*** Patrick Patterson **
I drove home safely with Marissa. Andrew called and told me that we are going to burn her things together. Last night's nightmare didn't make me sleep at all. I should've told Marissa about Eliza. She cried and cried until she fell asleep. That makes my heart ache to see her getting hurt.
Now, we are not talking because she wanted to stay silent. I cannot read her emotions anymore because it was too random and mixed. I guessed that she has her period today. She easily gets peeved these days. She's not a war freak but, she's very intimidating when she gets really mad.
I hold her hand that is rested on her lap and squeeze it gently. She did not even glance at me. Her thoughts are flying somewhere. After thinking about Eliza, she thought about Adhiti and then to me and then to her family and round again to Eliza whom she doubts would do such things.
"Don't overthink, baby," I said sweetly and kissed the back of her hand while my other hand is holding the wheel. My eyes widen and I automatically stepped on the brake when there's a white hind in the middle of the road.
"White deer?" Marissa murmurs amazed at the deer in front of us. I told her not to go out. I open the door and decided to hop out but stay close to my car. I look around me if there's anything there but we are alone on the road. The hind walk towards me and move her face closer to mine. I look directly into her eyes and she shows me something.
I saw a Goddess's face in the golden hair. The one that I saw on the visions of Davin. She smiles at me and more likely caressing my face though she's not in front of me. She whispered something on my ear and I listen carefully.
Catastrophe is their weakness, Good fortune is the savior. Find your people. They will save your loved ones and Adhiti.
I snapped my eyes open and I was still standing but the hind is no longer in front of me. I look around to look for it but I failed. Marissa called me twice and I duck down to look at her. My heart just didn't stop palpating which makes me take a very deep breath like I haven't breathed for seconds at all.
"The deer just disappear. Did you saw it?"
"What do you mean disappear?" I asked as I enter the car and closes the door. I put back my seat belt.
"It disappears with white smoke." She murmurs and I saw in her mind how it disappeared. I hold her hand and kissed it. "What does it says?" I start the engine and drove before I answer her.
"Catastrophe is their weakness, Good fortune is the savior. Find your people. They will save your loved ones and Adhiti."
It makes her think too. I had been thinking about what she means. It is the first time that the Goddess talk to me. She looks like my sister. Her smiles genuine, beautiful-heart fluttering, that is a comfortable one.
"That's it? That's what she only said?" Marissa asked.
"I wonder about what kind of riddle is that."I wonder.
"Catastrophe means, disastrous or failure the antonym of good fortune. So would we just wait for that good fortune to come? Or the good fortune is 'your people' which is… what kind of people are they?"
"I still don't know but, my head is aching but I keep those words in mind. We have to think clearly about who are the 'people' that she's talking about."
"Maybe, Nick knows." Yeah, maybe he knew.
We got home safely. Dad's car is already parked so I guessed that he came early than I expected. Andrew is sitting on the stairs at the entrance of our main door probably had been waiting for us. We immediately headed back to the house where Adhiti's things are on the pit. I pour gas on it. Andrew pull a lighter and turned it on as he dropped it down. The fire exploded on the metallic pit and I drop the gasoline container on the fire.
Different toxic materials enter my nose. I told Marissa to go back inside. I and Andrew stepped back before the gadgets exploded. Andrew pulls out a mask and gave the other one to me. I immediately put it to cover my nose and mouth and he does the same.
"I just wished that she's already with Nick." Andrew murmured. Sad to say, she's not. I wanted to tell it to him but I decided to tell it to them in the dinner. Andrew waited for it to be burnt all not until Mom called him.
Marissa is helping with preparing dinner. Then I guess that she's the one who made the fruit salad. It is her specialty anyway, the one that I love so much about her. She's like my wife who served me foods in front of my parents. I also know that they loved her because she's caring and everything, she simply makes my world so wonderful.
"After everything is burnt I will make those memories disappear. So that they won't get anything about what you did." Dad told.
