The Truth Lies Beneath Your Eyes (7 page)

“Sorry, I was uh hanging out with my new
boyfriend,” she said unintentionally.

“Your new what!? Since when? Who is he?” she
said in a blur that was
way
too fast for 7-ish on Monday
morning.

“My boyfriend, uh since like Wednesday,
Christophe,” she said back as she pulled out her metro card to hop
on the bus. They talked and laughed the whole bus ride to
school.

“So when can I meet him, since he goes here?”
Sunny asked.

“Uh,” Amethyst said as she shook out her
long-ish brown and blonde hair, “now” she answered. Christophe
walked up with that interstellar smile.
Damn, I can never get
used to that,
she thought.

“My Jewel and her…best friend I assume”
Christophe says calmly. Amethyst glanced over at sunny, who had the
cheesiest smile ever until,

“Oh my god,” Sunny said.

“Uh I think you got her kind of…star-struck,”
Amethyst giggled.

“Oh, deepest apologies uh, sorry I don’t know
your name. However I’m Christophe,” he said in his far too adorable
Romanian accent.

“Oh you can call me sunny, nice to meet you,”
she said.

“You as well, catch you later Jewel,” he said
as he softly kissed her cheek and ran off to get his schedule.

“Where did you get him!?!” Sunny yelled once
Christophe was out of earshot.

“He’s Alias’s older brother,” Amethyst
replied with a smile as they walked inside

Third period algebra, she and Alias were
passing notes back and forth that were mainly about nothing…or they
started out that way anyhow.

Hey, did my brother tell
you yet?

Stop being cryptic Alias, did Christophe tell
me what?

You know if Christophe
cared about you he would have told you before now.

Told me what Alias?

That the dudes that through
the rock through the window is coming for you

…I knew that much…they saw me

And that what the little
girl said was similar to “you’re the new one, the strongest weapon
or threat”

Um okay but why do I need to know that?

He really has you love
drunk, doesn’t he?

What the hell are you talking about?

Think about it Amethyst,
You can be used as a shield to ward off whatever they’re going to
do when they come. He using you as a shield you’re just a pawn in
Christophe’s little game.

…

I mean, why else would he
go out with you so quick?

And all it took was that and even though
class wasn’t over, the teacher was yelling and she’d probably get
in trouble, Algebra class was over for her. She grabbed her books
and opened the classroom door, “Fuck you, Alias,” and then left.
Of all the mean things to say, he had to say that?
She
thought.
Just when I thought he might be a semi decent person he
tries to…no way. It can’t be like that, can it? Christophe wouldn’t
do that but….
Her thought trailed off. As much as she didn’t
want to stay at school, she had to talk to Christophe, soon.

Chapter 12:

These Are Just the Games We Play

Three days later…

Christophe hasn’t been home since
Monday.
Alias thought.
I know that I probably shouldn’t
worry, mom isn’t and Alex isn’t.
He thought through gym class.
“Alias, where’s Christophe?” she asked. They had been on pretty
even terms recently and treating each other like decent human
beings but she was off too.

“I-I don’t know,” He said not intending on
sounding as nervous as he did.

“Wait? So it’s not just me…he just vanished?”
Amethyst said sounding confused.

“Yeah but he didn’t tell anyone he was
leaving or where…the last person he talked to was you, what did he
say?” Alias asked.

She blushed, “Uh definitely nothing about
leaving”.

Great now I really have no clue, mom isn’t
worried ‘cause Christophe’s just him. He leaves and adventures for
a day or so but he always warns us.
He thought.

“
Relax Ali, your brother just forgot, it’s
happened before,”
he could hear his mother’s voice echo in his
head. But although as sweet as his mother was, she was absentminded
at best and ever optimistic.
“But there’s something different
this time, he didn’t just forget….something happened to him”
he
remembered some more.

“
Don’t be silly Ali, but then that’s just
you, so protective over everyone you come into contact with, sweet
boy you are Alias, If only you could trust a bit,”
She would
say right before ruffling his hair.

