Six ----
"What the hell were you thinking!" He didn't flinch, he never flinches. I don't want to be mad. But what he did, I don't think he'll ever understand fully. She might not come back. "Answer me!" His eyes flash open and burrow into me. I know I flinched. He doesn't say a word. I would swim back to that damn town and drag her back if I could.
"What should I have done, Anex," he asks. His words so quiet that I barely heard them. I look at him and narrow my eyes a little.
"What… You damned the both of you, Atlas!" He turns his head a little to the side. The length of the desk was to close for me. But I didn't care if I was overloading his mind. I would be surprised if he could keep a single solid thought in his head right now. Atlas was never a quiet child. Plagued with hyperactivity disorder all his life. She was the only thing that really helped him keep his thoughts straight. Her and his dream of being a pirate. Why can't you see what you did Atlas?
"Oh, did I?" His voice was now cold and stonic. To harsh for his mouth. He needed her just as much as she needed him. That was evident from the beginning.
"Atlas…" I look at his eyes and nearly jump out of my skin. He was almost crying. To anyone else it would have looked like he hated every fiber of my being, but I could see it. See the tears that were right behind his eyes. If I was to walk out of the room right now, I know he would have broken. He would never be the same after this. Even if we did somehow get her back. "What were you thinking?" I drop my head, not expecting him to respond.
"I was thinking that she deserved to be happier than she was here." I look up at him. He was still looking straight at me. "What would you have done? If… oh, say Bonny had been here and was happier there? You would have left her." I look in his eyes as they slowly purged onto his face. Atlas looked to strong to cry, even as he did right in front of me. "She wouldn't have left if we had left it up to her. She would rather be unhappy than be away from us." I nod slowly, trying not to cry too. "She deserves to be happy, Anex." I nod again.
"I know." I close my eyes and sit down on the chunky chair in front of his desk. "I know."