ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
Episode 59
“Rachel!” He shouted desperately, stomping back to me, grabbing my face, forcing me to look at him. “You can’t stay here! I’m telling you, you have to leave! I won’t watch…I know you’re not going to be happy here.”
I blinked through my tears. “Is this because of what happened to your mom? I would never leave you like that, Calvin, I swear!”
He cried harder, looking up at the sky. “Baby, that’s not the only reason.
I don’t want to keep you as my prisoner anymore, like my father did to her, you can go. I need you to go, live, Rachel.
This isn’t a life for you, being stuck under the ground, never enjoying the sun.” He tilted his eyes back down to me. “You deserve more than this, so much more.”
?
I stared at him, feeling more than broken that he was denying me, telling me to leave. “I don’t want to leave you!” I insisted. “I can’t leave you! Without you to protect me, the vampire’s will hunt me down and I’ll just end up back in another feeder school, or worse!” I tried to make him see. “I can’t leave! I don’t want to!”
He sighed, kssing the top of my head, then he let me go, taking a step back and a deep breath. “It was all a lie.” He whispered hollowly.
“What?” I gasped, thinking he meant us.
He turned away from me. “Everything you’ve been told, Rachel, it was all lies.” He sighed. “You can leave, you’ll be safe.”
“How?”
“The vampire takeover…” He said shaking his head and I gasped, every piece finally clicking. “There was never any takeover.” He whispered. “We are still under the ground, humans don’t know about us.
My father came up with the idea years and years ago to create feeder schools, but to ensure that no one would try to escape, he had the idea to tell all of you that there had been a takeover, make you believe that there was no life for you to go back to…It was supposed to give you a sense of safety in the feeder schools.
Then he wanted to do this whole stupid competition, and he kept up the rouse, he even threatened all of the people with being sent to the dungeons if anyone ever told you the truth.” He was talking so fast that my mind could hardly keep track.
I was just standing numbly, watching him pace in front of me. “He thought it was funny, keeping you all in the dark.
He planned on the last night of the completion to televise the announcement about the truth to the winner.
He was a cruel bstard, Rachel, but I’m no better because I’ve let you believe it all this time.” He ran his hands through his hair.
“I wanted to tell you, but then the closer we got the more I feared the truth would cause me to lose you, and the thought klled me, but now…I know it was so wrong, and I can’t keep you here anymore.”
I crumpled to the ground, my legs finally giving out. “I can’t believe this.” I muttered breathlessly, my hands scraping against the gravel beneath them.
“Rachel, I am so sorry, there are no words!” He said loudly, standing over me. “The rebels…the whole thing with the uprising, it was because there are vampires out there that want the takeover to be a real thing. That’s what they were trying to force me to do, but I won’t.
ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
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