Bedtime stories, fantasy, fiction, and more ...
Just a warning ... none of them are normal.

This is a collection of romance fantasies. From an office love triangle with the CEO and his assistant to a stalker making you think your meeting was destined. There are many other different short stories that could possibly happen or only ever happen in your fantasy's. Each chapter is a new short story. Like a bedtime book for romance readers.
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I got my title picture from a comic on Webcomics.

The man in the bathrobe laid on his bed. Habitually, he reached out and grabbed the financial book on the bedside cabinet. His long, pale fingers flipped over a page before he replied coldly to the little girl, "No."
The little girl was not having it. Only her head had crossed the line in the beginning, but now her entire body had almost crossed over the makeshift border.
She blinked her eyes excitingly, "Can you tell me one? I would like to hear one."
"No."
The man repeated coldly as he scanned through the book. His finger had flipped over another page when he answered her question.
"Why not, daddy?"
The little girl's entire body had already crossed over by this point.
Her little head appeared in front of his eyes. Her black hair was like a small waterfall that flowed from behind her head, and its length was just enough to block Lu Junhan's sight of the book's contents.
Lu Junhan, "…"
Alright, this little troublemaker really knew how to find the best angle to annoy him.
In the next second, the little girl's round, clear eyes stared into his. Her black eyelashes were like the wings of butterflies as they fluttered. They looked mesmerizing, to say the least. 
She held her little fist and said with conviction, "Other kids have bedtime stories, Lili wants one too."
"Keep on dreaming then!"
Lu Junhan extended his arm and picked her up with a cold expression. He proceeded to throw the little thing back into its territory.
The little girl was too small, so she didn't manage to latch onto the bed sheets before she rolled down the side of the bed. However, she wasn't angry at all.
A moment later, she once again crossed over the blanket that divided them as if she was invincible. Like a buzzing mosquito, she continued bugging Lu Junhan. "Daddy! Bedtime story! Tell Lili a bedtime story, please…"
Lu Junhan took a deep breath and turned towards her with an angry glare. "If I tell you one, will you shut up and go to sleep?!" he asked.
A lot of people would have wetted their pants upon receiving such a cold and hostile glare, but Lili didn't seem to be affected at all. Her chubby white face was all puffed up as she excitedly said in a soft voice, "…You really want to tell me a story, daddy?"
"Yes."
"Yay…"
"A long, long time ago, there was a woman. She died. The end."
"… That was way too short. Daddy, do you really know how to tell a bedtime story?"
"…" Lu Junhan gave her a cold stare and said, "Shut up and go to bed!"
"…"
Alright.
She had located her daddy, got him to sleep in the same bed as her, and received a bedtime story from him, albeit a really brief one. Lu Li was already very satisfied with what she got today.
She quietly pulled her blanket over her body and slept.
However, just before she slept, her head once again crossed over the blanket in the middle as if she had suddenly remembered something. Her fair, chubby little face was very beautiful under her long, soft black hair.
She whispered to the man, "Goodnight, daddy."
The man read his book with his head lowered coolly. He didn't say anything. He did not look up from his book nor did he respond to her wishing him goodnight.
The little girl paid him no heed as her little body laid back on the bed. Quietly, she shut her eyes.
After a short while, her breathing became slow and constant. A sign that she had fallen asleep for real this time. 
No one knew how much time had passed before the man finally looked up from his book and gave her a long hard stare.
She was huddled up as she slept on the side. Her little hands laid next to her face. It looked elegant, fair, and cute as she had her face facing him. Her tiny mouth was slightly open, allowing her to breathe. She was as peaceful as a little angel that had fallen down onto Earth.
Her little brows were slightly furrowed as if something was bugging her in her dreams.
Lu Junhan paused slightly and put down his book. He then raised his hand to switch off the bright light from the lamp.
… 
On the second day, Lu Junhan went to work normally. Lu Li wanted to come along, but as soon as she reached the door, she was thrown into Song Qingwan's arms by her bad, cold, and emotionless daddy.
Song Qingwan really liked the little thing and didn't want to let her go the moment she had her in her arms.
When she heard that Lu Li wanted to follow her daddy to work, Song Qingwan quickly dispelled her desire by saying, "Lili, I'm not kidding when I say that daddy's work will bore you to death! He would have to put on his cold, emotionless face the entire day, and you'd quickly get frustrated from looking at it for too long. You better follow auntie, I'll go and buy something nice for you to eat!"
Song Qingwan originally wanted to call herself grandma but felt that she was making herself sound old. After giving it some thought, being called auntie was so much easier to the ears. To her ears at least.
She wasn't Lu Junhan's real mother anyway.
Not to mention the fact that she hadn't married as well. She was still young, so of course, it would only be right for the little girl to call herself auntie!


