Night Changes [Completed]

Eleven

Chapter Eleven

I wasn't paying attention to the game, until and unless I realized that Summer has got up and was now kissing Austin.

I looked at Chris who looked confused, bit more than confused, for the first time he looked heartbroken.

I heard him mumble, 'what the fuck?', and he got up and went towards the woods. I followed him.

"Chris wai-" I said reaching out to him.

"Please leave me alone." he said moving forward. His voice sounded broken.

"No please, I know how you feel..."

"No you don't! How would you? You've never had a boyfriend." he said turning around to face me. Hurt written all over his face.

"But I know what it feels like to be betrayed by a loved one!" I said.

"Go away. You don't know anything" he said and walked away.

I just stood there staring at him go, he was really hurt. But what made him say I have never known what it feels like? Right. I never told him about my past.

I walked towards where he went, he was sitting beside the lake. I went and silently sat beside him.

The thoughts about my past was haunting me again. I didn't feel like living anymore. Why hadn't my brother told me? Was this I'll-talk-to-you thing a lie?

"Why are you here?" Chris asked suddenly.

"Uh, I don't know?" I said and held back a sob.

"Are you crying?"

"Not as much as you are." I said.

"I'm not crying"

"Neither am I" I said, I wasn't crying I was just on the verge of bursting into tears.

"C'mon you are lying"

"No I'm not" I turned to face him to show that I wasn't crying.

"Ok fine you aren't" he said, his face was wet with tears.

"C'mon don't cry everything will be alright" I said holding his hand.

"It won't and you know that too"

"I said everything will be alright, not everything will go back to what it was" I said looking in front again.

In these sixteen years of my life I had learned one thing and only this one thing, that things could never go back to what they were before. You could be happy but the things would never be the same.

"Maybe you're right" he said.

Silence stretched between us again. Suddenly my phone vibrated in my pocket, Mia.

"I gotta take this" I said standing up and moving away from where he sat. I put on the translator thing.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hey lily, how's Jo? Is he asleep?"

"Ya he is fine and I don't know if he is asleep." I replied.

My heart could always find a way to get wounded, even if there was a wound before.

"Why don't you know he is asleep? You should be more responsible lily" my aunt scolded.

"I'm sorry Mia"

"Gods, sorry won't help it lily! Ok fine I just wanted to tell him that my boyfriend and I will be getting married, he proposed to me today."

"What? But I haven't even met him. I don't even know his name." my anger was taking over now.

"I'll tell you all about him later. Please inform this to your brother and call me in the morning."

"But-" Mia cut the phone.

My life couldn't have been more fucked up could it? I hadn't even met him and she had decided to marry him. Forget about meeting him, I didn't even know his name.

I went back to where Chris was sitting, and sat down silently. A silent tear fell down front my cheek, soon I was crying holding back my sobs so that Chris wouldn't know. He hasn't said anything since I had come back.

I get it. My aunt doesn't like me. But that does not mean she won't even ask me before marrying this other random guy. What if the guy was even more rude to us? What if he didn't let me stay in his house. And I wasn't even kidding he could do that. My aunt would be the happiest one then.

I didn't realize I was sobbing, I pulled my legs closer to me, and putting my face between my knees I started crying even more. I couldn't stop, I have had enough of shit in my life and now I couldn't stop.

Suddenly I felt and arm wrap around my shoulder, I looked up momentarily but then went back to crying.

"Its gonna be alright" Chris said.

"No its not, my life is too fucked up to be alright" I mumbled.

"No its not"

"You don't even know what happened."

"Tell me what did the person on the phone say?"

"It was my aunt. She told me she is getting mariied to this guy I have never met. He might just kick me out of the house you know?" I said, it was better to tell someone.

"Why would he do that? Don't your parents have a say in it?" Chris said.

"I wish" I mumbled another tear escaping my eye.

"What do you mean?" He said bending really close to me. Closer than I liked.

Should I tell him? Yes you should. My mind said.

"Do you realize that I'm not comfortable talking about my parents?"

"Um I don't know?" He said.

I didn't say anything, I was now staring at the lake, silent tears were still flowing down my cheeks.

"Tell me about them." Chris said rubbing my back.

"My parents died when I was fifteen" I said.

He didn't say anything. But I didn't want him to. He just pulled me closer, and I buried my head on his chest, sobbing.

"I'm sorry" he whispered.

"Don't be, it was all my fault, I killed them. I was the reason for my family's sorrow." I said.

Finally my tears had decided to stop, and I was now dehydrated.

"No none of it was your fault"

"Yes it was" and I told him about that night.

"Stop blaming yourself for what happened. Yes, you forced them to go but the car accident wasn't your fault."

"But if I hadn't forced them then they would have been saved." I said.

And we were arguing for some time. Soon we both were laughing at the joke he had just cracked.

"You should sleep you look tired" Chris said.

"Do I?" I asked teasingly.

"Yes you do. Let's go back"

"Ok fine. You're a party pooper."

"Look whose talking!" Chris said pulling my hair.

"Ouch!" I complained hitting him on his shoulder.

We went back to our tents and as soon as I lay down, my eyes closed.

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Guys the next chapter will be of lily's past. Of the day of the accident and a few days of school in India after that. Hope you liked this chapter. Vote and comment.
Love,
Kritika.