Kiera
The sudden movement from Trev had me leaping out of Declan's arms and half way across the room from the both of them.
Trev slowly sat up and leaned heavily against Declan's closest that I had hid in what felt like forever ago.
He crossed his arms defiantly and looked between me and Declan.
Quirking his eyebrows, he sat there not saying anything.
I bunched my hands in fists by my side to keep from doing something stupid.
We all continued to square off in a silent staring contest until Declan broke the silence.
"You should be dead," he said.
"Wish I was," Trev whispered back, running both hands through his brown hair.
I ignored his comment and asked, "Why did you do this?" Maybe I thought I could find the Trev I knew before by wondering what he was up to.
"It won't matter if I explain myself because you guys won't believe me."
He was right, but I still said, "Try me."
Sighing heavily, Trev stood up and was quickly forced back on the hardwood floor by a sudden wind. He rolled the eyes that I used to trust at Declan.
"Listen, I have my reasons for joining with the Rebels and already know that you to can't sympathize with me. But whatever, I'll tell you anyway.
"I grew up without a power or wings. I was mocked by everyone around me, even the adults and was eventually forced out of The Sectors. I've been living in the Gray Sector for as long as Kiera has now. I told you that lie about erasing her mind and shit when I actually don't know anything about her childhood. I'm guessing the same thing happened to her, though since she didn't have a power either.
"I knew she would want to go to The Trials when I found her, so I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to get back into The Sector Walls. I could participate in The Trials.
"Anyway, a few years ago, I developed the power that I have now and trained alone whenever I could. I eventually found a group of Nephilim who had also been kicked out of The Walls for the same reason as me.
"We formed a tight alliance and agreed to get back at the Known Families for what they had done to us. When I got back in The Walls, I snuck the rest of my alliance in with me. I kept in contact with them at night during The Trials.
"You already know that Kiera gave us the perfect excuse to attack right then. That had been staged as a warning. Now the Known Families know that the Rebels are here.
"We wanted to prove to them that we are Nephilim. It was unfair what they did to us and therefore deserve to pay for it," he finished.
Declan and I were born silent. Jeez, I would have never thought Trev had been through that.
"I can't say I understand what you went through, because I don't. My story is similar to yours, but I had no recollection of having a power before," I said.
If I had known and been through what he had been through, would I have also joined the Rebels?
Then I began to think about Declan. He probably couldn't sympathize at all. He's always had a power and been the best at what he does.
If I had known this about Trev, I could have done something about it.
That got me thinking about how messed up the Known Families are and this society as a whole is shitty.
"Well shit. Even I didn't know that the Known Families kicked Neph who didn't have powers to the Gray Sector. I had always thought that once I stole Kiera's power that she had gone to the Blue Sector or something. When she showed up at The Trials believing she was human, I knew something was up. I just didn't want to believe it. Now I do," Declan surprised me and Trev by saying.
He continued to surprise us when he stood up and bent over, offering his hand to Trev.
Trev widened his eyes and hesitantly put his hand in Declan's. Declan pulled Trev up and took a step back.
"Now that that's settled, let's do something about this issue," Declan said and smirked, showing off his dimples.
~
Declan
In the back of my mind, I always knew that something was up with how The Sectors were run. I just chose to ignore the intuition when I shouldn't have.
Trev's story made me realize just how bad it was. Even I know when something is wrong and has overstepped the boundaries. Something needs to be done about it.
"Trev, call off the Rebels for now and have them meet up with us," Declan said.
Kiera was looking at me like I had two heads or something.
Trev shrugged and said, "I don't know how many of them survived that attack and you could be tricking me right now for all I know so you could easily ambush and murder all of us."
"Trust me, or don't trust me. It's up to you, but just so you know-"
I was cut off when Kiera said, "Trev, you just took measures to the extreme and you don't trust us? Nothing we do can be as bad as what you accomplished. But at least we all agree on one thing; the Known Families need to be stopped. With your Rebels and us now, we have maybe sixty Nephilim. You know as well as I know that that is not enough support to be able to do anything. Especially not attack anyone or anyplace," she said narrowing her eyebrows at Trev.
He raised his arms in mock surrender.
"Hey, I wanted to make a statement. I'm the leader of the Rebels and they were getting antsy about just sitting around. I knew I had to do something before they abandoned me," he said.
"Okay whatever the reason was, it's in the past. We are willing to forget it if you are," Kiera continued.
I highly doubt she meant that, but she was just trying to convince Trev to trust us. I sure as hell still don't trust him, I only agree that we need to do something about this mess.
Trev nodded once and stuck his hand out toward me. I took a step closer to him and grasped it firmly, nodding my head back. Kiera joined us and placed both of her hands on ours.
"Then it's settled. Tell the Rebels where we can meet," she said.
~
Kiera
We all stayed in Declan's room for the rest of the night because his family wouldn't be home until after The Trials, if they were still going on, anyway.
I was sitting on Declan's massive bed, leaning my head against the head rest with my eyes closed. The bed dipped close to where I was sitting and I opened my eyes to see Trev sitting next to me with his head down.
"I don't understand," he whispered.
"Understand what?" I asked.
"Why you even tried to save me after I betrayed you," he said, slumping his shoulders.
"I don't fully understand it, either. Just know that it happened," I said and closed my eyes again.
"Kiera, I'm..." he hesitated.
I opened my eyes again and raised my eyebrows, signaling him to go on.
"I'm sorry. I know that saying sorry won't cover it, but I really want you to know that I really do regret what I did to you. You keep surprising me. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here. I didn't think to have you join the Rebels when I found you in the Gray Sector because you were so clueless about what you were. You wouldn't have understood or sympathized," he said. Now, he picked up his head and stared right into my eyes.
"It's not okay what you did to me, but I will forgive you," I said. I almost told him that I would forget it too, but that would be a lie and I hoped we were past lying to each other.
I laid my head on Trev's shoulder and sighed. He stiffened for a second before relaxing.
I looked over to Declan who was sitting on his desk chair. He quirked the eyebrow with the damn piercing at us and I wanted to smack him.
Under his thick, black comforter, I swirled my hands to keep them hidden. A slight wind came in even though the window was shut and blew Declan's black hair in his face.
His silver eyes flashed to me when an even larger wind toppled him out of the chair. He raised his hand and Trev was lifted off the bed.
"Hey! I was trying to have some fun, asshole," I yelled.
"Yeah well you guys looked too comfortable anyways," he glared at me.
He moved Trev through the air and dropped him on the floor next to his closet. Trev knew better than to say anything when Declan took his spot on the bed.
"Jerk," I muttered.
He didn't say anything and dragged me to his side. I froze.
"What are you doing?"
"Shut up," he said.
Jeez, he's annoying.
I let him pull me closer until my head was resting on his chest. He wrapped his arms around me and before I knew it, I was asleep.