The Girl Who Killed

Chapter Eight

Nada and Kyle sat up on the dock. She was wrapped up in her towel and back in her bathing suit, and he was sitting there in his wet boxers.

She had finally gone up and pulled in the zip line, but she knew that something wasn't right. Terribly wrong, as a matter of fact.

She looked at the stars and saw the big dipper. The only constellation that she actually knew. Kyle smiled at her.

"Are you going to go inside?" He asked.

"I thought you were gay?" She said at the same time.

He smiled, but you could see the shock in his eyes. "Nada, in all honesty, until a couple hours ago, I thought I was, too."

"I get that you were confused, but you said you didn't want a relationship no-"

He cut her off with a kiss. When he pulled back and finally opened his eyes, he was serious. "You honestly talk way too much. I can't help what Fate did, but I'm glad that it did it, because I know for a fact that I'm striaght."

"How do you know this 'fact'?" Nada asked, her green eyes shining with something, again, that Kyle had never seen before in her eyes, other than tonight in the treehouse.

He smiled and leaned close to her, breathing against her neck and sending chills down her spine. "It's a guy thing."

She laughed and shoved him a little. Not much, but a little. "I have to go inside, now. I'll talk to you again some other time. Like tomorrow. I'll wake you up for breakfast."

He pulled her in and kissed her again. She was surprised that he would do that, and even more so that she let him, considering that she liked things done a certain way. Her way.

"Nada...."

She got up and walked away, into the house, and straight to her shower.

The warm water against her body felt amazing, and she took her time. Everyone else was asleep. No one was going to pound on the door and tell her to hurry up. She washed her hair, then just stood there.

The door opened. Slowly. Then closed quickly, but someone stopped it from slamming.

"Hello?" No answer. Nada opened the curtain. No one was there. She turned off the water and grabbed her towel, stepping out on the mat set in front of the shower.

Sabine sat on the toilet, examining her hand. Her fingers were long, and her nails were, too. The white tip of it reached about two inches. She looked up at Nada and smiled. "Oh, hello, Love."

"What are you doing in the bathroom?"

"It appears that I am sitting on the closed lid of a toilet. And how about you?"

"I was taking a shower."

"After your skinny dip with Kyle? Of course a shower was in need."

Nada shook her head. She didn't have to answer to this! This was insane, and Sabine knew it. "Whatever." She started walking to the door, but Sabine stood up, blocking it.

Her hair was pulled back into a braid. A crappy braid, that was either done by herself or Kayla. Sarah could do every braid in the book. Her eyes were filled with anger and malice, and it was obvious Nada wasn't going to leave.

This wasn't something that Nada liked. At all. She didn't like not being able to do what she wished. Being held captive in her bathroom by a girl that should know people like privacy. Sabine's room was always locked.

"Nada, you aren't going anywhere. Not yet."

 "Sabine, stop it. Let me out so I can get dressed and go to bed."

"Shut the fuck up and listen."

Nada's posture increased when that was said. The f-word was the one word she hated the most. "I don't have time for this, Sabine. I'm tired."

"Bull shit. You are an insomniac. Now, you are going to go talk to Kyle tomorrow and tell him you can't be with him. Obviously your mom doesn't care that you are with a boy that's supposed to be gay, and his friends are encouraging. It's obvious that you are easy, too, because you haven't even started going out and he's seen your breasts. But," Sabine smiled without mirth. "Anyway, you are going to tell him you can't go out with him. You can't be seen with him."

"Nonsense. He's one of my best friends. I won't do that."

"You won't be going to school in the fall, either, Nada. You'll be lucky if you go to school at all."

"What are you plotting at?"

"Nothing that you can know yet."

"Sabine, this is stupid."

"No, actually." She snapped. "This is what must be done."

"Nothing must be done. Nothing. Just let me live my life and you live yours."

"But I can't just live my life, stupid. My life was ripped away from me."

"You aren't related to me. I don't know what your life was, but I intend to find out." Nada got the nerve to push pass Sabine, but she was stopped.

"You won't find anything." Sabine whispered in Nada's ear, grabbing onto both shoulders from behind. "I don't exist as Sabine Lowell. Only now. And I can change in a heartbeat if none of you cooperate."

Nada knew there was something entirely wrong with that statement, but she continued out of the bathroom and down her hall to her room.