Hidden Horns

You Are a Devil

"Give it back to me!"

"No!"

"Ok that's it! I'm calling aunt Yohan!" Molly said as she huffed a breath and run upstairs to get into Yohan's room. She pushed the door open without even knocking but she didn't see the woman, she pulled the door to close it and she knocked into Chloe's room two door away from Yohan's room. "Is aunt Yohan inside?"

Chloe put the bookmark in the part where she stopped reading because she heard the knock, she put it down on the table next to her, heaved up and walked to the door. "She went out this morning, she didn't told you?" Chloe said after she open the door for the kid.

"Urgh! She didn't." The kid groans and stomped her feet onto the floor twice and bow her head, apologizing for disturbing the brunette in her one day off after the hectic schedule for straight two weeks for the new release of summer collection.

And it's been two weeks since Harvey showed himself and from that day, he started to pursue Chloe to get her back, he always came to the place where Chloe was taking her pictorial, he brings flower, chocolates, jewelry and anything else just to get her back. Yohan let the guy to roamed around Chloe but she never let the brunette go anywhere without her, but since it's Chloe's day off, Yohan went out to do some business.

"What's wrong?"

"It's aunt Jess." The kid said, pointing downstairs and pouting. "She don't want to give me back my phone!"

"And why is that?"

"Because she said that I needed to finish my homework, but I already did and she won't believe!"

Chloe chuckled and patted the kid's head. "Why don't you get inside and play on my computer instead?"

"Really?!" Molly beams in excitement, her eyes were sparkling against the fluorescent lamp on the ceiling. When Chloe nodded her head with smile in her lips, Molly took one step but immediately stop and she step back again.

"What's wrong?" Chloe asked confusedly at the kid's action.

"But I was told not to bother you." Molly pouts.

"Oh don't mind those three dumb, as long as I allowed you to come in, that means I'm allowing you to bother me." Chloe said and she pulled the kid inside her room and shut the door. "Your aunt Yohan isn't even here so you can play all you want."

"But what if she got back and see me here?" Molly asked hesitantly.

"And? It's not like she'll throw you out, I'm the owner of this house, I can let anyone in here."

Molly stared at Chloe with her eyes filled of amusement. She used to see the brunette always mad, her feline eyes squinting and she's always yelling, while her aunt Yohan always compose and calm even if they are arguing.

"Thank you." Molly said lowly and Chloe smile warningly. She walked to her computer and booted it on and let the kid to play while she walked back to her couch and continue what she was reading.

Inside those two weeks that had passed, Chloe got used having Molly inside her house, along with that two idiots downstairs. The only thing she can't get use to is Yohan's personality.

Sometimes, Yohan will be persistent for what she wants for Chloe, and sometimes, Yohan will be a bit different from her first attitude she showed to Chloe, like when the latter stabbed her toe, Yohan took care of her for the whole day, and when she fell asleep because of too much exhaustion, Yohan lend her shoulder for Chloe, but every time that Harvey will show his face in Chloe's work, Yohan will be back to her personality which is the strict and controlling.

She never allowed Chloe to accept any invitation from her ex boyfriend, not even a single one. Though, Chloe doesn't even have any plan to go out with Harvey, but the fact that Yohan changed her treatment to Chloe from time to time was still confusing for the brunette.

"Can I ask you a question?" Molly asked out of a sudden.

"Sure, go ahead." Chloe replied without looking at the kid and her eyes fixed in her book.

"Who's the guy yesterday?"

"Harvey."

"Is he your boyfriend?" Molly continue to ask.

"No, he's my ex 8 years ago." Chloe keep answering the kid's question since it won't harm it in any way.

"Oh I see." Molly nod her head continuously and stop on that, but Chloe already got curious as to why the kid asking about Harvey, and so she shut the book and looked at the kid.

"Why are you asking?"

"Oh nothing." Molly shrugs her shoulder. "I was just curious because he kept coming back even if you already told him don't come back."

"Well, aren't he's persistent?"

"He is, but to be honest, if I were him, I won't ever come back if there are three bodyguards already told me not to come back."

