The Truth Lies Beneath Your Eyes (6 page)

Amethyst Lyell Alexander

She stopped crying now but stayed in her room
for another hour until he heard distinctive voice, Christophe. He
was screaming at…Alias. She didn’t know what was being said at all
because it was all being yelled in Romanian. She walked out to the
staircase to watch what was happening downstairs. They didn’t know
she was watching but evidently whatever was being said was out of
line because Alex flew in and tried to block the punch the
Christophe threw that knocked Alias across the living room and
straight on his ass. Alex said something quickly still in Romanian
that sounded like it was along the lines of “What the fuck” and
looked at Alias on his back with a confused look and not moving to
help him up. And then they all looked up at her.

Alex looked at his brothers and then back at
her and then flew over to where she was at. Christophe and Alias
said something in unison and Alex being considerate or the language
barrier spoke English. “Because you two will end up being one
sided, if I’m old enough to deal with it, she can too, stupid,” he
said.

“Are you going to tell everything now?” Alias
asked rubbing at the already forming bruise on his abdomen.

“Nope, I’m going to baseline the important
stuff now because we don’t know everything either,” Alex said
dismissively.

“Come with me Madame Superhero,” he said
smiling.

They walked into his bedroom
, a monument
to the skateboarder if there ever was one,
she thought.

“Your favorite skater, Nyjah Huston?” She
asked examining the walls.

“Yeah, he’s really good,” Alex said. “Okay
well I know usually when I talk to you it’s to help us both escape
my irritating older brothers, but this time you have to know ‘cause
well…were all in danger,” Alex said sounding very young for an
eleven year old boy.

“Danger of what, Lex?” She asked quickly.

“Kay, uh the little girl you met a few days
ago, blonde hair and about four with red eyes?” He asked
nervously.

“That sounds about right, why?” She asked.
She looked at Alex who seemed to shell shocked to speak.
Shit!
No don’t cry!
She thought while reaching out to hug him. “No!
What’s the matter?” She said.

“It’s her little sister…” He whispered.

“What is it?” she said quietly.

“She got taken by them and it’s my fault…” He
said. Alex up and walked around his room. “Leah was her older
sister…and we….it should’ve been me instead,” Alex said as he
walked out the room.

Amethyst was back in her room and unsure of
what was going on at all. Christophe punched Alias across the room,
Alias turned into “Mr. bipolar” and Alex was in a clouded memory.
And now no one is talking and everyone in the whole house is in
various states of mental chaos,
she thought.
Who was Leah
and what did they do that got Alex so upset? What should’ve been
him? What could’ve possibly happened that was so bad that it’s
broken everybody down in an instant? I never thought that one rock
thought the window could be so much. Or that I could miss so much
in so few instants. Whatever it is, when I need to know then I
will. But until then I guess that I should leave it alone and let
it be.

“Can I come in?” she could hear Christophe
from outside the door.

“Yeah,” she responded quickly as Christophe
phased in.

“Hey Jewel,” he said calmly.

“There’s too much stuff going on today for
you?” he asked.

“Me and everyone else,” she sighed.

“True enough,” he said with a smile noticing
that Geliebt-Dämon was on her bed.

“What do you need?” He asked.

“What? Nothing, you came in here remember?”
she asked.

“Yeah I know but you needed something
anyways, what is it?” She looked at him for a minute, “What did you
guys do that was so bad? What was Alex talking about?” Christophe
stared at her,

“I will tell you when Alexander and Alias are
ready to talk about it as well, Jewel” then kissed her and left
with a wave.
Only his sexy ass can get away with that,
thought said smiling.
Stupid sixteen year old hotness, it always
wins.
She laid back on her bed and turned up the song playing
on her I-pod dock, “Thrash Unreal” by Against me.

Two hours had passed, dinner had been eaten
and now, evidently discussions were about to be happening as
everyone was on the first floor in the living room for once not
playing video games. “Okay we know that you’re kind of in the dark
about everything,” Alex started.

