The Words

Chapter 17

The precinct is slightly different than I remember it. It feels smaller and dirtier. Perhaps more clutter? According to the whole world, I've never actually been in this precinct but rather in a coma. I, on the other hand, find this place to be all too familiar.

 I open the front door and turn right, walking down a hallway that houses Kyle's office, but when I get to it, I'm confused. A random cop is lounging with his feet up on his desk, coffee in hand. I snort at his cliche figure, but frown when I realize that it's not Kyle. 

"You need something, hun?" the cop asks me as he looks up from his papers.

I shake my head and reply in a  high voice, "No sir, just went the wrong way."

I smile and skip away. The last thing I want is to look like I don't belong or don't know my way around. Then everyone would be right about that coma. I'm still confused as to why Kyle's office is not on the right, though. I could've sworn it was when him and Danner brought me here for questioning. 

I decide to go across the building, to the left. I walk slowly as I pass each office, listening for Kyle. All of a sudden I hear a familiar voice, and I stop in my tracks and smile, leaning my ear towards the wall. 

"Are you sure this is the right thing to do?"

"I'm positive. She can never know. He's too valuable, and she's only just an obstacle. He never should have met her in the first place. It was totally random."

"Our girl is helping though, right?"

"She has him wrapped around his finger. He doesn't remember anything while we were in the hotel, or even about Alaska."

I gasp. 

I was right. 

There was no stupid coma. I've been right all along, and now everyone's trying to make it look like I'm crazy. Why the heck would Danner try to cover up literally everything. He got everyone to lie about what happened to me and Cayden. Everyone. What is he hiding? And Kyle...He works for Danner? I should've known. I was way to naive to think that I actually have two soulmates, that Kyle even cared about me. Why would he do this to me? Why would he betray me? 

Nothing makes sense, and I can't seem to wrap my mind around everything that's going on. I still need to talk to Kyle, even if I just found out the truth, but Detective Danner and Kyle can never know that I know what's going on, even if I barely know myself. I'm afraid of what they may do if they find out. They may even hurt Cayden, and I can't let that happen. So after much thought, I decide to play it cool, like I know nothing's going on. Like I have no idea that I was just set up and lied to. I exit out the back and walk around to the front, refraining from sneaking in this time, and I ask to see Kyle and Danner. The receptionist smiles at me, however staring at my large gash. I frown on the inside. Yes I know I have a huge gash on my forehead, you don't have to stare, lady. I wait for about ten minutes until Kyle walks out.

He smiles at me. If I hadn't overheard his conversation with Danner a few minutes ago, I would've thought that it was genuine.

"Alaska! What a surprise," he exclaims. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm pretty good. I need to talk to you, though," I say with a half-hearted smile. 

"Right this way," Danner says as he leads me to the left where his office is located. He pulls up a chair for me to sit in, and he leans back in his own, asking, "So what's wrong?"

I sigh, throwing in some fake watery eyes for effect. "No one believes that I wasn't in a coma. No matter how hard I try to tell everyone that this past month was real, they just give me looks of pity and say that I'm confused. Cayden doesn't even remember me. I've tried to talk to him, but he won't get near me. I'm frustrated, and I don't know what to do."

Kyle thinks for a second. If I didn't know that he's a liar, I would have mistaken that pause for him finding words of sympathy, but I know that he's really only trying to find a good lie to give me yet again. "Alaska, you've been through a very traumatic experience, and your brain will try everything in its powerful to make you believe that what you've experienced over the past month was real, that way it gives your absence a purpose, but you truly were in a coma. I don't know how else to explain it."

He just won't budge will he? Great, now I'm going to have to go a route I really don't want to tread down. I try to remember every romantic movie I've seen and every time I've third-wheeled with Katie and her boyfriend for what I'm about to say next.

"But what about us?" I whisper, trying to sound somewhat desperate but sexy at the same time. I know I've done a horrible job and cringe on the inside. 

This catches Kyle off guard for a second, and I think that maybe I've actually done it, but he collects himself and says, "What are you talking about, Alaska?"

"Don't you remember the moments we had?" I try to whine as much as I possibly can. "Don't you remember that you're my soulmate? Let me prove it. Pull up your shirt, and show me your Words."

Kyle's eyes grow wide, and I know I've won this battle. You can't fake Words, and I know that they're real. I saw them and felt them with my own eyes and hands. Kyle stays silent for a minute, and then he gets up from his desk and closes his door very slowly. I gulp. This can't be good.

"I was hoping you never remembered that," Kyle whispers while his back is still facing me. He sighs and turns around, sitting in the seat next to mine. He takes my hands in his and looks deep into my eyes. "After about a week of you being in the hospital, I realized that you were my soulmate. That's why I asked Detective Danner if I could stay on your case. I came to visit you everyday, and one day I was talking to you, telling you about myself and that I was your soulmate. I hoped, after you woke up, that you wouldn't remember any of that. It's somewhat embarrassing."

Bull.

It takes a lot for me not to believe what Kyle just told me. He's extremely good at lying and making me believe those lies, but I can't give in. I overheard his and Danner's conversation not fifteen minutes ago, and that trumps everything else that Kyle tries to convince me is true. Even if that means putting aside my own feelings for him despite what he's done to me. So instead of blowing up at him and calling him a liar, I slowly nod my head and look down, forcing tears into my eyes. 

"I don't know what to do with myself anymore," I whisper.

"Then just let go," Kyle says as he embraces me. It takes everything in my power not o squirm away. 

I smile at him and stand up, making my way towards the door. 

"Oh, and Alaska," Kyle says. "I'm...well...I'm glad you're safe."

He gives me a small smile, and this one feels genuine, confusing me for a moment.I shake off the feeling. Who am I kidding? It was most likely fake. 

I smile back at him as I open the door. "I'm glad you're safe too, Kyle."

I walk out the door, and my smile immediately drops. If Kyle, Danner, and everyone else in this town thinks that they can pull off the world's biggest lie, then they got another coming at them. If they can lie, then I can lie too. And I have the advantage.

Why?

Because I'm not the one with a secret. 

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Things are getting exciting!! What do you think of Alaska overhearing Danner and Kyle's conversation? Do you still think that Alaska was in a coma or do you think that the past month as been real? The truth will be revealed soon!

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