The villain Lu Junhan was a malevolent and sly man. There was no crime that he had not done, and there was no one that did not fear him in Hai City. In the end however, he died in the hands of the male lead, and became the largest joke within the high society in Hai City.
The princess of the Koi Tribe wanted to change this terrible ending, and did everything she could to reincarnate into Lu Junhan’s biological daughter, Lu Li. The three-year-old-and-a-half tightened her fist. 
“I will protect my daddy’s life! No one can bully him!” 
Everyone’s face turned pale. Who was bullying who, really?!
And then…
Lu Junhan ordered, “Take off his clothes and throw him into the pool!”
Lu Li said, “Daddy, let me! I know how to take people's clothes off.”
Lu Junhan was speechless.
Lu Junhan stopped, and said, “Taking off his clothes might make you get some eye disease. Fine, cut off his hand-”
Before he could even finish, Lu Li unsheathed an extremely sharp blade. 
“Daddy, let me! I know how to do this too!”
Lu Junhan was speechless again.
Afterward, a reporter interviewed him to ask, “Mr. Lu, may I ask what made you turn over a new leaf and vow to be a good man?”
Lu Junhan simply smiled without saying anything. To give his daughter a good environment to grow up, he had to hide all his darkness and violence in his closet, so that he could be a good example for his daughter and make sure that she didn’t steer off into a strange path, as well as stop her from being cheated by others! 
However who knew that as careful as he was, his baby girl that he had taken every precaution to raise would be brought home by a little demon king!
The little demon king who has always been malevolent, violent, and cared for nothing put on his kind face. “Lili, they all say that you like good people. Do I look like a good person now?”


Yin Tao was excited because it was the first time he slept with his father and daddy. After he dragged Rong Yi inside the room, he rushed to the bed, climbed up the bed same high as his chest, took out tiny pillow and quilts from his Storage Bracelet and put them next to Yin Jinye's. He patted his tiny pillow and said excitedly, "Daddy, father, come here."

Looking into Yin Tao's sparkling eyes, Rong Yi had no heart to refuse him. He looked back at Yin Jinye, wishing he could refuse this damn kid.

Yin Jinye gave the kid whose smile was bright as sunshine a look, sat down, kept wiping his magic weapon, then said, "You two sleep first."

Rong Yi gave him a hard stare. He meant to let him to refuse the kid but not to allow them to stay.

"Daddy. Come here. Daddy. Come on. Come on. Come here…" Yin Tao rolled on the bed.

Rong Yi opened his mouth but finally he didn't refuse him. It was not a big deal to sleep on the same bed with a kid and a man. Besides, since the master of the room agreed, he didn't need to complain like a girl.

He walked to the bed and Yin Tao threw himself at him excitedly, "Dad, bedtime story, bedtime story."

Rong Yi's eyes twitched, "I better go back to my own room."

God must know that he hates kids so that he specially sent this kid to torture him.

"Don't go, daddy." Yin Tao dragged his sleeve tightly, with both anxiety and expectation in his eyes.

"Do you still want bedtime story?" asked Rong Yi.

"Yes, I do." Nodded Yin Tao.

Rong Yi, "…"

"Daddy, come up here." Yin Tao dragged him onto the bed.

Rong Yi sat down, with one leg hanging at the bedside.

Yin Tao took off Rong Yi's shoes as if he was afraid that he would go at any minute.

Rong Yi took his shoes by himself as he didn't want Yin Tao to try so hard to please him.

