..::Revisiting::..
..::Full Summary::.. After the fight of good and evil between Elle, Will, and Jessica, Elle and Will must find a way to rekindle their relationship. But it's hard. And troublesome. With Elle and Kyle getting in the way, and Will getting more and more obsessed with the King Arthur legend, they draw more and more apart. And Mr. Morton reminds Elle that Jessica may not be dead after all...
Author's Note: I don't own the book. But I do own the made-up characters and plot of this story. Please read "Elle heart Arthur", "The Pendant" , and "Excalibur" to understand this story. It's like my own mini-series of Avalon High, and you need to understand the previous three stories in order to get this story and connect more with the emotions. Enjoy!
..::Chapter One: The Lecture::..
"No, I don't really." I answered.
"So, what's been up with you and Will? I barely see you two together." Liz told me on the phone.
"Oh, not much." I answered. It was like an interview about all the gossip going on in Avalon High. Nothing much happens here, and so the thing with me and Will has been the number one story buzzing around. And now my best friend is asking me for the inside scoop as a casual approach.
"Really? Well, you two seemed so perfect together. Even Jennifer thinks so, her having dated Will and all. What happened?"
What happened? What happened was that the dark side of the world has taken him away from me, and now...and now I have nothing left. All because of this stupid legend. I don't believe in this crap--- ---no matter what happened two days ago. It was all in my head. A dream, maybe. I don't know. I really didn't know.
"What happened? Oh, um." What could I say? "Oh, the dark side of the Earth brainwashed him and we killed her, so, yeah, that kind of affected it alittle." Yeah, right. Alittle. Will and I haven't spoken to each other since that day of the fight. It was so mystifying and so--- --- unreal. Like we were absorbed into a fantasy video-game or something. And the scary thing was that I didn't have one single scar on me. Nor did Jennifer who was stabbed in the stomach by Jessica, but woke up in the middle of the school where she once roamed hundreds of years ago, finding the sword that King Arthur dropped in the battle.
"Hello? Elle, you still there?" Liz called.
"Oh, yes. I'm still here. What did you say?"
"I asked you what happened between you and Will. It's like the break-up of John Lennon and Yuko Uno."
"What?" These days, Liz has been obsessing about the Beatles. Not that they were bad or anything. But comparing me to such a random couple?
"Liz, Will didn't die or anything."
"I know. But it's so heartbreaking. I can't imagine you with another guy. Or Will with another girl." I can. He was with Jessica for a long time now. Before we killed her, that is.
"Um, well. You know. Times have changed. I guess me and Will would still stay friends. No worries about that." Huh.
"Well, okay. Look Elle,.. ...I gotta go." Probably to tell people what she scooped up. "Talk to me tomorrow okay?"
"Yeah sure." I don't have anymore gossip to tell you anyways. "Bye."
I clicked the OFF button, and dropped the phone on the ground. I turned on my back on the bed and looked into the white, plain ceiling. I didn't tell my mom or my dad about the battle. Telling them would be like Christmas. They would write down the whole story and post it on their blog and get all their medievalist friends to come over and interview me and ask me questions on how it felt, what did things look like and blah, blah, blah. Like I wanted that to happen. So I kept it to myself. Only Will knows, of course, and Jennifer and Mr. Morton. No one else.
I looked out my window and saw the pool with my raft floating above it like it had no problems in the world. Well, I'll give it problems, and I grabbed my bathing suit and jetted downstairs.
Ah, the warm sun beaming on me, and the autumn scent of the pool. Suddenly all my troubles went away and there was not a care in this world. Or dark side. Yes, everything was a-okay.
"Ellie."
I looked up and screamed and my raft flipped over, splashing me into the pool. I got up and breathed, wiping the hair out of my face and wiping some water from my eyes.
I looked up again and saw Will.
"Will, what are you doing here?"
"Thought I'd find you here. Don't know why, but I had a feeling." He sat down on the ground and looked at me, smiling.
"You had a feeling?" I asked, still floating in the water. This could mean something. Maybe he was getting his memory back after all!
"Yeah." he looked down. "But I don't remember anything else."
He must of read my mind. "Oh."
He looked at me, and squinted from the sun. "These past couple of days have been awkward, huh?"
