The Daywalker's Nightmare- Monday Updates

Chapter Four

Eliza's P.O.V

    "Kailey, can we please talk?" I knocked on her bedroom door.

    I very begrudgingly decided to come talk and apologize to her the day of the flight. After Thomas, Christian, Nonna, and Lorenzo all scolded me the past three days I figured I was probably in the wrong and needed to stop the arguing. Admittedly she is going through a very hard time and after everything that happened I really shouldn't have expected her just to bounce back into old Kailey like nothing had happened. If it was me I know I would have shut down entirely, so who was I to judge her? Thinking more on it I began to feel worse about the last three weeks of arguing and scolding. I should have just sucked up my pride and hate of change so I could have been there for her.

    "What do you want to talk about?" The green door between us remained closed so her voice was muffled but understandable.

    "I want to ap-," I let out a soft growl. I fucking hate apologizing. "Apologize and talk to you about your makeover Frannie and Lorenzo said it's really nice."

    I tried not to grin as Kailey's door opened a crack so one green eye could peek out narrowed at me. Waiting with baited breath I tried to figure out if she was gonna open the door or use this opportunity to slam it in my face. I certainly wouldn't blame her if she took the perfect opportunity to slam the door. Especially with the increasingly overwhelming guilt coursing through my body I wouldn't even be mad nor would I retaliate.

    "You're very lucky that I adore you," Kailey uttered as she fully opened the door and let me in.

    At first, I was in shock seeing the contrasting dark black to vibrant red, but I had to admit it suited her. Her new hairstyle made the green in her eyes pop and her pale skin look radiant. Her bottom lip seemed pouty due to her new lip piercing which is to be expected after all, piercings swell. I almost didn't notice the eyebrow piercing that was hidden beneath her bangs . I whistled underneath my breathe as I looked over all the tattoos, piercings, and hair changes.

    "You certainly didn't hesitate to kill the image of who you were," I mumbled feeling bad when I watched a single tear fall from her green eyes.

    "I had too. She couldn't live anymore, Eliza. To survive I had to kill her," More tears fell from Kailey's eyes as she made eye contact with me.

    "I-I don't understand, Kailey," I wanted to understand so badly my chest hurt with the pain of it.

    "I wish for you to never understand, Eliza. I love you far too much to sentence you to this fate," She pushed my hair back with perfectly manicured black french tip nails and a bitter smile to go with the gesture.

    "I want to understand for you. I don't want us to fight any more K,"

    "Oh, Liza..." Kailey looked like she was choking on air almost. Her freckled nose scrunched up in an unseen agony.

    I wanted to take that look away from her, the pain, the hurt, all of it. My sister was the most precious person and I strived every single day to keep her safe only to have seemingly failed in one tragically traumatic moment. I wish I could have taken that bullet for her every minute. She never should feel the agony she was. I was the Night student not her. She was my adorable, geeky, sunshine adopted sister whose smile made my eyes hurt on a daily with the brightness. Her green eyes were meant to be bright with joy, laughter and the sun, not dark and dull with depression tainted by fear with the dark circles marring her skin beneath her eyes. Had she even slept the weeks she has been home?

    "Please tell me how I can protect you! How can I shield you from your own mind?" I grabbed her pale hands and held them desperately.

    "You can't, Eliza. You can't save me from this," She rested her forehead against mine and gripped my tanned hands back as if she was desperate to be saved from her own mind as well.