You Watched Me Fall {A Novella}

XI: The Storm on the Horizon

Copyright © M.T.Wilson 2012 - All rights reserved

This chapter is currently unedited, so, sorry about that. I just wanted to post tonight. :) And it's a longer than usual chapter to. :D

XI: The Storm on the Horizon

 

    “Are you being serious?”

    “Yes, I’m not lying. I know you probably think I’m insane right now but I’m telling the truth.”

    “Wow, okay. That’s pretty insane.”

    “Think about what you’ve seen, the things she’s done.”

    There was a pause before the reply. “Well, there was when she healed me and she broke Ollie’s wrist, with one hand.”

    “They’re not normal things for a human to do. She’s an angel. That’s the truth, you wanted to know and I told you. You can believe it or not. Just…don’t tell anyone.”

    The girl snorted. “I won’t, if I did tell anyone they’d think I was insane.”

    It took a while for me to place the voices, I recognised them but I couldn’t put a face to them. My head ached and I grunted, my eyes flickering open. I was inside, but where? I rolled over to see the familiar interior of the cabin by the lake, and just outside the door was stood Cohen and Maya.

    Cohen seemed tense. He was leant casually against the wall of the cabin but his arms were folded tightly and he was rigid, not relaxed. In contrast, Maya was the complete picture of calm standing next to him. Cohen turned his head to look inside the cabin and upon seeing that I was awake hurried to my side.

    “Are you alright?” he asked. “What happened?”

    Maya followed but hung back a little.

    “My head hurts, but otherwise I’m okay,” I replied as I sat up. “Using the healing energies drained me.”

    I saw Maya raise an eyebrow but she said nothing.

    “Drained?”

    I fidgeted uncomfortably. “Using large amounts of angelic power can leave an angel drained but now that…now that I am fallen even using small amounts is difficult.” I looked up at Maya and caught her eye; she still seemed doubtful, but so long as she didn’t tell anyone about me she could think what she wanted.

    Cohen nodded. “Well, so long as you’re okay now. Just don’t do that again, gave me the fright of my life you did.”

    I cracked a smile. “I won’t.”

    Maya cleared her throat and we both looked up at her. “Um, looks like there’s a storm coming, I’d better get home. I wouldn’t stay too long either, Cohen.”

    She turned to leave and suddenly I was conscious of something hard pressing into my hip. I felt in my pocket and pulled out a piece of jewellery: the bracelet I’d found on the cabin floor the day I’d overheard Maya’s phone call to Ollie. As I touched it an image flashed through my head. A blonde boy and a girl with red hair sat on a sofa in a house. The boy was handing the girl something, it caught the light and I realised it was the same bracelet that I held in my hand. Then the image was gone. Had it been Maya and Ollie? They had looked a few years younger than they were now. I found it hard to believe that the boy I had seen was Ollie, in appearance he looked like him. But there had been no anger on his face, only happiness.

    Hurriedly I got to my feet and called Maya’s name. She turned in the doorway and waited as I approached. I held out the bracelet. “I found this on the cabin floor a few days ago.”