Chapter two : Insanity
Finally, time passes. The days accumulate. Even when they never seem to finish. Including when each long hour is as painful as the pulsation of blood under a hematoma. Time passes. Same for me.
I raised the head of my diary and looked at my garden through my window. Night had fallen, and another day was over.
After my episode of which I had no memory, Elena and Jenna had agreed to keep me at home. A doctor had come to see me, but I vaguely remembered what had happened. I had been in a catatonic state for a week and had missed most of the first days of festivity in Mystic Falls. Not that it was very important to me.
Elena had come every day to fill me on what was happening even though I kept my eyes constantly on the window, sitting in a chair without moving. I had been unable to do anything. It was like my brain and my body had been paused for an indefinite time.
I had just woken up from my trance and instantly plunged into my diary.
It seemed like I had missed the back-to-school party and given what Elena told me it was no worse.
Apparently, Vicki Donovan had been attacked by a wild animal, which was totally unnatural to Mystic Falls if you wanted my opinion, but I did not question Elena's word.
Speaking of Elena, Vicki's attack had been a distant memory in her mind since she had started a romantic love affair with none other than Stefan Salvatore on comet night and seemed to be spun the perfect love.
Well, except that mysterious older brother who had come out of nowhere. How had she already said? Damian, Demon ... no, it doesn't matter, I did not remember very clearly what she said. Only, the most important.
Oh ! She now knew that Jeremy had slept with Vicki and the latter had been punished by Aunt Jenna who had been made fun of by Mr. Tanner in her parental role.
Not really a surprise either. But I was dying to hit this jerk for daring to make Jenna doubt her abilities as a parent.
She sacrificed her life to care for us and she did the best she could. I did not doubt that we aren't the easiest teenagers. All the more so with Jeremy and myself.
We were not twins for nothing after all. As for Elena, she was still the perfect girl so there was not much to say about it.
My eyes drifted from the window to the closed door of my room and I wondered what was going on downstairs.
The bell had sounded a little earlier and if I remembered correctly, Elena had arranged a dinner with Stefan and Bonnie.
It seems that the brunette was not very inclined to their relationship or then was Stefan. I did not know anymore.
I closed my diary and put it back in its hiding place before looking at what I was wearing. I had black and purple plaid pajama pants and the matching purple long-sleeved T-shirt, and my hair straightened up in a messy bun.
I decided to go down to see what was going on and found me in the direction of the living room when a voice stopped me in my step.
"That's what I repeat without stops, he must move. You can't stand there waiting for life to come to you, you have to go get it. "Assured a man with a hint of cheerfulness and mischief in his voice.
Suddenly, an icy cold enveloped me. This voice. I was sure I had heard him somewhere. She was so familiar to me but I could not put a face on it. I frowned at the cold suddenly and wrapped my arms around me to keep the heat as I took a step into the living room.
All eyes were on me at my sudden entrance and I could see Elena wide-eyed, rising with an almost ecstatic leap while the others remained silent as they waited for my next break. And then, it was when I saw him.
I widened my eyes in recognition and swallowed the bile in the back of my throat. It was him.
The man in the woods.
"Mila! "Hailed Elena in shock as she rushed at me.'' You're up. Are you fine? Are you in pain?"
She said to me minute by minute, but I could not take my eyes off the man who was staring at me with a smirk as he knew I knew him.
Elena noticed my gaze and turned to all her friends, nervously clearing her throat. '' Oh ! Uh ... Damon, it's Mila, Jeremy's twin sister and my little sister. Mila. Damon, Stefan's brother. "
Damon rose from his place on the couch with a big smile that seemed charming to the other three girls but to me it was scary.
"Nice to finally know your name, Mila." He said, taking my hand to squeeze it in and kissing it on the top with a wink and a wide, facetious smile to my attention.
I widened my eyes wide to what he had understood before grimacing, repelled by his touch.
Elena frowned like all the people in the room and turned to me.
