Chapter,39

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It's ok , I'll keep on visiting

I'll be going after the ball so I just wanted to spend some time with you

I'm sorry I thought you'll hate me for it

I'll always have your back Els

Oh honey , I'd rather die than breaking the promise

And he did. He died but didn't break his promise. He had my back all the time. The times I was angry with him for choosing Chloe over me. The times , I refused to talk to him. The times , I shouted at him for not choosing me. The times, I danced with him never really knowing how it was my last dance with him.

Those times he had my back. Those times he kept his promise and when he was forced to break it, he died leaving me lost in the labyrinths of the emotion of my lost soul.

The sun refused to shine that day. The confetti of black tree wrapped the sky and refused any light to let me have. And I didn't need it either. I was tired, too lost , too weak to bear the light in my eyes anymore. The unbearable lost weighed me down in the pool of loses arising my guilts and regrets.

I woke up in my dark room again but this time, it didn't feel like mine anymore. The foreign feeling hung in the air and I just wanted to run away. I propped myself up —lifting the throbbing sensation cutting my head in half— with me. I closed my eyes. They felt dry, too dry at my lost. I took a sharp breath and pushed myself up but stumbled. I grabbed a hold of a lamp beside my night stand but it refused for the help and fell instead taking me with itself.

The door burst opened and a worried Leo with a pained face bursted in. He instantly ran for me and helped me up. While getting up, I suspected my leg weaken as when my body demanded it's support, it rather winced in pain.

Leo pulled me up to the bed. I sat on the edge of it with my bandaged head down. I didn't wanted to look up, it felt like if I will, everything will be teared down just with my look.

None of us said anything. We sat in the silence that killed each ounce of our fragile and tenuous bodies. I wanted to break it but the demanding flashes of previous circumstances kept reemerging in my mind presumedly haunting me down and locking my words in an unescapable cage.

'We lost them.' That's all I said.

The lost was half. After the explosion, we volunteered with the rescue teams and found none of the remains of Mom. There were only two conditions, either she was saved and must've made it out before the explosion or she was no more in this brutal world. Anyway, we did lose her.

Dave had been buried under the dewed soil leaving with all his jokes, smiles, and most of all his company which gave me hope for my existence but the hope was therefore seemed to be buried with him too.

Two days had passed since the grey atmosphere had gathered in the house. Two days since Chloe has her tears continuing flowing down her cheeks. Two days since the twins had not joked. Two days since Greg had buried himself in his phone . Two days since Stephen had not spoken a word. Two days since Leo had been in the training room , brushing his knuckles with punched on the punching bag thinking that that will lessen the pain but had been wrong since.

And me, I'm doing nothing. My limbs had weaken since the tragic day we all shared with a bright sun but that sun set off before dusk. A bandage wrapped itself around my head, my arm (the same one I was poisoned into once) , and my leg preventing me to dos May sort of exercise I wanted to. The food barely go down in my stomach and so do it happened to every one of us.

I was alone most of the time in my room. Even in the crowded house was not crowded anymore. Every lived in this house now, to protect me from what even I didn't know but they just can't protect me from my inner demons that haunt me every night.

Leo left the room hours ago but I sat there for the longest I could remember. I picked up my phone from my night stand and turned the screen on. A notification of a voice message popped on my screen. I played it.

Hey Els. How're ya? You weren't picking up so I thought I should voice message you. I know you're probably gonna hate me for not attending your birthday but the fact is—I'm struck here. I can't get out. The flight got cancelled and you don't know how much curse words they received from me. I know it's your special day sis and I know how badly you're gonna miss and so will I. You see sometimes we just don't know what's gonna happen or how will it. The clock struck with its needles on the same pained hour and minutes or even seconds but you know what? Giving the clock a new battery will move it on. Those hours , minutes—seconds, they will pass , maybe slowly, maybe painfully but they will pass. They always do.

