The Days Before 16

Chapter 12 Continued Part 2

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

He was sitting as far back as you could in the kitchen, his back against the cupboards with his knees up at his chest and his hands clasped over his mouth. But the worst thing of all was his eyes. His eyes were red from the tears that still ran down his face but even still in those eyes was fear and panic. The two emotions went hand in hand with one other. I started to move forward on my hands and knees toward him. The boys hands with drawled back to themselves as I moved toward Todd. As I was getting closer to him the more fearful and panicked he became. As I reached the island in the middle of the kitchen Todd swang at me.
"Don't, don't come any closer." He said frightened. I stopped. Oh no. Please.
"Please Todd. I need you. I don't know what's going on! I'm scared. Please." I said on the verge of tears. He just shook his head at me.
"Get out. Get out get out get out!" he shouted.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Get out of this house. And... and don't you come back! Stay away from me! Go! Get out!" he said before he got up and bolted out the kitchen and up the stairs to his room. The slam of his bedroom door echoed through the entire house. I sat there kneeling with my mouth covered by my hands, tears escaping my eyes. He just told me to get out of our house. He basically just kicked me out of my own home. No, I needed him more than ever. He couldn't do this to me. No, I thought and bolted upstairs. I thought werewolf speed was fast but vampire speed? Triple, easily. I stopped outside of his room. I placed my hands and forehead on the door.
"Please." I whispered. There was no response. "Where am I going to go? This house and you, you're the only things that I have left; the only things that seem safe and familiar to me. Please Todd. Don't do this to me. Please." I continued. My vampire and werewolf hearing caught what seemed to be the softest whisper from beyond the closed door.
"Just leave me alone. Stay away. It's too much. I can't take it. What the hell are you? How can you even be? I know you can hear me Willow, run."
"I'm not running." I said. All of a sudden his voice was louder and there was more confidence in his voice and it was a lot closer than before.
"I have no idea what the hell you are. You are a danger to this town, to this world. Get out Willow because, I have to kill you and I don't want to Willow. You're my sister. But please get out."
That scared me speechless. I didn't really take in the words after he said he had to kill me. "You-u-u wouldn't!" I managed to whisper.
"I will. It's my duty to this town, this world. There has never been something like you before because there can't be." Todd said and opened his door. I stepped back, afraid. His eyes were like psycho eyes. Calm but crazy at the same time and his voice was as if he were a psychotic killer from Criminal Minds. The way he stood also helped with the psychotic killer look. His voice, his eyes, his stance made him look like a killer. If I didn't know him, I'd think he was one. And I knew in that moment he was serious about killing me so I had to say the most difficult words ever. I never thought I'd ever say this but this is what he wants and if I didn't say these words, I'd die. I was sure.
"Todd. I'm leaving. I'll go. I'm gonna pack a bag and then I'll be gone. Ok?" I said trying to hold back the sobs. I can't believe I just said the words I thought I'd never say. I didn't think we'd live together forever or anything, I just thought I'd never had to say that.
"Just make it quick." He said like I was a piece of filth before he shut the door again. That wasn't my brother, I thought. No, that was someone else. Someone horrible. My feet felt like concrete as I walked down the hall to my room. When I entered my room I shut the door and leaned against it with my back facing my room. I felt my heart break. I felt it shatter into a million pieces. I never thought I'd feel this way about Todd, unless he passed away. I sobbed for a minute then pushed off from the door only to turn around to see Daniel lying down in the middle of my bed and Trevor sitting on the edge of my bed, nervously tapping his foot. On the other side of his foot was my black travel bag. It looked pretty full. No, they couldn't have. That's just... not right. You don't just come into someone's room and go through their stuff and pack a bag for them. That just... doesn't happen.
"What are you two still doing here? Get out of here. Go. Just leave ok?" I said angrily. They looked at me. Daniel rolled off my bed and sat next to Trevor, who had stopped tapping, on the edge of my bed. Why was Daniel laying in my bed? Oh. I hadn't even had time to make it this morning and I was just about to get into it no less than half an hour ago.
