Part VII

My heart starts racing again and I'm contemplating on wether to keep on listening to him or not. The more I find out the more confused I get.

He lied about his birthday because he knew this day would come and we'd both die?

"What the fuck are you talking about?", I ask, not sure if I want him to answer that.

"Look,", he turns around and tries to come close but I shift back, away from him and a flash of hurt passes through his face. I don't care if he's hurt or not but I won't let a liar and a deceiver come close to me.

He puts his hand through his hair and goes to sit on the couch in the corner of the room.

"I know how you feel right now",

"You don't", I say lowly, my voice holding so much hurt I never thought I could feel. I never knew Dylan to tell the tiniest of lies. He's rather avoid the topic than tell a lie.

He'd rather ignore me than tell a freaking white lie.

"I do Crystal. That's why I never wanted to tell you. I wanted to-", "Go on", I cut him off, looking him dead in the eye. Ready for whatever was to come.

"I don't know how. I don't know what to say. What to tell. Where to start!", He says frustratedly, putting his head in his hand and his elbows on his knees. Something he does when he's utterly agitated. Suddenly, I remember what I saw in that room. The list of names.

"Who's Selena?" I ask and he looks at me shocked.

"She's m-my a-unt" he stutters.

"You still have the guts to lie to my face? Do I even know you? Who are you?!! Who the fuck are you?!!!", I yell, tears running freely down my cheeks. He still stays silent, looking away in shame and guilt. I can't believe this is the man my heart chose to love.

"Tell me the truth Dylan. Why am I seeing things and hearing voices. Why am I having nightmares?! Who's Selena?!!"

"She was my sister in-law okay. She was my older brother's wife" he says and confusion, my new friend, comes over me again.

Ransacking my brain for when he ever told me he has a brother.

"You have a brother? I thought you were an only child." How much more lies has this man told me? I've never been so confused and hurt in my entire life. Not even when my mom neglected me after she remarried.

"I had one. He's dead now"

In the woods, Betty said they came here with Selena before. Now Selena turns out to be Dylan's dead older brother's wife.

"Is Selena dead too?"

He nods once and that's when it all clicks. Selena and Dylan's brother died. And they came here. Just then, the list comes back to my memory. All female names.

All dead female names. All dead Connor's wives. This must be why he fought so hard for us to not come. But I begged him. Convinced him. I didn't know what I was in for. Betty. Jake. They asked me to.

They were the ones who asked me to convince him. Do they know about all of this?

"Crystal I never chose this", he says pleadingly, "I never wanted this"

"Your parents. Do they know?" I ask and he averts his eyes again and I take my answer for a yes. Just then, a slight knock comes from the door and it opens slowly, Betty coming in smiling.

"Ah," her smile widens when she sees me, " I see you're awake sweetie" She comes closer and sits on the bed and I want to move away from her but I look at Dylan and his expression makes me decide against it. She can't know I know anything yet. I can't believe this happy woman in front of me knew about everything all this while.

"You were out long", she continues after I gave her a nod and a small smile, "you must be hungry. Dylan", she looks at him but he doesn't even pay mind to her as his eyes doesn't leave the ground, "I told you to come get food for her when she wakes up." She looks back at me when he ignores her.

"Don't worry, I'll be right back okay?"

"No, you don't have to. Dylan would come get it when I'm ready"

"But you have to-",

"I'm fine", I cut her off sounding unintentionally harsh and her expression looks shocked then she smirks and gives me a knowing look. A scary one.

"Okay then," she gets up "but you should eat a lot. We'd never know when we're eating our last." With that, she leaves the room and I have feeling I just made a huge mistake.

I look at Dylan but he's eyes are still fixed on the ground.

"Why do we have to die? Did you kill anyone in the past?"

"Ofcourse I didn't. It's just, I don't,", he stops and groans, getting up and walking across the room, "it's all very complicated Crystal. I can't explain why. But, hold on", with that, he searches his pocket and brings out a key.

A big golden ancient looking key.

"There's a way out of this. It's very slim, but not impossible"