Page 76 of Seeded By Two

But before too long, we were going to be naked anyway, so what was the difference?

Besides, Aslas was likely to come out not wearing a single stitch, so at least wearing a towel might make Beth feel a little more comfortable.

I stepped into the room and immediately noticed she wasn’t there.

The room looked half-demolished with the attack Aslas had launched upon me earlier, and I wondered if Beth had accidentally cut herself or caught a splinter from the refuse dotted about the room.

I hissed at Aslas that he could be so stupid.

And at myself for not tidying up before jumping in the shower.

Beth deserved to be in much better surroundings than a dilapidated suite such as this.

But she wasn’t even here.

I approached the balcony, pulled the net to one side, and saw she was not there either.

I drifted towards the door, opened it, peered down one long empty corridor, and then turned in the opposite direction where a pair of alien lovers strolled arm in arm.

For some reason, my appearance was hilarious to them.

They burst out laughing and continued on down the corridor.

Beth wasn’t within sight on that side either.

I shut the door and turned back to the room.

She had gone.

Again.

Beth really needed to learn how to deal with her issues in a much healthier way than just running from them, I thought.

I approached the bathroom to get dressed again and inform Aslas of Beth’s disappearance when something fluttered on the bed from a fresh breath of wind expelled by the open balcony window.

It was a notebook, laid flat, the top few sheets of paper flapping lazily.

I approached it and spotted the pen lying to one side, hastily dropped.

I picked the pad up and read the few words scribbled across it:

I know who you truly are. But I cannot do to you what you did to me. Goodbye.

It wasn’t signed, not that it needed to be.

The words chilled me to the bone.

I know who you truly are.

Who we truly were?

But we had been open and honest with her.

She wasn’t close to us yet but she would be if she gave us time…

But I cannot do to you what you did to me.

I felt a thick wad form in the back of my throat at that comment.

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