Everything went silent around us, and my eyes slowly turned to Zidane. He was watching Daniel almost carefully, his lips slightly parted, his chest slowly heaving. I felt a tear run down my cheeks, and I looked away, my head shaking slowly. I wasn't sure how to absorb everything that had just gone down. How am I supposed to come to terms with the fact that the entire mating with me... had been a mistake? That Zidane was never even meant to look my way or end up with me?
I wondered how much better his life would be if I had simply not appeared in it. How safe he would be. How happy. It turns out they were right. I was always the darkness meant to dim all of the lights in his life. I was the poison he was meant to choke upon.
And Daniel... his brother? It did make sense. Zidane was the one