'' Finally? " She asked puzzled looking at Damon, then at me with a raised eyebrow.
"We met in the woods last week." Damon replied, staring at me from head to foot with a smirk, and I had never felt so uncomfortable in front of someone else as I danced from one foot to the other in embarrassment and put my eyes on Stefan who had joined us with a worried look. "Although she didn't have time to give me a name, I'm afraid."
Could it be that he knew what his brother can do?
Of course, he knew. Most likely he was also like him.
I shuddered at the thought and my worried eyes fell on Elena. It was not good. None of this was good. I remembered very little that day, but I remembered very well what I had felt when he looked at me. I had been unable to restrain myself from speaking. It was like I was his puppet and he was pulling the strings.
'' Oh! Mila ... don't speak. Or at least, don't talk anymore." Elena sounded confused and I was dying to hit my forehead.
'' Really?" Damon questioned with a raised eyebrow, questioning and looked at me, forcing me to widen my eyes to that smile. That bastard. "Still, she was pretty talkative."
At these words, all bewildered glances fell on me except that of Damon jubilant clear of the situation and I swallowed the bile forming in my throat.
Elena turned to me like a child on Christmas morning and I could already see the cogs in her brain shot. "You talked, Mila! ''
I threw a dazzling flash on Damon, hating him more and more by the minute, and sighed, turning back to Elena, who was gauging me expectantly with a hopeful smile.
I looked anywhere except Elena as I could feel all the gazes on me in the observation and my eyes caught the pieces of pies on the living room table.
My stomach found the right moment to be heard and I looked up at Elena again before just shrugging my shoulders and heading for the pieces of pie. Elena's smile fell in a frown as I took the plate that was in her place.
Damon spoke again, and I looked up apprehensively. "I sympathize with Elena, I know what it's like to lose her parents. In fact, Stefan and I saw almost everyone who really counted for us die. "
I stopped in my task to cut a piece of pie and narrowed my eyes of hate on the asshole who pretended a sad face before rolling my eyes at the horrified expression of Elena.
She was so credulous. This guy was lying as he was breathing. Stefan who seemed alarmed shrinks, too his eyes on his brother.
"We don't have to talk about that now, don't you think?" He snapped bitterly, stealing my interest despite me.
Damon's smile was even more frightening as he gauged his brother with pure hurt and I could not help but squeeze my fork with irritation. He was evil. I was convinced of it.
'' You know what Stefan, you're right. If there is one thing I want to avoid. It's because we come to talk about her. "
After Damon's shock announcement, the mood had dimmed considerably, and I was now sitting on one of the kitchen countertops with my plate of pie while Elena washed the dishes in the sink. It seemed that the evening had not been as she wished because she was acting strangely agitated.
Unfortunately for me, as I thought I was safe in my kitchen, that more than irritating voice rang out again and I winced as he made his way to Elena.
'' One again. "
"Hey," Elena said with a drink in her hand that was lost in her thoughts and she turned around with a smile.
I was gagging at the mere sight of someone smiling at him. It was just ... Ew!
"Thank you, ..." I stared into total disbelief as the glass escaped Elena's hands and Damon retrieved it at an improbable speed.
I had hardly seen his hand moved. It was like spider-man and his great reflexes.
But apparently Elena did not notice that as she stupidly laughed as she picked up the glass."Nice reflex."
Nice reflex? Nice reflex!
He had just caught a drink in mid-flight for the ground at an inhuman speed and she found that to say? This guy was not human. It was out of the question for me to accept that.
Huh! Huh! Impossible.
As I was literally speechless, he gave me a wink over his shoulder as he knew I had seen what he had done, and I knew he was playing with me.
It was so easy. Why not play with the dumb girl? There will be no way she sways the secret.
"I love you a lot." Damon exclaimed, pointing at Elena with a supposedly charming smile, and Elena smiled stupidly as I rolled my eyes.
"You are a girl with humor and you can make Stefan smile, something I have not seen for a very long time. ''
No wonder with a brother like him.
