Chapter 0:

The Lonely Boy

Uncanny Devotion



January 16, 2320.  Manhattan, New York City. 

I don’t know what to expect of tonight, I am sure about my feelings but I have a bad gut feeling right now. I feel like something bad is coming at me. Today is going to be the day I finally tell Allyson what I feel. I’m pretty sure that she feels the same way that I do, so everything will work out the way I want it to be. I rented the whole rooftop just for this proposal and I also got me a fitted suit and an expensive treatment at the salon to look good for her. Every thing should be fine.

While waiting for her to arrive, Alex was dwelling on every single outcome that his confession could take.  “As well as it doesn’t end like the last one it will be okay”, that was his main thought now. He couldn’t focus on the words that he practiced for weeks in advance. He was very tense, almost scared. He feared losing another important person for him.

When Allyson arrived, she looked like a Greek goddess. She had blonde hair and an hourglass-like figure, she was tall and had an imposing presence. She was also kind, smart and very strong. Alex thought of himself as a lucky man for having someone like her being fond of him.

When she saw him, she instantly greeted him by a kiss on the cheek. He loved when she did that , and seeing the way her face looked, she loved doing it too.

-Good evening Alex, you look as handsome as always. Said Allyson with a big smile in her face

-It’s hard trying to match you, but I tried my best, Allyson, you look astonishing tonight. Affirmed alex.

-You’re going to make me blush. I just dressed accordingly the place and the occasion, it’s no big deal.

-But it’s true, your beauty almost made me forgot the reason I invited you here tonight. Let me escort you to our table.

Then he proceeded to escort her to the exact same table, the one with the amazing view of the city’s skyline and the ocean, in which they sat the first time they went out. When they sat down and were done ordering, Alex proceeded to ask her if she was feeling good, when suddenly, he felt something that was squeezing around his neck and rolling up around his head. He shivered. It was a warning to him; it was like a reminder to let him know that he was still cursed. He knew that it was still here all this time. He pretended to not notice his presence just to fulfill his love pursuit.

When they were done eating, he asked the waitress to bring him the wine bottle that he looked up beforehand. Of course, it was a code signal to bring the necklace he bought her as a gift to honor his confession. When the waitress came with the Masseto 2016, an exclusive merlot that his father advised him to buy for the special occasion. There was a Red Box disguised in the floral arrangement that came with the bottle of wine. Alex waited nervously until the waitress left to start talking. He stood up and picked the red box from the arrangement. Alex took a deep breath to calm himself and started speaking.

-Allyson, you’re the greatest person I’ve ever met. From the first moment I saw you, I liked you. You are a beautiful, smart, charming, amazing, kind, unique person. Every day that I’m with you I feel like the happiest man in the entire world. Things have grown very far between our friendship, and I think that its time to take the next step. I really like you Allyson, and I want to be by your side every day, not as a friend but as your lover. -Alex proceeds to kneel by her side and opens the red box to show her the diamond pendant of the necklace- Allyson, Will you grant me the honor of being your partner?

Allyson started crying of happiness. She was smiling joyfully. She liked him a lot and was very comfortable with him. Of course, she wanted to be his girlfriend. She was waiting for this moment for a while now. She was eager to accept his gift. She cleared the tears off her cheeks and stood straight again.

-Of course, I want to be your partner, I want to know everything about you, and I want to be an important part of your life. -She said while she had tears of joy running down her cheek.

When he stood up, he proceeded to put the necklace on her neck and sit down in front of her. He looked down at his sweaty hands, “I need to keep myself calm”, he thought. When he gazed up at her , the electricity went out. It was a full moon night anyways; the lack of electricity wasn’t a problem. When they looked at the skyscrapers, they noticed that they were dark too.

When he looked back at her, she was looking at him, the smile in her face changed in a second to a look that expressed extreme fear and panic. He was about to ask her what was wrong, but before he could say anything he heard it laugh. Quickly after hearing it, he could feel the weight of it in his shoulders and in his neck, when he looked at it, he could see that it was  looking at her with a mischievous look in the face, like it was just waiting for a precise moment to appear. And then, in a deep rough voice it started speaking.

-Greetings, you filthy woman. I’m the Master of Alex and I don’t really like it when people like you approach him. Lay a finger on him again and you’ll wish you were dead.

Allyson screamed as if she was being shot at, and she stood up from the table like she was escaping something. The look on her face was filled with pure horror. There were tears running down her face as she sprinted towards the exit door.

Alex stood up and ran to reach her. He stopped abruptly when he felt it squeezing his neck a little and started laughing hysterically and scoffing at him. He was a fool for thinking that the demon binded to him will let him fix things up with her.

-I told you that I would put up my best attire to impress her. -Stated the demon. - I really don’t know why you keep falling in love again and again when I’ve already told you that your soul and body are my property -it licks his face and starts laughing-I’m the only one who will be with you until your very last breath.

Alex fell to his knees and started crying frenetically. He knew that everything the demon said was true. He knew that having a normal relationship was just a dream for him. He knew that he was an idiot for even bothering to try and confess his love to a woman that will leave as soon as the demon showed his face.

After a while, the power came back and he was sitting in the empty table looking at the half-empty wine glass laying in there. He tried to call Allyson, but she already blocked him from every single platform. Alex was tired of this. Every single time he was interested in someone, the demon interfered. He felt like trash after every time because the girls never officially rejected him. He never knew anything of those women ever again in his life. They disappeared as soon as they saw the demon.

When Alex got home, he was drunk. He didn’t want to think about anything in this moment. He cried himself to sleep every time after 12 years of rejections. He dreamed about the day when he could show his love to another person without the feeling of them leaving him. Soon after he laid his body in his bed, he turned to the window and looked at the city’s skyline with just one thought in his head.

“I want to be loved.”


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