The Girl in the Emerald Coat and the Invisible Boy

Chapter 7

This is the hardest chapter I have ever written... I am really sorry for the long wait, I have just found it so hard to write this, as it is crucial to the story. Also I just want to wish everyone in Australia or New Zealand a great Anzac day, and as it is 100 years of Anzac, I just want to mention that @Starlark @biddyoxo and I have all been up from 4am, so again I apologise for this badly written, late chapter. And I hope you can all forgive me, as this is possibly the worst chapter I have ever written... sorry again,

Here is a sad Australian war song that is very beautiful, and it breaks my heart slightly, as an apology.

Claudia

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I will be bringing to light a little more on the strange love triangle that Anya had somehow found herself in. As Edel had been her neighbour all her life she was used to seeing him every day. As friends they grew up happily, along with their age another thing that grew was their friend group. Their friend group included Elijah Bauer, Dominik Eisenburg, and Ariella Grau, and of course the two of them. They all went to school together, and spent hours on end in each other's company. Maybe that is why such an event took place.

People are very complicated things, they see things that are not there, and dream up things that can never happen. Such is the way with people, and so this happened with many of the people involved in this story.

Anya was happiest when she was with Elijah, and he was with her; their marriage was a happy one, for a time. Often the best people are the ones we lose first.

They strolled down the street arm in arm, with eyes only for one another. It was as if no one else was there in the street with them, just them. Anya would lean her head against Eli's shoulder, and he would lean down and kiss her forehead softly, their fingers always linked together, clutching each other, as if when they let go, they would wake up, and it would all be a dream.

After a while it was dangerous for them both, for times had changed. For Germany was now under Hitler's control, and the Jewish were under threat, so now they didn't walk out, not arm in arm. Actually, let me re-write that, Elijah couldn't walk out at all.

Inside Elijah, would sit, in the dark hidden, wondering what the world outside looked like; and think 'will I ever see the outside world again.' It wasn't a question, it was just a fact, would he. Or would he not, that was all there was to it. He would sit in the darkness, sometimes he forgot where he was staying, he just knew that at the end of the day Anya would be back eventually, and then for a time. For just an hour or two, it would all be safe, and almost sound.

Anya was in difficult situation as well, caught between two worlds, pretending her husband had left her, and being with him in the darkness. She often found herself close to breaking down in the middle of town, especially when people would say to her 'I am sorry for your loss...' Although the crestfallen look that always crashed open her, seemed to be enough to convince them she was still mourning him leaving. Not mourning him being alone in the dark, and she could always hear her thoughts whispering, 'Will he ever be able to leave.' And then she would find the other part of her, her heart telling her mind to 'shut up, and leave her be.'

I don't like to think what you all will consider of one of the most foolish people in this story after I tell you this, I have often found myself contemplating if I should say anything at all, should I? Although I know I must I am unsure of how to tell you this, I will just spit it all out at once. In one simple sentence.