CHAPTER FOUR ‘New memories’

My eyes darted open after feeling a tingling sensation on my neck. I gasped and looked up to the unfamiliar ceiling above my head. It colours were a combination of brown and cream, it looked like a block of tiles but it was really cute.

“Honey..” I jumped a little when I heard a voice beside me. I looked to the side only to see a handsome man staring at me with a huge smile on his face. I was confused. I racked my brain to know who the man was but what I got was a horrible headache instead. The man moved closer to the bed I was lying on and I moved away quickly in anxiousness and fear.

I didn't know where I was or how I ended up here? 

Unable to stand the man intimidating figure, I got up from the bed and ran out of the room only to find myself directly in front of beautiful flowers. However, I kept running past the apple and coconut trees. Where I was running to, I didn't know but I was hoping wherever I was running to would give me an answer to my questions.

Suddenly a green snake crawled in front of me with it's scary red tongue stuck out towards me and it started rushing towards me at an unnatural speed causing me to run back in the direction I escaped from. The man from earlier held me in his arms with a beautiful smile on his face, I looked away from him and stared in the direction of the scary snake but it was no longer there.

I looked back at the man holding me in his arms and attempted to move away but he never once let me go which made me feel uneasy. After a few moments of him uncomfortably staring into my eyes, I mustered the confidence to speak.

“Where am I? Are you a bad person? Did you kidnap me for a ransom?” After asking my questions, I realized they sounded a little childish. Would a kidnapper admit to kidnapping their victims for money?

I felt annoyed when he kept holding me and smiling foolishly without answering my questions. I moved away from him and he finally let go off me before letting out a sigh, “You're mine” his response was very annoying and cliché I couldn't help but flick his forehead.

“How dare you say that? I belong to myself, I'm not yours” I said immediately and he smiled before patting my head. “I'm the only one here that knows everything about you and if you're interested in knowing more about yourself you better be good to me”

I shook my head causing him to pull his hand away from my head. How could I trust him, he could be a kidnapper or a bad person. How could I trust him?

“If I were a bad person I would've beat you to pulp when you flicked my forehead” He said taking a few steps closer to me causing my steps to retract backwards. W-what was he going to do.. was he going to beat me to pulp for flickering his forehead?

I kept taking a step from him until my back hit the tree. Unable to move anymore because both of his hands were on my sides, preventing me from running away.

He leaned closer to me with his eyes closed and his mouth moving closer to mine. Did he want to kiss me?

Feeling panicked, I covered his mouth with my hand causing him to open his eyes.

Embarrassed, I looked away from him while saying what I truly felt, “Uh.. A kiss is for a married couple, so you shouldn't try to kiss me”

He grabbed my hand that was on his mouth and smirked evily, “We're married, so we should do more than kiss. Don't you think?”

I froze feeling more embarrassed by his words but I quickly reminded myself that this man was just fooling with me and we were probably not married. But his response made me really nervous.

“I have proof we're married. W-we're pregnant”

I shook my head quickly, “You're a liar, you can't be pregnant and I can't be pregnant. Go away! I don't like liars”

He sighed running his hand through his black beautiful hair. “I said we're pregnant because I like you and I want to be responsible for you. Feel your stomach, doesn't it feel round?” he said placing a hand on my stomach making me feel even more nervous.

“Nevermind” his face saddened and he let go of my stomach “It's not big enough for proof, give it one more month and you'll start feeling a little bump” 

I however brushed his words off. There was no way I could be pregnant. Why would i be so bad and give myself to someone I barely knew.

Remembering that I still didn't know much about myself, I didn't even know my name. I asked, “Do you really know me or are you just trying to take advantage of the fact that I don't remember my past?”

“I would never take advantage of you.. I-i truly know a lot about you.. Your name is Beauty, you used to be a witch of Crescent kingdom and I.. used to be the prince of the twelve hell realms, Cameron.”

Immediately he said that, pictures of a bold confident woman wearing a red dress with a hood flashed in my mind. I didn't know if that was an imagination or a flashback but I could see a fair woman clad in a dramatic long red dress with a hood covering her hair. Surrounding her was a bunch of red roses with black spots on every single one of them. 

As I looked closely at the woman's face, I was stunned. The woman was me. So I was a witch? Was I bad?

How could I be a witch though I was obviously a human being!

“You were wonderful” He said snapping me out of my thoughts.

“Where are my parents then? Why am I here?” 

He shook his head at me, his eyes, red and stern. “Y-you made me erase that part of your memory, you threatened to kill me if I ever reminded you of your parent”

I froze. From the look in the eyes and the way his voice sounded, it didn't feel as though he was lying.. It felt as though he feared me.. no, he feared what I used to be which made me a bit disappointed in myself. Was I really a bad person?

“You are here because.. You wanted the both of us to live a peaceful life. You drank from the sea of oblivion and went to the human realm, but I betrayed you last minute to do something else but then.. I went to the human realm to look for you but It was hard. I traveled to ten countries until I found you here in the united states” 

I was preturbed. Was he really saying the truth? Why did his words sound like some fairytale.

I felt a terrible headache and another picture displayed in my head.

I was kissing Cameron passionately despite him trying to resist my touch. I even ripped his shirt off untill he eventually gave in and kissed me back.

My eyes widened and I quickly held my cheeks trying to cover my cheeks they were burning in embarrassment. I couldn't believe I did that. 

‘If i was aggressive and harsh on him in my past why is he still here?’ I thought feeling ashamed of my old self for jumping on a man like that. 

Cameron lifted up my chin so I was staring at him and said with a smirk, “Because I'm addicted”

I froze. Did he just read my mind now? 

“H-how?” I stuttered, unsure whether or not I said my thoughts out loud.

“You said your thoughts out loud” He said and I nodded feeling slightly at ease. How could I have almost believed his rubbish about me being a witch and him being a prince of hell?

“What job did I used to do? It'll be boring for me to live alone without doing a thing”

Cameron seemed annoyed, “You won't be living alone.. Don't you want me to live with you? We were best friends before you lost your memory, you wanted me everywhere you went but now.. you don't need me anymore?”

I shook my head “That wasn't me, I'm different now. I'm not as shameless as the old me was so I will not let a man I'm not married to live with me” I said running to the house where I regained consciousness.

It would be my new place and I would make it my home. Since I'd been given a chance to live I might as well live well peacefully and hapilly.