Yin Tao then got down by his side and said, "Daddy, bedtime story."

Rong Yi rolled his eyes secretly. How would he know how to tell bedtime stories? Maybe fairytales from his world? He only overheard a few small stories that his elder brother told his younger brothers. But he didn't know the whole stories.

 "Daddy, please."

Rong Yi then asked helplessly, "Why do you want to listen to bedtime story?"

Yin Tao then answered with jealousy, "Other senior brother apprentices all go to bed with their dads telling them bedtime stories. I want that too."

Rong Yi could tell how much this kid wanted love from fathers. He stroked his head and started after thinking for a bit, "Once upon a time there was a kid whose senior brother apprentices all like to listen to bedtime stories from their fathers. One day, the fathers all disappeared…"

"Why did they disappear?" asked Yin Tao out of curiosity.

"Because the senior brother apprentices liked bedtime stories too much to sleep, so Heaven took their fathers away forever."

Yin Tao then hugged Rong Yi tightly. "I don't want to leave you. I don't want to leave you. Daddy, I am done with bedtime stories."

Rong Yi was amused how easily kids were fooled.

Yin Jinye snorted while he was wiping the weapon. He expected that Rong Yi could tell a good story. It turned out to be nothing.

Giving him a quick look, Rong Yi said to Yin Tao, "I might be taken away by Heaven if I tell bedtime stories. But your father wouldn't be taken away. We can let him tell us bedtime stories, OK?"

Yin Tao giggled, "Great."

Yin Jinye, "…"

Rong Yi didn't expect Yin Jinye to come over himself, so he went off the bed to urge him, "Stop it. The more often you wipe it, the weaker it becomes. You might not notice it at the beginning. But given time, you will realize it."

Yin Jinye narrowed his eyes because he really found his magic weapon was not as handy and powerful as before. He always thought that was because he overused it. He even had Spiritual Weapon Maker examine it but found no problems. Was it because he wiped it too often as Rong Yi said?

He was then dragged to the bedside.

"Bedtime story, father." Said Yin Tao happily.

 "It's too late. You should sleep now." said Yin Jinye flatly.

Yin Tao barely said yes and tucked himself in his little quilt as he was deterred by Yin Jinye's condescending power.

"Alas." Rong Yi sighed, looking at the damn kid. If he had known that Yin Jinye could make him sleep with only a few words, he would have already made him do it in the first place.

"So should you." Yin Jinye pushed Rong Yi slightly.

"You mean here?" asked Rong Yi.

"Hmm."

Rong Yi then climbed onto the bed hesitantly.

Yin Tao hugged him immediately, "It feels awesome to sleep with daddy."

Rong Yi patted slightly on Yin Tao's back and closed his eyes. He was worn out after excessively enchanting twice today.Soon he already fell fast asleep.

Yin Jinye picked up his magic weapon and checked it, frowning, and decided not to wipe it anymore. After he put it back to his Storage Ring, he heard even breathing sound from Rong Yi and Yin Tao.

He looked at the kid first and then Rong Yi. This young man didn't wear makeups like a woman as his subordinated described. And what was more, he neither was a coward nor was ill-tempered.

Before he came, he had already made up his mind to stay strangers with him, but now he had kind of expectations for the future development of their relationship.

The minute Yin Jinye was about to look away from Rong Yi, a strand of spiritual power generated from all directions in the air and flew into Rong Yi's body. If he had no such high cultivation power and he was not focusing on Rong Yi, he wouldn't notice it at all.

"Interesting. You can absorb spiritual power  even when you sleep." Said Yin Jingye while curling up his lips.

No one else could do that.

Far beyond the colonial ship ever set sand at one of the islands of the Philippines.

Three large chunks of landmass from the country we know today as the Philippines. It was small compared, and yet we have colossal kings to governed their own territory.

The sky king

The sea king

The crab king

The 5 headed king

The river king

Arranged by descending size, the two kings were considered the kings of the kings. 

The sky king, Minokawa, the suneater; a large bird with eyes that shines like diamonds when gazed at the sun, wings hardened to withstand the atmosphere descend leaving a red shooting star at the sky everytime the creature flew the outer space, and claws that can pick up mountains.

