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FIRE CRACKER Me? (124)
Everything made sense now.Why she was so adamant about hiding the truth, Why she refused to tell me? Why she hid the tapes, Why we had such a strong connection and how her niece's clothes, Fit me.It wasn't her niece's clothes, those were my sister's clothes. The far-away look in her eyes, why she always tried to comfort me. It was the guilt speaking. My insides turned and I stood up and stumbled into Daniel's arms."Danielle—" He began when we locked eyes but I broke eye contact almost immediately. "Did you know Charlotte?" He whispered. "I looked for you everywhere, my love. On the streets, in orphanages, everywhere that I could think of, but you were never there." He admitted.I pushed Daniel away gently and rested on the wall. I felt strength gradually leave me. I wasn't insane. I wasn't losing my mind. She was the one playing the games. Charlotte knew. She knew who I was and who I meant to her.The attack at the apartment that day wasn't about me. It was about their feud. Yet
FIRE CRACKER Lee (125)
"Me?" I asked and scrunched up my nose, I glanced between Daniel and Elliot and I struggled to form words. "What could he have against me? I barely know the man." I expressed in a low tone."He's channeling all his rage onto you and he's not going to stop anytime soon," Elliot explained softly, I frowned. My lips parted to speak when the sound of someone yelling filled the room.Three necks snapped towards the door and I discreetly saw Daniel pull out a gun, I frowned and took a step towards the door. "Don't move." He instructed."What drama is about to unfold now?" I mumbled underneath my breath but as I tried to listen in, I became painfully aware of the fact that the voice was familiar and it sent a strange unfriendly sensation down my spine."I know who it is," I admitted softly."Really?" Daniel said and tilted his head to the side."Yeah, and I'm about to give a piece of my mind." I spat."I'm coming along." Daniel offered and grabbed a jacket I had not noticed. I rolled my eyes
FIRE CRACKER Daniel? (126)
"What's up with her?" I mumbled underneath my breath when Lee was out of sight."She's like that, We've tried to talk to her, or get go but she blocks everyone out and refuses" I heard Daniel's voice and my eyes darted in his direction, His blue orbs pierced into mine before he broke eye contact."She was so excited a while ago," I commented and sighed. My eyes traced where she had felt and I felt this urge to go after her."Do you think something is wrong?" I asked Daniel, He didn't seem fazed at all, almost as if he was used to this kind of outburst from her. He shrugged and grabbed an apple from the Island. "How are you feeling?" The question was directed at me and I paused for a moment, My mind gradually registered his question and my lips seemed too heavy to part. I frowned.I did not know how I was feeling.Everything was happening so fast and as much as I was trying my best to avoid it or push it to the back of my head, it was real and I had no face it at one point or another,
FIRE CRACKER How can I accept this? (127)
“Dinner is ready?” Someone said and I glanced up. My eyes locked with Elliot for a split moment before I looked away. I think as still curled up on the floor of the kitchen and I was sure I had tear tracks on my face.“I’ll be down in a minute.” I offered.“Why are you sitting here all alone?” He asked and took a seat on the ground beside me, I resisted the urge to move away, but he must have noticed because he shifted back a bit, I shut my eyes and clenched my fist.Here I was again. Doing the same thing I was beating myself up for earlier, treating people wearily because I was scared of history repeating itself.“I just needed to be alone,” I whispered. I licked my lips and played with my thumb a bit, Elliot didn't leave though, He sat on the ground and I could feel his eyes on me but I didn’t feel uncomfortable. “You want some coffee?” He enquired after a while. “Yeah,” I breathed with a short nod. A smile spread across his tight lips and he walked over to the coffee brewer. I f
FIRE CRACKER If I die? It'll be on my own terms (128)
