User blog:ExdeathsBagel/Deal with the Devil (CursedItemMerchent WWYD)

WWYD by CursedItemMerchant: http://monstergirlencyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:656102 “Well human, what’s it going to be?” This being, calling herself Druella asks.

I gaze at this monstrous entity, calling her demonic would be quite apt. Her reddish/purplish, skin, bat-like wings, and mischievous grin screamed something that shouldn’t be trusted.

“Are you a demon?” I ask.

She gives me a glare before replying, “Why no, human,” she begins with a cheesy grin and a tackily cheerful tone, “I’m a dryad of Eden, host of the Tree of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with rivers of the waters of Eden running through my veins - what the fuck do you think I am?!”

“All the more reason not to trust you then.” I say as I continue my walk she interrupted.

“Wait! Human I’m not tricking you, I promise!” Realizing a demon making promise is about as effective putting out a fire with gasoline, she quickly tried a different approach. “Don’t you want to leave this life behind? Start anew?”

I stopped, even though I wasn’t looking I could feel her grinning, “That’s right human, a clean slate! No one knows who you are or what you’ve done. Though you look like a goody two shoes, so I doubt you’re running from anything. You lonely? Well don’t worry, just step through this portal and you’ll never be lonely again!” She said with a mischievous chuckle.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“And what’s in it for you? I step through this portal to find some ‘subordinate monster girl’ and what, you get my soul?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella gives me quizzical look, “Your soul? Pfft, souls don’t mean shit compared to a man’s love where I come from. All I want is this subordinate, though she’s more a persistent desperate nuisance, off my back. Look, I’m offering you the deal of a lifetime, other men would kill to be in your position. So what do you say?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“If -and if- I don’t like my situation and somehow find you again, will you give me the offer to come back home?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella paused for a moment, thinking to herself, “Sure.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I look into her eyes, I doubted she was lying. I took one last look at the world around me, said a quick prayer, and then replied, “Deal.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">No sooner did I take her hand did she throw me into the portal. Thinking I had been tricked, fear began to overtake me, I was afraid of dying, or worse, being sent to Hell. I closed my eyes and screamed as a white light enveloped me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">When I came to, I was lying in a forest. I stood up and looked around. It was evening, judging by the setting sun. I began walking in the direction I heard sounds and wandered into the outskirts of a town. A stone bridge above a seemingly dried river connected the town and forest behind me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As I was crossing the bridge a hand shot out from over the waist high wall and pulled me over. Under the overpass, I was pushed against a wall by a familiar figure.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“You! What do you-” Druella quickly covered my mouth.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Welcome the monster world, human. I doubt you got a good look but this town, and by extension, this society, is a little more basic than your own. I believe you humans call it ‘medieval?’ Granted this place is more fantasy than ‘medieval.’ You like fantasy games right? PGRs and what not?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I was simply too awestruck to continue, I was in a medieval world? How would I survive? Where would I work? Could I work as anything?

