Chapter Two
Chapter Two
I stay frozen in my spot, unable to move. My heart is still pounding, wildly, against my chest. I hear my name being call over the wind.
I look in front of me and everyone is waiting for me. They don't know I know about the trial. Lily is walking towards me but she stops when the snows stops falling and freezes in the air. The snow only freezes around me. Everywhere else it still falls.
"Dad." Lily calls, worriedly.
Abe walks closer to Lily and he soon notice the same thing she does. He looks at me in my frozen position, unable to comprehend what is going on.
"Millian." Abe says. "What's wrong?"
When I don't respond, he turns to Lily.
"What is she feeling?"
I can feel Lily reaching out to connect with me and as soon as she does, she frowns in confusion.
"She's scared."
Scared? She's right. I am scared but not because of Kyle and Sophie. I'm terrified of the trial, of what they might say. They can ruin everything.
"Millian why are scared? I promise, you're safe." Abe assures me.
Lily glances around. "Where's Hayes? He's the only one that can calm her down."
Abe presses his earpiece and mutters something. I wrap my arms around myself and close my eyes. In no time, familiar warm arms are around me.
"Boo." He whispers so I'm the only one who can hear him. "What's wrong?"
I shake my head. I can't tell him. Not here with Abe standing so close by.
"I need you to move, okay? Can you do that for me?"
I open my eyes and stare into his grey ones. He encourages me to walk forward. I take a step and another. Once I begin to walk, the snow begins to fall again.
We make it to the SUV and climb inside. I'm in the middle, with my arms still wrapped around myself. Abe orders Reid to take us back to the mansion.
Why did they need a trial? They knew what happened? They didn't think Lily and I made everything up? Because we didn't. They knew exactly what happened from start to finish. So, why did they need to hear it from Kyle and Sophie.
I know there's no way I'll be allow to speak to Kyle and Sophie and ordered them not to say anything about my relationship. Abe won't allow me to see them. Lily can't either but I'm especially have to stay away from them. Mainly him.
But even if I could talk them, there was nothing I could do to stop them from not telling. They're angry with us and this will be payback for them not getting their way. As much as I don't want to think that way, I don't have much choice. Ever since that night happened, I can't be trusting as I have been. My guards are back up and I don't know who I can trust at my school anymore. Anyone can turn on me like they did. The sad part is, I trusted them. I never would had thought they were capable of doing what they did but looks are deceiving.
My circle was small but now it's smaller. Abe already made it clear that no one was allowed to get within ten feet near us. That order isn't starting until school starts. At first I didn't want anyone near me. I locked myself in my room for weeks, only going out to the piano room with Hayes. But now, I realize I can't do that to myself for the rest of my life. I'm glad Abe made that order. He said, if I was up to it, I could have it removed. But it had to stay there for a month and after that I could do whatever I wanted.
Which I don't know if I would ever be up to. The only person I'm comfortable with touching me is Hayes. He makes me feel safe and I know he's still blaming himself and I think if he knows I'm okay with him being beside me will ease his mind. I think it would kill him if he weren't allow to touch me. I know when I woke up in the hospital, he came to visit me and I didn't want him to touch me because I just felt Kyle's hands roaming all over my body.
I hated that feeling and it took me some days before I could start telling the difference. Hayes was patient with me and he still is. I don't know what I would do if he wasn't beside me. I got use to him sleeping beside me. I'm still not getting enough sleep like I should be but it's way more than I've been getting lately.
The nightmare still came and I wonder when they will stop coming. When will they stop haunting me? When can I start to enjoy my life?
Hayes places his hand on the small of my back to let me know he's there. I glance at him through the corner of my eye and he's looking through the window.
That's all he can do to comfort me because Abe's sitting in front of us. One wrong move and he will know everything. This gesture is discreet enough that if needed to, he can remove his hand before Abe sees it.
I'd much rather lean my against him and rest my head on his shoulder but I'll have to settle for this instead.
We make it to the mansion and the gate open, letting us in. Reid drives to the front and we get out the SUV. I'm walking up the stone stairs, when Abe stops me.
"Millian? I promise, no one is going to hurt you. Whatever it will take for you to feel and be safe, I will do it."
I nod. "I know you will, Dad." I say before continuing up the stairs.
I go to my safe place, my room and sit on my bed, thinking about the trial. Sophie and Kyle can never be trusted again and now that there's nothing to stop them, they can blab to the whole world about my secret. And who knows, that might be just want they need to get off the hook. They can use my relationship to get set free.
No one knows, Lily is the seer and Kyle can easily say anything he wants to make it seem like I was consensual. The fire could easily be set off by anything because it's old and something could easily set the whole building on fire. They can make I seem like they were trying to save me but they couldn't get in because the doorknob was too hot to touch and fire surrounded the door. As far as kidnapping us, they could say we wanted to go with them to continue partying on our birthday and the drugs could be from anyone at the club. And they took me to an abandoned warehouse for my safety because they thought Morches found us.
