Under The Shadows

Digging The Grave Of Secret

"Mine" both of them roar at the same time which is so loud that it echos all around the hallways and beyond!

Wait what? What on earth does that even mean now? Mine? I just met these two and now I am designated to both of them? Well hello? I have my opinions as well people! I am right here in between both of your grip!

I feel ice cold at one side of my body, so cold that this has reached the half of my heart. And on the other hand, I feel burning hot. So hot I feel I am touching the sun, although that might burn me down.

I try looking at both of them. Oh god! Such a raze burning within their eyes!

"ZACHARIAS!!!!" that voice definitely pulls me out of my thought. Feminine voice. Although it is hard for me to turn my head, I see her.

Cadenza stands there. She is the one I have met before from Zacharias's group. She is extremely pretty. So gorgeous that if I was a man, I would certainly fall for her. She is tall with those curves, pale as Zacharias is and so beautiful almost flawless. And she has such a hard glare on.

"STOP IT! BOTH OF YOU!" she roars.

"And who are you to give me orders?" Balthazar roars back.

"Don't you dare talk to her like that you..." Zacharias shouts more.

"..or else what? Oh, you gonna suck me out you filthy thing?"

Oh my god! What the hell. I can't hear anymore.

"Shut up you both!" I speak, finally.

Both of their eyes land on me and soften a bit.

"I am none of yours! What on earth are you both talking about anyway? What is wrong with you both?" I shout.

"I need to tell you something...." Both of them speak at the same time, again!

"Take your hands off of her both of you!" I hear a familiar voice.

Aiden is standing there, throwing a murderous glare at both of them. Everyone's head is turned towards him. Everyone, which means students from all class have pooled out here. And now as I see them, I notice something that's not so normal to my brain.

Everyone is standing in some sort of group, and it is not an ordinary group, to be honest right now. Some of them have glowing eyes, reddish tint in their skin, like Balthazar and Aiden and my mom and Matthew as they are flashing canines to some of them who are pale and smooth and have pitch black eyes like Zacharias and his group with canine razor sharp which is a bit longer, glaring back to the other group. And there are some left ones, in the middle, and they are standing too behind, who look like me!

My eyes widen in shock. And before I could speak, I feel myself being dragged. As I look up, I see Aiden dragging me.

"Let me take you home. Enough drama for today"

I jerk myself out of his hold. "What is going on Aiden?"

"You do not need to know"

"It is affecting my life for god's sake. How can you say I do not need to know?"

"I promised to keep you safe Kiara! I.."

"You cannot keep me safe by not telling me things!"

"There are lots of things you don't know Kiara! Please, for now, let's just go. I promise to tell you everything. Not here!" he is looking at me with pleading eyes.

"Fine. But you will tell me, or I will find out and that I assure you, might not be that safe!!!"

He nods with a tight smile on his lips. We move toward the parking area when I hear footsteps.

"Kiara!" Zacharias is there.

"Not now" Aiden replies on my behalf.

I quietly get inside his car. And the engine comes to life as he starts the car. I see Zacharias standing there but I do not attempt to speak.

As we are halfway out of the school, I have too many things playing in my mind.

"I am not going home without answers Aiden!"

He stops the car and turns off the engine.

"Come take a walk with me, okay? And we can talk"

We get out of the car and start walking towards the woods. "So, what do you want to know Kiara?"

"Everything Aiden! What happened today? Why do they hate each other? Why are there groups? Different groups in fact? What is all this? Aiden please?"

He takes a long breath which is visible.

"It all started long ago. People were happy you know. I was. Everything was alright then. And as the days passed by people started getting infected by some disease. The very rare, and unusual, group of diseases known as porphyria. People afflicted with this condition suffered from a severe sensitivity to sunlight, hallucinations, paranoia, possible madness and a host of other debilitating conditions. They started keeping it to themselves and locked themselves up in a dark room. No one approached them as this disease was said to be transmitted to the ones who get in contact with those people.

Many thought it was just a disease. But then slowly, we started to find dead people in the woods, all of them injured in the neck. Everything started to change then. More days passed and more dead people. and after that, we started to find dead people who were unusually pale and with very pitch black eyes as well.

Among the group of dead people, I found my mother then. Mrs. Adams...shit...I am sorry, I still call her that! I...she is not my mother. She did not give birth to me. My mother had died. I was in such a rage that day that I could not stay home. I had to find the killer. So without telling dad..."

"Matthew?" I interrupt.

"...yes, without telling him I sneaked out to the jungle. I waited long until my legs ached. I waited and waited. And something happened when I felt something whizz pass by me. I turned around, but nothing! As I turned, in front of me was a pale man staring at me with his pitch black eyes. He was smiling unusually and his teeth were different, not normal I mean. I got terrified. As I tried running, he held my leg. I fell down and sliced my knee, dropping some blood out. And he was smelling it. I knew it. I could think of nothing! As he neared me, licking my blood there came something howling out of bushes pushing him back! I felt its paw on my skin. I got up to look at it. There was a big wolf, with glowing eyes in front of me. And it's paw had scratched my hand..."

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