Grace- I panicked, my breathing went shallow and I could see nothing but red. “H---hey, Grace…” I heard his muffled voice; I ran around gasping for air, looking for something, it’s gone, my only driving force is gone. “I need you to calm down…” He grabbed my hand, forcing me to look at him. His eyes, they don’t seek answers, they seek peace, for me. “I have that diary with me.” I froze, should I be happy it’s here, or drown in water because it’s here with him. “What?”“The Stefan’s high one, right?” I nodded at his words. I followed his breath to even mine, he was calming me down without even knowing it,he calmed me down. “D---did you open it?” I managed to ask him. “I’ve read it before but this time I didn’t because you told me what’s in it already. Plus, it is person---” I didn’t let him complete his sentence and locked his lips with me. This is for giving me the only thing I have never got, privacy. Not touching something that’s mine, without my will. “Whoa… love birds…” I
Grace- Everything changed after Aiden entered, he brought all my clothes, but I have a feeling we won’t be staying here for long. I was putting my clothes together and then I realized that $50,000 I earned are resting at Levi’s manor. They could’ve helped me so much but, I had a lot of time to put my things together, but I… “Hey… can I come in?” I heard a knock on my door, I saw Phoenix walking inside. “I figured you might be needing it…” He extended his arm to give me my diary, I gasped as I haven’t seen it for so long. He looked around and sat on the bed. “So, who was your first love?” He questioned, trust me you don’t want to know. If I could erase that memory, him from my life I would. I remained silent and sat next to him, “So, you won’t tell?” His head dropped between his shoulders and I felt him sigh. “There was… this guy, I was in love with.” I took a long pause and his body flinched. “Uh… but then things happened and we broke up.” It was barely a lie, because it did ha
Grace- “What are you writing?” I flinched on the voice, like someone was talking to me, someone I have never seen before. Someone, who is a boy, I looked up to see the blonde man walking in my direction. Man, because he seemed older than me. But I could see he was from my school, he has this ‘Stefan’s high,’ written the pocket of his white shirt. He sat down beside me, without asking for my permission, without thinking that he’s invading my privacy. “I'm Archie…” I know this, I’ve heard this name before. But I was least interested to know more. Because Archie Crimson is the son of Marcus Crimson, and my dad works under his dad. “Oh! I---I’m sorry, I thought you could speak…” He held his ear as if was saying sorry, I don’t know what he was doing with his hands but it seemed like a sign language. “I have selective speaking…” I closed my diary, and got up. His brown eyes went wide probably because he thought I can’t speak but surprise, I do. “What’s that?” He got up as well, I fel
Grace- “Why would you make a fake phone call, that too in his name?” Phoenix yelled at Aiden and grabbed my hand, all of us planning to leave. “Don’t you know him? Don’t you know who he is?” It felt like Phoenix’s world is drifting apart, it’s crushing into pieces because of me. “Take Grey with you, hide somewhere safe and don’t come out…” He exclaimed looking at Aiden. I couldn’t process how unreasonable he was being. “I won’t leave my brother, Phoenix!!” I argue, I would never do this. “You don’t get it, Levi is looking for you, he won’t come after Grey, we have to ensure his safety first…” Phoenix completed. “M---my diary!!” I shriek as he locks the door, all four of us looking at nowhere because we have no destination. “Don’t worry, I have it with me…” He gripped my hand firmly. I look at Grey, my eyes wanting to tear up. I thought I was giving him a safe world but I find myself running again. His life is getting so much affected by me, I'm ruining it. “Grey… baby! Come h
Grace- “Leave me… leave me alone!” I shriek, the pain of watching Phoenix, fall around his own blood, it is not going away. “I said leave me…” I'm so glad we sent Grey away, because Archie is a true monster, he would’ve… No, no, no, I was better off running from Levi, I didn’t think Archie was looking for me. I wish he wasn’t and it is tearing me apart. How is Phoenix, I j---just want to see him once. Please let me see him, please I beg of you. Take me to him, I’ll die, I'm dying. I couldn’t stop my tears, “Don’t cry for another man…” He wiped them off, and every time I was crying, he was there to wipe them away. But I don’t need it, I don’t need a hand who just shot my sun, my life, my happiness. “Let. Me. Go…” I cry because apparently this is only thing I can do. “I saw you missing from that room, Grace… you weren’t there…” His eyes were burning with fury, if he kills me right now, I won’t be shocked. I look around, another huge mansion which will ruin my life. The white wall
Grace- “Oh my god! I'm so so---sorry, my love!” I heard him gasp; his gasp was all I could hear. Everything went blur and for a while I felt really good. Because this way, Phoenix wasn’t the only one who shed blood, and the moment Phoenix’s thought stroke my head, I panicked. How is he, where is he, because of me, all because of me. Because I gave myself away with this pain, other emotions came back rushing in. Emotions like sadness, like severe damage and the only ultimatum left was to kill Archie and rush outside. I am cursed, I am a curse that turns everything into ashes with only one gaze, I wish this curse worked on Archie and Levi, I wish I could turn them into ashes as well. But it doesn’t work on monsters, it works on people with a heart, people with kindness because I ruin kindness, I ruin lives, just like I ruined my own. I forever hide behind this mask ‘life never gave me an option’, yes it didn’t but I didn’t do anything to find it as well. I considered that hell as
Grace- Archie didn’t say a word, apparently, he wants me to beg for his words. I don’t intent to do that. It took you five years to understand those shitty feelings however you still try to rape me? So, love is just a tag, people go for a safe option while they do whatever in its name. I love her, so I fuck her.I love her so, I can fuck her,I fuck her because I love her. Who discovered the word love anyway? You know I used to believe in this word, that there’s a prince charming out there, a Romeo because in my head I was Juliet. But I'm nothing more than an ordinary girl who just dropped into an ocean of bad fate. But the things that have happened to me are not ordinary which makes me, extraordinary, what? No, fuck…it makes me abnormal. “I… didn’t kill your mother.” He exclaimed. He’s lying, he killed my mother, he has to or else I don’t know how that lady left this earth. “When I was looking for you… I found out about the loan. And that your mother was only piling it up for
Grace- “Grace…” I heard a voice, I wanted to open my eyes but it felt like someone’s strangling me not letting me wake up. “Grace…” My body shuddered, it felt like an earthquake gushing inside. I gasped for air, however much I could grasp within the momentary lapse of panic attack. “Grace… hey!” My eyes opened wide, a drop of tear rolling down soaking into the pillow beneath me. I scanned the room with my eyes, what do I feel? I sprung up from the bed and pushed him away, turning myself into a box and I stored my frame into the corner. He was that hand too, I can still feel it, crawling beneath my skin, tearing me apart like infinite threads piercing through my flesh and while I should breathe through the pores, I suffocate. I feel my hands shaking, and my fingers groping my own neck. My surroundings have turned white and the man before me is nothing but black. I recall the blood in my hands, the blood on the ground that spilled because of me, the blood of the man that I love.