"They supposed to say that because I told them to, but what's there to be scared with three women?" Chloe laughed at that, because even if they are her bodyguards, they are still women.

Molly paused from clicking the mouse and she released a sigh before spinning the chair to face the brunette. "I'm not saying this because they are my aunties, but they are powerful women."

"So are they like, have superpowers?" Chloe asked mockingly, laughing at her own joke.

"What if I said yes?" Molly said seriously which make Chloe to stop from laughing and she look in Molly's eyes, she could see how serious she is, that means she's either saying that her accusation about her bodyguards was true or she's just that good in acting, because the kid is a member in drama club at their school.

"Molly—."

"Kidding!" The kid beams and throw her head at the back and laugh at Chloe's reaction. "They are just too good in combat fights because they are well trained."

Chloe released a sigh of relief, even though she wanted it to be true because she will confirm her accusation since the day one she met Jess and Agma, but there's a part of her, hoping that Molly was just fooling around, and it turns out that she is.

It'll be so damn scary if it's true because she's been living and got surrounded with unidentified supernatural creatures.

"Silly, just go and continue playing, I'll ask Jess to prepare the lunch." Chloe said with awkward laugh as she stood up and walk out of her room.

"Oh wow, the princess is awake." Jess said when she saw Chloe entering the kitchen.

"Shut up." Chloe grumbled and she sat next to Agma. "You should starts cooking our lunch."

"I'm already on it." Jess said while cutting the onions and smiling forcedly because they almost got caught using her witch power, cooking their lunch.

"By the way, I was planning to invite my friends here today, so I'm expecting the two of you to go home and let us have our privacy." Chloe said. Agma and Jess exchange glances before looking back to Chloe who's smiling at them fakely. "

Ok." Agma said.

"Thank you." Chloe clap her hands as she stood up from the high stool. "Oh tell it to Yohan as well."

"You should call Yohan." Jess said when they made sure that Chloe was far enough from their earshot.

"She's busy, I don't think she'll be here until this evening." Agma said.

"I forgot, she's with Satan." Jess said and they both laugh at that. They couldn't imagine Yohan's face this morning after she received the letter that his father wants to talk to her.

Yohan hates going back to where she was born, not because she hates being there, but because she hates having a conversation with the one who created her, the one who has the power to take back every power that Yohan has, even her life, especially if Yohan didn't get the soul that she needs to gain back her creator's trust.

Yohan's life was silent, she could get every soul she wants, if there's people who asked for power, fame and anything else, Yohan will gladly give them what they want, but in return, she'll eat their soul. But not until she met Collin Smith, the guy who broke his promise and hide from the Devil, the devil who got her life miserable after one soul went missing.

Chloe Smith.

She tried to look for Collin for many years, until she decided to rose from hell to find the guy on her own to avoid having trouble with his creator, but since she's taking so long, her creator sent a crow to deliver the message that he needs to talk with Yohan.

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"You think I'm a fool?" A guy with two pointed horns, a long tail swinging fast and scratching Yohan's face with its end with pointed arrow. "Do you think I will buy your lame reason?!"

"I am telling the truth." Yohan said, wiping the blood that came out from the cut in her face.

"No one in the mortal world could have that stone, and it was just a myth, you think I will believe you?"

"I'm not forcing you to believe me, but you know me so damn well." There was suppressed rage in Yohan's voice, her eyes in darkest colored eyes and her fist curved in ball tightly.

The two horned man stared at his creation's eyes, he knows that Yohan wasn't lying, but he still don't want to believe either. He's in between of punishing Yohan for staying out of the hell for too long without permission and letting her go because he needs proof that Yohan is telling the truth.

"Okay then." Satan sigh in defeat. "I will let you go but I want you to go back here with the proof."

"Well then, am I allowed to go now?"

"Not yet." Satan said. "You need to reflect for your action, and those two, I told you to bring them with you!"

"They are has nothing to do with my fault, so there is no reason for me to include them here."

"Oh yeah? Why don't you ask Agma?"

Yohan tilt her head on the side with her brows furrowed. "What do you mean?"

"You really thought that I don't have any idea with your disappearance? I send her to be your guide in case you started crossing the wrong path."

