Chapter 5
- Mom!
- Save yourself, my child.
I woke up upset, again that dream, I haven't had it in a long time, I tried to turn around, but something was sorry for me, arms? Nathaniel? And then I remembered, I'd fallen asleep in Nathaniel's room after all I cried, to my surprise, I wasn't the only one, Mike was asleep on the floor? But what was even more strange to me was that Nathaniel was hugging me, looking out the window and observing that it was still night I didn't want to leave for my room and I didn't want to wake the kids, but I didn't want to go back to sleep, I didn't want to have that same dream, I chose to go back to bed and even if I was ashamed I settle in Nathaniel's arms, I didn't understand why, but it made me feel safe and with that in mind everything turned dark.
I started hearing a voice calling me so I opened my eyes and met Paty, she had come to wake us up to get ready for breakfast, once he came out none moved, it can be clear that Nathaniel was still hugging me.
- Nathaniel, can you let me go?
- No.
- Why? - I was starting to turn red why?
- I don't want to. - Nathaniel tightened his grip more and slept so that my head would be on his chest, I felt my face very warm.
- Nathaniel, I have to go to my room to enlist. - A part of me did not want to part with it.
- Stay, it won't matter if you get ready after breakfast. - And after saying that his breathing became calmer, a symbol that he had gone back to sleep.
My breakfast consisted of a green smoothie with an integral bar, once I finished my breakfast I returned to my room to change, I wanted to go for a run a little to clear and not leave without doing anything since we had been informed that our training would resume until next week since in that week our coaches would arrive. I was leaving my room when I meet Mathew.
- Where are you going?
- I'm going to run a little, I don't want to stay without doing anything, I'll be back at lunchtime.
Mathew just said to take care of me I nodded and left the house, yesterday I went for a walk with the guys I hadn't noticed, but the neighborhood where we were was really beautiful, I started warming up in the garden and then started jogging and slowing down, it took a while for me to start running when someone bumps into me.
- Are you all right? - I tended my command to the person who had collided with me as it had fallen.
- Yes, thank you very much and I'm sorry I didn't see where I was going. - I mention as I took my hand and got up.
- Neglect everyone happens to us.
- I'm sorry to ask, but are you new? I've never seen you around before.
I laughed a little. - Don't worry, if I arrived two days ago, but my brother had arrived for two weeks.
- I see, well in that case let me be the first to welcome you, my name is Olivia, Olivia Cooper. - He showed up while holding my hand.
- Well Olivia, it's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Charlotte Bropho. - I mention while accepting your hand.
Olivia showed me a little bit of the place, she seemed to be a good person, she inspired me confidence, which is weird, I don't usually trust people at first sight, but there's something that makes me trust her as if it were instinctive.
I spent the whole morning talking to Olivia, it turns out that she was also running and that her mother had marked her, there's why she bumped into me, she lived a couple of houses after mine, and when it came time to split up we stayed to go for a run together in the morning.
- I'm home. - Scream once you enter the house.
- How'd it go? - I ask Martha as she greeted me.
- Well, I met a girl and I spent most of my time with her, it turns out we have a lot in common and we stayed from going for a run tomorrow. - I told him as I smiled at him and sat in the dining room to wait for lunch and others.
- There's my little girl who made a friend. - Martha mention as she smiled at me, I just lay her head in a symbol of confusion.
- A friend? But if we just talk a little bit and stay out to work out together, it's not like that to a training partner.
- There is my girl, no, a friend is someone with whom you like to spend the time that inspires your confidence, someone with whom you have things in common. - She mention as I stroked my cheek
- A friend, who great hadn't had one outside of the unit. - I mentioned while looking at Martha with a smile that I could not suppress, Martha gave it back to me and I returned to the kitchen.
A friend, she hadn't had one outside the organization, and that's just because we belonged to the same unit outside of that, she didn't know anyone else who could consider a friend. After a few minutes, the boys arrived and started serving us breakfast shortly after our hands came.
- How'd it go, Sara? - I wonder Mathew.
- All right, I made a friend. - Answer with a smile. - Her name is Olivia Cooper and we're out for a run tomorrow.
The boys were happy, but for some reason Mathew, Marco, and Carlos got serious and that didn't give me a good thorn.
- Sara, you know the rules. - mention Marco.
And then I remembered it, those damn rules, the rule that applied in this situation was "No contact with the outside that resulted in a distraction" in other words, no relationship with people not approved by the organization, no one outside our unit, there's why I didn't have any more friends, by remembering that I couldn't help but get sad and angry, I didn't mean anything, as always.
- I thought they already had it on tape, no distractions, you won't see it again and you won't go out alone for a while. - When Carlos said that something within my step, something that had never happened to me, something that made me explode.
