The Kings Spawn | ✔︎

Chapter 3

"It's strange how when you left I lost
my will to live."

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If I had realised one thing; it was that lili wasn't one to come around, in fact she was the type to keep quite a fair distance away. The news being so sudden her shock was understandable, and I guess in a way it meant that she cared.

"She'll come." Jennie repeats for the third time today, her voice a raspy one, it was four in the morning. An ungodly hour to be awake, even for Beldapa's standards, but Miss Clementine preferred that my departure be done in secret.

I station my gaze at the wood piled entrance, it wasn't that I was surprised or anything by Lili's stubbornness, in fact I knew better than anyone how bad it could get. Even with that it wasn't right for it to end like this, I wipe the tear trekking along my cheek as I hold onto Jennie, coiled sobs of her own wetting my fleeced jacket.

The taxi driver lets out another restrained sigh, tapping the steering wheel impatiently, I couldn't blame him even my patience was wearing thin. "Its already been twenty minutes Miss."

"J..Just..t.wo more minutes." Jennie pleads, speaking between hiccups.

"Whatever just hurry up."

"I'm sorry..." She chokes out, her lips creasing into a frown. "I thought she would be here by now."

"It's okay, stop it you guys are making it seem like I'll never come back." I press my lips to stop the tears from overflowing. "I'll be-"

"What're you losers yapping about?" I hear from a distance, Lili lifts herself from the wall, dawned in her white pastel night dress. My legs move without notice, as I rush to her.

"Lili!" I hurl myself in her arms, nearly knocking the both of us over.

"I'm sorry for being selfish." She mummers, my tight embrace muffling her words. It was evident from her bloodshot eyes that she had been crying a whole lot.

"No fair! Make some space for me."

We pile onto each other, the cold wind circulating around us. My worries instantly dissipate as I bury my face in their shoulders. No words needed to be said, it was all the clarification I needed.

"I should go." I say, reluctantly distancing myself. Jennie rubs the tears away masking her expression with a tight smile, I for one didn't know that they would take my departure this seriously.

"Yeah. He looks like he could kill someone." Lili remarks, her hands falling to her sides.

I throw the trash-bag in the trunk, as I take one last look at the block shaped building, dust painting its visage brown. The driver starts the car as soon as I take a seat, as if further delaying would compel me to stay, honestly that sounded way more appealing than whatever was to come.

I stick my head out the window, an ambitious screech piling out of my throat, it wasn't loud enough to wake up all the girls, but I'm sure more than a couple would be jolted from their slumber.

"Deuce!" I enthuse, waving at the two.

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The well groomed monauré working in the flight check-in counter made it her sole duty to look me up and down with her lifted lashes, like I was that one foul stench that she couldn't get rid of even if she put her life on the line, If you were ever put in that situation you would understand my discomfort. I was one second away from telling her off, if nobody would, I would happily step in and volunteer to teach her some basic human decency.