Unbrekable

15. A Little Pain Never Hurt Us

An alarm blades through the speakers signaling for us to wake up. The pressure in my head still present, I sit up with a loud grunt. Lily is still in her sitting position, staring at the ceiling. She barely seems to hear me struggling to get off the floor.

"It's time to resume testing. Please make your way back to the tub." Mya speaks through the microphone. Lily grabs my arm. She helps me with standing, and guides us over to the tubs.

"During this trial, we will be exploring memories that have left an everlasting affect on your wellbeing. Remember, it is not real. Try not to let the memory consume you. If you do, there may be a possibility you could die." My mother added. She said it so casually, I stop walking for a second.

"Hey, we'll be fine. We just have to remember that these were in the past. Ok? We got this." Lily protests. Her face tells me she's nervous, and she's saying this more to herself than me. So I nod once and we both get into the tub.

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At first my head kind of floats. But when my eyes flutter open. I'm in the room Aaron had given to me. Aaron and I had been together for 7 months, and we hadn't really done much other than make out and cuddle. Aaron had given Lily and I jobs at his shooting range so we could pay rent.

We basically lived off of the money he gave us. But my relationship with Aaron was progressing, and pretty fast. We already said we loved each other. But we never went too far on the intimacy trail.

For the past few months I'd been trying to signal to Aaron I was ready to take the big step. Or as most people would call it, the sex step. But he'd been so clueless to my hints that tonight I would flat out tell him.

My nerves were going haywire, but I knew I needed to put on a brave face for his sake. So when he'd come home, he could finally be happy.

"Hey, I'm home!" He yelled as he walked through the front door. My heart pounded as I'd slipped into the bathroom to double check my outfit. It was a skimpy piece of lingerie.

It was a black and red two piece, with multiple straps. It pushed my breasts far up my chest, it made it slightly hard to breathe. But that wasn't what I payed attention to.

Aaron had walked into my room. Shuffling to make himself more comfortable cause we'd made a small pact that every once in a while we'd cuddle until someone felt better. I wiped off my sweaty palms on my exposed thighs and grabbed the handle.

But then something happens. Suddenly I head Lily's voice. Talking to Aaron. My hand releases the door handle and I press my ear against the hard wood. The conversation is muddled but I can hear every word.

"When are you gonna tell her? She needs to know that you're fucking her over." Lily says. I hear her jumping on my bed as I go for the knob again. I crack the door open the tiniest bit.

And suddenly everything is crystal clear. Not like it's in murky water. I see everything in clear color.

Lily has her hand on his chest, and Aaron is playing with the thin strap barely clinging to her shoulder. His lips on her hairline.

"We can't. We just need to hide this for a little longer, ok? I promise you, once I tell her, we can be together." He mumbles as she looks up at him.

He looks down at her and their lips are suddenly on each other. She swings her leg over his waist and straddles him. He leans up and holds her close to him. They make out for a few minutes before she hops off of him.

She signals for him to follow and he eagerly jumps out of my bed and they go to his bedroom.

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I don't feel much, but jolts rush through my body. And when my eyes shoot open I see Lily looking down at me with defibrillator pads in her hands. She has tears in her eyes and my mother and Mya are deliberating not too far across the room.

I'm in a green room now. It's completely covered in medical equipment and a large hospital bed. My body can barely move. It feels like I've been filled with a bunch of bricks. But I manage to sit up with a loud grunt. Mya is the first to look over. And she swiftly moves Lily out of the way and checks my vitals.

"Her fever has broken, she made it through the first trial. Bethany, she might actually be the one." She declares as Bethany walks over and grabs hold of my face. 

"D, you were dead fo-for like, I don't know, 10 minutes. They were gonna give up on you. But I grabbed these things and put them on you. I remember seeing it on that one hospital show. And I-" I cut her off.

"You were sleeping with him even when we started our relationship. That was the memory that had an everlasting affect on me. You SLEPT with him the night I was going to sleep with him for the first time! You whore!" I shout. She looks taken aback. But I wasn't going to let her out of this.

I get out of the bed very slowly, to get my bearings. But I still move over to her. And I stare her dead in the eye. She isn't crying anymore, but she looks guilty. And she hangs her head before nodding.

"Maybe 6 months into your relationship. But he came to me. I didn't fully know you guys were even together. He told me you guys weren't even that serious. Look I'm sorry, but you're not the only one who fell for him ok?" She runs a hand through her damp hair as she says this.

I scoff and look up at the ceiling. I can't believe I blocked that out. I cannot believe that I blocked out such a pivotal moment that could've changed everything. I glare back her. But she's leaning against the bed with a hand on her face.

"Don't look so disappointed in yourself Lily. He played you, but I guess that's what you get for disrespecting what we had. You and I, being so close. But that trust we had, is gone,"  The temperature in the room is rising and my body is heating up but despite myself sweating, I feel cool.

"That trust you so desperately wanted back, will NEVER come. I can't trust you. Not after remembering what you did." I scold as she wipes at her brow.

"Is it supposed to be this hot in here?" Mya questions as Bethany fans herself. Her eyes widen as she immediately darts her eyes over to me. I feel fine, my body is just reacting to the heat.

"What?" I finally ask.

"Do you feel hot? You're sweating but you haven't said anything about it."

"So what? I mean, yeah I'm sweating but I feel fine." I respond. She grabs a thermometer and puts it into my mouth. A few seconds later and it starts beeping.

"My God. 102.5. You should be feeling the affects of this high fever. But you feel... fine?" She asks as she glances between the test stick and me.

I take a deep breath and nod.

"I. Feel. Fine."