Strike first, talk next

To zayne's surprise, she sat silently until he drove them to her place, looking intently at the lollipops. She finished all the 4 ice creams within seconds. As soon as they are inside her home, her silent mode turned off.

"Oh my lovely home!!!.....I missed you" she went and and hugged each photo, each pillar and when she came to hug him, he held her hand and dragged her over to the bedroom. When she saw the bed, she looked up at him, her eyes had a mischievous light in them.

"Did you finally decide you want me near you? I know I know, no one can resist me" he rolled his eyes and threw her on the bed

"SLEEP" he commanded and stalked out of the room but her laughter echoed through the room.

Now as he stood outside the construction building, he said aloud

"I hope for your sake that you don't Remember any of this song lin" but then he smirked " but it's going to be so much fun if you do remember"

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The next morning..

Celeana drifted over to sam who's been on his laptop ever since he woke up. Though sam always preferred machines over humans, this time his face looked a little troubled.

"What are you doing?" he looked up at her, startled. Celeana had this habit of waking so quietly, you wouldn't notice until she was upon you. They were sitting out in the yard, sam working on the data song lin sent him and celeana taking a break after her workout. As always he hadn't heard her walking up to him.

"I'm working on something song lin sent me." celeana looked at him, her expression incredulous.

"Why would she send you something?" he turned the laptop so she could she the screen. Pointing his finger at the files he just copied, he said

"I think she managed to find someone's phone who works inside triumvirate. She called me yesterday and asked if I could hack in to the phone." celeana scrolled through the files, her expression becoming more serious with each file she opened.

"Looks like she hit the jackpot. there's no way these files belong to some ordinary person." sam nodded. Celeana looked at him and laughed suddenly

"Is that why you look surprised? because she managed to do this in so little time?" he nodded again.

"She's really good at what she does." he said, taking the laptop.

"Who are you talking about?" zayne demanded as he walked up to them. Sam gave celeana a warning glance and explained to zayne

"We're talking about hye rin. celeana wanted to know what her acting is like. so we were just watching some of her videos." he casually closed the laptop. They turned when they heard the main gate open. Zayne scowled when he saw that cassian changed his car yet again. This guy has a serious obsession with cars. No one in their right mind would change their for once a week. Swinging the backpack over his shoulder, cassian strolled over to them and whistled when he saw celeana doing push-ups.

"I'm sure you would've outdone even the top models of the world with that looks, but too bad your attitude doesn't go with it." celeana looked up at him and said between her breaths

"Careful cassian or I might think you are actually hitting on me." cassian chuckled as he propped himself beside sam.

"Sorry to disappoint you." zayne spoke before they could start a bickering competition

"The deals cassian, did you get it done?" cassian nodded and they both walked away. The moment they were out of earshot celeana demanded

"Did song lin ask you to keep it a secret?" sam shook his head as he opened the laptop once again.

"If zayne knew she took help from me, he would taunt her for the rest of our mission" celeana shook her head. Here she is thinking something interesting is happening when it's just sam being the nice human he is. She doubted if she would ever become half the nice human he is. Probably never in this lifetime.

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"So when are you planning to get married?" his mother asked, her face dangerously serious. Azriel wondered if she would let him if he pretended to faint. Probably not. She would most definitely slap him awake. Because his mother was a strike first, talk next type. Still he steeled his nerve and said

"I don't plan to. Atleast not yet." a dark glint entered her eyes.

"No jokes boy. I'm done waiting around for you to get married. I arranged some girl for you. Go meet her in the evening" Like hell he would.

"Seriously honey? A blind date? In this generation?" his father said calm sipping his tea. Azriel let out a frustrated sigh. He had enough of this talk with his grandfather yesterday and now its his mom, he wondered if his aunt would be the next. He should get out of here before that.

"Mom I don't want to get married through a blind dat--" his mom whirled towards him, her cup frozen in mid air. She looked ready to swallow him.

"Then for godsake bring some one home you idiot" she shouted at him. Her expression suddenly changed, her eyes suspicious and azriel knew it was coming, the questions he so eagerly avoided all the time.

"Is this about your brother?"