They could came up with anything to fit what was in their best interest. Sophie's a good actress so can make anyone believe her. She can come up with a brilliant, evil plan and Kyle will follow her lead. I mean she got me and everyone else to believe, Ava got Steve to say horrible things about me.
Anything can happen and I don't know what to do or say, if they did start to believe her over Lily and I.
I may just be overthinking this but I can't help it. I have to think of what may happen and try to figure out a solution to stop it. I place my head in my hands. I feel like crying but I can't.
I lift my head up when there's a knock on the door.
"It's me."
I stand up and open the door, letting him walk in. I shut it and he places his hand into mine.
"You were thinking about the trial, weren't you?"
I nod. "Yeah and you knew about it, right?"
"I did."
"You didn't think it would be a great idea to give me a heads up?"
"I didn't want you to worry about it."
"Because I'm not worried about it right now." I say, sarcastically.
"When I found out about it, it wasn't a great time to tell you. Abe didn't want you to know about it but I swear I was going to tell you today when I got back."
I study him and either he's good at lying or he's telling me the truth. I can't even tell the difference anymore. I just assume he's telling me the truth. I look away from him, pulling my hand away from his grasp.
I walk over to my slightly open window and I can feel his eyes on me.
"What are we gonna do?" I asked. "They can tell everyone about us."
"Don't worry about that."
"It's all I can worry about right now."
"You don't have to. I took care of it." He informs me. "They're not going to say anything about us. Don't worry about how I did it just know I handled it." He says before I could ask him how it took care of it.
I look at him and he's still in the same spot. I don't get how he's so calm about our situation. Maybe he is freaking out in the inside but he doesn't want me to see it because he doesn't want me to freak out as well. It doesn't matter if he is or not because I'm already overthinking the whole thing for the both of us.
"Millie?"
His voice brings me out of my thoughts. I blink my eyes a few times to focus on him. He's closer to me than he was before. I must've freaked him out while I was spaced out.
"I'm fine." I assure him, walking over to him.
He nods. "Okay." He says. "You don't have to go to the trial tomorrow. Lily has it all covered. She knows what to do."
"But what if I want to go?" I ask, glancing up at him. "What if Lily needs me?"
"Abe doesn't think it's a good idea for you to be there." He pauses. "Neither do I. You're still recovering. Saying them, could make things worse. It could put you back into your numb state and who knows, how long you will hide in your room next time."
He has a point but I can't abandoned Lily. She can't face both of them by herself. They kidnapped her too. She was drugged also. We need to be there for each other.
"I have to try." I tell him.
He shakes his head. "No. You're not going. You're staying as far away as you can from them."
"Hayes.."
"No, Millie." He says, firmly. "You're not going." He says as if I were a child.
I look away from him and he reaches out to touch me but I move away from him, stubbornly. He sighs and takes the hint to leave me alone. He walks out my room and I sit on the chair by my window, thinking of a way to go to the trial.
I can't convince Abe all on my own. I need help and obviously I can't ask Hayes. Lily and Lucas probably will side with them. So, they are out the question. Lily wouldn't even tell me about to the trial this morning and Lucas might've helped me if Lily didn't tell him not to.
That leaves me with one person I can turn to if they haven't gotten to her yet. I stand up and leave my room. I head over to where I know I can find her. I keep my head down so no one can see my face. I have to keep this between us. If someone sees us talking us, it'll ruin my chances.
Knocking on the door, I walk into her small office. She looks up from her paperwork and frowns in confusion.
"Princess Millian, did something happen?"
I shake my head. "No. I need your help."
"With what?"
"I'm sure you heard about the trial and I need to be there. But the problem is, my father doesn't want me to be present. He fears I might fall back into my depression."
"Close the door and sit down." She tells me.
I do what she orders and take a sit in front of her desk.
"He's right. Seeing them, him, could trigger your depression. You're barely healing. Seeing them, will reopen the wounds and it might take longer for them to heal again. But, if you're absolutely certain you want to do this, I will help you."
I nod my head. "I do. I need to do this."
Marie stares at me. "Alright. I'll talk to King Abe and tell him seeing them is apart of recovering, okay?"
"Okay." I stand up. "Thank you, Marie."
I walk out her office and on my way to my room, I get stop by a few people from the school. I never talk to them before but I think I saw them when I walked down the hallways.
"Millie?" One of the girls says, stopping me.
"How are you holding up?" Another girl asks. "We haven't seen you in some days."
I give them a small smile. "I'm fine. Thanks for asking.
