13 CHAPTER 13

"I- what!?"

"You heard that right, now go!" Kaval said in an evil grim.

"But I can't!" I said as I felt so perplexed by the situation. If only I knew that this would happen, I would've just chosen to say the truth.

"You will. If you can't then I will take your aid as a form of compensation." I looked at Kaval with wide eyes. How can one be so invested in this stupid game.

I sighed and cursed them in defeat and stood up. My body was starting to tremble while walking towards Hades' room.

Should I just ditch them? Yeah, I should for the sake of my own safety. It's just a stupid game that does not have any benefit. I closed my eyes and went the other way, the way that led me back to my room.

Fuck. I was standing in front of Hades' door. I was fiddling with my fingers and was unconsciously biting my lips.

I felt like I was standing there for an hour or so but I was still contemplating. Well I could just say

'Hey, would you like to join us? But it's fine if you don't want to.'

I inhaled a huge amount of air and knocked on the door thrice. I waited for a response, but I did not receive any. I knocked again but a little louder this time but there was still no response.

Maybe he's already asleep. I should not disturb him. I started to walk away when I felt a presence on my back. My anxiety shot up immediately and my body started to tremble.

I closed my eyes and decided to pretend that I did not feel him behind me and continued to walk away. A step was made, and I heard a voice that sent shivers down my spine.

"What are you doing?" I felt different as his voice did not yield the same tone it did the previous days as it was always filled with authority, hate and anger but now, it sounded like he's calm.

Oh, what am I thinking, he is never calm. I turned around to face him and I felt something in me flickered. He was in a black fitted shirt and was also wearing shorts. Just by then did I saw him as a person.

He had slightly tanned skin and had a nice muscular build. He had gorgeous charcoal dark eyes and had dark hair. His nose was sculpted to perfection as the same goes with his face and his lips were really pretty.

What the hell in the abyss is he?! I mean he looked really fine the first time we met but to actually see him now? He is a demigod I tell you.

"You've been staring at me for a whole minute now princess." I got out of my dazed and blushed immediately.

I mumbled a quite sorry and was trying my best to avoid his gaze. I mean can you blame me? I'd bet that you'd do the same if you were in the same room as him. And I also wish for him to stop calling me that.

I am nobody's princess and I am not a princess. I am a prince for the sake of the gods! But it's weird that I do not feel anything when he calls me that when in fact it should make me upset, but it didn't.

I looked up to see him looking at me with a raised eyebrow as if asking me what was I doing standing in his room in the first place.

"Ah! y-yes. Y-you see I-I've participated i-in the game of truths and the dares and I picked the dare and uh- I-I, u-um.." I fiddled with my fingers while looking down.

Dang it! Why the hell am I so nervous. Just then I wanted to kill him but why am I so frazzled around him. I mentally groan as I looked like a girl who has a huge crush on him. My eyes grew wide at the thought and I felt my face getting hotter.

"And?" His voice sent shivers down my spine and I tried my best not to visually shiver but I failed.

'Get it together Alex!' I mentally shouted.

"A-And t-they told me t-to ask you i-if you w-wanted to j-join us in o-our sleep over." I sighed as I messed up again. He looked at me with slightly furrowed brows, but his gaze was calm which was again, very new to me.

"You want me to join in your sleep over?"

"W-Well if y-you want t-to! I-I mean i-it's fine if y-you don't want to. I-I'm not forcing y-you at a-all." I practically shouted in his face and I knew that it made me look really stupid.

I turned my back immediately and covered my face with my hands as I started to blush really hard. I got so frustrated with my own actions that I almost ripped my hair out.

"I'll go n-now. I'll j-just tell them that y-you were asleep or s-something-"

"Let's go."

"Huh?" I turned around and saw Hade looking at me with a pillow on his side. He didn't change into his pajamas, not that I was expecting him to. Of course not.

He was looking at me still and this time I decided to look at him straight in the eyes. I saw something flickered in those abyssal orbs, but I think it's just me seeing things.

