Chapter 118

Okay today is just weird by all standards.

I mean I shouldn't be feeling this panicked and mortified at this, the fact that my parents have died is something that I have known for a while now, well it is something that I have known ever since they died and so I shouldn't be feeling this surge of emotion at people asking about it, but oddly enough I feel it.

I feel it even more forcefully than I would have ever wanted to and I think I actually release a few sobs into her shoulder.

"Is it okay now?" she asks me and I nod my head.

"I'm really sorry for that" I say to the three of them and Arden comes to give me a hug.

Adrian simply stands there looking mortified like he was the cause of all this and I give him a little punch on his arm.

"It isn't your fault, I'm just being touchy for no reason" I say and I sit on the floor.

"You don't really have to say it if you don't want to" the three of them say and I laugh slowly at the way they're doing everything in unison today, my three little body guards.

"I'm guessing that we wouldn't really be friends if I didn't tell you about me" I say and they give me something of a smile. It only strikes me now that I am practically an alien to them, I am this person that they do not know but yet have accepted into their hearts with all their might. Okay I don't really know about that part, but I'm pretty sure of it.

They had all known each other ever since they were kids, if what Adrian says about this place is true, then they had practically competed against each other at one point but they are coming together now, forming this little alliance all because of me, and so it will be wildly inappropriate for me not to tell them anything about myself.

The problem is, I just don't know how to start.

"Well what do you guys want to know?" I ask them trying to find some way to escape the surge of emotion rising up as I think about my parents.

"Anything you want to tell us" Adrian says as he sits down beside me.

It seems he also isn't satisfied with the little explanation I had given him the night we met. He also wants to know more, and so I begin with my parents.

I begin with two people who were so wonderful, and caring, and loving to me and to the world around them that it hurt me so much when they left it. It hurt me so much that I felt following them would be the only way to show how much I loved them back.

I told them of someone who stole my inheritance from me, and who lived off it with her grubby family, I told them of how my life has gone up to this point. I told them everything.