Back To Eden

4

TW! Fighting

I found myself glaring into my reflection that bounced off the playful waves of the small pond me and IV love to go to. I don't know if I should be angry at her or myself.

I feel like I sit by myself in my own bubble surrounded by people and their staring at me. They judge me. I can tell by the looks they send my way. I feel like I ponder my thoughts too often and I think about all of them at the same time to the point my head plays ping pong and it spins around and around in a trance that I will never fall out of. When I try to walk dizzy, I fall. I take it personally, I am weak. She has taken over my mind and my thoughts.

I splash at my reflection and get up to walk the path to Sleep. The path embedded with rocks as if he himself has laid a road between master and servant. I reach the end to find the floor of the forest having a circle of leaves to focus our connection. I sit on my knees and bow my head, drowsiness over taking my brain as my sight falls dark.

"Vessel."

The dark room. The circle of sand tracing our individual selves away from each other. And there he is. The hooded figure that his emotions fill the room.

"You have failed me."

I nod silently.

"Reilynn is not a threat. You need to understand that she is here to save Eden. Your relationship is what keeps destroying it. The more strain you put upon the string between you," he pauses. "You know about you two."

My blood begins to boil. "We are not a bond. She and I are not we there is her and I am me."

His hood shakes in disagreement. "Come soon Vessel. We have future conversation near."

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"You fucking wish." I giggled. II slammed his cards down on the ground.

"Cheater!" He bellowed.

"How did she cheat? She just fucking beat us." IV rolled his eyes. I picked up the cards and began to shuffle when a black hand took the cards and threw them to the ground.

I looked up. "You, me, talk now." Vessel said taking my wrist to his tent. He sat on turned around and faced me. "I forgive you."

"I didn't apologize."

"I accept it anyways." He said.

"I doesn't work that way." Managing eye contact as I step back.

"You mean it doesn't work your way? Its still-"

"Not my way? No, that's just how it works Ves. Your way you mean, it doesn't go your fucking way and you just go ballistic on everyone." I say cutting him off. "You're not fucking alone. We are in this together."

He paces back and forth, putting his hands behind his head. "Enough with the we! We are two people!" He yelled.

I went to step out put shoved to the ground instead. He slapped me leaving a flood of heat to follow.

Now I'm pissed.

I stand back up to swing at his face. Making him stumble back. I fall back again to hit my head hard against the floor. He kicks me and I cave in. Crying and spitting blood.

"Wake up."