𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔰

Chapter VIII

'Hiding something in relation is worse than telling lies... Lies break trust... Hiding breaks a person.' ~ Shivam Kumar. 

The door to the training room opened and Telios stepped inside. The air was suddenly tense and silent. We all watched him as he took his time to choose a weapon. 

Clang, Clang. 

The sound of metal hitting each other as Telios took his time to choose his weapon. 

All of us stared at him without moving. I was so annoyed with him. What had I done that was so terrible that he wouldn't talk to me anymore? Not talking to me is one thing if that is his choice, but to pull Nolan against his will was another. I can't take it anymore. 

"Telios can I please talk to you for one minute?" I said. 

Nolan looked at me with wide eyes and shook his head, pleading me not to. I didn't listen and walked outside. It would have been so awkward if Telios didn't follow me but he did. 

"Look Telios," I started. 

"How could you?" He cut me off. 

"How could I? What did I even do to make you treat me like this? You tell me, you tell me right now! What did I do Telios?!" I screamed at him. 

"You killed my mother." He looked at me and cried. 

"Your mother was the reason why my mother died. It was your fault. You and your mother!" I did a double-take. I wasn't expecting that. I stumbled back in shock. What did I do? What happened? I kept asking myself those questions over and over again but I never got an answer. 

"You have nothing to say? I knew it! Just don't talk to me. Please." He turned away in despair and walked into the training room. How? I turned and ran. I ran to the track and started running. The same track that I ran the last time. 

40 rounds of 500 meters each round, 20 kilometres. 

Don't get me wrong, I hate running but it's the only thing keeping everything from my mind. I ran until I was exhausted but I went to another training room and started hacking at the dummies, started firing guns, and throwing my needles. 

I finally looked at the clock and it was 12 am already. I decided to wake up early and headed to my room. I tried to fall asleep at night but I couldn't. 

No matter how hard I tried I just couldn't sleep. So I decided to go to the beach and do some thinking. 

I don't know why but that place calms me down the most. You are probably wondering, aren't you underground? Why is there a beach? There isn't. 

Sometimes I would leave the headquarters to go to the beach and I know there is one because the first time I went out to get things, I got lost and ended up on the beach and that habit stuck. 

Whenever I couldn't sleep and there was a lot on my mind, I would go there and listen to the calming waves and clear my head. 

I sat there thinking for a very long time. What happened that day? The question that came up the most. I don't exactly know how long I sat there but the sun still wasn't up so I figured I had time. I stared at the distance. I kept staring but a voice came from behind me. 

"Hey," it said. I was startled and almost fell off the breakwater. I turned and saw Nolan. 

"How did you find me?" I asked, genuinely confused. 

"You didn't know? It is only five am but that is the time when Liam wakes you up and you weren't there. At first, he didn't see that as a problem as he went to look for you but after searching for you for an hour he started to panic and called the entire golden group to help look for you." He explained.