"We're really sorry for what happened to you and Lily." The other girl tells me.
"I'm sorry what's your name?" I ask them.
"Oh, I'm Chloe" The first one to speak to me replies. "And that's Helen and Natalie."
"We just wanted to check on you and say sorry for what they did to you two." Helen says.
"Thank you." I tell them.
I continue my walk to my room and shut the door. I lay in my bed and I feel how exhausted my body is. I need to sleep but I don't know if I will be able to.
I sigh and close my eyes and it starts out fine but like before, the nightmare came and I immediately wake up before the rest of the scene plays and no one will wake me up.
I turn my head when my door comes flying open. I sit up and it's Lily, standing behind her is Lucas.
"What happened? Are you okay?" Lily asks, coming over to me.
"I'm fine."
"Are you sure? I felt-"
I interrupt her. "I was trying to sleep but I had that nightmare."
She lets out a sigh of relief. "I thought something happened to you. You're just tired. Do you want me to get Hayes?"
I shake my head. "No. It's okay. I'll sleep tonight."
She nods. "Alright. Why do you come with me and Lucas?"
"Yeah, c'mon Millie. It'll be better for you to be somewhere other than your room." Lucas tells me.
"Okay." I stand up and follow them out my room.
We went into Lily's art room and it's filled with all her drawings. She has a portrait of everyone she cares for on the wall. Starting with me and her, Abe, Reid and Hayes and ending with her and Lucas. On the other wall it's the field of flowers and our mother.
"I'm still deciding on what to fill the other two walls." Lily says as I look at the drawings.
"These are beautiful, Lily." I tell her.
"Thank you."
"Why didn't you tell me about the trial?" I ask her.
She's my sister and we told each other everything. She kept this from me and it felt like betrayal. I'm mad at Hayes but I didn't know, he knew about it.
Lily sighs. "It was a little over a week after what happened and you were still in your room when Abe brought me into his office to tell me. At first, I was shocked because they don't deserve a trial but now I'm glad there is one because now I can tell everyone what monsters they are. I didn't tell you because I still couldn't feel any emotions from you and if you were to find out about the trial, you would sink deeper and I didn't want that. I told Hayes about it and he agreed with me. But Lucas said it wasn't fair to keep from you."
"You deserved to know." Lucas says.
"I was going to tell you, but Hayes thought it would be better for him to tell you instead and I agreed with him." Lily says. "And no one was sure when you would leave you room. If you ever would leave your room. The trial was something we didn't want to bother you with when you already had so much to deal with. I mean, today is the first day you emerged from you room and spoke to anyone besides Hayes in days without looking like a zombie. I'm sorry for keeping it from you but it's what was best for you."
I nod. "Thank you for trying to protect me but what about you? They kidnapped you too."
"I know but it's nothing compared to what they did to you. I can handle it for the both for us. I know what to say. I'm doing it for us so you won't have to see them. You won't have to see him."
Tears fill my eyes. Lily's trying to be strong for me because I'm weak. All this time, I thought she needed me but really I need her. She wants to protect me from them. In all honesty, I don't want to see them ever again but I owe it to myself and everyone else to face them and move on. Because if I can't do that, I will never escape from them.
"I need to face them. We're going to do this together."
Lily hugs me. "Okay. We will." She promises me.
Later that day, we went back to the school because it's my turn to fix the gate. The moon is full and bright. We make it to the school and walk over to the gate. Abe walks me through the same steps he told Lily earlier. Instead of yellow spreading, it's white. It feels strange but in a good way.
Once it gets all the way around, the white fades away and sinks into the metal gate and in a long time, I can feel the power the Gate of Life holds. It feel how powerful it is.
Everyone will be safe to return to school in two days when the break is over. We head back to the mansion and after I ate, I went to my room to take my shower. I stand under the hot warm for awhile. I let it ran down my body, saving the feelings of being able to feel the temperature again after going days without feelings anything.
I step out and wrap a towel around me. I dry off and put on my clothes. As I walk out the bathroom, I put my hair up. Instead of going to my bed, I go over to the chair by the window. I stare out the window, looking out the sky.
I don't know if Hayes was going to come or not. I don't know if he thinks I'm still upset with him. So, I wait for him to come and when he doesn't come, I freak out. What am I going to do? How am I going to get through this night without him? He was going to come, right?
Then ten minutes later, my door opens and he walks in. I move off the chair, quickly and ran to him, hugging him, tightly.
"Hey, are you okay?"
"I didn't think you would come." I say.
"I'm always going to come. You don't have to worry about that. I'm here for you." He mutters before kissing my forehead.
He leads me to the bed and we get into our position we always slept in. He wraps his arm around my waist and I lay my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat. It's calm and steady. I relax and my body shuts down as the sound puts me to sleep.
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