Unknown Truth

Chapter 24: My world

Chapter 24: My world

Des POV

“How’s Justine doing?” Alex asked one day after a meeting. “She’s…ok I guess. It’s better now that he was buried two weeks ago.” I didn’t really know how to explain it. She had days that she was good and didn’t say anything and then she had days were she would wake up screaming saying it was all her fault. “Yeah, it will take time. Trever is pretty messed up too.” “I don’t know what else to do. It kills me to see her so upset. I’ve tried everything, sometimes they work sometimes they don’t. It depends on the day.” “Just give it time, dude. He was all she had for a while.” Alex was right it was going to take time and I was going to be with her the whole time.

There was a light knock on the door interrupting the conversation. “Come in.”  I called. The door opens and Justine is standing there. Her hair was down in front of her blotchy red face. She was wearing jeans and one of my baggy sweat shirts. “Des…” She said between sobs. “Oh, come here baby.” I cooed as I pulled her into a hug. Today was going to be a bad day, I thought as I held her close to me. “Baby, Its ok He’s in a better place now.” I tried to confront her. “I knew…” She sobbed into my chest. “What do you mean?” I asked my voice still soft. “When we first met…I had a vision. You told me to tell you later because we needed to meet with someone.” She took in an exasperated breath trying to stop crying. “It was about that. I saw his death before it actually happened.” She bawled more into my chest.

“Sshh, you can’t change the future.” I said trying to bring reason into her brain. “But… I knew. What if we told someone and prevented it from happening.” No matter what, she was blaming it on herself. I was not going to have that. “It would have still happened. It was going to happen no matter what you couldn’t have stopped it. You can’t change it either, but what you can do is put a smile on your beautiful face. William wouldn’t want you to be upset about this. He would want you remembering the past and laughing at the memories you had created, not crying about the ones you didn’t have time to create.” I told her whipping away her tears. She put on a small force smile and looked up at me. “You’re right.” “I’m always right.” I joked trying to get a real smile from her. It worked. On her sad small tear filled face a real smile pulled at her lips. “Des.” She laughed lightly and slapped my chest. “What its true.” A smile pulled more on her lips and then crashed suddenly.

“Do you know, what was one of the last things Will said to me?” Guilt shot through my body I was trying to get her not think about him and somehow I still managed to get her to think about him more. “He told me to trust you and that you loved Me.” A small smile was on her face as she looked up at me waiting for my reaction. “He got that right. You can trust me with anything and everything, but more importantly I do love you.” I said pulling her into a tighter hug. “I know you do. Thank you.” “Always.” I said simply into her hair. With all my might I was hoping that she was going to get better. That she would stop blaming herself.

We were both starting a new school in our territory. I was worried sick that it was all going to be too much change for her. “Des, when do we start our new school?” She asked randomly. “Tomorrow, is that ok beautiful?” I said tucking her hair behind her ear. “Yeah, I need to stay busy. Do you have anything you need help with?” I knew she was just asking to keep her mind off of things. “How about I take you out for dinner? All packs stuff is done for today.” “Ok, let me just wash my face first.” She said and walked out of the office. I breathe out a sigh of relief. “You’re getting better at that.” Alex said still sitting of the couch. I turned to glare at him. “I thought you left.” “Well apparently you thought wrong.”

I rolled my eyes at him as I sat on his side. “So you excited about switching schools?” “Oh, yeah thrilled. I was just going to that school for my whole high school experience and now have to switch.” “It’s not that bad switching.  I’ve already done it this year. We know everyone anyways, plus it will be safer for them.” I said referring to our mates. “Yeah, I know. Do you think they will get along with some of the other girls?”Laughter broke through my lungs as I thought of Justine trying to get along with some of the girls in the pack. There were some that were snobby and felt entitled to things, which was the exact opposite form Justine. “Maybe, but can you really see either of them hanging out with Brianna or any of her friends.” “That would be a great scene. They probably would get into a fight about animal crackers again and when they said something to them they probably would start yelling at them.” “That would be great.” “I know, I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have a mate like Jess. Besides life being boring, I think I would be so lost.” “Dude, you’re always lost. I know what you mean; if I didn’t have Justine there wouldn’t be a reason to wake up in the morning.”