Chapter 65

Elyana's POV Pretzel held me on the wrist and guided me to the side of the house where nobody could see us. There were tall fortune plants where she took me. I was covering my mouth to hide my shaking chin when I suddenly thought she might harm me. I did something to her and Felix back then and she might use that moment to take revenge. She halted. "What's wrong?" she asked as she faced me. My tears were right in the corners of my eyes, and I was waiting for something to trigger them to fall. The time had come. The tears freely went down my cheeks. She repeated the question, but I was so embarrassed to tell her what I was crying about. I cried. Pretzel unexpectedly pulled me close to her and hugged me. She kept silent for a moment. Her gesture made me cry even more because she was still kind, even though I was a witch to her before. I even felt her hand tapping my back gently. I must say how comforting that was. I didn't know for how many minutes I was crying. When I loosened the hug, Pretzel looked at me in the eyes. "Are you okay?" she asked gently. My eyes moved downward. I saw her white dress wet with my tears. "Yes, a little. Thank you." I sincerely thanked her. She invited me for a walk. We were quite far away when she started talking. "Felix was the one who felt that there was a problem with his twin," she said. "You two haven't been around before and he noticed that. Felicity was in a hurry to leave this morning when he heard you and your parents were coming and when he returned earlier, he seemed to be hiding in the kitchen," she continued. I knew it. He was avoiding me. "So, what happened to the two of you?" Pretzel asked. "The truth is, I don't know what happened or what I did. He suddenly became different. I remember he told me something like I was just making him a babysitter, and I'm not sure if that was the reason," I answered. "I'm not sure if he would use that as a reason to just suddenly avoid you. He also took care of me when I was on the island. Even Felix asked him to do that. In your case, everyone asked him to do it because he's the closest to you during those times you were fighting with depression. I'm sure the reason is greater." I froze for a second. I stopped walking and Pretzel halted as well when she noticed I wasn't moving anymore. "W-what do you mean by everyone asking him to do it?" I tried to clear it up. I frowned when I heard her cuss. "Sh*t!" She slowly turned to me. I could see how uncomfortable she was with the way she stared at me. "S-sorry, it was supposed to be a secret," she apologized. I could see in her eyes that she meant it. But I wanted to know who those people were that she was referring to, yet, before she started telling me things she knew, she made it clear first that she did not intend to hurt my feelings with what she was about to confess. "I just want to know. I will try my best not to get hurt," I assured her. She told me everything. They all knew what was going on with me. All the Martincu knew what happened to my marriage, but they didn't even take a second to open it up because they didn't want to hurt me. My parents—they knew I went to the psychiatrist and my burns and the day I met Lucas. "Sorry, I found out all that from Felix, and I think you deserve to know everything. I knew they only cared about your well-being that's why they did that and I understand very well how much because I could see how much concern Felix had during those times as well," she paused. She waited for me to say anything. I knew that, but I was trying to absorb what I heard at that time. I remained silent for a few minutes and it seemed she thought I had no plans on speaking, yet, that was why she broke that silence by easing my mind with this, " "I will let you know once I find out something about what is wrong with Felicity. I will try to talk to him before this day ends," she promised me. "You don't know how thankful I am right now because of what you said and to be honest, I couldn't find reasons to get mad at all, especially to you—any of you. I realized how lucky I am to be surrounded by people who care so much for me, so thank you very much," I replied. I spoke from the heart with everything I said. Felix is lucky to have found such a wonderful person in her. I wish I had known sooner so that there would not have been an issue between the two of us. "I suppose we are cool to be friends; what do you think?" I saw how her face brightened as a result of what I said, and it was amusing that she accepted the friendship I offered. We decided to go back and while walking, our conversation continued. "I don't understand that person too much. I know he is not truly a woman, but his mood swings are close to a real one." I laughed out loud when I heard this statement and she laughed with me too. We were close to where we left the others when Pretzel spilled that joke. Everyone turned their heads in our direction and saw both of us laughing with that silliness. I saw awe in their eyes while looking at them, however, as I stared at them, there was only one thing I thought of doing and that was to hug all of them.