Vampires and Demons

Can I Trust You?

I get up and start getting ready for school. I live in a little apartment near the school. I look in the mirror in the bathroom and see the handprint still there on my heart. I smile and try not to cry when I think about the fact that Sebastien is still alive. I mean he was my best friend and it absolutely killed me. Just seeing him again smiling was so good and I have proof that it wasn't a dream.

"Will you ever come back?" I ask out loud looking at his handprint. I jump in the shower and let my mind wander. I think back to the stuff I said to Thomas yesterday after I miraculously came back to life. I can't decide whether I actually meant what I said or if I was just saying it to make Thomas feel better because he had been upset. It's always hard to tell with me because I feel sincere when I say words but then afterwards I don't feel anything but this time it was different. I'm taken out of my thoughts by a knock on my door. I step out of the shower and quickly put on clothes. No one is supposed to know where I live, and it's still too early for school time. I walk up to the door as the person knocks one more time and I look through the peep hole and see the one person that I never thought I'd see again.

"Who is it?" I ask. I need to make sure it's actually him before I let him walk through my door. I hear a sigh.

"Kathryn, you know who it is." He says. I'm still not convinced. His voice doesn't sound any different but that doesn't mean it isn't him.

"Prove it and I'll let you through." I tell him. He sighs again and I see him run a hand through his hair and that's when I see a tattoo on his arm. I knew it couldn't be right. "That was a nice trick." I say. I back away from the door and quickly grab my back pack and head for the window. My apartment is only two stories off the ground so it's not a bad jump. I open the window just as the door breaks down and I jump and run as fast as I can all the way to the school. I was still very early but it doesn't matter. That monster is probably tearing up my apartment right now. I walk up to the front door of the school and try to open it but it's locked so I just use my powers and walk through it. I head toward the bathroom and hide there until school actually starts.

I hear students start pouring into the school and lots of talking so I walk out of the bathroom and toward my locker. I see Thomas standing there and he sees me and I smile and wave at him but he just keeps a frown on his face. I get to my locker and stop in front of him.

"What's wrong?" I ask. He just looks at me for a second and then shakes his head.

"It's nothing." He replies. He moves out of the way of my locker. "Can I ask you a question?" He asks.

"Sure." I say. I start getting my books out of my locker. He sighs.

"Who is Sebastien?" He asks. I freeze and put my books down and turn around to him. He's giving me a weird look that I can't read very well.

"Where did you hear that name?" I ask him. He looks me in the eyes.

"You screamed it right before you stabbed that knife into yourself." He says. I feel my eyes widen. "You were crying really hard too. Like something bad had happened." He continues. I look at the ground and nod trying to think of something to say.

"That's something personal. I'm sorry." I say still staring at the ground. I feel him start to get angry so I look up and his eyes are red as he stares at me.

"You said some other pretty personal things yesterday before you ran away. What makes this different?" He asks. I just stare at him in shock. This is different because it's a part of my past that I don't want to bring anyone into. I want to say that but I know that he's probably going to say that he's not like anyone else and he could probably handle whatever it was that happened in my horrible past.

"Please calm down. No one needs to see that side of you here." I tell him. I see him calm down and his eyes go back to normal color. I sigh and run my hand through my hair. "Can I trust you?" I ask him and he just looks at me.

"What?" He asks. I look right into his eyes.

"Can I trust you? If I tell you, can I know that you'll keep it to yourself? You really can't say anything." I tell him. He just nods but doesn't say anything. "Okay. I guess I could tell you. Let's go outside where we can talk without too many prying ears." I tell him. We walk outside silently and once we get there I sit down on one of the benches and he sits next to me. "Okay, so this is actually a really big deal and because of the recent problem with all of these people coming after me it's better that no one knows but I'm going to tell you because I feel like I can trust you. Sebastien is an angel. He saved me when I was younger and actually living in Hell. My father mistreated me and when Sebastien showed up he was so caring and actually asked how I was feeling or what I wanted to do instead of just forcing me to go and do things. It made me so happy when he did that and it really showed me that there was a way to be happy in that messed up world but all good things must come to an end and they did all too soon." I stop and look at Thomas and he's just staring at me. "They killed him. Clipped his beautiful white wings and strung him up. All because his brother was holding a grudge against him. It destroyed me because he was my best friend and I got depressed and I ended up dying as well but somehow I ended up here living on Earth. I never have figured out how they worked that out but I'm not going to ask because I'm happy where I am." I finish. Thomas just nods a couple of times.

"So you were reliving everything. Even the day that you ended up killing yourself." He says. I gasp and look at him. "Well it was pretty obvious how you died because you did it again. My question now is how are you even still alive? Because you were pretty damn dead when I came back and checked on you." He says. I scratch the back of my head. Should I tell him that too or have I already told him too much? I place my hand over where the hand print is and close my eyes thinking hard. "What's there?" He asks nodding his head toward my hand. I glare at him.

"Proof that what I saw wasn't just a dream." I tell him.

"What is that supposed to mean? You were having really bad dreams up until you died." He says.

"It wasn't dreams. None of them were. They were memories. And yes they were bad because when I end up in a coma like that I go to the place where I've locked up all of my worst memories and because apparently I have nothing better to do I have to relive them. I've never relived the one where Sebastien died though it was an odd one to pop up, especially at that point." I say. He's still just staring at me. He really wants that answer. I sigh and look at the ground. I keep my hand on my chest and whisper. "He's alive." I know I didn't have to say it any louder than that because of super hearing.

"What? But I thought you said he died. That's not possible." He replies.

"No. I know he is. This right here is proof that he is. I wouldn't be here right now if he weren't acutally alive. He is an angel after all there's no way that lowly demons could completely kill him." I say. He just looks at me in disbelief. I smile at him. "You don't have to believe me but I know what I saw. Now keep your mouth shut or I'll erase it from your memory." I tell him and his eyes widen for a second before he goes back to a frown and nods.

"You can trust me. I won't tell a soul." He says. We both stand up and walk to class.