Heart of a beast 2 episode 15

💘HEART OF A BEAST👺
(Love is the word💓)
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BY BLESSING SILVER
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BOOK 2 📚
CHAPTER 15✏️
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❤Kayla’s POV❤️
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My palm gently car-ssed the knitted scarf.. Tracy had knitted it herself and made it her most favorite scarf.
She would proudly wear it almost everyday during winter season, much to my envy, it was a thick knitted scarf with an inner leather cloth and undeniably, it was pretty.
I sniffed, using a palm to dab my tears. I didn’t know why I had to go to the box today, of all other days. It was a large box that contained all of Tracy’s stuff.. Mom had parked it and transported it to the basement. Getting back home after school and after a brief lunch, I found myself heading to the basement and going through her stuffs, unleashing healing pains and emotions.
I took the scarf and closed her box up before walking out of the basement. I head into the sitting room, grabbed my bike keys and head out, I plucked a rose from the few shrubs outside the house and climbed my bike.. I began riding it to the woods.
Getting there, I parked close to a tree and walked through the path that led to the cemetery, sighting Tracy’s grave few feet away, my steps faltered and emotions cloud into my chest, tightening it.
I squat in front of it, tears sliding down my cheeks at intervals.
At least I now know what truly killed her and I’m not giving up on getting justice for her..for us and Melvin.
Without a reasonable reason, she decided to shatter my family and destroy us. Though I can’t resurrect Tracy, but I’m not letting her take anymore of my family, I’ll get justice for Tracy and defeat her, I have to.
I wiped another tear off my cheek and placed the rose on the heaped sand.
“I’m sorry for not visiting you as often as I did in the past” I mumbled to her “I’ve been busy trying to get revenge for you and save the rest of us, I’m sure you understand and I love you, so very much I can’t stop wanting to make Lucinda pay with every fiber of my being ” I said, letting out a mild sniff.
I stood up and stared at her grave before bursting into another round of tears.. I was wiping it off when a shadow fell over me, I slowly pulled my palm off my face and rolled my eyeballs toward it but the shadow was all I saw, I studied it- it wasn’t an animal but a person, not huge nor fragile and after a huge exhale, I turned, ready to defend myself Incase of anything.
“Hey, it’s just me!” Melvin quickly interjected and I sighed in relief.
“Why would you sneak up on me like that? You should’ve said something!” I deadpanned.
“I’m sorry but you seem to be pretty engrossed down there. Sorry if I gave you a fright” he said. I nodded and turned.
He came to stand beside me..
“Are you crying?” He asked after I sniffed and suddenly gasped, noticing the grave in front of me. I gave him a look, wiping the tear that strolled off unconsciously. “A friend?” He asked, a sympathetic look on his face. I shook my head in reply.
“My sister” I answered and he gasped again.
“I-I’m so sorry Kay, I had no idea she was-” he stopped talking and gave me a more focused look “No, I swear, it wasn’t me. I didn’t kill her, seriously!” he said, hurriedly..
“I know” I said, his next look was questioning. “I was with her when she died, she got hit by a car. Though her lab result said you did but I know you didn’t” I told him.
“Neither did you kill anyone else buried here, it’s all Lucinda doing! She just used you as a camouflage” I said.
“Thanks Kay” he said. “Looking at you, she must’ve been a very pretty girl” he said and I giggled softly.
“She was even prettier, although hers came with a bit of trouble and mischief, I had nicknamed her little devil cos of how much trouble she gave me,” Melvin chuckle slightly and I did too “but she was the sweetest little sis I’ve ever seen!” I said.
“Of course” he said. “And I’m sorry about her”
“It’s okay” I said, turning back and sitting on a heaped sand close to her grave. I invited Melvin and he sat beside me.
“I’ve always wanted to ask, how long have you been a beast?” I asked him, diverting the atmosphere off Tracy.
“Approximately five years!” He said and my face twitch in shock. “I was sixteen when I got cursed by Lucinda”
“Whoa.. Five years is huge”
“I know right. They’re few months too, it happened August 5th, five years ago” he expounded.
“August 5?” My brows curouy
“T-that’s my birthday date!” I primped.
“Seriously?”
“Yeah but I made five years ago’s an exception. It was more like a sad day for me cos first, there was an earthquake like wind that killed five people in my town and then my mom and dad had a fight for the first time in their marriage life, it was so fierce that mom came out with a bleeding face and dad walked out of the house angrily, I was turning twelve then; he got into an accident after it”
“Ohh..I’m so sorry!”
“No, he didn’t die. He’s in coma” I said.
“He is? Like he’s still in it?”
“Yeah, it’s sad,” I answered sadly. “And that day seemed like a turning point in my wh0le life, everything changed about me and how I lived until this day and I never cared to celebrate any of my other birthday’s ever since” I explained.
“Wow!” Melvin breathed out. “But the picture’s starting to match now, don’t you think?” He asked and I gave him a questioning look. “This means that we were both cursed and trapped by Lucinda five years ago and a strange wind also killed five people in my town!” He said and I gasp.
He’s right!
“Wait.. What town did you live in then?” I
Asked.
“This town. But I woke up the next day and found myself in another town, a different country too” he said. “And I had to keep going from town to town with Belle who acted as my guide and helper, to find my supposed chi-mate and ultimate helper” he said.
“Well..we lived in Melville too but we moved to NY after dad got into an accident and got hospitalised. We came back here cos mom was put in charge of your case, so we moved back to living here” I said .
I just couldn’t believe we were connecting the dots now..
“And Lucinda mentioned something about us dating or me choosing you over her as the reason for the curse and even though I can’t remember you from then, I know now that we must’ve crossed path since we lived in the same town. We must’ve been friends” he said.
“Or even dated” I added and he nodded..
“Wow..this Is so weird” Melvin sighed out.
So my birthday date and every single happening that took place then, marked the beginning of the curse’s doom. It marked the change in my life.
I glanced at Melvin and he had a sullen look..
“Since we at least have a hint about our past and how we must’ve met. We still have a problem to deal with, so do you want to do something fun that humans do, something I personally take as my second life?” I asked.
“What?” He asked inquisitively.
“You’ll see when we get there” I said, standing up “come-on”
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T.B.C
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BY BLESSING SILVER