Rademos The Power Of Four Realm

”Rademos, please wait, ” Andis called after him for the fourth time. Still, he continued to walk determinedly towards the back of the house, his footsteps slapping hard against the concrete and echoing in her ears as they got farther and farther away from her. She ran after him, deciding to call out to him one last time before she gave up.

”Rademos, please wait up. Please. ”

But Rademos kept going. Andis was quite frustrated at this point. She paused in her tracks and ceased to go after him. She scoffed, stamped her feet, and threw her hands in the air in a dramatically aggrieved gesture. He could keep going if he wanted.

Rademos sensed that Andis had stopped coming after him. She seemed to have tired and had finally given up. He stopped and glanced over his shoulder. He was right; she was standing still in the center of the road, her hands folded into fists by her sides while she stared presumably at his retreating back.

”What do you want? ” he asked her in a flat monotone while he warily eyed her from head to toe.

Andis did not notice the wary look he gave her nor the unexcited pitch of his voice as he spoke to her. Her frustrated glare softened at the sound of his voice and mere eye contact with him.

For a while, she felt disoriented, like she had lost her reason for following him out here this far. She instead felt a passionate craving for him that she could not explain. She wanted him to put his arms around her and croon to her ears how everything would be alright while he rubbed her back lovingly. She shook the thought out of her head, willing herself to focus on the matter at hand.

”I- I felt we should talk about the incident that happened in school, ” Andis said.

”Yeah, what about it? ” Rademos asked, maintaining his stance.

”You tell me, ” she said. ”All I remember was that I tried kissing you and woke up on the floor with blood, my blood, according to Tenis claim, all over the floor. Im so confused because I don have any injuries, and Im not feeling any pain. Teni is mad at me for reasons I can explain. ”

Rademos turned to face her but remained standing in the same place. He acted with confusion as he spoke. ”What are you talking about? You were lying on the floor with blood when I got there. I approached you and tried to help, and your friend just started screaming. I turned and saw her with a phone videoing us, and then she bolted to fetch the students, who thankfully didn fall for your pranks. So why are you still bothering me? ”

Andis shook her head. ”No, I mean yes, we did plan the video and cook up a nice plan to hurt you, but the idea was for me to seduce you. We were trying to get back at you for turning down our friend Lora. It never involved me pretending to be hurt and trying to frame you. ”

Rademos struggled with himself whether or not to admit the truth. Which would have a lesser consequence, telling the truth or withholding it? After he thought about it, he finally decided against it. It was better to have everyone confused about what happened in the hallway between him and Andis rather than having a united front of students trying to figure out who he was. The schools grapevine would be alive with all sorts of conspiracy theories, with him being the center of all of it. He gave an inward shudder. The issue was something he would like to avoid if he could.

”Just stop with the fabrications, please, ” Rademos said, feigning annoyance. ”So, how did you end up on the floor with blood everywhere then? ”

”Thats what Im trying to figure out, ” Andis said softly, sweeping the hair across her face without even thinking about the gesture. ”I remember trying to kiss you, and then- ”

Rademos stared at her, challenging her with his gaze; he knew it was important to hold her gaze at this moment if he wanted to keep planting seeds of confusion within her. ”And then what? ”

”How are you doing this? ” cried Andis.

”Doing what? ” queried Rademos in a milder tone than hers.

”This, ” Andis replied, rotating her palm in front of her face. ”Causing me to forget things. ”

”Seriously, whats wrong with you guys? Is this some sort of elaborate prank? When will it end? ”

Andis squinted her eyes at him, and her lips curled tightly. She was getting fed up trying to squeeze out any form of rational answer from him. She felt either Rademos was playing dumb or something unexplainable was happening to all of them.

”So, you don remember me getting closer to you and trying to kiss you? ” she pressed further.

”Would you stop saying that, please, ” Rademos said, throwing his hands up to drive home his point.

”Oh, you stop it! ” Andis fired back. ”Stop trying to manipulate me into feeling like Im crazy. What did you do to my memory? ”

”Fine, ” said Rademos in a resigned manner, moving forward. ”I did it. ”

”Did what? ” asked Andis. She had an apprehensive look about her, and her posture changed slightly as she prepared herself for what he was about to say. She was pretty sure that Rademos was about to say something of importance at last.

Oh hell, well, here goes nothing. ”I pushed you when you tried kissing me, and you flew, bashing your skull against the wall. By the time, Teni was back with help; you were completely healed. I don get how any of it is possible, but its unwise for you to keep following me, okay. ”

Andis stepped back cautiously as Rademos drew closer. He suspected that he terrified her and so he stopped closing in on her.

”Are you a Lycan? ” Andis asked.

”Maybe, ” Rademos replied, shrugging. ”Andis, look, I don know what or who I am right now. Ive lived a very ordinary life until this day, and Im just as filled up with confusion as you are. ”