“I don’t like this school,” Alex said when he
ran to meet him after final bell.

“Why is that?” Alias said with a laugh.

“Why do I have to wear this stupid uniform?
And why are the eighth graders bigger than the juniors in your
school? And why am I getting picked on and flirted with nonstop?”
Alex said in one breath.

“Cause your in middle school, they probably
got left back, cause you’re the new foreign kid,” Alias said with a
laugh. “And as for the flirting, I don’t know I guess American
girls like the accent, but as for your face…they’re all blind,”
Alias joked.

“Hey, you’re not so pretty either!” Alex
yelled as they walked toward the bus stop. He felt his phone
vibrate in his pocket…Christophe

Watch out for yourself,
Alexander and Amethyst

Christophe where r
u?

Romania

What!!! U got, how, when
and why?

Uh three days ago…got
kidnapped, u know y

Get outta there? how are
you texting me?

Cant…found my phone…you
guys are nxt be careful

What?

Alias.Their getting
revenge, the ones broke our window, The ones that took Leah. They
want us all.

Just, where are u and how
can I get there?

I DON’T KNOW!!! I got
kidnapped, I was sleep and then I woke up being
strangled

What do I need to do for
now
.

Keep Alexander safe. The
safest of the three of you is you Alias. They want Alex cause of
leah and Jewel cause even if we haven’t seen it, she’s
lethal

I’ll do what I can, are you
okay?

I-I’m bleeding from my
shoulder blades…kind of a lot

I can find you!!! Is that
your definition of okay!!? Bleeding to death?!

If you come toward me it
leads them to you. Which leaves you, Jewel and Alex unprotected
targets

But Christophe…

You don’t get it Alias. Id
rather die then have my little brothers and my girlfriend die cause
of me. So what if they tried to cut off my wings, your still my
baby brother.

Should I tell mom and
dad?

No, I can handle this. Look
Alias, theyre going to get the three of you sometime this week but
I just wanted you all to be prepared for it, okay?

Uh huh

I got to go before the
guards wake back up cause it nighttime here, okay?
Goodnight

Night

“What happened to Christophe?” Alex asked
automatically. Alias nearly threw the phone at Alex’s head.
What
is it with this year? I was just getting used to school and the
awkward love hate triangle thing and this has to happen? My brother
is bleeding from his back and I can’t help, even though he hasn’t
said it, all the people that we all care about are most likely in
very, very imminent danger.
He thought. He almost forgot that
Alex was there until his Lucid and at that moment very innocent
looking eyes met with Alias’s amber and green eyes as he said,

“Were gonna die…because of me aren’t we? I
just blew it, even on our second chance didn’t I?”

Never that, never ever, not going to
happen,
Alias thought.
Not your fault. What you were doing
on any system of moral was the right thing to do. No matter what
epic degree of hell it seems like we’re coping with at any given
time, Alexander. It isn’t your
fault
.
He thought. He couldn’t understand why exactly he couldn’t say any
of this out loud but it didn’t seem to matter much at all because
Alex seemed to have understood because he smiled and looked
thankful for the unsaid words.
I always knew that Alex was my
little brother and looked more like a ten year old then a twelve
year old but I guess since I’m near him so much I don’t see how
young he looks till he seems so vulnerable, and I’m glad that I’m
actually helping my brother, cause usually kindness and other such
sweet things get hoisted on to Christophe’s shoulders.
Alias
tried not to cringe at the thought of some random people trying to
slice through the bone that his brother wings sprouted from.

“Were going to deal with this, one way or
another, got it?” Alias said as he rubbed his shoulder blade.

“Uh huh,” Alex said timidly trying not to say
too much.

It wasn’t much help to hope that nothing
would happen because Alias knew damn well it was useless. He also
knew that his parents would find out, being part of council and
all. But he had to trust his brothers word, if he said that he
could deal, that means that they would all need to learn how to
deal to. H e didn’t know how Amethyst would do, but even if he
hated the fact, she
was
lethal and dangerous, it was a
given, but how was this all going to play out?

