Nightingale

Every Night & Day

The guys stopped filming my interview after that. They just kinda stood there staring at me like I had committed a crime. "And no one knows about this Victoria?" Zak asks me. "Well, I mean now they do."
" I'm not going to tell what you already know and say that it's bad that they're following you home. You know that. I just want to know why you let it happen." He's asking me in a way that isn't judgmental or harsh. Just like he genuinely wants to know why I put up with it. And I assume that he does, it's just that, I'm not even sure why I do. "I'm not sure how to tell you this because I'm sure you've heard it before and you'll think of me the same as everyone else this happens to and maybe I am but I don't feel like I am. It's like I couldn't get rid of her if I tried. Like I did something to her and now I have to pay for it. Even if that means letting her in my life and dealing with it."
"Honey you don't have to. I-" I cut him off.
"Don't you think I know that? If I felt like I could get rid of her, I would have by now and I wouldn't be telling you any of this. The thing is, I know she would come back. And even if she couldn't she'd still find a way to toy with me."
"So what then? Just let her keep controlling your life like you're indebted to her?!" He's almost yelling at me now. Aaron puts his hand on Zak's shoulder and Zak just sighs and walks off.
"He really doesn't mean to be like this." Aaron confides to me. " He just doesn't like it when spirits attach to someone and they have to feel the way that you do now. Gets to him.." He trails off and walks off where everyone else has already gone. I walk slowly back to my car and wonder. I won't go home, not yet and I know that. She'll be there. So I just drive off and think about what he said to me. No one has heard my story and the first one who does, thinks I'm a dumbass for letting it keep on. And yet it still went better than I had imagined.