I had not realized that I have drifted to sleep I guess tales of the past do bring fatigue, I had gotten a call that evening one I wished to stay further from, it was a call from Lorenzo informing me that some enemies of the past have been tracing him meaning they would have trailed him, they found me. Said enemies are heartless they kill with no remorse and apparently, they are hell bent on catching me, these people are the same ones that caused every downhill event up until now.
Once I got that call I sped out of the house taking nothing with me except Azula I woke him up and pushed him outside and so I started running perhaps he thought of it as our running game yet I wouldn't have it in me to tell him the danger he would be in .death is the will of the world ,there is no escape from it death brings pain and nothing but that pain I have predicted that those men have been watching my house for a while waiting for a good time to break in ,I assumed that they didn't do a move on me while running the first time as there would be no way out of this forest except through a car of some sort ,they shot Azula as we neared the car, he was startled as he didn't know what happened ,has our walk come to an end? Getting attached to him in such short time was no good of an idea as he is prone to die, I shook of my shock, got in the car, and sped out.
They shot haphazardly at me, yet all missed. Azula was left to bleed on the ground, did he think I abandoned him? What was he thinking as he took his last breathes, he is dying all alone, no one beside him at that thought I was ready to go back just to say one last goodbye nevertheless deep down I knew said goodbye was of no use as soon after I will be meeting him with the help of a bullet? Death is an ugly truth and a grotesque way of life, nobody thinks of death as an enemy unless one was to face said enemy, I called Cedrick informing him I got out safely he answered with and address in which I should head to, and so I did.
I neared the place and soon reached it. They were all there, Athena, Cedric and Oscar, I felt the air shift as I stepped in the room, I have not seen them in quite some time they have changed that's for sure I wonder if they think of me as a changed person too, Oscar was the first to break the silence as always, 'how have you been?''. Said himself I wonder what kind of answer he expected, perhaps his one goal was to break the silence, Oscar was the eldest among us, average height slightly tall, brown eyes, and hair a calming smile.
Oscar hated the silence his habit is always being the first to break the ice nevertheless I thought he would have changed said habit, yet he did not. apparently, Cedric called for all of us at the same time, with that said Athena said with the sarcastic tone she seems to maintain'' never on time I see''. Said she, after she said what she said I had realized was yet to answer Arthurs question as I did not know how to answer since people tend to lie in neighboring situations ''how have you been?'''' good how about yourself?'' both know the other requires a short simple question as, so they answer a short one, the lies painfully showing, 'just fine.'' Said I.
Ignoring the comment Athena made. I could have sworn I saw a sad face flash upon his face and disappear within seconds, do I upset them so much? I had also realized how quite Cedrick was, as he unlike Oscar was a quite person with not much to tell, nevertheless when he did talk his words were charming and compelling, I refer to said features with past words as I have yet to figure out how much they changed .
Busy with the noise in my mind that took too long to give a reply , my surroundings were unknown to me therefore I looked around ,a dim room with little to no outside view ,a dreadful and dismal place indeed, a wide room with a coach laying on its wooden antique floors opposite side of the grand jet black piano near the wearisome staircase , the main door laying between them , a torch near the stair case laying upon the fragile walls giving its best to try and not collapse, as I was about to ask what is upstairs Cedric said his first words during this while
''rooms are upstairs you can go to sleep in any of them if you please it is in fact quite late ,''
said he , '' goodnight'' said Oscar as he headed upstairs Athena followed bidding goodnights, Cedrick stayed behind I turned around to the tap of my shoulder ''I have a few books near the stairway '' said he , as he is aware of my love for reading ''goodnight'' he headed upstairs leaving me to my books once again .