Eunomia

Chapter 44 "Isn't it lovely?"

~Sebastian~

That morning I looked at the mirror and I didn't recognize me. I have had another nightmare, another dream that Jupiter starred that went from bright and comforting to dark and twisted. I hated to dream with people, I preferred to remembered them how I wanted, with the moments we spent together. Dreams were horrible, they were product of your mind what didn't made them trustworthy. If I have learnt something during all this years breaking into people's minds is that your worst enemy is your mind. Memories are harmless, they are the way they happened, with no margin of change but dreams... Dreams will always be dark, they are created by a dark place we call mind. They will always hide dark wishes, dark thoughts and dark realities. I guess that's why they are so scary, because above all they hide the truth.

When I managed to have a look of less undead I left the house without hurry. Lizbeth have declined my chauffeur services permanently, she had made up with that friend of hers and now Olive had taken over my place as her driver. I knew she preferred me to be the one who drove her to school so I planned to pick her up in the mornings soon...

The bell rang indicating it was time for the break. The corridors filled with people and between all those humans I distinguished her, that sweet scene will be a smell I will always recognize, until there's nothing more to recognize... Lizbeth was standing in front of a French window that allowed me to see her from inside the building. The cold of November was starting to show in California so she was wearing a green cardigan a little rolled up that showed the tight black T-shirt she was wearing under it and some black denim leggings. I decided to approach her from behind but before that I made a stop somewhere else...

Lizbeth got startled when my hands covered her eyes but it didn't last long. She sighed as she calmed down.

"What are you doing, Sebastian?" She crossed her arms with my hands still covering her eyes.

I got my mouth closer to her ear without letting her seeing anything.

"How can you be so sure I'm Sebastian?" I whispered.

Lizbeth grabbed my hands with hers and took them off her eyes. She didn't let go of my hands as he turned to face me, I smiled when that happened.

"I'm sure, believe me." She held our gazes as a slightly smile wanted to make it way to her lips. Lizbeth looked down, realizing she was holding my hands. She kept her gaze fixed on these until she released them and took a step back. "What do you want?" She cleared her throat.

"We don't hang out anymore." I let out.

I felt like it's been ages since the last time we were alone. It's been something more than a week since the washing car nightmare and I wanted to spend more time with her. The wait for tasting her was starting to seem eternal to me. I wanted to speed things up a bit.

"We don't hug out, Sebastian." She corrected me. "You include yourself in my plans or force me to get into your car to go to another state." She said it as if it was horrible to have me around so I took the liberty of reminding her what was really horrible.

"We both know you have more fun with me being five hours inside a car than being five minutes in a party with your pink haired friend and her boyfriend." I crossed my arms as she had crossed them before.

"She's my friend." She affirmed however I think she wanted to convince herself.

"Okay." I accepted though I didn't believe it. "Fake in front of me too if that makes you happy..." I murmured knowing she might heard it.

We stayed in silence during some seconds. I didn't realize I had also stepped back until I talked again.

"Would you like to don't hang out with me in a far future?" I took out from my pocket two tickets that I had bought before. Using a dumb voice while I remembered what she said about every time we had meet. "For helping the school and all those stuffs..." I showed her the tickets for that famous game that would be played next month in another city.