Reliving the Nightmare
By Kuro Kin'youbi
Chapter 6
"Nor!"
Torn ran down and knelt by Nor. Nor was rather pale, and if he wasn't breathing shallowly he would be noticed as instantly dead. Nor looked at Torn and laughed.
"Shame... on you, Torn." Nor wheezed, looking at his friend.
"What did I do now, Nor?" Torn asked.
His usual grumpiness was currently not in use as he knelt by his dying friend. Nor had a weird grin on his face.
"I went... and I... told him, Torn."
Torn was confused. And he wasn't ashamed to show his confusion.
"You bastard." Nor coughed. "I told... Praxis... about you... sleeping with her."
Nor coughed some more, and then Torn realised EXACTLY what he meant by that. Nor had told Praxis about him and Ashelin!
"You're the bastard." Torn hissed.
Nor didn't reply. Torn didn't wait for Nor to die, he just got up and headed away.
"He'll find YOU!" Nor screamed as loud and whiny as he could muster for the amount of strength he had.
Torn ran around the city for a while. He didn't know what to think... his best friend had betrayed him, he thought he had been caught out by Baron Praxis. And to make it worse, he had a 'meeting' with Ashelin tonight. So he had to go there now.
Torn headed back to the Palace. Truth be trold, he didn't want to go there. Not when he thought Nor had given his affair away.
"I thought you'd never come." Ashelin said when she opened her door to Torn that evening.
"I think someone told your father about us." Torn uttered.
Ashelin was silent for a moment. She sat down on her bed and just thought.
"I don't know about anyone who could've told." She said finally.
Torn knew he would cop it from Ashelin even if he didn't tell her that he HAD told someone.
"I know who did." He confessed.
She looked up at him.
"Who? Was it Nor? My father killed him for saying something about me."
"Yes, it was Nor." Torn said.
Torn was ashamed that he had actually told anyone about him and Ashelin. It was something that should have been kept between them, and no-one else. Not even best friends!
"Why did you tell him?" Ashelin asked. "I'm not angry, I just wanted to know."
"Well, I thought he was my best friend." Torn said, sitting down by Ashelin. "Now it seems he fooled me."
"In more ways than one." Ashelin said. "That place where you got your tattooes? You don't ever get infections from tattooes. Not in Haven City. He took you there and they didn't clean the needle or anything."
"How do you know?" Torn asked.
He was frustrated enough about the whole situation. He just wanted to know why!
"He came in here and confessed."
"It took her long enough to tell me that." Torn told me.
I was mimicking him again. He sat there in his chair, one leg crossed over the other. I sat opposite him with one leg crossed over the other. I liked mimicking him. I did it often.
"Now... where were we up to?" Torn asked, scowling.
I thought a moment.
"You told me... that Nor confessed to Ashelin that he did something to the tattoo machine?"
He nodded. "Oh, yes. Did I tell you about how she told me that they had slept together too?"
"You never told me that!" I gasped loudly.
"Didn't I?" He asked, a smile playing on his lips.
"You WHAT?" Torn yelled.
"Not like that!" Ashelin 'ssh!'ed him.
Torn wasn't having any of this. He stood up.
"You probably helped him taint the needle!" Torn said.
When Ashelin didn't reply, Torn was furious.
"I knew it!" He yelled.
Ashelin didn't listen to him. She got off her bed and went over to the communicator on the wall. She pressed the button there.
"Yes, Miss Ashelin?" The voice asked.
"Yeah, hi. Could I be linked to my fathers room please?" She asked.
Torn sat down by the window. He didn't know what to think. The woman he loved had done two horrific things. She had slept with his best friend, Nor, who was now dead for what he had done and said. And Ashelin had also blackmailed against him and hurt him.
"Ashelin?"
Torn could hear Praxis' voice through the communicator in the wall.
"What's wrong, Ashelin? I'm busy."
Ashelin looked at Torn, who was looking out the window. She grinned gleefully, and said: "There is a strange man in my room!"
You probably know what I'm gonna say. "Who is Torn talking to?" And another thing... to shadows-of-flame, you know already so don't tell, OK? I swear, I will ruin your life if you tell! You also know because I told you! So don't tell anyone else! Please let me know what you think.
