He's attractive, arrogant and invincible. Well, for now.

“Here...” Ariel offered a cup of water that Ever just eyed sceptically. She hadn’t said anything for the past hour, she barely even moved.
With a sigh Ariel placed the cup on the coffee table, seeing as she wasn’t going to accept it.
“So...” Another sigh escaped Ariel’s lips as she placed herself on a chair.
She sat on it backwards, the back between her legs and her chin on the top.
Awkward...

The two girls never spoke to each other before today.
Then again, Ever never really spoke to anyone.
But things like that never really bothered Ariel.
She was an abnormal creature.
Strangely accepting of others.

Ariel had ended up chasing after Ever.
With everything she had she chased her.
People seem to be doing that lately.
But Ariel felt that she couldn’t leave her.
Something budged her.
A gut feeling?

“Wan’na tell me what happened there?” Ariel raised a perfectly plucked and black eyebrow.
“Even if I did...” Ever muttered.
She was obviously tired. “I don’t know myself...”
Oh, the pain, such pain was seething through Ever’s head.
Memories...
What memories?
What was going on?
Not even Ever herself knew.

“How long have you known Adam?”
“Not long... I haven’t written about him until recently... I think?”
“’Written’?” Ariel questioned.
Ever froze.
“N-Nothing... nothing.”

“Well... I need to go do some grocery shopping... manual labour... you can rest on my bed for a while until I come back,” With a wave and a smile, Ariel departed.

She fell backwards.
It was her first time being somewhere other than home.
No, she couldn’t call it home, she had no right.
She was only a burden to her uncle and aunt.
Such sweet and innocent people.
She just had to ruin their life.

She closed her eyes and thought.
She couldn’t quite put her finger on it.
What was Adam doing?
More importantly, who was he?
She had written about him in her dairy a couple of times but not enough to make an impression.

How it scared her, to sleep was one of the most horrifying things that could ever happen.
To wake up with nothing but the silence inside your head.
Dead emotions.
Blank thoughts.
She was nothing.

As the tears silently trickled down her cheek.
She fell asleep, letting the darkness take over.
A darkness that would eat her whole.

Ariel had never thought about it.
She never paid attention to others.
She wasn’t an outcast, but she wasn’t popular.
She liked it that way.

But there was something about Ever that pulled her.
Caught her attention.
Ever was the exact opposite of Ariel.
With Ariel being abusive, aggressive, sarcastic, plain and nay other negative comment possible, Ever was quiet, lonesome, closed off and beautiful.
They had nothing in common, but everything in common.
That was all it took for Ariel to try and befriend her.
She had a long way to go.

Grunting loudly as she placed the grocery bags on her kitchen counter with a huff. Manual labour my ass, she hissed to herself.
She hated being the servant for her four older brothers.
She had always blamed them for her turning out to be who she is now.

Feeling a strange feeling of ‘worry’, Ariel ran up to her room and unlocked the door to find Ever in the same position she had left her.
Except for the fact that her covers were kicked off.
She might have laid down?

But there was something strange about Ever.
She looked blank.
Not the usual solemn and careless expression.
But like paper, white and plain.
Thin and vulnerable.

“E-Ever?” something was wrong.
Something was horribly wrong.
Ariel didn’t like the look in Ever’s eyes.
Not one bit.

As Ever tilted her head to face Ariel she asked a question so simple, so horribly simple it wanted to make Ariel sick.
“Who are you?”
“W-what?”
“Where am I?”
“Ever!?”
“... Who is ‘Ever’?”