'It was Nate acting in her body , she wouldn't do something like this on her own accord !' I kept telling myself this over and over again while Beth came towards me .
"Beth ? What are you doing ?"
Surprisingly , she started crying . "What are you hiding from me Rene ?"
She knew that something was off . She wasn't dumb . I should've known better . By now , I reluctantly decided to keep our plan from her again . I didn't know if Nate was in her right now , nor if what she knew would reach Nate even if he wasn't here .
Even though she was armed and could harm me , I couldn't bring myself to stop her with force . "Please Beth , you don't have to do this to me . You know better ."
She didn't budge . First , she took the knife and tightened it around my neck . I stood still as a statue , I didn't want her to regret anything when she finds out what we were actually planning . We only had one way to find my way to get me onto Nate's side and I decided to use Beth to show him some changes in my behavior .
My bleak expression subsided and I put on a poker face . "What do you think you're doing Beth ? You think that I was going to tell you whatever was going on so that you can tell it to Nate , right ? I'LL TELL YOU ! I hate being on the good side ! I realized that it was easier to just GO along with Nate than try to stop him ! Don't you think so too ?"
It was hard shouting at her , being so arrogant and irritating but I still stayed in character . Beth was shocked to her core and unmoving . I took my chance and took the knife away from her . I didn't take the pocket knife because I didn't want Nate to know that I had it . The way that she kept the knife against my neck had caused a small line of blood o flow down my neck . It wasn't severe , but it hurt .
Beth came back from thinking when I took the knife away . She looked at my neck and her eyes shrunk into nothing . She closed her eyes and tears trickled down her face . " I- I'm sorry Rene . I'm frustrated because I know that everybody is hiding something from me . I know it's because you don't want Nate to know it but it hurts me so much . "
I kept the knife on my bed and scooted over to where Beth was sitting . I comforted her , "Just trust me , ok ? We won't turn our backs on each other ."
Did I just get out of character ? I went back at it again . "We won't turn or backs on each other , as long as I can hold on ."
She stopped crying and looked at me , secretly hoping that I wouldn't hide the reason and tell her openly . I was absent minded and didn't notice her hand going behind my back . " I've been having temptations to give in on going to the bad side . A voice keeps telling me that going along with them would be easier for me than being against them . It's getting stronger each day .... And harder to choose sides . I don't know till when I'll last by your side ."
A sharp pain along the sides of my arm followed me as soon as I finished talking . Beth had stabbed my right arm , and dragged it from my upper arm to my forearm . I screamed deafeningly . Ben was in my room within no time . As soon as he saw what Beth had done , he snatched the knife out of her hands and pushed her away from me . Cora came next and she took a furious Beth away from me in full force trying to restrain her .
I wasn't going to pass out yet Ben had already taken me in his arms . I chuckled softly and said , "You don't need to do that Ben . I can walk ."
He refused to put me down . He had taken me to his room . "Why are we in your room ?"
He replied , "Don't get the wrong idea . This isn't even my room , technically speaking . This was just another guest room and I'm staying here . I found out that you guys kept the first aid boxes here . That's why I bought you here ."
I hummed in response and collapsed on the bed that I was sitting on . Thinking about our last one on one encounter made me blush hard . I knew that he said that he wasn't in control of himself but I highly doubted that .
Anyways , he wasn't the main problem for me so I let those thoughts slide away from my mind . Was Beth really that mad at me to hurt me like this . She had stabbed me deeply , both physically and mentally . Both injuries were bleeding in full flow .
I had had enough pain and I started sobbing . Ben came back from his closet with the first aid kit . I looked into his closet unintentionally and smiled to myself seeing how much he felt at ease here . It almost looked like he had been living here for years . I was too occupied with myself thinking about what happened when I felt breathing on my hand .
Ben was applying alcohol and he was breathing on it to make me feel less pain . "It must've hurt a lot , right ?" He asked me with concern .
I nodded my head slowly . It felt amazing to feel how much someone cares about you . When I grew up with Bob and Hailey , they had never attended to my injuries , ever . It was always a nurse . They never asked me if it pained . All they did was buy me some stuff toys and say that it would make me feel better . I had never known how parents treat their children so it only looked normal for me . I believed that there was nothing they could do other than buy me some gift to make me feel better .
