Her Poisonous Tongue

Chapter Three - Some Wounds Never Heal

We arrived in my place and I watched her as she took off her jacket and put it on the couch before sitting down. She looked around a bit and smiled, "woooow... This is..."

"what?" I cut her off, "a child's place?"

She laughed shaking her head no, "I actually was going to say grown up. It looks beautiful I love it. Are you sure you stay alone?"

"yes.. You can move in with me."

She laughed again, "God what will I do with you?"

I put her glass in front of her and sat on the table in front of her, "s**t wait.. Do you want something to eat?"

She smiled, "trying to be a good hostess..? So what will you give me? Left over pizza?"

I shook my head getting up, "you know Zoe, you seriously don't know me well."

I started to dish up the food that I cooked before we left. It was pasta and chicken with some greens.

I took the plate to her and she looked at me before taking the plate, "do you have someone who works for you?"

I laughed, "I really should be offended now. Why are you coming at me like this?"

She shook her head and lifted her hands up, "you mean you cooked this.. Do you have the emergency contact number on your speed dial or even any first aid kit here incase something happens to me.."

I decided to test waters about my mission.

"I bet your parents have a first aid kit.. Or you do.. I can drive you to your place.."

She looked at me and smiled, "my parents aren't here.."

"where are they?" I asked carefully not wanting to show how interested I was into this. I needed to know where they were because darn social media didn't help when it came to them and some information about Zoe, so I needed to keep her closer to get somethings about them on her.

I watched as she took the fork and started eating. She swallowed and I saw her face relax a bit before she smiled, "this is really good.."

I ached my brow at her and she took another mouthful fork into her mouth and chewed before swallowing, "oh my God.."

I laughed, "you're over exaggerating right now.."

She shook her head and took another fork into her mouth, "wooow... Really"

Okay, she loved my food, I guess I should be glad that I took interest in cooking when I was at boarding school. This might come in handy on this after all.

I watched as she ate and each time I got mesmerised by her facial expressions or how she'd look surprised like she was tasting that for the first time even though she was halfway through the meal.

I took a sip on my wine and realized that even though seducing her and trying to make her fall in love with me was going to be hard, it was going to be very interesting. A few things that I noticed about herself were already interesting and pulling me towards her. She was really friendly and really good with people even if she didn't know them, she was kind hearted and spoke her mind no matter what she was thinking.

Her phone started ringing and she swallowed the last of her food and took it, "umh hey you.."

"I am great how are you?" she said before clearing her throat, "sorry I was eating.. Yeah it's okay.."

I got up and took the plate in front of her but she held my hand to stop me. I looked at her and she looked back. We looked at each other for a few seconds until I broke the stare and looked at our hands that were still linked together. She pulled away and sighed, "umh yeah yeah I'm still here.. Sorry."

I took the plate and took it to the kitchen. When I got there I smiled a bit thinking that I was going to get to her and she was going to love me no matter how long it took me.

I walked back to the living room and she was still on her phone, "yeah I'm sorry.. Thank you though. You're amazing. Okay.. Sleep well.."

I looked at my wrist watch and found that time was still 6 pm. Who slept at 6pm? Did she have kids I didn't know about?

"yeah I got that.. Bye.." then she hung up.

"It's 6 o'clock for someone to be sleeping? Or do you have a baby?"

She laughed, "South Africa is not the only place on this earth.."

Shit..

She laughed, "umh.. So I'll take that wine now.."

I smiled and handed her the glass of wine. She took a sip on it, "so.. I have to give it to your mom. You are a great cook. Woooow."

I just stared at her and didn't say anything.

"hey..your mom did teach you how to cook this nice right?"

I shrugged mentally thinking, 'your family took her away from me before she even had a chance to teach me anything..' but I didn't say that out loud, I just looked at her and tried to remain calm.

Somehow her mentioning my mom caused something in me that I didn't even know existed. It lit fire in me. It hit this wound that I thought was long healed.

"are you okay?" she asked and didn't know what to say. I low key felt shitty because I felt like they robbed me of the things I could have experiance with my parents... But they decided to kill them, for the same darn land I was on, the same land I was here to claim.

"umh... Letti...?" she said seeming a bit worried and I slowly snapped out of my thoughts. I sighed not wanting her around anymore, "I just realized that I have somethings to do. So you will see yourself out."

She seemed taken back by my last sentence.

"are you okay? Did I say something wrong?"

'you compared me with my mother, someone that you took way early in my life. Someone that I didn't know very well.' I mentally said but didn't say anything to her. I just looked at her and said nothing.

She sighed and got up, "umh okay, I will umh.. See you I guess. Nice food by the way, thank you.."

"sure..." I said again and she took a few steps away but stopped when she was about to reach the door. She turned around and looked at me, "can I have your phone please.."

I took it and gave it to her without even thinking, honestly speaking I wanted her out of there. The thought of me here enjoying dinner with her after what her family did to mind kinda made me sick suddenly.

She looked at her phone and then gave me mine back," thanks for the food again. It was really nice.."

I nodded my head, "no problem Zoe.."

She walked towards the door and stopped when she reached it, she turned back around and looked at me, "my parents are n Rwanda for their honeymoon celebration.. They will be back in a month.. Or so.."

Right! And mine are out there under the ground celebrating the life that they were robbed.

She walked away when she saw me quiet and I threw myself on the couch. I was mad and suddenly feeling empty. I tried to calm myself down because it was my first time feeling like this. I had no idea that her mentioning my parents would have such an effect to me.

I took my phone and called my brother thinking he'd probably know how to calm me down.

'twice in one day...' he said the second he answered his call and I shook her head, "I hate them.. And her..."

'okay slow down.. What happened? Did she find out who...'

I rolled my eyes even though he was miles away from me, "really Lucifer... You're sitting there waiting for me to just f**k up?"

'I'm not doing that, why would you think that?'

"because everytime I say or show you something you doubt me. Me Lucifer. The person you have been training so hard for this moment. Suddenly I am a f**k up.." I spat without even thinking.

I was really upset and he was just adding up to it.

The fact that I grew up without parents also had me mad when I was growing up. It had me worrying about little me scared around the corner when I was a kid. All those memories and that anger I had was all coming back now and it made me feel even more shittier.

They took that from me, they took away everything I was going to do with my mom or share with her. Their greediness lead them to taking innocent souls and leaving me and my brother as orphans.

'Letti calm down... I am not doing that?'

"then what are you doing big brother? If you can't talk anything you mean then please keep quiet."

'what happened? What did she say?'

I sighed, "mentioned mom... I literally froze and got mad then told her to leave. I didn't know I'd feel like this when she talked about her.. I don't want to feel like this."

Honestly I didn't. It was the worst feeling ever and it had me pushing away the only person I was supposed to get closer to for the mission to go smoothly.

'calm down okay, please. You need to work on that for a next time..'

" how? I just get mad.. How will.."

'maybe you should tell her the truth so that she will come back. Tell her that mom and dad passed away in a car accident or something. Is she still there?'

I shool my head as if he was in front of me, "no. I chased her out."

'f**k! Okay when she comes back tell her and she'll understand how you got into that freezing part okay.. This was a sensitive thing to touch on, she'll understand.'

Oh f**k she's probably never going to come back here. I was rude to her.

"God!!! It will be a miracle if she comes back.." I said.