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I hear them both laugh infront of me as I try to climb the cliff with certain gnats trying to eat my face as it was the only open place they could find as I glare daggers at the back of of Adam's head. 

Yes.

Adam.

With us in the forest while we were having Father and Daughter and bonding time.

Yes, it shocks you?

It shocks me way more.

All I remember was us about to enter inside Pops truck with our camping gears and Adam casually walking us, asking if we were travelling.

Pops immediately tells him that we were going camping and said he vould come along if he wanted.

Adam had laughed and said he didn't want to intrude and I, obviously said that Pops had no right to for him to come along.

But you see...

Pops was made the Sheriff for a very glaring reason.

His damn mouth.

I hiss and flicker my hand over my face as I neely slip but hold onto a rock while I notice that the other two are walking perfectly ahead, talking and laughing like I didn't exist.

I let out a loud groan before.I.cam stop it making them both turn to me as Adam says "Are you okay?"

And you know what was more annoying?

The fact that no single gnat was coming after them!

As Adam stares at me, I notice that he has an ethereal aura about him as the wind blows through his hair and he looks at me with curiosity before Pops says "Sorry, I was just borrowing him"

I face him "Huh?"

"You can have him back, I actually have to go the other way to get some wood to make fire. You know how to get to the top right Yi Jung?"

Before I can even correct Pops, Adam nods as Pops says "Good lad. See you in some hours" And was off before I could stop him.

As Adam turns to look at me, I walk past him saying "I was not jealous"

He follows immediately "No one said that"

I mimic him as I keep walking ahead with him immediately holding my hand as he walked up next time and gave me a small smile that made him look...

I look away, ignoring him as we keep walking up and finally reach the levelled surface as I look around.

Infront of us was a cliff, that if I jumped right now, I would possibly break all my bones, and a waterfall at the other side.

The grass here was green even though snow had covered most of the place and the trees let in some light as I hear Adam say "It's beautiful"

I turn to him and notice he's staring straight into the horizon, at the clouds and the little threads of gold light trying to force their way though it as he continues "Did I tell you of the time I reincarnated as an emperor?"

"What?" I ask.

He faces me, his hands behind his back as he gives me a small smile "A chinese.emperor. My name had been Qua Ling. Can not remember the meaning now, but it was a marvelous time"

I just stare at him as he says "And I was... Very much interested in the outside world but I was not allowed out of the palace, cause you see, alot of people wanted my head, and my throne"

I gulp, looking away "How..

How many times have you reincarnated?"

"A thousand" He replies.

I gasp "A thousand....."

"I told you, it was my punishment" He replies "To keep coming and coming, till I lost the will to even live"

"But... But you always came back rich, I suppose...."

"Money is not everything when there's no one to spend it with Butterfly" He replies and looks away "Thousands of years, of being locked up cause I was too precious to be kidnapped or stolen, thousands of years of being scared of who to trust and who not to.... Thousands of years of not being with the one I love.... Do you know how that feels? To die and come back again and again knowing that you've felt what love was before but lost it to your ignorance and would never find it again no matter what you did and when you eventually do find it, she's moved on with her life but is obviously hurt yet would rather not even be happy with you than being happy at all?"

I wince, looking away "Let's not talk about this"

"It's just.... I never really got the life to be able to leave my house and look at the world or sky so freely" He turns back to me and gives me a small smile "You have done that for me. Thank you"

It was possibly the look on his face.

The gratitude, the relief, the freedom...

And I just couldn't take it anymore "I... I have to go"

He quirks an eyebrow "Where?"

"Pee" I blurt out before I can think twice "Somewhere, and no, you cannot come along"

He makes a sound in between a mutter and a whine before sighing and saying "I understand, please be back before your Father arrives, I woul not know what to tell him if he asks for you"

I nod and begin to walk away, my heart and thoughts racing.

They are not the same.

They are literally two opposite people on Adam's goddamn body!

There was the one that freaked me out on the first that we met, the always faking a smile or being one, the I want to kill someone version...

And then there was.... Adam.

The gentle one, the one that agreed with everything I said, the one that seemed to tread lightly around me...

And.....

And I liked Adam...

Not literal like, but...

Fuck.

I stop my walking to nowhere and bring out my phone so I can atleast hear Tyler's voice to calm me down.

Of course I have no such luck as I see no bars or signals.

I stretch my hands higher into the air, waving the phone and was son lose to seeing my bars pop up before I hear "Who gave you this?"

I whip my head around, seeing Adam infront of me...

But the smile is gone and so is the gentleness.

All I saw was raw anger... And my obsidian in his hand.

"I said you shouldn't follow me" I say "And why did you search my bag?"

"You did not answer my question" He says, his green eyes now having red swirls around them "Who gave this to you?"

"Adam...."

Before I can complete my sentence, I am pinned to a wall, his hands around my neck, not crushing too tightly but restricting my airflow a little and keeping me in place as his body rests on mine "You used this to keep me away last night, wasn't it? That was why I couldn't feel or see you. How could you do that to me?"

"Adam...."

"Why are you hurting me this way? Why would you try to not let me be able to take care of you? Why are you keeping away from you? Why do you have this stone? Why are you doing this to me?"

His questions come.out in a rush as his eyes look sadly into mine as if he was searching for an answer within my soul.

I am now speechless at the sudden change in his personality as I just spit out when he finally gives my neck space "I'm sorry, please let me go"

He doesn't immediately, just keeps staring at me and then finally puts some space in-between us as I happily breathe in air and look at him.

He's crushing the stone beneath his hands and pouring the dust into the wind "Don't ever have this nonsense on you again. Now come, let's go make a tent before your Father comes back"

When I manage to make my shaking leg walk and I move to him, he whispers in my ear "And I am never letting you out of my sight again.... Lilith"