The Girl Who Lived A Thousand Years | #Wattys2017 √

chapter 31

Previously:

"I know you'd say that. Let me just have you for a while. Then I'll give you the power to choose."

Then we succumbed to darkness in each other's arms. Right then I felt home in the hands of the man I've I least expected to be universe.

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I woke up to a new surrounding, like after all the things in life, the only reality felt so foreign to me. Like reality was a joke and those hallucinations were real. What is real felt unreal, maybe I've been in my own little bubble for a long time that I even forgot what reality felt like, it was funny how that happened to me.

I thought humans were the ones who were wrong, and I was the one who wasn't meant to exist at the same time. I should be dead, I am dead but I'm ceasing to escape, therefore betraying everything I've believed in, the balance and the reset. I should have accepted the fate and another should have taken my place. But love is selfish and that's what Dawson did, he was blinded by love and it killed me even more than when I accepted the truth that I was dying from brain cancer.

He and Condrad made a mistake. They fought the way of nature and I'm sure she will seek her vengeance from the unforgivable act. All actions have consequences and mine was living in the illusion for my life. I was hopeless and now I knew what I wanted.

I walked to the smell of eggs and bacon and the fragrant smell of coffee, all I knew was that I felt like I was normal. That was then when I saw Solomon or Mikhail or whoever he was.

"Hey! Good morning love!" Dawson said from the kitchen but my eyes were at Solomon alone and this time his eyes were on mine as well. Eyes that held a thousand stories that I wouldn't want to hear, ever. Eyes that once looked at me with love and loyalty but did the opposite the whole time. Eyes that lied in front of me right straight to my eyes without a blink.

"What are you doing here? Or were you hoping that I'm still under all those hallucinations and the made up world you all gave me?"

"I'm sorry I thought it was better-"

"Fuck all what you think." Then from behind, arms snaked around my waist as Dawson hugged me from behind.

"You know, you curse a lot before." He said but I wasn't ready to face him still, not after everything. I don't know if I'll pretend like everything was okay and embrace my long lost
family. I don't know if I'll be angry for everything they've done to me or I'd be thankful to live. I don't know what to do and all I want to do is have peace.

"Can we have a moment please." I said in a cold voice, regarding the request to Dawson.

"Sure, but after I finish cooking breakfast, I have a surprise for you." The he kissed my temple as he happily moved back to the kitchen.

I threw a death glare to the man standing in front of me, the main instrument of my pitiful life. If Dawson found me immediately, I would have been lived a better life than what is happening now.

"How can you show yourself here, I know you were the one who told Dawson."

"I can't let dad ruin you again once he gets his hands on you."

"You knew everything!"

"Yes," I was beyond angry and frustrated on his revelations, "unlike you, I wasn't programmed to find for the missing piece of me, I was confused as I woke up and I got no such side effects aside from the stupid bond."

"I struggled to find everything and that's when I knew, I loved you Olympia and I couldn't bring myself to admit the truth because I've been selfish I'm sorry."

"That's all? Was it fun looking at me and listening to all my flashbacks
that never happened at all? Did you enjoy pretending all the time and depriving me of the truth?"

"It's not like-"

"Not like that, yes! I know you did it for some stupid love and let me guess, Carl was part of this?"

"He knows nothing about it."

"And everything I've believed in? Is wrong. I am madder than I thought. I'm a mess! I should belong to the asylum right now."

"No we can change that-"

"Yes like how you guys changed my life, my belief and everything. Even I couldn't understand myself now. I'm a fucking mad woman and I can't even look at myself now and imagine that everything is fine."

"Why did he even let you in?"

"He owes me, if he hasn't taken you my dad would have did first and you'd suffer more than you ever had."

I stayed in the room the whole day and I sneaked out of the window to leave. Everything was suffocating me I wanted to be away.

I sneaked out and as I was halfway away from the house, a gunshot deafened my ears. I was shot and not just shot by anyone.

Solomon shot me, and it all means I'm going to die, for he can be the only one that could kill me, then heard him, the voice I've been holding on to when everything was crumbling down.

"Oly!" Dawson rushed to my side and I saw that Solomon had fled, escaping the fact that he just murdered me. I smiled. Maybe he understood, maybe this was the peace I was waiting for, to finally correct the destroyed balance of the world. I wished for this moment haven't I?

I asked him to kill me once Dawson gets his hands on me, and he just did. But he didn't understand it all. I don't understand myself too.

"Oly! You can't leave me! I've got the cure, I've been developing it since you've been gone and it's perfect now. You can get back to your own life with us. Please love "

I couldn't talk and blood was clogging my throat. I struggled to talk, to tell him the one thing that felt right in this moment.

"I love you Dawson." That was the last thing I heard until everything went blank. I wandered into darkness forever.

That's what I thought.

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