Every Lie Counts

Come and Find Me

Warning- Thoughts of suicide will come up in this chapter (for like, five seconds...) and I wasn't sure if it would trigger anyone...so...yeah...

Lem sighed as she finished fixing her hair. She looked at Sunset curiously. "Why do you never talk about your family?"

Sunset snapped her head up. A look of fear or confusion clouded her eyes. "Why do you never talk about your family?" she countered quickly. Then she breathed out slowly. "My mother died, I was never close to my dad, and my s-" she broke off. "It's nothing. It that it?"

"Oh." Lem looked around nervously. "Yeah."

"Thank you."

Lem picked her jacket up off the couch. Sunset was holding her brush. "I'm going out," they both said in unison. "Okay..."

They stared at each othernfor a minute; a minute of awkward silence. Sunset finally spoke up. "Well then I guess I'll see you later. Be careful." Lem nodded.

"You too."

With that, Lem quickly left the apartment. Once she closed the door, she stared at her newest text.

Think you can find me? Well then come and try, sweetie. -A

A million thoughts were spinning in her head: What if I die? What would they do? Should I really be doing this? What if I never come back? Am I being stupid?

She pushed them all away, and started walking to her safe place: an abandoned underground mine.

-

Sunset wore a short, black silk skirt, a white shirt with short black sleeves, and knee high white boots. Her black mascara made her deep emerald green eyes stand out.

After getting dressed, it only took her a few minutes to get to the address Lilac had given her. It was a karaoke and bar in one.

Lilac was holding a table. A smile hopped to her lips. "You look like a sailor." When Sunset gave her a questioning look, she spoke again. "No offense. I do love it. But you seriously look like a sailor." She tapped the seat. "Sit."

Sunset slid into the booth. "How are you?"

"I'm great, beautiful Sunset."

They sat and talked for a while, before Sunset suddenly felt the urge to tell Lilac everything.

She stared down at her legs. "I killed her." The words she had once said with venom, now just deepened her sorrow.

Lilac gave her a weird look. "Who?"

"Henna...my old girlfriend," she peeped out.

"Why?"

"She-" Where do I start? "She tried to kill my other friends, and there was a knife in my hands. I was so mad. And scared for their lives. I wasn't thinking, and the next thing I felt was the knife tearing through her." By then she was hugging herself, and fighting back tears. "I took the life of someone I had once loved."

Lilac's face was completely blank, emotionless. "Of she was about to kill your other friends, you were just saving them. That's very admirable."

"Murder?" Sunset let out a dry laugh. "I'd hardly call that admirable."