I could not breathe.“S-stop!” I cried but it came out muffled. I licked my legs and struggled. My insides turned and I felt my intestines knot and twist together. My throat dried up and it felt like there I had swallowed a lump as well as my voice. My eyes stung with tears of frustration as I struggled with my attacker, they didn’t seem too strong or masculine but I was sure that something was wrong with me, whether it was the chloroform or how fuzzy my head felt, something was wrong: This person, they were not letting me go. I tried to push back and forth, I kicked my legs and tried my best not to breathe in what I assumed was the chloroform but just as I was about to give up and suck it up, The person shoved me to the ground and pointed a gun at me. My eyes widened and I locked eyes with Rye.Her eyes were as fiery as ever. Her feet were implanted with black boots and her hair was tied in a high ponytail, Her gun was pointed straight to my head and he hands didn’t waver as she inc
FIRE CRACKER George knows (129)
Everything hurt.With every jerk and movement I felt my insides turn and my skin itch painfully, I could barely keep my eye was open as what I assumed with lights flashed over and over again.I struggled to suck in comfortable breaths but my lungs were not cooperating, I could hear drowned voices in the back ground of my distress and my body kept stiff in it's place, my eyes rolled till I could no longer see anything, all I could hear was the distressed sounds of people around me.The thick scent of disinfectant filled my nostrils and it made it harder to breathe. I wasn't sure when I went unconscious, but when I opened my eyes the first person I saw was Lee.She was dressed in a short frilly dress and had her hair loose on her shoulders, her blue eyes held worry and she had some dark circles under them, her freckles were more prominent and her multicolor frilly dress felt too vibrant."Wh—wha's goin on?" My voice came out slurred and I stopped for a moment. It took me a few seconds to
FIRE CRACKER I want it all (130)
“Seven days.” Daniel breathed as he rested on the wall opposite me, I sat up on my bed. The entire experience had been draining for everyone and the silence was slowly killing me.I sucked in a sharp breath and flung my kegs over the railing. “You don’t sound too excited,” I commented softly.Daniel chuckled and walked toward me. His eyes traced my neckline where the gift he had given me two days ago, stayed. it was a blue stoned pearl necklace. It sat comfortably on my neck and ever since I wore it, He’d been staring at it.“What is going on in your head?” He asked and sat at the edge of my bed. I tilted my head at his question, I thought I was the one who could not wait to get to know what he was up to yet here he was asking me questions.“You already know what I want, I have made it clear,” I confirmed it.“This is going to change everything,” Daniel spoke. “And everyone.” He added and we locked eyes.“Well, in this life Daniel, you are either stepping on someone or getting stepped
FIRE CRACKER The count down has begun (131)
“When I was a child, Danny I thought that everyone had a good heart,” I laughed at my thoughts, and a tear rolled down my cheek at the same time, it was almost scary how I had chances from that carefree Danielle to this volcano.It felt like I was going to explode at any moment, I had never felt this emotion in my entire life and it had never been so intense. This feeling of anger and hatred. Negative feelings were very strong. Most times they can even be blinder than love. Because their only satisfaction comes when someone suffers while love sacrifices, Hatred consumes everything and everyone. “I thought that people could change! That they had good hearts and they were sweet and I was the one doing it all wrong.” I remembered Seven-year-old Danielle who did not understand why her mother would Lock her in her room and not feed her for days, then I remember how I would analyze fourteen-year-old Danielle and try to make sense of why this woman was investing so much in someone she hate
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5 years later. “What happened here?” I sucked in a sharp breath as I glanced around what was supposed to be the children’s room but seemed like a battleground. World war three happened here. “It was him!” Bella cried in her high-pitched voice, I cringed at her tone and glanced in the direction of her voice. My heart skipped a bit when I could not find her, but if the mop of blonde curls that peaked out from beneath the bed was anything too go by; I was definitely on the right track. I took tentative steps toward her and crouched down to her height, “Baby, what’s going on?” my voice trembled slightly with worry but that was not the only thing threatening an anxiety attack from me at this moment. It was already 10:00 am and I wasn’t even dressed — forget about dressing up, Tyler wasn’t even around to handle the kids and he promised me. Today was my big day and he promised he would fill in, but as always, he just runs off with his burger. Bella reluctantly reached out to me and
FIRE CRACKER Is it too late to say goodbye?
