Languish for you (My soulmate) (25 page)

“I know how to fight. After all, I have...had a brother,” my voice broke.

He primed his lips. He didn't say anything else for good ten minutes. I kept my mouth shut too. I didn't know what I actually could tell him. Everything seemed so pointless, so unreal.

Christopher soon ended the procedure. But still, he didn't hurry to start talking again. From his face I could see that he liked silence. I liked it, too, but not when needed to distract myself. I needed to talk with someone, that my thoughts couldn't return again and again to this night's event.

After five or ten minutes, Avery returned disappointed. In her hand I noticed a gun. So, they both were armed.

“He is a good runner,” she said, entering into the room and taking a good look at me. “He won't come again, Vanessa,” she said to me. I nodded, because it was the only thing I thought was right for me to do.

“She is in shock,” Christopher said as he stood up. “You need to take some sleep. Lie back on my bed,” I looked at him with a doubt in my eyes. “Don't worry, nothing will happen. Avery and I will be with you. Now, sleep,” he ordered me.

I glanced at Avery. She smiled and approached closer to me. Her hands soon stroke my hair in calming gesture.

“Close your eyes and sleep. Nothing will happen to you. We promise.”

I bit my lip and nodded reluctantly. Then, I put my head on Christopher's pillow. Avery watched me with encouraging eyes. I really wanted to believe that nothing will happen to me, but that wound on my neck didn't let me believe in that. Something will happen. Maybe not today, not tomorrow, but it still will.

I close my eyes.

<<>>

I opened my eyes when I felt someone's touch. I jumped and moved away from the edge to another side. My eyes were wide and searching for enemy. But there wasn't any in the room. The only living being here were I and Avery. She even laugh
ed
from my behavior.

“Calm down,” she said calmly. “Nothing bad will happen. It's time for you to wake up and prepare yourself for university.”

I hugged myself. I didn't want to go to university. To be honest, I didn't even want to leave this room. The world, behind these walls, was scary and dangerous.

Avery noticed my hesitation. From her eyes I could see the same sympathetic which was in Christopher's face this night.

“Everything is okay, Vanessa. Nothing will hurt you. Christopher and I will make sure about that.”

The funniest thing of all this was that someone attacked me in my home, where my protector and tutor was only five feet away. Okay, maybe ten... fifteen... That didn't make a huge difference. I was still attacked in my home, which had to be the safest place in this universe for me.

“I want to stay at home today,” I said, bringing my legs closer to my chest.” I need time,” I explained.

Avery nodded understandingly. Unfortunately, that didn't mean that she would let me stay at home. She just agreed with the fact that maybe I
should
stay at home.

“Get up and take a shower. I will bring you your clothes and then you can get something into your stomach,” she said and strode quickly from the room that I couldn't say any word.

Great, I said in my mind.

Avery wanted me to leave the building, like I would be safer in the street than in the room.

I moaned and stood up reluctantly. My arms were around my waist. In small and slow steps I walked to the bathroom. My eyes darted to the ground on which soon I noticed Snow. The kitty mewed and started walking around me. I smiled.

After ten minutes I was done with
that entire
shower thing and sat over the table with Avery and Christopher. I heard Anna in the kitchen, making us some food.

I didn't dare to lift my eyes from my hands, which were resting on my lap. But even without glancing around, I could feel their eyes on me, trying to understand what was going on in my mind.

“Why must I go to university?” I asked in small voice.

“Because you need to go there,” Christopher answered.

“And why do I need to go there?”

“Vanessa,” Avery addressed to me. I lifted my eyes to meet hers. “The hunters came here, tried to do only God knows what. Maybe they tried to scare you or give as a sign. I don't know. But whatever their intentions were. We must show them that everything is okay, that we don't fear them.”

I turned my face to the ground. It was easy for them to say that, because right now I felt like a little rabbit
, hich
was surrounded by many wolves. The only question was, which one of them was the hungriest to start the attack.

“I called Tobias,” Christopher continued our conversation. He thought that his news will cheer me up a little, but it did other effect; I wanted to run and hide. “He will go with you.”

“And you? Will you be my shadow?” I asked and then took a deep breath. I didn't know why, but his answer to this question was really important for me.

“You don't need to be concerned about that. We won't let anything happen to you,” he said in cold voice.

I lifted my face and turned it to him. I frowned.

“Yea, I can see that,” I pointed with my finger to my neck. “I was attacked in my own room, under your nose. You know what, waking up in the coffin was scary, but being attacked in my own bed... well, that really caps the globe,” I said in angry tone.

“We won't let...” he was starting, but I hushed him.

“Yea, I heard that,” I took a bite of my cinnamon roll and took a sip of milk. I didn't dare to say anything else. They also kept their mouths shut, maybe thinking, that I wouldn't listen to them right now.

And then the door bell killed the silence. Tobias was here, ready to take me from one nightmare to another. Well, I had a really colorful life.

I put a scarf around my neck that Tobias couldn't notice my wound. I didn't really want to talk with him about what happened this night. I didn't even want to remember it.

Christopher stood behind when I opened the door and meet warm Tobias smile. Without missing a beat, he moved closer to me and kissed.

“Hi, beautiful,” he said to me, forcing my heart to beat a little faster in my chest.

I grinned and glanced at Christopher. My protector stood steadily, watching us from the distance and in silence. He reminded me of a beautiful statue, which picture I would like to have in my room and stare for hours.

