Unlimited. Darina Grotto
you doing here?’ she asked, feeling her cheeks getting burnt with red fire.
‘I have bought a computer…ok, laptop, cell. What else? SIM-cards and I need your help. How shall I use these all?’
‘What? You’ve bought?’ she couldn’t help smiling. ‘Wait a second. I’ll give coffee to my mum and come down to you. Will you be waiting for me here?’
‘You don’t want to acquaint me with your mum, do you?’
‘Kharon!’ Victoria exclaimed in confusion. ‘Before it we have to make up a weepy story about your appearance in my life. That’s why I’d like to have a walk across the city…to communicate with you.’
‘I am waiting.’ The man answered humbly.
He followed the girl with his eyes when she came into the entrance hall, he watched the wind disarranged her hair, the dark entrance side hid her out of his sight.
In an hour they were sitting in a café, Victoria was looking into the demon’s cell.
‘So, this is your phone number. That’s mine. You can find them in your contacts. You can text. Here. You have to open your messages. Then find a necessary phone number, text here and send…’
The demon was listening, examining the device and rarely smirked. What a strange device! Demons communicated with each other by means of thoughts! And if you put it like that then they weren’t very talkative guys. They absolutely didn’t need cells for connection.
‘It’s a little bit difficult with your laptop,’ Victoria took a sigh, opening the lap, ‘Why do you need this one, by the way?’
‘I saw the same on your table. I don’t need this?’ Kharon asked sadly.
‘I don’t know. Actually, if you work and study, then you do, of course, any laptop… Let me tell you in shorts how to use it. We’re gonna create your e-mail account…’
‘Could you sit closer to me?’ Kharon put his arm around the nervous girl.
‘Closer?’
‘I need to feel your warmth, constantly…your human warmth…’
Victoria sat closer and…that’s all. She couldn’t think of any laptop. She was slowly going sexually mad because of his hand on her waist, playful fingers gently touching her. Her breathing was getting faster, the heart was beating like a drum, her thoughts were gone. His hot lips sank down on her cheek. His hands squeezed her stronger.
‘Kharon…’ the girl begged. ‘We’re in a public place… and you’re making me lose my mind.’
‘What’s about public places?’ the demon was surprised, for a minute he stopped kissing the girl burning with passion.
‘Such behaviour is unacceptable in public places. It’s a kind of intimacy.’
‘Oh, really?’ Kharon smiled. ‘I’ve seen lots of kissing couples in streets. They didn’t look antisocial.’
He fixed his lips in hers again, strongly embracing her body.
‘Excuse me!’ an unwanted waiter appeared from nowhere and broke the passion kiss. There was another man near him. ‘Should I bring the bill, or you would like anything else?’
Kharon was staring at Victoria’s lips, in her turn she was staring the waiter, trying to recognize him as a saviour or a cuckoo in the nest.
‘May I have a coffee with a syrup… any one? Cappuccino.’ She said, holding firmly the demon’s hand. ‘Are they auditing?’ Vic asked herself, watching the waiter and the man walking away.
‘What auditing?’ Kharon asked understanding nothing.
‘You know, people sometimes come to check how other people work. Do you see our waiter being followed by a man? He looks like he’s not satisfied with the waiter’s work already.’
‘Why? It’s possible…’ Kharon said aloofly, looking at the lone figure of the waiter. ‘Auditing…’
‘There’re lots of people here…and you wanna kiss!’ Victoria smiled, pressing herself to Kharon who was deep in his thoughts.
In five minutes, the waiter came back with the same man nearby, put the coffee and left.
‘He doesn’t even look how the waiter is working!’ the girl surprised. ‘He was looking into my eyes! Have you seen that? How can he see the people’s work in proper perspective?’
Victoria was indignant at the auditor’s behaviour and Kharon was getting gloomier with her every word that she said.
‘Whom are you speaking about?’ he asked, having deflected his attention away from his thoughts.
‘About that guy!’ Vic showed at the empty space near the waiter.
Kharon shifted his gaze at Victoria, then back at the empty place and suddenly he started getting what was going on and his gloomy thought was being confirmed.
‘Ah, okay…’ he pretended, ‘I see. Let’s go for a walk.’
Vic smiled, having said that first of all she’d like to finish her coffee. All that time Kharon was on pins and needles, being afraid of that Victoria would notice that she was the only one who could see the “auditor”.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly until the girl went outside.
They were walking, holding hands, suddenly a couple appeared before them: a guy and a girl.
The young man was sad, hiding his hands in his pockets, looking at the road under his feet. The girl had glassy eyes and walked right into Victoria.
‘Damn!’ Vic jumped away trying to dodge away and bumped into another man.
‘What?’ Kharon caught the girl into his arms.
‘Have you seen?’ Vic exclaimed offensively. ‘She was gonna bump right into me! If I’d not got away, she’d have been hit me… Nothing new is in this city…’
Kharon frowned, shot a look at guy, who was lonely walking away. The demon didn’t know what to do that’s why he just kissed the girl and, embracing her, kept on going.
‘Are all people so heedless?’ he tried to shunt the conversation on another topic.
‘Mostly yes, they are.’ Victoria calmed down. ‘Where are you gonna live? Have you decided?’
‘Yes, I’ve found a flat in the centre of the city. It’s not far from Teatralnaya. Is there such station?’
‘Right, there is! Teatralnaya?’ Vic surprised. ‘It’d cost too much…’
The demon looked at her with a blank stare. She explained him that to live in the centre of Moscow was a very costly affair and often beyond means. After that Victoria understood that Kharon had nothing in common with people but only his appearance.
Nevertheless, his appearance was like an angel’s face. The girl had never ever seen such beauty…unnatural.
‘Forget about it!’ she smiled, pressing herself to him.
He was so hot, and his warmth was streaming through the young veins like hot chocolate; his hands were so strong that Victoria wanted those two years to be eternal. She was a naïve stupid girl not a complete idiot. She didn’t believe in in fairy tales.
‘Tell me what you felt for Daniel?’ Kharon wandered suddenly. ‘Did you love him?’
‘Why are you asking?’
‘Your relationship lasted not so long…You broke up with him because of that hot blonde, didn’t you?’
‘I still don’t get why you’re asking about it. Well if you’re so interested… I loved him. I loved him too much when we started dating. He was older than I, a presentable young man with hopeful perspective. What else did I need? Then I got that I needed long and eternal love. My love was killed by him. He was a man of a strong character