Hey everyone! I was so excited and wanted to keep going so here's another chapter! Hopefully all of you like it so far and I'm hoping that all of you enjoy the sequel that will be coming on here shortly after this one is done. Thank you to all of you who are reading and who have reviewed. If you haven't already please vote on the poll for what the sequels title should be and thank you to those of you who already have.
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*~KelsNicole~*
(May the odds be ever in your favor!)
I am almost to the cave….almost there only a few more inches. The parachute is in my hand as I pull myself forward, the pain in my leg has increased. Once I am in the cave I pull myself toward Alwin, who is still asleep and I collapse down next to him. My eyes shut before my head even hit's a backpack. I made it back to the cave….I made it back to him.
The coldness, the darkness and the rain it chills me to the bone. I quicken my pace trying to get home, my mom will wonder where I've been, what I've been doing. As my house comes into view I smile a little to myself, but then I see two people standing in front of my house, they seem to be yelling at each other. My eyes can't see that well through the rain.
I get up to my house and see Alwin, his face is sad and I see that Ethan is glaring at him. My mouth opens, but before I can say a thing Alwin runs off and I turn to Ethan. Ethan just glares after him. None of this is making any sense, they never fight and we are all friends.
"Ethan?" My voice is shaking from the cold and his cold eyes don't help anything. I just stare at him. "What's going on?""Nothing, its just…its nothing. It's better if you don't know anyways." He says and he turns. I watch as he walks into my house. "She's here. Don't worry, all of you can calm down now."
Silently I walk inside of my house and my mom has me in her arms just seconds later. She is kissing my head and crying, but I have no idea why. I look around me and see that Ethan's parents are here and so is Alyssa's family. My mom doesn't let go of me for almost half an hour.
"Mom?" I ask finally getting out of her arms so that I can breath. "What's going on? Why is everyone so upset?"
"Oh, Aca!" She starts to cry even harder and I watch as my Uncle Billy takes my mom back over to a chair. "I thought that you…that you were gone too!"
I look around the room. "Wait, who's gone? Everyone's here aren't they? Mom, what's going on?"
"Acacia…its your father, he is gone. We can't do anything to find him either." The tissue is held up to her face and I can barley understand her. "Oh, honey! I'm so happy that you are here!"
My mom sends me to her room, where all of my siblings are sleeping. I walk over to the window, not really believing anything that anyone has told me. No, dad's fine…he will be home any minute, they'll all see. But the minutes tick by, each second becomes more excruciating then the last. A tear escapes from my eye and I hear a light knock on the window. I open it slowly and see Alwin. He looks like he's been crying too and before I can say anything he hugs me.
"Ace…" His whisper gives me goose bumps. "I will always be here for you, no matter what. Remember that…"
He is gone as soon as the words are out of his mouth, but not before he places a kiss on the top of my head. After he leaves I curl up on the floor and just cry, Ethan comes in and tries to comfort me…but I don't want him to comfort me, I want Alwin to. Ethan's arm wraps around me and he tells me that everything will be okay. My body is shaking and all that I want to do is scream at him, "IF EVERYTHING IS OKAY THAN WHY ISN'T MY DAD HERE?"
My eyes snap open and I see Alwin's face close to mine. His fingers are stroking my cheek, so carefully as though they are made of glass. I feel a tear escape from my eyes. Alwin pulls me to him and I allow myself to have what I wanted so desperately so long ago, at a time when I couldn't get it.
"Ace, its okay. It's going to be okay…." He is rubbing my back and I just let all of the tears come out. All of the tears that I held in after that night, that I would never let anyone else see. Holding them in has weakened me and now I am finally allowing myself to cry. "Shh, its okay. Calm down…I'm right here. I'll always be here…"
"I remember." He pulls away from me and looks at my eyes. The shock in his eyes is clear. "I remember….that night."
He kisses my forehead. "You forgot….I'm glad that you remember now."
"How could I ever have forgotten that?" I ask him and I feel terrible. Something is bothering me though. "Wait….Alwin, when you and Ethan were in front of my house. What were you two fighting about?"
I wait for his answer, but he doesn't answer right away. "We were fighting about who cared about you more and who was better for you. That was the night that everything changed, he told me that you and him were together. I believed him…"
"Oh, Alwin…him and I were never…" But his lips silence me and I know that he understands. I snuggle into him and feel myself getting drowsy. "Why…why am I so tired?"
"I gave you some medicine." Alwin says and he sits up. Gently he puts my head on his lap and I snuggle up to him. "That cut…was pretty bad."
The last thing that I can say is, "I'm fine."
I am asleep once again and I am pulled back to unpleasant nightmares. These ones are different. Katherina's body is pulled apart and turn into spiders, the spiders crawl toward me and start to attack me. They pull at my skin and rip chunks of it off, I scream but there seems to never be an end to it. Capital….they are winning, they won't let me ever truly win.
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