LUNATIC

Chapter 4

(two hours after)

We decided to freshen up before going, both took a shower and I got some new clothes from the closet on the red bedroom, they fit me perfectly. I look at myself in the mirror and take the hair away from my face, I look different, not only due to the black dress I'm wearing, that even though it was the most comfortable thing I found on the closet, still showed my body shape in a very explicit way. My hair looks less dark then it was before, it starts to look more like dark wine, and I wonder why I haven't noticed it before, remembering at the same time that I haven't looked in a mirror in weeks. I am wearing a pair of snickers, one of the few from the astonishing number of heels I found on the closet. Nevertheless it isn't the clothes or the hair that make me look different, I feel like I don't know the person in the mirror, I look down and see the scars, still the same scars, still the same person, maybe knowledge has the power to transform you after all.

"You look different." He says after leaving the shower, with a towel around his waist, I cover my eyes and look away, with surprise, he just laughs. It was not the first time I saw him but my instinct made me look away, even if I didn't really want to.

"I feel different." I say, ending up looking at my reflexion in the mirror again, blushing, before he could take off the towel I say "can you get dressed in the bathroom, please."

"Of course." He looks at me for a moment with a raised eyebrow, as if he does not understand what is there to hide.

"So, how are we going to Earth?"

"We open a portal and go through it."

"I thought the portals were just in my mind."

"Sort of, what happens is that you can put yourself between places, we have to cross through the portal that you open and not stay in the middle."

"Can we do that?"

"No one has ever tried it, but it's possible." He gets out of the bedroom all dressed up and sees me still staring at my reflexion. "What are you seeing?"

"I'm not seeing."

He stands behind me, the image of his blood comes to my mind, the memory of the taste hunting my tongue.

"You should see yourself. You are more than your good deeds."

He leaves the room without waiting for me, expecting me to follow, leaving me wordless. I walk out of the room thinking about everything I want to ask and the fact that talking is not on the top things I want from him.

We walk to the big empty room and he stands in the centre of it. I go to him without a word and wait for him to take me to the inbetween he described.

"What's in the middle?" I ask him.

"Nothing that will hurt us, but they can't follow us."

"What are they?"

"Things that got trapped there. Monsters, souls, even some angels and demons from what I've heard."

"How are you so sure they won't attack us?" The idea of supernatural things walking around Earth is not pleasant, of course my mind goes to Charlie automatically.

"We belong to the middle just like them."

"Let's do this before I freak out even more." I say, not really intending to let my fears known but not being capable of avoiding it either.

He extends his hands in front of me and I hold them, he tells me that whatever happens I should not let go of him and I swallow hard, trying not to think about any of this. I don't know what's worst, to find out you're part of something that could kill you and that you never signed in for or to think I'm crazy, the relief I felt when he told me I was not just hallucinating was vanishing slowly.