Darkness

Chapter 45

Aidens POV~
Standing behind my parents two tall figures, I stand there completely still and watch in shock and confusion as my parents utter the three words that make the world stop..

"Hello again darkness.." My mother coos warmly at darkness.

Looking between darkness and my parents with my mouth hanging open I stare at darkness and her face looks like she knows my parents. As darknesses face pales as a sign of registration comes to her features, I watch as she goes still and silent. Especially in her eyes..her eyes go wide and alert although she doesn't looked fearful of them...but I can tell something is bothering her, and it's not a good thing.

The million dollar question on my mind right now is, how in the world does darkness and my parents know each other.

Snapping my head to my sister Claire, we look at each other with the same face and when I notice she looks as lost and shocked as me, I then clear my throat awkwardly.

Pulling her intense gaze from my parents I make eye contact with darkness and slowly make my way to her as I see her deep and mysterious normal facade falling in front of my eyes.

Feeling worried, I walk past my parents and stand by her side and wrap one arm around her waist and the other over her shoulder as she then falls into my side and breathes out shakily as she then clings to the side of my body.

She's not herself, she's not okay, I know that..I can feel and see it.

It's almost as if she's in battle with herself. She wants to cry, scream, do something drastic, but she's not.

I know darkness enough now to know something's wrong in her mysteriously dark mind of hers.

Narrowing my brows in worry I look to my parents who have sad smiles on their faces.

Why the hell are they smiling, and why does it have a look of sadness to it.

"How do yous all know each other?" I ask them confused.

Sighing my mom grabs my dads hand softly and dad smiles almost reassuringly at her.

This is weirdly confusing, I'm starting to worry now.

Feeling darkness tense and look over to the side where my sister is standing I keep my curious gaze on my parents.

Before my mom could speak, someone I haven't noticed until now speaks up.

"Uh we don't have time for this, sorry..uh gotta go" Claire stumbles with her words nervously, "in fact, we are late" she rushes as she comes over and grabs Ava and darkness along with her.

Feeling a comforting warmth ripped away as darkness leaves my side I frown slightly and look at darkness who is now standing with Ava and Claire on the other side of the gate.

Something is definitely wrong...I remember Claire saying that their movie doesn't start till ages..why is she lying.

As darkness looks at me briefly, I see her slightly open her mouth to say something but instead she's early to correct herself because she seals her lips shut in a hard thin line and looks to the ground as they turn to walk away.

As they pass my parents, I see darkness and my parents make eye contact. They stare at each other what was most probably three seconds but felt like an hour in this situation.

Averting her gaze first, darkness makes her way back to the car when she gets in like lightening hit he and closes the door a bit too roughly.

My parents who is standing there like zombies and just watching her trail from them to the car stand silently and as the car slowly drives away, they look at each other with almost concerned expressions as they look deep in thought.

As I take steps forward towards them and demand answers, my parents then suddently look at me with a thoughtful expression.

Sighing my mother smiles warmly at me and lets go of my dads hand and walks straight past me as she leaves my father behind for him to do the explaining.

I figured.

"What's going on dad?" I ask him in a serious tone, "how do you and mom know darkness".

Sighing deeply dad looks up into my eyes with a sad and sympathetic look. Placing his hands gently into his pants pockets, he shakes his head slightly as in thought as he looks at me sternly.

"I never ask anything from you Aiden...your a good person and your mother and I are proud of who you've become over the years...yet now will be the first time I'll ever ask anything from you" dad says looking almost sad to continue.

Furrowing my brows i look at him confused.

"What are you talking about?" I say confused.

"I'm telling you to cut your ties with that young girl Aiden...completely" dad says dead seriously before looking straight ahead and walking past me.

As I watch his figure pass me from the corner of my eyes, I feel the fire erupt from within me and the anger course from my core.

So that's what it was all about.

How dare he try and control my life! Telling me to up and forget about darkness.

Bullshit I am!

As I hear him take steps back up into the porch I spin around and face his back as he reaches for the door.

"I'm not gonna just 'cut' her off just because you told me so, she means a lot to me" I scoff angrily while glaring at his back.

Hearing my dad sigh softly he shakes his head and walks into the house without another word.

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Darkness's POV~

Burying my face in my hands I lean my head back against the seat and take a long deep exhale.

How could I have not known?

I mean he even told me who is father was and everything, but for some reason it just didn't click on my mind that he was his dad.

I never thought too hard about it when Aiden mentioned it, maybe because back then I really wasn't interested in what he had to say.

Seeing them today has turned my mood totally upside down...

Even though they saved me once upon a time in what seems like a million years, I wished that day that I would never..never had to see their faces ever again.
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