Ichabod - Episode 13

The whole place was filled to the brim as the movie, ‘altar ego’ was being shown. Harmony sat next to her daughter who was beside Vivian. Next to Vivian was the director and other casts of the movie.

Ichabod stood in a corner, standing where he could see Harmony. She was looking extraordinary and he was finding it difficult to believe that this lady wasn’t the same woman that he had married. What kind of trick was this?

Still, he tried to maintain his cool, he needed to plan how to get close to this woman, he needed to find a way to get close to her heart...again before the full moon.

He looked at his watch momentarily and then for some reason, he decided to focus on the movie.  He couldn’t remember the title but there was something that drew him to it.  He kept seeing a man fighting himself for no reason and was busy talking to himself in a foreign language mixed with the English but he couldn’t understand. Sometimes the audience would laugh out loud and other times, they would compose themselves... He sighed. This whole body-guard of a thing really sucked.

He saw Harmony standing up from she sat a, she said something to the woman sitting next to her and then she was leaving her seat.

“Follow her idiot! That’s your job.”

Ichabod brought out the bottle, put a drop and then returned to his pocket, He chuckled as he could feel Odin’s groan of disgust.

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Harmony washed her face and then turned off the tap before taking a deep sigh. She was the only one so when she heard someone knocking against the door but she ignored, thinking it was just her imagination Who will be so stupid to be knocking on the door of the lady’s room?

She scoffed

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. She had been feeling a sort of pin somewhere around her waist and it was making her uncomfortable. She thought probably it was stuck in her gown so she turned her back to the mirror and stretched her hand to pull the zip down. As she did this, the bodice fell over her waist so she pulled it down matched out of it. What was left on her was her black girdle.  Then she held the gown up and turned it inside out. There, the pin was firmly attached to her waistline.

“Scarlet really needs to work on this. This could have given me an injury!” She said to herself, Scarlett was her Kenyan designer. As she removed the pin, the door opened all of a sudden and she immediately covered herself with the cloth.

 “Ichabod! What do you think you are doing?”

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“Oh dear Lord!” Ichabod shouted and slammed the door immediately. What the hell was that? Thank goodness he hadn’t seen her nakedness. That would have cost him his job for sure.

He walked a little farther away from the door as several ladies were now passing and winking at him, he wiped the moisture off his forehead.

Why the hell would she be undressing in that room? She could have at least gone into one of the cubicles. He sighed! The problem of this century was really much.

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Harmony zipped and matched out of the room, looking for him. What the hell was he thinking of opening the door like that?

She found him a little farther up the passageway.

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. She really needed to talk some senses into him.

She walked up to him and just as she was about to talk, he held up his hand to stop her from talking.

“I sincerely apologize for that abrupt intrusion. I swear to you, I had no ulterior motive and I didn’t even see anything. I was only trying to perform my job as a bodyguard but I’m afraid that I took it too far. Please, temper justice with mercy and do not relieve me of my duty. In the nearest future, I’m making a promise to you that such will never happen again. I cross my heart.” He said with a bow, holding a hand to his chest.

For a while, Harmony just opened her mouth without any word coming forth but his choice of words was just...all of a sudden, she burst into laughter.

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Ichabod straightened up as he heard her laugh. Was she really laughing right now?

He smiled, “does that mean I am forgiven?”

Harmony smiled. “Yea, you are but don’t ever try it again.”

He nodded and then cupped his arms so she slid an arm in it as they walked towards the elevator.

“Are you enjoying the movie?”

“Well, I could barely understand the language ma’am.”

“We call it pidgin and please call me Harmony.”

“I apologize Harmony but I really don’t understand this whole pidgin language.”

 “You may not understand. The movie is called Altar Ego. Do you believe in inner demon Ichabod?”

Just as she asked that he stopped walked and then faced her. “ Inner demon?”

“Yea.”

“Well, do I believe in it?” He asked himself.

He could feel Odin's snarl in his head while he and Harmony walked into the elevator, “I think I do believe in it more than most people do.” He said finally before the door of the elevators shut before them.

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I ENJOYED THAT LIL DRAMA, WHO ELSE DID?