A Day Passed, One Hundred Years Passed

Chapter 5: Conffesions

I wake up and see Paul still holding me, I gently get up and go into the bathroom. I look back into the bedroom and see Paul peacefully asleep. I close the door and lock it, I jump into the shower and let the hot water hit my face and body. Once I’m finished I step out and do the best to squeeze the water from my hair. I slip on some jeans and a v neck. I look at my reflection and turn to the side. I’ve never been over weight and I’ve actually always been underweight. I feel my phone vibrate and I see it’s from Jenna. I pick up, “Hello?”

“Natalie? It’s me, can we meet? I need to tell you something important!”

I can hear the worry in her voice, “Jenna are you okay?”

“Yeah, I just…need to tell you something.”

“Where should we meet?”

Jenna pauses and then finally answers, “Let’s meet at the park.”

I nod even though I’m talking on the phone, “When? I just got,”

Jenna interrupts me and I hear a cry in the background, “Can you meet now please?”

I nod and hang up. I quickly comb through my damp hair and open the door I run out of the house and hop onto my bike, I ride to the park and race to the swings, it’s where Jenna and I always hang out. I look around and see Jenna on her usual swing. I run up to her and gasp, “Are…you okay?”

Jenna won’t look up at me, “Come to my place with me.”

I look at her, “Sure.”

I follow Jenna through the thick woods and see her nice house, it’s modern and pretty. I walk in and she lets me sit down in her living room. It’s beautiful, everything is so clean. I look at her and she’s staring out the window, “Jenna what’s going on?”

Jenna says, “I’ve kept a secret from you…and it’s time I told you the truth.”

“Okay, are you okay?”

Jenna doesn’t answer my question, “Those months I didn’t speak to you, it wasn’t exactly family matters.”

“What?”

Jenna clenches her hand into a fist, “My parents didn’t want me to hang around you. They forbade me from talking to you.”

“Why?”

I’m shocked I never knew her parents hated me that much. Jenna sighs, “Because I’m different from you. My parents didn’t want me to hang around a human.”

I look at her waiting for her to start laughing, “You’re joking right?”

Jenna turns around and walks toward me, “Remember how I said my grandparents passed away this year?”

I nod not understanding.

“It wasn’t my grandparents. It was my parents. My parents had an incurable heart disease that was killing them. They passed away in the beginning of the year but not from the heart failure. It was from loss of blood. My parents knew the people I now call parents. They knew the truth as well. When my parents knew it was their time they offered themselves to my new family, in exchange for my protection.”