All for her

"We're here" Liam says and I nod my head as i signal to get gate man. He nods in return as he confirms it is I who has truly returned and i tilt my lips up slightly.

At least Liam is good enough to get one thing done well after all. I look at the house i have actually started to regard as home and a weird thought enters my head.

(What if Beauty dosen't like a place this dark?)

I should dismiss the notion from my head because It's getting too much isn't it.

I don't do love. I don't engage in emotions that make me weak. If I'm to do anything, then it's for my benefit...

But isn't being in love with Beauty also for my benefit. Am i in love with her even?.

"You see, now you're scaring me. Does the house have any bad smell coming off it now?".

I shake my head as i wave his question aside.

"Seriously Alex. You're acting strange. You've been acting strange ever since we arrived at Sydney. Are you sure you're okay?" Liam is staring at me intently now and l give him a stare of my own.

"Why are you in Sydney?"

"Because of you"

"That's a lie and you know it."

I smile as i open the door and walk in leaving a flustered Liam outside.

"Have you been following me?" He says staring at me intently and i shrug my shoulders.

"You know i can make you talk " He says and i smile.

"Compulsion is your gift, but have you forgotten mine?"

He stops. He actually stops all that he wants to do as a flicker of recognition passes through his eyes.

"It's about that girl isn't it?" He says and i look at myself in the paneled glass walls.

"The one from this afternoon, that girl that you saved"

"How should this have anything to do with that?. That's the end of this discussion" My words bear an air of authority in them and he dosen't pester me about it anymore. He doesn't make me feel awkward asking about Beauty and you can see the fire burning in his eyes.

"You have become more and more irrational ever since we got here." He ends our discussion on that note but i am hardly fazed. He's right, I have been acting like an irrational fool ever since we got here. I am this close to actually revealing my true identity and it's all because of one person.

Liam had left the room and I'm standing in front of my mirror now.

I take a good look at myself.

I'm tall as everyone says. I'm tall but I'm not that tall that Beauty's head is too far from my chin when she's near me.

I am well built. I have a routine that i take seriously but yet I'm not overly buff.I'm slightly muscled and i smile as i remember her talking to her friend about that.

"I don't want a guy that's built like a barrel. slim waist, some sturdy shoulders and legs that go on for days."

I can here her laughter once more as she laughs that reckless laughter of hers.

I call it reckless because that is exactly what it is, She laughs like she has not a care in the world and it's always out loud.

I smile.

My face and hair are the right set too I hope and I have to feel mortified at this.

Her friend tries his best to confuse people with his gift but l am immune to such.I know it's her each and every time.

I stalk the Princess Beauty of Sydney and I've never been happier in my life.

She's managed to make a beast happy. She deserves my attention.

It's a new day and the huge gates that lead to the castle make me happy to see them. They have always made me happy to see them but yet today's happiness is a bit dampened.

"Don't tell me you're actually sad at the fact that someone saved your life?" I shoot Jack a glare as he walks ahead of me.

"I'm not angry he saved me. I'm angry l didn't get the chance to thank him"

The last parts of those words leave my mouth in a barely audible grumble but l'm sure Jack can hear them all the same.

He smiles deviously at something that i don't understand and i shoot him an even dirtier look as he shoots Lucas a smile.

The butler opens the doors and he's let into what i have come to always know as home, no matter what the history teachers say at school.

"Come on Beauty, are you really gonna keep on being angry at that?"

"You should have let me thank him properly. I feel like a damned ingrate".

Jack rolls his eyes at this again and i shoot him an even dirtier look. Yes, that's right. I'll keep on shooting him the dirty looks until he feels bad for what he has done.

"And what makes you think i don't already feel bad about that?". The conversation we had yesterday comes rushing back to me and i feel i might actually be acting a little but silly about this whole thanks thing and so l just release a tired sigh as he looks at me

"Can we drop this matter please?" I nod my head at his request and he flashes me a dazzling smile.

Whore.

"I heard that"

Laughter escapes my throat at the appalled and vindictive look on his face and his grin widens as the recollection of what had happened today at school almsot has me crumpling on the floor and laughing to my heart's content.

"It's not funny Beauty, stop laughinggggg" His little tantrum is successfully ignored as i quirk an eyebrow up at him.

He's trying to hide the smile that is on his face but let's just say that he's failing miserably at that.

"Y'know i always told father that homeschooling was only capable of making me successful....."

The voice of my eldest sister is coming from just around the corner and my eyes open wide as i look at Jack.

Almost like we both get the memo we break into a run. A run that has me lagging back because Jack has tall slender legs that can actually get him to a long distance than mine can.

Also running in jean has never been my thing.

I can hear the click of a camera and my head turns back to see some random photographer running behind me.

What the literal heck???.

The guy keeps on taking the pictures and i realise what his camera is actually taking pictures of.

Jack flashes past me the next second and the paparazzi freezes where he stands.

Showoff.