Searching Through The Shadows

Chapter Twelve

The past three days had gone by slowly without Vaughn here. I had walked around the island with Arcane and Denny most of the time also Julia and I hung out with Natalie and I actually really liked her. I think Julia was partly there for Natalie but mostly there for Elliot, she obviously liked him but wouldn't admit it.

It was now early Monday morning and I just couldn't seem to go to sleep, I was too excited to hear Vaughn's voice again. I got out of my bed and started walking toward the door, I had started counting how many steps it took to get everywhere in the house. I held out my hands as I counted, I felt the door hit my hands. "Good job, Chels." I slowly turned the door knob, opened the door and counted my steps again as I walked through the hall, holding out my hands just in case I miscounted.

I stopped when I was supposed to be in the living room and turned right, counting 6 steps then turned to the left and kept heading straight until I felt another door against my hands, "Obstacle couch, avoided." I smiled, moving my feet around beside me to find my boots. I found them, slipping them on I opened the front door and walked out into the cool, fall air. I stopped for a moment then walked diagonally 8 steps and sat down in the grass, pulling my knees up to my chest. I closed my eyes for awhile and imagined what the stars and moon looked like.

I don't know how long I was sitting there but I started to hear faint footsteps. As they got closer they started to sound familiar almost like, "Cowboy boots." I said aloud, my eyes widening. The clicking suddenly stopped and then I heard the sweetest voice, the one I had been waiting days to hear again. "What are you doing out here?" Vaughn asked. "Couldn't sleep." I said with a shrug of my shoulders, resting my head on my knees. I heard him sit down beside me, "Too excited to see me, eh?" he said teasingly. I smiled, "Psh, no. I just thought I would come out here, sit for awhile. Imagine what the stars look like." I told him sighing.

I felt a warm arm wrap around my shoulders and pull me closer. I blushed, "Chelsea..." Vaughn said quietly. "Yeah?" I asked, "There is something I have been wanting to ask you but you don't have to answer if you don't want to." he said. "Okay, go ahead." I told him, wondering what he could want to know.

"How did you become blind?"

Vaughn's P.O.V.

I knew I was taking a risk asking her that but I wanted to know. I braced myself for her to yell at me then push me away but instead of that she sighed and said, "My dad." I looked down at her, "Her dad?" I thought.

"What happened?" I asked her, "My mom and dad had been fighting for awhile and my mom finally got fed up with it so she decided to leave one morning. When she came to say goodbye to me I had woken up, I looked at her and she was saying something but I was too sleepy so I didn't catch it. I thought she was just coming to wake me up for school like she did every morning but I saw that she had a suitcase in her hand, I asked her what was going on but she ignored me and walked away. I was little so whenever she kept ignoring me I followed her down the stairs and into the driveway, still asking her what was happening and begging her not to leave me... but she got into her car. She backed her car out of our driveway and started driving down the road, I just didn't want her to leave so I chased after her. There was a big intersection and I guess she wasn't paying attention cause..." she started crying at this point.

"It's okay, Chels. You don't have to say anymore." I told her. "No. I want to finish." she said taking a deep breath and wiping the tears off her cheeks. "Cause she ran a red light. Suddenly as she was going through the intersection a huge semi-truck came out of nowhere. I screamed for her to look out but she just kept driving and the semi... broadsided her on the driver's side." she told me. My eyes were wide, "She... she watched her mom die..."

I didn't know what to say so I just grabbed her hand and held it. She squeezed it tight as she said the next part, "It had been a few weeks since the accident and it was the day after my mom's funeral, my dad had been drinking. I was sitting in he kitchen when my dad came stumbling down the stairs drunk, he came into the kitchen and was looking for more liquor. I asked him what had happened and why mom was leaving, he turned and walked over to me his eyes were full of hate, it sent shivers down my entire body. He told me that... it was all my fault that if I wasn't here that she would still be alive and with him. Then he smashed the liqour bottle he had gotten out of the cabinet into the side of my head, I blacked out after that and woke up in an alley. That's where Mirabelle found me."

I just stared at her, she had her eyes closed and tears were streaming down her cheeks. I held her hand tighter and pulled her closer to me, letting her lay her head on my shoulder. "Some... sometimes I feel like it was my fault." she said in between sobs. "Don't think like that because it wasn't your fault, Chelsea. He was wrong to tell you that." I told her reassuringly, she nodded and smiled a little. I let the arm around her shoulders fall and stood up, lifting her up off the ground with the hand that was still holding her's. I started walking back to the house, "Vaughn..." I heard Chelsea say quietly beside me, "Yeah?" I asked, turning to look at her.

She reached out her hand and gently brushed her fingers up my neck. She traced my jawline down to my chin then she moved her hand up and smiled when she felt my lips. She stood up on her tiptoes and moved her hand down onto my shoulder, I tensed up and my eyes widened as I felt her warm lips press against mine but after a moment I closed my eyes and carressed her cheek in my hand. She pulled away, "Thanks for listening." she said. "N-No problem." I said. I felt butterflies in my stomach when I looked at her face.

I stared into her sapphire blue eyes, they looked beautiful almost like they were sparkling under the stars. I smiled as I placed my hands on her hips and leaned down, softly pressing her lips against mine again.

"I think... I love her."

A/N: I have had this chapter written for a few days now actually and I was going back and forth on wether I should post it or not but here it is. The big kiss scene in the story, hope it wasn't too horrible. *laughs nervously* Well anyways love you guys and baiii!

~Whispy xoxo