"There is something that I have to tell you all," I said and silenced for a while. "Catastrophe, she got imprisoned on the Kingdom of Pyr. Tomorrow is her execution." They all stop on what I had told.
"E-execution? You mean, she will be burned in front of the townsmen of the Kingdom?" my mom stammers as her fork and knife clings on her plate.
"Yes." I look directly at my mother. "How do you know that the Kingdom of Pyr traditionally executes their prisoners through burning?" they all don't know what I am capable of except Andrew and Marissa. My mother looked down.
"W-we had been on that Kingdom." She murmurs, I seek deep on her thoughts.
"How?"
"Because we are not humans, Patrick. Humans can't erase people's selected memories literally. Humans can't move things through their minds. Humans can't hypnotize with their eyes and voice and control their minds. Everyone inside that Academy are not humans."
"Then, what we are called?"
"Demi-Gods. We are called Demi-Gods in this world." She murmurs. "Demi-Gods that are rogues that's why we are here in the outside world. The God who made us gives us a very special talent that humans don't have. We become rogues because those five kingdoms simply kicked us out."
I now understand. We are like Nick, Eliza, and Flame. But somehow we are not accepted on the five kingdoms. These things keep happenings over the years. And we are gathered in the same places. But where are our ancestors then? Are they living with us outside the real world where we came from?
"Ask no more, sweetheart. Let's just enjoy our food." She smiled at me and I nods. To lessen the very painful and hot atmosphere, dad turned on the speaker and played very danceable music.
I helped Marissa and Mom to clean up while Andrew and dad are outside to see how it all burns. I look outside the window where I can see them and seek into their thoughts. They are all afraid that now we are burning my sister's things and tomorrow she'll get executed. But I know one thing. She won't die in a fire. Because she's one of those who can make and bring fire into life.
We are all gathered in the living room with white wines on the table and a few chocolate bars and fruits. We hold hands together as we are circled on the coffee table with a long candle in the middle.
"Tonight, we gather to forget everything that we did on Adhiti and Catastrophe's personal belongings. From the start of planning to gather and burn it, until in this very moment, we forget everything."
Everything turns dark after my father's last words.
I woke up with Marissa in my arms. I look around me and realized that I was already inside my room in our house not in my room in the Academy. Marissa just got woke up. I stare at her and she doesn't look alright. I wanted to know how we end up here because all I know is that I should be in the Academy.
"You alright, babe?" I asked. She immediately gets up and runs to the bathroom. She sounds so sick vomiting and coughing. I immediately run to her and gently stroke her back. It makes me stop when I felt another heartbeat on her. It wasn't hers.
She washed her face and mouth and I can see how fuzzy her head is. I put my hand on her navel and I can hear a living thing inside her. Not just a living thing but the blood that has a life. She looked confused about what I did. I lean my ear on her neck and felt two pulses.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Did you always feel dizzy and sudden morning sickness?" she nods. "And you crave different foods a lot," I stated. I immediately washed my face and my mouth leaving her baffled. I am all baffled too and I cannot determine my emotions. I feel nervous, excited, happy, and anxious. Why am I feeling these emotions? I dry my face with the towel and after that, I dry hers. She is still staring at me all confused. That makes my throat dry too. Thinking, thinking about it.
"What are you thinking? What's wrong with me?" she asked nervously.
"You are pregnant." I scoop her cheeks. She gapes and I can hear her heart beating fast. Her mind has mixed emotions like me but she's more worried.
"I-I'm sorry. I-I did not know." She's worried that I wouldn't accept the child since we had sex a lot unprotected. I smiled at her and chuckled.
"Hush, babe. Don't worry about abandoning you because I will never will." She breathed on what I said. It makes me relieved that she's relieved. "All you have to do is to take care of yourself and our baby when I am not with you." She nods and smiles. "At this moment, I will take care of you first." I wiped a tear from her right eye.
"Thank you, Patrick."
"You don't have to thank me, babe. Because I do all of these because of you." I kissed her forehead.
"Patrick," Andrew knocks on the door. "You guys don't want to be late on our special breakfast!"
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