Into The Night

Chapter Nine

I couldn't believe it... "HOW IS THAT EVEN BLOODY POSSIBLE!? WEREWOLVES DON'T EXIST! THEY NEVER HAVE AND THEY NEVER WILL SAME WIH VAMPIRES AND WITCHES!!!!" I yelled at him. My face flushed with anger because he provided me with false information. I hate it when people lie to my face like that. I stomped over to the sliding glass door and rested my forehead on it. I heard something from behind me. He wasn't speaking but I heard him say: "I shouldn't have told her... now she thinks I'm crazy." Followed by a loud smack on the coffee table from his hand spazzing. I stared through the crystal clear glass at the blizzard happening outside.

I knew he wasn't lying to me... I can tell when people are lying. I just didn't want to believe him. What he said, sounded so insane. Tears started to well up in my eyes and they fell over my cheeks. I sighed and struggled to breath because the tears were burning the lowest part of my throat. A soft hand touched my shoulder. "I know you believe me. I can tell." Kota said into my ear. He picked up and cradled me in his arms. My body snuggled into his chest as he held me tightly. Is this really how things were gonna be like now? Is this possible? I believe it but it sounds too crazy to be true. All of that didn't matter then. He was with me. That'd all I cared about.

He looked out the window for a bit emotionless. Then he broke the silence. "Do you still love me?"

I looked up at his face. "Nothing in this world can ever tear me apart from your Dakota. You're mine. That will never change." He wiped the tear from my left cheek and looked down at me. "I love you." I said. "I love you." He said back.

"You never really cherish what you have until it's gone forever. I wish I could've had the kind of relationship you have with your brother, with my sister. She loved me so much. And I just neglected her along with my parents. The truth is, is that I loved her more than anyone could imagine, but I never made any time for her. So she went and got killed. They thought she was missing, but I knew better. Amara killed her. (Dakota's girlfriend at the time) I guess you could say that Amara and I never actually broke up. She just kinda tried to kill me." He said softly. Then I dozed off, and fell into a deep trance-like state. Then I escaped into dreamland.

I was with my family. By the fireplace. It was very warm and I was asleep with my head laying on Luke's lap. I was 6. Luke smiled down at me and his dirty blonde hair sweeped my face. My parents were in their room yelling at each other and I could hear my mom sobbing. Luke had tears in his eyes. I was quite thin so it was easy for him to pick me up and carry me outside onto our row boat and row us out to the middle of the lake. U woke me up and layed down on his back next to me, staring at the stars. As a young child I was mute and refused to speak. I didn't even know what my own voice sounded like. Then out of no where I broke the silence. "Promise me that mommy and daddy won't get a divorce." He jumped and and looked at me in amazement. I curled on my side as the boat rocked side to side. He looked down and smiled lovingly as tears filled my eyes. "I can't promise you that mom and dad won't split up, but I will promise you that I will never leave your side. That is a promise that I will never break. No matter what happens." I stood up and hugged him tightly. I didn't hold back the tears. I let them flow as fast as I raging river and sobbed happily into his shoulder. "I love you brother." "I love you too sister."

I woke to find Dakota gone. It was Monday and he went to school, leaving me here to heal. A sudden emptiness consumed me. A large void with nothing in it. Loneliness. Sadness. Anger. Remembrance. Every single emotion out there filled me and at the snap of a finger it all disappeared and I was left alone, motionless on my couch. I layed there all day, not wanting to get up. Waiting for something to happen. My phone buzzed, and buzzed, and buzzed, and buzzed. With every passing minute I felt more and more determined to stay in bed on the couch. Waiting for Dakota to come back to me. I lye there two whole days without moving. I didn't say a single word, the only movement I made was blinking and breathing. Then dozed of into a dreamless sleep.