The Other Side Of Me [Sequel to Faen's Child]

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

The days have passed, and I found myself beginning to spend more time with Rayin, less and yet lesser time with the two men that were now considered my part-time Guardians. I hadn’t understood the severity of having them with me 24/7 until I watched them still suddenly one day in the middle of dinner, then look at each other as if they could read each other’s mind.

At that moment, Zane only shook his head in exasperation while Brother Noel sighed, as if feeling the same exasperation.

“She didn’t have her meals again. Ashe just doesn’t know when to quit being a Faen’s Child, and return to being a normal person, does she?” Zane commented, his eyes back to the bowl of food, but seemingly to have suddenly lost his appetite.

“It is still a fact that we are her Guardians, though I did expect for Kenton to make sure that she gets her good. Feeling gastrics while we’re eating is not something I look forward to.” Brother Noel had replied, and that had been the moment that I realized. By placing Brother Zane and Noel watching over me, I was pulling them away from their Faen, and inevitably putting my sister in a whole load of danger.

From that day on, I took onto myself to take as little of their time as possible, and began to lock myself up in my room, under the pretext that I was ‘studying’ to seclude myself from my unofficial brothers. They started out to be confused, then angry, and then helpless at my sudden ignorance. Brother Zane let his emotions go quickly afterwards, no longer even bothering to look at me at the dinner table, seemingly convinced that I had finally shown my true colors and had turned my back on him. Brother Noel took a little longer to recognise that I wasn’t attempting to make up for our apparent sudden lack of communication. So, helpless Brother Noel began to absent himself away from me, and tended to not stick around for meals anymore to avoid having to face me and a cold Zane at the table.

It happened that Rayin began appearing to me more often from then onwards, keeping my company. We got closer than ever before, and though she never talked more about Rayen controlling her, I could see that she was being more open to sharing her views with me. Up till now, I had no idea why it was possible for Rayin to have such differing views as mine despite the fact that she was the same being as me, sharing my same mind. Often, I told myself that it didn’t matter what she was, except my company and someone who knew me well. We shared our opinions on a great many things, and I began to see the parallel between her and Raisy –except that she was more verbal and less stutter around hot guys.

She made a perfect woman for me, but I acknowledged that it was because she was a figment of illusion from my mind that crafted her to be as such.

We got on perfectly, and yet, for some apparent reason, I found myself getting tired more and more easily. It got so bad to the extent that I began to sleep every 4 hours, only waking up to eat, then talk to Rayin, and then fall asleep again, with her lying softly beneath  the covers beside me.

I thought things were perfect. I had no stress, no studies. I had my perfect companion, and I was keeping everyone safe. I was no longer uptight about what reputation I would make in school and the Faen community as a whole. I was not bogged by my relationship problems. I was not fretting over Ashe putting herself at risk for me. I was not concerned about my elemental studies, and I stopped everything altogether. It was as if my life was perfect, finally put to a standstill.

Except Anais. She left a box full of junk outside my bedroom –I had no idea how she could have gotten through Brother Zane and Noel. With it was a letter addressed sweetly for Rayen, which I was barred from reading instantly when my ‘brothers’ saw it. As far as I knew, Rayen had not made any appearances, and even if he did, he did not get through Brother Zane and Noel, so we took it as a good sign. Things almost became perfect for everyone.