Short chapter, nothing really happens-it's just Laurel MAYBE coming to her senses, and more sad Tamani. :(
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"Then go." Laurel looked at him, the boy who never gave up on her, before she touched the faerie ring on her neck and ran to her car, driving away before she could change her mind.
Laurel POV
Laurel wiped the stray tears running down her face before forcing a smile on her face. She got out of her car and slowly walked towards her front door, and took a deep breath, opening the door.
"Oh, you're home!" Her mother exclaimed happily. She looked around. "Your sentry friend Aaron said that you ran off to Tamani's apartment for...business." She searched Laurel's eyes for the truth.
Laurel sighed. "You remember Yuki?" Her mother nodded. "Well, she's a Winter faerie, and we think she might be out to kill me." Her mother's eyes went wide, her hand flying to clasp her heart. Laurel nodded stiffly. "Shar sent her to Avalon to be questioned. Then I came home."
Her mother looked at her carefully. "So what happens now?" She asked warily.
Laurel didn't really know. She shrugged. "What do you mean 'what happens now'?"
Laurel's mother sighed and smiled sadly. "I mean, do you need to leave for good now, or do you stay? Here is not exactly the most safest place anymore."
Laurel shook her head. "No, I don't think so. We don't know who Yuki's working with, if it's even with Klea." Laurel paused. "After Yuki's questioned and we know more, then maybe. I don't know." Laurel bit her lip to keep from crying. She had only known these two as parents, no one else. If she went to Avalon to live there for good, she would be lost. But you wouldn't have if you just admitted you loved Tamani, said a voice at the back of her mind. Laurel shook away the thought. She didn't know what to feel, and what to do. Too much options, choices. She didn't know what to choose.
"If you live in Avalon, will I never see you again?" Her mother's shaking voice brought Laurel out of her thoughts.
"I want to come back and visit, but I don't know if I can." Laurel said quietly. Her mother nodded and gave her a hug. "No mattter what happens, remember that you are still my daughter and that I love you." Laurel smiled at her mother's words as she hugged her tighter. Then she let go. "I'm going to my room to work on some potions." Laurel lied. Her mother nodded and Laurel ran up the stairs, anxious now to be alone in her room.
When she reached her bedroom, she flung herself at her bed. She didn't want to work on potions; she wanted to sort out her feelings, her thoughts. She didn't know what she felt about both David and Tamani. She remembered when she told her mom that she loved David. 'But there are a lot of different kinds of love,' her mother had said to her. Did she not love David in a lover's way anymore? Could she have fallen in love with Tamani?
Laurel thought back to what happened an hour ago. She told David to leave, and she practically told Tamani to leave as well. Telling David to leave was painful, she admitted, but it didn't hurt her as much as it did to tell Tamani to leave, and leading him on again.
So did she love Tamani now?
Laurel groaned. Why couldn't love be easier?
Tamani POV
"You can't keep thinking about her. It's unhealthy." Shar said, appearing from behind a tree. Tamani sighed as he threw a glove at a apple tree.
"I love her." Tamani growled, frustrated. "And I know she loves me too, but why can't she just accept it?"
Shar raised an eyebrow. "How do you know she loves you?"
Tamani groaned, throwing his face into his lap. "I just know. It's hard to explain. But she's so confusing!"
Shar rolled his eyes. "Well, you're still going to protect her right?"
Tamani laughed bitterly. "Of course I will. I'm bound by an oath, remember? And besides, I would do anything for her, even if it pains me."
"Yeah, I know." Shar whispered. "But I wish you wouldn't. She could go back to the human boy anytime. She might not even choose you, ever. You know that."
Tamani managed a weak smile before staring into his lap again. "I know that. But I keep hoping that she won't choose David. That she will choose me."
So we all know that Tamani and Laurel will be together in the end, but let's see where this road will go, and what challenges Tamani will face...