Awakening!

Shed known what he was and still shed sent me with him. My best friend.

”I asked you a question, Melanie. Have you already forgotten? ” I mocked pushing off the bloody bed. ”No tears for your brother, Mel? ” She paled even further, shuddering as I spoke her nick name. Finally snapping out of her stupor and trying to move away from me, slowly inching towards the door.

Well, at least shes smarter than her mother. Or perhaps she was just to scared to actually move. Either way, Im glad she didn bolt for the door, instinct would have made be hunt and kill her but I couldn have that. I had questions for my so called best friend. Starting with how exactly she knew her older brother was a sexual predator.

”I –I, ” Melanie trembled tears flowing freely from her wide terrified eyes. ”Im so so-sorry, Scarlet. ” She cried.

She was sorry? Now, she was sorry? All of this could have been avoided if shed just done something. Anything at all, told someone or warned me. Stopped me from going off with him, prevented him from hurting me. She could have stopped me from killing her brother.

But she didn , instead she said absolutely nothing.

”Your apologies mean nothing, its too late. ” I say glaring at her. ”You, ” Pointing my finger at her, Mrs Redfords blood dripping from my hands. ”killed two people that day. You and your silence killed your brother and your friend. Yet, still you do not weep for us… How cold you are. ” Horror filled her features as she turned my words over in her mind.

Melanie knew I was right, that she too had a hand in all this death and destruction. But refused to believe it that she was the turning point in our story. Hers and mine, even Michaels, a way to have avoided this exact situation.

”I didn , it wasn me. I –I would ne -never, willingly, ” She stuttered shaking her head. Willing? I almost tore her head off for say that. How dare she make it seem like she didn have a choice.

She couldve spoken up before the murder, hell if shed said something during the trail maybe, this would have turned out different for us.

”But you did. ” Coming to a stop, an arms length away from her. ”You sent me with him. ” I crouched down in front of her, watching her shake her head in complete denial. ”You knew what he was, didn you? You knew what hed do and you still let me go with him, ” Gently I wipe the tears from her left cheek, smearing her mothers blood all over half her face. ”Alone. ”

”Do you remember what happened that day, Mel? ” I ask, breathing in her terror with every breath. ”I –I, Im s-sorry. ” Is all she said, tear tracks forming in the drying blood on her cheeks.

She looked so afraid, fragile and broken and yet I felt nothing for her. I could not even muster a small amount of pity for her.

The only thing I felt now was anger, bottomless burning rage and it scorched my insides, burnt my blood. Looking for a way out, wanting to burst from my skin and rampage around the world. But making her realize her fault, seeing the look on her face when she realizes that she too is a monster.

How satisfying that would be!

So, I could patient at least until that moment.

”Well, I remember. I remember it all as if it just happened. ” I laugh at my own words, because it did just happen. Not three days ago I was in this very house, in a room just down the hall innocent and clueless. Helping Melanie chose her outfit for church, that evening.