What If Our Life Threads Bind?

Chapter 31.

It can't be.

It just can't be.

This is not happening.

I felt my body freeze as I stared into the mirror. Carefully, I leaned into the mirror and rubbed the glassy surface, and a yelp escaped out of my mouth when it struck me that I am not imagining things. My eyes really are black. All Black. The pupil, the Iris, the Sclera. All of it.

"I have committed a sin."

I felt a hand grabbing my wrist from behind and I squeaked when I saw Austin. He looked back at me, horrified. Behind him were my sisters. With every step that he took backing away from me, my sisters took one forward till they were almost on my face.

"You are a sinner." Chloe says.

"No." I shivered, even though I knew pretty well they were right.

"You have committed a sin." Lila comes at me and I shook my head, backing away from them.

"You have to die." Austin says and I open my eyes.

I am breathing hard as I sit up on my bed. "Nightmare." I told myself and huffed a sigh. Stretching a little, I yawned and rolled on to the other side of the bed, checked the time, groaned when I realized its seven in the morning already and slid out of the bed.

Stumbling my way to the bathroom, I opened the shower and rinsed my hair. Wrapping a towel around my body, I looked into the mirror to apply some face cream and screamed when I saw a big black spot on the white area of my eyes. "No no no no."

I filled my hands with freezing cold water and splashed it into my eyes. "Please let it be dirt. Let it be dirt. Let it be dirt. Please. Please." I said, rubbed my eyes without opening my eyes and then opened them. The black spot was still there.

"I have committed a sin? What wrong did I ever do?" Tears started to prick my eyes and I ran into my room. What is happening with me?

My face has probably turned pink and blotchy by now. Like I was not much of a freak already, lets add a polka dot to my eyes.

But I don't understand. Black eyes are for sinners. But I didn't commit any sin. Did I? Should I ask Lila or Chloe about it? Probably not. They'll take me to Mom and Dad, lock me up in my room, shout at me and call it a day.

But what if they find out? How long would I be able to keep it a secret? They will know it long before my eyes fully turn black and if I tell them now, they won't let me go to college, they'll take away my phone and might even let me die alone in my room. What do I do?

"Martha! You up? Mind making some coffee, please? I am kind of having migraine." Chloe called out and I frantically wore my clothes and tidied up my hair in such a way that some strands of it always fell on my eyes.

"Out in a minute." I said and chanted 'don't look into their eyes. don't look into their eyes.' to myself. "Good morning." I said to Chloe and Lila to act usual and not like I was freaking inside out. They nodded their heads as I prepared some coffee. Lulu kept meowing from a corner till I got her bowl full of milk.

"Why is Lulu in this house?" Chloe asked and I took a long gulp of the coffee I had in my hand, avoiding the question.

"Allegro died. Lulu was alone and she was crying. I thought maybe I could feed her."

"Is this your house alone? You ever thought of asking for permission?" She spit back in disgust. I refused to look at her and instead looked at Lulu who was now rubbing her nose on my pyjama's bottom. How can someone not like cats?

"She is harmless. She won't be a trouble. I'll take care of her. Don't worry about it." I nodded at my sister and she looked at me longer than a minute. Did she see my eyes? Did she see the spots? Oh my God, she is going to destroy me! "Wh-what?" I stammered, pushing my hair in front of my eyes.

"You look different." She said, her eyes narrowed at my face.

"Yeah, I was thinking to get myself a fringe, maybe? I don't know. I just thought I'd like a change of hairstyle."

"Okay. But try not to cut your..." She trailed off and shook her head. "Oh, you don't have one. I totally forgot you lost your life thread, you silly girl."

Okay, wait.

"What are you looking at?" She asked after a minute and I realized I had been staring for too long now. I shook my head.

"Oh no, I was just thinking whether I threw my socks to the dirty laundry." I lied and ran to my room. The cat followed me.

I opened my laptop as soon as I locked the door behind me. Opened the incognito tab and searched, 'What all count as sins to the immortals?'.

Seven million results came on the first slide of my screen. I double click the one that included Greek and Norse Gods. A whole story of Pandora and her boxes opened right in front of my screen.

That is it. I am definitely hit by an Eros' arrow, my life thread is missing. It has got to do something with it. Love is a deadly sin and I have committed the crime. The question left now is, how did they add me to their love system?

I need to do something. But what?

Lulu climbed up on my lap and stared at my eyes, and I stared back. Maybe I am overthinking. Maybe these spots did not just occur right now? Maybe they were there since forever.

Yeah, I must be overthinking.

I'm not in love. Love, my ass! I don't even think about anyone that much. Not even Austin. I'm just getting paranoid.

I stared deeper into the cats eyes till she got bored and ended up retiring to sleep on her new bed- my lap. I had not the heart to stir her so I caressed her furry body and let her sleep.

A ping on my phone made her rub her nose. She meowed a little and then lay still. There was a message from Margo.

"There's going to be a college party soon and you're coming. Period."