" How about tarts? We could do egg tarts."
Aella suggested as she pointed at the recipe book. Her fingertip just an inch away from Amon's hand that was holding the edge of the book.
" That's looks delicious too! Is it another type of sweet dessert?"
Amon asked as he reads through the description within the book.
" It's more towards a savoury type. Not so much on the sweet unlike other things... Here... "
Her fingertip lightly grazing Amon's hand. Amon's hand jolted at the sudden light touch but he didn't move his hand away. Amon's gazed finally returned back to her face. Aella gave a coy smile before looking away and watching him from the corner of her eyes. Aella could feel Amon's tensed body as she teased by drawing patterns on his hand.
" Don't you think so?"
She pressed as the back of her free hand curls under her chin, slowly following the curve until the tips of her fingertips. With a turn of her hand, she rested her chin in her palm. The whole time she watched Amon from under her eyelashes, eyes that she always kept at a seductive half open dreamy state. Amon swallowed hard, her eyes instinctly watched his bobbing Adam's apple and bit her lip in response.
Feeling uncomfortable, Amon's gaze returned back to the book in front of him as he removed his hand from under Aella's finger, grabbed his glass of champagne and glup it down in one go.
" Nervous are we? Want me to bring something stronger?"
Aella suggested as she withdrew her hand and crossed her arms under her chest, drawing Amon's eyes towards her cleavage. Amon spat up a little of the champagne causing a burst of liquid to spill where his lips touched the glass. He pulled the glass back wiping his mouth on his arm as he turned away from Aella.
" That won't be necessary. I think maybe we should switch back to coffee. Since it's getting late and picking a menu is taking some time."
Amon mumbled into his arm as his cheeks flushed red. He could feel the fruity notes of the champagne bubble down his throat with a slight burn, his head felt the buzz as well as a smooth light tingle with feather touches of dizziness.
" Wonderful idea! I'll go make some."
Aella chimed and clap her hands before getting up and heading towards the kitchen.
" It's just the champagne... Nothing more."
Amon muttered to himself as he puts down the glass and shook his head.
" Just the champagne?! You only had one glass and you're blaming it already?! Don't be a lame lightweight and go fainting on me!"
Darzirak suddenly burst out of Amon's shadow, leaping onto the table and giving Amon the shock of his life.
" Darzirak?! What ! Where's Little One?!"
Amon blurted out as he held his heart.
" Over here, with me."
Joey answered as he appeared from Dr Storm's shadow and picked up Little One who was hiding within Dr Storm's coat.
" Ai!"
Little One grinned.
" Joey? You're here too? But why? Why are you all here?? In this very room??... At this exact time."
Amon turned to all three of them before settling to glare at Darzirak.
" Well..."
Darzirak started before thinking for an excuse.
" It's a beautiful night and I thought why not make it more beautiful by helping someone get lucky. Extremely lucky."
Darzirak punctuate the last two words before wiggling his eyebrows.
" With the menu?"
Joey questioned as he closed the distance between them and pick up the big recipe book. Little One started hitting at the open page of the book as if he was expecting the drawing of the food to leap out and be eaten by him.
" Hey, no. You're going to make me drop the book. "
Joey sternly said as he moves the book from Little One and holds it at arms length before returning to examining it. Amon knowing Darzirak instantly knew what the demon ment.
" What?! No! Me? Her? No way. We are leaving soon and there's no guarantee that we'll be back!"
Amon announced as he stood up and slammed the table, Joey was shocked from this and accidentally dropped the book behind Amon.
"That's the beauty of a one night stand."
Darzirak annouced with much tone as Joey bend over to pick up the book as he did he smelled something horrid and his face grimaced.
" Oaff , ok I think the baby needs to be changed. "
Joey complainted as he picked up the book and stood up just to realised that the smell was gone.
" It happens for one night and poof ta ta bye bye! You go your separate ways! Just one night of magic."
