Metting

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I shut the door to my hut and flop onto my bed. Though its just a cot it feels like a fluffy white cloud compared to the rough forest floor of the night before. Just as I close my eyes I hear hurried rapping on the door.
"What?!" I'm exhausted in every possible way and just want to sleep. The response was more beating. Reluctantly I get up and open the door. Felix shoves past.
"Are we making this a routine?" He stares at me unamused.
"Where were you last night?" he growls.
"Where do you think I was? Tracking the Jones brothers." I know what he meant but I'm frustrated so I make him work for it.
"You weren't supposed to be gone over night." His blank stare is unsettling.
"Well things happen, I couldn't make it back but I got my information and I'm not dead so I call it a win." My exhaustion has now bubbled into red hot rage. I don't know why I'm mad but I am.
"Asha this is not a game!" He's gone to far.
"It's Ash! And since when do you care!!! I've been here for heaven knows how long and not once have you shone any amount of emotion towards me but all of the sudden your my mother?"  My heart is racing and I feel my cheeks burning. Our eyes are locked and I can see wheels turning in his head.
"Ash, there's something you don't know." His voice trails off and he turns away.  Is he crying?! He turns back, his eyes glisten with fresh tears.

"Pan told me he'd hurt you if I ever said anything..." he looks like he's being torn in two.

"What is it?" I hear my own voice begin to soften. 
"Don't be mad, I had no other choice." he takes a deep breath. It feels like time is stopped and doubled in speed all together.

"We'er...Your..." his voice isn't harsh like usual "Asha I'm your brother."  My brain doesn't process his words. This time I'm the one staring blankly.

"How..." my voice is shaky.
"We're twins.  We were brought here when we were..." his voice is like some strange language. Either he stops talking or I stop listening I'm not sure which. I feel something on my shoulder but it feels as though it's happening in some strange land far away.  I look over and Felix has cupped his hand on my shoulder. I pull away.
"You've know this whole time?!?!" He just looks at me "Why didn't you tell me?!?!"
"Asha, Pan..." he reaches out to me.
"No! Get away from me!" I pull away like a frightened animal.
"Ash I'm sorry!"
I grab my small knapsack and burst out of the hut into the cool, black night. It's late and all the boys have gone to bed. I start running, I don't know where I'm going I just start running. I just have to get away, away from here, away from Felix, away from Pan, away from everything. I don't know the last time I cried and would never loose control of myself in front of people but now I don't even know.  Suddenly my body crashes into something, I feel hands grab my arms. I look up and immediately stop crying. I wipe the tears from my eyes and stare into a face. His eyes are kind and his expression is worried. I know exactly who it is but I don't believe it.
"Killian?"
"Aye love but who are you?"

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