A Lifetime Ago

Chapter 11

A sharp pain in my head revived me back to consciousness.. I was restraining to focus my vision. My temples were shooting excruciating pain and I started feeling so drained.. My body felt sick to the core as I shivered one more time.

Soft fleece blanket was wrapped around my body. I was lying in a massive king sized bed. The bed side lamp is what lit the room dimly and I started scanning the room half lifelessly...

It was eerie silence. My head shot another burst of pain! I made my way slowly to my head and felt my bandaged forehead...

My head spinned back to the evening incident.. Jason! Andrew! Those names escaped from my mouth in a scared whimper.

What had happened?!

I panicked. I threw the blanket off my body and slowly and cautiously made my way out of the bed. I was comforting myself with the theory that someone has brought me here to protect me and not to hurt me in any manner...

I slowly made my way out of the room and entered the living room.. Soft moonlight was beaming through the windows surpassing the curtains in a beautiful glow... My gaze fell upon the sofa where a figure was lying...probably sleeping.. I tip toed trying not to make a sound near the familiar figure.. He was shirtless and snoring softly.

I was still not able to make out his face from few feets away. I closed in next to the sofa slowly.. the moonlight was streaming softly and my heart suddenly started pounding loudly against my chest...

I let out a small cry! It was... it was... Andrew!!!

In the dim light I could see the sparkly heart shaped chain wrapped around his neck.. I out stretched my hands to touch it. It felt for a second that it was calling out to me.. weird reflections and sound shadowed my brain. I was getting more and more dragged to the hypnotizing beam of red glow of light escaping the stone. My hand closed enough to hold it in my hand...

"Ethel"! Andrew's voice shot out as if he had a nightmare.

He shot out his hand grabbing my wrist tightly and jerked suddenly making me lose my balance and toppling right on him. My breath got heavier feeling him with my body closed on him. His blue piercing eyes fixated on me. I could feel the familiar sensation of adrenaline rush through my veins. One of his hand was firmly locked around my waist whilst he gently brushed my hair of my face with another. Even in the dim light I could feel his face of deep emotion for me. His breath had deepened too. I could feel his heart beating fast.

We did not spoke a single word for a while...

My gaze shot to the half hearted blood red stone chain again. It seemed the light had intensified. The images and sound in my brain was burning with agony... 

I could see my reflection.. the cave... blood.. cries... the pain... torture... pleadings!

My emotion burst into agony as I let out a angry roar and tried to pull on the chain when Andrew pushed me, turned me around, pulled me on the sofa head facing down.

I was still busting with unknown anger...

He closed his body to mine and whispered softly in my ears... "Relax... relax Kiara"!!!

His words hit me with a rupture of deep emotion. I felt a connection to Andrew. An unexplained force was triggering my two sides, both battling and trying to become victorious by putting one down. I felt extreme angry and vengeful as well as my heart was letting out cry of grief and pain at the same time...

Andrew had firmly held my hands at my back not allowing me to break free.
I felt his kiss on my head and he spoke "Everything is okay... you are okay," his voice hitting my ear drum in a melodious tone melting my heart. My body loosened up and Andrew let go of my hand and moved so I can get up. It seemed the pain in my head had vanished all these while. I got off the sofa and Andrew was there putting on his t-shirt and covering up the chain.

He turned around facing me. I felt so lost...  His facial hair brushed my hand as I touched his face. His touch felt so intense. My entire body vibrated. I took a step closer to him inches away from his lips. I wrapped my arm around his neck. We could feel each others breath. His hand firmly holding my waist. Minute of silence...

I closed in for a kiss when he suddenly let go of me and turned around as if a sudden incident had woken him up...

"You should go take some rest. I will drop you off to your house tomorrow morning. For now go take some sleep."

I stood a bit stunned by the reaction.

"But I...", my sentence was cut in the middle as he again said rather in a deep voice "Go, take some rest".

Andrew didn't turn around to face me.

He disappeared in the dim light in another room next to the room I was sleeping in. I was about to follow him to the bedroom when he quickly shut the door behind him as I heard him locking from inside.

I let out a deep sigh of grief as I battled mixed emotions from my head.

I silently made my way to the bedroom and fell a bit shaken from the deja vu feeling as I lay in bed. "Ethel"' that's what Andrew had said when he had suddenly woken up from his dream...
"Who is she" I said to myself....

I was still perplexed for the emotion outbreak I had.... my head started hurting all over again...
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I didn't realise when I sank to sleep when the haunting of the lifelong dreams returned shaking me of my feet... something felt more real. I felt more close... maybe close enough to find the truth about the chapter of the cave.. my story... and the weird things taking place in my life...