Light in Darkness - Tammy (learn to read activity book .txt) 📗

and from her voice I could see she wanted to be alone so I left. I thought to myself as I walked. Why is Leo so untrusting now? I don’t understand it. He usually trusts Elle with everything. I was interrupted by my hitting something really warm and then falling. That something must be a human because it caught me. I looked up to Oskan looking down at me.
“We really must stop meeting this way.” He told me and I nodded.
“Really it is starting to seem that this is the only way we meet isn’t it? At least you don’t walk around scalding anymore.” I told him and then we started to walk to breakfast.
“So are you more prepared for the light test tomorrow?” He asked and I just nodded. I was too distracted by Elle and Leo. They were fighting a lot and I couldn’t understand why. “What’s wrong?” He asked me, sounding concerned.
“Elle and Leo had another fight and I don’t know what to do. They’ve never fought before and I’m concerned. What will happen with them? I have confidence that they can fix it but I still worry.” I told him, the honesty flowing easily from my lips.
“They’ll be fine they’re just hitting a bump in the road right now. Don’t worry about it.” He tried to reassure me but I just nodded not really feeling reassured. He must have sensed it because he pulled me close to him and whispered in my ear. “I’m serious, don’t worry about them. They will make it through this.” This time I believed him, I still had doubts but not as bad. We walked into the café and I felt some people staring at our hands but I didn’t care. They could deal with it because I wasn’t letting go. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Luna and her eyes tightened but I just shrugged. She could think what she wanted. Then Brooke ran up to me.
“Is it true? Are you dating a fire? Do you not care what Luna says, you think that it will last?” She was so eager she didn’t notice me and Oskan holding hands.
“Yes that’s all true if you didn’t see.” I said holding up our hands. I saw her eyes grow wide then she got excited.
“Yay! I’m so happy for you! I hope that you two will last.” She said and Oskan looked confused.
“Why wouldn’t we last?” He asked her. She looked a bit taken aback
“Have you not told him about Dover yet?” She whispered and I shook my head. I hoped he hadn’t heard that. I didn’t want to talk about the only boy to actually break my heart. It didn’t matter anymore though Oskan was everything I could ever want and looking back now I could see that it didn’t matter what he did to me. He was a jerk and we weren’t really in love. However that didn’t mean I wanted to talk about it. I shook my head no and she nodded. “Okay well I have to go nice to see you again Aqua.” She hurried off and Oskan looked at me.
“Who is Dover?” He asked and I sighed.
“Nobody, it’s not important.” I told him and his eyebrows rose.
“No, I think it is.” He said and I shook my head. He got closer to me and lowered his voice. “Please tell me.” I looked down and knew I would have to tell him sooner or later so I met him half way.
“Please not right now but later I’ll tell you. Just let me have coffee before okay?” I looked up and he nodded disappointed but excited to know. A server came and brought us breakfast, my usual vegetarian breakfast and coffee. Brooke came to sit next to me and after a few moments I realized that the only people missing from our table was Elle and Leo. Please don’t be fighting, it’s not going to get better if you keep fighting. I thought to myself but Brooke was as chatty as ever.
“Do you think tomorrow in History we’ll get to learn about the Salem trials?” She asked and I shrugged.
“I don’t know, our teacher was related to one of those witches so it’s a touchy subject for her. We may learn it next year though.” I told her and she nodded. Then I got a sudden lurch in my stomach as realized I wouldn’t be there for it. “Anyway there are books in the library with information on it if you’re really curious.” I told her and she nodded.
“I know but I want someone to tell me who killed them, none of the books seem to know and I want to know specifically what kind of human would do that. We live in harmony now, what could have happened that would make them do that?” She asked and I could see why she was curious.
“I don’t know, we’ll just have to wait to learn about it won’t we?”
“I guess so.” I finished breakfast and bade her goodbye, leaving with Oskan.
“Will you tell me now?” He asked and I sighed.
“When we get to the dorm.” When we arrived at my dorm I could see and feel that no one was home so I entered confidently. I felt it was better to tell him what had happened alone instead of awkwardly in front of my sister.
