Chapter 12：What Are You?

Hearing that Juno opens the door and pulls her inside. She grabs her shoulders tightly, shakes her and yells, "You did this to me! Why would you do this?!!"

Eve is not bothered by her outburst and calmly says, "No. I did not give you Medusa's Blessing. That's not something I can do."

She keeps shaking her, "You're lying!!!"

She ignores the snake and keeps asking, "Why! Why!? Why!? Why did you curse me!?"

"I haven't cursed you. This is something else entirely!"

"Why should I believe you? How could you possibly know about my-my problem if you weren't the one who caused it!"

Juno let's go of Eve and turns her attention to the snake. "And tell me why should I listen to you?!"

"I-I don't believe you. How could I? You haven't helped me at all! All you've done is hurt me! I've never experienced that kind of pain before! I-I thought I was going to die-" she breaks off, holding back a sob.

"What do you mean?!"

"Forced you?"

"I'm being targeted..." she repeats numbly.

//Not my family as a whole but just me? What if...//

She glances at Eve who's been silent this whole time.

She rolls her eyes, "Don't you dare think about grabbing and shaking me again. I already said it wasn't me."

"I don't believe you at all! You knew about all of this and you said you had a confession?! You're the most suspicious right now!"

"I do have a confession but it doesn't have to do with "targeting" you. I don't plan on hurting you at all. It's the opposite."

"Huh?!!"

"I only plan on helping you. Because I don't have a choice. I'm fated to help you."

"What does that even mean!?"

Eve sighs deeply and meets her eyes, "It means exactly that."

Eve's eyes are beyond tired, the bags under her eyes more apparent than ever, but she also shifts slightly as if, nervous. "Juno, do you believe in fate? In prophecies?"

"I..."

"How strange would it be, if I told you that I knew this would happen. That I've known for a long time now. That I've known you before we officially met."

Juno finds her anger drained and all that's left is pain and confusion.

Juno glances at the snake but it doesn't elaborate further.

She can't take it anymore!

"Wh-what are you?"

Not who, but what?

"I am your roommate. I am your helper. I'm here with you. Notice a pattern? I am a strange girl who can only see the life of the girl in front of her."

"I am Eve. I am mortal. But I am also known as an Oracle."