Creative Writing: A Separate Peace

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The horrid silence stretched on and on, ripping him apart. Why wasn't Amaimon saying anything!? Shouldn't it be now when he assured things weren't ruined. Assured him that he loved him and wanted to stay. He'd promised he'd help make this a blessing, he'd said he'd do anything. The anger he'd always felt about himself welled back up now, having be subdue u gentle touches and promises of a better life together. A better life when the demon king who told him they might be able to be mates, that they could be close. The silence fed the fire of anger now and it burned those promises up like gasoline only feeding it further, filling him with a sense of strong, gut wrenching betrayal. Had Amaimon not meant any of his words!? Had he just said them …show more content…
He'd always felt this draw to Amaimon, how could he have possibly expected for a second that trying to show that pull to Amaimon wouldn't expose the truth of it to himself. And even now he just expected the earth King to fall for him to and that wasn't fair. He had told himself that he couldn't expect that plenty of times before, but words were hollow of one's stubbornness forced them to ignore it. He had to follow his own advice and that was that he had to wait and be ready for pain like this. He couldn't get mad about it, Mephisto had promised he wouldn't get mad. He was selfish and now it really sunk in. It wasn't just something on the surface, something he could cry to Amaimon about, something that could bring him pity and perhaps affection. No, now it truly sunk in and it shut him up immediately. This wasn't bad just for him, the younger demon was hurting too. Mephisto saw that now, actually paid attention to his actions and how he'd used them hardly without knowing, because he was so used to manipulation, to try and force his brother to feel the things he wanted him to feel. He sat up, wiping away his tears with the back of his hand. He reached out, touching Amaimon's cheek gently "...it's okay...I can't just expect you to say it now...this is all so sudden," he tried to give a watery smile, letting his hand drop before he looked down at his lap "...you might not ever say you love me...and that hurts to think about...but I can't just make you fall in love with me...that's not