Angel In Disguise (chp.2)

Angel In Disguise
CHAPTER 2

We rode the bus until it reached a nearby mall.
“We’re gonna have fun here?” Strify raised one of his eyebrows.
“Yeah, why not? I can smell the fun atmosphere already!”
“But it’s just a mall, a shopping mall!”
“So? Wait, do you even go to this mall before?”
“Nope!” He said as his eyes were eyeing around.
“I can’t believe it!”
“I mean it’s new and I hardly have time to go.”
“Well busy guy, how about we explore and crack the fun out this new mall now?”
“Sure, while I’m still alive!”
“Trust me, you’ll never regret if you’re going out with Liena Ross!”
“Alright, I’ll give you my trust. Now what are we waiting for? Let’s get inside, shall we?” Strify held my hand and brought me into the mall.

We strolled all over the mall from the lower ground to the upper highest level. We went from shops to shops, trying on some clothes, playing arcade games, watching movies, eating fast food, went bowling and did other fun stuff we could find in the mall. While we were ice-skating, let’s just say I was being kinda crazy like I always do. Well, that’s me, what do you expect? The strange thing is, I’ve never shown the real me to a particular guy before. Well hello, embarrassed much? But at that moment, I couldn’t figure out why was I being all out to Strify, a guy whom I’ve just met a few days ago. I barely even know him and yet I was too comfortable with his presence.

The more time I’ve spent with Strify, the more comfortable I was around him. Maybe that was the reason why I pushed the inner and true side of me to appear. He surely was the only guy whom managed to dig deep inside of me without making any efforts. He did nothing because I realized that I was the one whom naturally let him sees right through me.
“ It’s Summer and yet we’re ice-skating! Wheeee~! “ I was playing on the ice rink with Strify while proving to him that I wasn’t a ‘bimbo on skates who needs a guy to hold you every second just to make sure you won’t fall’ type of girl.
“You know, Liena, you’re insane!” Strify said.
“Insanely fun! Well I told you so!” I reminded him and gave Strify a wink.
“Oh no, I said insane, that fun word is not included, not counted!”
“Look, I prefer the word crazy, the ‘crazy Liena’ don’t you think it sounds way better than the ‘insanely Liena’?”
“Okay, fine. You’re crazy then!”
“Thank you, I really appreciate that. Crazy is my middle name, that’s not a surprise.”
“You’re different from all the other girls, I hung out with. They always tend to stay cool and trying to not be crazy like you in front of me. They pretended to be somebody else, not their true self, unlike you, you’re just open and being yourself all the time right? And I like that.”
“Well, actually I don’t usually act as myself , the true me, when I’m around a guy whom I’ve just met. But somehow, I don’t know why, I just feel so comfortable when I got to know you little by little.”
Strify stared at me for a moment and then he laughed. “Liena, you’re the craziest girl that I have ever met, no kidding!”
“Hey, I am crazy but I can’t be called as the craziest , Okay?”
“What do you mean, you can’t? I just called you one.”
“Oh, Yeah?” I skated towards Strify, smiled at him and messed up his hair with my two bare hands. “Who’s the crazy looking one now, huh?” I said while giving him an evil smirk.
“You did not just touch my hair!” Strify warned.
“Oops, I guess I just did!” I sticked a tongue out at Strify and skated myself away.
“Well, you’re in trouble now, Liena! “ Strify said and he started chasing after me.
“Should I run or hide? There’s no place to hide, so I better run! Catch me if you can, Strify!” I ran on the ice as soon as I noticed he was about to chase me.

The next thing you know, we were playing tag on the ice like a bunch of kiddies.
“No matter how far you run, Liena. I’ll still managed to catch you, you can’t skate your way outta this rink!” Strify said.
“Whatever, you’re still not gonna catch me!” I replied.
“Will soon! Right now, I need a take 5.” Strify let out a deep breath and stopped at the edge of the ice-skating rink.
“Oh no, hunny, are you tired? Given up already?” I came towards him and teased.
“I’ll never give up on you.” He said and smiled.
“Oh, yeah? Get back to the game then. And this time make sure you really catch me.”
“You better run now, babe!” Strify spread his arms wide and tried to grab me. I’ve managed to get a few inches away from him. Although, he skated ever so fast and finally he caught me in the middle of the ice rink.
“Gotcha now!” Strify smiled as he slides his arms around my waist from behind.
We just froze at the spot which was in the middle of the ice rink. I could feel Strify’s heartbeat was pounding so fast like it has no end. Suddenly, everything around us seems to have disappeared and I didn’t feel the coldness surrounds us no more.