It was two days later now Saturday night,
almost 11:50 at night. He was half asleep but stuck with images of
what could be happening to his older brother. Then there was a
strangled noise and silence. Before He could flinch, look, or
attempt to fight back his could feel his body being
immobilized.

“wh- the hell?” Alias said but his speech was
becoming slurred and his vision blurry.

“Even if you try to scream, I’ll shove this
box cutter so deep in you spinal cord you’ll stop”. That was the
last thing he heard before everything went scary dark.
Midnight….was for entrance into what seemed a lot like hell.

Chapter 13:

Am I too awake to be dreaming? ‘Cause that’s
all I’m seeing

Did they just try to sedate me?
She
thought.
It didn’t work very well this time, what the hell is
going on anyways? I wasn’t, I shouldn’t be…I should have seen this
coming, honestly.
She watched the ground blur past her eyes. So
high up that people didn’t even qualify as ant sized anymore. She
looked ahead of her sure not to move too suddenly from looking
dead. She saw Alex and Alias in the same hold she was in. She
seemed to be getting kidnapped and awful lot this year for some
reason that was beyond her understanding.

“-you would think that they’d be more
difficult to capture, considering,” He heard one of the boys say.
They were wearing all black but for some weird reason it was like
she could see beyond the costume. They boy talking had copper
colored hair, green braces and light brown eyes. He was thin and
didn’t look very strong…looks could be very deceiving.

She examined the boy two his left and right.
Those two were twins. Very dark skinned with curly brown hair,
stronger looking than the copper headed boy with long arms and mean
looking eyes with even faces. She guessed that one of them must’ve
captured her and the boys.

“you think that after this long of the two of
us ignoring you that you would’ve figured out we only teamed with
you because we had to,” the twin on the left said.

“Whaa?” The copper headed boy said.

“What was that for?” He asked.

“Stupid, forget it,” the boy on the right
said.

They got to some secluded place in Romania
and she didn’t know where exactly because they had taken her
underground. She, Alias and Alex had been tossed to the ground but
she knew better than to make a sound, she wasn’t supposed to be
awake. She watched as the boys took off their black suits and found
out that the faces she thought she’d imagined belonged to them,
were correct.

“You got them too…” she heard a voice. It was
weak and familiar…
oh my god, Christophe!!!!
She asked.

She almost got up and ran toward him but she
knew better.

“Shut up weakling!” the copper boy yelled at
Christophe and yanked at the chains around his neck. Christophe
laughed.

“That’s nothing compared to what happened
earlier, little bastard,” Christophe said easily.

“Oh your asking for it I should-“

“Jake, we have his brothers, his girlfriend,
his life, you cant do him any worse than he already is,” one of the
darker boys said. And then they all exited

.

“What happened to you!!!? Oh my god your
bleeding!!!” Amethyst exclaimed.

“It’s not as bad as it looks, Jewel,”
Christophe replied in a voice barely above a whisper.

“Don’t Jewel me, your covered in your own
blood and hanging from the wall, don’t even try it,” she said
moving toward him.

His entire back is gouged open…you can
almost see the bone in his shoulder blade,
she thought. Before
she could reach toward his back she was being kissed, but pulled
away because of a noise.

“So you’re the girl he seems to value so
much,” said the voice.

“If you’re awake then why aren’t they?” He
questioned. “

“Who are you, what do you want with us, why
are we here and when can we leave?” she said without fear or
nervousness.

“I ask the questions around here, little
girl. What is your name and why are you half demon?” He said
coolly.

“I don’t talk to strangers,” she replied with
a smile.

“Well unless you wish your death to arrive
sooner than possible, answer the questions,” he said. Amethyst
glanced over toward Christophe who gave her a pleading look so with
a sigh she began to answer the string of questions.