If I could have rifles instead of eyes, he would already be dead. I really did not know what he was but it frustrated me even beyond what I thought possible and as he could read what I thought, he turned back by leaning on the counter and crossed his arms to his chest in giving me a big smirk.
Who are you? He could read my thoughts now? Hold on ! I am the Queen of England and you are my under fire.
I narrowed my eyes on him as I waited for a reaction. It was just a tick, but he still wore the same exasperating smile and I released my anger on the cake on my plate.
"Just now, the girl you were talking about was Katherine?" Elena came in, lifting my eyes from my ransacking and staring at them with a frown, perplexed.
'' Hum! Hum! '' Hummed Damon, intentionally evasive and I felt this exasperation again.
I wanted to hit him. So bad until my fingers stopped buzzing.
Elena, who was much better informed than I was, continued her investigation. "How is she dead?"
Who! That was new. I did not know who this girl was, but obviously she was very important to both brothers. Although I had a tough time believing that a girl could really tolerate a guy like Damon except Caroline, of course. She wanted attention and would go out with anyone to have it. Even if this anyone involved Damon Salvatore.
"In a fire." Damon replied, his expression serious for once as he plunged into a deep and distant memory. "A tragic fire."
"A long time ago?" Elena questioned, making me look puzzled with a frown.
It was what? Twenty-one questions?
Death was not one of my favorite subjects and as far as Damon was concerned, I had a hell of a problem believing everything that came out of his mouth. After all, the bastard had swayed me, and I knew how to hold a grudge.
"Sometimes I feel like it was yesterday." Damon replied, looking in front of him with a frown, pensive.
"How was she?"
At that, Damon seemed to be exhilarating as he turned to Elena with his famous charming smile."She was beautiful, on that point you look very much like her."
I rolled my eyes at that knowing that his little brother who was the boyfriend of Elena's was in the next room. "She was also complicated and selfish, downright nasty at times, but sexy and seductive."
Who! That was the perfect girl that all men dreamed about. (Irony)
In other words, this girl was a bitch.
I was so taken in my thoughts that I did not even see Elena's next statement. "So which one who was first going out with her?"
I rested my eyes on the duet at that and looked at Damon with amazed eyes.
They had gone out with the same girl. Who! Now, that gave me some concern about Elena. I had no desire to find her in fraternal quarrels. Especially with Damon. In fact, I thought I had never felt such resentment for someone that it was really disturbing for me.
"We can't hide you anything." Damon pops in with his mocking smile. "Ask Stefan, his answer will surely be different from mine."
Obviously! It was easier like that.
Elena seemed to be pausing at Damon's answer, and I rolled my eyes as I took a bite of the pie and brought it to my lips and watched as Elena joined me and started folding the napkins next to me.
As Elena had moved, it seems that Damon was coming to join us, and he gave me a smile on his way looking at the pie in my hands.
'' I chose it. '' He said it was meant to be a simple remark but I understood his meaning very well and just like that, I was spitting the piece on my plate under Elena's bewildered gaze.
I put my eyes on the brown jumping on my feet with the plate in hand and walked to the trash before opening it and put my bad eyes on Damon just as I threw the contents of my plate without ever left him of my sight.
"Mila! "Elena growled, who had watched my interaction outrageously outraged and I put my plate on the sink before giving her a nonchalant shrug and left the kitchen under the hilarious eyes of Damon.
After my little pirouette in the kitchen, I retired to my room and surfed the web looking for everything Damon could be.
Only after about 20 minutes did I have enough theory about what it could be that I could literally write a whole book about anomalies and superheroes. It was so frustrating, even infuriating.
I got up from my chair preparing for bed when my door opened revealing none other than Damon Salvatore himself and his smug smile.
I frowned, crossing my arms over my chest with a scowl. '' What are you doing in my room? ''
"Look who is no longer voiceless." He taunted with a smirk and took a step into my bedroom, closing my door behind him. I took a step back, feeling the panic rising and narrowing my eyes at him.
