Death's Curse

22: Sunsets & Honey

Song: DUCKWORTH.- Kendrick Lamar

Azrael's POV

  I hate my life. Why did my mother have to grill Storm like that? Everyone heard, not to mention I couldn't even greet my two younger brothers. Speaking of brothers, I need to set a reminder to fuck up Kilo for the shit he said.

  I lied earlier when I said we had a long day tomorrow. In reality, it would just be a lot of conversations and thinking on my part. Lilith would probably just sit around all day unless we needed to go out, it depends on how the discussion will go.

  "Do we actually have another excruciatingly long day tomorrow? Today has lasted about five years," She whined.

  Don't blame me for whatever came out of my mouth for the next few minutes. Dinner made me a little agitated.

  "Would you stop your bitching and moaning? There shouldn't be anything particularly interesting going on for the next week, so be quiet already," I hissed, shutting the door to the room as we walked in.

  She shot me a dirty look, "Well sorry I'm not complacent with my recent kidnapping and harassment."

  "You wouldn't even be in this situation if you weren't so stupid!" I yelled. Sometimes I think it's Lilith's life goal to piss people off, "Besides, this is your life now. You're not going home as far as I'm concerned."

  Guess I forgot to tell her that. She looked heartbroken. I take pride in my ability to make people cry, but this didn't feel right.

  "What."

  "You heard me."

  "You're lying."

  "I don't think so."

  Lilith fell back into the bed and buried her face into her hands. That reaction should have brought me joy! But it didn't. If anything, I might've actually felt bad for once in my life.

  I sighed, "Let me explain it further so that you don't get your tears all over the bed," I paused, and she barely lifted her head. A single tear rolled down her cheek. This girl was doing something to me, I've never actually felt empathy for someone like I did in that moment. It was a problem, "While we stayed away from each other for a week, after I revived you, did you notice anything different? Maybe you felt sick, or faint, or the world looked completely different?"

  "...Yeah? So what, I was adjusting to the whole life link thing."

  I sat back in my chair, "That's not what it was. You see, one of the drawbacks of our little connection is that we can't stay more than 100 meters away from each other for too long. As you have already experienced, if we do, our bodies start to deteriorate. Therefore, you can't go home."

  She looked angry, "So? That was after a week! I can at least go home every now and then."

  This was getting harder to say.

  "Our connection was raw, there was almost nothing there. Now, if we attempted the same thing, within the first hour we would start to feel like trash. It gets worse as time goes on. And of course, this is a drawback that is only hereditary in my link."