"Ven, please don't do this."
"Do what? I'm just doing what I was told." He answered, low in tone but loud in anger.
"You know what I'm talking about. Don't… Just walk away like that. To do that after not showing up for months… We're supposed to be family!"
"So now we're supposed to be family? Not when one of us is falling apart?" He snarled.
"Ventus, we tried to help-" Terra started.
"No, you didn't. Neither of you! None of them! All you did was cast me aside!"
"You know that's not true!" Terra approached him. Ventus took a few steps away. "We looked for you, everywhere! And then when we found you-"
"I didn't want help. Right. Keep saying that." The blond retorted and gnashed his teeth. "That was how you convinced everyone anyway, wasn't it?"
"Ventus, can you just listen-" Aqua tried one more time, her eyes filling up with tears, but it was to no avail.
“No one listened to me before. Why should I listen to you now? Just because I’m younger? Is that why?”
He could feel his blood boiling. So much he’d kept inside just rushing through his veins, about to burst in mere seconds.
“Look, I wasn’t going to say anything. I just want to leave, okay? You guys don’t have to talk to me if you don’t want.”
“But we do, Ven!” Aqua cried out, anguished. “We want to talk to you! We want to help you, we want to be there for you.”
“You weren’t there for me when I needed you. And then...And then Lauriam showed up and-”
“Ventus, it wasn’t your fa-”
"I am not a murderer!"
When Ventus' past life comes to light, things go downhill. Now, his family is broken.
"One Sky, One Destiny"'s next chapter coming this week!
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