''What are you?"I whistled, annoyed and at the same time, curious about what he could be.
''Ha! Ha! If that's not the million-dollar question." Damon joked, tingling and stirring his finger with a facetious smile and I felt more and more trapped.
Panic and anguish rose in me as he continued to take action and soon, I found myself stuck by the wall and chest of Damon.
His smile grew as he caged me, his arms at my head and I swallowed the bile forming in my throat as I put my eyes wide in panic on him.
I could see how his almost shady gray blue eyes shone with mischief and confidence. How his lips looked red compared to his skin, almost like blood.
I stiffened instantly as he lowered his head to bury it in my bare neck and he ... sniffed? He sniffed my neck before placing a weak kiss on my skin running my heart in a crazy race and I could feel the smile on his lips as he raised his head.
''It's still too early. It's a lot more fun to keep the fun going." Haunted his mocking voice like his laugh could be heard and it was when
I was pulled into consciousness.
"Mila! Mila! Wake up!" Elena shouted trying to reassure me and struggled with my hands." It's just a nightmare! Mila. Wake up.''
I jumped into my bed, straightening up and panting for the air as I looked at my surroundings looking for the jet-black man in awe and looked at Elena who was wearing a frown of worried eyebrows.
"Hey! Hey! It's good. It was just a nightmare. " She reassured, taking my hand with a weak smile and pushing me back to my mattress.''You're okay?"
It was completely sick. I mean, I had never had a dream of such intensity, even those I had after the accident.
It was like this, I was really in the dream and could feel everything. I unconsciously carried my hand to my neck and shuddered thinking about Damon's kiss. It was not a thrill of pleasure.
Ew! No! I mean, I was sixteen and he, at least twenty-five, but that was not the point. Why I dreamed of him in the first place, surpassed me.
'' You want to talk about it? '' Elena's voice came up, reminding me that she was still in the room and I was putting my eyes on her.
I had not missed the momentum of hope in her voice.
I knew how much my muteness weighed on her, but I could not tell her what I had been dreaming about.
And this, for multiple reasons. One, she was dating Damon's brother, even if I hated to admit it, that dream could be something else and I did not even want to think about it any longer. And then, I did not want to talk about it. I just wanted to forget and act like it never happened. It was already quite disturbing like that.
I shook my head in negation and her expression fell into a weary sigh. She seemed to want to say something when she got up and looked at me again but changed her mind and made her way to the door.
I carried my hand to my forehead, looking up to the celling as I thought she was gone when her voice interrupted me.
"You should get dressed. The match is today. You should want to go out a little after the week you spent." Then, as she finished her sentence, she was outside my room leaving my thoughts to myself.
Honestly, I wanted everything but thought right now. I needed activity. Entertainment. All that could have saved me from thinking about
Damon or he was where the dream I had for that fact. Above all, the dream that I had just had.
I threw the sheets aside and made my way to my dresser. I pulled on a pair of black jeans, a long-sleeved black T-shirt, a red-and-black flannel shirt, and headed to my shared bathroom with Elena.
I put my clothes on the edge of the sink and supported me on the island by raising the head to meet my reflection.
Several rebellious locks were now coming out of my bun and my olive skin looked a lot paler. Dark circles had settled under my cold blue orbs and my cheeks had widened. The features of my already hard face like those of my father seemed to be accentuated and I could not prevent the frown from appearing on my forehead. It was just ... Jeremy and I were twins but that did not mean we looked alike. Elena and Jeremy had taken from mom and I had got dad's blue eyes.
I took a quick shower, hoping to wash away the stupid feeling I had about this damn dream and changed to my clean clothes and simply brushed my long brown hair before letting them lie on my back.
After cleaning after me, I went out to get back to my room when I fell nose to face with Jeremy.
I straightened up immediately, just like him, and watched him in silence. His big soft eyes scanned me from head to toe as he was expecting me to say something but when he saw that I would not say anything, his eyes turned cold and he sniffed disdainfully.