Strify was ever so close to me so I felt warm around him. We just stood still and kept our balances on the slippery ice. And then, Strify gently took a few strands of my hair and put it behind my ears. He slowly whispered with his ghostly voice, “I told you, I’ll never give up on you, Liena.” I stared at this gorgeous guy and couldn’t say a word. I felt his warm breath has clearly moved from my ear to my lips. As Strify was about to put his luscious lips on mine, I’ve lost my balance and fell on the hard cold ice. The fall made me realize that I was still at the stupid ice-skating rink where there were actually a few people skating here and there. And then everything started to disappear again when Strify stared at the unfortunate me who was still sitting on my butt on the ice ground. He just stared deeply into my eyes. I was amazed by his ever so dazzling ocean-like blue eyes which kept me staring back at him as if I was hypnotized until I felt my butt was freaking wet and cold.
“Err.. Strify, my butt is gonna be frozen if you just stand there and refuse to help me up.” I grinned.
“Can I tell you this?” Strify said while pulling me up.
“What?” I asked.
“You totally ruined the moment.” Strify sighed.
“Oh Strify, you can really read my mind.” I leaned close to reach Strify’s lips. And before I could reach it, Strify was already on his way to reach mine. We kissed passionately in the middle of the ice rink while ignoring the crowd around us. From that moment, I had fallen in love with a guy named Strify.

After that long remarkable breathless kiss, we couldn’t stop being lovey dovey to each other. It was weird because even though we’ve just met, well I felt like we’ve been together for ages! The way we acted that day was like a pair of two lovebirds who has been attached to each other for a few years. I was in Strify’s arms all day and we kept kissing each other non-stop. It was like an addiction to us. I like the gentle, sweet and ‘not trying too hard and desperate ‘ type of kisses, that Strify gave to me. A cupid’s arrow has struck both of our hearts, that was for sure. Before we knew it, it was dusk already. Time flies so fast when you’re with a person that you’d like to spend all of your time with.
“Strify, I think I have to head home now. My mum will be worried sick if she doesn’t see me coming home before 8.”
“Sure, Liena. But can we go to one more shop for a last stop?”
I looked at my watch and said, “Well, I could spare minutes for that. I’m sure mum wouldn’t be that mad. So where to?”
“It’s not here sweetie.”
“What? Then where is it?”