Yohan suddenly remembered Agma's appearance, the day after she decided to look for Collin and she brought Jess with her. Agma said that she wants to be with Yohan and help her to whatever she was looking for. Now it does makes sense why Agma been trying to remind her that she should focus in getting Chloe's soul.

But is Agma still the same like what his father think of her? She cried when Justin died, she's taking care of Molly, an ordinary human, which is against her rule, because as a demon, she supposed to kill the kid not taking care of her.

"You should stop sending your men just to remind me, I know who I am." Yohan said and turn her back against her father and walk away.

"You are a Devil, Yohan Ceyx."

Yohan heard those sobering words, splashing into her senses as if they were icy water, waking up part of her head as if she were somehow drunk before.

"I know." She mumbles to herself, clenching her fist tightly.

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"So where's Yohan?" Charlene asked. They were in the living room, having a little drink and talking random stuff.

"I don't know, she said that she needs to go somewhere." Chloe said uninterested.

"This is the first time I haven't seen her around since she started to be your driver."

"Yeah but I also need to breath, Charlene. She didn't need to be with me 24/7." Chloe roll her eyes and took a sip in her drink.

"C'mon girls, let's not talk about Yohan, let's talk about Harvey." Ivy chimes in, clapping her hands giddily which Chloe finds irritating.

"Hell no, we're not going to talk with that guy." Chloe chided while shaking her head furiously. "Let's just talk about your boyfriends."

"b***h, I don't have one!" Ivy sneered.

"Yeah, me too. I'm too busy for that." Charlene said.

"Girls, you've been wasting your beauty, what the hell are you doing?" Chloe asked in disbelief.

It is really surprising that after 8 years, her friend and cousin still don't have boyfriends, though Ivy had one way back in highschool but Charlene, she never had a boyfriend nor even interested to boys that wondered Chloe.

She looked at her cousin and poke her fluffy cheeks exactly like what she have. "Are you gay?"

"Yeah." Charlene replied without even stuttering, making Chloe and Ivy gasped exaggeratedly. She's not expecting her cousin to be that bold in admitting her s*x preference.

"You w–what?" Ivy asked, eyes wide open.

"I like girls, what's wrong with that?" Charlene asked, her voice and her face scream annoyance at Ivy's face expression.

"There's nothing wrong about that, cous." Chloe quickly recomposed herself from the sudden confession and she smiled genuinely. "We were just surprised that you'll admit that easily."

"Oh my God." Ivy breathed out, her arms crossed in her body, as if she's covering them. "You have seen me naked a lot of time."

Charlene scoffs and rolled her eyes. "Please, not because I admit that I like girls, that doesn't mean I like girls in general, you're not even my type."

"Oh ok." Ivy said and she laugh awkwardly.

"b***h, this is why I never told her that I'm gay because I know that she'll react like that." Charlene said in snarky tone, shooting Ivy with dagger look.

"It's normal reaction, Charlene." Ivy said. "You never told us about your identity, who knows that you're fantasizing my bod—."

"What? Hell no, you're over exaggerated, you think being gay is a sin and as if we don't exist but sadly we do and may I remind you, not all people in general likes you."

"Ok that's enough." Chloe rebuked as she stood up, standing between her friends. "I think we should stop drinking, it's started to kick in, why don't we—."

"Hello girls, sorry for bothering you but I needed to get something here." Jess appears on the door, heading straight to the stairs. "Oh and Chloe, Yohan won't be able to come home tonight so we'll sleep here."

"Why?" Chloe asked.

"What do you mean why? We are your bodyguards."

"No, I mean why Yohan won't come home tonight?" Chloe asked with creased forehead.

Jess and Charlene looked at Chloe, as if they both think the same on why the brunette reacted like that for Yohan's not coming home tonight, but Ivy huffed a breath upon seeing the woman.

"Uh uhm she.. she went home and her home is really far from here so yeah." Jess said as she continue her way upstairs.

"She must have called me somehow to tell me she wasn't coming home tonight." There's a bit of annoyance in Chloe's voice that Jess finds really amusing.

She always hates Yohan, she hates seeing the woman around her, but why now that Yohan's won't make it home tonight makes her mad.

