SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 68

CHAPTER 68

I wake up in my bed back on the keepers’ world. Sitting up I look around, everything appears as it had when I left. The only thing different is me. Getting some clothes, I go to take a long hot bath. Tears falling as I replay the images in my head of Dominick dying. It is too much to deal with. I don’t know where I am supposed to go from here. Am I supposed to pick up and go on with life-like nothing happened? I can’t picture my life without seeing Dominick’s face every day hearing his voice. I cried until I had no tears left getting out of the tub I dried off wrapped the towel around me. Picking up my hairbrush, I examine myself for the first time in the mirror. My eyes are swollen and red. My face no longer hurts, and my nose appears as it always had. I’m sure Summer and Harris had Sage come here as soon as Case had gotten me back home.

Taking the hairbrush with me, I go back to my bedroom and sit down on my bed. Pulling some of my hair across my shoulder, I start brushing it. I have been brushing the same spot for over fifteen minutes when a knock sounded on my door. “Come on in” I say and watch as Summer step in and sit down on the bed beside me.

“How are you doing sweetie?”

“About as well as can be expected I guess.”

“Would you like to talk about it?”

“I feel like I’m dying Summer my heart feels as if it’s been ripped from my body. I feel hollow.”

“I know how you feel. I remember having that same feeling almost nineteen years ago when I had to leave you. I wish I could tell you it will get easier, but I can’t. I will tell you that you will learn to accept it over time, and the pain will lessen.”

“I left him there summer! He came there to get me to save me. Now I’m here, and he’s gone. While I was in the comma, I realized my real feelings for Dominick. I realized I loved him. I was going to wait and tell him after we had gotten back but when he told Case to take me and leave I yelled out and told him, I loved him.” Summer had taken the brush out of my hands and had started brushing my hair.

“At least you had the opportunity to tell him; a lot of people never have that chance.”

“You know you told me before I left going to the Cape that maybe I would be able to work my feelings out before I returned home. It seems you, we're right.”

“Sweetie there’s something I need to tell you. God knows I rather not tell you at all, but you deserve to know.”

“What is it?”

“Years ago your father did a spell a binding spell. He was only doing what he thought was best.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Sweetie years ago your father did a binding spell. He bound you and Case together. That’s the reason you guys fell for each other so easy. That’s the reason you couldn’t understand how you could love Case and still have feelings for Dominick. Let me add the binding spell never would have worked if you hadn’t been attracted to Case first.”

“You’ve known about this the whole time and your just now telling me” I demand my anger building.

“Yes I knew. The reason I didn’t say anything in the beginning was because Dominick wasn’t a keeper, and I knew there was no way you two could be together. I knew you loved him even if you wouldn’t admit it. That’s why I helped Dominick when he petitioned the Angel council the last time. I knew if he became a keeper you two could be together without any ramifications. I was waiting on Harris to get back so he could break the spell binding you and Case together.”

“Did Case know about this?”

“NO of course not his feelings for you have been as real as your feelings for him.”

“When did Harris do this?”

“It’s been a few years, but as soon as I told him how you felt about Dominick; he broke the spell. He feels horrible Lana; he thought he was doing the right thing at the time.”

“You know I thought all the lies ended last year. I thought I could trust you.” I said jumping off the bed.

“Lana honey I’m sorry please try to understand Harris made a mistake; he didn’t do it to hurt you.”

“It’s his fault Dominick’s dead! If he hadn’t bound me and Case together I would have been with Dominick from the start!” My voice continued to grow in volume. All the pain I was feeling turning to anger.

“Lana you couldn’t have been with Dominick before he became a keeper. If you had been, and the Angel’s found out you would have been stripped of your powers and left alone.”

“That should have been my choice not yours. GET OUT SUMMER NOW! I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU.” I screamed

Summer tried to say something, but I run to my bathroom and lock the door. I sit there until I hear her leave. Going back to my bedroom I slip on a pair of jeans and tee-shirt and go to find Case.

Knocking on his bedroom door, he tells me to come in. I walk in shutting the door behind me. Case is sitting on the side of his bed, so I walk over and sit down beside him. He stands up as soon as I sit down and walks over looking out his window.

“Did they tell you?” I asked.

Case stood there gazing out his window for the longest before he spoke. “Yeah Harris told me yesterday.”

“I’m sorry they did this to you Case. I’m sorry about everything.”

Case still looking out the window asked, “how long Lana?”

“How long what?”

Case looked at me for the first time since I walked in his bedroom. “How long we’re you seeing Dominick behind my back?”

Feeling guilty I knew Case deserved the truth, but he also needed to know it wasn’t the way he thought it was. “Case, Dominick and I were not seeing each other.”

“Come on Lana stop playing me for the fool.”

“Alright I’ll tell you everything you deserve that. I saw Dominick for the first time the night; I first met you at the club when you told me I was a keeper. He picked me up after I had fought the demon. When I woke up here I had assumed I had imaged him because of all the poison in my body. I saw him again when Lisa was showing me the weapons in the gym for the first time, and I had blinked myself by accident to Ireland. He helped me kill the vampires there. I didn’t see him again until the necromancers kidnapped me from the club the night we were there.” I grew quite not wanting to tell him the rest but knowing I owed it to him. “I guess that’s when I started having feelings for him.”

“Did you sleep with him?”

“Case what does that matter now. Do we really have to go through this?”

“You did, didn’t you?” Case said yelling anger written all over his face.

“YES I DID! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR, DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER KNOWING!”
“DAM YOU LANA WE HAVE BEEN DATING FOR TEN MONTHS AND NEVER SLEPT TOGETHER BUT IT WAS SO EASY FOR YOU TO JUMP IN BED WITH DOMINICK!"

“CASE CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND HARRIS DID THIS TO US! THE FEELINGS WE HAD FOR EACH OTHER WEREN’T REAL!”

“HARRIS ONLY PUT THE BINDING SPELL ON US THREE YEARS AGO! I’VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE! EVERYTHING I FELT WAS REAL AND STILL IS! I GUESS I KNOW NOW YOU NEVER FELT ANYTHING FOR ME. YOU CAN GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE LANA! DAM YOU!”

I sit there on Case’s bed watching as he walks out of his room slamming the door behind him. I have no tears left in me to cry. All I feel is anger. Anger for what Harris has done. Anger at myself for the pain I have caused Case. If I had stopped and thought for just a minute I would have remembered how Case had always told me he had loved me even when he had been a child and too young to know what love was. Feeling trapped and not wanting to see anyone. I do the one thing I’ve always done the best I leave.