"Look, Willow. I'm sorry about your brother-" Daniel started. I cut him off.
"Don't you dare start talking about him! You don't know him! Hell, you don't even know me! I don't know who the hell you two are! All I know is that ever since you two showed up, bad things have been happening to me!" I said, starting to fall apart. But it was true. I ran a hand through my hair. Oh God, what was happening? What am I going to do?
"And we are sorry about that Willow, trust me, we are." Trevor said. "We never wanted to hurt you."
"Trust you? I don't know you! I have no idea who you or your buddy here are, ok? I have no idea how I dreamed about us being at a ball in the 1800s and then you having the exact same picture in your wallet! How does that even work? Never hurt me? It's a little late for that! Down the hall there, behind that door, that person who just said get out of this house, was my life. He was my everything and now... " I said and pointed to my wall but meaning beyond it to Todd's room. I starting to ramble on and on getting more distressed the more I talked. Their shoulders slumped and I had the strangest feeling that it was because I was hurt. I couldn't breathe. Trevor was beside me in less than a second and Daniel not too far behind. I put a hand on my side and then moved the other to my forehead. I think I was having some sort of panic attack or something.
"What the hell man? She's never acted this way before! It's normally done after ten minutes, twenty at the most!" Daniel said to Trevor.
"I think it has to do with Todd." Trevor answered.
"Todd has nothing to do with this! How could he? Don't talk about him. You don't know him." I said still hanging on to the edge of the cliff. They ignored me. I was just hanging on. I was afraid to let go and fall but I didn't want to pull myself up either.
"How does he fit into this?" Daniel asked Trevor.
"She's never had a brother or a sister before, ever. Now she's got one, things are going to be so much harder and so much different to what they normally are, Daniel. We have to scrap the other ways we've done it but there's no one to help us because she has never had a sibling before." Trevor said. Daniel nodded. What do they mean I've never had a sibling before?
"I see. Well we thought things were tough before. This time we better go in the section of the rollercoaster where there are double seat belts, it's gonna be a rough ride." Daniel answered. What they were saying was scaring me even more but I had to get out of here. For Todd. He'll probably go insane. I want to help him. I need to, one half of me was saying. But the other half was saying, by leaving your helping him. Get out. Go. But where to? I had nowhere. I didn't have any family around here and I wanted to make sure Todd was ok when I'm gone. In fact, I had no family. Anywhere. Except for down the hall.
"Where am I gonna go?" I whispered out loud. The boys hadn't thought about that too hard from the look on their faces.
"You can stay with me at my house." Daniel said. Daniel's house?
"Don't be stupid, she'll come stay with me at my house." Trevor said. Trevor's house?
"No, she'll come with me." Daniel said. Trevor's jaw tensed and Daniel's nostrils flared. They had to be kidding right? I looked at them funny. Were they fighting over where I was going to stay? No. They couldn't be. Not now. Not after what just happened.
"Why don't you let her make the decision?" Trevor said, obviously trying to show that he was above Daniel. Daniel's nostrils flared again.
"So then. Willow, where would you like to stay?" Daniel asked. Oh no. Not good. At all. Whatever I say someone will get hurt, unless... I won't be there long anyway. Todd will have me back in a couple of days. Yeah, I know he will. He needs me just like I need him. Everything is going to be alright. I just needed to wait for him to clear his head. Get his thoughts under control.
"Why do I have to choose? Can't I just stay at someone's tonight then tomorrow night I just go over the others? Isn't that fair?" I said. For some reason I was starting to feel tried and calm.
"I guess that's fair." The boys said at the same time. "So then who's first?" they said again at the same time. They looked at one another with a look of hatred on their faces. I guess they didn't like the other saying the same thing. I know I didn't. Once I did a report for History and I worked really hard on it and everything then someone else had the exact same points that I had. I was not happy.
