When I opened my eyes and saw Imra sitting in the chair, I looked away biting my lower lip before looking for Kara, wanting to find her, but I did not find her, so I sighed looking at her again.
"Kara has asked me to stay with you, but if you're uncomfortable, I can ask someone else ..." She started talking.
"No," I interrupted in a whisper. "I have nothing against you." I looked at her getting her to get up. "It's just that I don't know you," I whispered, avoiding her gaze.
"Mya, I understand that you wanted everything to be like before he left" she said making me to raise an eyebrow, I had not said anything about that.
"It's just ..., it was the first time I saw him really happy" I closed my eyes to contain the tears. "When we were in Daxam I used to see him with many girls, but he was never happy and it's not that he wanted to be, he had an arragment marriage after all" I dared to look at her. "When I left CADMUS, I didn't trust anyone, but I saw him smile and I knew he was happy, I think in part, he made me change" I wanted to explain, drying the tears that began to fall down my cheeks. "No ... I didn't have the opportunity to say goodbye to him, Alex sedated me to make sure that I would not suffer if I didn't survive and when I woke up, Kara told me what had happened" I sobbed I could not help it, feeling like she was trying to hug me, but I pulled away to look at her again. "And now I'm afraid he'll leave me again, to do it without being able to say goodbye ..." my voice broke. "Is he happy? I need to know," I asked between sobs.
"He is" she replied making me nod. "Why don't you tell him?" She asked drying my tears.
"You've never dealt with his ego?" I asked observing how she could not hold the laugh while nodding. "Not that he's always like that, but ... What are we going to say about the most spoiled prince of the Universe?" I questioned with a half smile
"Hey!" I heard him complain from the door. "You were the daddy's little girl, do I have to remind you?" He questioned approaching, which made me laugh. "How hard was it to tell me all this?" he asked grabbing my face, making me shrug my shoulders. "I will not leave without saying goodbye to you, sweetheart" he assured. "I love you" he kissed my forehead as I hugged him.
The three of us turned towards the door when we heard Kara's voice, who approached me with a slight smile on her face.
"Are you better?" Kara asked me, to which I nodded slightly. "I'm glad, sweetie," she kissed my forehead, at which point Alex entered, which made me duck my head without being prepared for what was coming next.
They tried to distract me, but the pain was just as unbearable, squeezing tightly my brother's hand, feeling like I was getting dizzy, I was going to fall asleep at any moment, so I did not deny Kara giving me the stuffed animal, hugging it, burying my face in it before closing my eyes.
The young girl's breathing was becoming more diffcult, so, despite the risks, they had decided to intubate her while Alex tried to find a cure for the teenager with the help of Lena, who after learning of what happened, she did not hesitated to help, to try to return the child to life.
He grabbed his sister's hand, hoping she would grab it back, but she did not, so he looked at her with tears in his eyes, brushing the hair from her face as he watched her.
"You're going to fight" he whispered caressing her face. "Mya, you have to do it" he continued talking despite wanting to start crying.
"How is she?" It was Alex's voice which made him turn around.
"Bad," he answered in a whisper, he still could not believe he was losing his little sister.
"We have something" she said approaching grabbing Mya's arm. "Lena, you have to do it little by little, okay?" she looked at her waiting for her to inject the needle.
He observed how, indeed, they introduced the cure little by little, but making the vital signs of her sister begin to change, even that she would breathe on her own. However, it took hours for her to open her eyes again, looking at everyone in confusion as if she did not understand what had happened.
In spite of everything Alex insisted on continuing to watch her, for fear that her constants would change too much and the cure would not have worked.
I looked at Kara trying to smile despite wanting her to stay, not to go to Barry's Earth, but that was not in my power.
"I'll be back in a few days, okay?" She caressed my hair. "Don't be too hard with your brother" she asked with a half smile.
"I won't" I answered with a small smile. "I'm going to miss you" I whispered trying not to cry.
"I'm going to miss you too, little one," she ruffled my hair. "Be good," she asked, kissing my forehead.
