VanderVall Academy- Monday 14th May,2018
Dallas' Chambers- 8.01am
Dallas is lying on the right side of the bed with Kayleigh asleep on the left side, her hand on his bare chest. His right hand is behind his head as he stares up to the room of his room thinking back to a few years ago.
Flashback -11 Year Old Dallas- 2018
Dallas comes walking into the front door in his school clothes and backpack on him. He walks in and dumps his bag by the living room and sits on the sofa by the window.
"How was school?" Pricilla asks him as she sits on the other sofa with a cup of tea in her hand.
"Where's my dad?" Dallas questions her as he never really spoken to her about it before.
"Oh baby, your father well he isn't in our lives like you know and i don't think he ever will be" Priscilla admits to him knowing this day was going to come at some point.
"Why?" Dallas questions her not understanding
"Your father died a long time ago, he's in heaven now" Priscilla explains to him with a guilty look on her face.
" What happened?" Dallas questions her wanting to know details
"He was in a really bad accident before you were born" She goes on to tell him to which Dallas has a defeated look on his face.
"But it's okay you have me and that's all that matters" Priscialla assures him but although Dallas loves his mother a part of him still feels empty always having wanted to know who his father was as other children in his class always go on about what they did with their fathers which makes him feel lonely and left out.
Present-
Dallas continues to stare up at his roof when Kayleigh comes walking out of the bathroom with a blanket wrapped around her body to cover herself up, she jumps on Dallas and rolls over to her side of the bed which grabs the attention of Dallas.
"It really isn't that hard to walk round the bed" Dallas groans at her
"Like you implied it would mean walking when i could have just jumped on the bed like i just did" She replies not seeing what the problem is
" What ever" Dallas replies rolling his eyes and takes the duvet off his body and sits on the edge of the bed.
"What's your problem?" She asks Dallas always feeling confused by his emotions all the time.
" Nothing" Dallas answers brushing it off
"Come on i'm not blind" She goes on to say as she is sitting on the bed looking at the back of his head.
" Like i said there's nothing wrong" Dallas sticks by what he said then gets up off the bed and heads into the bathroom.
Kayleigh sits on the bed and watches him walk into the room and she knew when she first met him that it wouldn't be easy. Mainly because she knew he still had feeling for Kathryn but she never thought the most difficult thing would be how mysterious and dark he is and his sudden change in moods. That was what attracted her to him the most was because he appeared to be your stereotypical bad boy and she believed she would be the one to change him and make him better but she soon began to realise he wasn't.
Kayleigh's Inner Voice-
"When i first approached him at the bar of course i knew who he was, everyone had heard of him. There was stories about him going all around school about how he killed people and to start with i was like nah not a chance but after a few months of being here at this school i began thinking the rumours and the stories about him were true but i didn't care because most of us who is at this school has lashed out and killed someone, It's a part of who we are and in all honesty that part of him made me like him even more. I have always been one to go for the bad boy mysterious kind of person that i know will break my heart but i never learn. I know i was trying to get over my crush Velasco Boleslav and went with Dallas to make Velasco jealous and he did take notice of me a few weeks back and it was nice, the way he complimented me and my looks , every time he sees me he tells me i look nice and it feels good to be told that. I know things with me and Dallas aren't going to go anywhere, i know he has been cheating on me behind my back with other girls making me look like a mug and i also know that he loves Kathryn even if he doesn't want to admit it. I know what the right thing to do is but the feelings i have for him is holding me back"
Training Gym- 2.39pm
Kathryn and Dallas are in the training gym working away trying to get her ready for the fight. Kathryn is wearing dark green sports leggings, a dark green and black sports bra and dark green trainers on her feet. Her hair was in a braid to the left side of her head keeping it out of the way, both of them had sweat dripping off them. Kathryn went to the great hall grabbed some food then as soon as she ate went to the gym and started working out she had being training for a good forty minutes before Dallas showed up at 1.58pm. The pair have barely spoke to each other apart from him instructing her on what to do and where to move. They were wearing no boxing gloves just padded protection on Kathryn's hands as her and Dallas threw punches at each other and had to avoid being hut like in boxing while performing moves on each other such as throwing the other across the room, flipping them onto the ground and anything that made them vulnerable. Dallas Manages to get three punches into Kathryn's stomach and stops annoyed with her.
"Are you slacking off?" Dallas moans at her getting on her case as he has managed to get several punches in her and if it was a normal attack she would have been dead already.
"No" Kathryn answers shaking her head as she tries to catch her breath again.
"Really because it feels like you are" Dallas continues to argue with her
"I'm tired that's all" Kathryn confesses and walks over to the bench to grab a drink of water from her bottle.
"Do you think they will care if you are in the middle of a fight and you are tired or can't breath. NO" Dallas shouts at her trying to get it into her head she needs to work harder or she really will die.
"I know i'm not stupid" Kathryn yells at him back and puts her bottle back down on the bench
"Then why aren't you trying harder?" Dallas asks her really angry by this point
"What's the point. I'm going to die anyway" Kathryn blurts out to him which makes him back off her. She takes a deep breath in and looks at him."I have so much things to do that i can't keep up. My dad is trying to get me to learn magic but i'm failing miserably, i have training with you which may i add i was training forty minutes before you got here. I have training during cooking lessons which i had right before lunch that you were a., I have to stick with the VanderVall Legacy and I'm just tired okay, I'm human" She yells at him frustrated at how hard she is working and not getting anything back from it
"Touchy" Dallas replies to her which makes her even more angry.
