Zero

Chapter 9-Uncovering

I was dead.

At least in my mind I was.

The person walked towards me with a dominant stride. He had raven black hair and a pair of striking blue eyes. And he looked somewhat familiar. I quickly brushed off the thought....it couldn't be him, it couldn't.

"My my, don't you just look scrumptious today Alena?" He said, chuckling. It sent a shiver down my spine, and not the good kind either.

"W-who a-are y-you and w-what d-do you w-want?" I have never stuttered so dang much in my life.

"Not anyone you need to know of, but I'd watch out for him if I were you, he might not be who you think he is." he said, this time with a teasing yet serious expression.

I was scared shitless. Holy fuc-I mean fudge I just cussed!

I stared into his eyes, the wind blowing around me. Everything just turned darker. I feel darker. I d-don't know why but I don't feel like myself anymore. He just reminds me so much of him. I c-can't pretend to be this happy going girl anymore even when I know I'm not. Everything just crushed down on me at once. Way too quickly might I add. I don't want to go back to my old ways, he certainly wasn't worth it. But that wasn't the problem, he caused me to lose the one person I'd ever really loved. I feel like the once broken girl I once was..and still am. I finally broke from my facade all thanks to this familiar stranger. I've built up my walls for so damn long, changing who I am, what I liked, what I looked like. To have it all ruined in a single second.

Who knew life could go by so fast?

"I-please, just go." I said, a stray tear rolling down my cheek and down onto the soil that has been built up so long, rock hard, to be be wetted by my single tear.

His eyes immediately softened, his pupils dilating bigger by the millisecond. "Be careful." those were his last words until he sprinted out of my sight, hopefully forever.

I sighed, chocking back my tears. I haven't cried so song long, the last time I cried was when he-gosh dammit stop thinking about it Alena.

It would only break you more than it already did.

By the time I was focused, Zero was in front of me, panting heavily, with a strained look in his eyes. He looks like he hasn't slept or eaten in days.

"Why did you run?" He looked vulnerable, like he wanted to break down right there. I wouldn't mind, at least I would have a partner while crying my eyes out.

"I was scared and I wasn't thinking." I answered solemnly, gone was my care free spirit. It was never real in the first place.

Don't get too attached to things, they only end up leaving you in the end.

"Why were you scared, Aleny? I would never purposely hurt you." he said broken hearted.

"For goodness sakes Zero? I met you like what?! A week ago?! Don't act as if you've known me you're whole life. And don't you fucking dare call me that." I hissed with venom. Only He gets to call me that, and he's gone.

"What if I have?" He muttered so quietly that if I was standing just a feet away from him, I wouldn't have heard him.

"W-what do you mean?" I asked gently, this time.

He sighed, giving me a sad look, "Lets just get you home, don't worry, I won't kill you. If I wanted to, I would've done it a long time ago."

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So.....?