Assassin's Secret

chapter 32

Astralea's POV

"Holy shit." Mira basically screamed walking into my room, "your back is red."

Oh yeah, the torture, the table, the knifes that cut my skin. Almost forgot about that.

"It's nothing."

"Oh really, and what part Enzo is playing in your nothing?"

"What are you talking about?"

"B please, he has an excessive amount of cuts on his hand. Part of me wants to know exactly what happened, but another is telling me that knowing will scar me for life."

"Wise decision sis. Are you ready?"

"I am."

"What is it?" I can see it on her face, something is bothering her.

"It's Tia. She hasn't responded to me in a few days. I know that she might not have a phone on her for a hot minute, but still. Something feels off, especially with everything going on."

"I will pull a few strings and check on her."

"Thank you. How- how are you doing? Actually?"

"Actually? Not good. I lost him, he was my support, my teacher. If not him, I wouldn't be here. Now he isn't here. When I first left I fought a lot of people. I ended up jumping into the ocean at one point to avoid explosion. And there, underwater, I was considering not going back up.

That silence, that peace, I wanted to stay in it, not leave. I started running out of air, but it didn't bother me. I was okay with it. Okay with drowning. But then I saw him, in front of me, a hallucination from the lack of oxygen, and he told me to swim. To fight back. And I did. For him."

I can see tears on Mira's eyes. I was always the big strong sister to her, that no one can hurt. She doesn't know the other part of me, the one that I hide from everyone.

How I sometimes turn on shower and just sit there, crying because of how tired I am. How I sometimes panic and stress out, how I have anxiety. How I sit on the floor unable to control my tears. How I Stab myself with a knife sometimes to feel something.

Nex knew, he was there for me. He knew about my ADHD, about my anxiety. Knew it all and helped me.

"I know it's not the same, it will never be the same, but know that I love you and got you. No matter what."

"I know, and I love you too Mira. Let's go get our home back."

.........

"How in hell did you even find this?" Mira asked me as we approached the hatch.

"I was bored one day."

"Bored? If you didn't point at it I wouldn't have noticed it, while standing next to it."

"I mean that's kind of the point."

The hatch is in the middle of the woods, basically invisible and is covered by leaves. It took me forever to remember where it's at.