I didn't realize that I had been staring into Ben's eyes the whole time . The care he was giving to my wound was heart warming and I was enjoying it to my fullest . He took some white bandages and started rolling it around my hand . "Can't I just heal it with magic ?"
Ben replied to me , "If you get trapped in another place that takes away magic , do you want o feel your cut opening again , or just feel fine ?"
He had a point . If Marge could make a tunnel that rejected magic , then I could only imagine how much more was made around the world .
He finished rolling my bandages and stood up . He hadn't looked up and his head beat my chin , resulting in my teeth tearing my lower lip . "Ouch ! Look where you're going !" I laughed because Ben's face was red from embarrassment , even though it wasn't anything to be very much embarrassed about .
I sucked my lip slightly because of the pain and scrunched my face because of the taste of blood on my tongue . I had never liked the taste of it from when I had first started getting bullied . There would always be blood on my lips . Therefore , whenever I get hurt on my lip and I accidently taste my own blood , memories from my middle school cover me . It was kind of a trauma at first but later , it became just mere memories .
I came back to reality just to feel my heart beat stop . Ben was standing very close to me . He took my hand and made me stand up . I felt nervous once again when he started wiping the reappeared blood from my lip again .
I looked into his eyes again and blushed when he stared at my lips again . He kept on staring even though I could feel that the blood had stopped coming . He looked into my eyes for permission . Our relationship was weird anyway , what could possibly go wrong ? I closed my eyes and he took the bait . Our lips met .
He moved his lips up and down slowly . It was starting to get heated up when Nath suddenly opened the door . We must've been taking forever to come down . As soon as he saw what was going on , he closed the door and left . It was all we needed to stop what we were doing .
"We should go out sometime . "
I nodded to his recommendation . We stood silent for some time . "Do you like me though ?" I asked out of curiosity .
"Of course ! Who wouldn't like you ? I mean , you think that you don't look attractive but you actually are ."
I didn't know what to reply to him so I gave him a simple smile and walked out of the room . Everybody except Beth was in the living room , waiting fro us . "Are you done doing what you were doing ? I told them that you would take some time but I guess not . " I gave Nath a playful punch on his shoulder . The others looked at the both of us in a playful manner . "What ! Don't Marge and Nath kiss ? They have a child too ! Cora and her husband kiss too ! Why are you guys looking at us like that ?"
I laughed when Ben started shouting at others in a husky voice due to embarrassment .
The others laughed at us for some time before asking me how I felt . Cora had done her research on what Beth could've possibly gone through to do this and it turned out that she was most probably tired from carrying around a part of Nate's soul in her body .
I was relived that she had not done it when she simply felt frustrated about the others and me .
All of us went to to our own rooms and houses after eating dinner . For the first time in a long time , the house seemed quite and empty . Kate and I were sleeping in my room . Dad and Ben was sleeping in dad's room because we wanted no one to be in danger by sleeping alone when Beth was facing problems herself .
Kate came to my room to sleep right after I changed into my pajamas . "So you DO realize that you kissed MY son ? Don't you have anything to say to me ?"
I just smiled at her awkwardly and said , "I hope you won't object us if we do end up together ."
Her face flew up in playful anger and said , "You guys kissed ! It's always obvious that you have feelings for each other . I'm not letting you both get away from each other . You SHOULD end up with each other no matter what !"
I laughed happily . Approval from one parent was enough for me . We talked a lot about why supernatural people must exist , till we passed out .
I woke up in the middle of the night again and I walked to the kitchen and got some water for myself . "Ahhh !" I shouted when I saw Ben there .
"Couldn't get sleep too ?" He asked me and I shook my head as a no . "I DID get sleep but sometimes , I wake up early for apparently no reason . I don't think that I will be able to sleep anymore ." I chuckled .
We talked for a while about what we had in common , and each others interests . We were having such a great time that we didn't see the sun coming up . It was when Dad came down to go to the blood bank that we checked the time . "Wow ! Time flew so fast !"
I agreed with him and we made breakfast for the five of us . Kate . dad , Beth . Ben , and me .
I was frying bacon when we hear a loud crash inside the house , from Beth's room.