CHAPTER 22- She's Back

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"You have to try and eat vegetable salad." Bård said to Reve as they were entering a restaurant in Bergen. They were with Vegard, Calle, Bjarte, and Ebonne. They have to rehearse for the Expensive Jacket Tour that's why the whole gang was there.

"Why?" Reve asked innocently.

"Because you always eat meat." Bård said.

"So?"

"It's not good to eat just only meat."

"Why?" Reve asked.

"Never mind. Go eat all the meat you want." Bård said, annoyed.

"Okay." Reve said happily. Bård just sighed and shook his head.

In a few moments, they reached their table and sat down. Reve was sitting on Bård's right side, while Ebonne was on his left. Bjarte, Vegard, and Calle were on the other side. The waiter gave them the menu and they started giving orders. Bård was still insisting about the salad thing when Vegard intervened.

"Hey, what's with the meat thing?" Vegard asked the two.

"Nothing, just some healthy diet thing." Bård replied.

"You know you're getting really noisy." Vegard said.

"Okay." Bård said as he raised his hand and shut up.

"I win." Reve said with a smile.

Then, the sound of broken china echoed all throughout the restaurant. They all looked at the source of the noise. One of the waitresses dropped the plates she was holding on the floor. Her co-workers approached her to help her fix the mess. Everyone went back to their own businesses but Vegard noticed something.

"Wait." Vegard said while looking at the spot where the waitress dropped the plates. He waited for the waitress to stand.

"What?" Calle asked.

"I thought I saw..." he said then the other employee stood up with the broken plates.

"No, I'm wrong." he continued.

Calle just continued looking at the menu and did not reply.

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"This is a good place for rehearsals. We're like really having the concert here." Vegard said.

"Yeah. It's big." Calle added.

"Its ok." Bård commented.

"Let's look at the dressing rooms." Bjarte said and started moving towards the dressing rooms. He went inside to one of the many rooms and examined it.

"Oh, someone's in here. Are these the dressing rooms?" Bjarte asked the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl, who was in her look, was shocked to see him.

She just stared at Bjarte like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Um miss? Are these the dressing rooms?" Bjarte asked again, confused of Alija's reaction.

"Bjarte, who's in there?" Vegard called.

"Um, Vegard, she doesn't talk much. She's maybe the janitress or something." Bjarte replied.

Vegard approached the room.

"Who is it?" Vegard said and froze at the sight of Alija. Bjarte seemed to be very confused. He looked at Alija, then to Vegard. Then, Bård, Calle, Ebonne, and Reve followed. When Bård saw Alija, he froze too, as well as Calle. Everybody stopped talking.

"She's not a ghost right?" Bjarte asked because of the weird reaction of his brothers.

Bård's breathing became heavy. He pierced Alija with his stare. All of them stared at her, but Alija is just staring at Bård. He wanted to run into her arms, but what she did to him was still painful. His emotions were in a total chaos and instead of doing something, he just stood there, lost.

"Um, guys, why are you staring at her? Do you know her?" Bjarte asked, still confused of what's happening. Then, another moment of silence. After a few seconds of just staring at each other, Bård finally spoke.

"No. I don't know her." he said emotionlessly, still looking directly at Alija's eyes. They are like 20 feet away from each other but Alija could feel his piercing stare. The words she heard stabbed her like knife.

Tears started welling on her eyes.

Vegard and Calle seemed to get back to their senses and started to panic. Vegard grabbed Bård's arm tightly and dragged him away from the room. Ebonne followed them as confused as Bjarte.

"Wait, what's happening?" Ebonne asked Vegard.

"Not, now." Vegard replied.

Bård was shocked by the encounter. He fought for release but Vegard is holding him tightly. As Vegard is keeping Bård away from Alija, Calle approached Alija and took her somewhere away from Bård.

"What are they doing? Are they playing?" Reve asked Bjarte. They were left at the door.

"I don't know. Maybe I've been away from them for too long that I never learned that they are suffering from mental illnesses or that they are now doing drugs." Bjarte replied.

"What are drugs?" Reve asked innocently.

"Oh! They hired a mentally retarded assistant too. I'll never understand my big brothers." Bjarte said under his breath while shaking his head. Then, he went directly to the direction where Vegard took Bård.

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Vegard took Bård in another dressing room and closed the door leaving Ebonne outside.

"Ok Bård." Vegard said trying to calm Bård down.

"Why did you bring me here?" Bård said angrily.

"I'm afraid of your anger. You might hurt her." Vegard said.

"Hurt her? Who cares? She hurt me first! I want revenge!" Bård said, still angry.

"Bård, are you hearing yourself? This is not you!" Vegard said, unable to believe.

"Yes! This is not me Vegard. Not anymore." Bård said and turned his back from Vegard. He walked towards the door then stopped halfway.

"Don't try to control me again. You're just my brother." Bård said with a low but threatining voice.

"Bård!" Vegard said.

Bård continued to open the door and went outside.

Vegard was left in the room, speechless. He never thought that that would happen between them. For the first time in his life, he's never been so afraid of Bård. He's different now. Vegard knows that he's been through a lot of things but he never imagined this to happen.

"I'm just his brother." Vegard said.

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"Alija, listen to me. Bård. Um, um, he might be angry or maybe still in love with you, I don't know. Just don't go near him for now." Calle said while holding both Alija's shoulders.

"I'm sorry." Alija said, a tear finally fell on her cheeks.

"What you did is hard to forgive Alija. I can't blame Bård if he's angry with you." Calle said.

"What I said before, they're not true. Calle, I have..." Alija tried to explain.

"Which one?" Calle asked looking at Alija's eyes. He's careful not to believe one more lie from Alija.

"About how I..." Alija was cut.

"Alija not now. Not now. I do still not trust you." Calle said.

"But Calle..." Alija tried to defend herself.

"Please. I know I'm not in the right place to get mad at you, but since you left, Bård changed. He is now totally different from the Bård we knew before. Thanks to you." Calle said with a low but full of anger voice, then he left. Alija was left alone in the corridor, crying.

A/N: Alija's back! So, Alija or Reve?

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