To Be One

Chapter 5: Midst of Melancholy

Glory's POV

Andrew and I were just stunned by the shadows standing in front of us, the two of them are not moving, as if they were watching us. He held my hand tightly and we stood together. "What do you want?" He tried to put me behind him, but I'm no scaredy cat, if they are a threat, I can fight.

"Whatever those people want. Just trust me, I will protect you," he whispered. I felt so safe with those words. I just nodded at him, but as we approached those people it was the lightning bolt almost hit us. I closed my eyes and scream as I hit the ground.

I slowly opened my eyes and I was shocked when Andrew disappeared. I looked around and saw that the shadows that had just stood there were no longer there.

It was like a movie scene, I can't really imagine what really happened, it felt like I am in the middle of a climax and left hanging there with a lot of questions. Who are those people we saw? Whatever is happening now the sad rain witnesses the plight of us all, a day I will never forget.

I'm so messed up, I no longer know what I should do. How do I find him? I fell on my knees and I do not know what I should feel, it's funny to think that what is happening seems very impossible. I was surprised when I heard my cellphone ring and I saw Pearl's name on the screen.

"Hello?" it is Pearl. She said they are in the hospital right now with Jade and Janine. I didn't bother anymore and went to the address they gave me. I know Andrew is important but my friends are too.

Less than an hour I arrived at the hospital feeling an overwhelming desolation. My attention caught a couple crying. This is the sad reality once you put your footsteps on the lonely and cold tiles of a hospital. It is full of people who are facing the biggest challenge of their lives and that is to play games with death.

I immediately asked a nurse which room Jade was staying in and I immediately went to her.

I was right in front of the door. I took a deep breath and I opened it. There the faces of the three girls who became part of my life, they were crying. No words came out of my lips and I immediately hugged them and the tears I had been holding back came out spontaneously.

It hurts to see that my friends are in a bad situation and to lose the person I love is too much, it is more painful than a wound that's been touched by someone, or a knife that cuts your ċhėst, it hurts so much.

"W-what happened? Why are you here in the hospital? Where are they?" I asked directly.

"You won't believe it when we tell you everything" Jade whispered.

When they told me what had happened, I could not say that what they were saying wasn't true but now is not the right time to doubt them, I believed more when I saw Noctis, Edward and Yujin lying on the bed. The three of them are all unconscious. What kind of person did this to them?

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"Things are very unbelievable," Pearl said in a very helpless tone, she came after sending Janine home, Jade just came along because her parents were also looking for her. Pearl and I are the only ones left here.

"It's very hard to believe but the three of them, I can't imagine that they are more than being a human, they are not from here but from another planet that we do not know. What if something worse happened to them? I can't handle it!" She just looked down and seemed to be in tears again. I touched her cheek and squished it a little, she looked at me.

"I know, I know how much you are scared, the feeling of losing someone you are caring is too much right? What's important is that they're safe," I knew how does she feel towards Noctis.

I looked down and thought to myself,

'That's exactly how I feel, I don't know what I should do. I'm getting crazy finding the reasons why all this is happening. Andrew disappeared, Who are those people we saw? What's more frustrating is that I CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO KNOW WHERE HE IS!'

Somehow I realized that people's feelings are connected to each other. No matter how far or near, we always feel the same thing, and right now all I knew is that we're afraid, sad and scared that anytime someone will take away our beloved.

Pearl's POV

I hugged Glory and made her feel that she was not alone in what is happening to us now. Like me, she knows and understands how I feel. Fear, that's all and nothing else. She let out all her feelings and explained to me what happened to Andrew. He suddenly disappeared from her sight. I was worried because now a bad idea was forming in my mind. She mentioned that she saw a human shadow in the distance before Andrew disappeared. I just hope my thoughts are not right.

Everything that happened today was too heavy for the four of us. All I can think about is that we are in the same situation.

"What are we going to do?" I asked.

"I don't know, I don't know," she whispered. I know her mind is in turmoil now so I advised her to go home because I know she is very tired like me.

"Don't worry about me, I'll take care of them. You need to rest and your parents might be worried," I said softly to her.

"Don't stress yourself too much, you also need to rest," I just nodded and said goodbye to her. I went back to the room where the three were resting.

After eating and changing clothes, I went to the now unconscious Noctis, he was still sleeping in bed and it seemed like he was a prince who was now in a deep sleep.

I kept thinking. 'It is true that Noctis is not from this world and he should not be living here either but why it seems so right to feel okay when he is here with me even if it is so wrong?'

That thought whispered in my mind. The way I saw him so weak, his pitiful situation, how he called the name of the man who was about to end his life. At that moment, I saw the intense pain in his eyes. There was something in his gaze that was pulling me so I was sad too.

I just kept watching him, from his eyes to his red lips. With him being so quiet I wonder if he also feels sad? I shook my head and looked to the other two, I already knew the answer to that question, I saw how sad he was.

"T- this is not about you."

I remember what he said. It sounds so selfish but it really bothers me to know that he already love someone. That unexplainable pain lying in my heart is unbearable but, I'm the person who's beside him right now. I hold his hand firmly. I decided. I don't want to see him like this again. I need to protect him.. I will keep him safe and I promise it.