“Okay so do you honestly want to know?” I asked and he nodded. “Okay, well the first thing you should know is that Dover was also a water so I’m not sure what happened to make him behave the way he did. At first when I met him I thought he was kind of pompous and bid-headed. If you ask me I should have trusted that judgment. However I gave him a second chance and before I knew it he had worked his way in through my doors. I was so happy with him until he started to act different. He wasn’t as sweet and caring as before. He came to see less and I had to see him more but that was fine. I understood that I had to give to take and did I give to him. Sometimes I would go to his dorm and he would send me away saying he was studying and of course I believed him. I didn’t get suspicious until he blew me off on our five month anniversary celebratory weekend for “studying”. “ I started to tell Oskan about what had happened putting quotations with my hands around studying. “I decided to drop by and saw a girl leaving his room. I stopped her and asked her if she was his tutor and she nodded. She told me she was her tutor in a lot of things. I was confused and asked her what she meant and she whispered in my ear that sometimes they didn’t just study and some would say that she tutored him in the art of kissing. When she said it I felt a stab at my heart and went to go talk to him. He let me in and I asked him about the girl and he tried to lie saying she only taught him history. I saw through it and he told me the truth. That they had been cheating on my for a month and a half. I left angrily and he begged for forgiveness.” I went further into the story my mind flashing an image of him giving me flowers and please forgive me notes. Then Oskan stopped me.
“Please don’t tell me that you forgave him.” He said and I just looked down and he groaned. “Why?” He asked so I continued.
“He looked so vulnerable and sorry when he begged. He wouldn’t leave either he begged for a few days before I gave him a second chance. He promised to treat me better this time but of course he didn’t. He would drag me to parties to show me off to his friends. When we were together I had to get him everything. If he was thirsty I was to get it. There were fights of how he never wanted to be with me unless it could benefit his popularity and he denied it telling me I was crazy. Once we fought really badly before it turned into a fight of powers and strength. He tried to suffocate me with water forgetting I was one myself. One time in particular he used a torture spell and I screamed in pain. My sister came and helped me leave. After I was too weak for a day to do anything, he had stolen from teachers and I wanted to tell. He didn’t want me to turn him in though. Of course we fought about it and that’s when he used the torture spell on me. It went on for a good ten minutes before Elle arrived. Then it was physical and I got a couple of bruises. I forgot about it quickly thinking it was my fault that we had fought that way. We were together fighting like that for about another month before I saw him with another girl again. This time I dumped him and he ran off to a different town with the girl and I never saw him again. I cried for a while before realizing I was better than him. Other boys asked me, truly nice ones and I knew that I would survive because as much I liked him it wasn’t love. In total we had dated eight months. I didn’t want to get hurt again so I closed myself off to any boy who came near me. I dated but since no one could get through to me we didn’t last long. Then I met you and it was different. You could crumble my walls with just a few words. Of course I still have a few up but I have no doubt that you can get through them to. You make me so happy and looking back I can see that if our relationship is so strong and still young then what me and Dover had was honestly nothing but a small crush.” I finished and he shook his head.
“How can he have done that to you? What kind of person would do that to a person and not say they were sorry or at least try to?” He asked and I was confused. I could feel anger at Dover even though he doesn’t know him.
“Why are you angry?”
“Because I just don’t see how someone could hurt you that way. You’re so soft and innocent. I would never even contemplate thinking of doing that to someone let alone you. If I ever see him he will regret what he did to you.” He said angrily and I put my hand on his.
“It is in the past and doesn’t matter. The only relationship that matters now is ours.” I told him and he cooled and smiled at me.
“I suppose so.” He said and then Elle stomped inside turning and shouting over her shoulder.
“You can’t take back what you said Leo! If you wanted us to stay strong you should have stayed strong yourself and held your tongue whether it was out of anger or not.” She looked angry and slammed the door shut then saw us sitting there.
“What’s wrong Elle? What happened?” I asked her standing up and making a glass of calming chamomile tea for her.
“Another fight with Leo, this one particularly bad. There’s something bothering him and he refuses to tell me what it is. So we fought about trust for a while but then after a while I was tired of fighting so I tried to leave but he told me that we had to