The Beautiful and the Damned
You've been a bad..bad girl

"Good morning guys" I greeted not too cheerfully like I wanted it to be. Guess I was still tired even after I slept for a shit ton of time. A round of good mornings came back my way.

I then sat on a random seat which was apparently next to Seker's. Ok so I'm shitting you I purposely took that particular seat sue me. "Why didn't you come in since?" Cyrus asked out of nowhere.

Shocked I asked "You knew I was there?"

"Amica mea we all did, well four of us did" Seker smirked referring to him, his two brothers and most probably Arazela. Right it always slips my mind that they were gods. But what of Arazela? I didn't have the slightest clue of what she was. "Right" I muttered.

Since I made my way into the kitchen I made sure my eyes didn't meet Rina's own, for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to look at her. I was pretty sure she was blaming herself and feeling apologetic towards me, that's just how she was. But for me it was just the complete opposite, as she was probably blaming herself I was blaming my own self instead, the way I saw thing were different.

I believed it was my fault and my fault alone that Rina was being controlled by that demon, he did say he had been controlling her to get information specifically about me, so in all correct sense it was because of me it all began, it was my fault.

"Beth" hearing her voice made me avoid her gaze all the more.

"Uhm guys I think we should give them a minute" Randuff said making everyone aside from Rina and I to leave the kitchen.

"Beth?" She called once more.

Sighing I finally looked up. I was shocking to see tears gathering in her eyes, like I said Rina was a really strong person if not the Strongest person I've ever come across of but when she did cry just know it was a really big deal. "I'm sorry" I said, the sadness in my voice wasn't hidden.

Still with watery eyes she said "Damn you stole my line wench, and why are you the one saying sorry, I'm the one that should be saying that" at this point tears were now freely running down her face.

"No I'm sorry" I cried out with tears now also in my eyes. So yeah If you haven't noticed I'm quite an emotional person when it comes to Rina.

"No bitch I'm the one that's sorry" she chocked out.

"No really I'm Soo.." I once again started but she cut me off.

"Beth I will fuckin kill you if you complete those words, don't steal my spotlight when I'm sincerely apologizing" we looked at each other for a good few seconds then we burst out laughing. Oh how I have missed this woman. "God I have terribly missed you" I groaned out. I stood up from my chair, walked all the way to where she was and proceeded to hug the shit out of her.

"Same here Beth" she muffled into the hug.

After a we hugged for a few minutes and we composed our crying selves we finally started normal conversations.

"Who would have thought that gods actually exist" Rina started. Ok so maybe it wasn't exactly a normal conversation as I had said but it was still a conversation no less.

"Honestly I'm still astonished by that information" I heaved out.

So apparently Rina had been given the run down on the whole heaven, hell, demon, angels and gods thing by the gods/angels themselves, which was quite a relief actually, because I really didn't know how to start explaining it all to her. "You've got yourself in a pickle Beth, a real pickle" scrunching my nose I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You're the soulmate of death himself dear, that it really something" she released a whistle.

"Oh that" I scratch my neck a little feeling slightly awkward talking about I and Seker being soulmates. Finding out soulmates actually existed was still shocking even till date for me.

"Yeah 'that' chica tell me all about it" she said suddenly looking excited for some odd reason.

"There is honestly really nothing to talk about" I muttered with a faint blush.

"Oh I see" Rina drawled out with a knowing smirk "you've been a bad..bad girl" still with a smirk she said.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh stop shitting me sista I know you probably more than anyone else does, anytime you blush it means you've either been naughty or you're hiding something" giving me a wink she said.

"Pft I don't know what you're talking about" i denied. Wait denied? No I mean I defended, no I mean I said. Ah Bullock's who am I kidding.

"Sure you don't darling, but don't worry I'll leave you for now" She gave me a wide grin.

"Whatever" I muttered chuckling.

"Yeah about me being controlled and all" Rina started saying, her playful nature from before far forgotten.

"Rina.." I started but was cut short of my words.

"No Beth please allow me to finish" she looked at me with pleading eyes, I sighed giving her a go ahead to continue.

"I know it was the demon that was controlling me and all, but I can't still help but to blame myself. If I was strong enough I could have fought his control over me"

"The first time I had the encounter with the demon was around August last year. We met at a bar, he was hitting on me, I told him off a lot of times but he wasn't having it. After I had a few drinks I then decided to go home that night, on my way to my car that same guy cornered me, his eyes which were previously grey turned to a deep blood red colour, it was really terrifying at that time. He went on and did some weird magic thingy on me and since then he had been controlling me, though my mind was still very much aware of all that he was making me do, my body was unfortunately in his control" she explained.

"I tried soo many times to tell you Beth, to try to warn you but he didn't allow me as he was controlling my body. It was even recently when you and Seker came to my apartment that night that I found out he was apparently a demon. I just thought he was some messed up in the head dark magician or something stupid like that, which I now see was incredibly stupid of me to think so" she finished saying with a sigh.

"Oh Ri ri I'm really sorry you went through all that, and like I've been trying to tell you, I. Am. Not. Angry at you Ri, not in the slightest, I know it was not in anyway your fault, so let's just put the past behind us ok" I gave her what I hoped to be a genuine smile. She gave me a grateful smile in return.