Shades of Love - hima (read after .TXT) 📗

you think you can allow me a ride…?” Nikki said blinking back her tears. Ethan nodded. “Not now… Nikki…”Carl walked up to them. Nikki nodded and hurried to her room. Carl glanced at the bike, he ran his hands over it and then covered it sighing, and he patted his son Ethan and walked him into the living room.

By evening, they all packed their stuff into three cars, Eric and Rachel, Felix and Eva travelled alone. Carl took the wheel instead of Ethan’s insistence to let him drive. Ethan and Nikki settled in the back seat. Nikki stayed awake for a while and drifted to sleep, Ethan adjusted himself to Make Nikki comfy but she fell asleep in Ethan’s laps, he fondly cradled her in his arms. Jane smiled at him.

Nikki woke up as dreams of Ethan faded thinly into her memory. She woke up in Ethan’s laps, she jerked herself away from him, why would she always end up in his arms. She nodded her head in disbelief.

It’s clearly midnight, “How far are we…?”
“We’ll be there by dawn…”Carl said looking at the reflection of Nikki in the mirror. Nikki nodded; she wound her window down, feeling the cool night breezes.

“What is that thing…?” She exclaimed as she took in the huge palace. They laughed at me. “Is that thing we are going to stay in…?” she asked.

“Yes…It’s the vampire elders house…” Ethan said. “House…that would be an understatement…”she said in a loud voice. They laughed again.

They checked in…They allotted four rooms in the third floor for us. Others got settled in by the time we reached. Ethan and Nikki had to share a room.
“Why is it always we end up together…?” she said unlocking the door. Ethan shrugged his shoulders.

“Atleast the room is big enough…” She said gasping at the size of the room. The décor was all in red…There was a huge bed occupying one-fourth of the room. “Wow!”was all she could say.

Rachel barged in through the doors as I was about to hit the bed. “Don’t you think…” she glared.
“Just 10 minutes…Rach…”I mumbled.
“I’m not hearing anything…”She said pulling me from the bed. I grumbled.

“Rachel…Leave her…”Ethan growled.
“I don’t want her to miss anything…”Rachel pouted.
“Okay…Give me 10 minutes…”she said.
“Fine…10 minutes…it is…”she said.


Rachel was too much…She is hurling me through the malls nonstop since five hours…Shopping is fine with me as long as I get to pick up and it won’t take more than half an hour but seriously…five hours shopping is something that I hate…Eva was complacent about all this…she would throw pitiful glances at me now and then, when I sulked about her dragging into another shop.

Rachel was talking about the designs to the mall owner giving him subtle tips to improve the designs better. She really had a good taste to it…”Was she always like this…?” I asked.

“She was a designer in her human life…I guess that didn’t go away from her…” Eva smiled.

“How did she change into…?” It seemed awkward even to mention that name. Eva laughed at me.
“Rachel…worked as a designer…one day she was called by a richest woman to design her wedding dress. She was supposed to leave at dusk but knowing Rachel she might have forgot about it in her designing world… Later when she was on her way back home…”She trailed off.

“Jane was a new born vampire than…she couldn’t resist the call of Rachel’s blood…” she added feebly.

I couldn’t imagine Jane hurting anyone; she is so sweet. “It happens…no new born could resist it…” Eva explained as if she understood my thought.

Thankfully, it was the last shop in the line and we headed back to the hotel… Rachel was excited about showing off the dresses. She had a perfect idea of every minute detail like hair, makeup, jewelry for each and everyone.

Rachel shooed of Ethan from my room, we girls helped each other, following the exact orders of Rachel, we couldn’t even think of disobeying her when it comes to fashion.

She chose me a light purple gown, it hugged my curves and then fell into waves of silk from waist down, she done my hair into a bun and few strands hung out here and there.
Nikki was appalled to see a most beautiful staring at her in the mirror; she looked perfect in every way… She could see the same admiration for her in everyone’s eye as they saw her.

Everyone came into escort their mates to the ball, she waited for Ethan who was supposed to escort me, she stood up excited as she heard him somewhere close, Ethan’s hungrily grazed at her as she stood tall and elegant in her purple floor length gown. A proud grin escaped his lips as he held out his hands.

Nikki sucked in her breath as soon as she laid her eyes on him. She enveloped her arm in his hands, eyes locked with his as they walked down the stairs. Ethan could feel the vibes, he led her to the dance floor, spinning her and pulling her closer, his arms resting on her waist, he was pleased to see that he was having an effect on her; she shivered at his slightest touch. After a few spins they were interrupted by a steel voice.

“Do you mind?” A blonde girl with fiery red eyes interrupted them and Ethan let go of Nikki reluctantly. As they swayed in sync with the music, Nikki could feel the snarls escaping through her lips; she ran away from them and poured herself some blood shake to calm her nerves.

“What are you doing here?” Rachel noticed Nikki shooting daggers at the Bree who was dancing with Ethan.

“I have an idea…” Rachel whispered something into her ears and Nikki stood up excited. She walked casually past the group with a glass in her hand and pretended to stumble upon something spilling the contents over Bree. She shrieked at the top of voice which was more like siren yelling.

She whisked off to the washroom to clean up her dress. Nikki suppressed her laughter, Ethan was taken aback seeing what she did just now, why would she do that? Only answer is she is envious… but is she? The inner demon roared with success.

He pulled her closer and kissed her passionately on the lips and regretted it as soon as he saw Nikki go pale… she flew back into her room. She was lost in the bliss of the kiss for a second, it was filled with pure passion, something snapped in her as she realized she was kissing Ethan. Why did she do that? What would he think now? I can’t risk losing his friendship for anything in this world.

She froze as she heard the gentle knock on the door and saw Ethan emerge with a remorseful look.

“I’m sorry; I have no idea of what happened there…” She said quickly.

“I love you…” she was too stunned to talk. Her eyes bore into his searching for truth. She knew he was serious about it.

“I’m really sorry…I never thought of you in that way…”She stammered.

“I know…I don’t even expect you to…I just wanted you to know how I feel for you.” He said and left without a word

Nikki hit the pillows crying…
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“I don’t know… I never thought him that way and I don’t want this to come in between our friendship… I need him…” Ethan sat Indian style as I babbled crying, resting my head in his laps.

“I’m just a figment of your imagination and he is real… You need him more than me. You can’t live on with me forever like this… you need to let me go and move on with your life…” Ethan whispered rubbing my hands.

“But it’s you I love…” she replied firmly.

“One day you’ll grow to love him…he is a wonderful person, I’m not just saying this because he is my brother…”Ethan affirmed.

“Nikki…”Rachel jerked her to awake.

“Are you okay? Ethan said to check on you…” she mumbled.

“I’m fine…just feeling a bit down.” I lied.





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Publication Date: 05-25-2011

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