City of Misfortune

Chapter 4

If you're thinking what I'm thinking my life is pretty freaking confusing. Nothing is making sense to me anymore. I'm dealing with too many things at the moment in my home. And yes I do consider the tunnels my home. That's besides the point of it anyway.

I'm dealing with this and still expected to help people. Where's my help? I don't know who Tamara is. I don't even know my brother, I just have little snippets of memories of my family and the little that I have is just of my parents at the most.

I do have only one memory of me and my brother. It was of us playing tag, if he caught up to me he said I would have to try and climb a tree. The point of that was I couldn't climb a damn tree and needed to run faster. If I didn't, I would have to figure out ways to climb the tree. That's my only memory of us.

Now I have to deal with Luca who seems to have a little temper and is jealous of my brother. I needed to deal with every problem one at a time, and I was gonna start with Luca.

After I kissed him I was trying to think of the right words to say to him, being extra cautious. He seemed fine, his emotions told me he was still confused about everyone. Could I possibly explain everything? No, but I had to try to explain what I knew. That seemed like the best idea I had in days. I took in some deep breathes trying to calm and focus myself.

You got this baby girl.

The words that my dad always said right before I did something important echoed in my head. I took Luca's hand and led him to my bed so we could sit.

"Luca, I don't really know how to explain everything but I'll tell you what I know. The new girl Tamara was here when I woke up. I went looking to see if you came back and that's when I found her. I looked for Ro and he wasn't here either. I finally asked her how she got down here. She said Ro brought her here and told her to wait.

At first I didn't know if she did anything to you guys so I got my throwing knife. She must've saw what I was looking for. And pulled hers out and showed me." I paused to see if he was still paying attention, all he did was stare at me.

"Go on I'm listening. I promise,"he said gesturing me to go on.

"Okay, I went to go find you guys and walked around the neighborhood and went to Peanut Lake. That's where Stiles found me. I know you probably aren't for sure about him, I am too. But I do know for sure he's my brother. I can feel it here," I pointed to my heart. "If I couldn't trust him at all or thought he was up to something he wouldn't be here.

Another thing, I know it's hard because it's very easy to do and it feels right. Almost like a happy place to go to, trust me I know. Basically what I'm trying to say is you can't get mad and get tempers like that. It does get harder to control, but once you know how it also gets easier."

When I finished all he did was nod and sighed. He looked at me like with so much concern in his eyes.

Then he spoke,"Nala what would I find if you took your hoodie off?"

The question confused me, "A tank top and under that is my bra. So what are you getting at here." I gave him a confused look, I honestly didn't know what he was trying to say.

"Could you just take off your hoodie and I'll tell what I mean."

I took it off slowly, trying to see if he really meant it and would say something to stop me. He didn't, he just waited. Once my hoodie was off I just looked at him while he mentally examined me. It felt weird. He grabbed my arm and pointed to my shoulder and arm.

"This is what I would find. So how about you tell me exactly how you 'fell'." He air quoted. "Or you can tell me about what happened and who did this."