"I never thought I would see this," she said, crossing her arms in front of her chest. Her foot tapped against the ground, making my hands twitch with annoyance.
"You're doing it again, Clara," I reminded her, my eye twitching.
"Sorry," she muttered, halting her movements.
"Well, then, what are we going to do, now?" I asked her, crossing my arms in front of my chest in front of my chest like her.
Clara turned to me, her hazel eyes glistening with unshed tears. "So you really are the Eternity, aren't you?"
I relaxed against the wall behind us. "I never said I wasn't."
Clara turned her head to look forward. "I can't believe it. Why didn't you tell me?"
I gave her a look. "Would you have believed me?" "Point taken."
She looked down, her auburn hair shading her face.
I let my eyes slide over her face before turning back to look through the window. The weeping woman stood by the bed, her face in her hands.
"I can't do this anymore, Anna. I can't continue having you lie to me," Clara said, looking at me and brushing her hair out of her face.
"I lied to you to protect you, Clara. There's only one Eternity in existence. I'm the only one that has ever existed. I am very rare and if my power got into the wrong hands, the entire world - past, present, and future - would end, cease to exist," I said, my eyes pricked by tears. "But I understand that you want to leave. Go ahead."
Clara grabbed my wrist and turned me to face her. "Anna, I love you. You're my sister and you always will be. I just need to live my own life. I don't want to always be running for my life." She tugged me into a hug. "Good-bye."
She disappeared and I burst into tears. She was gone forever. I knew it. I would never see her again. A tear slipped down my cheek. Another followed, followed by another and another.
I was Eternal. I was Eternity. I was Forever. I lived Always, while everyone was Mortal. Without me, the entire world, everything, would reach its End. That is the nature of being Eternity. I would always remember that day, I knew it in that moment. That was the day I lost my best friend, the only relative I'd ever had in my entire existence.