Chapter Three - I Get Drunk on Jealousy
This chapter is for you, TheArtistNextDoor!
"I think you know exactly what type of game I'm playing, Mina." The horror filling her eyes is satisfying.
"I don't want any part in it." She shakes her head.
"But you're a very direct part." I smirk.
"Why?" There's fear edging into her voice.
"Because I need something to do."
"And the curse isn't providing that?"
"We're taking a...break from the curse, you could say."
She glances back at the motorcycle, as if judging the distance back to it. It seems that she thinks better than to try that though, probably because she couldn't drive it, and because I would beat her there. So, we just stand in silence for a few minutes.
That's when she does something I honestly never expected her to be stupid enough to try. She turns tail and runs. And as she's running, she doesn't watch the street, and runs straight into the path of an oncoming car. The collision happens before I can do anything.
Brody's POV
I lean against the wall, running a hand through my hair. In front of me - on a hospital bed - lays Mina. She looks peaceful when she's sleeping. It's hard to believe she got hit by a car. I don't know what exactly happened. I just know she got driven somewhere with the new kid - Teague - on a motorcycle which, if I recall, resembled Jared's.
But why? That's all I want to know. Why did she go anywhere with that...thing? I was going to drive her home. She didn't need a ride. I'm not sure why I hate this guy so much, but I do.
She stirs slightly, and I sit down in the visitor's chair. "Hey."
She opens one of her eyes, and a faint smile slides onto her face. "Hey."
I slide a hand through my hair again. "So..." She frowns, and I sigh. It's best to get straight to the point. "Why did you leave with him?"
"Wha-what?" She's not expecting that question. Oh well, it's out there.
"Why did you leave school with him? With Teague?" I stare at her, and I can see her trying to find the right words. The right words. Does she have to formulate her sentences correctly just to talk to me?
"He stole something from me!" Probably didn't come out as smoothly as she would've liked.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Confusion edges into my voice along with my frustration and...jealousy? Am I jealous?
"If I didn't go, he'd have kept it."
"What was this obviously important thing that he took then?"
"The Grimorie." I can't help it. My mind instantly connects this book to Jared. Is that it? Am I second best now? Just what she takes whenever she can't have what she wants? It isn't exactly fair, but it's all I can think of. The jealousy knaws at my stomach, threatening to consume me. I don't know if she can see it register on my face - or maybe she just realized she said the wrong thing - but she attempts to put out the fire she's created. No, not the fire. The inferno. "I need it to complete the quests, Brody!"
"Or just to remember Jared." My voice is slightly bitter.
"Brody, it's not like that!"
"Mina, I think it is."
"Why are you acting like this? I need that book to stay alive!"
"I'm tired of being second best."
"You've never been second best!" Her eyes are welling up with tears.
"Really? Because that's what it seems like."
"Brody, please, just tell me what's wrong!"
"You went off - alone - with another guy!"
"It wasn't like that, and you know that!"
"No, I don't! I see the blatant truth."
"You're jumping to conclusions!"
I take a deep breath. "Look, maybe...maybe we just need a break."
"Brody..." It comes out as a whisper.
"A break." I repeat, and I glance at her beside table. There's her Grimorie, with a sticky note on it with the words Just like I promised. "It'll be better for both of us."
I leave the room, trying my hardest to ignore her crying. Like I said, it'll be better for both of us. Right? I'm not so sure anymore. But I'm not going back now. I push the door to the hospital open, walking out towards my car. It's really then that what I did kicks in.
I broke up with Mina.
YESSSSS! Ahem, I mean, ooooooh. Did we expect that to happen?
~Dagger