Torn

Chapter Seven- Secrets revealed

Next few days passed in blur, after that day I spent my days drinking heavily, which is not that hard when your parents are rich, you have your own credit card, and they do delivery. I avoid everything and everyone, including my parents. I was so sick of everything. Days felt like years and I felt like a year passed since I caught them together. About a week passed and I was in my room when I heard the noise coming from downstairs. I quickly went outside and realized someone was arguing. My parents were constantly fighting since my birthday and they never fought before that. I was deeply hurt to even intervein, I just wanted to be numb and alcohol helped with that. I silently went down the steers, leaning on the staircase feeling drunk like never before. My head was spinning and I had trouble standing still but I leaned against the wall listening. We been like the model family and only one making problems in this family was actually me. I heard mom, dad and some other male voice. What is happening?

“No, Celeste”- the male voice said- “We need to move her, you know it will not stay like that”

“I know”- mother said- “but how could we Azazel? How will we tell her?”

“You need to”- the man said again- “She needs to know it”

“But she will hate us”-dad added- “and we love her you know it”

“It doesn’t matter old friend, she needs to go where she belongs to and that is not here”- the man answered-

My breathing got heavier. Are they talking about me? I don’t belong here what is that supposed to mean? I stopped myself and continued to listen.

“You are breaking my heart Azazel”- mom sounded like she is crying- “I don’t want to lose her… I “– she broke in tears-

Now I just know something is wrong and I will not wait for them to come clean. I hurried downstairs losing my balence and falling down once or twice. When I got down I saw mom crying on the couch and dad trying to console her. And the man I heard talking was standing in front of them. He had brown hair mostly, there were stripes of blond in there but only a few. They heard me coming and looked at me. Now I could look at the man fully. He had dark blue eyes and was tall, very good looking around my dads age.

“What’s happening?”- I looked all of them- “Mom” – I stumbled walking to her and hugged her- “why are you crying?”

“Its fine darling”- she wiped the tears away- “meet Azazel”

I turned to Azazel and looked at him.

“Hey Aideen”- he smiled at me but then got serious-“Have you been drinking?”- He looked at mom and dad-

“Aideen”- father looked at me-

“I don’t see how that is your problem?”- I looked at the guy-

“And she is cheeky”

“Aideen that’s enough”- father got up- “we will talk about this”

“We can pass that too the way we did it on my birthday”- I laughed but then heard mother sobs and looked at Azazel – “I really don’t get what’s happening or why is she crying but I have a hunch it has to do with you”

“Smart girl”- he said approvingly - “Tamiel, Celeste I will leave you to it, call me when you do it”

“No”- dad got up- “stay, it concerns you too”

“What is dad? Stop talking in riddles and tell me already”- I looked all of them-

“Sit, all of you”- mom said- “that includes you Azazel too”

We sat and she pulled me into a hug.

“I love you my little fire don’t ever forget it “- she kissed my forehead-

I felt something was wrong, they weren’t yelling at me for drinking, this is so not like mom.

“Mom”- I looked at her worried- “please tell me what is happening?”

“Alright”- she looked at Azazel- “ first of all “- she took a deep breath- “we have been lying to you”

“About what?”

“We are not lawyers”

“Okey”- I looked at them weird- “so what are you then?”

“We are angels”- dad said looking at me-

I bust into a laugh.

“Seriously?”- I looked at dad still laughing- “alright where are your wings?”

The air in the room shifted and before I could do anything my parents and Azazel had wings on their backs.

“What the actual hell?”- I flinched-

“Don’t mention hell”- Azazel looked at me seriously-

“What?”- I asked stunned- “How?”

“Calm down sweetie”- mom touched my hand-

“What do you mean calm down? How am I supposed to calm down when I realized my parents are freaking angels?”- I increased my voice while trying to move away but I stumbled and fell down-

“Aideen”- Azazel looked at me worried and took my hand pulling me up- “Calm down”

I felt the panic, which started to kick in, slowly leaving.

“What happened?”- I looked Azazel-

“It’s alright I just took panic away”

“You can do it?”- I tilted my head-

“Oh I can do so much more”- he smiled-

I realized his wings have a different color. My parents’ wings were white with a little bit of grey while his were grey with lot of black. I turned to mom.

“Could I maybe?”- I looked at her wing-

“Yea”- she nodded and put her wing a bit closer-

I touched it gently afraid that I could break it or something.

“O. my .. this is so cool”- I laughed- “can you all fly?”

“Yes”- dad said-

Azazel just laughed looking at me.

“So you weren’t joking when you called your work divine”

“Nope”- mom touched my cheek- “I was always trying to make you understand”

“Wait does this mean.,,,”- the various thoughts were going on in my head- “am I also?”- I bit my inner cheek-

“That’s what we need to talk about darling”-dad touched my shoulder- “you see Azazel came here about almost nineteen years ago”

I looked at him weird, what does he have to do with me?

“He gave Celeste and me a mission”

“What kind of mission?”

“He gave us the mission the keep his only daughter safe”

I felt the blood rushing through my veins, I am not stupid and I already figured out what does he want to say. I felt the tears in my eyes.

“So.. I am not”- tear rolled out my eye- “you lied to me!”- I passed all of them a raging look and ran stumbling upstairs to my room.-

I can’t believe this. My whole life I am living a lie, my parents.. no.. My fake parents are not even human… and my real dad is a person I met 10 minutes ago. I rushed to my room sick of everything, when I got inside I slammed the door and threw myself on the bed. I was never the drama queen type but this was way too much even for me. My whole life is one huge lie. I spent the whole day crying myself out, mom.. no Celeste tried to get in a few times but I didn’t let her. I don’t want to see them, I don’t want to talk to them, none of them. I took the bottle of whiskey I hid and continued drinking.