The sea king, Bakunawa, the mooneater; a large sea serpent that roam around the Pacific Ocean and slept at the large trench that was considered the largest under the ocean at current time. Its body mass and length can lung itself to the distant of the moon. Recorded to have eaten 6 moons that caused global trespassed of spiritual beasts; hence, the stories of monsters and beasts from early bedtime stories and lores of any land. With its massive gazing mouth can engulp several villages with darkness of the void.

The four kings stopped the sea king from eating the last of the moon as it flew up in the air like a dragon flying from the clueless ocean.

As fellow kings of the land, he was forgiven by his brothers and sister Minokawa.

Took his leave into the ocean trench to dwell his hunger by the salt and ocean.

The hunger for the moon remained...


A few decades, beings came down from the sky and expressed their power of the elements and creation. The colossal kings and the king of the elementals joined arms for peace and prosperty setting aside their differences of appearance and sizes.

With their potential for creation, they smiled destruction and ruling of this land. Bakunawa caught this feeling and formed an alliance for the king's hunger for the last moon. Without anything in return, they each brought chaos upon the lands of the kings. 

Prior to any clue of whom had cause such cruelty, the sound of an explosion heard from the land coming from the Pacific.

It was the sea king, again, launching himself to the sky aiming at the moon with a great resolve for hunger.

He got out of the atmospheres of the earth without any struggle.

As the king smiled with the distance from his mouth to its meal, a roaring thunder flew from the mountain soaring into the snake at flight.

It was Minokawa. She revealed her judgement to be correct of one's betrayal to one's kin. Bakunawa did not show any sign of backing off and continued his quest for its meal.

The only sister amongst the kings got a breaking sensation to what she was seeing, she knew what has to done.

She grabbed her own brother at the back and derailed his flight to the moon. Like an eagle grabbing a snake, she soared away from the country, away from the planet and the moon, and flew gracefully into the sun.

The sea king struggled backkkk gazing away his place of rule and preciousssss meal and started attacking his sister.

The biting and tightening of the grip caused the sky king into flewing faster and faster.

Her full body emitted a radiant astray of flames shining at the darkness of space.


The sky king and the sea king never returned since then.

After that, history of the country filled with colonization, years of corruption and belittlement of the people that once ruled the place.

A little short history from the beast kings and the elemental kings.

After the disappearance of the kings, the other kings began rampaging and caused thousands of lives and appearance of the rifts that can brought malignos, spiritual creatures from bedtime storiess...

The elemental beings stepped in and aided the country to seal away the rampaging kings.

