The Divine Being

Chapter Two

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*** Two Years Later ***

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"Please!"

"You are being loud."

"Leo, help me beg him!" I glance at Leo. Don't even. He chuckles.

"Sorry, Ava, my hands are tied." She keeps pulling at my arm.

"Ezra please, it technically won't even be lying, you are my best friend, aren't you? Just pretend it's a little bit more than that-a-and I promise I won't even-"

"No." She cries out, sinking to the ground by my feet, clinging to my leg as she pretends to sob. Leo is laughing.

'Just do it, it's just one day.'

Why should I? If she can't be honest with them then they aren't really her friends.

'True, but you should know more than anyone how it feels needing to fit in and be like everyone else.' I sigh, struggling to drink from my cup as she shakes me, crying, or at least pretending to. How did we get here? Only a few hundred years ago, I was feared by the mass, no one dared even look my way. Leo scoffs. 'People have changed.'

Why can't you do it?

"...I'll wash your clothes for a week-no two weeks..." she continues to ramble. What is she even saying, we do her laundry because she is incompetent at that, why would she offer that as a reward?

'Izzy said she would visit tonight so I can't take her.' I turn to him. Izzy.

Shouldn't I stay then?

'And listen to me have sex?' I sigh.

"Please...!"

"Alright." She suddenly stops, looking up at me.

"Huh?" She sniffles, her hair in disarray over her face. I sigh, pulling my leg from her hold.

"Alright, I'll pretend for the day. But if you ever ask this of me again, I'll take back our spare key."

"This is the last time, I promise! Thank you!" She gets up, wrapping her arms around me. It doesn't shock me much anymore when she is too close. When she initially started coming over, I could barely sit next to her without my mouth watering. She still reminds me of my hunger but it is more manageable now. Grabbing the top of her head, I push her away.

"When are we leaving?"

"Preferably in an hour, they said everyone would meet up at twelve to head to the beach and it'll take like two hours to drive there." I finish my drink.

"I will not make conversation with anyone."

"That's fine, you're terrible at it anyway." I glare at her. "Pack swimming trunks. And a towel." She calls over her shoulder as she leaves the kitchen. "Hurry up and come pick me." She yells as she puts on her shoes, then she leaves the house.

"That was nice of you-" shut up. He laughs as I return to the table to finish my food. Considering I would be around new people, scents that I am unused to, I have seconds and thirds, filling my stomach as much as possible. Then I vault up to my room to change, taking an overdose of sleeping pills to numb myself. They barely work and don't take long to wear off.

I don't have swimming trunks.

'Take mine.' He is picturing the one that is too big for him. I vault to his room and pull open the drawer, taking it and vaulting back into my room to put it in my bag with a towel. Then I vault back downstairs, grabbing the keys as I leave the house. Leo reminds me not to vault, so I walk across the yard to the car, get in and pull out of the driveway. I pick Ava up like twenty minutes after. She puts her swimsuit with mine and a small bag of things with towels, touching my thigh as she rambles away about how grateful she is.