Hidden Horns

It was you

"Why are you so grumpy?" Yohan asked when she couldn't take Chloe's rugged attitude towards her since they left Charlene's place.

"Don't talk to me, just keep driving." Chloe said monotonically, she kept her eyes out of the window.

Yohan opened the door at the shotgun seat for Chloe earlier but the latter ignored her and she proceeded at the back of the car, she sat in silence without saying any word, but whenever Yohan had to stop from time to time because of the traffic, Chloe keep whining and fussing over something for no reason.

"What happened in Charlene's room?" Yohan asked again.

"You don't have to know."

"Fine." Yohan dismissed as she continue driving home.

After that, no one dared to speak again, aside from mumbling voice coming from the radio, making both of them relax as the melody plays softly, allowing their mind to think on different thoughts in the middle of the traffic jam, until they reached the freeway and Yohan drives more faster but not heading home, which Chloe noticed and she raised her left brow, finally looking at her driver.

"Where are we going?" She asked, annoyed.

"Unwind." Yohan replied.

"I want to go home."

"You will, but for now. You have to cool down a bit." Yohan said as she glanced back. "Since you came out from Charlene's room, you seems upset."

"Oh yeah? Well, it's because someone is flirting while I'm consoling my friend!"

"Who?" Yohan asked innocently.

"Nevermind." Chloe waved her hand dismissively as she looked back outside the window and crossed her arms.

There's nothing more confusing than talking to a mad woman that you don't have any idea why she suddenly mad for no reason. Well, let's say she has her reason, but why she had to lash it out to the person she's with? Is it because she's that person Chloe was talking about or she just want to get mad at her driver because she just want to.

Yohan just continue her drive until they reached their destination, a place where she and her two subordinates arrived. The place seems so foreign now for Yohan where it could been her home for a short time period before they finally decided to lurk around the world they've chosen to stay after escaping from her father.

From the bow of the boat the harbour comes into focus like a high-definition movie. Above the gulls swoop, crying in that repetitive way they do. The houses are identical in shape and size but no two are the same shade. They are yellow, lilac, blue, red, orange and every shade in between. Too many years had past since they last went to that place and there are lot of things changes.

"You live here?" Chloe asked as they both watch the area.

"Not totally." Yohan replied, she unbuckle her seatbelt and step put of the car to open the backdoor for Chloe. "I used to go back here whenever I'm tired."

"Why? Your family is here?"

"They are everywhere, as long as you stand on the ground, they're there."

"Are they dead?"

"No, they're immortals." Yohan said.

"Ha ha, you're funny." Chloe laugh mockingly but turns out genuine at the end. Though Yohan was telling her the truth, she didn't have to convince the woman just to scare her. "Do you have something with Nath?" She asked after a few minutes of silence while they are just sitting at the hood, spring wind stroking their faces.

"What do you think?" Yohan asked without looking at Chloe.

"So are you girlfriends or what?" She asked again, feeling a bit irritated by the way Yohan replied with another question.

"Do you know her sister?" Yohan asked again for the third time, but Chloe didn't chose to snap, instead, she got more interested at that question. Of course, she knows Nicole, the girl is one of her friend but unfortunately, she died way back before while she's in New Zealand. She didn't get to fly in her funeral because of her hectic schedule that she had to finish.

Sadly, Nicole died at her young age, she's 19 that time when she hung herself inside her room due for too much intoxication of drugs. That's all she knows about Nicole because after that, Nathalie decided to hide as she grieves for her lost.

Their parents died in an accident after the announcement of the bankruptcy of their company, then Nicole and Nathalie have to endure every debt of their parents, that's why Nicole got into the bad side of the world, she's famous, of course, but not to extent that she's famous as Chloe.

"She's my friend." Chloe replied sadly upon remembering one of her friend.

"I met Nathalie because of her sister."

"She's your girlfriend?"

"Why do you keep assuming that everyone is my girlfriend? I mean, I'm a woman too, isn't it supposed to be a boyfriend?" It's not ridiculous for Yohan to hear something like that because she get that a lot, but she never tell anyone that she prefers women than men.

Chloe looked at her from head to toe then back to her face and she nod her head after. "You're wearing a suit, you always have your hair tied in a tight bun, you never look to a guy whether it's handsome, rich, cool or what, you act like you're a man, you're my driver, tell me.." She turned around to face Yohan with her hands on her waist. "Who would not think that you like girls than boys if you act and dress like that?"

"There are lot of people wear something like this and they are straight and there are lot of people act manly but they are like that because they don't want other people to think that they are weak."

"Nah, you can convince me to anything but you cannot convince me that you don't like girls." Chloe shakes her head and leaned back to her position earlier, looking ahead of her is the sun that is about to set in the sky, as bold as one of Mrs. Smith's tangerine jellies when she was a kid. It sat within that sky, that summer-fruit hued throne, as if it looked over the earth, stretching out with sepia tones to everyone below.

"I don't have time to like anyone, Chloe." There is something in Yohan's voice that Chloe couldn't name what is it. "I am destined to be alone."

"How can you say so? Didn't God gave us all one person to be with, like Eve and Adam, Joseph and Mary, Noah and his wife."

"God? I have my own god and it's different from yours."

"Are you an atheist?" Chloe asked in pure curiosity.

"Nah, I'm different from them because I have my own god, which is my father."