Under the careful watch of Lu Chen, the family of three continued roaming around the area for almost an hour before returning to the hotel. Along the way, Lu Qiang and Xiu Mei happily talked about their day so she didn't have an opportunity to check her phone at all. 
"Quickly wash up then I'll read you a story before sleeping, okay?" Xiu Mei brushed Lu Qiang's hair and hugged him before pushing him towards his room. Lu Qiang nodded while Lu Chen entered his room with all the shopping bags in his hand. 
Xiu Mei returned to her room and washed up as well. After changing into her pajamas, she on her bed and continued rubbing her hair to dry it. After a few minutes, she stepped out of her room and entered Lu Qiang's room while her towel still hung around her shoulder. 
"Which story do you want for bedtime today?" Xiu Mei's face was filled with tenderness as soon as she saw Lu Qiang in his usual printed light blue pajamas. She pulled him towards the bed and rubbed his wet hair for drying. 
"Hmm…" Lu Qiang became silent for a short while before finally deciding on something. "Then can I listen about Grandma's story again?" 
"Grandma's story, huh. Okay, sure. I'll tell you that story again after I dry your hair." 
"Then mom, what about your hair?" Lu Qiang pointed at Xiu Mei's wet hair.
Before Xiu Mei could open her mouth, another voice responded for her.
"I'll help your Mom with hers." Lu Chen remarked as soon as he entered the room. He was in his navy blue pajamas and wearing his gold-rimmed glasses he would always wear at night. 
"Wife, scoot over a little bit on this side so I can rub your hair." 
"Oh." Xiu Mei absentmindedly nodded and followed what he said. While holding Lu Qiang with his shoulders, she scooted aside a little bit to make space for Lu Chen. 
The area of the bed behind her immediately dipped as soon as Lu Chen sat on it. He quickly grabbed the towel around her neck and started rubbing her hair while slightly massaging it as well. 
Because this was the first time someone rubbed her hair, Xiu Mei felt a bit tingly around her neck. She didn't know if it was just because she wasn't used to it or if she was actually very sensitive when someone touches her hair.
She continued drying Lu Qiang's hair while Lu Chen dries hers. If anyone sees this picture, they would surely look in envy with how picture-perfect it was. 
After that short bonding time, Xiu Mei immediately tucked Lu Qiang to bed. Lu Chen decided to sit beside Lu Qiang's bed to watch over them. 
Xiu Mei laid beside him while starting telling stories about her mother's story in the military. She knows it's a weird bedtime story for a child but after Lu Qiang listened to her parents' story when she visited them before, the kid would often pester her to tell their stories instead of the normal bedtime stories for children. She was very skeptical at first but gradually got used to telling it after a few days. 
Ten minutes later, Lu Qiang finally fell asleep. After giving him a kiss on his forehead, Xiu Mei sat up from the bed and turned to Lu Chen who seemed to be sleeping as well. 
Xiu Mei looked over him worriedly. Won't he got a body ache if he sleeps in that position?
She quickly got off the bed and walked over to his side. She reached out to him and lightly patted his crossed arms.
"Chen?" She whispered. 
Lu Chen's eyes immediately opened as soon Xiu Mei patted him. He looked at Xiu Mei who was now saying to him to go back to his bed to sleep. He seemed to still be so out of it as he dozes off while staring at her. 
Seeing this, Xiu Mei grabbed his hand to pull him up. 
"Let's go." She said, finally pulling him to make him stand up. Lu Chen didn't fight back and allowed her to drag him outside of the room. 
"You seem tired. You should have just went straight to sleep ah." She said. Lu Chen shook his head.
"Then, goodnight." She said. Before she could take a step towards her room, Lu Chen tugged her hand lightly to stop her from walking away. 
"Spend some time with me a little more, okay?"
"?"
Before she could even reply, Lu Chen pulled her towards the living room. He sat on the sofa so Xiu Mei was just about to sit beside him when she was suddenly pulled by Lu Chen forward. 
Xiu Mei stiffened in her place after realizing her current position. She was now sitting on Lu Chen's lap. She felt lost and she could hear heart drumming crazily within her ribcage in nervousness.
Lu Chen acted moved very naturally while snaking his arms around her waist. He rested his chin on her shoulders and relaxed.
Not used with their current position, Lu Chen could sense that Xiu Mei's stiffness while hugging her.
"Relax, wife." He whispered in her ear which tickled Xiu Mei's ears. She reacted and unconsciously avoided him but with her locked in his arms, she couldn't do anything. 
Xiu Mei bit her lip as she tried to distract herself with different thoughts. She didn't push him away because she wanted to try in getting used to this. It's not like she's uncomfortable with this kind of skinship because she hated it, rather, she's uncomfortable because this was the first time she'd ever gotten this intimate with a male person after she completely matured. 
Behind her, she was unaware of Lu Chen's thoughts. 
Lu Chen was genuinely tired at that moment so after seeing Xiu Mei, all he wanted to do was to bury her in his arms to seek comfort. His work, his cousin's death, and his father-in-law's accident were getting to him. He is still a normal human after all. So right now, he was acting a bit spoiled in front of her to get some comfort. 
After staying in that position for a while, Xiu Mei leaned forward to reach for the remote control of the television.
Lu Chen did not stop her and allowed her to turn it on. Xiu Mei was slowly switching the channels when a random thought hit her. 
"Ah! Did you bring the paper bag that Mrs.Kim gave me?" 
"It's on the counter." 
"Then let me grab it for a minute." She slightly pushed Lu Chen, signaling him to release her but Lu Chen stopped her from getting away and tightened his hug instead.
"Later."
"Chen, come on."
"No." He buried his face on her hair and continued, "Just take it later." 
"..."
Fine, Lu Chen seemed to have no intention of letting her go any moment now. 
She returned her attention to the television and switched the channel once again. She was just about to switch to another channel when she heard some news that paused her movements.
"This afternoon, Vice Premier Xiu got into an accident…." 
The next words did not register in Xiu Mei's mind because as soon as she heard her Dad's name and that he got into an accident, her mind immediately went blank.
...Dad got into an accident? 
Her heart began to palpitate as dread suddenly filled her mind. She absentmindedly pushed Lu Chen's arms away to grab her phone in her room. 
She didn't even bother unlocking her phone and hit her mother's number in speed dial. After a few rings, the call was immediately picked up.
"Mom? How's Dad?"
"Mei'er, calm down first okay." Hearing her daughter's panicked voice, Yu Shi Huang tried calming her down.
"Is Dad okay? Please tell me, is he okay?" Xiu Mei almost begged on the phone.
"Your Dad is fine. He's completely fine. So calm down, okay?"
Xiu Mei didn't immediately believe it, thinking that her mom might be just telling her that so she won't panic and worry.
"Mom, is Dad really fine? Tell me, he's really fine right?" 
"Yes, honey. You're Dad is really alright. I wish you could talk to him right now but he's in the middle of a meeting with your second brother right now." 
Hearing that, Xiu Mei somehow calmed down a little bit. She was still unsure whether her Mom was telling the truth so she won't get a panic attack but she changed her mind after thinking that if something serious had really happened, she'd surely receive a random call from one of her brothers which usually tips her off that something had happened.
This time, Xiu Mei didn't know that the reason why she wasn't tipped off at all because her second brother called Lu Chen instead of her.
Xiu Mei worriedly asked her mother for his Dad's current condition and what really happened. She was too worried and focused on the call that she did not notice Lu Chen was leaning on the door frame of her room. In his hand is his phone messaging Xiu Mo Ruo of Xiu Mei's current condition.


