Lost in their Past

Chapter 80:- The Betrayal

"There there," Gary rubbed her back, "get it all out."

Serena hurled her guts into the toilet.

The brunet momentarily looked away, the last few weeks since he'd found out he had a sister had been nothing but joyous. Except for last week when everyone at Hald Fest got food poisoning. Serena had held back Gary's hair while he emptied his stomach and now, he was returning the favor.

Three days after the epidemic was over.

"Other's barely lasted a day," he covered his nose with a pin, "are you sure you shouldn't get checked up?"

"Because you all received medication!" She cried, "they're refusing to treat me!"

"Why? You're the team captain."

Hearing the word team captain, her guts drenched once again. The plain horror and the betrayal were enough to make her hurl her guts without the food poisoning.

"I don't know," she pushed the flush, "I asked my mother and she... seemed to be pretty okay with it."

Ailsa had decided to train them all even before they came to know of Spencer's location. She'd brought one specific trainer from the academy, of course, others didn't recognize him.

But Serena did.

He was the one who'd tortured her in the name of 'training'. Her body shook with fear as she remembered that brutal month in the academy with Zaff, the pain, and the blood in the silver room brought tears to her eyes.

Training with Zaff along with the others wasn't as hard as it was in the academy, but it certainly wasn't easy either. Especially when she'd arrived in the hospital wing with a broken wrist and they'd refused to treat it with their 'magical' medicines.

A groan escaped her lips as she sank to the bathroom floor. Little chunks of vomit still covered the corner of her lips.

Gary gagged at its sight but still sat down next to her, offering her a bottle of water.

"Thanks," she said, "but I don't have the strength to lift the bottle."

"It's fine," he unscrewed the lid, "I can help you."

He splashed the bottle on her face.

"What the—" she cried, "I thought you were going to make me drink it! Not take a bath!"

"Oh I am," he put the bottleneck near her lips, "there was a chunk of vomit on your lips."

The blonde eyed her brother with murderous intentions as she drank the bottle empty.

They sat quietly on her bathroom floor for some time. It was Serena who broke the silence when a sigh of exasperation escaped her lips. She rested her head, still drenched from the splash, on Gary's shoulder.

"What am I going to do?" She sighed.

The brunet shrugged, "You got yourself into this situation."

"We!" She cried, "we got me into this situation! The least you can do is suggest a way out!"

"Yeah but I was the manipulator from the shadows, in everyone's minds, you're the real bitch."