Into the Darkness

Chapter 2: The Sand

The sun began to head more west. Time seemed to pass by really slow as me and Dike stood far apart at opposite ends of the kitchen. Questions flooded my mind like a tsunami.

"Gabriel?" I looked at him as my breath began to get heavy.

"Yeah. The stars have told him to send me down to earth. It's been 10 years since I last saw you Evelyn." He looked down at his shoes and then exchanged glances with me. His eyes quick and urgently trying to find my reaction.

"But..I don't remember anything." I announced with a studder.

"Well thats the thing. I erased your memory for the sake of us." He bit his lip and looked out the window behind me.

"Us?" I questioned blanklessly.

"You, your dad and me."

"Why?" I began to shiver alittle. How long have I been dead asleep?

"No words shall be spoken of the angles. We were worried you were going to speak of us again." I swallowed at what he had said. Again?

"So you brain washed me to hide your identity?"

"Yes. They will hear you, eves drop, and tell the underworld," he looked at me again and came closer, "and now that your older...there's not much to worry about." He smiled warmly.

This all came down to one thing. He was here when my mom disappeared. My thoughts slipped away and forgot how close he had been to me. I looked up and saw him staring at me with those icey emotioneless eyes of his. I blinked and looked away trying not to lock eyes as we did in the livingroom. I lifted my eye brows and walked to the livingroom. I sat on the family couch firmly and relaxed my body from all the intensity in my shoulders and knees.

"Evelyn.." I looked up to find him lending a hand out. In his hand he had a winged neckalace with a key dangling with it.

I stared at the neckalace and then I looked up in suspicion. He bobbed his hand as if I was supposed to take the neckalace from his hand.

"For me?" I raised my brows in assurance.

"All yours. It's undestroyable." He answered clearly.

Should I trust him? "Trust no one.." dad's voice rung in my thoughts. It's just a neckalace. What could go wrong? I lift my hand off the couch to grab the neckalace as it dragged from my fingertips to my palm. The gold glowed. My eyes striking at every single highlight of the gold. I saw a flash of memory of me grasping this loose necklace with a smaller hand. This moment seems familiar. Too familiar.

"Your dad wanted me to give it to you." He broke the silence.

I looked up in shock. Is this something symbolic? What does it all mean?

"Where is he? My dad.." I looked down as my eyes began to fill with tears, blurring my vision.

"I saw him last night. We met up sometime around 7 for an afternoon beer. Why?" He came and sat beside me, at least 2 feet away. Close enough to feel his warmth radiating off of him. Slouching alittle to one side to be able to see my face.

"He called me last night at 10 pm. Wasn't an ordinary call though. It was an unknown caller," my voice began to break alittle as I tried to pry what happened last night out of me, "why was he calling at an unknown caller? At that late of time...as if he was scared of something."

He looked down at the carpet while cupping his forhead as if in distress. I looked at him for an answer but he too was in confusion. His actions said it all. His expression was madness and pity. I turned away to look at the kitchen table at my phone. Still sitting in the kitchen from last night. Dike seemed to show something different in him that made me not want to look at him. As if it was ugly and sinful to watch him mad.