"Be my son's mother." 

He stated as he pushed the marriage form in front of her. 

"Marry me."
As his secretary, she was used to his glares but this time, his stare felt like he was gobbling her up into his stomach. 
It was hypnotizing yet, she didn't fall for it.

Anger filled her up as she stood her ground. 
"I refuse." 

His gaze hardened as the both of them stared at each other. Slowly, he rose from his seat and held her chin.

"You won't be able to escape. You're mine." 

She slapped his hand away and stood up.

"We'll see about that." She made her way to the door and left the room.



“Mom, I can’t sleep…can you tell me another bedtime story…?” 

Cheska is sulking while looking at the back of her mother who’s about to leave her room. When Rowena turned to her, she’s not lying down on her bed anymore unlike before when she walked away from her bed. She made sure her beloved daughter is already sleeping before she leaves but looks like Cheska was just actually pretending to be asleep. 

“Bedtime stories?” 

“I heard it’s effective…” 

Then she started to walk back to her bed. Cheska’s innocent eyes sparkled and moved an inch away to give her mother a space on her bed. 

“Here…” Rowena tapped her side. Cheska obeyed with excitement and leaned to her. She loves stories. She loves new information. There’s no reason to not feel excited at all. “I still haven’t told you this tale, right? A Tale of Four Spirits? It’s my most favorite story of all time.” 

She shook her head slowly. “You only tell me about prince and princess…” 

Rowena put her arms at the back of Cheska’s head and started to caress it slowly hoping it would help her to get sleepy aside from the tale. 

“Once upon a time, there are four spirits who decided to live in the world of mortals as human beings. The four had an agreement to restore the balance of goodness and evilness. The four spirits are the angels and the demons.” 

The sparkles on Cheska’s eyes started to grow. She never heard stories about angels and demons from her mom. She’s already looking forward to the finale. 

“As they arrived in the mortal world, they changed their appearances to human-like features. Later on, they did what they seek to do. They have successfully fixed the imbalance in the world of mortals. 