The next day when I woke up I tried to convince myself yesterday was something I dreamed but the pain and the headache I felt showed me that its all real. I went to the shower and when I came back I found Azazel in my room looking through my pictures and stuff.

“Trying to get the missing years?”- I asked angry-

“I couldn’t even if I tried”- he looked at me- “don’t be angry”

“How should I be?”- I sat on the bad- “should I just go straight to calling you dad or …?”

“Aide”- he looked troubled –

“Don’t call me like that “- I wiped the tear away- “You don’t know me and I have no idea who you are “

“I know you”- he sat next to me- “you think I never checked on you all of this years?”

“You say that now.. “ – I rolled eyes- “if you care about me so much then why gave me away, ha? If I am someone you wanted to keep why not leave me right next to you?”- My anger started building up inside me- “Instead you gave me to angels that pretend to be my family for nineteen years. Not one, not two .. nineteen freaking years..,! So don’t come to me with some heart melting story now.”- I turned around-

“Aide”- he pulled me to face him- “I couldn’t.”- He stopped and took a deep breath- “I wouldn’t do this to you if it weren’t necessary”

“So I would still be living in ignorance?”- I narrowed eyes- “Your story doesn’t add up”

“Because you don’t know half of it”- he touched my cheek- “can I tell you all of it?”

“If you insist “- I acted like I couldn’t care less-

“I will try to tell you in short”- he took a breath- “but first trow the bottles away"

"What bottles?"- I acted as if I knew nothing about what he is talking-

"Dont do that"- he narrowed eyes-

"I can do whatever I want and if you got something against it .. well you should have thought about it nineteen years ago "- I smirked -

"maybe but I know that deep down inside you are not this person"

"Well you are wrong then this is who I am"

"Get to your sences Aideen, this is the alcholcol talking not you" - he touched my shoulder -

"Whatever" - i looked outside the window-

I felt woozy all of the sudden and next thing Azazel was reaching under my bed and getting bottles out.

"What are you doing?"- I raised my tone- "How did you knew where ?"

"Calm down " - he said looking at me - "I am taking this away Aidee"

"No"- I wanted to protest but suddently I was ok with it-

He took all of the bottles and went out. I just sat there asking myself what the hell just happend. He walked back inside in few minutes.

"What did you do to me?- I asked mad-

"I reached into your mind so I can take the bottles away, you are my daugher and I will not allow you to become like her"

"Her? Who are you talking about?"

"Your mother, you wanted to know the truth so here it is I felt in love with the wrong person, your mother “

“My mother?” – I asked curiously- “who is my mother?”

“Will you listen or ask questions?”- He smiled-

“Fine”

“So your mother was the most beautiful creature I ever met, she is smart, cunning, all one man like me could ever hope for in the women. We soon feel in love, the only problem was we were two different sides who could never be put together.”

“Wait, my mother is not an angel?”- I asked bluntly-

“Again questions”- he smiled-

I rolled eyes.

“Fine I will answer, she is not. Actually she is a demon”

I put hand across my mouth.

“No way….How..?!”

“Shhh”- he put finger on his lips- “do you want to hear or not?”

I nodded.

“So she obviously got pregnant which is really rare in our case, actually forbidden. You see angels are allowed to be together, and demons are allowed to be with demons, but angel and demon that is the only rule we should never break. “ –He took a breath- “ Your mother and I .. Well we did what nobody before has ever, or at least did but left no mark in our world. We tried for a while but it was too much pressure, many creatures were against it and we were destined to part our ways. She gave birth to you and tried to use you to gain power but I could not let it happen. I took you and had to give you away to Celeste and Tamiel for your own good. “

“She tried to use me? How could she use me to gain power?”

“Darling you are not nobody. You are half angel- half demon, first half angel- half demon ever”

“What?!”- I looked at him shocked- “A demon?” – I got up and started pacing around the room- “How can I be a demon? How is any of this real?”

“It is”- He got to me and pointed to the mirror- “look, your hair… the color of it… red.. that’s not typical for angels … we tend to have bright blond hair.. and demons have black hair, like your mother has”- he stopped-“and the eyes you got from me”- he smiled-

“I always wondered why my hair is red”- I narrowed eyes- “they told me my grandma has like that”

“Cut them some slack”- he whispered- “they love you, in a way they are parents to you I could never be”

“They lied to me”- I said angry-

“I asked them to, for your good.”

I stayed silent.

“Look give it some time, you can always call them to come visit”

“To come visit?”- I looked at him- “are you taking me with you?”

“Not quite. I wished I could but I can’t protect you”

“There is no need to protect me”

“Aideen, she found out where were you. We need to take you to Academy she can’t go there”

“What is Academy?”

“Good thing you asked.”- He smiled- “Consider it something like collage only you will not be learning about art”

“You know?” – I smiled-

“Of course I do”- he looked at me- “I told you I watched you growing up”

“So you really do care”- I said it more like a sentence to myself”

He pulled me in for a hug. I let him. I needed to know that right now even with everything what happened I at least have one person that cares. Don’t get me wrong I was still mad at him, at them, actually at everyone but somehow I wanted to feel loved and I got a feeling that my dad, my real dad loves me.