Issue #06. Helps From A Nice Friend

[Ch. 4]

"Jamie? You okay?" Luke asked, worried because he didn't know what was wrong about himself.

"Luke..." I couldn't dare look at his face. Both him and my dear boyfriend did their best to protect me from the previous attacks, but what did I do? I was the weakest here. I never deserved to have such a brother like Luke and a boyfriend like Kronos. Anyway... they'll get tired of me when they know who I really am.

 I stood up, making Luke surprised because of my sudden reaction.

"Luke, I don't want you to meet me for few weeks," I said.

"Why?" He asked, spreading his arms. "We're just in a raging section of the war. You can't just-"

"I don't want you to get hurt," I said, turning away from him to hide my tears. I slowly ran from the entrance of the library, and back to my room until I felt a sudden figure closing right behind my back. Luke had ran all the way chasing me. I never knew that he was so fast, so I looked at him with a question mark on my face.

 But his appearance was not what I thought. Strings of golden divine energy was covering his forearms, and to his chest. Some formed like a armor to his neck. His legs, of course, was covered with the energy.

 He was Luke, however. He was not Kronos. But he could still control the divine energy. What was he? Who is he? And what is he doing with it?

"Why did you run away from me?" Luke asked, the forms of divine energy dancing as he moved closer to me. Believe me, he didn't look scary, but he looked like the Time itself. There were no tears in his eyes anymore, but I could see that the divine energy that was wrapping him stopped him from crying. If he was being himself, he could have cried a bucket. But that was not important. Not now.

 He wiped a tear from my cheek as I felt it running down. His face was emotionless, but I could feel his calm smile behind the mask. It was not long before I buried my face in his chest and cried until my tears couldn't come out more. His divine energy was hot enough to burn me, but gratefully, it never burnt me alive. I think this is the thing that I should thank Kronos for.

"Luke, you look awesome," I whispered in his ear as he kept me calm down for a moment.

"I know," he murmured. "And you're my one and the only sister, Jamie. I might not have enough time left to teach you all the things I know from living in this earth for 23 years, but I can tell you that you're not stupid. You were never stupid."

 He looked at me. "So don't say that you're stupid, Jamie. As long as you're related to me, you can make better decisions than I do."

"Luke..."

"It's a true thing," he said.

 He hugged me once more before letting me go back to my room. I felt his eyes on my back, before turning to the Mess Hall. I wanted to follow Luke back to the hall, but since I felt a little stressed by knowing that I have only five years to spend with my boyfriend and my own brother, I thought that getting a good rest in my purple room would be better.

 Surely Kronos wouldn't have wanted to share the great truth with me, because I'm really worried about his health now. What should I do when someone I love is about to die few years later? Most people would say that I gotta spend some more time with him, and be next to him whenever you get the chance. But we can't do it right now. We're in a war. And I'm not in a normal world... I live in a world full of immortals and monsters.

 My eyes closed sleepily as I tried to form a plan to get a chance to stick to Kronos.