Forever Destined To The Silver Shadow

Celestia's POV: 

Ivory got scared to her bones when Theo was lashing out at her. I have seen the fierce version of Theo a couple of times before. But now, he seemed to be deadly furious. 

"Celestia is worth more than all the three realms to me," Theo shouted at her.

Ivory began to cry after that. "But she hurts you always! Why do you still want her?" 

"Because I am madly in love with her!" Theo answered back. "What more reason do I need than this one? In the past, when she gazed at me with love, it gave me peace that I had never experienced before. But now, when she sees me with hatred, I feel like someone ripped my heart from my chest and gave it to me!" 

I began to feel more and more stunned as I heard Theo's confessions. I never thought that I meant this much to him! On the outer level, he is strong and daring. But he has a sensitive side too?!!!

"Theo," Ivory sobbed and wiped her tears from her face. "You do know that I am in love with you! Even though you can't reciprocate my feelings, I still love you, and I want you to be happy. Now tell me how I can stay quiet and do nothing while you are suffering like this?" 

Theo's anger was subdued, and he got bleak after that. "Ivory," he said bleakly. "I do like you, and I would always want you around me. But I don't feel that way about you like I do with Celestia! And I am sorry about that."

Ivory moved closer to him, and she embraced him with her arms. Theo hugged her back slowly. 

Ivory rested her head on his shoulder and said, "It is okay, Theo. I don't expect anything from you. I just want you to be happy like you did before Celestia came into the picture."

Theo immediately pulled away from her and glared at Ivory. "I don't think that it will be possible for me to be like that anymore! I think about her all the time! I know that you and I are alone in this room. But still, I feel like she is close to me!"

"You clearly need rest! The firewater is making you hallucinate things," Ivory said and dragged him to the bed. She made her lie down on the bed and covered him with a blanket. 

"Take rest, Theo. I need to take care of some things," she announced to him. 

I stopped peeking, and I immediately hid behind the wall. I almost forgot about this one! He can sense my presence all the time. I am lucky that he was high on the firewater. Or else he would have caught me. 

I turned on my heels and tried to walk away from there. But a stern voice halted me. "Celestia, stop," Ivory called out. 

I turned back to her. She was frowning at me like she always does. "I assume that you saw everything! Are you happy now?"

"What?" I cried out. "Why would I be happy?"

"You ruined the spirit of Theo! And you seem to have no remorse for that?"

"But…"

"People say that you are an Angel! And I don't think that any Angel would hurt someone like this and not feel remorseful about it," Ivory snapped at me.

"But I didn't…."

"The reason why I tolerate you is because of Theo. Or else I would have confronted you a long time ago."

Ivory kept on screaming at me, and she didn't even give me a chance to explain myself. I began to feel extremely guilty as she kept on scolding me. 

"I am warning you, Celestia. If you take him for granted one more time, then you and I are going to have a problem," Ivory said and walked away from me.

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I have not cried a lot of times in my life. And every time I cried in the past, I was able to control myself after a few minutes. But now I completely lost control! 

I have been crying straight for the past half an hour. Theo is really in love with me! And I refused to believe him and hurt him so bad that I broke his spirit. 

For the first time, I thought that Ivory was right. I don't deserve Theo! He is so much in love with me, but all I have done recently is hurt him. 

I dropped down on the four-poster bed and slept on my stomach. I buried my face in the fluffy silk pillow and tried to pull myself together. Tangerine, who was locked up in the cage, was screeching frantically. 

She must have sensed my distress, and she tried to console me in her own way. But I don't think that she could help me. I was so confused and miserable at that time. 

So my friends were the ones who tried to deceive me?!!! But I was able to get why they are constantly demeaning Theo. 

Theo has the vision to provide equality to every entity in this realm. But Father Oberon doesn't want that! He wants to rule partially forever. He doesn't care about the Lowlanders. 

I have seen it many times ever since I was a kid. And even recently, when the Vampires attacked the Lowlands, Father Oberon refused to help them. 

So that is what Theo has been trying to show everyone. Father Oberon is an unfair ruler, and he has made so many unjust decisions in the past. 

He labeled Sapphire as an enchantress and didn't provide her the justice she deserved. And he did that all to save a fugitive Fae! 

I rolled over the bed and faced the ceiling above me. Theo is not evil at all! My father seems to be far worse than him. 

Now that I think about it, Theo's principles are correct! But the pathway he chooses to fulfill his ambitions is wrong. 

Why does Theo have to use Dark forces to accomplish his goals? He could stay on the side of the light and rebel against King Oberon. 

"No, Celestia," someone said out of the blue and made me shudder. "He would have accomplished nothing if he had stayed on the side of light."

I jolted out of my bed and got to my feet immediately. It was Amelia! 

"Please don't frighten me like this again," I sighed out.