Darzirak informed as he grabbed Amon's hands and drag him along to dance with him like a man would with a girl except Darzirak was using the table to make up for the height difference with Amon. The demon starts off with a two-hand hold, dragging Amon along a promenade position before twirling Amon and ending in a hover corte. Amon was completely unprepared for all of it and tripped over his own feet after the twirl by the end of it Amon had one leg tipped in the air and the other toeing the ground trying to balance himself as he leaned all his weight into Darzirak's arms.
" Just because you think it's good doesn't mean that I wanna do it!"
Amon complainted with a glare while being extremely careful to hold his balance.
" What?! Why not?! It's like every man's dream!"
Darzirak questioned with a gaping mouth.
" Oh, never mind. It was just this weird dagger."
Joey pulled out the dagger that was tucked in between the back of Amon's pants and shirt.
" .... Don't tell me...."
Darzirak grumbled as soon as he saw Philomel's dagger stained with the horrid smell of Bulette's blood.
" What? She gave it to me and it's a useful weapon."
Amon argued.
" Useful how? Carving out your heart?"
Darzirak arm's squeezed Amon's shoulders but didn't use his claws. Amon could feel the pressure but not the hurt of Darzirak's arms.
" Ai! "
Little One chimed with a waving hand.
" See! Even Little One wants to know!"
Darzirak pressed. Joey wondering what Little One was waving at, looked up and saw Aella walking out from the shadows of the kitchen with two mugs of coffee in her hands.
" No, he was waving at the girl."
Joey corrected Darzirak with a pointing finger at Aella. Only then did all of them turn to stare at Aella in shock, Aella feeling the many eyes on her, finally looked up from her hands and noticed the uninvited guests surrounding Amon. For the longest moment everyone froze, staring, Aella at everyone else and everyone else at Aella. Little One soon was confused and started looking back and forth between the two teams.
" What the?!"
Aella started to question but subconsciously her eyes were starting to blink. In the blink of her eyes, Joey leaped and dive into Doctor Storm's shadow but then the shadow world rejecting Little One made half his body stick out. As soon as Joey noticed he quickly pressed his side against Dr Storm's side, hiding himself from Aella's line of sight. Darzirak who was still a little miffed at Amon, instantly disappeared into the shadows , dropping Amon in the process. Pain shot up through Amon's butt and back but before his head could hit the ground Darzirak puffed up from the shadows like a pillow and cushion Amon's head.
" Fool."
Darzirak whispered into Amon's ear as he gently lays Amon's head onto the ground.
" Who are all..."
Aella trailed off when she realised that everyone had vanished and Amon was on the ground.
" Who? Me?"
Amon questioned as he suppressed a groan and winches at the pain shooting throughout his lower body.
" Where are? There was a man right there... Holding Little One just now..."
Aella describe with much bewilderment as she pointed at where Joey last stood and walked up towards it. Darzirak noticed the dagger that Joey was holding gleam against the warm orange glow from the fireplace, the same gleam caught Aella's eye as well and her head started to turn. Darzirak leap out of the shadows and quickly stretched around Joey creating a shadow shield that made them look nothing more than a dark corner within the room.
" Little One? He's upstairs with Philomel. Maybe you had a little too much of champagne? "
Amon suggested as he slowly got up from the ground, picked up the book and rub his aching bum.
" Maybe."
Aella replied as she stared at the fireplace before wondering why was it so dark towards Dr Storm's side even though it was directly in front of the fireplace.
" Why don't we take a coffee break? Clear our mind for a moment before continuing?"
Amon suggested as he gestured towards Aella's seat, silently inviting her to sit down.
Aella was still on high alert as she scanned the entrance and bar of the inn but seeing nothing else out of place, she sat down. Chalking up everything to the fact that she wanted to be drunk so that she would have a reason to do something naughty to Amon since she was a heavy weight when it comes to drinking and that small amount of champagne was nothing against her.
With that she returned to her pursuit of Amon, giving him a bright smile as she served coffee to him before taking a sip of her own.
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