Chapter 1: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Warning: These events take place in an alternative universe! As such the characters will be out of character as their situation had differed. And there would be SPOILERS! It is also unbeta-ed. You have been warned. Continue reading at your own risk or leave and continue to hold your peace.
Context: This story takes place in a world where the schism was never created but the meeting between Maxwell and Milia still happened but she was able to convince Maxwell not create the schism. Since this happened within the Prime World and the Origin's Trial was still in place, Bisley Bakur, along with his wife, who possessed the Key of Krensik, asked for the extermination of the free will of the spirits. Thus, this story takes place about 5 years after the events of the wish.
Why did they have to separate? Was it my fault?
That was probably when I started to loose sight of my dreams. I always wanted to change the world for the better; a place where no one have to live through the tough and horrible separation as I did. I loved mom and I admired dad. I love them all the same but they didn't love me anymore.
That's, at the very least, what I thought. And those thoughts soon bore hatred upon me. I hated how my parents had to separate, I hated how no one did anything about it, and soon I started hated myself as well.
This is the room, I thought. I knocked on the door and said, "I'm coming in for a check up!"
Without waiting for an answer I pushed opened the sliding doors of the hospital. His room was quiet. There was literally nothing but a boy with sliver hair sitting on the bed, looking outside through the window. Everything else was white, and so was he.
The curtain drapes flowed from the breeze that flowed through the open window. I followed his gaze and saw nothing but the metropolis and people. It was the usual sight that I'm already sick of.
"What are you looking at?" I asked. Even I was surprised at the tone of voice I spoke with. It felt like a completely different person. A person submerged in hatred.
The patient, who is only two years older than me, looked at me in surprise. I looked back at him in confusion and concealed disgust.
"People and the surrounding nature. Why?" He asked. His voice was soft and there was a hoarseness in his voice. It must be due to his sickness.
"All people do is walk around carrying their own darkness within them. They mind nothing but themselves and are greedy. They feel nothing as they watch others fall," I replied, ignoring his question.
"That's not true." It was soft but full of meaning.
I looked at him with disbelief and our eyes met. That was first time I saw someone with that eye colour and it somehow seemed to reflect something different compared to the other patients in the whole hospital. It vaguely reminded me is something. He looked away and stared back outside.
"Even if they do have to carrying around their darkness and do everything you mentioned, they also have the times were they shine," he finally said.
"Shine?" I echoed. Does he mean shine with jealousy and rage?
He nodded, "They shine when they are happy, they shine when they help, they shine when they... They are with their friends and family." And the end he trailed off a little.
I blinked. Family. That was definitely the one thing I won't have. How was he to judge them if he didn't even know how it feels like to be sad, how it feels to stand by and let people fall, or even what if feels like without a family?
"You don't know the first thing about them," I mumbled, "You don't even how how it is to be the opposite of any of that!"
"But I do..." I ignored his pained eyes and those furrowed brows. He doesn't know anything.
"Liar!" I shouted before rushing out of the room. I felt the stare of the boy on me but I didn't care. How can be claim he knows me? We're not the same person after all and everything differs case to case.
But somehow I couldn't get his expression out of my head. It was such a sad expression.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! It's a little bit short but I promise the other chapters are longer. If there is anything confusing please message me or leave a comment! Thank you!