“However, as the moons pass by, the two demons suddenly became bored and decided to spread more evil than they should be. This defiance instantly reached the angels and warned them to stop. Believing they’re finally stronger than them, the demons didn’t falter. Until—” 

“Mom, it’s not like I’m judging the angels or what but why are they trusting the demons?” Cheska couldn’t help herself not to interrupt the story-telling. 

Rowena slowly lowered her head. She thought her daughter is getting sleepy but it seems the opposite. She doesn’t look sleepy at all. Contrary to that, she looks so intrigued about the angel’s questionable decisions. 

“A deal with the demon is something that is unbreakable. No one can break it even the demons themselves. Breaking the deal will result in horrible consequences. The punishment is scary enough to scare the demons and act accordingly. The angels hold onto that but the demons are unstoppable.” 

That’s a satisfying answer for Cheska so she returned to being quiet again. Rowena averted her gaze and continued what she’s doing to her hair. 

“Until the angels were left with no choice but to remove their abilities and turned them into mortals. It's the same as giving them death. Angels are commonly stronger than demons that’s why they didn’t stood the chance. And so, the balance remained.” 

And the room fell in deafening silence. 

“Is that it?!” there’s a surprise in her voice. “That’s short! What an absurd ending!” 

Rowena smiled. She actually said the same thing when she was still young and small. Now that the memory of that tale has returned, she can’t help but wonder again how the story will end. Even she doesn’t know what is going to happen next. 

“It’s still not the ending, lady…the story is still ongoing.” she slowly left her daughter’s side and covered her body with a thick comforter. “Sleep now. Even the story isn’t effective to you. You’re just fooling around.” 

“It’s because the tale is boring,” she scowled. “That’s your favorite tale? It’s too short! No ending as well? I still prefer the prince and princess stories.” 

Rowena flicked her tiny nose making her scowl even more. “We have different taste, lady. Besides, my parents originally created that story for me. They know how much I love stories about angels and demons and gods that’s why they decided to make one.” 

The excitement that was inside her body vanished into thin air. She expected too much for that new tale and now…she’s really disappointed. She loves her grandparents with all of her heart and she respects them deeply—she really does. But now, she can’t help to criticize their mind and their story on her mind. Who makes a story as absurd as that? Who makes a story without an ending? What a cliffhanger. 

She just kept all of it inside her mind—all those criticisms. She’s afraid to speak about it loudly. Her nose might get flicked again. 

Rowena sighed. How is she going to leave her daughter now after seeing the big disappointment written all over her face? She almost had the same expression when she found out that the story has no end. 

But now that she’s old and happily married with three kids, has the story finally ended? 

“According to mama, the angels are really strong, smart, and powerful but even with that, they can’t keep the balance of goodness and evilness alone forever. They will eventually need help from a demon. There’s a big possibility that another demon will come to the mortal world and replace the two treacherous demons.” and she kissed her forehead. “Sleep now, lady. You still have training tomorrow. Don’t tire yourself too much before that.” 

Cheska only blinked slowly. Rowena can tell she’s finally getting sleepy now. At long last. She silently went to the door and as soon as she touches the knob, she heard her daughter speaking sleepily. 

“What if…the new demon will do the same thing that the treacherous demons…did…?” 

Cheska eyes slowly closed, still facing where her mother is. Even if she’s already sleeping and can’t absolutely hear her, Rowena gave her the answer she got from her parents after asking the same question. 

“Mom.” 

Rowena came back to her senses when she heard the voice of her daughter. Xeign is right at the doorway of the master’s bedroom. She smiled at her and invited her to come inside. Xeign sat at the place where her mother asked her to sit—it’s just right beside her. 

“You need to eat mom…you need your strength. Should I bring the food here instead?” 

Rowena’s fake smiles remained on her lips and started to caress the hair of her youngest. “I’ll go down later. Don’t worry about me.” 

“Mom…” She stopped her from caressing her hair and held both of her hands. Her shoulders dropped. “Brother won’t like this? I’m sure even sister won’t like this. I miss you so much, mom…” 

Rowena stopped for a while when Xeign suddenly wrapped her arms around her. She felt her heart sank after hearing her youngest’s silent sobs. 

