Skinny Love

Chapter 28: Really, really?

Avi's P.O.V

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"Hey Matt. Where am I?"

"Hey Avi. You're in your dorm. You passed out on our way out of my dorm. Tyler is here and so is Catherine. I'm here too." Matt whispered excitedly. I smiled. He took his long fingers and ran them through my hair. I reached out my hand and he reached his out too. Our palms touched and we stretched our fingers out. My hand was significantly smaller than his.

My head was swarming with information about my life that had been trapped in my watch. I couldn't believe that my mom was actually here in this dimension. I was born in this dimension by accident and then taken to the next one because that is the one I actually belonged to. Gallifrey, the planet from which my father is from was destroyed in the Time War, until recently when he time locked it and trapped into a painting. Gallifrey Falls No More they call it. Now the Timelords were trying to find a link to this future so they can take hold of this planet but in doing so they are destroying the fabric of space and time. This then causes a crack in time and space. Two pieces of space and time that should never have met. That's why I'm here. I fell through a crack in my wall when I was seven. That's why I found the Weeping Angels in the random room and it is also the reason for the mysterious disappearances.

"Coolio. Remind me, why did I pass out?" I asked, thinking twice about sharing my information with Matt when other people were around. Too much to explain.

"Well, uh, Jon is an asshole who cheated on you with both genders. You, being the most brilliant person I've ever met, had it all figured out for weeks now and played him at his own game. Then he-"

"Yeah, he said mean things about me that were undoubtedly true." I sighed, sitting up.

I felt the tears start to sting my eyes. I wasn't crying over him because that would be stupid. Why would I cry over someone who obviously never loved me and had rotten intentions. His words were poison and they seeped in to my skin with the pain of needles. The pain is determined and demanding to ache. I had been told all these words so many times over and over again that I was starting to believe them true. I believed that they were right and that is what shut me down.

" Aviani, there was not honest word flowing from that man's mouth. You need to believe that he is wrong. All he is is furious that he can't figure you out. You are the only mystery worth solving and you are definitely the most difficult. He wasn't brave enough nor observant enough to take on the quest. He was not worthy of your complexity. Complexity is beauty. Your complexity is part of you. I think that's beautiful." Matt whispered as he took my hands in his bigger ones. They were always warm. They were strong and rough in a comforting way. He took one and put it under my chin and lifted my face up so my eyes were looking directly into his. His eyes were every colour but no colour at all. They were a greyish green or a greenish grey depending on how you wanted to interpret it. It was funny because he was talking about how my complexity was beauty when his simplicity was everything to me. He was complex in the simplest ways. He was completely and utterly unpredictable. That was beautiful.

Too bad I was too shy to admit it.

His thumb wiped away the single tear that fell from my eye.

"Awh! Look at My Impossible Girl, crying over a shattered heart and poisoned wounds. You will heal. I promise."

"Really, really?" I smiled at him. He grinned back. I hugged him tight and he squeezed back. He smelled familiar. He smelled like apples, just like he always did.

"Really, really." Matt kissed the top of my head and we stayed there for a little while until Catherine asked if Tyler had been my undercover agent for exposing Jon.

Of course he'd been.