Hero's Dead Brother

30. Truth

I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to. I... but Caleb deserved the truth.

Tears. Lots of tears started to roll down.

Caleb jumped "no! Don't say anything! You... I shouldn't have asked, I'm so sorry, Ami. Stop crying, please!"

"Caleb... I... I have so much I need to tell you. I need to tell you! I need to tell someone..."

She sat on the bed beside me and didn't say anything.

I told her everything.

About my mother, Mike, my father. About how I was used by Mike since I was a kid, how my father abandoned me when he found out about my spoilt body. About how my mother starved and beat me because she was jealous of me being raped by Mike. About how I was killed and disappeared. About how I woke up in the book I had read before dying. Everything.

I didn't care if I sounded crazy. I need to let it all out. I need someone to know. Not just someone but Caleb.

She sat there, silent. Didn't say a thing. I was ready for her to leave, angry because I tricked her, made her like someone like me. I even expected her to despise and hate me. But I told her anyways.

When I finished talking, we sat there, in silence for a long time. She was shocked, I understood.

Then she suddenly hugged me. Her hands were tightly wrapped around me and I could hear her crying.

"Don't... don't cry, Caleb! I'm... l'm so..."

"Don't! ... don't apologize! Just stay like this for a while ok?"

"... ok"

We ended up sleeping next to each other like that.

While she was sleeping, I woke up and saw Noah there.

This is who we really are'

He pointed at me and disappeared.

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