The Expired

Chapter 20

"You know how ironic this is?" Kira asked as she was being chained into a chair down in a dungeon-like room. "My so-called 'enemies' bring me to a lovely place in a lovely room telling me I can leave whenever I want. But my so-called 'friends' keep me locked up."

"Kira," Aaron said with pleading eyes. "You know that it's too big of a chance to take. They already manipulated you to take off your necklace, how long until they get you to kill someone?"

"Whoa, I think a necklace and killing someone are two very different things."

"It wasn't very far apart for you. You would have never taken off the necklace."

"Sorry if I got too tired of feeling emotions," Kira spat. "Do you know how much being this 'righteous demon' made me not belong anywhere? To humans I was an abomination because I was a demon. To demons I was an abomination because I acted too much like a human."

"I never treated you as a demon when my dad introduced us," Aaron countered.

"Boo-hoo, one person," Kira said, rolling her eyes. "Two, if you count Colby, but he's just strange in general. You know as much as I do, I would never be accepted in this world. So why not be accepted in the one I actually belong in?"

Aaron sat down inside the cell, leaning against the bars.

"No matter how long you stay in here and talk to me about the good ol' times, I won't magically change my mind," Kira said with a smirk.

"What do you think Lana would say about this situation?"

In the blink of an eye, Kira's smirk when into a glare. "Don't bring her up when it's convenient to you."

"I really wonder, though. She has always idolized you."

"Shut up! Shut up!" Kira growled, pulling against the chains. "You better be careful or you'll be the one I'll kill!"

"I don't believe that," Aaron said, shaking his head. "You might not feel any emotions, but you still remember them, right? You know that if you do kill me, or anyone else, you could never go back to being more human ever again because you wouldn't be able to live with that."

Kira continued to glare. "You don't know what I think. You don't know what I feel. You assume that I would want to put that damn necklace around my neck again. But here's the thing: I like having no emotions."

"You say that thinking of all the bad!" Aaron said. "Think about all the fun we've had! All the times you were happy and excited! Not the times when you were sad."

"I do think about that," Kira said calmly. "And I think about how the times I was happy is miniscule to the times I was sad and afraid. Did you really think that while I lived here I just forgot about my past? I had nightmares every night. I was constantly afraid I would wake up and it would all be a dream. If I would have known that having no emotions felt this amazing, I would have taken that damn thing off years ago."

Aaron sighed and stood up, walking out of the cell and closing Kira in.

"What? You don't want to talk to me anymore?" Kira smirked. "I thought we were having a grand ol' time."

Aaron walked back up the stairs wordlessly.

"How did it go?" Colby asked as soon as Aaron walked off the last step.

"Terrible," Aaron said, closing the door and locking it. "It's hard to get through to someone with no emotion."

"We need to get that necklace back," Jacob said.