Sometimes, when confronted about things we have done, the only thing we can say is nothing. And sometimes, when confronted with danger, the only thing we can do is run.
"I think I know where we can stay," I say to Nelly, with tears in my eyes.
"You are dodging my question. I asked you, why did you kill your mother?," she interrogates.
Silence fills our ears before I can begin to tell her. She then becomes impatient with me.
"Don't forget, I saved you and," Nelly stops as I interrupt her.
"It was an accident," I shout as tears pour down my face.
As I start explaining, the flashback comes to me and is more real to me than ever.
"Stop!," the anonymous person yells at me from behind as we run and I am being chased.
This person is after the secret. Just like everyone that chases me.
"I said, stop! You fool!," the person yells, this time I recognize it to be a woman and it sounds familiar, "You should have never been told the secret! You are too immature to handle it!"
The person shoots at me and the bullet hits my arm and I go down onto the ground. As the masked woman approaches me to put her gun to my face, I swiftly take my gun with my good arm and shoot her in the chest. She tumbles on top of me and I take her mask off.
"Oh my god," I say, crying, "Mom? I didn't know it was you! How could you do this?"
At her moment of dying, she breathes her answer.
"I never cared about you," she says, "I just wanted the secret. I wanted the power to rule. I wanted to know. That is the reason I married your father, expecting to get it from his father. But even after killing your grandfather, I couldn't get it. Somehow he gave it to you and I missed it. All my life I have looked for it. Son of a bitch."
I back up and grab my gun again and shoot her again.
"Despicable," I breathe as I fall unconscious.
In the present, I told Nelly the story. Of course, I left out the part where I shot her a second time and say instead that I fell unconscious. She wouldn't understand.
"Oh my god," Nelly cries, "I am so sorry."
Nelly hugs me and then we share a kiss. A kiss so passionate that things are happening fast. But, our world is stopped when we hear someone coming.
"Who the hell is coming through the sewers?!," Nelly whispers in anger.
Instead of answering her, I give her a command that is the only thing I know to do in this situation.
"Run!," I whisper.
YOU ARE READING
The Secret
Novela JuvenilZane wakes up in a cell to be tortured for a secret. A secret so illusive that people will stop at nothing to get it. A secret so powerful that if told, the one who possesses it could rule the world. A secret so dangerous that it would mean the end...
