The Heirs

Andrew and Amara: Third Member of the Break Up

Chapter 30:

(Andrew POV) -Albuquerque-

- one month later -

I hadn't seen or heard from Amara in a month. We were able to avoid each other the rest of the holidays and I went back to school. Once I was back at school I threw myself into my training and classes. It was all I focused on. I barely came up for air except to write back the family that wrote me. I stopped requesting leaves from school to visit home and I stopped thinking about everything.

 Now I was coming back but, this time it was for Ethan and his Ice Skating World Championships. I had requested this leave at the beginning of the year and I had to go, Ethan was going to need the family. I wasn't be surprised when I saw her there. No, I had chosen to completely block this out from my mind and that was what I was going to do. Until she looked over at me. All the anger had bubbled to the surface and I couldn't be around her.

I knew that this was supposed to be a happy weekend for Ethan and I knew that as his best friend I needed to be there for him but, I couldn't. I was going to ruin it. I knew that I would. I went out into their training grounds and just began going into my Knight Training trying to have something occupy my mind. I picked up a sword and began swinging harder and harder on until it felt like my arms might fall off. I heard a shuffle behind me and turned and saw Ethan and Damira looking over at me. Ethan turned to Damira who just nodded her head and walked away as he came over. 

"Alright, so what is going on? Last time we talked you and Amara were doing great and now you destroyed three training dummies and number four isn't looking so hot." I would have laughed had I been in a better mood. "Seriously what is going on?" I let out a short breath, "Amara and I were done. For good." "What happened?" He asked sitting down on the bench. I sat beside him, "It started about three months ago..." as I told Ethan everything I felt myself growing more... everything. More mad at the situation, more sad that we broke up, more everything.

"Andrew, I'm sorry" Ethan said. I rubbed my hands along the back of my neck, "I didn't know what I could do at that point. She didn't want to be with me as I am and she wouldn't listen to me about her assistant, and with Ella. It was beyond the point where I could fix it." He nodded his head, "The thing is, it doesn't sound like Amara." I knew what he meant, I had the same thought too but there was too much that proved me wrong. 

"E, I have been trying to figure it out myself," I started but he shook his head, "No, we have all known Amara since we were little. We know her and this just doesn't sound like her." I pulled the letter out of my pocket, "Here, you can read it yourself, talk to Ella, talk to her assistant if you want." "No, Andrew I believe you." He held his hands up in the air. I sighed, "Look, we are all here for you this weekend. I get to see my family for a few days before I head back to school and I just want to stop thinking about this." "Alright, well Mira is probably waiting for me and the rest of the family is having breakfast on the balcony. You coming?" I looked around, "I'll be there in a minute." He smiled and walked off.

(Amara POV)

I began pacing back and forth in the garden as I thought about yesterday over and over again in my head. I was so mad and hurt and he just stood there like it didn't effect him at all, like I didn't effect him at all. I didn't know what I could have done to prevent this. The events just kept running through my mind. His letters stopped and then when he saw me he talked about what happened with Ella, but I still didn't know what that meant. Ella had stopped writing me back too. Was she doing it in solidarity with Andrew? I wished that someone would just explain everything to me, but they wouldn't talk to me long enough to answer any questions I had.

I heard footsteps coming closer and turned to see Mira, "Oh, sorry. I was just headed to breakfast." I smiled and nodded my head as she went to walk past me, but she stopped and turned around, "So I know that this is not my place whatsoever, but is everything alright with you and Andrew?" My mouth fell open a little bit, "You know what, never mind. I knew I shouldn't have brought it up." She went to walk away when I asked, "What would you do, if everyone was mad at you, but no one would tell you why?" She gave me a soft smile, "Well I guess I would try to look back to what happened leading up to it from their point of view. Try to figure out when they started being mad, what I could have done, how that affected them, that usually will lead you to the why." "That is all I have been doing for a month now and I can't think of anything besides Andrew being upset with my assistant" I said sitting down.