"No Dallas, i'm not. I'm just sick and tired of it all okay, I'm sick and tired of fighting for my life or for other people's lives and it's not like i can kill myself because it never seems to god damn work. I'm tired of the constant yelling and the constant stares and i'm tired of people being disappointed that i'm not good enough. I'm not a fighter, I wasn't made for this kind of world and i would have thought i made that clearly obvious by now but obviously not so don't say that i'm being touchy or weak or a baby because i have just had enough" Kathryn yells at him, in anger she picks up her stuff and storms out of the gym not letting him get a word in at all.
Dallas watches her storm off and begins to feel guilty for trying to push her too hard and never giving her praise for what she is doing because all he wants is her to live more than anything in the world.
Flashback- Sunday 1st April, 2018- 9.49 pm
Down Town-
Dallas is out in town stood behind some of the shops with a stake in his hand pointing towards his chest. He looks out at the water and the view taking it all in one last moment. He has his phone in his hand which is showing a picture of him and Kathryn together, the picture is him and Kathryn in bed together, she has her head and hand on his chest asleep. He took the picture on the twentieth of April after she was having a hard day. The tears are pouring town his face and the image of her is plastered in his head. He closes his eyes, draws the stake in his hand back ready to plunge it into his heart. With Full speed he begins to plunge it into his chest, half way into his chest and inches from his heart, he feels a hand on his.
"Don't do it" Alfonso whispers to him and drags the stake out of his chest and throws it into the water not allowing Dallas to go any further.
"Why'd you do that?" Dallas yells and pushes Alfonso in anger
"Stop it" Alfonso shouts at him "This isn't right"
"I'm tired of the pain man, I can't deal with anymore, the guilt , the hatred i feel within myself, the guilt i feel for her"Dallas confesses to him as the tears continue to stream out of his eyes.
Alfonso puts his hand on the back of Dallas's neck."Killing yourself won't make you feel better and what about her? What is she meant to do if you die" Alfonso asks him having no idea that Kathryn is destined to die.
"She'll be dead soon enough so what's the point" Dallas confesses to him
"The point is you don't know what could happen, things could change you never know" Alfonso attempts to make him feel better
"The point is i do know, she is destined to die. Alice saw it, she can sense when people are going to die and she has sensed Kathryn's death since the moment she met her and Kathryn is more than ready to die" Dallas shares with him
"You don't know that" Alfonso says to him trying anything he can
" She told me herself, she told me that she would rather die than watch everyone else die. She told me that she won't be selfish and she won't be selfish because i want her to live. She made up her mind" Dallas reveals to him and repeating the words breaks his heart as if he is reliving the moment from hours earlier all over again.
"Then you have to cherish every moment you have left with her" Alfonso advices him
"It won't work, she hates me. I screwed her over far too many times and this time she won't change her mind and i won't agree with her on killing herself" Dallas tells Alfonso which makes him realise why Dallas was trying to kill himself
"She is going to die and as much as it kills you right now you can't kill yourself because she still needs you even if she doesn't know it. If you kill yourself who is going to continue her training, who is going to make sure she is ready to go up against her mother in a fight and assure her that everything will be okay and if she dies who else would be by her side telling her that everything is okay" Alfonso points out valid points making Dallas realise as much as he wants the pain to go away he still has to protect Kathryn up until she dies and then after that he can do whatever he wants.
Back in the Training Gym-
Kayleigh walks by and sees Dallas sitting on the benches himself, she walks in and can tell something isn't right.
"You okay?" She asks him, he hears her voice and looks up
"Fine" He answers and instantly gets up off the bench and walks over to the gym equipment and tidies up
"I wanted to come and talk to you" Kayleigh mentions to him as she stands by the benches
"I'm busy can we do it later" Dallas says to her just wanting her to leave
"Once i walk out that door i'm not coming back" Kayleigh begins to say but Dallas continues on cleaning up "I'm not the girl for you and i'm not the girl you want and you know it"Dallas turns around and looks at Kayleigh.
"Tell her how you feel before it's too late and don't pretend you don't know what i'm on about i sat and listened to you and Alfonso talk about her and i have eyes" Kayleigh suggests to him thinking it's the right decision
"I'm sorry" Dallas apologises to her feeling a little guilty for the way he has been around her
"I know you are but it's okay because if it wasn't for you Velasco never would have saw me and taken an interest it me"Kayleigh accepts his apology. " I listened to you talk about her going to die and perhaps you just need to give her a good enough reason to live" Kayleigh gives him a smile and Dallas watches her walk out of the gym hall.
Dallas Inner Voice-
"I never intended to hurt her, I'm not going to lie to start with she was just a rebound, when i looked at her in the bar her looks reminded me of Kathryn. The blonde hair, the eyes, the height even her name was similar but who she is was completely different. I used her because she reminded me of Kathryn and i know i shouldn't have and i shouldn't have cheated on her behind her back because she wasn't who i wanted. I did so many mistakes like i always did but i will never be able to allow myself to pull Kathryn back into my mess because i won't allow myself to hurt her again. She deserves to spend the rest of her life happy and if that means i can't be in it then so be it but there is no chance in hell i will let her die without a fight."
Dallas who is in complete black training gear stands in front of the boxing bag and begins punching into it. "I'll be ready for them" He tells himself a look of anger and focus in his eyes.