"Isn't it great? You'll have your freedom for one day." Ivy said.

"Yeah whatever." Chloe chaffed as she sat down abruptly and crossed her arms. "Let's just continue drinking, I have freedom to get wasted anyway."

"Finally!" Ivy exclaimed and she stood up from her seat to get another bottle of tequila in Chloe's mini bar.

"Why don't you call her instead?" Charlene said after she made sure that Ivy was away from their earshot.

Chloe flicked her tongue and shakes her head fervently, as if Charlene's suggestion is absurd. "Ivy was right, I have my freedom for today."

"Okay, I was just suggesting that because you seems upset that she's not going home." Charlene shrugs her shoulder.

"I was hoping that she will never come back."

"Yeah, whatever." The Blonde said, waving her hand dismissively.

After that talk, Chloe decided to get drunk and have some fun carelessly, thinking that there is no Yohan who will tell her to stop drinking and if she refused, the tall girl will pick her up and put her in her shoulder and bring her to her room. No Yohan, means freedom.

The three of them get themselves drunk and wasted. They didn't notice the time if it wasn't for Agma and Jess arriving in Chloe's house from the house next to Chloe's. Agma was covering Molly's eyes as she guided the kid upstairs and Jess decided to clean the mess while the girls are sleeping peacefully on the couch from being too much drunk.

"Yohan will probably be mad if she see her like this." Jess said while picking up the empty bottles.

"I'm sorry about that, but I thought she's not going home for tonight?"

Jess got startled when she heard Charlene spoke, which is she thought also sleeping with the other two.

"For Satan's sake! You scared the s**t out of me." Jess said while clutching her chest.

"Sorry." Charlene said with sheepish smile, her eyes barely opening.

"It's fine, but you're right, but I was just saying that if Yohan is here, she'll be mad seeing her like this." Jess said as she continue cleaning the table, putting every left over in the plastic trash she was holding. "Does Chloe have a problem?"

"I don't know." Charlene replied between her grogginess and the will to stay up and have conversation with the woman she finds really cute since she first saw Jess outside the building of the agency where she was working. "But I know that you saw her got upset when you told her that her driver wasn't coming home for tonight."

"Yeah I saw it." Jess chuckled. "I bet she's already used to Yohan's presence and that is the most scary thing." The witch's voice became inaudible in her last sentence.

"I just hope that she won't get attach to much, because I don’t want her to experience what I experienced as a gay."

"Yeah, I hope so too." Jess sighs but she hastily snapped her head to Charlene when the woman's word sunk into her. "You're gay?"

"Yeah, are you going to discriminate me to?" There's a bitterness in Charlene's voice, thinking that Jess is like Ivy.

"No, what the hell? Why would I do that? I actually want you to welcome to our club." Jess laugh and she offered her hand to Charlene and the latter sat straight, staring at Jess's hand and then looked up to her face, meeting those chocolate brown orbs and saw the heart-shaped lips spreading widely.

"What is that for?

"I didn't got to introduce myself." Jess said, her smile grew even wider. "I'm Jess Wilson."

Charlene return the same smile that the woman in front of her giving to her before she reach for Jess's hand. "Charlene Smith."

"Nice to meet you, Charlene." Jess said.

"What is going on in here?" The two girls got startled by that voice and they both looked at the door, seeing Yohan with her dark eyes, looking at them in surprised, then her gaze shifted to Chloe, her eyes became more darker and Jess know that whatever happens in hell, it's not good and she knows that it is trouble that she caught Chloe in that state.

"Yohan—." Jess stop from speaking when Chloe suddenly stood up, as if she just caught red-handed.

"You b***h! Where have you been?! Did you meet your mistress?!" Chloe said raggedly which made the girls looked at her ludicrously, even Yohan who had the worst day of her life after meeting her father.

"What?" Yohan asked chuckling.

"You..cheated on me." Chloe's voice trailed off and her body plopped down, continuing her sleep, leaving the three other girls in astonishment from what they heard from the brunette.

"Damn, I'll remind her this day for the rest of her life." Jess said before laughing loudly.

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