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella interrupted my thoughts, “As you could probably guess, you won’t fit in wearing clothes like that.” Druella suddenly snapped me back into reality as I heard my clothes rip. Suddenly I was down to my boxers. “Can’t use this either.” She said as she crushed my iPhone in her grip.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Then with a snap of her fingers I was suddenly in simpler, scratchier feeling clothes. My shoes were also simpler in a way. “There, now you look like a regular. Don’t worry, glasses are fine in this world, granted they’re still a bitch to replace so don’t break yours.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I was too stunned to reply, everything was happening so fast, but Druella wouldn’t wait. With a shove she pushed me up the hill beside the bridge, “Now go find my ‘subordinate,’ don’t worry, you’ll know her when you see her!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As I walked in the town, my feeling of disorientation only got worse, I was familiar with fantasy worlds sure, but being in one was a different story. I looked for any place I might recognize and found an Inn to collect myself.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I took a seat inside and watched the people outside, as the sun was setting I guess they were going to their homes. I began feeling homesick, stripped of all my modern comforts and luxuries, I realized I made a horrible mistake and wished I could be taken back home. I put my head in my arms prayed to go asleep, hoping this was all a dream and I’d wake up.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I know I fell asleep, because I was lightly shaken awake by a voice.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Sir? Do you have a room here? If not I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to leave?” Despair overtook me as I didn’t bother to look up. I was still in this world and I guessed the voice belonged to the Inn keeper.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Before he could ask again, a voice rang from behind him, “Don’t worry Stiener, he’s with me.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Ms. Belle? Of course, my apologies, just be sure to send your friend up so I can tidy up.” I heard his footsteps walk away as the other set approached mine. I heard her sit down next to me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“You must be Thomas?” She asked. I didn’t reply, didn’t even look up. “Druella sent you, right?” My flinch at her name confirmed my suspicions. “Can you look at me?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I slowly raised my head, my eyes following one end of the table to the other and eventually reached the woman. As my eyes moved up I was mesmerized by who was sitting in front of me. This woman had white wings, short dark pink hair, white skin, and was dressed in some sort of white armor with a bundle of arrows and a bow laced behind her back.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">She gave me a warm smile, “My name is Mia Belle, I know you have a ton of questions and I will answer them all, but please come up to my room with me first okay?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I simply nodded and followed her up to her room. Her room was simple but spacious, with a twin bed, a couch, a shelf, and a door leading to what I hoped was a bathroom.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“So, what would like to know first?” Mia asked.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Something about her very presence was relaxing, my feelings of despair seemingly vanished when I first saw her. How could someone like this know that demon Druella. “What are you, if you don’t mind me asking?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“I am a Cupid, do you know what those are?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I was shocked, “A Cupid, aren’t those normally kids?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">She tilted her head, “A Cupid is a type of Angel, but we can take a childlike form. Would you like me to take one?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“What? No.” I said, maybe a little too sternly, “Sorry, just so much has happened in such a short amount of time. Wait, what’s a Cupid doing with a Demon?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">She brushed the back of her head and chuckled, “Well, despite being a Cupid, it’s pretty tough for us to find love for ourselves. Our arrows only work on bringing two people together, not us and someone else. I tried to bargain with Druella to enchant someone for me, stupid I know, but she just laughed it off. Fortunately a few arrows towards anyone who captured her interests made her see what it’s like for us and she offered me a deal: stop taking away her lovers, and she’ll give me one.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“And I’m that lover?” I asked.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“I hope so, to be honest, you’re not the first Druella has tried.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“What’s happened to the rest?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia suddenly looked sullen, “They become smitten with other monster girls, every time I think I’ve found someone they fall in love with someone else. Is something wrong with me?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Not from what I can see.” I say.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Thanks, I know this must be a lot for you to take in, but don’t worry, I’ll be here to help you adjust. Just promise me you won’t become smitten at the last minute like the rest.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I normally don’t make promises, but I felt terrible for her. Plus, she’s the only one here who’s been kind to me, kind enough to even offer a room, “I promise,” I say with sincerity.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Thank you!” She say as she wraps me in a hug, I flinch in her grasp. “Sorry, sorry, should really not try to overstep my boundaries. Kind of a habit with monster girls.