Chapter 19

"Uhm...may I have Basik to be my date in academy night, Kwon?"

Basik ended up hitting his head on the desk, Gideon was signaling Maine to stop Annah. Luna stopped from sipping from her blue pack. They knew Ricco was in pure anger now as the air felt a little chilly.

"Ah, Annah..." Maine grabbed her best friend's arm seeing the clear emotion on Ricco's icy gray eyes. Jealousy. So stark and raw that the air surrounding them charged with it.

And Annah was either stupid or dense to see it.

All the hybrids and purebloods women surrounding Ricco's table straightened up suddenly and left from that place one by one along with his friends and Maine, leaving only the two of them

Annah looked down to Ricco's hand when he casted a spell to the minds of those women. "How did you do that?" she asked rather enthusiastically.

"You're a big clot." Ricco breathed in a frown.

Annah's cheerful face darkened. "And you're a dimwit." She turned away from there but he grabbed his wrist and she suddenly felt dizzy. The next thing she remembered, she was out the library, into the top of the tower-the private dorm of the king's son.

Gasping for some air while she kept her head steady, Annah only opened her eyes when a cold wind caressed her face.

"Wha-" Annah's eyes widened when she saw the whole premise of the academy in the only tower of pureblood's dorm. She looked at Ricco who leaned over the wall in closed eyes as if trying to steady his mind too. "How did you do it?"

Ricco opened his eyes to her own. "The book."

"Oh my gosh, you're actually doing real manipulations now." Annah said excitedly but then frowned suddenly remembering where they left off from the library before he Evanesced them together there. "I'm still asking Basik to be my date-"

"Are you really stupid?"

"Hey, what is your problem?" Annah demanded. " I was merely asking your permission to let Basik be my date. Besides, This place is divine."

Ricco only shook his head while staring at her. He got inside his room through a walk through window. Annah then followed him from behind.

"This is seriously cool. You can see all of the academy in here." Annah muttered and looked around the couches situated in the center before a bed could be seen in the corner. "Is this your room?"

"If I refuse?" he discarded the book he held to his bed and stared at her.

"I'll beg you until my knees bleed." Annah said earnestly which seemed to displease him.

"What?" Ricco towered over her now while she reclined, dropping down the couch. "Do you fancy Basik that much?"

"Fancy?" Annah asked in disbelief before she laughed out loud, holding her tummy. "You nitwit!"

"Then enlighten me." Ricco demanded.

"I just need a date for the dance night, Kwon." Annah explained after a while. "Jason is going out with Veronica long legs and there's no way I'm gonna look pathetic ex-girlfriend at the dance."

"Ex...girlfriend?"

"We split after I caught him cheating." Annah said while Ricco turned away from her, hiding his expression from her.

"I told you-"

"Yeah. Yeah. You're right."

"Then you owe me an apology, you mixed blood." He said and turned towards her again when he schooled his exhilaration away from his face. "You slapped me, you dufus."

"Right. I'm sorry about it okay?" Annah said dejectedly.

"Not enough."

"What do you expect me to do? Perform a cola dance?"

"I'm hungry." he said.

"Oh shit. Here we go again." Annah problematically said and looked at the door earnestly. "Say, If I run away from you, are you gonna catch me?"

"Yeah."

"I'm a fast runner." Annah hoped. "Oh alright, you blood sucker."

Ricco readily grabbed her down in the bed where a Persian rug catered them. He leaned his back at the edge of his bed, having on his parted legs the woman who submitted herself to him.

Annah slightly grimaced in pain when he buried his fangs to her wrist and began sucking her blood with the same festive demeanor, his other hand wrapped to her waist instead of covering her mouth like before.

"You know, If you keep doing this to me, I'll die of iron deficiency or too much blood loss." Annah said and leaned her head to his chest and set her eyes above the ceiling with medieval chandeliers in there. His walls decorated with antics and precious paintings that she felt like entering a chamber of the palace.

She turned to her left direction when Ricco ended his festive shortly and lapped at the wound until it healed and closed. And just like he always do, he planted a soft kiss in there.

"You could have those voluptuous and healthy woman's blood instead of me. I mean I look at me, Kwon. I'm petit and will soon be anemic."

Ricco only snorted in response and buried his face to her shoulder instead.

"So, can I have Basik now?" Annah hoped but then he shook his head. "Damn Kwon you're hard to persuade."

"Why Basik?" he asked still resting his head to her shoulder.

"Maine suggested it since she asked Gideon. So I'll take Basik if he's available." Annah answered still leaning the back of her head to his chest, looking up the ceiling. She then turned to his direction. "I planned to ask you first but then, you never attended academy night even once for the last two years."

Ricco looked up and stared at her chocolate colored eyes. "Ask me then." he said.

Annah lifted her head off his chest and squinted her eyes to his icy ones. "You're playing."

"I'll go with condition."

"You're really going with me?" Annah asked again in disbelief.

"With condition." He pushed.

"What is it?" Annah asked with unexplained excitedness on her face.

"I'll tell you after the party." He said, bathing his eyes with how her orbs glinted different right that moment.

"Oh gosh....don't play funny trick on me, Kwon." Annah warned while he shook his head. "Okay deal." she said.

"Don't back out on me." He said.

"No, don't back out on me." Annah held her hand to him while he received it with a shake. "Although, I'll probably be murdered with women around the academy when they find out I got you as my date ."

Ricco only chuckled, leaning his head to the bed this time, still not letting her go from being sprawled in the floor with him.