You know how you can spend your entire life walking on the wrong path. You can feel like you have it all figured out even though you are just starting and struggling to be a good version of yourself. There are some memories, that don’t die when dawn comes barging in. Some dark times that even the sun can’t chase away. My point is: They are too many things out of our control and the last thing you want to do is get stuck with the guilt of not fixing or doing things that were never in your control, to begin with. As I ran my hands through my soaked scarlet hair, a lone tear crawled down my cheek and I swallowed sharply. I bit hard on my bottom lip as I thunderstruck and pierced my skin. It was almost scary how three years had felt like decades, how much I had linked to come here, all the promises, the guilt, everything that had built up to this exact moment. I wiped my tears which were mixed with rain. I found to hear the hesitant footsteps from Rye, but I did not turn. My fists cle
FIRE CRACKER Finally? (196)
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“This was the last place I thought I would ever come,” The words rolled out of my mouth and left a bland taste in my mouth, I could feel the heat from the ground tear my skin apart, and my eyes stung with fresh tears and my fists clenched.If anyone had told me, years ago, or even a month ago that I would do this, I would have laughed in their face and given them a fitting reply, yet here I was, tears pouring down my cheeks with a void in my heart that I was not sure time could heal.“It wasn't supposed to end like this, Alice. This wasn’t the plan. This wasn't the freaking plan,” I whispered and I could barely see from my clouded vision. “You always hurt me when it was alive and I always used to think that I would be happy when you died...” I trailed off and wiped my tears.“I’m not Alice,” I admitted. “I’m not happy at all ad it feels like my heart got ripped out. You took a part of me with you and it space you left stings a lot.” I swallowed and sucked in a sharp breath. I ran my
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FIRE CRACKER Let’s start again (193)
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FIRE CRACKER You hurt me! (192)
"I never thought you would come here." I heard a voice as I sat on the closest rock.From the view I had, the lake was breathtakingly beautiful, it had been months since I came here and I was dying for a breath of fresh air."Do you remember the last time we came here?" the voice continued on a steady pitch, I rolled my eyes at the tone and turned away. "Danielle, you are going to have to face me at one point or the other." Tyler finally confessed in what sounded like a defeated tone, I scoffed at his words. "There's nothing to settle." my voice came out strained. It had been one entire month since Alice was murdered and Aiden died at my hands. The memory still sends chills down my spine and for many days I refused to leave my home because I was terrified of the outcome, I sucked in sharp air and glanced at him."You ended this, remember?" I added in a soft tone, my eyes stung with tears but I blinked them away. Tyler sighed. He broke the small distance between us and sat beside me
FIRE CRACKER Life isn’t fair (191)
I lunged at him. With all the force and anger I could muster at that moment. This was the moment I had waited for so many years. Three long years — I lived with that guilt and pain for three long years. I was broken, I had to deal with the pain and nightmares and the intense feeling that I could not protect the man who did nothing but love me. The only thing I had consoled myself with back then was that I would avenge his death.And only when I had avenged his death, would I visit his grave. Today, I would fulfill that promise.Aiden lost balance in shock, the gun went off immediately. My eyes widened when we hit the ground. I was basically on top of him, dangerously close with the gun between us and my breath hitched.My heart raced and it took me a few seconds to register the fact that the bullet had not hit me, rather it was stuck in Aiden who was bleeding from his nose.I must have taken too long to connect all these dots because the next thing I knew was hands around my neck, c
FIRE CRACKER I will keep that promise (190)
"Aiden," I growled and he smiled. He had a fun held up straight to my face and I was almost thrown off by the audacity of the man. Here, in broad daylight, he was pointing a gun at me, a smug grin plastered on his face as if he had just been given hot coffee on a stressful morning."Danielle" His voice was calm and held no remorse at all, his eyes narrowed at me and rested on Alice's body which was behind me. I watched as Aiden's grey eyes darkened for a bit before they returned to their previous form."For the first time in my entire life...I'm sad I was right about something." The words were not directed at me, rather it was where his gaze rested. Completely fixed on Alice. "If you cared about her, you would have stopped this a long time ago." I shot a glare at him, and he scoffed and stared at me with a piercing gaze. "It's because of her, I did this!" He snapped and shot one of the medics, I stumbled on the side of the van, my eyes went wide and I clenched my fist."That's a li
