Eunomia

Chapter 66 "December"

~Bryony~

I have always thought that December was a cold month, I used to think that it was just that, cold, but now I know is much more than that. December is a cold month but not only for the weather but for the sadness, the memories and the nostalgia of knowing something is lost... Forever. I never liked December, I thought it was a selfish month, while some enjoys the holidays with their lovely ones and families, others have the worst time of the year because their lovely ones or families are missing someone. I used to be selfish too, I enjoyed the holidays with my family but then I stopped to think how bad other people might be going through those holidays. Is ironic how now I see it from the other perspective, where my family is missing someone as I also miss myself and my boyfriend.

Jason and Bryony... You died sooner that you should.

December 11th, 2:32 a.m.

I had arrived at what used to be my mother's work place, the laboratory. I have grew up sneaking into it with my mother because I wanted to spend time with her, when I was little she showed me what she did and I found everything super interesting but as I grew I just waited for her in a secret room the place had, it was our secret spot, my mother and I spent hours reading in there and it was just perfect. I probably didn't know how to appreciate what I had until I lost it but sometimes I liked to sneak into the laboratory to read in our secret spot, it made me feel closer to her somehow.

I've been around half an hour reading when Jason came in, he had that big smile in his face that always appeared when I was around. Now I knew that the reason why he always find me was because he was a vampire but I never cared about that... I loved him, with or without fangs.

I threw myself to his arms when he entered the secret room, I tangled my hands in his hair and gave him a kiss that he deepened.

"I love you." He told me and I smiled.

"Have you come to read with me?" I joked without being able to take that big smile from my face. "By the way, I also love you." I joined our foreheads and suppressed the urge to kiss him again by licking my lip that still tasted like him, I also liked nice gestures like this.

"What are we reading tonight?" He asked and I smiled as an excited kid.

I shook my head to get rid of that horrible memory and try to focus on what I had in front of me, Olive. She had been having stupid fights  with Quentin since the whole high school got that message, the asshole had chosen to lie and deny everything, he said that the image looked blurry and that wasn't him when it wasn't like that. Olive, as dumb as her boyfriend, decided to believe him. The only reason why I stood this was because I enjoyed every single fight of them, I have been waiting patiently for them to finally break up.

I ended up telling everything to Olive, at least what a human should know, of course that, back then, I didn't realized that for her I had lost my virginity with the mysterious bad boy and now something happened that I didn't want to even share a look with him. I hadn't tell her that part, it wasn't like I could tell her that I had to fake that I'm afraid of vampires for protecting him from a ghost but either way, Olive had even more reason to hate Sebastian and I was grateful for that, she helped me to avoid him so everything fine.

"Excuse me, what?" I laughed without grace, I have always known that Olive was selfish but this was another level.

"I'm sorry, Bryony, but I also want to spend time with my boyfriend." Olive didn't even look at me, she was too focused on packing her things and choosing an outfit for tonight's party.