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Chapter 6.
Darkness and Revelations.
It was too fast. That was the decision I had made and now I was seriously having a hard time ignoring this guy. The fact that all of our friends are practically glued together didn't help much.
If I'd had parents, I would've begged them to take me away right now. But the fact that I don't have any still stands and I'm stuck in this hellhole.
Two weeks after Reid had broken into my room, it happened.
I was in math and was seriously trying to not fall asleep and instead focus on the calculations that covered the black chalk board. But the more I tried to focus on the numbers and signs, the blurrier they got.
Trying to blink it away, thinking I'd only gotten something in my eye, I ended up looking like I was trying to pick up some random dude who sat next to me.
Needless to say, he was one of the fastest people out of the door when the bell finally rung. My eyes were still blurry when I started to leave the classroom without tripping over my own feet. It was a hard task, and that was the reason I ended up knocking Tyler flat onto the floor.
"Shit, I'm sorry!" I choked out, still trying to get my sight focused on something and still failing miserably.
"Oh, it's okay, you didn't hurt me." Tyler looked at me for real and I could make out the worried wrinkles in his forehead through the blurriness. "Hey, Mel, you okay?"
"Ugh, I don't know, I think I've gotten something in my eyes."
Tyler grabbed a hold on my face and stared into my eyes. I was about to ask him what the eff's he was doing, because it was kind of creepy, when he leaned back and shrugged.
"I can't see anything, but maybe you should visit the nurse."
"I don't know where she is." It was kind of an embarrassing statement, like, hello, who didn't know where the nurses office were? It was the only place to go for sick-slips.
"It's okay, I'll take you," he smiled and I smiled back. Tyler seriously was a knight in shining armor, unlike the badass looking blonde God that was walking down the hall with his arm draped over some random girl's shoulders.
His eyes spotted mine and he smirked evilly before leaning down and kissing the girl, who sighed and pressed herself closer to him.
I was honestly happy my sight was failing.
"So, how about you take me there now?"
Tyler noticed the look on my face, glanced over his shoulders and shrugged. "Yeah."
We walked in silence. It wasn't until I was about to push the door open that Tyler said something.
"You didn't want to be with him, Mel. You should remember that." Then he walked away.
I entered the cafeteria last in our group, and headed over to our usual table. The girls smiled and Tyler looked at me with a question written in his eyes.
"I'm fine, there's nothing wrong with my eyes, she said it probably had something to do with lack of sleep or something. I don't know, I honestly stopped listening after she said it wasn't anything."
The gang bumped me in the back and whatever, and then got back to talking about whatever it was they had talked about before I had interrupted them with my presence. I didn't listen though.
Reid had entered the cafeteria, still with that same girl from the hall. He searched his surroundings, only barely looking at me, before deciding on a table on the other side of the cafeteria, straight in my line of sight – or, well, what was left of it.
I turned my attention back to the people at my table, but they were all a blur. Blinking a couple of times didn't help at all and instead I tried to listen.
A half an hour later I left the cafeteria and went to my next lesson, trying my best to ignore the fact of my failing vision. What was this anyway?
The truth hit me the second I became aware of a blonde head in the row in front of me. Reid. It was all him!
Since I was created to be with him, I was probably being destroyed by not being with him. I couldn't be sure, but it sounded like the most reasonable explanation.
By Friday I was blind.
I couldn't see a thing at all.
I tried to ignore it, to use my other senses to manage my way through the day, but they still noticed.
Friday night I had locked myself into my room, trying to avoid everyone and all of their questions. The others had planned on going out and I didn't know how I'd manage that so I'd said I wasn't feeling too good.
And I wasn't either.
I didn't cry. Ever.
Unluckily that had changed drastically in a couple of days and now I was just letting the tears free.
I wondered when He would come around. I hadn't seen him in a long time, and I was expecting him to show up any second of the day. Sometimes I heard him laugh in a corner, probably because of the tears that I wore like it was my favorite accessory. Since tears are a weakness and just plain pathetic it probably amused him. But sometimes I could feel his anger. It woke me up in the middle of the night, driving me away from that Godforsaken dream that I couldn't get rid of. Pure hatred and rage, boiling in my head, not my own, but close to it.
Banging on my door got my attention and I scrambled my way to the door, wiping my tears on my long sleeved pajama-top on the way. I felt for the handle and it took me a couple of minutes, since I had to fins the lock too. Door unlocked, it was pushed open just before my face, I could feel the wind of it when it passed just a few millimeters away from my nose.
"Hey!" Lauren's voice.
"What are you doing here, aren't you supposed to go out?" My voice was dull and I let my ace drop to keep my eyes out of sight.
"Yeah, we were, but then we felt sorry for you so we decided to keep you company!" Kate sounded as if she wanted me to get down on my knees and thank her for interrupting my sobbing session.
"Am I supposed to be grateful?"
"You're supposed to not be rude!" Tammy exclaimed, pushing her way past me, almost sending me flat on my behind.
"Okay boys, bring it in!" Kate cheered and then more bodies pressed their way into my room.
So much for weeping in privacy.
Luckily Reid didn't show up. Or so I thought, until I caught a whiff of his cologne. Noticing it, my whole body became tense and I sat up straighter. A little chuckle could be heard from some distance and I bit my lower lip.
The others were watching a movie and I was trying my hardest to make it look like I was doing so too, only hoping I was facing the right direction and wasn't facing a wall.
The smell of Tyler became clearer as something came closer to me and I could hear his breathing as he whispered, "Mel, you sure you're okay?"
I granted him the pleasure of honesty. "No."
I could practically feel his concern in the air. "What's wrong?"
Honesty again. "I'm blind."
The hushed whispers disappeared and the volume was muted. I could feel all their eyes on me and I imagined their big eyes and shocked mouths.
"Well, that was one movie wasted," Kate muttered, making me smile.
Saturday morning my thoughts drifted to my back and my tattoo. It was a birthmark, a little piece of me, and if I had changed, shouldn't it have changed too?
Before I thought about it I managed to get my shirt over my head and walked over to the bodysized mirror. Realizing I couldn't see it anyway, I cursed and I could feel the stupid tears burn my eyes again.
"The feather's are falling off. Since you've insisted on breaking yourself, the tattoo is breaking too. When there aren't any feathers left, you'll be dead." His voice was a whisper in my ear, and I could feel his fingers caressing the lines in my back, before his fingernails dug into the skin. As they retracted, I felt something being slid out of the small wound, making me gasp in pain, fear and discomfort.
Soon something touched my cheek, some of it soft and tender and the rest sticky with something that tasted like metal as he brushed it over my lips.
"You are wasting yourself. If you would just do what you are supposed to, then you wouldn't be in this position."
That's when the door was pushed open and wind rushed over my naked chest and back.
Their presence was heavy in the air, but they didn't say anything, didn't make any noises.
It was all quiet until Chase opened his mouth. "Hello, brothers."