"Can't you to just like, I don't know, play scissors, paper, rock? Best of one, winner is first loser is tomorrow night. Fair?" I suggested half-heartedly. I just wanted this all to be over. I just wanted to lie down and sleep.
"That seems fair." Daniel said.
"Best of one." Trevor said as he moved to play Daniel.
"Scissors, paper, rock." They said as they showed their choice.
"Shit." Daniel said annoyed.
"Ha." Trevor gloated as his paper beat Daniel's rock. "Ok then; shall we?" Trevor continued.
"I guess." I said. "Wait, I have to pack a bag."
"Oh don't worry about that, I got it." Daniel said as he picked up my black travel bag.
"Wait, you guys packed for me?" I asked surprised and suspicious. I knew it looked full. Of all things I felt awkward and embarrassed instead of angry at them for going through my stuff.
"Yeah. And?" Trevor asked me like nothing was wrong.
"Which one of you packed that bag?" I asked a bit horrified at the thought of two hot guys in my bedroom going through my clothes even though I don't know them.
"It was me, why?" Trevor answered. He didn't get it?
"Well that means you went through my clothes and picked out what you wanted not what I wanted." I answered.
"What?" Trevor asked confused. I was about to start saying something but Daniel got there first.
"Mate, she thinks you grabbed the most revealing clothes in her wardrobe and put them in the bag. Wait, did you even put clothes in? Last I saw him he was looking through your underwear drawer. Hope he put some clothes in otherwise it's gonna be a bit awkward for you two." Daniel said. My face went bright red, Trevor seemed embarrassed and you could see a faint pink colour in his face and Daniel seemed quite pleased with himself. I gotta hand it to him though, that was some way of getting payback. A funny embarrassing way. My face was going back to its normal colour and I looked over at Daniel. He was smiling, very pleased with himself and I gave him a half smile and a nod. He got my message of 'nice way to get payback' and smiled back at me. My face started to burn up a little but not much. Trevor cleared his throat.
"Let's go then." Trevor said. When Daniel was closer to me I held out my hand for my bag. He didn't give it to me.
"It's ok, really. I can carry my own bag." I said. He leaned in close to my ear.
"I'll take it for the lady." He said. Where was this lady? Did he mean me? Ha!
"Ok then." I replied. Trevor and Daniel had left my room but I stayed back and of all things, got my book bag and shoved all my homework and everything I needed to catch up on into it. I shoved all my books from every subject into it. I made sure to grab a pen, pencil and a rubber. I looked over at my bedside table. All the notes I had received were there. I walked over to them and grabbed them. For some reason I knew I was going to need them. I shoved them into my book bag. Just before I closed my door I looked into my room. My bathroom, my desk, my comfy bed, my huge bookcases, my boots, my ball and everything in my whole life that I needed was in this one room. And I was leaving. Not for long though, you'll be back in a couple of days, think of it as a sleepover or a holiday, that one half said. I think I might just do that, I thought back to it and shut the door to my room. For a couple of days. I was trying to convince myself that I'd be back in a few days and the more I thought about it instead of me starting to believe it, I started to doubt it. Todd had just lost his whole life. He had lost his parents and the most important thing to him, me. The boys were waiting for me at the stairs but I looked past them to the door at the end of the hall.
"I just need to say goodbye." I said to them. They nodded, unsure. I walked past them and knocked on Todd's door quietly. I heard his breathing so I knew he could hear me, I knew he was listening. "Todd? I just wanted to say that um I'm leaving now, ok? Anytime you want me to come home just call, I'll come, always. It's still me in here Todd and I'm more scared than ever. Don't do anything stupid, ok? Please. I love you Todd." I said into the door quietly. I kissed two fingers then put them on the door. I turned back toward the stairs and Trevor and Daniel both looked at me sadly. Trevor went first, then me and lastly Daniel. Trevor held the front door open as me and Daniel walked through. He shut the door behind him. I took a deep breath.