Zalius | ✔︎

☽ 𝟭𝟵 : 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 ☾

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4:32 pm

"We...we have nothing to say," Dad muttered under his breath after retracting his figure, making my breath hitch in my pipe after hearing that escape his mouth shamelessly, while my mom was too busy counting down her seconds before chaos might occur, and I shift uncomfortably beside my brother he in turn held my hand in his to comfort me.

"You should leave." Dad added worriedly with a hint of command towards me and Zalius, making me huff a gasp of bewilderment, while Ren looked pissed as fuck thanks to his treatment and cold distance towards me, while I couldn't even recognise the man I used to look up to my father anymore. He looked so foreign, like a stranger, end the weirdest part was that there was not even one part in me who is missing what we used be before.

Heck, forgot dad, even mom was far away from heart about now. This small hope I had birthed inside me was a sense of finding a way to maybe fix things, and maybe even start things over for the sake of them being my blood. But as soon as Zalius uttered those words about having to tell me everything, that hope was vanquished to bits and pieces. I had no interest to hear them talking anymore, and Ren seemed to have enough of both of them.

"What does he mean tell her everything? What the fuck is going on here? What are you both hiding from us?" Ren spat after walking closer to them just like Zalius did, having the same feeling of suspicion adorn his figure that had greeted me when I was in the elevator, making Zalius step back and stand in a straight posture while glancing at me, and I was too distracting myself with any other possible scenario in my head.

Come here.

Zalius spoke softly through our minds to ease my discomfort with his deep voice that he knew I was obsessed with, shaking his head at the suitcase I was gripping tightly to signal not to be rigid that much and loosen myself, causing me to also step back and walk towards him hesitantly, side hugging him in the process and receive the comforting yet inviting sparks that I was already used to at this point with his arm snaking around my waist, and I looked at him in question. He looked absolutely disturbed and conflicted by something that I couldn't decode, and I had a feeling that he already knew what the whole situation was after probably pushing into their thoughts and getting the whole image into his own mind, making me pout after seeing him look down at me like I was the most precious thing in the world, making me ignore the many accusations happening in the background by my agitated brother.

"You know everything, don't you?" I whispered to him with a broken tone, feeling a sense of protection after having him near me immediately as he held my tightly in secret, and his frowning eyes deepened even more painfully while deeply exhaling, unfortunately coming across probably every single detail about this, and I collapsed my forehead into his chest.

"Is there any device here that might be tracking or recording anything in the house? I honestly don't feel like we're being watched here." I mumbled inaudibly after feeling trying to scan the living room or even the culprits in the whole house for something, not getting anything at all, and Zalius confirmed my doubts by shaking his head as a no, to which I sighed in relief.

"Don't give me that bullshit, what the hell are you hiding from both of us?! Did you know where she was the whole time and didn't even do anything about it?! Why didn't you contact her? Or even try to help me? What the hell happened to both of you huh?!" Ren bombarded countless of questions in his really loud voice that normally wouldn't surface on a daily basis, and I was feeling it in my heart that he was super duper angry at the moment. Not the mention the fact that Zalius was probably feeling ten times more angrier than usual, but nonetheless stayed calm in front of me, and solemnly focused on preventing me to jump to conclusions instead of breaking this whole house into two.