“So to baseline this I’m going to rapid fire
you on it,” Christophe said. As he did this Amethyst learned about
how there was a gang of head demons (they were demons, they took
their fallen angel chance, turned evil and can’t die) and that they
were hell-bent on killing Alias, Christophe, Alex their parents,
and now keeping her to join them because she seemed the most
powerful of the children.

“Whoa, okay but who is Leah?” she said
quietly.

Alex cringed, “Uh Leah is…well was my best
friend until she was almost taken by the gang of demons but in
trying to protect her I killed her and died myself…so since Leah
died because me the drafted her little four year old sister,
Kristen to be trained to be a demon spawn, it should’ve been me”
Alex said.

“So we’re all screwed,” Alias said.

Chapter 10:

And even though you can’t see it, I’ll be
damned if it doesn’t hurt

The first thing that I had said out loud
and in English all day that wasn’t an outright assault,
he
thought as he phased up to his room.
I never should have said
that, any of that but I did and as sorry as I am I know that I’ll
probably never get around to saying it.
He could see the mix of
emotions on the faces that were around him before he left the
living room. Amethyst looked hurt, afraid and angry. Christophe
looked mad at him. Alexander…had a knowing glance and look of pain
at the memory and realization of it; he knew that nobody had
anything to say anymore.
I’m sorry,
he thought.

“I remember Leah…she and Alex were
inseparable,” He said once in his room. He thought back on the day.
I’ve been an asshole, all day and everyone noticed it. Everyone
knows that and doesn’t know why. All hell is breaking loose. Is
this what we have to do? To go to heaven or be human again or
whatever? Is this our test?
He thought up until his door
opened,
well if it is, this fucking sucks…is it even worth
it?

“What’s the matter?” He asked as Amethyst
came in and sat on his bed. She said nothing for a moment.
She
can’t just sit there like that and expect me not to do anything,
right?
He thought. “You didn’t come in here not to talk to me,
I’m certain?” He asked while sitting up.

“Were all screwed…and It’s all my fault, If
not for me being here that kid wouldn’t have seen me and plotted
out to get you and then you guys would all be safe and I would be
home in New York with my friends,” she said quickly.

“They would have found us anyways, my father
and mother lead fallen angels who want to fix what they have done
wrong and the people that use they fallen angel tag to be
demons…are against my parents. The bad guys are the ones who took
Kristen,” he said.

“So wait, Leah got killed when Alex was
human?” She asked.

“Yes, we all were, including Leah but all the
bad guys knew was their potential demon spawn died and the next
best thing was Kristen.”

“Oh my god, poor Alex,” she said.

“I’ll never forgive myself for that…as far as
I’m concerned that’s the reason I’m here…or one reason anyway,”
Alex said, appeared through the doorway.

Alex is probably right, that probably is
one reason…but why? His heart was in the right place and his morale
was intact. He made a mistake…a big mistake but still, should it
still be at this price?
Alias thought solemnly. Even though he
had been an absolute ass today, Alex was still his little brother.
If I had to go through this shit twice as long, I would if it
would make Alex back into the little brother I knew before this
happened.

This can’t be it? What are we supposed to
do, this makes no sense. Our task can’t possibly be to kill
Kristen, can it? Is it to get her makers? Is it to save her, this
is loaded but what the hell are we to do?
Then he remembered
Amethyst and Alex we still in his room. “Alex what are we doing?”
he said glancing in the direction of his brother.

“What? I’m pretty sure we were talking before
you stopped,” he pointed out as Amethyst messed with her hair.

“Alex…where’s Christophe?” He asked
hesitantly.

“The living room, I think,” He said absently.
“Come with me,” Alias said yanking Alex’s arm hard enough to where
it looked like it’d be pulled out the socket.

“OUCH!!! WHAT IS IT!!!?” Alex yelled.

Christophe was sitting on the couch making
something, an origami flower it seemed. Alias didn’t have the time
to be pissed off about who he was most likely making it for but he
did go out of his way to knock it out of his hand as he shoved Alex
into a seat and sat down.

“Christophe I know what they want but just a
thought,” Alias started quickly.