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As time went on I began to learn more about Mia, she was a Cupid sure, but spreading was love was apparently part time. “Angles have to work too you know,” she said, and found work teaching archery to the local kids and young adults who were interested in joining the army. The money she made was just enough for both of us, but I didn’t intend for her to support us alone so I began looking for work as soon as the next day.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Granted I doubted my experience with computers would be of any use here, and ended up finding work helping the Inn keep serving patrons and cleaning at the days end. During the nights, Mia and I would talk about each other’s world, about each other, and grew close. I was able to learn so much about the world thanks to her, she even taught me some simple magic that was enough to impress the local sorcerer who offered me a job as his assistance teach the kids and teens interested in the craft.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">This became our lives for five years, Mia would teach them archery, I would teach them sorcery, we made more than enough to support each other at the Inn, and I soon surprised her with a the contract to rent a simple one story house near the bridge.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">We’re now back to scraping enough to get by, but we’re out of that Inn and more importantly, happy together. I barely felt homesick anymore.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I had they day off and began making dinner while Mia was still out working. Putting the ingredients in the pot and heating it up with some fire magic I turned to set the table only to freeze.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Sitting at the table with a malicious grin was Druella, “Hope you’re cooking for three,” she said.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I raised the knife I was holding in defense, “W-what do you want?” I said, trying not to be intimidated. Of all the tings Mia taught me about this world, I wish I could’ve remained ignorant on Demons assuming they were just another type of monster girl. Mia said they we’re the most dangerous off all monsters and should never be trusted, and Druella was certainly no exception.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella simply chuckled, “Oh I was just coming to check in on things.” She let out a low whistled, “Five years, damn human you really take your time, most jump the gun with Mia only a year or two in. But you, you’re a slow cooker, you want to really draw out all the feelings and really make everything’s just right before you commit. What’s wrong, don’t trust Mia? Afraid of a little rejection?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“What do you want?” I ask more sternly, her mentioning Mia made my blood boil. “I swear if you’ve done anything to Mia-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Oh I haven’t done anything to her-yet- but to get to the point I do want something: you.” Druella pointed to me and then began tracing a circle with her finger. “Come on human, isn’t Mia getting a little boring? Why not come with me? I’ll give you far more pleasure than she ever could, and you’ll never have to worry about things like money or food every again.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">My thoughts began to fill with lust towards her, my memorized were somehow being invaded by her. Any memory with Mia was somehow being replaced by Druella. I shook my head, “N-no! Stop! Why are you doing this?!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella chuckled, “Why? That bitch stole my toys from me one too many times that’s why! So I offered her a deal, I’ll give her a man if she stops taking mine. But you should never make a deal with a Demon, honey. Every time a man gets close, I enchant them away from her, normally to some random monster looking for a husband. You should see the look on her face! Each time she gets more crushed than the last! And I won’t stop until her heart has been broken into millions of pieces.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">She cupped my face with her hands, “That’s where you come in. I think you might be the one that’ll finally break her heart. You’ve spent the most time with her, connected to her the best, and are even the most devoted judging from how you’ve been resisting my charms so far. But all I need to is seal you with a kiss you’ll be mine.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As our lips touched, my memories of Mia weren’t just being invaded, they were being erased. My memories were being filled with fake one with Druella, the thought of Druella was filling with lusts while thought of Mia made me feel repulsed.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">But I knew they weren’t true. As she slid her tongue in I bit down on it to get her away. She yelped in pain before quickly letting go of me and stepping back looking pissed. “Well now, you truly are devoted, not many men resist my kiss.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">That’s when the door opened and Mia stepped in, as soon as she saw Druella her face was a mixture of confusion and anger. “Druella?! Get out of here! Our deal is done!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella paused for a moment while Mia rushed over to me. The whole mind rape business made me feel nauseous and I would’ve fallen had Mia not caught me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Way to be man handled by a lady, human. Must suck not wearing the pants in the relationship huh?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“No, it doesn’t, if she hadn’t taken charge when I came to this world I would’ve been dead. If anything, that only motivates me to work harder for and never take her for granted.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia gave me a warm smile before turning to Druella with a serious expression, “I’ll only tell you once more to get out Druella. Our deal is done.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“On the contrary, it’s not. There’s still one last loose end to wrap up. Human, do you remember what you said to me those five years ago when we first met?” She said as she turned to face me. “‘If -and if- I don’t like my situation and somehow find you again, will you give me the offer to come back home?’ She said as she mimicked my voice with frightening accuracy.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Well here I am, and look,” she snapped her fingers and a portal appeared behind her, “Your one way ticket home. What do you say? I know this place has probably grown on you but when you really think about it, this place sucks. No teller-visions, We-Fi, uPhones, this place is like a bad fantasy setting. In your world I bet you were on the way to making a lot more money, on a better career than teaching the local snot noses how to not burn themselves. So what do say,” She stuck out her hand.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">I looked around at our house, our single story, dingy house missing all modern luxuries including a toilet (there was just an outhouse in the back). But then I looked to Mia, I saw her love and warmth. I had love back at home too, but this was my home now, I know I’d always miss my old one but I committed to this decision a long time ago.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“No deal,” I replied.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella paused, “You heard him, now go!” Mia ordered.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“If you won’t go willingly…I’ll just take you back by force!” Druella latched onto to my arm and began to throw me to the portal. Mia quickly grabbed the other arm and they began to pull.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“You better let go Mia, pull any hard and we could rip this pencil neck in half! Not that I’d have any problem with that.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“What do you mean?!” Mia said, tear beginning to fall down her face.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“She’s trying to split us up so she can break you, she’s been doing since the beginning!” I said.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia’s expression broke, and with that her grip loosened. Before Druella could throw me however, I shot a fire spell point blank in her face. She screamed in pain as her she threw me to the wall across from the portal.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“You little asshole.” She began to approach me, her face blackish with some of her hair singed. “I offer you to be mine, you don’t take it. I offer you a way home, you still don’t take it. If I can’t have you, neither can her! But you won’t take the easy way out, so I guess I’ll have to drag you down to Hell and feed you to my pet!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Stop!” Mia said, her face full of rage, she drew her bow at Druella. It wasn’t her cupid one, but rather a wooden one she used to teach others. Two wooden arrows were pulled back in the string.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Druella looked mildly amused, “You stupid bitch, that’s not your Cupid bow, what are wooden arrows going to-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia set them off at they hit their mark: Druella’s eyes. Druella screamed and thrashed on the floor as the portal disappeared and new one appeared beneath her. As suddenly as her screams and thrashes began they stopped when the black portal surrounded her.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As she began to sink into it, we heard her calming voice that seemed to echo through the house that sent a chill down to my bones, “Mia, Thomas, when I recover from these injuries, I will make your lives a living Hell. No God, Goddess, or Divine Charm will protect you from me when I return.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">As soon as she was fully submerged the portal closed and we we’re left with an eerie silence. Mia rushed to me to make sure I was okay. I was a little bruised up, but okay.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Thank God,” she said as she breathed a sigh of relief, “I’m so sorry about all of this, I should’ve never trusted her.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“No, it’s okay.” I said to her, taking her hand in mine, “I love you, and I’d do anything for you. This won’t change anything on how I feel for you.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">She didn’t say anything, only embraced me in a tight hug.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“But, I am the one you want?” I ask, “Druella said there were others before me. And I bet if I leave she’d just come after me, you could have a safer life without me.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“I don’t care about that, we’ll handle her when the time comes. And of course you’re the one I want! I don’t care that you come from a deal made by her, you resisted everything she threw at you when every other man broke. I know we can stick through whatever she throws at us, whatever life throws at us next!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">And with that, our lives quickly returned to normal. I’ll admit the first few days I was paranoid of Druella showing up again, but Mia assured me should wouldn’t, “I am an Angel remember? Well guess what? A Valkryie showed up in a dream last night, apparently she was watching over us after we beat Druella.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Hopefully she wasn’t watching everything,” I joked.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia gave me a playful punch in the arm, “Like I was saying, she showed up in my dream and congratulated me for beating Druella and took her and other demons at bay-” she reached into her cleavage and pulled out two ring “she gave us these two rings.” She handed me one.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“They kind of look like wedding rings.” I mused.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">Mia suddenly went quiet, “You okay?” I ask.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Yeah, it’s just…” Mia looked into her ring before meeting my eyes, “Will you marry me? I know the guy is normally supposed to ask that but-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman",serif">“Yes.” was all I said