Dance Central

Chapter 36

Harmony's POV

A few weeks have passed since Glitch left DCI and nothing has been the same. DCI has only become darker and quieter as each day goes by without Glitch. He was the light here, that would bring joy every time he would walk into the room. He would always stay hopeful and happy regardless of everything that was happening behind that smile.

Everyone here misses him.

I miss him.

I just want him back more than anything in the world.

Ever since that day he left I've stopped talking to Rasa and Lima. I can't even bring myself to look at them. They took away the one person that I trusted and made me happy. The one person that was always there whenever I needed a shoulder to cry on. The one who understood me and supported me through everything. It still surprises me how much I have come to love him since the first day I ran into him. That first time we met was nothing compared to what we had now. I don't even remember why I hated him so much. I just wish I would've accepted my love for him much sooner.

Since he left, I have felt myself change. I don't feel the same anymore. I noticed that I had become more and more distant from everything and everyone. I hardly ever talk to anyone and I always stay in my room for as long as I possibly can. The only time I ever go out of my room is for food and that's it. I don't even want to dance anymore. Whenever I am forced to go to dance practices with Mo or Emilia, I just burst into tears and end up in my room again. Every room reminds me too much of him. I see a part of him anywhere I go. Memories of him float around in every room. I can't last in that practice room for even a few minutes without him coming into my mind. Nothing feels the same anymore. Nothing seems fun or enjoyable without Glitch around.

Mo has been acting differently as well. Him and I seem to be the only ones who have been really affected about this. I never see Mo around any more and I can't help but feel bad.
I just feel like this is all my fault. Mo would not be feeling this way if it weren't for me. No one would be feeling all this pain if it weren't for me and my crazy mind. I wish Glitch was here. I wish I could take everything that I made Glitch do back. I wish I would have said something that day when I watched him leave DCI. I wish it would have been me walking out that door instead of him.

I can't image everything that Glitch must be feeling. Is he feeling alone? Upset? Anger? All I can think about every day is what Glitch might be doing. I heard the other agents say that Glitch didn't have anywhere else to go. DCI was the only place that he called home. Now that's gone too. The one place he called home was taken out of his hands and it is all my fault.

I walk into my room and lay on my bed once again. Another terrible fighting lesson. Since Glitch left, Bodie and Emilia have taken over teaching me how to fight by my parents' request. I can tell that both have changed as well. They are not their happy and confident selves either. They are trying to stay strong around me, but I can tell that it is getting hard for them to do so. It doesn't help either that I have not learned or improved in anything since they started teaching me. Its not that I don't want to learn, I just don't see the point of it anymore. The reason why I wanted to learn how to fight was so that I could be more free to leave the building with Glitch. Now that he is gone, I don't see the point of me knowing how to fight. I know my parents want me to be able to protect myself just in case Tan gets to me, but at this point, I just want him to capture me. Everything would go back to the way things were if I just turn myself in. Nobody would be hurting or have the burden of protecting me anymore.

Adam was assigned the task to protect me when Glitch left, but now he has gone missing as well. No one knows where he is and no one has been able to track him down either. He completely disappeared from the world and people are starting to blame me for it.

I feel the tears start to build in my eyes for the third time today. I want this to be over. I want things to go to the way they were. I want to disappear out of this world forever.

I close my eyes and let the tears that I have been holding in all day fall. I feel so useless and like I disappointed everyone. I cannot image what my real parents would be thinking of me right now.

I cry for what seems like hours until I fall asleep. Only to be woken up by the sounds of alarms and explosions coming from downstairs. I quickly get up and run out of my room to see what was happening. Maybe there was a serious malfunction in one of the systems?

"Harmony stop!" I turn around to see Mo running towards me. He looks so tired and worried but at the same time confident and brave. "Ya need to go hide now. It's not safe for ya here."

He starts to pull on my arm to follow him but I stop him from doing so. "I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what is going on."

"Tan is here," Another explosion goes off that causes us to fall to the ground. That's when Mo picks me up and starts running away from the battle going on below us. He sets me down before we get to the emergency stairs and gives me a hug. "I know ya're scared and upset about Glitch. But right now ya need to put all that aside and get to safety first. Ya know where to go from here. Please stay safe. I can't lose ya too." He lets go of the hug and starts to run off towards the sounds of more explosions and now gunshots. The agents are fighting back.

I start running down the stairs to the secret place Rasa and Lima told me to go if Tan were to ever attack DCI. Once I reach the bottom I stop in my tracks in. I stare at the person in front of me in pure shock and joy.

"Adam? You're alive!"

"Yes I am."

I start walking towards him. "You have no idea how happy I am to see you. I am so sorry for what I said a few weeks ago. I don't know what I did to cause you to run away from here. But I am deeply sorry for whatever I did. Do you forgive me?"

I smile at him but stop walking as soon as he pulls out what looks like a gun. "I would but I don't care about you anymore."

"Adam? What are you doing?" I say, starting to back up.

"Sorry shawty but you're coming with me," I turn around to run back the stairs only feel a sharp pain on my right shoulder and feel myself fall onto the ground. "There is someone who is dying to meet you."

I feel him pick me up and that's when everything goes black.