Milanas PoV

I got to the hill. I kept Dylan in the back of the car since he was still having his moment and I stayed in the front just waiting for him to pop his head up.

"Are you okay now" I asked after a while. Dylan lifted his head up

"It was me I promise you, he just came in at the end" he whispered as he lifted himself up.

"I know, we can wait here for Melanie to appear, it won't be long" I said looking up towards the sky and seeing that the sun was starting to lower

"I want to go back to the cabin, I don't want her to see me like this" Dylan whispered. I nodded my head

"Okay, you know if you look out the window I'm sure you'll see her there, when you feel better" I told him as I started the car back up

"I'll never feel better, I'll just act like I'm okay, put on a happy mask, but you know soon the tears will leak out and won't be hidden anymore, and I don't know how many time I can change masks but I'm getting tired of it now" he whispered, his voice braking.

I signed

"I will help you though this, Dylan I promise" I told him, I was determined to help it. So my pain meant something and so he's could end

"How can you help when you can't see what's going on. It's in my mind, you can't access it, know what really is going on, you just assume you know but guess what baby it's a thousand times worse that what you will ever assume"

I knew by his voice that this was him, he was hurting and angry because of it. Scared because he knew he was alone in this. He wasn't stupid, he wasn't living behind a false reality. He knew that he was alone and that scared him the most. He can't reassure himself anything because he's seen the truth.

"What are you afraid of" I asked in a calm voice.

He went quiet. It felt like forever but soon he whispered a single word

"You"

I looked down and stayed quiet.

I don't believe people are born monsters. I think something pushes them from grace and causes the horn to grow. Dylan knows that I know he's isn't a monster. He know that I know who he really is. The world labels him as this monster, they see him as a deformed creature, but I don't. I see him as an afraid child with the weight of the world on his shoulders who couldn't take it. Dylan knows this and it must scare him.

He knows I know what's behind that mask. And that mask is he only protection and now I've removed the mask he doesn't know anymore.

He lost his reason to hide and now he didn't know how to fight.

He spent so long being the war he didn't know how to actually fight in it

And honestly. I don't think he ever will