We're Different

Chapter 19

  I was awoken from my sleep by a voice that I both loved and hated.
"Skai... Skai, please wake up. Skai, I'm sorry I lashed out at you yesterday. I was angry that Leo had gotten away, and you were the first person I saw." Complying with what the voice was asking, I stirred and as slowly as I could, I stood up and rubbed my eyes. My eyes, so green that they looked fake, met with hazel ones that I couldn't tell were beautiful or treacherous. I noticed a bundle of black next to him, and he followed my gaze. "Oh, I brought you clothes for today. I also brought you some breakfast, but you don'y have to eat it if you don't want to." I turned my hair black and looked at him with broken, dead eyes. "Come on, Skai. Are you still mad at me for lashing out? I said I'm sorry."
Oh, nothing's wrong, I thought to myself, keeping my face neutral. I'm just trying to see if I can break you and have you free me.
"Skai, please talk to me." Rather than saying anything, I turned the other way and looked at the other wall. Manipulation was all a complex mind game, and in order to have an advantage over Marcus, I had to play with his emotions. Luckily, he had already made himself vulnerable, so all I had to do was heighten it. "Skai, come on. Please look at me. Don't you believe me when I say that I love you?" If I were moving, I would have stopped in my tracks. Could he see through what I was doing? Was he trying to play with me too? There was no way. Then again, he was a highly intelligent robot...
"Well, Skai?" He walked over to the console and disabled the cage. He then walked over to me and faced me, taking my chin between his fingers and looked me in the eyes, raising my gaze to meet his. "Do you believe me when I say I love you?"
Do I lie or tell him the truth?
A deep sigh escaped from a buried point in my lungs, and I spat out what I had decided to tell him.
"No, I don't believe you..."
His expression fell. I had decided to tell him the truth.
"...but I can't help but still love you." I wished that I was lying there. I couldn't be falling for the enemy, and yet I was. I hated myself for it.
"What?" He looked back up at me with a vague flicker of hope in his artificial eyes.
"Marcus, trust me, I wish I didn't love you." At this point, it was as if I had no ability to lie. "When I learned you were the enemy, my priorities changed. I tried to convince myself that I didn't love you. Sure, I don't trust you when you say that you love me because you really seem to have two personalities, but that doesn't mean that my feelings have changed any."
"Skai..." I pushed the boy away and grabbed the clothes so that I could go change.
"This is getting too sentimental for my taste. I'm just going to go put on these clothes so that we can go to school."
"We're not... going to school today." I turned to him, my now midnight hair flying perfectly like a model in an ad.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm really sorry Skai, but... we need to kidnap your Mr. Davenport."
"Are you kidding me? Why? What good will that serve?"
"It's my father's plan, not mine!" He seemed to be breaking a little bit. "He says that if we kidnap Mr. Davenport and show Adam, Bree, and Chase, then they'll come rushing here and he can capture them." Anger boiled through me.
"You can't win, Marcus. You father lacks the strategy he needs. Adam, Bree, and Chase will take him down."
"Skai, go change now. You're digging yourself into a deep hole you won't be able to get out of."
"Marcus-"
"Just go change!" I jumped, once again shocked by Marcus' anger, especially right after such a sentimental moment. I dashed off to the secret staircase and quickly slipped on the skirt, shirt, jacket, and boots. I came out of the small area and Marcus handed me a bag, then grabbed me by the arm.
"Let's go. Now." I remained silent as I was shoved into the back of the car and the evil Mr. Davenport drove off towards the old house. Even when we pulled up, I felt anything but comfort. Being here with Marcus and Douglas held nothing but hostility.
"Why am I here?" Douglas turned to me with nothing but flashes of anger in his eyes.
"You're here to be bait for my brother, of course."
"He won't fall for it."
"Oh yes he will." Marcus roughly grabbed my arm and held angrily onto my arm. "Because he's going to believe we kidnapped you from school and are holding you hostage." Douglas pulled out a gun to use as a prop in my fake kidnapping.
"I'll never do this." Douglas chuckled and held up the gun.
"Skai, you're an android. Tell me if you think this isn't a loaded gun after analyzing it." My system did as told, and a river of fear drowned me.
Warning: potential threat in proximity. Loaded gun within five feet of being.
"So, Skai, are we going to do as we're told now?" I sucked in a breath and nodded slowly, hating and dreading this moment.
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Holy crap! This story is almost over. And let me let me tell you, the last chapter is full of pain and feels!