Only Kyle Sequel: Only a Matter of Time

Part 2: I didn't have a choice...

"It's all been an act," I blurted out, "I thought y-you would have known by now..."

"Jessica, what are you talking about?" Kyle asked as he held onto my hand, "tell me what's going on. Did something happen?"

"No, nothing did," I said quickly as I remembered Melissa's threat, "ever since the fight...I felt guilty that you had revealed yourself, when I was...n-never really-"

"Never what?" he asked, his voice going quieter with every painful word I made. I couldn't believe I was doing this, how could I hurt him like this? He knows something is wrong, but I can't tell him what. Melissa was right behind him! She could appear in human form and kill him at any second!

"Interested." I said quietly as I connected my eyes to his.

"I don't believe you," he replied, "why would you say that? Or do that to me?"

"Because...I'm a h-horrible person," I said as I made up the words on the spot, "I'm not good..."

"Jessica, you are one of the nicest people I know," Kyle rolled his eyes. "Do you expect me to believe that?"

"Maybe you already fell for the act," I replied. My eyes widened at my response. Wait, I never planned on saying that! How cruel was that? How could I hurt him like this? I am such a monster!

"So," he said quietly, "what you are saying is..."

"That you need to go back to heaven," I nodded, "because...you don't have anything here."

He sighed. "Nothing, huh?"

I didn't respond as I looked away, wiping my eyes with the back of my hand as discreetly as I could.

"Nothing." I agreed.

He looked away from me and bowed his head, keeping his face out of my view.

"Kyle..."

"Don't," he said, slipping his hand out of mine and slowly standing up. "Is this the truth? Do you really not care about me at all? Or love me?"

I was taken aback at his harsh question, only realising that I deserved his tone of betrayal and sadness. I should have expected it.

"I never have, or ever will...love you," I breathed as I looked to the floor, pulling my hair around my face to avoid his gaze. The final words Melissa had given me had finally been said.

I heard Kyle snort. "And to think you were worried that I was going to leave you. Looks like you've cleared the job up nicely."

"Kyle, let me explain-"

I saw Melissa's figure behind Kyle's back, and a gasp escaped my lips as I saw a sliver knife raised at the side of his throat, threatening to plunge into his skin at any moment.

"You've already explained enough," he replied darkly, "thanks for telling me. You wouldn't want to lead me on and treat me like an idiot now, would you?"

I felt my heart break at his words, and I tried to send daggers at the ghost of Melissa. This was all her fault, all of the pain I was feeling was because of her. She must have stopped the restriction on my chest because it felt looser, but the pain was still there. Not because of her previous punishments, but because of my heart breaking and how I saw Kyle stand above me, his words blaming me for everything. It's all lies...why did he have to believe it so easily? How could he believe it so easily?

He turned his back on me as I saw his feet turn in the opposite direction, which somehow gave me a new found strength to stand up. I nearly fell back to the ground with the scars from Melissa's spell, but I pushed through it.

"Kyle wait," I said as I placed my hand on his shoulder desperately. He stopped walking and slowly turned around to face me.

"What, Jessica," he asked, the pain and anger threaded through his voice.

I looked at his solemn blue eyes, his two solemn blue pools of despair and sighed. I ran my fingers through his hair gently as I saw a small sparkle in his eye.

"I don't deserve you," I whispered, "you can find someone so much better than me."

He placed his forehead against mine surprisingly, but didn't open his closed eyes. "I don't think you ever stop loving someone," he said.

I felt a tear travel down my cheek. Why did this have to end? What good would it be for Melissa and Marcus if Kyle and I were apart? All that will happen is that Kyle will have to suffer in imprisonment, while both of us have a broken heart...not just me.

He removed his forehead and turned his back on me again, not showing his eyes before he left the field completely.

Maybe he knew that I indulged myself in his eyes, and that I would feel hurt if I didn't see them one last time. It definitely worked.

I felt the tears run down my cheeks as I watched him walk away, not looking back at me once.

"Well that was interesting," I heard a familiar voice whisper, "quite the actress."

"Leave me alone Melissa," I snapped, "I've done what you've asked, now leave me alone!"

A slim dark haired figure came into view, a clear and non-faded version of Melissa. Human form.

"Did you see him? 'I don't believe you, Jessica, what are you talking about?'" she mimicked in a patronising tone. I felt a similar urge to slap her like I had felt with her boyfriend.

I began to walk forward in the field, not really sure where I was going, when I saw him. Blocking my path, and only a few inches away from my face. I knew exactly who it was, and he made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

No...it couldn't be! It can't!

Marcus stood with a sly smile on his lips as he put a lock of hair behind my ear causally.

"Guess who's back..." he sang quietly as I stood frozen, only thinking one thing.

Kyle isn't going to get me out of this one.