Burnt Memories

There's A First Time For Everything

Aivilo's POV:

How could he like her!? She's not even that pretty or smart or nice!! 

My feelings are all over the place, anger mixed with sadness and hopelessness. I feel drained emotionally and physically, as I walk through the streets late at night. I know this is dangerous, but I have no way home and the night is growing longer and darker. I feel light rain starting up, I go to the nearest bar, I deserve it, after everything that I've been through I want to be anywhere, as long as it's somewhere far away from Sugna. I enter 'The Nightlock Bar', I have never been there before, but I guess if I have learnt anything, there's a first time for everything. I don't even feel self-conscious about my smudged makeup, I feel nothing at the moment. I take the first barstool that I see. The bar was almost completely empty except for a few regulars and myself. "I'd like the strongest drink you have." I ordered to the bartender, He shrugged as he reached into his alcohol cabinet and pulled out his strongest drink as he muttered, "Rough Night?" I nodded in agreement, as he returned a sympathetic look to me.

It was my 5th glass, I wanted more. I felt dazed, I suddenly noticed a tapping on my shoulder. It was a guy, tall with tanned skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. "Do you mind if I sit here?" he asked gesturing towards the barstool next to me. He seemed familiar, but I just dismissed it. "Sure," I said bluntly, yet cautiously, I wasn't in the mood for conversation, I just wanted to forget everything. Surely enough he started conversation with me. His name was Evets Niwri. He seemed nice, but a little invasive and knowing, in a creepy way. He brought up conversation, especially conversation that brought everything back to me. I felt my eyes becoming wet again, the reality was too real for me. He seemed apologetic after seeing the hurt look in my eyes. We continued talking for hours, and it even  started to feel like I had known him my entire life. Our conversations began to make me feel happy and really cheer me up, which was exactly what I needed.

It was 3am, the bar was closing. "Do you wanna come home with me?" Evets asked. At this point I was so tired to even catch a taxi home, so i nodded in agreement, I mean we were only friends, what was the worst that could happen? Evets brought me to his home. It was small, dark and familiar too. I was beginning to have second thoughts, I shouldn't have gone home with a guy that I literally just met in a bar, but something was drawing me towards his house.

I followed him inside, the storm was getting bigger. He left me in his upstairs bedroom. I wanted to leave, something about this felt wrong, but his house was extremely familiar, as if I had been here before. While he was gone I noticed something sticking out of his closet. I peered closer into his closet and noticed what was inside. INSIDE WAS A BUNCH OF MY POSSESSIONS!!! Things I thought I'd lost ages ago, I couldn't stop feeling as if Evets Niwri knew me before tonight at the bar, but even if he did know me, how did he know me? Was he an old friend of mine? A family friend? I  honestly didn't know, I was so drunk, everything was a blur. The only thing that I knew for sure was that I needed to leave this house. I looked around his house for any possible escape routes. But the house felt like a blur, it felt distant and hidden away from the world. I didn't do any further investigation, I just left. Too scared, too tired  and too confused to walk home, so I just rented out a room in the nearest motel.

Sleep was the best part of that day, all my sadness, confusion and jealousy of the previous night left me. Dreams were where I found myself and made sense of everything. When I first woke up, I vaguely remembered the night before, in fact it felt so vague that maybe it had all been a dream. But this felt too real. I yawned as I glanced up at the motel's clock, if this all was real then why did Evets have some of my belongings? This was too creepy, I was gonna go to the bartender and ask him about Evets, Evets was a regular at 'The Nightlock Bar' after all.

Later when "The Nightlock Bar" opened I confronted the bartender, about Evets. 

"Who?" The bartender questioned when I told him about Evets and the previous night.

"The guy I was talking to last night." I reminded the Bartender.

"His name isn't Evets," The bartender slowly informed me.

"Are you sure?" I asked obviously confused.

" I'm sorry miss, I cannot tell you his real name, but I will tell you something. He is here for you. He knows you and you know him from ages ago. You share the same past and hopefully future. Be careful, choose your path wisely. Goodbye." and with that the bartender left into the back room of the bar.

Those words stuck to my brain, the bartender was actually pretty wise, especially for someone who was probably drunk most of the time. The bartender also got me thinking about how me and 'Evets' shared the same past? After consideration, I  called  Triea. I know we hadn't spoken in ages, but she must know something about who 'Evets' could be, I mean she shared the same past as me too. I quickly dialled her number. After 3 rings someone finally picked up. 

"Hello?" It was Ash's voice.

"Why do you have Triea's phone, Ash?" I frustratedly asked.

"Ummmmm." Ash hesitated.

I had enough of this, I was beginning to lose my temper.

"Just put Triea on the phone. NOW!" I screamed.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, then the sound of the phone beeping and hanging up. After recalling multiple times, I had finally given up. 

Did they know something that I didn't? It felt like everyone knew the truth, except for myself.

This Chapter was kinda a change in the way that it was written as it's in Aivilo's POV instead of Sugna's. We are gonna try and make our chapters longer like this one and we are planning on adding quite a lot of plot twists so comment some of your ideas of what you think will happen. I also added the song 'Pacify Her' by Melanie Martinez because the song sort of  matches Aivilo's feelings towards Sugna. Hope everyone is having a good day.

- Aztrieza xx