O heard about Jake and to be honest I'm not surprised at all. Probably because I knew he will leave. He talked to me once or twice about it but I ignored it but now I think I shouldn't've. But what's done is done. You can't reverse or change it now. All you have to do is move on.

I parcelled you your gift which I hope you'll like it. Listen I'm always with you you know. Your big brother. I know we didn't share much times as you and I were almost busy but I still love you ok. I hope I'll see you soon. Bye. Your brother, Liam.

The message ended but I just wanted Dave's name at the last. I replayed the message about thousand times until I remembered each word of it.

Liam being the oldest of us all, had always talked like this. It didn't surprise me receiving a message from him like this but some of his words did touch me.

I knew I just can't sit there like nothing's happen and wait for the ground to swallow me. I had to get up, to do something. But you see with the injured leg, it's never easy to get up and do something.

I opened my drawer and took out a ring mom gifted me on my birthday but rather giving it on the ball, she placed it here and I was glad she did cause everything else erupted. It was a blue stoned ring , just the colour of infinite stone.

The next thing I knew was to protect the stone. I opened the locker with a number of steps and felt relieved to find the stone right where it was supposed to be. I locked the stone in the locker again and wore a blue stoned ring on my third finger.

I stood up and was about to leave when my bathroom door creaked and a little  red flashed but I shrugged thinking it as my hair colour  that must've been spilled.

But the thing was, I never had red hair colour.

I went downstairs clutching the reeling's life out of him as knives stabbed me in my head. Greg looked up and came for me to help. He offered me his hand which I accepted at the earliest and  let him take me down.

We helped me sat down on the table and went back to his phone. Chloe appeared and took a cereal and a bowl of milk out of the refrigerator and settled herself on the table. 'Stephen would you mind join?' I a couch pasta to Stephen who got up. 'Also can you call Leo and the twins?' I told him and he eyed me before walked he away.

Soon four figures walked out of their respective rooms and settled on the table. They all were quiet, no one asked me anything. So I cleared my throat and said. 'So, don't you wanna ask why I called you here?'

They all shook their heads. 'Alright guys, the secrets have been hidden enough but now it's time to unfold them all.'

They all nodded. 'I'm talking to you.'

'We're listening.' Stephen said dryly.

'Then answer me.' I demanded. 'Spill the beans.'

They all nodded.

I slammed my fist hard on the table. 'What's wrong with you guys?! Why do you all have to be puppets?'

'Elsa it's for your—

'—don't you dare talk about my own good. What good happened before huh? Dave died , mom either too or she just left with Dave but either way , we lost them and may be we'll have more loses if you don't open your fucking mouths.' I told everyone but on one in particular.

'Okay.' Leo sighed and said after a long silence.

Before he could open his mouth to say anything, a marching foots in a perfect sync to be heard from outside the house. I ran to the window of the door and pulled up the shutter. There were robots, the same ones we fought back at Lauren's house but this time, they looked more stronger —more advanced as they all marched in the streets , their heads rotating in every possible direction.

'What are these?' I asked.

'Forces.' Greg answered. I turned around.

'Forces?'

'Hades' ' Leo said. 'Hades had sent forces all around country to empower on what he desires.'

'The stone?' I said more like ask.

'The stone.' He confirmed. Either he said only this or maybe more but I knew the next thing was that I was running my feet upstairs.

I rushed to the bathroom and opened my door. I was wrong. So wrong. The red wasn't my dye colour and how could it be? I never owned like. Rather it was blood. A horror struck note on the wall of my bathroom written in blood;

'The game has begun. The two pieces have met.'

I tuned around to se ether horror stuck faces of the boys and of Chloe.

'They stone's stolen?' Were Greg's words.

A/n

Hi guys! This was it. The chapter, a filler one but it had to be here. The story's unfolding which means only few chapters are left which means it'll be ending soon which means I'll be crying soon.

Whatever , let's not talk about the ending. Let's talk about the present, I mean the chapter , how did it go?

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