Disguise

Chapter 34

I dropped my eyes and looked down breaking the connection they held and asked, “What don’t I know.”

There was a moment of complete silence so I finally looked up to see why he wasn’t telling me. His eyes were wide and scared, “I-“ He stuttered.

“Well?” I asked impatiently.

“Gosh, this was so much harder when it just happened.” He let his hand drop from my cheek and ran it through his short hair instead.

“When what just happened?” I snapped getting worried. A thousand thoughts where running through my head about what it could be that was causing Demtri to look so worried. There were so many things that could have happened and almost all of them where not good.

He looked at me again with a lost look in his eyes making my heart pick up speed, “Please don’t freak out and just listen to me ok?” He didn’t wait for me to respond before he started stuttering again, “umm- well I…”

“Just spit it out Demtri.” I whispered sharply losing the last shred of patience that I had.

Not a second had passed before he spoke, “I am Daniel.”

The words ripped out of his mouth and traveled down to my heart that felt like it was being ripped out. An image of his broken and bloody face immediately sprung into my mind. I felt a mixture of sadness; horror and humiliation rush through me. Sadness because his death was brought back into my thoughts, horror because here was Demtri saying that he was Daniel, and humiliation because Demtri was just making fun of me, like everyone else probably was, for something that had been so important to me.

I stumbled back and shut my eyes to try and stop the hot angry tears trying to escape from my eyes. “How could you?” I spoke slowly and carefully, as to not start screaming at him although I had never wanted to do anything so much.

“Arabella- you have to…” He started looking frantic but never got to finish before I was in his face speaking harshly as tears dripped down my face.

“You’ve done some pretty horrible things in the past but this is pushing it way too far. How dare you say that and stand here making fun of me for something like that? You have no idea what my life is like so don’t ever bring that up again! You came here to save me right? Or were you going to going Orson as well? I wouldn’t be surprised anymore.”

“Please just listen to me!” He pleaded sounding upset.

I laughed out loud, “You want me to listen to you? Why the hell would I do anything like that? You think you can-“

Before I could finish my sentence he grabbed my shoulders and pushed me up against the wall. I heard a thump from my back hitting the wall but I didn’t feel any pain over the shock of what he was doing. He had bent down and was staring straight into my eye with is shoulders till holding on tightly to my shoulders.

“Arabella.” He breathed softly his breath fanning out across my face. “I would never make fun of you for something like that and I wouldn’t lie about something like this. I am Daniel.”