3 If you marry me

"And now they're thinking that I am the one that caused it. How am I supposed to know Ronhard was to train me when I was in my study for long?"

The black and messy haired guy stared at Raven and felt her pain.

"You don't know about the training, so why would what they think about you, bother you? You already said you didn't know... What's the big deal?" Loy asks and Raven rolls her eyes.

"It's like you just wanna join them. They don't know that I don't know about anything called training"

"They don't need to know, Raven"

Raven sighs and stands up from the chair.

"You know what, just... Have a good day"

Just as she is about to flap her wings to fly out of the house, Loy holds her hand firmly and pulls her very close to him.

She doesn't look up at him but he keeps his gaze on her.

"Am I part of the people that don't like you that you wanna walk away from me?" he asks softly and Raven says nothing.

They are usually intimate sometimes but not always. And he is always the person that makes sure he is very close to her, especially at a moment like this.

"Loy, you have tried to understand me but you just can't, leave me alone," Raven says and look up at him.

"Please" The plead, pity, and pain in the eyes of Raven made Loy shiver and nearly stagger even if he is standing with his balanced feet.

He lets go of her slowly and stepped back.

Raven stared at him as he took steps backward. They will never understand why she is like this and she hates it.

Raven flew out of the house of Loy causing a dark pile of dust to fill everywhere like smoke.

Tears dropped down the face of Raven as she flew away with no destination in mind.

Her father is hammering on this training thing not just because he wants her safety or anything, but because he wants her to learn how to fight during the war because she will soon enter the age to marry. And if she doesn't want to, she will be forced to.

Even Queens go to wars in this place and she finds it like a cruel act. Men are the people who always show off their muscles, why are the female demons part of wars in this place? Isn't it partiality?

Women are the people to take care of the family, house, do most of the things for their children. But even with what they do for the family and the household, they still go to wars and get killed while the men will find another wife so easily. How is that possible?

As so many questions fill the head of Raven and she continued flying to an unknown destination, she don't focus ahead and before she knows what is happening, Ronhard and two other hefty demons appeared in front of her.

Because of the speed, she is using to fly, she smacks her head severely into the chest of Ronhard, and her wings envelopes both of them tightly.

There is black dust everywhere and Raven's eyes turn red with anger as she got out of the embrace of Ronhard with ease.

"Can't you watch where you are going?!" she nearly yells

Ronhard, not an elderly-looking demon but a very handsome and black winged demon, smirked at her as she breathed in and out deeply.

"Oh, I will. If you marry me" he replies

Raven's anger boils like hot water.

Marriage again, huh? This is all her father's fault!

If he hadn't announced the search for men to become her husband, non of this would have happened.

"Get your mind of that case, Ronhard. I will never marry someone who hates me!"

Before she even completed her sentence, the men behind Ronhard roared with laughter as they heard her say this.

"And what makes you think we hate you?" One of them asks.

Raven is no fool to give in to their tempting words. C'mon, they should have known their Princess by now.

"You do. And there is nothing you will say that I will-"

Raven's wings flapped slowly, maintaining her balance in thin air.

Before she even said what she have in mind, Ronhard blew a mighty wind with his wings, making her go back a little.

Raven doesn't move an inch after the sudden heavy wind he is congratulating himself for.

"Don't be pathetic Princess Raven. You are beautiful than that" Ronhard says and Raven doesn't move but flaps her wings and she moves up and down little by little because of maintaining her flying stamina.

"What do you say? Will you marry me?" Ronhard asks and all eyes settle on Raven to hear her reply.

"Don't waste your breath, Ronhard. Ever heard of a proposal when flying?" Raven stubbornly smirks and Ronhard feels his eyes widen greatly.

Before the three male demons do anything stupid, Raven flaps her wings once and flew a great distance higher than the rest and then stared down at the ground, flapping her wings to maintain that same position as she stared down at them.

Ronhard just smile turns back and flew back to the ground where the rest of the Demons dwell.

She already knows he plans to lie that she refused his training. She can't train with someone who wants her to choose him as her husband by force.

It's kinda awkward.

Just as Raven stared down at the ground, Loy also stared up at her from the side of his house. He looks so tiny in the eyes of Raven because of the distance between them.

Their stare is brief but captivating.

Everyone seems to not like Raven because of her intelligence, beauty, and wings.

It's pure white and she doesn't know why it's like that amongst thousands of demons on the surface of this planet.

"I'm sorry" Raven whisper and then break the eye contact and flew down to the surface where her room is.

The speed she used to fly affected everywhere because dust rose from the ground, even if where she flew from is very high from the ground.

'I don't belong here. I am definitely not needed' ~ Raven thought painfully in her heart.

She feels rejected and the only way she can get out of that mindset is when someone... Just one person shows her that there is a reason for her coming into this world.

As she flew back to a destination not really known to Loy, Loy stare at the white line of clouds that she left behind.

It's anger that she is manifesting greatly ~ Loy thought and sigh.

He can't help her to do anything because of the marriage thing his father and her father are planning.

And yes, it's not that he don't want to marry her, but he doesn't just feel that type of love for her. He does love her though, but as an elder brother and not as a husband.

He can't marry someone he doesn't love and don't want to share his life with.

But with all this force by his father, will that be even possible?