We took a bus again to head this secret place that Strify was going to take me to.
Our pit stop was kinda near to our neighbourhood, it was a block of shop houses. Strify dragged me to one of those shops which was a tattoo parlour.
“Oh, Hun, why are we here?” I asked him curiously and wondered why on earth would Strify bring me to a tattoo parlour. Maybe he wanted to get a tattoo, but why now?
“You’ll see.” Strify gave a soft peck on my cheek and smirked.
By judging that smirk that he gave me, I could tell what he was actually thinking.
“Oh, No. You want me to get a tattoo, isn’t it?”
“You’ve guessed it right, babe!” Strify winked.
“But...” Before I could finish my line, a young dark headed with pale porcelain skin shirtless guy showing off his phoenix tattoo on his right chest greeted Strify with a handshake.
“What’s up, Man? It’s been a long time since I’ve heard from you!” That tattooed piercing lad said.
“Haha, well, I’ve been busy.” Strify replied.
“Busy with girls ey? I can see that!”
I could see that tattooed guy was eyeing me from head to toe and gave Strify an approved look. My cheeks turned pink immediately.
“Hot...” He nodded a little.
“Dude, do you mind?” Strify snapped, as he noticed I was clearly turning from pink to bright red.
“You’ve always been like this, I just can’t take one good look at your girlfriend huh? You have a really nice taste this time. I mean, she’s exotic, not a typical German I suppose?”
Strify just ignored whatever that guy said.
“Liena, this is Yu, my friend. And you can ignore everything that he’ve just said.”
“Err..Yu?”
“Yes! Y-U, YU! That’s not so hard, Liena.”
“Right, nice meeting you, Yu.”
“Right back at ya! So what brings you here at my tattoo parlour, dude? You want a tattoo? I can sketch you one hot damn naked......”
“Dude! Shut the fuck up man! Have a little respect for her.”
“Okay okay, My bad. So tell me, what’s the deal then? What kind of tattoo do you want? And where will it be located ey?” Yu raised both of his eyebrows at me.
“What the fuck? Mind him, Liena. He can be a jackass at times! Dude, knock it off already!”
“Trust me girl, he used to be just like me , once upon a time ago...”
“Oh!” That was all I’ve managed to say since I was kinda startled to face the conversation that Strify and his friend Yu had. It was full of dirty words just like all the typical bad boys would have said.
Yu continued with his line, “..until he found out....”
“Until I found out, he’s a bad influence to me. The End! Look, dude, do you want to have us as your customers or do you want to continue talking shit?”
“Customer would be nice, I’m sick of talking shit with you.” Yu grinned. “So tell me the details. What..”
“Don’t start it again, dude. Or I’ll kick your ass right now!”
“Oh, how I’ve missed that. You’ve never kicked my ass ever since...”
“Dude!”
“Okay okay, let’s make a tattoo now!” Yu pulled Strify but he wouldn’t move.
“She’s getting a tattoo, not me!” Strify pointed at me.
“Really?” Yu said with an excitement on his face.
“Look, actually I don’t want to, Strify. Plus, if my parents found out, they would kill me for good!”
“They won’t kill you, babe.”
“But, Strify....”
“Please, Liena. Do it for me. I want you to remember the day that you’re getting your first tattoo is the day that you’ve made me happy. You’ve done it. You’ve showed me the true meaning of happy, Liena . You are the meaning of my happiness, I got it from you.” Strify said as he was stroking my face gently.
“So what do you say? Are you willing to have this special gift from me?”
“A special gift? From you?”
“Yes. I’ll ask this scary obnoxious friend of mine to draw a design based on my description just for you. So are you up for it, babe?”
“Well, since it is sort of like a gift from you, then I have to say yeah. I am totally up for it.”
“Thanks, babe.” Strify smiled gorgeously and gave a kiss on my forehead.
“Just make sure, it’s not big.”
“You got my word.”
“Alright, so where do you want this tattoo to be laid?” Yu asked.
“First of all, does it hurt badly?” Liena questioned Yu.
“Hmm..depends on where you want it. If the chosen place is too sensitive to heat then I guess I’ll have to do it gently so that it won’t hurt you so badly. Don’t worry, I like to take things slow and steady with a girl like you.” Yu gave me his flirtatious winked.
“I swear I feel like I just want to tattoo your eyes, you bastard!” Strify said with his angry tone.
“Hey hey, I’m joking!” Yu chuckled.
“He’s an asshole. Don’t listen to every word he’s saying, babe.”
“Right, well can I have the tattoo over here then?” I said while showing a spot right below my palm of hand, the very beginning of my wrist.
“You do know, your life depends on the veins underneath that spot, right?” Yu said.
“I know, that’s why I want it here. Why not risk something for the ones you love?” I explained.
“Heard that, man. You’re lucky she loves you.” Yu patted Strify’s back.
“That’s what I’m afraid of.” Strify said in a low tone.
“What’s that, man?”
“Yeah, I’m lucky, so damn lucky!” Strify gave me another kiss, this time it was on my lips.
“Smooches time is over! Come on, we ain’t gonna lose our time here. It’s getting dark and you know how I hate getting back in the dark.”
“Did I mention to you that he’s a scardy cat?” Strify said after he stopped kissing me.
“Haha, nope! You didn’t!” I giggled.
“Well, now you know.” Strify smiled handsomely.
“Ya-da ya-da ya-da. Now design please?” Yu went to the counter and took out a notepad.
“One sec!” Strify excuses himself and talked to you Yu privately. I just sat on the chair waited patiently for the two of them.
“I want you to do a tattoo with the exact design like this.” Strify unchained one of his necklaces and showed Yu a design carved on the pendant of that necklace
“Yo, dude. Are you being serious?”
“What? It’s not so hard to copy off this simple design right?”
“No, I mean this symbol is very meaningful to you and you want me to do a tattoo of that symbol on her?”
“Yeah, that’s what I said.”
“Let me guess, you’re joking right?”
“Do I look like I’m joking about it?”
“Okay okay, I mean this is so not you. You’ve never ever brought a girl to my tattoo parlour and ask me to draw a tattoo with the design of your special symbol before other than using this place to get laid.”
“Well, you can cut the word never now.”
“ It’s so weird!”
“Just do as I say, Yu! I think I know why am I doing this.” Strify said as he stared at me and smiled.
“You love her, don’t you?”
“Dude, I think she’s the one. She brought the old newly improved me back. And she made me happy again. She gave me strength that makes me feel so alive whenever I’m around her.”
“That’s great, man. Does she know about it?”
“No. Don’t mention it to her.”
“Why not?”
“I love Liena, okay. I’m just not ready to tell all my loved ones about it.”
“But you told me, it means you don’t love me.”
“Dude, I love you okay! You’re my best friend.”
“If you can tell me, then why can’t you tell the others?”
“It’s just different, alright. But with Liena by my side, she makes me feel so strong not weak.” Strify put a big smile on his face.
“Oh man, what kind of spell she put you on? Seriously,I haven’t seen you smile like that for ages. You’re right, she does bring my old Strify back.”
“Guys, what’s taking you so long?” I finally spoke.
“Opps, Liena. We’re very sorry. Almost forgot that you’re here.” Yu joked.
“Right, very funny, Yu!”
“Now, let the work begin!” Yu was getting ready to show off his skills on carving a tattoo.
“Okay, now I’m scared it might hurt.”
“Don’t worry babe, I promise I’ll be right here next to you to blow out all the pain.” Strify took a seat beside me and held my hand.

to be continued...