.
*Princess my foot*
*You both are so annoying*.
And they laughed
Seraphina Arch her eyebrows Wondering what was going on, her house isn’t always noisy.
She left the practice room and came downstairs, only to see Lucian laughing with people she doesn’t know, and they were busy drinking and eating.
“What the heck is going on here!!”. She yells, and her voice made Vance quickly stood up from where he was sitting, but Jamila still sat down like a queen.
“Ohh Sera, this are my friends,… Jamila and Vance”.
“And so, what the heck are they doing here, and how dare you mess up my house!!”.
“They came to pay me a visit”.
“And those it look like I care, if you have read the books I gave to you correctly, then you should have known that I don’t welcome visitors, I want the Both of you to dispose your useless body out of my house”.
“Hey Seraphina you can’t talk to us that way”. Jamila said standing up to her feet.
“And Why not, is this your house…I doubt if you low life can afford living in a place like this”.
“Sera.. don’t talk to my friends that way”.
“And why not, they’re nothing but piece of trash right…you really have the nerves to bring your so called friends, just because I changed my mind of having you fired right”. Seraphina said rudely.
And Lucian looks at her.
“Ask your stinking friends to leave when I’m still being nice”.
“Stinking….hey Seraphina you’re really eating more than you can chew”. Jamila said and try to attack Seraphina, but Vance pulls her back.
“Let go of me Van, she needs to know that we’re still humans, even if we don’t have the luxury she has!” Jamila spats trying to break free from Vance.
“Then you should have think twice before stepping your dirty feets into my territory”.
“We’re leaving Seraphina, you don’t have to insult that way….let go Jam”.
“No Van lemme go, am not yet done with her, let go of me”. Jamila said as Vance takes her out of the house.
Seraphina sighs and turns to leave.
“Is this how cruel you’re”. Lucian asked.
Seraphina stops on her track and face Lucian.
“You really see others who are poor as nothing, just because you have the opportunity to taste the sweetest of a good life, you think you can look down on other people….your cruel”.
“You have no right to call me that Lucian!!!”.
“And why not, you see other people as dirt, your the cruelest person I have ever known!!”.
“Shut up Lucian!!!, You don’t know anything about me, you don’t what I went through just to be who I am, if am cruel and heartless today, this earth is the reason for it!!. She yells.
“Your not the only one who has pass through hell Sera, you choose to be wicked and heartless, and with this behavior of yours, no one will ever love you”.
“And I don’t need love from anyone Lucian, I don’t Care if no one loves me got that!!”. She spats, trying to fight back her tears.
“Of course a heartless creature like you don’t need love from anyone, people like you are met to be left Alone and deserve to be wipe out from the surface of the earth, your the definition of a pure demon”.
“Naga(get lost) Get out, get out!!!”. Seraphina yells and Stones him the headphone that was in her neck.
“Am leaving, not like I wanted to be here in the first place!!”. He yells back and angrily leaves the house.
Seraphina fights back her tears, and when she sees the maids looking at her she yells at them.
“What the heck are you looking at!!”.
And the maids quickly finds a place to hide.
Seraphina staggaely went to her room, she sits in the bed wearing a sad face.
*Heartless people like you don’t need love from anyone*.
*People like you are meant to be left alone and deserved to be wiped out from the surface of the earth*.
*Your the pure definition of a demon.
Lucian’s voice echoes in her ears, and balls of tears falls down her eyes.
She took the painting and caressed it sniffing back her tears.
“He doesn’t even know anything about me, how dare he say those words about me, and why are you even crying because what he said to you Seraphina, you never get affected by what others say to you, so why is Lucian words making you cry”. Seraphina said between tears.
“How can I be nice to other people, when no one was ever nice to me, no one took me in, no one gave me shelter, no one gave me food even if I begged, no one was willing to help me, so why should I be nice to people when they were never nice to me when I needed the greatest help the most!!”. Seraphina yells crying.
She sniffs back her tears, caressing the painting.
“Is so unfortunate that you have thesame name with that $cvmbag, am not a cruel person, this wasn’t who I dreamt of being, this wasn’t what I wanted for myself, I never wanted to be this way Lucian, is the the cruelty of this world that turn me into what I’m today, am not a demon”.
“I wish I could see you again Lucian, somehow I feel your the only who can bring me out from the darkness inside of me”.
“Why am falling for you even without knowing what you look like, I never believe love and it’s fantasy but somehow your making believe in it…..who are you Lucian, where can I find you, I need to know who you are”. She said hugging the painting so tightly.
TBC