Light & Dark

Chapter 7

Vrai isn't always true

Nerea saw how Andrew walked the steps to get to her. Calvin leaned to help Steph steady herself. Steph took his arm without hesitation. When Steph was on her feet, she hugged tightly his torse and placed her face in his chest. Calvin, who was surprised, gently touched Steph's back. Nerea saw the scene and a small laugh escaped. Calvin raised his head but what he found were Nerea's eyes. They stared into each others eyes; however, Rea knew she couldn't stay for long. Drew came to her side and grabbed one of her arms. Nerea was dragged to the exit door feeling Drew's anger in her arm.

"Ouch." She said.

"What do you think you're doing?" Drew hissed as he made her move to the exit. Drew came rushing out of the room.

"Let go."

"What the heck is going threw your mind?!"

"What do you think!" Rea screamed. "If you have a suggestion of how I suppose to feel, just say it."

"This is something else." Drew said. "What did Cara told you? There was something in the letter."

"There wasn't." Drew got a piece of paper from his pocket.

"What happened between you?" Rea tried to snatch the paper but Drew made it impossible.

"You had no right!"

"Something happened. I want to know what."

"That is not of your business."

"Yeah it is, it involves you." Drew said. "Tell me."

"I'm not telling anything."

"I'm trying to help..."

"I lost her! I lost her, Drew. There is nothing you can do to change that."

"Nerea, think..."

"I can't think, I don't want to think." She turned her back to Drew. "I don't want to feel this. I want to silence everything." Nerea felt two strong arms holding her from behind.

"You weren't the only one who lost her." Drew whispered but tears began falling from her eyes.

"But I was the one who doomed her." She turned herself to Drew again.

"What did you do?" She felt how Drew's finger touched her chin. He was starring at her curiously.

"What?" Nerea questioned.

"Your eyes aren't green." He said. Footsteps were heard approaching their location. Nerea started backing away from him. "Ne,"

"I'm going to get out of here." She started walking trying to find a possible bathroom. She pushed a door hoping her wish. Rea did that more than once. Finally, she found herself a restroom. She ran into it and searched for a mirror. Her heart beat rose at her reflection. What Drew had said was true. Nerea's eyes weren't green, a dark purple moved all over the eye except the pupil. Rea stood in front of the mirror seeing herself, or what she had become.

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"I can't believe something like this happened." Steph said.

"Accidents happen all the time." David answered.

"This wasn't an accident, David, she almost killed me."

"Don't be so dramatic."

"Sometimes I wonder if you are blind, David."

"Don't get your anger to David." Calvin said. "He is just... being his usual self."