"Tell me about it. But I wouldn't call it awkward. More like mystifying or frightening." I answered. Good. We were talking. Good sign.
"Kind of makes me think about all these things." He touched the water and let his fingers reflect. "Like, maybe I was suppose to go into the army. Maybe I was suppose to become stronger than I am today."
"You are strong, Will." I didn't want to get out of the water, because I was wearing my bathing suit. The water was like clothes for me. "But there's nothing to think about."
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"I mean, it wasn't like it was real. We shouldn't believe any of it."
"Why not?" he asked me. "It happened. We both saw it. We both killed it!" his voice raised. "And I saw you make that fire ball! It wasn't a hallucination!"
"Will...Just because it was there doesn't mean that we have to dedicate our lives saying that we're reincarnations of King Arthur--- ---"
"But it was there!" Will yelled, jumping up like he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "And I saw it! Maybe we were meant to do something, Ellie. Maybe we were meant to save the world from the dark side!"
"I'm only a Junior, Will, I can't take that burden!" I pointed out, raising my voice as well.
"Well, maybe you aren't strong enough."
I stopped. Maybe I wasn't strong enough. I sighed heavily. "Will, did you come here just to lecture me about all this shit?"
Will's voice lowered. "Maybe I just wanted to talk to someone who knows what I'm going through."
He walked out through the backyard fence. "Will, you've changed... ...and I know it was for the worse... ..." I called out to him. "Why can't you just come back to the way you were before?" It was meant to be in my head. But it came out through my mouth.
He turned around and looked at me like I just plunged a knife into him. "Go back to how I was before? Is that how you deal with things, Ellie? Just go back into the past and not making something out of the future?"
I got out of the water and wrapped myself in a towel. "Will, I'm not going to believe any of it. Sometimes you need to set boundaries between hallucinations and fantasies and fireballs--- ---and get back to reality."
He shooked his head. "No, Ellie. This is my calling. And my destiny." he walked towards me and I could feel his breath on my face. "Nothing will stop me from finding out what I was before. And I'm going to make a difference in this world."
"But what about everything else? What about your life and school and your friends?" I asked him.
He narrowed his eyebrows and pulled my chin close to his face, I thought he was going to kiss me, but instead, he just whispered into my ear, "The way I remembered it, Ellie, you were my only friend." and then he walked away and didn't turn back.
The next day came. And suddenly I felt my stomach lurched into me. I would walk alone in the school. And I would walk out alone too.
I quickly went into my locker and got my books. I slammed the door shut and I heard a, "Hey Elle!"
I looked at Liz and Stacy who were looking mighty pleased with themselves. "Hi." I replied, and I turned around the opposite way.
But they didn't get the drift. "Guess what we've got invited to what and who!" Liz cheered.
"What?" I asked, not really caring for the answer.
"We got invited to Ashley's party tonight!" They chorused.
"Whoop-de-do." I said monotonously.
"Aren't you excited?" Stacy asked.
"I wasn't invited." I said.
"Well, we're inviting you! Since you invited us to Will's party, we want you to come to Ashley's too!" Liz cheered. "We'll pick you up at eight. Okay, ciao!"
"Wait---" But they left before I could say, "I don't wanna go to a stupid party."
Later that day, I dragged myself to the library and got the table in the corner--- ---away from the activity in the front.
I opened my notebook and doodled some cartoons. Then I heard the chair across from me moving.
There was Kyle.
"Hey, Elle." he whispered, since we were in the library.
I smiled then went back to my drawing.
"Um, you going to Ashley's party tonight?" he asked.
"Unfortunately." I mumbled. He looked at me with a puzzled expression, and I said. "Yeah, I'm going." with a smile because that was what you do when you wanted to get people out of your hair.
"Great! So, um. You wanna go together?" he asked.
"Together?" I asked him. "Why would you want to go together?"
"Well, if you don't want to, I understand. What with you and Will and all."
I didn't want to hurt his feelings. He didn't remember anything that happened during the battle, but I did. He saved me from Jessica. And going to that stupid party with him would kind of pay him back.
"I would love to go with you." I lied. I didn't mean to add in the 'love'.
And he smiled.