I'm not broken (RoyalChaos)

Chapter 22 - Embarrassment and emergency

Chilled's perspective

(Short author's note: I liked the idea of doing some time travelling mixed with Christmas feels and some more drama, so have fun! In case you get confused, the time travels always go from the moment the first part is written, so if it says 12 hours earlier for example it means 12 hours before this following part. If it says 3 days ealier, it means 3 days before this following part. Hope that explains it.)

My whole body was shaking. My heart was pounding so much I thought it would explode in my chest. I swallowed hard and glanced down my body. My light gray shirt was covered in blood, and so were my jeans. There was so much blood. It looked like someone died in my arms... My vision went blurry as tears welled up in my eyes and just a moment later they were rolling down my cheeks again. This should never had happened. It was all my fault. It was my fault that Ze was... A knock on the door interrupted my thoughts and I glanced up.

"Who's there?", I asked, my voice shaking.

"It's me", Krism's voice raised from outside the door, "Can I come in?"

I sniffed and wiped the tears off my face before I opened the door for the girl. She glanced at my bloody shirt, then bit down on her lip.

"I'm really sorry for what happened, Anthony", she murmured, "But please just keep in mind that this is not your fault, okay?"

"No", I protested, tears shooting into my eyes again, "It's all my fault, that's the problem. All of it. All of it was my fault".

(2 days earlier)

"Zeee", I whined, "Your mother is gonna be here in what, an hour? We haven't decorated anything and we still have to go food shopping. When exactly did you plan on doing all of that?"

I glanced at the shorter guy who was digging around in a box full of Christmas decoration, not replying to my questions at all. I groaned out loud and walked up to him. There was a santa hat on top of colorful lights and sparkly garlands. I picked it up and put it on Ze's head. He frowned and looked up.

"Hey!", he complained and tried to pull it off, but I grabbed his hands before he could do so.

"No, don't take it off!", I giggled, "It's looks adorable on you".

"Shut up, I'm not adorable", Ze cried out, "And besides that, I don't know when I'm gonna do all of that, it's hopeless".

I sighed and held onto his face with both hands. "No, listen to me", I murmured and glanced down to his lips, "We're gonna go food shopping right now, and in the meantime we can ask Krism to decorate a bit. After that we're gonna pick your mom up, bring her here and then we can relax a bit. Alright?"

"Alright", he smiled and pecked my lips, "Let's get going then".

He got up and pulled me up with him. I chuckled, took the santa hat off his head and followed him into the kitchen, where Krism was leaning against the wall, her phone in her hands and a wide grin on her face.

"Krism?", I called her name and she glanced up.

"Yeah?", she asked, not able to get the grin off her face.

"We're going food shopping, do you mind decorating a bit until we get back?", I asked and she nodded as a reply, "What are you grinning about anyway?"

"Oh, it's nothing", she hurried to say, but as I raised an eyebrow she rolled her eyes and gave in, "Alright, Minx asked me if I'd want to come over to her place for Christmas. She'll be alone cause her parents don't have time to come over. I don't know though... Can I invite her here? I mean, Smarty and Galm aren't coming and Chilled, your mom doesn't have time either. It's just gonna be you, Ze, Ze's mom, Kate, Minx and I".