"Damn, you sound like you're Satan's daughter." Chloe laugh but she didn't get any response from Yohan because answering her sentence is forbidden, it's against their law to identify themselves if the human still not meant to die nor it's time to eat their soul.

"Are you ready to tell me what's the reason you're upset at?" Yohan asked to divert their topic before she could reveal herself to Chloe.

"Hmm, about that. I will not gonna answer that question until you don't answer mine."

"What's your question then?" Yohan asked.

"Is Nathalie your girlfriend or Nicole?"

"None of the above. I told you, I am destined to be alone."

"Sounds lame but okay." Chloe shrugged her shoulders as she stood straight that she almost jump. "Let's go home." She said before walking towards the door in the shotgun seat.

"You haven't answered my question." Yohan whined but Chloe just stick her tongue out before entering the car, smiling widely.

Yohan shook her head while smiling, but her smile faded immediately when she had a glimpse of a man standing not too far from their spot, watching them from afar. The guy smirked before he vanished in the air, leaving Yohan disconcerted.

"What the f**k is he doing here?" She asked to herself, her eyes still on the spot where she saw his father's second in command.

"What takes you so long?" Chloe yelled from the rolled down window, snapping Yohan from her daze.

"Sorry." The Devil replied before she proceeded inside the car.

They hit the road in utter silence, which made Chloe confused. They were just talking earlier before they left the place, and now they began to go back from not talking again. After everything Yohan said about herself which is a total joke for Chloe. Yohan didn't talk again nor glance at her, until they reached their home.

Yohan parked the car in the garage, she killed the engine but didn't make another move after that. They stayed inside, Chloe escalating Yohan's mood, while Yohan keep thinking about the guy she saw. If it wasn't for the loud knock who caught their attention, they will stay in the car, idling.

"I don't think it's a good idea to stay in the car for the rest of the night." Agma said outside the still close window.

"Are you okay?" Chloe asked out of concern.

"Y-yeah, sorry but you may go inside first, I just need to go somewhere." Yohan said with a small smile of apology.

"You sure you're fine?" Chloe wanted to make sure before she open the door and leave the girl that she thinks that there is something bothering her since they left the place.

"Yeah." Yohan replied, but this time her smile grew wider to reassure the woman.

"Okay, just..." Chloe trailed off as she thinks for the next word she's going to say. "...be careful." She added before hopping out of the car, but just before Chloe could go inside her house, Yohan stepped out of the car and called her.

"Hey Chloe." The cat-like eyed woman looked over her shoulder as she waits for Yohan to continue. "I'll be back for dinner."

"But it's dinner time, where the hell are your going?" Agma chimes in.

"I'm going to hell." Yohan said which Chloe finds funny but for Agma, it was a serious matter for Yohan to go home to a place that every human don't want to go to.

"I'll wait and oh." Chloe said which caused Yohan to paused and wait for Chloe to continue this time. "It was you." She said and run quickly inside.

"What?" Agma asked confused.

"Uh I don't know." Yohan replied with a shrug but when she got inside the car, her lips formed the widest smile she could ever do in her entire life. "Damn that girl." She mumbled before she starts driving.

It didn't have to take Yohan to drive too far before she pulled the car on the side of the road and get off, she looked around to see if there's human around her, but when she made sure that she's alone. She walked towards the dark alley and the next place she appeared is in front of her father.

"What an honor I have done for my daughter to visit me here in hell?" Satan said upon seeing his daughter.

"Why did you send your men to check on me?"

"Oh? You mean Malphas? I haven't seen that demon for a week."

"Stop lying, will you?"

"Lying, killing, hurting innocents, we are known at doing evil, my daughter."

"Just f*****g tell me why you send him?!" Yohan yelled loudly but her father didn't even bat an eyelash, instead, he remained staring at his daughter unblinking.

"I heard that you're having good relationship with the humans."

"You better not bring Chloe in this conversation!"

"So that's her name? Chloe.." Satan nod his head consecutively, as if he just learned another information that he can use about Chloe and Yohan's situation.

"What the f**k do you want?"

"Nothing much." Satan said as he heaved up from his throne, his tail with pointed arrow at the tip, plays in the air, as if its sensing something that it made it giddy. "You've been staying for so long in there, don't you think it's time for you to go home?"

"We've already talked about this, just give me more time and I'll be back as soon as I get to finish my mission."

"You keep making excuses upon excuses, Yohan. I'm tired of waiting for my daughter to go back and rule this hell."

"I'm not going to—."

"You will and you will have nothing to do about it!" Satan yelled to cut off his daughter. "You are my daughter, I created you! I gave you power, and now you're telling me that you don't want to rule the place where you belong?!"

"I didn't even asked you to create me! You should've find another to fulfill your wishes!" Yohan yelled back as louder as Satan's voice. She then turn her heels but halted again after three steps. "Don't you dare to touch Chloe, she's mine, her soul belongs to me, so you better stay away from her and tell Malphas to leave the f**k out of me." She said before continuing her way out of the place, she even walk through Malphas, who heard everything. Yohan glared at him but the latter just smirk at her in return.

"What am I going to do next, my lord?" Malphas asked after Yohan left the place, with his head bowled over and one knee bend in front of him.

"I want that Chloe here." Satan said then laugh demonically, as if he's excited to the fact that he will finally get ahold of his daughter once Chloe is in his hand as a hostage.

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