Forever Breathing by Heather Allen

Author:Heather Allen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Ever

I arrive back at Alex’s dwelling pretty furious with myself. I ‘will’ the door open and go straight to ‘my’ room, at least for the moment it is. Who knows if Alex will change his mind and tell me to go back. He is pretty much washing his hands of me. I guess that is to be expected though. We have no ties anymore. Well, we never did, but now he knows for sure there is no chance for us as a couple. I throw the bag of fruit across the room and apples spill out, slowly sinking to the floor. I hear the door close and know he followed me back. I fall onto the bunk face first and for the first time in a long while feel homesick for my home on land with my parents. Maybe it’s my bedroom that was my safe place for so many years. I can feel his presence. I roll over to my side and peek out of my arms to see him hovering in the doorway.

“Ever, there’s so much I’ve come to find out since I arrived here.”

I grimace at him, “Well, enlighten me then.”

He sh, I3eed akes his head, “I can’t.”

“Yes you can, you’re choosing not to.”

He comes closer and sits next to me on the bunk. I scoot over reluctantly and huff at him. I intend on making this very hard for him. I think the part that upsets me the most is that I have finally found my place and he won’t even help me keep it.

He rests his hand on the bunk and looks at me as if trying to see inside my head. I have to look away. I don’t think I like creepy Alex.

“You know about my parents. They believed in keeping mer-people in the sea, they devoted their entire lives to it. I have to stay here for them.”

I shake my head angrily and argue, “No you don’t. We’ve had this conversation. It obviously hasn’t sunk in. Look at Jack and Amber, they lost their parents fighting for the same cause and now they are fighting not for that but for what is right. And me, what about me Alex? If Roman gets what he wants, what will happen to me?” I am almost pleading with him at the end of my rant and I really don’t like the way I sound. I have to get myself under control. Whining is unbecoming on my new outlook.

“Ever, yes, those are all right, but not right for me.”

This is really exhausting. He won’t listen to a word I say. I must be missing something. Maybe he is trying to tell me something.

“Alex, is there something else? I know you loved your parents but that was a really long time ago. There must be something else that is keeping you here.”

He shakes his head and gets up.

“Get some rest. Roman wants me to bring you to the castle tonight.”

What? When was he going to tell me this? He leaves and the water behind him stirs as if it knows the turmoil going through me.

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