The Mysterious Demon Book 2

-Blake-

"I don't think I remember the last time we were been able to hang out together like this, Blake,"

I grinned at Jake as he put his next card down during our round of blackjack. "I know, seeing your ugly face for this long is quite something," I reply which makes him scoff.

"Hey! We have almost identical faces! I'm surprised Dominic can stand yours." He retorts which makes me chuckle. I put my card down.

"Yeah well at least I've got someone who can, where's yours?" I ask and he pouts a little, trying to distract himself by looking through the cards in his hands.

He ends up deciding and changes his pouted expression to a more mischievous one, "I'll find her one day, in the meantime, I think we should test how well Dominic can tell us apart. Wouldn't want you getting married to someone who could mistake you for another man now, would we?"

"You do that and you're dead," I say casually which makes him grin.

"I'm doing it!"

I roll my eyes but smile at his childish behaviour. I would have found myself getting angry at this a few years ago but now, I had the utmost trust in Dominic; I knew that even if he did do this, it wouldn't make a difference. She loved me as I did her.

"Where is she anyway?" Jake asked.

Dominic was with Anna right now. It's been a few weeks since she and Jordan have been around and in that time Anna and Dominic have started to become really close to one another. They weren't similar in any sense but there was something that connected them and now they behaved like sisters almost.

It was the first time I had seen Dominic act so friendly with another person, that too a woman. Ever since high school I've known her to be independent or surrounded by men who either want to kill her or want something from her. We had been some of the only friends she had but now that she's found Anna, I'm happy that she gets to live somewhat normally and...happily.

I heard from Dominic that Anna had had her do things she had never done before whether that was going to the cinema, going to the arcade, dancing at home, doing karaoke. And although she admitted to being uncomfortable about them at first, she ended up enjoying doing them with her. She also made Anna do things too like going shooting which Anna was surprisingly good at and going to fights which Dominic said wasn't something Anna was super into but they ended up having a great time anyway.

the bigger parks in the city, probably going to do other things too

nodded excitedly before going on about his 'grand plan' which involved us switching clothes and some kind of training that he said

white shirt, a grey zip-up hoodie and light denim trousers at the time. I was wearing a black button-up shirt, black trousers and a burgundy leather jacket. I think it was safe to say we definitely had different styles and I would find it weird that we were swapping clothes but we used to do it a lot as kids so I didn't really mind.

tried mimicking me which

on an exaggerated angry face which made wrinkles form between his eyebrows, making me laugh before I slapped the back of his

angry all

gotta start pretending to be like me, call her sweetheart and be a lot livelier" I'm pretty sure he was just insulting me now.

of an answer, it wasn't really something I had thought about, anything we call each other

looked at me as if asking 'am I serious?' Which made me shrug. "D? Not 'love' or 'hun' or 'babe'? You're a terrible boyfriend. I bet

he smirks at me while doing his hair, getting pretty into

long after when I heard Dominic and Anna's laugh outside the door and I started getting a little nervous but pushed it back. It's not like anything would happen.

a more warm feeling than before. Before it used to feel

it, reminding me that I was supposed to be him and him me, "Welcome home love," he says, walking towards her. His voice was perfect somehow, the way he walked towards her, arms outstretched casually too, he was really good. They hugged which made me hold my breath a bit. I knew Jake wouldn't do anything,

face now and it looked like he was going to kiss her. I got up to stop them but before I could step forward Dominic landed a hard punch to Jake's stomach, making me flinch slightly as he groaned out in complaint towards Dominic but then I slowly smile as Dominic walks

her a short welcoming kiss before holding her waist, rubbing the tips of my fingers on the sides of her stomach when we break away and she turns back

want to

I

don't have to tell me

had been doing today, as she laughed along with

started feeling it now too. The room was filled with chatter, it wasn't awkward or abnormal but there seemed to be a void that felt weird to me. I looked in Anna's direction to see her looking down at her lap intently for a second before looking up again and joining in the conversation again, all as normal.

push this feeling away, thinking it was just me being paranoid when