Evangeline In Borderland: Book 1

FINALLY ARC

Previously:  It should be fine though, it'd been so long since she'd left her door locked anyway. It's always open.

We Continue...

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She awoke, abruptly, as if she'd had a nightmare, feeling the urge to run to Ivon's unit. And opening the door. Her hair was a bit frizzy in its ponytail. She stepped inside. "Is anyone here?"

 She asked in an irritated daze, still half asleep. Obviously, there was. "Atokaru!!" She basically screams. She makes a leap. 

It had been a while but she was still quite the jumper. "Wake the hell up!! You've been in this bed at least a month!!" She lands above him on the bed. Standing with a foot on either side of his body. A karate chop hand landing right by his head.

 "It's pissing me off." She says honestly. She'd finally let herself be angry. "Wake the hell up tantan. We got lots to talk about." Because there was currently no response she just sat down.

 "Tantannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn."  He stirs awake, seeming really tired- "Morning sleepyhead." She said. "You really have a talent for sleeping, you know that?"

 She didn't really realize she was straddling him and didn't really care. She had been patient too long it felt like. She sat and waited for his eyes to open. A few sighs escaping her. "Atokaru, wake up really." 

She fell off and laid next to him. "I miss you a lot." She laid and waited for him to wake up all the way. "Please... Tantan." She looks up at the ceiling. 

The silence from him felt like the nail in the coffin. Her anger had faded. "Please..?" Her eyes began fake crying again. She curled into a ball. 

She wished the goddamn tears would just come out. She waited a bit more. "Sorry..." That's all he could manage. He really was tired... 

She rolled over to look at him. And for some reason, the statement made her heartbreak. And suddenly the tears came rolling. She felt relieved. Just happy to hear his voice. 

She sighed. "It's ok, I'm sorry for waking you up, I should have been more considerate." She smiled through her tears and wrapped herself around him extra gently. "All the people I love keep getting in danger. I wish I could do more to help." She thought out loud. 

And lay, listening to his heartbeat and sniffling here and there. He gently hugged back, smiling softly. He had missed this... His heartbeat was fairly weak, but he didn't seem too unhealthy. He was just out for a while. 

"Sometimes, there's just.. nothing you can do to help... But.. it's the thought that counts..." "Mhm.." She said in agreement. She was thinner than before, and lighter. With a scar straight across her forehead, and along her outer thumb. 

It seemed she was mostly healthy. But missing him had taken a toll on her body. She was beginning to fall asleep. "I missed you a lot." "You really scare me too much tantan, I might have a heart attack." 

She said in a sort of whisper. "I'm sorry for worrying you... I just.. wasn't feeling too well, I suppose..." "It's ok, I'm just glad to be here with you right now." She smiled, though the tears were still running down her face. I love you Atokaru, she said within her head. 

And her eyelids slowly drifted downwards. Soon she was almost asleep. She let herself fall asleep. And soon her soft snores could be heard in the room. He just lied there, gently hugging Evan as he hummed quietly to himself.

        She just smiled in her sleep.

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