- No
- Sorry? - Carlos seemed angry.
- I'm not going to stop seeing her. - My hands were fist-shaped which I was squeezing so hard to the extent that my knuckles were white. - All the time I have obeyed, even when I was not allowed to see my brother Jonathan, who is in a coma, but no more, for the first time I experienced making friends, for the first time I forgot all the burden I have, for the first time I felt normal. -Because of the fury I was containing I began to transform, my claws were beginning to come out so I ended up cutting the palms off my hands and my eyes took the form of those of an angry feline. - So I'm not going to stop seeing the only friend I've ever managed to make.
At no point did I deviate my gaze from Charles which was red from anger, Marco and Mathew said nothing, but they looked not at all happy, Nathaniel and Mike were sitting in silence they said nothing, they seemed in shock.
- Enough young lady, in your room, you will not leave this house until further notice and when you do you will be accompanied, you will be in your room until you understand your mistake. - I speak Marco with a slightly raised voice.
- No! - Scream as I hit the table. - They won't keep me locked up and if they want to, I want to see them try if I have to run away, but I'm not going to let them take away my freedom for something that's not true Is it a mistake to make friends, to feel normal?
- But you are not normal! - Furious Mathew screams.
Normal, that word that is every day and simple, but that can feel like a thousand daggers in the body, after all, words hurt.
When Mathew mentioned that I couldn't stop him from going back a little bit, he was furious, but why? I'm the one who's being scolded for having made a friend, for wanting to be normal. I wanted to look strong but I couldn't stop tears from starting to fall, it hurt, it hurt a lot, I couldn't take it anymore and I ran to my room.
I woke up sweating, again I had had that dream of when I lost everything, but I guess it's normal to approach these dates, I realized that I wasn't in my bed or my room, after Sara told us what had happened at the mall, she had been crying for a long time until she fell asleep, we didn't even finish watching the film when I looked out the window I realized that it was daylight I got up with the idea of lifting Nathaniel and Sara with a little joke, but seeing how they were so calm asleep and how Nathaniel was hugging Sara while she was curled up in her arms I just went back and went back to bed to wait for them to call us for breakfast, I didn't want to interrupt that moment because I know Nathaniel is in love with Sara and Sara killed me for waking her up.
Once we finished breakfast everyone went their way I went to my room to bathe and take advantage this week that I had no training to do nothing but watch movies while, after a while, Nathaniel joined as she had nothing to do and Sara had gone for a run. We spent watching movies until they called us for breakfast, when we arrived at the dining room Sara was already present and perished in a very good mood, once we sat we were served breakfast, soon after they joined our hands and Mathew asked Sara how she had fared and at that moment the problems began.
Sara told us that she had met someone and that they had become friends, Nathaniel and I were very happy for her, she had never made a friend who was not part of the organization when she turned to see in our hands with a smile hoping that they too would be happy, but I only saw the seriousness in them, at that moment Marco told Sara that she should remember the rules, immediately Sara became sad I thought that she was going to be silent as always, but at the moment when Carlos began to scold her, Sara exploded and so began an argument between Sara and our hands, I was in shock, I never imagined Sara revealing herself against the mandates, being sincere of the five, she and the first are the most obedient.
At some point in the conversation, Sara began to transform had those eyes characteristic of her animal, those eyes that were so scary.
- But you're not normal!
Mathew screamed, after saying that Sara ran to her room, Mathew seemed to realize what she said, but it wasn't after Sara just sighed and sat down, Nathaniel and I looked at each other and nodded, got up from the table, if Mathew didn't want to talk to Sara there he would if we go.
- Where do you think you're going? - I tell us Carlos threatening, seriously is so heavy.
- We're out of appetite. Nathaniel said as he began to walk up the stairs.
Martha, Priscilla, and Sandy peeked through the kitchen to see what was going on and I gave them the signal to give us the food in the room.
- You guys are staying to finish your meal. Marco said as he tried to stop me.
I just changed my eyes and freed up a little bit of my aura to keep me from trying to stop and it worked because it receded instantly. When we went up to Sara's room we entered untouched and found that she was on the window frame watching the garden.
- Why? - I ask her.
- I guess it's normal for bad things to happen to us on these dates, right? - I said with a touch of irony
- It's true, it's already these dates that explains why I dream.
- forgive me for interrupting, but what you are talking about. - I mention Nathaniel seriously, but I know he was jealous.
Sara, I look at him and look back at the garden why? I don't understand why he's staring out of nowhere, anyway, that can only be answered by another girl.
- Nathaniel, we've never told you why we're here, have we?
When Sara mentioned that, I stopped being immersed in my thoughts to pay attention to what Sara was saying.
- Remember, that day that everything disappeared? - He asked me
- How to do it, that day our hell began.