BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 360: Afraid To Disappear

Chapter 360: Afraid To Disappear

Song For The Background ~ Sorry By Aquilo

"Phew! We’re done!" Emma groaned, landing on the bed exhausted from all the work, I chuckled at her antics.

"Come on, I don’t have much stuff," I said, taking a seat on my bed and lying next to her. We just finished setting up my room and even though I told Emma I could handle everything she insisted she wanted to help me.

"How do you feel?" she suddenly asked me and I shifted my eyes away from the ceiling and looked to the side, I got a better look at her side profile, her eyes glued to the ceiling.

"What do you mean?"

"I never got the chance to ask" she sighed and I looked back at the ceiling. "How do you feel about all this drastic change, finding out you’re an Adams and that you have a twin sister"

"I-Its..." I didn’t know how to start. "It’s not that hard honestly, it just feels like a missing part of me is found and the rest just came through" I began with narrowed eyes. "You know I didn’t realize until now but all my life I felt like a part of me was missing... I had unconditional love from my mom and dad but it felt like-"

"It wasn’t enough" She finished for me and I could tell she was smiling. "I always felt alone ever since, the lonelier I felt the more I wanted to be isolated from others, It’s not that I don’t like people, it just felt so odd communicating and it got my social abilities in a mess, I felt like I rather talked with-"

"Someone else" I finished for her.

And she giggled at my words. "And now we finish each other sentences don’t tell me we have like a twin tingle of something"

"Twin tingle?"

"Yeah you know... like knowing what the other twin is thinking about"

"I rather not read your thoughts, Emma, It could be all dirty thoughts filled with nothing but Dace"

"Hey!" she snapped punching my side and I chuckled at her weak throw.

"You throw like a girl"

"Because I’m a girl!"

I held her hand. "Don’t worry I will teach you how to throw a punch or two, you have to always be on your defensive side"

She huffed, puffing her cheek. "I have my magic"

"I don’t think it’s what you should always rely on, we live in a dangerous town"

She rests her head back on the bed. "You know I had a choice to leave Juneau after a vampire attacked me, I didn’t know anything about the supernatural world, not deep into it and I had a chance to leave it all behind without looking back"

"What made you change your mind?" I asked curiously.

"I made a choice... not just to be with Dace, but because I felt a little part of my loneliness subside, I mean Dace was there... but when you came in it felt like that missing piece was found, and now..."

"And now what?"

She gave me one of those brightest smiles of hers. "Everything feels complete... you, mom, aunt, Dace, and my friends. It feels like something has been built in this little time frame and I don’t want to let it go..." Her smile instantly vanishes.

"What’s wrong?" I asked, worried at her sudden change of mood.

"I’m scared one day it would all just disappear, because when true happiness comes something always comes to take it away, just like when mom lost you"

"Hey" I began taking her hand in mine and she gripped it tightly. "You’re not gonna disappear okay? I won’t let that happen"

"I know" She faced the ceiling with a small smile on her lips.

"I promise"

~

A promise I didn’t keep, she thought all the people she loved would one day disappear and she was scared of that, her greatest nightmare, it turned out she was the one who left.

Right now as I held her cold body in mine, a part of me was gone, I tried healing her wound but it did nothing but strain my body, but I kept trying... I don’t know what to do, I’m lost, crying like a child, holding my lifeless sister in my arms.

She can’t just leave, I made a promise... to never let her leave but I can’t fulfill that when she’s lying cold in my arms.

"Please open your eyes... please" I sobbed, hugging her tightly. This should all just be a bad dream please... please. The pain in my chest was ripping me apart with each tear that slid down my cheeks.

"Please..."

*Meow*

On hearing the sound I raised my head sniffing and found a strawberry blond cat approaching me, it took me a moment with several blinks.

"T Jnr?" I asked. Emma’s cat? What was he doing here?

He sat, lowering his lower side and just looking at me with his big hazel. I want to think straight but at the same time, I can’t... There was nothing that could give up an explanation.

*Meow*

"Looks like I came just in time"

I froze at the sudden muscular voice, my eyes on black shoes behind the cat, I didn’t even hear any footsteps or the sound of someone approaching, it was like this stranger came out of thin air.

The moment I raised my gaze he lowered himself squatting before me and running his hand on T Jnr’s fur allowing him to purr.

"Good boy"

What caught my attention was his dark red hair.

"Who are you?" I asked gently, my voice hoarse from all the crying.

He faces me and I flinched seeing his black lifeless eyes drained of any color. He grinned and I saw it, naturally extended canines, and I acted fast, pulling a knife from my boot and bringing it to his neck. He didn’t even flinch or blink, just kept his poker face and I was damn ready to slit his throat.

"Aren’t you feisty"

"What are you doing here?! How do you pass the barrier!"

He leveled his eyes at Emma in my arms and I subconsciously tightened my grip on her.

"How disappointing... I get to see the little human but she’s dead" he darted his black eyes back to me and all sense of amusement was gone. "Now tell me who killed my little human?"