“Procced,” He said calmly

Chapter 11:

So now my life’s a story book but shall I
take a second look?

School, it was back to school after the break
which seemed much

longer than a week for so much had happened
in such a short time.

Back to miserable math classes but on the
bright side a week was

the end of February, the
28
^th
is my birthday. And my boyfriend

now went to my school as well as Alias. Back
to…safety. But at

the moment that was still in store for
tomorrow. Should I still be

scared about the whole crazy demon thing,
cause I am. Maybe

I should shake it off or something. But now
Im back home in the

City. It’s like eleven thirty so I should get
off the computer and

Stop writing I should talk to Alias and them.
My mom asked how

Was my week and said that I missed a whole
bunch of calls from

Kitty but I’m not calling because I’ll see
them tomorrow. I really

Should get to bed and let my beloved bunny
sleep because he looks

Royally pissed at being awake this late, but
he’s not nipping me

So-

“Christophe!!!” she squeaked as she opened
the window to let him in.
Should I ask him now or later?
She
thought.

You squeaked” he laughed.

“You flew in my window!” she said
excitedly.

“Relax, my Jewel. It is dark, your mother is
sleeping and- whoa!” He lost his balance and fell on the bed. “and
what?” she said confused.

“You-uh…clothes” Christophe said in a jumble.
That’s the first time he’s stuttered on anything, so cute,
wait…clothes-oh!
She thought remembering all she was wearing
was a tight-ish tank top and underwear as she lay on her bed
playing with Geliebt-Dämon.

“Sorry!” she said as she pulled on shorts
feeling her face turn about seven shades of red.

“My fault for not…knocking but you tempt me,
kid,” he said tauntingly.

“Do I?” she joked back relaxing some.

“and don’t call me kid, I’m almost fifteen
for your information,” she said.

“And in July I’ll be seventeen, so what were
you doing before I flew in?” He asked glancing toward the purple
and black laptop.

“Oh nothing, finding new music for my
never-ending playlist,” she said flipping it closed with a yawn.
He has eyes like Alias, the hazel with the specks of green but
his are more special, specks of…green, gold and…amber, how
beautiful,
she thought.

“Okay Jewel, I just came by to tell you to be
careful,” he said seriously as he got up and kissed her hand.
“That’s all?” she said pleasantly as her eyes fluttered closed
beginning to welcome sleep.

“No, and for this,” he said as she started to
open her eyes and gave her this death defying kiss. “Night,
Amethyst,” he said as he left back through the window of her room
on the sixth floor with shy smile

Stupid, sexy, boy,
she thought
breathlessly as she opened her eyes.
Now I can’t sleep,
she
smiled flipping her laptop back open even though technically school
was later today. It was then she remembered that he had told her to
be careful. But he hadn’t told her of what.

“Hey kiddo, suns up time for school,” her mom
yelled through the door.

“Ugh…I’m up” she mumbled back as she rolled
out of bed looking at the twenty or so posters on her white walls.
She pulled on a plain white shirt and black jeans and yanked her
hoody out the closet and pulled her hair into a ponytail. Pouring a
bowl of smores cereal and milk into a bowl and ate as her mom
questioning her on her week at sunny’s house.
A week with my
best friend, her little brothers and her little sister. That’s not
a sleepover that’s a week long migraine,
she thought while she
nodded at her mother while she ate.

“You’re going to be late its 7:30,” Her mom
said.

“Okay,” she said eating her last spoonful of
cereal. Her sneakers were by the door along with her book bag.
“Later mom,” she said with a yawn.

Ugh Romania felt way too much like summer
for me to be back in the city already, and school no less,
she
thought. “Hey moonlight!” Amethyst heard a voice from down the
street; she had forgotten she was at the bus stop.

“Hey sunny, what up?” she asked noticing that
her brothers were nowhere to be seen.

“Where be the runts?” she said
informally.

“Oh, walking by alone for once. I haven’t
heard from you in a week!!! What happened!!!” she yelled.
Shit,
what do I say? I found out I was half demon, got kidnapped by three
boys and might be getting us all killed?
She thought.