Imaginary friends

10. The explanation

I just stood there staring at the ground, remembering all the things I was taught to forget.

Kilorn, the forest, creatures and even my old inquisitive self was thrown away; Buried deep down with in me. Now it's all surfacing like a tsunami crashing over a city.

Kilorn stood by me. He looked at me like a man who just found a broken toy from his childhood. Sad, glad and broken.

"So it's all real." I say my eyes wide and glued to the floor.

"Yes, everything that ever happened to you was real."  He replied a sad smile working it's way through his features.

"Why, why did I forget. What happened." I flick my head to face him sudden realisation bubbling to the surface. I forget everything and went on with my life as if nothing happened.

He walked over to my desk chair sitting on it backwards. His long legs sprawled out on my carpet as he began his explanation.

"You mother sent you to a man who could train your mind. They got you to think I was a figment of you imagination, nothing more then a game you played."

I remembered the doctor my mum took me to. The man who talked to me for hours on end. About things I didn't care about, until now.

"To everyone else I and the world we lived in was all in you're head." He continued his eyes glowing slightly, Shifting from lime to a bright emerald.

"So they couldn't see you?" I asked my voice quiet As I concentrated on his features.

"Not in this form. No." He replied

"What do you mean not in this form?"

"Jessica. You only saw me like this as a young girl, but before that when you were an infant I was still protecting you. I was always nearby in one form or another."

"Why. Why protect me, from what."

"All I know is that I have been assigned to guard you from the creatures of the dark. For some reason you attract them." He said his feline eyes never living mine.

"Why?" I ask as my mind ran through answers.

"That's what I want to find out." He said as he lifts himself off the desk chair and began to walk around the room. Picking things up from my shelves and fiddling with them before moving on to the next object.

I watch him intrigued but slightly annoyed at this act, even more so at the fact that he knew just as little as I did.

"So what are you? Like some guardian angel?" I ask my voice picking up some of the annoyance that I felt.

He chuckled and put down the photo frame he was holding.

"Yeah, you could say that." He said with that smile that I once thought I would never forget.

He continued to walk around finding great interest in the photos hanging on the wall.

"So let me get this straight."

"Mmhmm" he hummed.

"So I'm the only one who can see you, and you're  like.... A guardian angel with super powers."

"No not exactly." He said as he picked at the corner of a photo of Noah and I.

"I am a guardian. only you can see me when I want you to, that goes for everyone. I don't have super powers I just have abilities." He answered as I pulled him away from the photo frames.

"Ok then." I reply
"What now, you can't live with me because it would be pretty weird for my best friend to see me to talking to a thing she can't even see. Also I don't know how all of this protection stuff works. So, can you explain some more." I babbled out.

He simply just put a hot finger against my lips while shushing me.

"All in good timing. Just go on with you're life and I will always be somewhere nearby." He cut in with a cheeky grin.

"Because thats not creepy at all." I mutter.

He opened the musty window, I didn't even know could open, and with a chuckle he vanished. leaving me once again in the dark. The only light was from the street done bellow coming through my musty window.