Beating Heart (Delena Fantasy/Fanfiction)

Chapter 14: You were dead today

Demi's POV:

"Well..." My mother spoke. I tried to sense every movement they made. My mother frowned and looked at my dad, who stared at the ground while frowning as well.

"I, uhm." My dad laughed of the nerves. My dad pointed his eyes to my mother. They didn't understand anything at all. They now faced a living proof that not all homosexual persons are raised like a demon. I stopped looking at them, realizing the fact that it saddened me to see them hesitating more than I thought. Selena's body was pointed at me. Her knees touched mine, and she held my hands. But she didn't look at me. She stared at the ground, focusing on what she heard my parents do. I couldn't bare the silence anymore.

"This doesn't change anything about me. You thought uncle Brian would change too, but he didn't. He only married a person from the same gender. It doesn't make any difference." That's all I had to say. My mother sat up again and looked at me.

"Honey, we love you. And we will always do. We just need time to process this. Do you understand?" She said. I was surprised by how good she kept everything together. No tears were shed after all. I nodded.

Selena's POV:

21th January

I punched against the arms of Timothy while tried to hit me as well. I was finally able to face the muscled guy. Tomorrow was my first match, to get on the next class. It was basically in the same team, but with better training exercises. I punched him right in the face, which made him stoked up. He ran to me and kicked against my leg, right on the bruises from previous training. A small cry of pain flew out of my lungs. I walked backward as he walked up to me. My back reached the edge of the ring. I dived away from a few punches and quickly kicked in his stomach to which he bent over. I quickly straightened my back and punched him right in his face.

"Okay, stop." He said through his mouthpiece while holding a hand up. I panted and flung off my gloves. Demi ran to me and handed me a bottle of water.

"How did it go?" I asked.

"I've got great hopes for you, honey." I loved it when she called me that. I actually felt sweet.

"Okay, I'll take a shower, do you want to stay at my place?"

"Yeah." She shortly answered while biting her lip and smiling. I gave a little kiss on her lips and quickly ran to the shower.

Everything was going so well. Demi's parents finally chose to accept us. They still found it difficult. They didn't want to be involved in our plans.

I quickly took off my clothes and hopped into the shower. I sniffed and held my head under the running water. I opened my eyes again and was shocked to see that the lights had turned off. I stepped away from the shower and awkwardly waved my arm in the air. I certainly thought the room had motion sensors, but the lights didn't turn back on. I quickly wrapped a towel around my body before leaving the shower hutch. I tried to look for a light switch. I couldn't see a thing. My hand moved along the cold tiles. It was no use, there was no light switch at all. I walked into the dressing rooms and felt for my clothes. I managed to put on my underwear and my pants, but my shirt was nowhere to be seen.

All of the sudden, a severe ache came up in my head. I stumbled while I tried to keep my balance. The lights turned back on, but I still didn't see a thing. Everything was blurry. Two different views overlapped each other while I tried to keep standing up. I wanted to look at my wrists because I knew my shadows tried to tell me something. The whole process was heavier than ever. Before my wrists reached my sight, everything turned dark again and I heard my head smash against the benches and my body fall on the cold hard ground.