"You're quite staring at me a lot princess. You better stop before I get you to pay the price for looking at this godly face." I turned my back on him and stood straight.

"I-I was n-not. I-I was j-just looking- a-at some t-things." I tried to lie and let's just say, I regretted trying to. I heard him snicker behind me and my face felt a lot hotter.

I know it was just a snicker, but it sounded like he was happy. It's funny because the previous day we almost killed each other and yet we are now walking together like civil people. I could feel him staring at me from behind and it's making me uncomfortable.

I felt my body feeling things and it made me alarmed. I'm feeling new things. And it's scaring me. I opened the Diane's door and greeted them with a small smile. I was actually happy that I got Hade to come with me.

"W-Were h-here." I announced. They turned to look at us and their eyes went wide.

"Where's the food?" Hade said nonchalantly.

"I-It's over there." I pointed towards the table which was filled with foods. "Hold this." He handed me his pillow and started walking to the buffet. I held his pillow in my arms and it smelt like him. Not that I was smelling him, but it smelt like him.

It smelt so strong yet sweet and alluring at the same time. I smiled slightly and walked towards the others.

"Now, I have done the dare, where's the bottle."

"Wait so you actually got him to come here!?" Diane whispered in a shouting manner. I just nodded and kept looking for the bottle while also holding Hades' pillow.

"W-Wait did you do something to make him join us?!"

"No. I just asked him, and he obliged." I answered Kaval truthfully. I glanced at Hade who was busy eating and it made me smile unknowingly.

What is happening to me. I shrugged and looked at them. They were looking at me with wide eyes and I could not get why they were reacting like this.

"I really just asked him." I said thinking that they don't believe me.

"No no listen. You just got Hade, the Hade Morningstar to join us."

"Yes." I answered Diane with a look that said, 'what's the big deal?'.

"No, you don't get it. He doesn't go to things like this! He even barely shows up in events. He doesn't even oblige to our request!" Diane explained as if it was the most bizarre thing to happen in her life. Kaval just nodded as he had the same reaction with Diane.

"You're even holding his pillow!" Diane added.

"Yes, now can we go for another round again? Maybe I'm just lucky to have him join us today." I looked beside me and saw Apollo laughing lightly.

"Yeah what's the big deal?" he added. Both Kaval and Diane rolled their eyes and mumbled some words. They gave me the bottle and I spun it and soon enough it landed on Apollo.

"Ha!" I exclaimed.

"Oh shit." I laughed at his reaction and asked him what he wanted to choose. He chose dare and we huddled together and discussed what dare are we going to give him.

"We dare you to dance since Kaval knows that you are a bad dancer." I laughed when I saw Apollos' reaction.

He stood up and started to dance and all I can say is that, he is not the best dancer out there. We were laughing so hard and yet I felt someone staring.

I looked over to Hade who was looking at me with a glare. What did I do now? I stood up and left the others who were too occupied to notice me leaving.

"I-Is something wrong?" I asked nervously. He looked upset. Was he mad that we didn't include him in the game. We could always have him join us if that's why he's mad.

"D-Did we do something wrong?" He looked at me and I almost jolted back. I saw that flicker again as his gaze started to change.

He closed his eyes and looked at me again. There were no longer signs of him being agitated and it relieved me somehow.

"Y-You should play with us." I tried to suggest but he disagreed.

"Then what do you want to do?" I almost shouted as he dragged me to the bed and made me sat. He took the pillow and placed it on my lap before plopping on to it.

"I want you to accompany me princess. You dragged me here, you shall accompany me. That's my price for you." he said, and my breath got caught in my throat as I saw him flash a smile. A genuine smile before rolling to face the side where my stomach was.

"Can I snuggle?" I didn't know what was happening and nodded mindlessly. I felt his face snuggle on my abdomen and his warm breath was fanning my skin through the skin fabric and I felt so goddamn hot.

I couldn't move, I felt restricted and frozen and yet somehow, something inside me was yelling. I did not know what it was. Why was this happening?