This is war (Theo James)

06 ~ from another point of view

so I decided to write the last part also in Theo's pov, including the little moment they shared ;).

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“so what happened to your face?” I asked Theo. We were sitting on my bed, in my tiny room. The walls were grey, just like everything else in this house. It was depressing, but calming at the same time.

“I was trying to go to the city, I had taken the short walk, which was risky of me. But when I was almost in the city, I got followed by these men, they were only a few years older than me. They started asking me for money, innocent at first, but then when I said I didn’t have any, they started to beaten me up; as you can see. I escaped and ran away. And then I came to this house, I saw your mum going back inside, and I thought that she looked just like you. I hoped that this was your house, it looks just like you described it a while ago, my prayers got heard.” Theo explained and touched his lip once a while.

“You okay now?” the people who called themselves ‘soldiers’, them who brought ‘peace’, weren’t the only one harming us. Also the thieves, desperate people who didn’t have any money left and needed to take care of their families and themselves. I couldn’t blame them, every human with a loving heart and who went through the same, couldn’t blame them. No one had money, no one could take care of their family properly, but we all wanted to try and we all owed ourselves to at least try.

“yeah, I’m fine. Especially after that kiss” Theo said and licked his lips. He took my hands in his and I couldn’t help but blush a deep red colour.

Theo’s POV (point of view) (this takes place from where Theo is walking to the city)

I was walking through the forest, past the familiar trees I had sat under, screamed at and cursed at. There were happy, loving moments here, but also cruel moments that I didn’t want to be reminded of.

The leaves cracked underneath my feet and the sun was shining through the trees, it was a hot summer day. I used to like rain, but today I couldn’t be happier about the weather.

Right when I passed the forest and was almost in the City, three men came into my way. They looked poor, their clothes were ripped and they had dirt all over their faces. They all had sad and exhausted expressions on their faces, I knew I had to watch out in a world like this but I couldn’t help but feel pity for them.

They came into my way and stopped right in front of me.

“do you have any money left for us poor men? We need to feed our family” They looked even sadder, like puppies and stared straight into my eyes, for even more affection.

“I’m sorry, I have nothing left, maybe you can get free food in the city?” I tried to help them, but they didn’t like that idea so much.

“so you’re just one of the others? Only thinking about yourself? Keeping everything to yourself, you’re telling everybody you’re here to bring peace, but no! you should be ashamed!” They came closer and towered over me, I was pretty tall, but these man were strong builded and even taller.

Their looks changed from sad and helpless to intimidating and dangerous, I could almost feel their angriness flowing off of them, it scared me.

“are you going to give us what we deserve? Or are you just going to stand there, looking like a foolish little boy?!” One of them wrapped their hand around my throat and pushed my back against a tree. “well!?” His fist came into contact with my face, one, two, three times. Each time, with more force and a bigger grin on his face that I wanted to wipe off so badly. His hand was still around my throat, and I could feel the life getting sucked out of me, I couldn’t do anything. The other boys cheered their friend on and pumped their fists in the air. Some people walked by, but didn’t look at us, not even for a second, they were too scared to get beaten up too.

Suddenly the boy pulled his hand back from around my throat and I fell onto the ground, trying to catch my breath. He kneeled down in front of me and pushed my head up before smashing it on the tree. My vision became blurry and I wondered why people liked the feeling of hurting someone else so much? Shouldn’t be all together in a war like this? What if we stay strong, all of us, could we survive? No one can do something like this on their own, but we can do it with the help of others.

Why are people so cruel? Accusing others of being bad and bringing harm to the world, when they should stop and look at their selves first.

At first I was just angry, looking at the boys in front of me laughing at me. but then I became furious, they are the ones harming people. What if it wasn’t me here, lying on the ground, bleeding. What if it were the ones I love? Ansel, Shai or Amber? I got so furious, I could swear my insides were boiling, telling me to fight back. And that’s what I did.

I couldn’t do much, I couldn’t hit them or push them back. All I could do was stand up and run as fast as my broken body could. I kept running and ignored the feeling in my head, the pounding feeling and I ignored the spinning world around me. when I knew that I came far enough to not get beaten up again by the same boys, seeing them nowhere in sight, I stopped running and sat down on the pavement, or what was left of it.

Imagine yourself being in a world, where nothing was sure and all you could do was rely on yourself. No one had helped me when those boys came to me, scared for what might happen to themselves. You die a little every day. But then these people come around, these people who are just like you, who want friends and someone they can trust with their world. Well that, is the best feeling at the biggest prize you can get in a world like this.

I let out a breath and spitted on the street. I leaned back and laid on the pavement. I closed my eyes for a minute and tried to stop the horrible feeling. My face was bruised and I felt like giving up. I ran in the opposite direction of the city, I ran to a street. Small houses in a clear row, just like my house years ago.

“Mom, do we have any bread left?” a girl voice said and I sat up straight. In front of me was a women and a girl, talking to each other. The mother looked just like Amber did, and I could only pray I came to the right row of houses. It wasn’t even intentional to run to her house, but I guess fate brought me here. I sat there a little longer, staring into nothing, air, before I stood up. The women and the girl were already back in the house, it was an early morning all the other houses were still sleeping.

I walked to the house, stood in front of the door and debated with myself whether I should knock or just wait or scream or just go. I didn’t know, my mind was blanc.

Right when I was about to knock on the door, I heard some voices and I knew for sure it was fate what brought me here.

“okay, let’s go” A girl voice said and after a few seconds she opened the door.

“don’t freak out” she looked at me in horror, like she just saw a ghost, or nine hundreds of them. It was probably because of my bruised face, okay it was definitely about my bruised face. She took me all in, the cut on the side of my head, the bleeding lip, bruises on my cheek and near my eye.

I didn’t know it was that bad, but when Amber passed out in front of me, I knew it didn’t look nice at all.

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“I think I’m falling for you” I whispered in her ear. I moved away just a little bit, I was still hovering over her. the confusion was clear written on her face, what made me slightly nervous about what I was going to say next.

“can I kiss you?” I cupper her jaw and moved her head to face mine.

“no” She said and something inside me broke, but when she placed her heads on my chest and moved them onto my shoulders, it was mended immediately. “but please do”

Our lips touched and it was like the world stopped spinning, my wounds didn’t hurt as much as before and the only thing that mattered was us two, pulling each other closer, heated in the moment.

We pulled away and Amber moved her hands from my hair to hug my chest and she laid her head on my chest.

“I have to tell you something too”

“tell me”

“I think I’m falling for you too” And at that moment, I could’ve sworn this damn war wasn’t as bad as it used to be seconds ago, I had found the only thing that I had wished for so many times.