Everlasting Fire - Between Worlds by S. J. West

Author:S. J. West [West, S. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07C2M9TBP
Publisher: Watchers Publishing
Published: 2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Right before bed that night, I keep to my ritual and go see my Aunt Helena. I feel excited to share my day with her because besides my brother, she’s the only one I can tell about my encounter with Silas. I know she won’t judge me for keeping secrets from my parents. If anything, she will probably encourage me to keep more from them than I already have. In my heart, I know not telling my folks what I did today is wrong, but I also know that if I tell them what I did, there’s no way I’ll be able to keep my promise to Silas and go back to the surface to see him again tomorrow. Surely one more day of deception won’t hurt anyone.

As usual, I phase down to my aunt’s seaside cottage in Hell. It’s cozy enough, but I’m not sure why it’s always raining here. It seems counterintuitive for it to be raining in Hell, but I’ve never asked my aunt about it. I know she can sense everything I’m thinking, so if she wanted to solve that particular mystery for me, she would have by now.

“My, my, my,” she says as I walk over to the couch she’s sitting on and take a seat beside her. “You’re practically glowing, Liana. Dare I say it’s because of the handsome young man I see inside your thoughts?”

I can’t help but smile and feel a little giddy about finally having someone to talk to about my chance meeting with Silas. I know my mother will be phasing down in just a few minutes, so I don’t waste any time.

“Yes, it’s most definitely because of him,” I tell her, unable to keep my excitement hidden.

“From what I can see, the encounter between the two of you was brief,” she says, narrowing her eyes as she continues to study me. “Yet he seems to have made quite an impression on you in that short amount of time. Tell me, what is it about him that you find so interesting?”

“It’s hard for me to put into words,” I reply. “I sense that he’s been through a lot in his life and that whatever it is he’s gone through still causes him a lot of pain. I want to find out what it is he’s keeping hidden and see if I can help him find a way through it. Does that make sense?”

“Typical tortured soul syndrome,” she says, not really sounding like she understands my interest in Silas at all. “The females of the human species always seem to think that if you love someone hard enough, you can fix any problem that they’ve ever had. What makes you think he’ll want to share his deepest, darkest secrets with you? Maybe he keeps his pain close for a reason. Some people lean on the tribulations they’ve faced in life like a crutch to always remind them that life isn’t filled with rainbows and unicorns. It makes them who they are, and yet you wish to change him, even though it’s that inner sadness that attracts you to him.

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