Light & Dark

Chapter 9

Dead silent

The restaurant was empty. The amount of people was very scarce. Drew walked in observing the place. He called a bartender, who gently told him to wait. Drew found his way to a seat in the bar. The man offered Drew a drink, but he gently declined it. Drew look sideways having the feeling of something or someone watching him. Maybe he was being paranoid but just maybe his intuitions were right. He had a lot in mind. Things had started breaking, shattering, and disturbing the peace. The situations that had happened weren't coincidences for Drew. There was something in there that wasn't right. It was a domino effect. Andrew kept trying to make things fit in his head. He was trying to make a way to the occurrence. A chess game being played by them and the unknown. As the game continued so as the situation that they were going to be exposed. Every move made was a lose end. Drew's question was what was going to provoke the checkmate.

"I didn't order anything." Drew said. The barman left the glass in front of him.

"It's not nice to reject an old friend." Drew's body tensed as the hearing of his voice. His back straighten and jaw tightened. His strength applied in his fists was so much they turned red. Drew's head tilted to the voice's direction. Blue met gray. Their eyes met recognizing themselves but their pasts. Drew stood up turning his back to him. "Going so fast?"

"There is only crap in this place."

"Come on, Drew." Aaron said. "You aren't leaving me drinking alone."

"Better drowning yourself alone with your ego-centrism."

"Why do you control yourself?" Said Aaron. "We both know what we want." Drew footsteps were silent and gentle.

"It is a shame that this time truth came from your snout." Aaron's eyes were piercings Drew's but the action was mutual. "I always wondered why Rea trusted you so much."

"Your jealousy is always present."

"I would think it is the other way around. I recall you have some strong not BFF feelings for her."

"I had them." Drew said. "She knew that way before. We both knowledge that. Did you overcome that she trusted me more than you."

"There are a lot of things I won from you. She was one." The eagerness of maintaining his self together was tearing him apart.

"Like you said was." Aaron's face fell making Drew's with satisfaction.

"How is she?"

"Why do you care?"

"I care about a lot of things. I hear a lot of things. I get a lot of things."

"Stay away from her."

"And I obviously will listen to you." Aaron said. "But this time I will. I will show you how she will come to me."

"There is no way in hell she will."

"Are you sure?" Aaron said. "Do you remember all of us, three together? We were a family."

"A dysfunctional family, Aaron. There is no way I am turning back to what I was neither is she."

"That would be denying your true selves. I, of anyone else know who you truly are." Aaron said leaving half beverage behind. "You haven't change, Drew. The dark you think you deleted from your system isn't dead, but asleep. It is just waiting to be awaken."

"Dark doesn't disappear. It just shows and gets rid of what he wishes gone. Like you said Aaron, between us everyone is capable of anything. Better back off her because I don't want to attend to another funeral than Cara's." Drew said. Aaron backed away taking his jacket with him. "You shouldn't be surprised to hear about her funeral. Like you said, you are always aware of everything."