•The Kamski test• Elijah Kamski

IX. Break my heart

-Hank Anderson

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"Mom?" I called her name as I entered her office I was at before. She walks out to greet me with a sly smile. "What do you want from me?" I shook my head to her with such a innocent look.

"Talia, you know... Elijah Kamski is a very powerful friend of mine." She stepped closer with her pencil skirt tightening around her thighs.

"He brought me here, he's a good friend of mine too, and I'm pretty sure he'd be on my side too." She shook her head with a sarcastic laugh.

"Child, you're so oblivious. You think this is all unplanned? For him to bring you to me? The set up with the android? For him to be 'injured'?" She put her arms behind her back with a evil look on her face.

"Don't take another step. You know what I can do to you." I threaten her with my hand out to stop her. She rolled her eyes and pushed my hand down. In reality I was happy Elijah was in some plan to get me hurt. I let my guard for one god damn second and get hurt over and over again.

"Thank me later. Goodbye princess." Princesses. The word echoed through my head as my mom became 3D. She grabs my neck right where a pressure point is and pushes me down to the ground.

"GET OFF!" I shout and sweep my leg under her. She falls to the ground as I climbed back up to my feet. I climb on top of her and flip her over so her stomach was on the ground. I twisted her arm as I held back my own anger tears. "GAVIN!" I shout out behind the door. Police officers barge into the room and place handcuffs onto Grace. My dad takes me away from the scene and down to the car.

"Fuck that damned woman." My dad cursed as he sits down on a bench in the lot. I looked to the ground with no expression to tell my story. I screamed in anger and grabbed my hair. My dad shot off the bench and runs to my side with determination. He grabs my hands and pulled them away from my face.
"What?! What's wrong Tal?"

"That fucking prick Kamski couldn't have gotten me any worse!" I fall into my dads arms as I couldn't help but cry for the hundredth time this week. I've never cried so much in my whole life. "He tricked me into this. He lied to my face and pushed me into the mud and helped me back out with the same hand he used to throw me in. He used me. I told myself I wouldn't let people use me anymore. I felt so good... Yet so bad at the same time. How could I let this happen to me?" I cried into my dads jacket that had sprinkles of snow.

"Talia... I love you." My father finally admits. He's never told me this before. EVER. I don't know if it was because he wanted to help me feel better, or if he was being honest.
I wanted to believe it was sincere...
"You're my daughter and if you want me to go kick this fuckers ass, I will." He rubbed my back as we stood in the snow. I looked up to him as my eyes started to clear up. Warm water trickled down my face in response in all of this.

"I love you too." I respond with sincerity coating my voice. "But I'm gonna tell Elijah a few words myself, before I let you in...."

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I walked into the hospital unnoticed. The woman at the receptionist desk gave me a strange look, but I made my way to Elijah's room without any confrontation. Play this shit cool, don't let down your guard, and trick him into thinking you really mean it at first.
"Elijah?" I ask and try to pretend I was really upset.

"Talia? Is that-" he stopped mid-sentence and sat up in his bed. I raced to his side and felt myself want to throw him outside the window.
"I missed you." He sighed and looked to his leg that was propped up.

"I missed you too." I lied with a great act to cover up my lies. He smirked to me and looked to the clock. "I talked to my mom." I look to his hand that I use to so desperately want to hold.

"Really? You went by yourself? What happened?" It sounded as if he was nervous for my response.

"Well..." Now was my chance to tell him what a cheat and liar he is. I go to speak again, but he interrupted me instead.

"Tal, I know... I know what you think. I know what she told you. I know she told you the plan. I'm so sorry. I stood up for you... You don't even know what I said to that woman after you two met." He pleaded for my forgiveness. My eyes set on him with such sorrow. I'm stronger than this, he can't break me now. I won't let him in now.
"Please Talia... I-I" I've never seen him so hurt. I didn't speak, I just stared into his eyes with my own example of hurt.
"Don't... Don't leave me like this. Everything I said and did was true and-and I meant it. Every time you're around you make me feel something different." Such a strong man with such a broken smile.

"Elijah. I won't allow you to hurt me anymore. Even if that means losing my heart, I won't let you break me down any more than you have already. I hope you realize what you did to break me open even more." I frown and stand up from the bed I sat down on. He goes to grab my hand with desperation.

"Please? Talia I didn't want to say this... I fucking love you. I know we've only just met but you're my-My everything." He sighed out as the beeping noises started to speed up rapidly. "When I say this, I mean as in I can't live without you, You're all I have."
I wanted to say my signature insult, but it wasn't right. Break my heart into a million pieces. I got what I wanted... this isn't how I thought it would end.

"Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars." I recite a poem I saw earlier. The fuck am I doing. I want him to myself, but he's selfish and-and doesn't really want me. He wants to help my mom.
"Your buddy is being put in jail anyways. There's no need to keep trying to win me over." I swallow harshly and take my hand out of his.
"I hope you look back one day and remember what we had, and regret everything you did to make it end." I walk out of the room with a slam of the door.