If I thought the house was lonely and sad before, it was nothing compared to this.Words simply cannot describe the feeling.Pain is actually hanging in the air.And no one knows about it.Only the five of us.Damon, Latifah, Marcus, Mildred the nurse who was hired to take care of Anastasia and I.Damon refused to declare her dead, but she was.Gone.Latifah refused to eat.Damon shut everyone out even more than before.He wouldn't even come out of his room.He hasn't for the past eight days.As for me, I guess I was just stuck in Zombie mode after I was all cried out. It was all just too much to actually handle."Adriane.""Yeah?" I had just walked into Latifah's room where she lay on her bed.She had a small smile on her face but it was very clear that she was forcing it.Isn't it strange how a person can age twenty years in just two weeks?She had grown so lean since, she could hardly eat anything.She had lost so much, and now Anastasia was gone too.Poor girl.She couldn't surviv
I couldn't stand it anymore.My knees buckled and I fell to the ground.I shut my eyes, pressed my palms to my ears and earnestly tried to block him out.But his eyes still burned into my mind.Tears were pounding at my eyelids but I didn't want to let them out.I didn't want to show him I was weak.But I couldn't.And the tears came streaming down.I just couldn't take it anymore.Then I heard him laughing.The b*stard.He was enjoying this.Then he crouched down and whispered in my ear in a very low dangerous tone."I didn't lose my parents, they were taken from me. Now do you feel my hurt?"Then he ripped the door open and stormed out.And yes, he actually ripped the door.*****To hell with this.To hell with him.I'm done crying.I'm not gonna sit here and do nothing.Allow him to treat me like this.I could feel myself boiling and something else seeping into my conscious, I was getting livid.Damon was standing out on the lawn with Marcus and they seemed to be discussing somethi
"Adriane wait."But I didn't.I was done.For good.Forever.I dashed into the house even though I knew he wasn't following me.I was feeling all sorts of nothing right now, intense nothing, vague nothing, deep and haunting nothing.It was an eerie feeling really.The moment I barged in I saw Latifah.She was staring at me with wide teary eyes.She didn't need to say anything.I knew she had heard everything.I'm so sorry dear.Her eyes seemed to tell me.I didn't need or want any pity right now. But she wasn't to blame here, it's not her fault and she's been kind to me.So I just gave her a small but forced smile and walked past her and then went to the kitchen. I heard her footsteps retreat and leave the house, most likely to join Damon on the lawn.I could still feel him, he hadn't left. He still stood in that same spot I left him in.I pushed him out of my head.I rummaged through the drawers till I found what I was looking for.After about five minutes I found it.I grabbed it an
Darkness.I felt like I was sinking, in a sea of darkness, getting deeper and deeper by the minute.I could see the light fade from above me as I went down further into the darkness, but I wasn't scared.It was almost a welcoming feeling.It felt peaceful.I felt peaceful.I felt free.Even though I was sinking I didn't feel like I was being dragged down, I felt light, like I was just floating in air, further away from the light.My mind was so full of nothing.I felt like I was just existing in that particular moment in time, no past no future, just that moment.That moment filled with nothing but darkness and silence.I knew I shouldn't have been okay with it, but I was.Then I felt a stir.Slowly the sea of darkness started to swirl around me light shining through right at where I was sinking to.The lights appeared at numerous places beneath me but all harmonizing and dancing around together.This almost made my mind wake up again. I nearly had a thought in my head, but the emptin
I would love to say that after the apology, everything was just peaches and roses, and walks in the park, lovey dovey stuff and proclamations of undying love for each other.Like I said.I would love to.But I can't.Because things just weren't that way.At all.Granted, he's changed, a bit.His eyes aren't so cold towards me anymore, and I could tell he has stopped actively trying to push me away. Or kill or banish me or something like that.We've had some brief conversations, nothing intimate though like the day we were at the forest grove. But it's more than what was exchanged between us before.He doesn't spend much time at home, always checking on pack issues or working in his office, which I didn't even know he had.Then again it shouldn't have come as a shock to me that he actually has businesses, I've not seen any money growing trees here that could have paid for his mansion and cars, or even the new phone he got me.Yeah, he got me a phone, since I needed one and I had lost m
I was annoyed.He was coming.You sure you're annoyed?Yes, he was just gonna make things awkward tonight.He's going to ruin all the fun.And what fun is that exactly? You and your five dollar smoothie shots with your cringy dance moves?Our cringy dance moves. Our.But apparently I was the only one feeling that way.The others had complied with his change in arrangements almost immediately and carried on chatting and laughing.And here I was, sitting in the front seat, which I was mentally coerced into sitting in, while the others had fun in the back and Damon driving right next to me.Mentally coerced?Yes, I tried to sit in the back but one look from him had me squirming in the front seat.Although, I had a feeling it was because Ryan was sitting at the back too. His wolf really did not like him near me, I'm even surprised he let him in his van.By the way, said van didn't look the way I imagined it at all. I thought we would be sitting in a sprinter type van, but this was definit
We all started laughing, and James' look of shock made it even funnier. "So you let everyone call me 'sassy sour puss' for over a year all because you wanted to win?" James faked hurt. "Yhup." Damon said still laughing slightly. "What was the big deal though, he gave you a little shove, and so what? Did you break a nail?" Alexis said teasing Daryl. "More like his nose." Now James burst out laughing again recalling the events. Alexis' eyebrows rose in surprise as she inspected Daryl's face as if to see if his nose was okay or oddly deformed from the fall. "They got some crates for the award ceremony, with the third standing on the ground, the second standing on one crate and the first standing on two, almost like in the Olympics." Alexis watched James again with interest, his laughter getting contagious and making us all smile since we knew where this was going. "So I was second and when Daryl stood on the two crates as winner, I kicked behind his knees, his legs buckled, and he
Lying in bed my thoughts were going wild. Flashes of the night before still going through my mind. And guess what. I had enjoyed the night after all. Kinda. Damon had kissed me in front of the restroom (not very romantic, I know) with his hands nearly slipping under my dress, caught up in the moment and forgetting our surroundings. Not long after, with a lot of self restraint, he had managed to stop himself before things got... too inappropriate... He then led mce back to the dance hall where he convinced the others that we should go to a restaurant to eat something instead. He spoke to them, calm and collected like nothing had ever happened, while I stood there face probably flushed while trying to hide my swollen kissed lips and avoiding Mavis' questions on why I had taken so long. We ended up visiting a Chinese restaurant, ordered a whole load of food and surprisingly consumed it all. Werewolves. What do you expect? Damon paid for all our expenses with a shiny silver cred