"Then they said it's me who's a problem." He gruffled, jostling me as he went by and I looked at him with perplexity, frustration and sadness.
It was obvious that he was already high but that did not make his words less hard. We had always been a duet before, with the twin's thing but now, it was hardly seen.
I returned to my room with a dull expression and felt the flood of thoughts making their way to the surface.
I needed some distraction before the match otherwise I could never hold on. I weighed my options and decided to do like any teenager and headed to my computer.
I had not even been on the internet for ten minutes that I had already clicked on an anomaly site.
Realizing my mistake, I immediately closed the screen in an act of hysteria and jumped out of my chair to poke up and down with my hand on my forehead. I had thought and rethought, I still did not see what he was.
''Let's recap!" I murmured with a frown down as I thought. "Forcing people to control, whatever. Increased reflexes. Abnormal pallor. God! What am I forgetting? "
Finally, I decided to stop torturing my mind. Regardless of my conclusions, I could not come up with just one plausible one.
After making this inner peace, I had put on my faithful black and white converse and donned a black hooded jean jacket before heading to my SUV. I drove straight to high school and was now sitting on the grass with my hands resting behind me and watching excited students approaching the game.
I spotted Elena and Stefan when I arrived, they exchanged a necklace it seemed to me or something like that.
Suddenly, a presence was felt next to me and I turned my head in confusion to find the waiter who had served me at the Grill, the last time.
I immediately raised an eyebrow, interrogator and stared at him silently as he gave me another of his smiles too bright for me.
"Hey! Mila, right?" He questioned visibly at ease and I stared at him now with pure confusion.
How did he know my name? I mean, I was not popular here and until now, I did not even know he was in our high school.
"I'm Felix. '' He introduced himself, clearly not paying attention to my lack of response and held out his hand in a gesture of taking it.
I gauged it hesitantly before finally squeezing it in a simple motion and returned to my observation of the other students.
I thought that after that, he would have left but he stayed by my side and was just as calm as I was.
It was the first time I met someone who could stand my silence without even getting a little agitated.
It made me curious and it really had to be a first for me. I turned to him, calling his attention and he gave me another one of his smiles.
'' What do you want? "I asked, my tone a little more demanding than I would have wished but it was too late to regret.
'' You seemed to need a friend.'' He stated bluntly and I stood there, speechless, not really knowing if I should be upset or touched by his consideration.
Finally, I did not have time to think as he went on.
"I can understand what it's like to be different." I raised a questioning eyebrow at that and he smiled as he leaned toward me as he did gave me a secret. "I'm gay."
Although he said it in a secret way, I could see that he was fully assuming it according to his style of dress and seemed surprised at the moment before quickly resume.
He was rather skinny for his size and had short, jet-cut black hair and large, almost black-brown eyes, and was wearing tight black pants and a navy V-neck T-shirt.
Did that mean he thought I was gay too? I didn't look like a gay, though? I mean, I had nothing against homosexuality. On the contrary, but I loved boys or at least I thought. I had never had a boyfriend and love was totally foreign to me but that did not mean I was not sure of my sexuality.
I frowned and shook her head, embarrassed."I-I'm not lesbian."
Felix's reaction was, to say the least, unexpected as he laughed openly at my face and brought his hand to his mouth to try and hide it, came over.
"Believe me, I know it." He assured himself, the hint of laughter still in his voice and I frowned, now upset.
"What do you mean?" I said defensively, my tone hard. "I could very well be a lesbian."
"Not dress like that." Felix retorted, digitizing my outfit from head to toe and staring at me with a hint of insecurity.
I looked up puzzled at him."What makes you say I'm not a lesbian? "
I know I wasn't, but it was the fact that he affirmed knowledge without even knowing me that interested me.
"Well, you didn't watch a single girl since you sat here." I nodded in agreement. That made sense. "Then, this androgynous sportswear look? Yeah, way too obvious for a lesbian. "
''What's wrong with my look? "I asked him more bored by his theory than anything else as I crossed my arms over my chest.
