Stars and Roses(hiatus)

Chapter IV

My actions from last night does not speak for me. I was..... Dizzy? Anxios? Crazy? Excentric? Lost in that place with all its secrets and my dads chating like crazy with the unknown persons all around me? A thing that I know for sure is that I wanted to get off that table so badly. There were a lot of other children, some younger, some older than me, but I had never been the social type, who starts the conversation. I had nothing to do with that people and they had nothing to do with me. The fact that even Michael had found a friend around him, a red-haired shy boy with glasses, made me even more desperate to get away. As I was looking around the room I saw something that made my stomach tremble. Up the stairs, scanning the room, was the guy with blue eyes. "Oh, that's just great, he is here, too"
He looked kind of scared. Then I noticed the two murderers. Well, one of them was a murderer, because he holded a knife to the cloaked figure's neck, perhaps he wanted him dead, I was perfectly agreed with that. The other was trying to hold him back while the cloaked guy was laughing maleficiosly. I heard only a thing from what they were saying: ".. I don't know... "
I looked back at the guy up the stairs. "Oh, you are in big trouble, buddy... "
Then my teenage hormones made me realise something. "I wanna be in trouble, too". So, crazy as I would ever be, I raised slightly from the table, without being noticed, like a naughty red bug that I am and climbed the stairs. Ok, I agree, maybe I shouldn't stalk the poor guy then drag him into a closet and shush him with a very "gentle" hand placed on his mouth, like a private assassin, my dream career at the age of eight,BUT,I was just trying to get the guy out of trouble, not because the fate of others is something that I cared about but I just felt sympathy for him in that moment. After I had returned with him at the table I sat again in my sit, as my parents moved their chairs near the guy with long white hair and the guy with grey hair, Dominic's parents, wich names I found out there were Joseph and Aesop. I tried to eat a bit of something from the many dishes on the table, but I just couldn't, every price of food just got stuck in my neck, I was too freaked out by that place,I was just searching the room for that cloaked guy. I didn't like the idea of him, wondering around the manor, without us noticing him. I want to keep all my enemies close, so I could watch them and every movement of theirs, but that figure, he was impossible to supervise, he was just appearing, you blinked, and he was gone again. It was driving me crazy. As we were approaching the end of dinner, the cloaked figure appeared right behind my dad, Wich made my spine shiver because my dad was sitting right next to me. I hoped he didn't wanted to kill me with a shiny knife because I was not in the mood of being stabbed, but luckily, he just handed over my dad a list of names. The names were coupled. Two by two. I growled. Besides the weird manor I had to deal with a roommate. I get of the table and headed for the stairs and right when I was preparing to put my foot on the first step I heard the Aesop guy shout : " Room 22. Dominic Carl and Mars Subedar"
I felt so many looks pinned on me, even tho nobody was looking. That made me climb the stairs as fast as I could and hide in the darkness on the corridor. "Why am I so anxios and nervous? It is nothing I should be scared about...Or is there something?"
I started walking around that hallway, enjoying its darkness, where I felt so safe, staring at the pairs of names on the rooms doors. I hesitated with my hand above the doorknob of my room. Then I heard a sound coming from behind. Footsteps. I opened the door as fast as I cound and retrait in there. As the sound of footsteps was aproching I took quick my boots off and put my head on the pillow, closing my eyes as naturally as possible as the door opened. I felt Dominic's blue stare rest on me a bit, then his soft pace took him across the room, to his bed. I waited a little bit longer, until I heard his regular breathing, the sign that he had fall asleep. I opened my eyes again, put on my boots, then get off the room as quietly as I could. On the hallway there was no one. I count the rooms in opposite sense since it was too dark to see the numbers on them. "22...21..20....19...18...17........" After a while I finally reached room number 3 and knocked. The door was opened by my dad, the taller one.
"What's up with you here, aren't you supposed to be in your room?"
"Yeah, yeah, but, I know I haven't asked you this since I was five but can I sleep with you tonight?"
He chuckeled softly.
"Why, what's the problem with your roommate? I know his parents very well, they are nice, it is no problem with him...
"No, it's not about that, I just... Feel someway.....I can't sleep in the same room with him... I don't know why.. "
"And what feel is this that you are talking about?"
"Why are you questioning everything?"
"Because I have the right. Now tell me..."
"Okay, well, it is like everyone is staring at me, but actually they don't. I kind of feel uncomfortable and enjoy staying in his presence at the same time... It is... It is weird. But anyway, screw that. Can I stay?"
He raised his eyebrows amused at me.
"First, me and your dad have to talk about some things that children shouldn't hear. Second, I will recommend you not to run away from your problems"
"I am not running away from them.."
"Hiding from them is not a solution neither"
"Ugh, so it is a no" I said looking at the floor, considering seriously the opportunity to sleep down there.
"Look, I understand what you are going through, and you will understand it too later, but give the guy a chance, you won't regret it. Now go to bed, it is pretty late" and he shut the door. I growled. I think the hundredth time that day. "These parents..." I thought "They think they understand but they actually have no idea" I walked slowly towards my room when I felt a misterios presence near me. It was no Dominic, no fathers, no other human being. Even if I had a slightly idea who might be, I gasped in surprise as I turned and faced the black-cloaked figure.
"Kids should not be wondering on strange corridors at night" he said.
"I am not a kid" I said steady even if my voice was trembling a bit "and you can not command me what to do and what not"
"My place my rules"
"Look, I have no idea what you are planning under those thick robes, but make sure I am gonna find out..."
After that courageous phrase, I was expecting to be transformed in a frog, of this kind of interesting amphibian but he just chuckled darkly in the shadow of his cloak.
" You have no idea how alike your parents you are little Mars.... You will make a fine survivor..."
Before I could ask "A fine what??" he dissappeared in an explosion of grey smoke Wich burst into my nostrils making me dizzy and sleepy. I managed only to yawn before I fell in a deep sleep with no dreams, collapsing with a deaf sound on the dusted floor.
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The next morning I woke up in my bed, wich was kind of weird. Who carried me from the corridor to my room? I had no time to think about it because someone knocked at the door not very gently shouting "Wake up!" I recognized the voice of Michael. "We are already waked up!" I shouted back. "Good, then see you and the other guy at first floor in five minutes, the host wants to have a talk with us!"