“I am going,” I said. He nodded and shift his eyes from me to Tobias, who met them with curious.

“Good morning, Christopher. Nice to see you.”

Christopher narrowed his eyes and, without telling a word, turned to us his back. He walked back to Avery.

“He isn't in mood?” Tobias said a bit confused.

I didn't reply to that. I took Tobias's hand and pulled him away from my home in which I would prefer staying than leaving.

“Is everything okay?” he asked me, concerned, when we were far away from my home.

The weather chilly, huge, heavy clouds were in the sky, threatening every second to burst and leave everything wet behind them.

“Not really, but I don't want to speak about that,” I admitted and put my head on his shoulder. It was so great to be so close to someone, when you are sad or scared. In my case, I felt both of those emotions.

But it wasn't destined for my head to be on his shoulder. Soon, he stepped one step away from me. He greeted his
teeth from pain as his hand sh
ot straight to his shoulder.

“Is everything okay?” I asked worried.

“Yea. I just hit my shoulder to the door really hard when I was going to the bathroom,” he explained, slowly removing his hand from his shoulder.

“Oh,” I licked my lips.

He pull a small smile on his face and took my hand again into his.

“So, maybe you would like to skip today's lecture and do something fun instead?”

He was tempting me to be a bad girl. I would have without a second thought accepted his offer. I really needed to do something fun. Unfortunately, I shook my head. I wasn't sure if that would be safe for me.

“We should go to university and listen about some boring authors, who are dead.”

“Are you sure?” he snaked his right arm around my waist. “No one would even notice our absence.”

I wanted to laugh. Yea, no one, I said ironically in my mind.

“Next time we could do that,” I smirked. He returned my smile.

Avery and Christopher were right, unfortunately. I felt even more safer being in the crowd than in my room. Nothing bad could
happen
to me while so many people were around me. And plus, Tobias, who held my hand all the time. But of course, there were time when he had to let go it, for example, when I had to visit to the bathroom.

Before our last lecture, I decided to visit that special room. But what I found when I walked out from it, didn't pleased me. Tobias was standing and chatting with a girl. The same girl
,
wh
o
I met at our first day. Jilly...Jenna... Julia. Yea, Julia
.
That was her name.

She was seeing only him, her fingers playing with her hair. She was totally flirting with him and she didn't intend to hide that.

I didn't hurry to approache
d Tobias and her. I decided to
be aloof for some minutes and just see how Tobias will act, although I felt urge to slap her in the face. I wanted to give and do exactly that, but I wasn't a savage and I didn't want that my soul would win against my brain. Plus, I was curious, how his soul will force him to do with a soul which wasn't his another half.

I folded my arms across my chest and tried to admire the show. Tobias didn't notice me standing and watching him. That was good. He won't try to hide anything then.

Julia said something and Tobias started laughing. Although he was gazing at her, I could still tell that he wasn't really with her. His mind was in another world, in which Julia wasn't invited.

Soon she realized that and decided to take another tactic, which forced me to bite on the bullet, clench my hands.
Julia started touching his hand. T
hen her fingers ran
slowly
toward his chest. My soul wanted to push that girl from the stairs. I step one small step back from shock. It wasn't me. I didn't like violence and I wound ever hurt somebody even if that somebody was trying to steal my boyfriend.

Tobias came back to reality and removed her hand from his body in really gentle gesture. His face was telling everyone that he was disgust by her behavior. She took a small step back, totally unhappy by the course of the events. She had another kind of scenario in her mind.

I unclenched my hands and approached them. Tobias noticed me ant walked around Julia. I was glad by his behavior.

“Done?” he asked, taking my hand.

I nodded and stole a glance at Julia. She scowled at me and walked down the corridor, pretending not to see us.

Everyone was searching for their happiness. I was one of those few lucky ones, who didn't need to struggle in this world in order to get it. But how much will I need to pay for that?

Chapter twenty

My and Tobias's ways separated at the same second as Christopher pulled his car in our way. He didn't seem to be happy. That turned my alarm on in my head. Was something wrong? Did those hunters attack us again?

I said
bye
to Tobias and kissed him on a cheek before I took a seat in the car. Christopher sat in the driver's seat and without saying a word, let the car move further and further. I noticed how tightly he was holding the wheel. His knuckles were turning white. He was very angry or extremely scared. But really, he scared? No, it didn't sound right. Christopher was angry. That was closer to reality.

“So?” I said when the silence started to annoyed me.

“So what?” Christopher asked in cold tone. His face was deadpan.

“What happened? You seem a little... I don't know how to put that...furious. Did something happen?”

He glanced at me and shook his head slowly.

“You sure?” I wasn't convinced. Did he really think he will fool me? My brother was a king of lies. I knew how to recognize a lying person. And right now, he was hiding the truth from me.

“One hundred percentage sure,” he assured me. I rolled my eyes. What kind of point was to lie? I will never understand that.

“I don't believe you, but if you don't want to tell me, so say it. Don't lie,” I said offended and looked through the window. Only now I realized that buildings were new to me. It wasn't the way to our home. “Where are we going?”

“Workers are at your home right now. They are repairing the windows and installing a new signalization. Actually, three signalizations, if we want to be precise.”

“Why so much?” the number surprised me.

“Because we want to make sure that you are safe when you are in your cosy bed,” he answered dryly as he turned the wheel to his left.

I folded my arms over my chest irritated. He was teasing me.