'' Whoa! For a girl who doesn't speak, you ask a lot of questions."Exclaimed Felix with a surprised smile and I broke my head to the side with a weary expression. '' Okay. I would say that your look represents your personality. Viewing. When I see you, I think of a quiet girl, inaccessible, strong personality maybe even domineering who knows. "He added with a salacious smile at the end and I caught myself smiling back."It's inevitably for the guys. "
I meditated for a moment on his words and finally nodded in agreement. "It makes sense."
"Of course, honey, that makes sense. I'm always right when it comes to sexuality."He raised his suggestive eyebrows and for the second time, I caught myself smiling.
It was really strange for me, but this guy was making me somehow ... happy. Be careful, it was not as true as I thought but it was getting closer.
I was about to answer when noises of struggle were heard from the parking lot.
I jumped on my feet immediately to have a better look just like Felix and I widened my eyes at the sight of Jeremy and Tyler in a fight.
'' Oh my God! It's my brother! "I exclaimed, calling out to Felix before I started running to try and stop all this.
I was not the only one to be caught by the sounds of battle and when I arrived at my destination, I could see Elena and Stefan trying to stop the fight and well, Stefan at least. Elena just shouted as usual.
Just when I thought it could not be worse, Jeremy grabbed a broken bottle on the floor and charged right for Tyler and Stefan under Elena's horrified screams.
As Jeremy ran for Tyler, Stefan stepped in with his hand up and the glass sliced deep into his palm. The distraction was enough for Matt to grab Tyler and take him aside while Elena and I ran to Jeremy.
Elena seemed quicker to argue than me as I just want to know if he was okay.
''What you're playing? '' Exploded Elena, outraged and indignant at the same time. '' Look at you, you're bleeding from your nose. ''
Just at that moment, a piece of tissue had entered my sight and I turned my head to find that it was Felix and that the piece came from his T-shirt.
I gave him a nod as a sign of gratitude and took the fabric to hand it to Jeremy who pushed it away with a sudden gesture.
"I'm fine." He choked coldly in a thick voice that clearly indicated he was drunk.
I sat up with a disdainful snort, vexed by his imbecility and glared at him like Elena.
''Yes. I feel it from here on your breath."Elena hissed furiously.
Jeremy narrowed his eyes at her as he sent her around abruptly before turning around without a word and Elena was quick to rush at Stefan in worry.
I looked at Felix and shrugged with a sigh.
"Lovely family you have here." He commented sarcastically, and I narrowed my eyes to him before lifting them to the sky and heading back to the field.
I thought I had just made a friend. Felix and I had talked a little longer after that and we even exchanged our cell phone numbers, which was unusual for me.
Now I was walking around without much interest in the parking lot and was thinking about Felix again. It was a strange feeling to be able to talk with someone and want to find more about him.
I had never been interested in anyone before and well except for Stefan and Damon but it was different.
They were not human. I was convinced of it.
"You scarred me." I heard Elena's familiar strangled voice and leaned my head toward the source of the noise before walking in the direction. "What are you doing? ''
I made a stop at Damon's sight and knelt to the ground with a grimace before trudging forward to get a better angle.
"I'm trying to avoid Caroline." Damon murmured, his facetious tone as he widened his eyes in exaggeration and I rolled my eyes, annoyed.
This guy was a real dick.
Elena frowned in confusion and imitated his whisper. "Why are you doing this?"
Ew! It just made me want to throw up. Both. Get, any friend-friend.
I pulled out my tongue in a disgusted look and shivered at the thought before refocusing on their conversation.
"I can't stand her anymore. She's talking too much and it's getting on me."He replied, as he was not talking about one of Elena's best friends and I was already smiling in anticipation of my sister's attack.
"Yeah, everything is explained." Elena laughed, not amused.
