46. All to prove a point...

Without any words to say to her, he walks ahead of her, and she follows behind. "Aren't you gonna check if I'm okay?" She asks, running after him, trying to keep up with his long angry strides. But he doesn't say a word. "Are you at least gonna scold me?" She asks again, but it was clear that he didn't plan on conversing with her. So she quietly followed him, cursing and swearing underneath her breath.

The ride back to their island was even colder and much more silent than when they were coming. "Zeno, I'm cold" She had said, but it was like she was talking to a gargoyle, a very angry looking gargoyle. He refused to say a single word to her throughout the ride.

"I'm the one who almost got raped, I don't get why you're still angry." She started again as soon as they landed on the island, but still he didn't say a thing to her, he just walked into the house, she runs and pulls on his arm, and he yanks away from her clutch with such force that she fell back to the ground, he hadn't meant to use that much force, but it just happened.

"Ma voi siete pazzo! Idiota!" She cursed.

"You better watch your mouth woman!" He retorted.

"OH I'm a woman now, huh! I'm a woman now? You can see a woman now? I thought I was a baby, a little girl, a stupid child, your baby sister, not a woman to you." She roared back.

"ma sei Matta?! Are you out of your f*cking mind huh? Just to prove a stupid point, you'll let yourself get dragged off by those worthless beings? They are not even worthy enough to worship at your feet, and just to prove a goddamn point, you let them strip you? And if I didn't show up then? Huh? Tell me, if I didn't show up? You'd have let them finish their business? You'd let them have their way with you? And for what? TO PROVE A F*CKING POINT?! To prove that you're an adult now huh?"

"YES!, to prove to you that I'm not a baby, that I'm an adult, and that it hurt me when you looked me in the eye and said I was nothing more to you than a baby. To prove to you that I'm a fully grown woman, the kind that men would go after. To prove to you that I'm a woman. A woman capable of loving a man. You!"

"It won't kill you to try and love me back. It won't kill you to acknowledge you feel something for me. Zeno, it won't kill you to admit that you don't see me as your sister. But you're too cowardly to do that!" She roared, and Lord, she was trying her best to not cry, trying her best to hold in all the water. Trying her best to face his wrath with a clear eye.

"Nothing you're saying justifies what you did tonight."

"I didn't do anything!"

"Exactly! You could have snapped their necks, could have ripped their insides out, could have killed them all before they even touched you, but you did nothing! You just let them touch you all over, and you would have let them go even further just to show me that you're not a child, but Luna, you only proved to me how childish you actually are."

"This is exactly what I'm talking about! What are you angry about? That I was acting childish, or that someone else laid their hands on me. Tell yourself the truth Zeno, you didn't like seeing their hands on me because you don't want anyone else touching me! Just admit it. You feel something for me!"

"I don't!" He retorted, and though he sounded so sure and firm, he couldn't look her in the eyes as he said it. "I've told you Luna, there's only one woman for me, and that is Dan-a, and she is gone, and my heart, soul and body left with her. I'm satisfied with just being able to see and touch her even though it's in my dreams alone. I'm satisfied with that. I've never felt the way I felt for her with anyone else, and I sure as hell don't feel that way about you! "

"Stop lying! Stop holding on to someone who is dead and gone. May her soul rest in perfect peace, but she is gone. She is never coming back. And even though you keep on telling yourself that you're satisfied with dreaming of her, and being with her there, it's all in your head. She is no longer real, she will never be real again, it's just a trick of the mind! She is not real!"

"I know that!" He roared back into her face. "You think I don't know that? You think I don't know she's gone? Who better than me feels her absence, huh? I know she's gone, I know they're just dreams, I know she's not real, but it's alright. I like it that way. It's none of your business how I chose to leave my life! And don't even think of ever taking her place, because you are nothing compared to Dan-a."