Blood Sins

Exposed

Juno's POV:

Once I finally regain my consciousness, I hear a loud ringing in my ears.I hiss in pain as I try to open my eyes. There's a searing pain in my head and I feel like my brain is going to explode. I sit up slowly and force my eyes to open. I hold my head tightly in my hands and attempt to piece everything together. Then suddenly everything from the night before comes rushing back to me. ~Andy!!!~ I quickly grab my phone and open my messages. Nothing. I try to call him but I'm sent to voicemail. I begin to panic and my breath starts to get sparse. I try sending him a message as well.

Me: Hey??? Please tell me you're okay!!

~What if he's dead?! This is all my fault!! Why didn't I go back for him!~ I begin to cry, convinced I've lost the only person who truly matters in my life. *Ding* My heart drops as I frantically check to see who messaged me-

Andy: I'm fine, don't worry

Me: Omg thank God!! I thought you were dead! Wtf happened last night??

Several minutes pass by but he doesn't answer. ~That's weird, he always answers right away.~ I decide to blow it off for now. I slowly stand and go to look at myself in the mirror, my face is stained with mascara and there's dried blood that had since dripped down from the gash on the corner of my forehead. I clean my face and put a band-aid on my wound. Sadly after all of that I don't have time to take a shower; I sprint out of my house almost missing the school bus. Once I'm at school I look everywhere for Andy but he's nowhere to be found. ~Where is he?? He never misses school.~ I continue through to the end of a very lonely and stressful school day before deciding that I'm going to stop by his house and check on him. I knock on his front door but there's no answer. I wait a moment before knocking again, this time his mom answers. "Oh, hello Juno."

"Hi Ms. Biersack, is Andy home? He wasn't at school today and I was worried about him"

"Yeah, he said he wasn't feeling good today and that he wanted to stay home. He's in his room if you'd like to go say hi."

I nod and thank her before heading down the hall to his room. I knock twice on his door before hearing him say that I'm okay to enter. I walk in to see him lying on his bed with his arms over his face. All of the curtains are shut and I can barely see where I'm going. "Hey are you okay? You weren't at school today." He just lays there silently. I walk over and sit on the edge of the bed. "Why don't you open the blinds? It's so dark in here." "No." he replies quickly "My head is killing me and the light hurts my eyes."

"Oh...okay. Andy...what happened last night?" I ask unsure if it's the right time to bring it up. He sighs and sits up slowly. His face looks even more pale than it normally is and he has an unusually cold look on his face.

"I'm not really sure to be honest, after I told you to run last night I felt a sharp pain run through my body. I screamed out and then everything went black. That's the last thing I remember before waking up in the same alleyway by myself a few hours later. I walked home and that was it." I notice that his tone sounds cold as well.

"Wow, that's so weird. I'm just really glad you're okay, I was so worried." my voice cracks as I attempt to hold back tears. He glances up at me and his cold gaze softens for a moment. He reaches forward and runs his thumb over the wound on my forehead. I shutter in pain as he does so.

"Are you alright?" He mutters, seemingly only half aware that he's speaking.

"I guess so, I'm pretty sure I have a minor concussion but it's cool." I say shrugging. He pulls his hand away from my face and stares back down at the floor. I reach out to put my hand on his shoulder, it rests there for a moment and I see his beautiful blue eyes twist in pain for just a second before he pulls away suddenly, his cold facade returning to his face.