Chapter 52 - I'm Staying

Diana opened her eyes and found herself laying on a bed in an unfamiliar room, Nathan sitting beside her. His back resting on the wall, his hands at the back of his head, with his eyes shut.

She tried to stand up and felt weak all over, the exercise is finally affecting her body, coupled with the shock of what happened. 'Yes shock…' the earlier attempt on her life finally dawned in her head. Her tears began to fall at an increasing speed as her memory flashes back to how she had foolishly stood up to Shane because of those girls, how they were all sweet and all.

She recalled how they seem to be probing into her life and how she had foolishly thought she got friends and kept giving them details about her.

The fact that they took her to her mother's mall, disappeared and reappeared after they got there, Shane showing up and the girls looking at their feet; everything clicked in her head. It was all set up from the start, she's an idiot, she foolishly fell into their trap.

"Welcome back from the dead." Nathan's voice was heard, which made Diana look toward him, as she kept crying. Her heart skipped when she saw traces of blood on Nathan's cloth in the arm area. Her energies that seem to have left, found their way back as she moved closer to Nathan who still has his eyes closed despite Diana's sudden movement.

"Oh my god you're hurt." She said and held his arm, but felt her head hurt. She's not the sickly type, except her seizure problem, but all she went through are too much for her. Even though she shook her mind off them quickly as they came, she's still human after all. Her body temperature is already high.

"It's just a scratch." Nathan replied, as one of the next daggers thrown by the girls after Diana suddenly passed out grazed his left arm, before he securely placed down Diana and took care of them like they were never there.

"I'm so sorry," Diana apologized, feeling bad as she felt she's at fault for everything.

"Why sorry?" Nathan asked, still not opening his eyes.

Diana took a deep breath, "take off your shirt." She said.

Nathan opened his eyes and raised his brow at her, "you want to sleep with me human?"

"What!"

"Why would you want me take off my shirt? To admire my body?" He said in a mocking tone.

Diana isn't in the mood to talk much, she couldn't even get angry. She ignored his teasing and reached for the button of his shirt and began unbuttoning them.

Nathan scoffed but didn't stop her. Diana stopped as she saw his alluring chest. She blinked and winced as Nathan flicked his finger on her forehead. "Don't get swayed, you were still kissing my brother the previous day." He said, which made Diana felt embarrassed. But she's not in the mood to think much over it.

She took off his shirt and saw the so called 'just a scratch' covered in some weird green foamy substance, and it seems like those substances are still coming out from the wound  "What is this on it?" She asked, as she doesn't understand it.

Apparently the dagger was poisoned. They couldn't come up with Aroma's inventions, but that doesn't mean the couldn't  poison their weapons.

He has injected himself with a cure, after recognizing the poison as its effect is quite familiar to one of Aroma's, but not as strong. The green foamy substance is the poison leaving his system.

"Their weapons are poisoned, so i got a taste of it." Nathan replied nonchalantly, while Diana broke down in tears once more. "Oh my god! what do we do now? Oh my god! you're poisoned, oh god! oh god!" She kept rambling on and on as her tears fell uncontrollably.

"Hey human, why are you like this? It's no big deal, getting the body accustomed to poison is one of the training I've went through before getting to this stage, so stop taking it too personal." He said.

He looked at her carefully and sighed, "you're sick." He added, as Diana look drained of her entire energy, honestly; he knew for her to keep standing at this rate proves how strong she is.

"I'm fine, we should get help for you, what if you die from it." Diana said, still shaking.

She's still finding it hard to accept that her step dad is doing all this course of his obsession toward her mom, to her it's simply ridiculous, but yeah; she's really deep in sh*t because of it.

"I'm not scared to die, I'm prepared to do each time I left my room and step foot outside. Also, stop worrying, I've used an antidote, and should be rid of it within 15 minutes from now." He explained and assured, which made Diana calm down a bit.

Diana finally took a deep breath and sat down beside him, which made Nathan smile at her confidence. "I'm not leaving." she said. "I will stay and face the challenges, but I'm not a pushover, if it gets too hard; I will complain." She said.

"It's fine if you complain, the instructors and Aroma will take pleasure in making you start from scratch till you learn to mind your speech." Nathan replied.

Diana, who had thought she's immune to anger at this rate, find herself gnashing her teeth and taking a deep breath to control herself from cursing at him.

"Also, if you had left with Ethan yesterday, the two of you might be dead now." Nathan informed her about the fact she has assumed immediately after waking up, but chose not to process it in her brain, as she couldn't handle such a possibility.

"Yes." She agreed.

"Hmm," Nathan hummed. "Take a rest and let's go eat before going back. I can't recall seeing you eat since you came here." He said.