I nodded slightly turning my gaze back to my brother, who, at the moment that Kara left, took his place, standing beside me to stroke my hair to keep me calm when the tears began to fall down my cheeks, hugging me.
"She will be back, okay?" He kissed my forehead. "It's not the first time she does it" she assured making me look at him, because I did not know that. "She always comes back, I can assure you that" he whispered holding my face making me nod. "What do you think if we ask Alex to let you leave before she leaves?" he asked me, to which I nodded, yes, I wanted to leave.
However, it was not as easy as we expected, since Alex refused the idea of me leaving the DEO, since she was leaving with Kara, although after the insistence on the part of my brother, she ended up accessing, so we went to his apartment after going to Kara's.
"How did you get this place?" I asked my brother as he opened the door of the apartment, showing the interior, similar to the distribution of Kara's.
"It was a friend of the bar, he moved, so he is lending it to me during the time we are here" he explained as I nodded, he was going to leave again. "We have made it a little more cozy and I hope that you like your room" he commented making me look at him. "I decorated it thinking about you, I want you to feel at home every time you are here" he lifted my chin after I bowed my head.
I followed him without saying anything else about it, waiting with curiosity for him to show me that room, unable to avoid the fascination when I saw it. It was simple, but the details of each star placed on the wall and ceiling were beautiful, but what caught my attention was the projector that was located on the desk.
"It projects images of many planets, but I thought you'd like to have images of Daxam and, well, there's Krypton as well" he explained turning it on. "You'll be able to use it whenever you want, it's yours, Mya" he assured to what I could not avoid hugging him.
"Thank you" I murmured with my face buried in his chest.
"There's no need to thank me, little one," he stroked my hair before I separated from him and he continued programming it.
I could not say how much time we spent looking at images on the ceiling of the room, feeling tears come when I saw the first of Daxam, which I could not contain with the second one, forcing my brother to hug me.
"Is it you?" I heard Imra's voice from the door, making me turn my head towards her. "How old were you?" she asked curiously.
"I was twelve and Mya was only three years old" Mon-el replied. "I think it's one of the few photos we have together being her so little" he said keeping me close to him.
"That's your father, right?" She pointed to what we both nodded slightly, moment in which the tears were again present.
I sobbed in the arms of my brother, wanting to calm down, but the reality was very different, because I had to admit that I missed him, that, in a way, I missed my life in Daxam, although I knew that I would never have had freedom I was having here.
"I continued reading the book without bothering to raise my head when I heard someone enter the room.
"What are you reading, Mya?" I heard my father ask, making me raise my head to look at him. "Astronomy?" He questioned approaching while I nodded.
"I want to do it" I whispered turning my attention to the book.
"What do you want to do?" He asked sitting in the chair next to mine.
"I want to visit other planets" I answered. "Mon-el should stay here, but I don't have to do it, I can start from nearby places like Krypton and then try to go further" I explained seeing him smile as he watched me.
"I would love that at some point you could fulfill those dreams, my child" he said. "But you're still young and you know that you have some obligations" he pointed to what I nodded without wanting to think about it, because it was obvious that I would never get to do it. "You remember me of someone" he made me look at him.
"Who?" I asked in a whisper.
"I'll tell you when you grow up, I promise, little one," he promised, kissing my hair.
I nodded at his response, wanting to be satisfied with it, despite not being, wanting him to tell me, but I knew that that would not be the case.
"Mya, it's the last time I tell you it's time to sleep" I heard my mother's voice down the hall, which made me hide the book under the pillow, behind me, wanting to hide it with the bedspreads before I settled myself. "Well, for the first time you are lying down" she smiled entering the room, approaching the bed, being the first time in a long time that she did it, because normally she would only lean out to check that I was lying down. "Could you give me the book you have under your pillow?" She asked looking at me seriously, which made me look at her for a few seconds.
"There is no book" I dared to deny, refusing for her to take that book, the one that my father had allowed me to read after much insistence on my part.
"Are you sure?" I nodded to her question. "Then you won't mind if I do this, right?" She spoke while removing the bedspreads leaving part of the cover exposed, causing me to interpose wanting to stop her, but without getting it, because she finished it taking it. "'The story of Krypton'" she read the title before looking at me angrily. "Where did you get this?" She asked.
