Sapphire: Chapter 2

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I've decided to just stop studying... for now. It wasn't safe for me anymore and I can't risk other people's lives getting in danger because of me. I couldn't even tell Cassie in person that I was stopping school and that we had to cut off communication for a while. So now here am I, back at my old apartment packing my stuff so I could move to a safer place. Don't know where... and there's this bad feeling in my gut that something big is about to happen which was not helping. Jill was helping me while Chris was waiting in the car by himself.

"Sapphire, are you okay? What's wrong?" I look up and Jill had a frown on her face. She was packing the picture frames that I had placed on the divider behind her. We were in the kitchen area, and I was packing the utensils and plates and those kinds of stuff. "You're getting teary." She says after packing the last picture frame. She closes the box and looks at me.

I blinked, thinking that it would make my eyes less teary, and it did, but the tears spilled instead of staying in my eyes. I sighed. "I... I'm sorry I just..."

She smiles at me with a gentle expression, "What are you apologizing for? It's fine."

"It just feels like Edonia all over again" I admit, "And I don't want to go through that."

"You won't, all right? We won't let what happened before happen again." She reassures me and I nod, somehow feeling a little better with her statement. We were quiet after that, and since there wasn't that much to pack we were done in a jiffy. There were only three to four large boxes. Jill and I waited outside while Chris went to pick the two heaviest boxes we left in the apartment. The two heavy boxes went in the trunk while the lighter ones were with me at the back of the car.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"Priva. North of Edonia." Chris says, not taking his eyes off the road as he spoke.

"Edonia? Why?" I asked. Why would they take me back there? Why there?

"It'll be a lot easier for us to watch who comes in the province and who comes out. The place is sparsely populated, if something bad were to happen we can easily get you out." He tells me.

My eyes land on the ring on my right hand, it was the one Jennie gave me. A simple silver ring with a small diamond in the middle. I've always wanted to go back to Edonia, after all it was my home. As much as I hated what happened to it, it still held a place in my heart.

We arrived at BSAA's main headquarters, Chris said we were going to use their planes for me to leave the country because it would be dangerous for me to have a record at an airport. This was safer. He didn't even have to ask a lot of favors so he could get this done. That wasn't a shocking fact, he has been with the B.S.A.A. ever since it started.

My heart was beating erratically the entire time, from boarding the plane and even up in the air. I thought looking at the view of the sunset would help me relax but it really didn't help that much.

"Do you guys have any news on my brother?" I voiced my thoughts. "Have you found him?" I turn to Jill and Chris and their faces were sullen.

"No, we still don't know where they are." Chris replied. "But we have a lead on where they could be. I can't promise you anything."

Oh. "Okay." I tell him and turn my attention back to the view outside.

Hours have passed by and I could see a very familiar mountain range touching the clouds. And I can also see a very familiar house we were about to land next to.

The plain lands and I was the first to step outside. The broken glasses were gone, there were no traces of bullet holes on the walls either, and I could see through the glass wall in front of the house that the furnitures inside the house were covered by big, white cloths.