“I hate them for ruining you like this, mom…I hate them…” 

“Oh, baby…” Rowena chuckled a bit and hugged her back. She hugged her back tightly hoping Xeign would feel how much she loves her. And how much she’s sorry for what is happening. “I love you so much…I’m so sorry…” 

“Everything is going to be fine, alright? Sister is coming back. She is coming back to us. You need to look fine if that happens, alright?” she stared right into her mother’s eyes. 

Rowena held her cheeks. A tear dropped from her eyes. The smile didn’t even fade for a split second. Whenever she’s in front of her children, she tends not to show what she truly feels. She wants to remain strong. She wants to remain tough. Even if it’s too hard. Even if she doesn’t know how. Even if she doesn't know if there's still a reason to be. 

But she knows…she knows Cj and Xeign and her husband can see through her. They can see what’s behind her fake smiles. They can perfectly see the truth behind her disguise. 

“I will, baby…”

Humans have differences. There are powerful and powerless, wealthy and poor, smart and naive, brave and coward, strong and weak. In order for the war of differences to end, different worlds were created. For more than decades, peace and harmony reigned in the three worlds, however, not all things are meant to be there forever. Rebellion has started and the worlds are in chaos. Only one girl, one special girl can bring back the peace and harmony and kill the rebels. Will she still be able to accomplish her duty once she learned about the buried secrets? Will she still stand up for peace after learning the reality? 

(Credits to the owner of the work)

I was about 7 years old; my brother about 10. It was well past our bedtime when our mom woke up off the couch to put us to bed. Our dad worked construction out of town back then, so it was often just us three at the house for weeks at a time. Up the stairs and to the immediate right was our parents' bedroom. Going left put you in the middle of a hallway. Taking another left down that hallway led to my brother's room. The opposite end was my room which was also across the hall from our upstairs bathroom. At either end of the hallway are windowed doors we always kept locked and rarely used. The door on my end led to a balcony overlooking our front yard, and the door on my brother's end opened to our back porch (the house kinda leans into a small hill).

My brother and mom both had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I only knew this because I was always a light sleeper and they just couldn't help flushing with the door wide open. This night, however, my brother stopped on his way to his room and came back towards the bathroom, "I'm gonna try to pee before I go to bed. The past few nights I've been too afraid to walk to the bathroom. I keep seeing a man wearing stripes at the end of the hallway.". I don't know if my mom wrote it off as my brother telling ghost stories to try to scare me or if she was already half asleep and didn't catch it, but she didn't react at all to my brother's confession. I, on the other hand, was terrified by it. The fear of seeing a ghost like that at the end of the hallway or through the windows is the reason I started running from the stairs to my bedroom at night.

Years later, when I was about 18, my mom and I were having a conversation in her car about a dog we had for a very short time when I was little. We were sharing stories about Max's tendency towards destroying my shoes and other unruly behaviors when my mom blurted out, "Do you remember that time I opened the front door for the cops and Max ran inside to the kitchen and started tearing open that big bag of dog food we had?". This really caught me by surprise, because in all the years I lived in that house we never once called the cops (gun owner family in a quiet, rural WV neighborhood, etc.). 

I asked her what she was talking about and she looked equally surprised as if she had just revealed something by accident. "Oh, that's right! I never told you because you were too young at the time. One night, I woke up hearing noises outside my window and when I looked I saw a man staring into my bedroom.". She went on to describe how turning on the lights caused him to take off running and how she grabbed my dad's pistol before calling the cops. "I can't remember all the details I gave them when they showed up... tall white male, wearing a striped shirt and jeans, short dark hair... something like that. They said it matched the description of a man they were looking for in the area. It turns out he had escaped from jail on a murder charge."

Now, I know it sounds so obvious hearing those two stories back to back, but it wasn't until a few years ago, in my mid-twenties, that I pieced together that my brother had unknowingly warned us about a murderer who spent multiple nights casing our home.

This is a story in every chapter is not the same horror is the main plot of the story’s but sometimes it will be a little different and don’t forgot I know what you did

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