"Father gave it to me" I answered sincerely.
"I doubt your father gave you this" she shook her head, to which I went to reply, but she did not give me time. "I hope you have memorized it, because you will not see it again" she said sitting up. "I remind you that tomorrow they come to meet you," she said before leaving along with the book.
I just turned to see her go, without daring to say anything else, without even complaining that she was taking it, because it did not matter if I did it, since it was not going to solve anything, she was going to do it anyway.
I fell down angry because I had forbidden the things that I liked to do, feeling the tears of anger accumulating in my eyes, which made me not bother to look who entered the room, knowing perfectly who it was.
"What happened?" I heard Mon-el ask, making me turn to him.
"Mother has taken another book" I answered.
"One more?" He laughed while asking. "She's going to make a collection" he commented between laughter, but he did not manage to make me laugh, which made him frown. "What is it?" He asked worried while I shook my head. "Something is wrong, you never put yourself like that for a book." He grabbed my face.
"Father gave it to me, he allowed me to read it so that in a few years I can go with him to visit Krypton" I explained with anger. "But Mother has gotten angry and she has taken it" I bowed my head in anger.
My brother looked at me with pity for a few seconds before hugging me and persuading me to sleep."
I managed to calm down after a few seconds, letting myself be guided by them to the living room with the intention of having dinner, despite the fact that I did not feel like it, which is why I sat in the chair without eating at any time.
"You have to eat, just a little" Mon-el looked at me expecting me to do it and, the truth is that I did, feeling watched by him while he smiled at me. "Tomorrow do you have rehearsals?" he asked getting me to look at him. "Choir" he said.
"No, I quit" I replied in a whisper.
"You loved being there, why did you do it?" he questioned, truly dismayed by the new information he had just received.
"Because everything had changed and I didn't want to continue doing it" I answered without daring to look him in the eye. "Two weeks after you left we had a competition, the most important, and I failed them all" I raised my head before continuing talking. "I stopped attending the rehearsals because Zale wasn't there, because you weren't here and I was scared ..., I was afraid that when I would returne home, Kara wasn't going to be there" I explained to him, trying to hold back the tears. "So that morning, despite telling Kra I was going to go, I couldn't ... I think it was the first time I panicked and they lost because I wasn't there" the tears began to slide down my cheeks inevitably. "I decided to leave, I didn't want to continue going, it was the best for me" I whispered.
"Mya ..." the pity was reflected in his eyes, as in Imra's, which made me get up before apologizing and heading to the room.
I dropped on the bed between sobs, unable to calm myself in any way, taking a small blade out of my backpack, observing it before I dared to make the cut in the palm of my hand. This had been a custom of mine since Daxam, the one that made me remember what the real pain was, and that I had resumed during these last months.
I tried to hide my hand when the door opened, following my brother with my eyes as he sat on the edge of the bed.
"Are you okay?" He asked worried making me nod, noticing how he repaired his attention on the hand that was hidden, unable to prevent him from grabbing it. "How have you cut, Mya?" He asked starting to get upset.
"It's going to heal, tomorrow I will not have anything, it's not that bad" I complained knowing that he was going to start an interrogation and it was not going to stop until he got each and every one of the answers.
"It has been on purpose" he murmured keeping my hand held. "Since when do you do this?" he asked.
"I used to do it in Daxam, until Mother discovered it and I had to stop doing it, and here a few months ago, four I think" I explained. "Nobody knows," I said anticipating his next question.
-"Tomorrow we will go to the DEO, I need them to assure me that you are okay and you are going to talk to someone, you can do it with me, but since I know you aren't going to do it, we will look for someone" he said forcing me to lie down. "Try to sleep, Mya" He kissed my forehead before picking up the blade and leaving.
I sighed inwardly cursing myself, because I did not need to talk to anyone about the reasons that had led me to do this, seriously, I did not, but I was aware that when my brother was proposing something, he complied.
Thaks for reading,
Ayrin