'' You have to admit she's horribly young.'' Damon justified miserably and I rolled my eyes again.
You didn't have to go out with a high school girl at that time. He was just more execrable by the minute.
Elena's response was instantaneous. "Not much more than you, actually."
"Uh, I don't see myself with her until the end of my days." Damon replied with a small laugh, irritating." "She would make me crazy."
"Caroline with big defects I recognize it but, we are friends since the kindergarten and her friendship is very important to me." Said Elena, her tone getting a little colder and annoyed with each of her words.
I looked at Damon waiting for his answer and saw him frown slightly. God, it was just like watching a tennis match.
"Message received." He assures. "Sorry, if I was unpleasant. I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable."
He continued by pointing his chest with his hands and smiling, his tone as wrong as my homosexuality.
If Elena believed that I would never forgive her. I mean, I had never heard such bullshit in a long time.
'' Of course yes. "Supported Elena with a frown. '' It's obvious otherwise you will not have put so much subtext in every word you uttered. ''
Damon smiled, tense as he stared at her in silence before accepting. "You're right." He looked up before resting them on Elena with that evil smile. "I'm not clear in my intentions but you're not more.''
I stared incredulously at my eyes wondering where he had seen that and could see Elena's same reaction.
This guy was really cheeky, I could not believe it.
"I felt it, you're crazy about me." Damon supported pretentiously, and Elena widened her incredulous eyes. "I'm destabilizing you, you're attracted to me, I'm taking care of all your thoughts, even when you want no, and I'm willing to bet you've ever dreamed of me, I'm obsessing you. "
Now it was my eyes wide in shock. I lowered my eyes to the floor before looking at Elena again and found that she seemed hypnotized.
Oh my god, he was doing his fucking thing of the mind.
I clenched my fists in apprehension, debating whether to intervene or just to stand there, to observe and finally opted for the last one.
"And you're dying to kiss me." He declared without even a hint of hesitation before bending over to Elena with a victorious smile.
I was sure that I was going to have to witness the worst scene of my life when something abnormal happened.
Elena seemed to come out of her trance and I watched with admiration and jubilation as she slapped him with all her might. The skin-to-skin impact resonated throughout the parking lot and I literally remained speechless for word loss.
It was fucking Awesome !
'' No, but you're crazy!'' Elena indignantly shouted furiously. '' I don't know what little shabby game you want to train Stefan but it will be without me.'' She exploded like Damon holding his chin to cash it and Elena narrows her eyes with venom. '' And I don't know what you're blaming each other for, but things are very clear. I'm not Katherine! "
I sank deeper into the darkness as Elena passed furiously and held my breath to go unnoticed. I did not wait to be unmasked and drove straight away from the trees.
I was still trying to figure out how Damon was doing the eye trick and better yet how Elena had managed to resist him as I headed straight for my SUV when a scream followed by a strange noise called out to me.
I looked around not really sure what I had to do and then decided to go see for myself. It was my biggest mistake.
When I arrived there, I widened my eyes in total shock as Damon literally stomped on Tanner's neck and a red liquid spilled along his T-shirt. I was so shocked that I could not hold back the horrified scream as the body fell to the ground like a common bag and the two monsters immediately turned to me.
There was a long pause as I watched them in total panic with my hand on my mouth realizing that I was going to be next and I immediately started running in the opposite direction just to hit a brick wall.
I raised my eyes in fear and shouted again when I saw the or rather the monster in front of me. Almost black blue veins snaked under his eyes and his eyes had been filled with black while Tanner's blood was still poured over his lips and his fangs.
Tons of questions crushed my mind as I watched him smile at me in that sick smile and I could not do anything except close my eyes when he grabbed my shoulders, ready to kill me.
'' No! Damon! '' Sounded Stefan's frantic voice and I felt a gust of wind before I was released from the monster's grip. '' She's Elena's sister. ''
I widened my eyes to the mention of my sister to see that Stefan had interposed between us, making me take a step back in terror.
My gaze fell on Tanner's body and I lost completely.
