Misunderstood

Chapter 5

Andrea woke with the sensation of her hair being moved, she blinked her eyes open to see Zackery move her hair from her face and just for a moment, wished it was another "I know my brother loved you but I now see it was not all your personality but your looks as well, you hide it well but when you take the time to look, you are beautiful Andrea..." Zackery never could understand why his brother dated and loved Andrea when she lived so far away and only got to see her a few times when she came to stay with Crystal but then again, he never tried to but now, after all these years when he has to finally acknowledge her, he can plainly see. She had her black hair cut short and set nicely on her rounded freckled face, she had a small button nose and widespread dark brown eyes but she covers it up by that ugly glasses and bags and a little oily unset hair. Andrea gets up and pushes her glasses back to place and wonders how long she was out and he sat in front of her "I'm sorry I was late and fell asleep" she looked down meekly and ignored his last comment, he probably didn't mean it and it is suddenly very hard not to look at him when he and the memory flash reminded her about Anthony, plus she felt guilty for the thought that popped out when she awoke to him. For the past year and a half, she has tried to ignore him but it was heartbreaking to say that each time she saw a glimpse of him, she would think she saw Anthony and her heart would accelerate to only remember that he is dead and that it was Zackery, his twin brother and her heart would ache and she would be nearly brought to tears because of how hopeful she was, after all, although she saw him shot and lose conscious, at the end, there were nobody, only blood and a ring covered in blood that she had given him for their one year anniversary. Her cousin's body was also gone but she was there when the light went out of her eyes, she held her hand when it went slack and she parted words with her in her last moments that till this day, she cannot understand and would very much like to forget. A curious mind brings forth an unforeseen outcome and she never wants to enter that world again and so when the FBI asked her to join and continue her training through them, she refused and ran home, even though a big part of her wishes she could catch those that did this and help make sure no one goes through what she had to, it was too soon after the incident that it just terrified her. "thinking about the past huh? So have I, it seems to be harder to forget as time goes on, more flashes of the time together and signs of things wrong that we could of avoided" Said Zackery in a thoughtful tone, he blinked and looked at her then "I needed to get the anger and guilt and pain out so I have been fighting but it does not help in the long run, yet it has helped to keep up my training" Andrea hoped the rumors were not true because with the training they had... Zackery was one of the best in the camp and this could push him into their hands or into what they were making us into. "don't give those people that made us this way the satisfaction of winning by doing what they made us anyway" he only grunted "I don't know how it feels to unleash all those feelings in a fight but if it is what you say it is, that medicine is a drug and drugs are not good for you and they are the ones that diagnosed and prescribed it to you" Zackery laughed out loud and then chuckled to a stop when he was warned he would be thrown out of the library if he didn't keep quiet "very poetic Andrea, I didn't know that about you" he grew serous "but if I don't let go of it somehow, I would burst and I would not be in control and THAT would be dangerous" I knew what he meant, I have bottled it up and it's going to burst any time now so I have to release it "I guess I understand but I just don't want them to win after everything that they have done to us and taken away, we were so young and naïve and then my cousin and I brought you and...your brother into it" I have such a hard time saying his name out loud, I had to pause and take a deep breath before I continued "they manipulated us so much and we believed and trusted them that we didn't even see the red flags flashing at us as we went on and it scares me more to think my cousin and I nearly finished our training with them and then we would have been unable to get out. I heard stories of how they manipulated in the last stages to train us to kill innocents" Zackery was quiet while he listened to my rant but I could see his anger and uncontrollable rage but I could also see knowledge in his eyes and I knew that he was keeping something from me "we trained with them from the time we were able to walk, my playsets with my cousin was a dartboard with sharp darts, if we were not related to... one of theirs, we would have been done a long time ago but they wanted to experiment on us to see how to make the best assassins and yes it backfired but only because we were blind to what they were doing and we had a life and influence outside of that!" I cannot sit back anymore, I cannot let them get away with what they did and carry on doing so "I have grieved and blamed myself and walked away long enough, I cannot let them do what they did to us, do to others and I know they will not stop so I have to find a way to expose them" damn, I didn't know all of that was in me. I looked up to see Zackery and I thought I would see pity there but all I saw was fierce determination and rage "I agree with you there but how do we go about it? If we go alone, we will be beat, no matter how good we are and we cannot go to the cops, they cannot do anything and we lied to the FBI, remember?" oh I remember all right but it had to be done "the FBI is our only choice if we want an investigation even after we have gone, if we do it on our own or get a group, after we go, the mission is done with us but with them, it would be on their radar and I don't think it is now, not when my uncle was helping them and I am sure they have many more people to spy and help them keep it a secret otherwise, how was the camp infiltrated? but as long as it is broadcasted to everyone in the FBI and/or others, those that are not in it will investigate and they cannot kill everyone like they cannot have everyone as one of theirs" Zackery has not said anything yet but I kind of feel he is with me on this.