Playing With Fire
Part 3

Sean POV

Sean's room, 09:00 in the morning

Bruk!

I lay my body on the bed. I don't know why my body feels so heavy, but it's still morning. Every move I made while I was in bed was uncomfortable, until I realized something was wrong with my hand.

"What's wrong with my hand, why is my hand shaking? Maybe because of..."

After that cherry blossom garden I decided to go home, so I ditched it today. My feeling became strange after meeting that water element user girl. When my hand came into contact with her, I felt that she used her strength while shaking hands with me until our hands became smoky, so I was shocked when I touched her.

Tok tok! The sound of the door is heard. I stopped what I was thinking and focused on seeing who would come in. It turned out to be mom, she showed a surprised expression as she saw me lying on the bed. Looks like he already knows that I'm ditching today.

"Sean, I told the school you weren't in today. Did something happen?" Said mom worried.

She's the best mom in the world, instead of being angry she's worried about me for skipping school. Unlike in the movies, a wealthy family like me doesn't necessarily have a messy family. He taught me very well and always supported what I did. Besides being very consistent and smart, he always believed in my decisions.

"It doesn't happen anything ma'am, my body's just a little tired."

"really? Thank goodness then. Sean, can you go downstairs in an hour? I want to talk about something."

"Alright" I replied while nodding.

It's not usual for mom to tell me to go downstairs just because she wants to talk, usually she just reveals it. Does he want to say something important?

*****

Family room, 10:00 in the morning

I walked down the stairs to get to the living room, because my room was upstairs. Closer down I heard the voices of 4 to 5 people there because my sense of hearing was very good.

And when I got there I stopped in shock. All the Arlert family gathered there and all the couches in the living room were filled. Even Jean's brother, who was always busy in the hospital, was there. They all looked at me as if they were waiting for me.

By reflex I bowed my body in respect to all of them while smiling a little.

"Sean, sit here." Father said, he told me to sit next to him.

Without much thought I immediately obeyed what father said and sat down next to him. I really don't know what happened and this kind of situation I just felt this time.

"Sean, do you have a boyfriend?" Ask me seriously. To be honest I was surprised, what kind of question is that? He said it out loud in front of everyone.

"I don't have one, so why?"

"Then... Do you have someone you like?"

Again I said the absurd question. I feel like there's something weird about my family right now. Though only a trivial question but everyone seemed to be waiting for my answer.

"What do you really want to say?" My speech. They all stopped looking at me, like they were caught when I found out they were hiding something.

"Dad wants you to get engaged." Saying without aba.

"Sean? You hear dad?" Asked the father who seemed to realize that I was shocked to the point of silence.

"No way." Once my brain that was a bit of an error started to realize, that was the only word I could say. No matter what the whole reason of my body seems to be resisting my father's wishes. How could he say that to me? I haven't had a romantic experience in my entire life.

"You refused it right away? Aren't you wondering why Dad told you to get engaged?"

I clenched my hand and tried to gather all the emotions that were in my body into that fist. I have to keep thinking logically, if I mix logic with emotion everything will be messed up.

"Why do I have to get engaged?" I asked in a heavy voice, I really don't want to hear the reason.

"Dad found your partner, Sean."

The feeling of emotion was instantly gone, the joke made me smile. He said he found my partner as if it was a lost item.

"Dad said he found my partner, how do you know if what you found was my partner, are you kidding me?" I said with a smile.

But hearing my answer, my father did not change his expression, he still looked at me seriously and it made me stop smiling.

"Dad, please don't talk half. The reason for finding my partner is too ridiculous."

"You're almost an adult, your powers are about to emerge and you need to get engaged."

"Why do I need to get engaged? Isn't that supposed to be Jean's sister? She's not even married yet, why is dad taking care of me who can't even be said to be an adult?"

"You're different, Jean and Sean don't have the same power. Jean was born with the power of pure fire, while you were born with the power of pure fire and blue fire. You know what a blue fire means?"

Blue fire? I am no stranger to this element. Blue fire is the highest caste of the fire element, no one has yet been able to master the power of blue fire, not even my strong grandfather. He died from not being able to control his power and it turned out that blue flames were also flowing in my blood.

"So you think getting engaged with me will make me master the blue fire? And can you escape death? Who told you about it?"

"The astrologer Nostradamus said it, do not underestimate his predictions. Everything he foresaw had always come true."

I cannot say the word, I am rational and always trust the saint. Now stuck with a myth called prophecy. Reasoning and logic that I had believed all along, so it felt pointless.

Because I was pensive for too long, I did not see my mother who had made a puddle of water through her tears. He looked at me as if he was sure I was going to die.

"Even if I get engaged and slow down my death, eventually people will die as well...."

THE PLAQUE!

The loud slap from my mother made me stop my words. Without him saying, I know what mom's slap meant. This slap was like the body language that my mother used to resuscitate me.

"If you don't want to live for yourself, at least do it for your mother. This is my mother's first and last request to you." Mother said that with her tears that continued to flow nonstop.

Actually getting engaged is not a problem for me, death is not a problem for me either. What I hated the most was seeing my mother cry and hearing the fact that my future had been predicted by a fortune teller that I didn't even know who it was. So I decided to...

"I'll do it... The engagement."