"Oh my god! He's dead! He's dead! He killed him. He killed him. "Two strong hands gripped me, stopping me in my panicked hike and I looked up to fight at Stefan's sight." He killed him! He killed him!''
"Mila! Hey! Mila! I need you to calm down. Look at me!'' Asked Stefan sounding almost desperate as I listened to him but I could not.
They were monsters. He had killed him. Oh my God! All these attacks. Vicki.
"It's going to be difficult to repair with your defective strain." Damon's mocking voice popped in as if he had not just killed a human being."You should kill her. A scratch and hop! Here! Problem solved.''
I widened my eyes to the discussion of my possible death and looked up begging Stefan who was still trying to control me.
"I'm not going to kill her, Damon! '' Barked Stefan, sounding incredibly frustrated as I still struggled.
'' Your problem! Not mine! "Sing-song Damon nonchalantly shrugging his shoulders before disappearing into the thin air, leaving me speechless.
"Mila! Hey, Mila! Look at me! "
Soon noises were heard and I turned my head to the side in the hope of escaping Stefan's embrace, but in a matter of seconds, I was transported away and landing at the foot of a tree.
Stefan released me and I put as much distance as possible between us feeling all the bones of my body trembling in shock, disbelief, fear and especially adrenaline.
'' Mila ... ''
I straightened up at his imploring tone and narrowed my eyes at him angrily."What are you?"
"Mila! Look at me!" He ordered as he took slow steps and I knew what he was trying to do.
''Don't come near me!" I screamed, raising my hands in front of me like a poor barrier. "I will not let you fuck with my mind."
I knew how it worked. I was going to look in his fucking eyes and his pupils would expand then I would forget everything and poof!
I would become totally unaware of the monsters around us. Yeah, that will not happen.
"Mila! I can't do that." Objected Stefan sounding really panicked and desperate, but I did not find in me to worry.
''Bullshit ! "I spit furiously and glared at him as he took another step forward." "Don't come near me or I scream."
Stefan seemed to take into account as he stopped, and I took another step back by pure precaution and began to stimulate like a fury.
Everything was coming back to the surface and I could feel my hands shaking. He had killed him. Tanner was dead, and I had just witnessed his assassination but that face. This ... this monster.
Stefan watched me stimulated in silence and I had to admit that I was grateful for that. Even though I was completely panicked at the mere thought of being at his side, I managed to catch my attention and control my tone, even if I wanted to scream my anger.
'' What are you? ''
Stefan remained silent, staring at me as he debated the pros and cons of leaving me in the secret with an expression beyond frustrated and finally sigh wearily.
"I can explain everything. '' He calmly assures, and I gauged him warily. '' But for now, you must go home and do not tell anyone what you saw. ''
I openly scoffed at his words with a roll of eyes. "Translation: I have nothing to say to Elena."
"Among other things, but I'm serious, Mila. There are people in the city who are not so ignorant and that could have grave consequences." Stefan insisted, leaving me speechless as I stared at him in thought.
So, they were known in the eyes of certain people. It still did not tell me what they were. I had no confidence in Stefan and even less in Damon. Only, I knew that if I wanted answers I would leave my trust in Stefan.
''To no one?" I insisted with a raised eyebrow, questioning and Stefan seemed to stiffen considerably in alarm.
"No one." He replied quickly, in a firm tone that did not leave room for discussion but was not well known to me.
'' Nobody? Nobody? "I was uncertain, secretly enjoying the power I got on him and could see the irritation and anxiety, overwhelmed.
"Mila! '' Called Stefan to the brink of nervous breakdown '' Don't make me regret. ''
I stared at him silently with my arms crossed over my chest and ended up sighing in defeat. "I wouldn't say anything." Stefan seemed to relax a little but remained on his guard and I narrow my eyes to him to make my point.'' The place of the city. Tomorrow at noon."I ordered relentlessly, turning to leave before calling over my shoulder." And don't be late. "