War of Phantoms.

chapter 16

Tsillah really sent me back! But how? I try to get myself together and not to freak out in front of my family, although I missed them so freaking much. That head rush is so painful that I lost sense of reality and dreams and I begun to wonder, what if all that was just a dream or a fantasy made up by my subconscious because I was bored..? No it all was so real.. All those months I spent there, how can I just be here in the same minute I left? That accident didn't happen, it's her magic, right! God I'm so puzzled out.

I sit steadily in the vehicle, looking at my parents. Mom and dad are still arguing, we don't lose the way, though. It's the right direction, they're arguing about the place that we got to visit. Dean is busy with his phone. Nothing happen to them, they're all okay, but why do I feel this way!?

Tsillah's words hit me again and again, she said that I traveled to another dimension, unlike I thought about the time traveling thing. Does this prove the parallel universe theory? But wait! The royal marriage!! Leo and the Infenyans.. What will happen to them? What will happen to Leo when he finds out I disappeared? Will they look for me? Will he miss me?

I face slam my forehead so hard. "Uggh... what do I do now?"

Mom abruptly looks at me. "You okay, sweetie?"

Did I say that out loud?

"Yeah," I try to answer normally. "Are we there yet?"

"Soon." dad replies.

"Oh," I look down at my sweaty palms. Diana, don't freak out, don't freak out, don't lose your mind. You know what exactly happened, you just don't know how to deal with it.

I need to go back.

But how

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My parents and Dean get down after the car parks, when I'm just there feeling motionless and confused. I want to believe it. I want to accept it.

"Diana doesn't look good." My sibling comments.

I look at the three of them and realize that they were staring at me for a while. I shake my head and say. "No, no. I'm so okay, it's just the long road, you know." with some fake laughter.

"Just tell us if you feel sick." mom says patting my head gently.

"I just want to say one thing." I get off and stand next to them. I know they'll think I lost my mind, but whatever, I missed them so much. I get closer and hugged them, taking a long breath of their scents that held the sensations of safety I lost in Infenya, and then I just begin to cry.

"What is wrong sweetheart!?" dad asks.

"I...I" I try not to sob more, "I just had a bad dream."

"Did we die in that dream?" Dean jokes. He shouldn't say that, because it makes me cry even harder.

I pull away saying. "Sorry," with a weak smile. "I dunno what's wrong with me."

"That's okay," mom replies. "We understand."

Do they?

I reach for my hotel room and throw myself on bed. "What do I do!? What do I do!? Diana, think. Hold yourself."

I know it wasn't a dream. I know it couldn't be an illusion. The scars in my hands from those battles are still here!!

Should I just forget about it and go back to my old life? Or should I look for a way back to the kingdom? I've logic reasons to choose just one of the both options, but they don't seem fair to them. It's not fair for my family, if I leave them this way, and it's not fair for the Infenyans, if I let them, knowing the reason of their misery. I must save them from her.