Hunters not hunted

chapter 9

I stilled, frozen in place just after that statement. I look over to Scott and Eve and they are just as surprised as I am.

“ What?” I asked while looking down at my mother as if I expect her to open her eyes and tell me she was the one who made that statement.

“I…I…” I heard my mom muttered before she coughed out… blood. Then slowly she started opening her eyes, even though it is obvious that it is a difficult feat. But finally she was able to open her eyes fully, even as she kept closing them every seconds

“Mum”

“Shush, Listen to me” my mum said difficultly and I nod in answer while noticing that Scott and Eve has move closer.

“ I married Steve Imogen 21 years ago. For five years I wasn’t able to conceive and in order to cheer me up on the 10th of February 2022, which was 16 years ago”. She paused for a moment, as if trying to remember that very day. “ he took me to an Oceanside. We had fun until almost midnight on that day and I forgot about not being able to have a child that day. Around 11:30 PM while my husband and I was relaxing. Then I noticed something. It kept drifting forward. I was curious, so I tapped Steve and went close to it” She closed her eyes at that moment and she looked dead. I felt thousands of emotions raging through me. Curiosity, fear, rage, anxiety, sadness, and so on.

Suddenly a hand gripped me on the shoulder, and without checking , I can tell who it is.

“Calm down or else you are going to be the one to kill your mom, finally” Scott said with no hint of any emotions. But beneath his words. I can hear the rage.

“What do you mean?” I said, turning to look at Scott

“ The reason your mom kept closing her eyes wasn’t just because of the pain she feels, it’s also because your emotions have divided the temperature of the room”

“No wonder why I feel like I’m in hell and at the same time I’m in the coldest place in the world” Eve said while mutteri something like ‘why haven’t I figure it out’ I look away and look at Scott.

“What can I do to stop it?”

“You have already stopped it. The moment you decide to focus on one emotion, you have already stopped it” Scott said. Without emotion but his gaze on me was full of so much intensity that I felt tempted to turn my gaze away from him But something, just something in his dark eyes stopped me from looking away.

“ It was a baby, a little beautiful baby girl” At that moment, the spell was broken and both Scott and I turned to face my mum

“ She was in a dark blue basket, the most beautiful basket I’ve ever set my eyes on, and inside the basket a small pink blanket was used to cover her. I was spellbound and so was Steve by the beauty of the baby girl. I carried the basket and took the baby out. That was when I noticed that the colour of the baby is the same as the colour of the baby girl’s eyes and the blanket is the same color as the baby girl’s lips. Steve and I looked at each other at the irony of the colours, but that was not the only thing I noticed” Mum said and kept quiet.

“ What else?” Eve asked, though that was exactly what I had in mind to ask.

“ I noticed the mark on the baby’s thigh, a mark of daisy flower and underneath, R&K is there and it is written in green and red colours” My mum said while looking at me as if she is trying to make her word register in my brain and it did.

‘ No, please, no. God, please. I’m begging you, don’t let it be so’ I started chanting in my mind. I have always wondered why I have a mark on my thigh. And the day I mastered up the courage to finally ask my mom and dad. Now I can recollect that the moment my question flew out of my mind, my parents stiffened for a moment and gave each other a strange look before my mum told me I was born with the mark.

The dream. Now I'm asking myself whether the dream I’ve always had since only God knows when is really a dream or is it a memory?

No, no, no, it’s not possible. Steve and Lovett Imogen are my parents, right?

“ Lillian” Eve said, breaking me out of my thoughts. “Are you…?”

No, no, no, no. If it’s not possible, they are my parents. No, no, no. I kept shouting.

“ I knew a day to tell you this will come. I just never thought it to be a day that I will also cease to exist. The basket and blanket is in the spare room. Lily, I am sorry but believe me, I am not your biological mother” My mum, or should I say my fake mum, said while trying to hold my hand so she can stop my tears from falling.

“ No, mom, no, I…”

“ Lily, I think she is right. Or have you forgotten your dreams? Perhaps, they are not a dream but a memory” Eve said in a consoling voice. But I kept shaking my head negatively because I’m not really ready to accept the fact that they are not my parents, but Scott says something that made the knowledge finally start sinking into my brain.

“ I can sense it. Your parents are not supernatural. They are purely human. They don’t even have an ounce of supernatural blood”

Immediately, I stopped shaking my head.” You are lying. Tell me the truth?” I asked standing up to face Scott

“You know that’s the truth, but you just don’t want to accept it, love” Scott said while looking at me in challenge, almost as if he’s daring me to start a fight. I was about to… do what, I don’t know, before my mum said something that got everybody’s attention again.

“ What I meant by you are our secret key was” my mom continued “before Steve and I got married. We are agreed on something, We agreed that when we finally have our own child, he or she will be our key”

“ Your key to what? “I asked, almost scared to hear her answer.

“Key to everything we own “She said softly that I barely heard what she said.

“ Mom, what do you mean?” I asked, but she didn’t reply. I started to get scared. “Mom” She didn’t reply. I tried shaking her body, but she didn’t respond.

Loveth, Loveth, Loveth, Why?” Eve was wailing loudly. It’s been long since I heard her cried last. She was never an emotional person. Perhaps it is true.

“ I will murder them. I will murder them all. No, I am not going to murder them. I’m going to make them wish for death” With every word Scott uttered, it was follow with a Thunderbolt. So it is true she is dead.

………………

I slowly opened my eyes, but the sunlight forced me to close my eyes again. Again I tried opening my eyes and this time around, someone has pulled the curtain down so I was able to open my eyes fully.

The first thing I saw was dark eyes and then grey eyes.

“ Lily” Eve said so softly that I almost thought that she didn’t see anything.

“Wh… wh… Wha…” I try saying something, anything, but I just can’t get the word past my throat.

“ Shush, listen to me” Scott was saying. But I wasn’t listening anymore because I felt it, the déjà vu instantly.

No, it can’t be true right? It’s just a bad dream, right?

“ No, it’s true, it’s not a bad dream, but I will make them wish for death” Scott said. And I don’t know how he managed to mix rage, remorse and sympathy together, but that is what I can make on his expression. Also, at that moment, it just doesn’t occur to me about how he knows about my thoughts.

“ You are wrong, idiot” Eve said turning her grey eyes to look at Scott. Wait, he is wrong? does that mean it’s just a bad dream? Thank God.

“ You are not going to make them wish for death. We are going to make them wish for death” Eve completed her statements. I should have known that

EVE IS A BASTARD