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Ferris... The balcony? Did I fall?I most certainly would be sitting in a grave by now, so that couldn’t be it either.
Then what?
Did I make it to... The governor! The blow that sent me to the floor... but it was all so dark from there on, except…
‘Sebastian!’ I called out, trying to get up, though with no real success.
Cole caught me by the arms, using his body weight to keep me on the bed. ‘Your brother is okay. The transplant was a success. He’s already back from the hospital.”
‘Back? How long have I been out for?’ I looked at Cole’s tired face, and it was almost unrecognizable. He lost some weight too. ‘Has it been years?’ My voice trembled, preparing for some Sci-Fi revelation.
‘You watch too many movies. Chill, it’s only been seven days.’ Cole was putting some sense back into me as a ten-years-later scenario was already playing in the back of my head.
Seven days was much more acceptable. I could live with missing out on a week of my life.
Still, why couldn’t I remember anything?
I couldn’t ask the guys since the nurse was still checking my vitals. At least the tubes from my arms were gone, though not too long ago since the pain and the bruises from having them there were still pretty much alive on my skin.
But there was something I could ask for. ‘I want to get up.’ I felt so painfully numb; the way you feel when you sit around in a place for too long, and for me, it seemed like I’d been sitting there forever.
‘Not yet. You still need rest. You just woke up,’ the nurse scolded me as if I was a child.
Just wait until she leaves.And that’s exactly what I did, nodding to everything she said just so I could try a never-do-that-at-home trick the instant she was out the door.
‘What the fuck do you think you’re doing?’ Cole barked, seeing me trying to get out of bed.
Of course, Ferris followed the next second, rushing from his spot to stop me. ‘Get back in there.’
‘Cut the politeness. It’s not like any of you really give a shit anyway,’ I cut them off without too much consideration. Imagine waking up on the wrong side of the bed after a seven day sleep.
‘What’s that supposed to mean?’ Cole was playing victim just as I was trying to get up. He knew exactly what I meant. He and the other two kings used me for their own satisfaction, even if, despite the rest, he was the only one that didn’t lie to me.
Ferris didn’t say a word. He knew exactly how things stood. He was now the enemy. An enemy I was still bound to by a deal. The same deal that was also binding him back to me.
‘You know well enough what it means.’ My answer to Cole came with a delay. Strangely enough, it didn’t seem to affect his newfound attitude. His arms still opened to support my weight, helping me get up while Ferris was doing the same. Though there was a difference! If Cole’s touch seemed strikingly warm, Ferris’s was deathly cold, and that had everything to do with the way he had treated me during our last face-to-face encounter.
Even if I had any intention of hiding it, my body jolted towards Cole, unwillingly refusing any interaction with the king of Darkness himself.
Luckily, Ferris got the message quickly enough, and before I could offer an explanation, he took a step backward, letting Cole be the one who would help me to walk to the mirror— not that I believed I needed any kind of help.
‘I’m fine by myself.’ I was letting Cole know he was free to go.
I guess I didn’t think things through since the instant he heard the words, he really let go of me, causing my knees to wallow as I was heading for the floor.’Are you, now?’ he asked as he caught me back up before I could harm myself. ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’
‘Yes... I need to,’ I whispered in a much humbler tone, realizing that this wasn’t the best time for any mutiny.
‘Okay. Just don’t bite my head off when we get there.’ He was acting nice again without a single comment about my behavior. It had to be bad... and I was about to find out exactly how bad as I approached the mirror.
A face I didn’t recognize anymore was staring back at me. Bruised eyes, bruised lip... bruised everything since I was looking like a purple balloon ready to pop at any second.
I couldn’t control a silent whine as I was trying to accept the reflection, mostly horrified that I couldn’t tell exactly what was broken anymore and what was not.
‘It’s okay, Bea. Everything is going to be okay. You’ll heal.’ Cole’s arms came wrapping around me, helping me to still stay upright.
‘It’s not okay,’ I said, feeling a panic attack settling in. I was never one for beauty, but I now have the face and body of a monster.
The air was getting sucked out of my lungs, and all the power in my feet was melting into the ground.
