The Hidden Secrets Of A Tomboy

A Series Of Past Flashbacks

Chapter's song - Be happy
Artist - Dixie d'Amelio

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~Scarlett~

Xavier drives like a maniac as usual and gets to the airport in less than 30 minutes.

My siblings and I separate and start to look for Nona.

Xavier runs left, Xander and Eleanor run right and I run up the stairs. I sight her sitting down and talking with Mr Smart.

"Isabella Linden August!" I call Nona by her full name.

She looks up alongside Mr Smart and I both of them are startled to see me.

"Sc-sca-scarlet-t" she stammers

"Wh-What are you doing here?" she asks

"How long did you think you were gonna lie to me Nona.. I know you very well. And the minute you shot that fake smile I knew something was up"

"What do you mean Scarlett? I already told you I'm just going for three months"

"Just stop lying to me ALREADY!". I yell

At this time people start looking in our direction to know what's happening.

I hear a few people murmur some stuff about me being the daughter of Mr Monroe.

"I know everything Nona, you're not traveling to Dubai, you're going to Mexico to live with aunt Ann"

"Flight 40569 departing to Mexico will leave in 30 minutes". A disembodied voice says through the loud speakers.

"How did you figure that out?"

"Nona I'm Scarlett I'll surely find out.. I can't believe you lied to me"

"Scarlett I'm sorry I-i-I just ha-had to"

"Nona!". Xander and Eleanor yell in unison as they run to meet us.

"Oh thank goodness you haven't gone.. Come on let's go home". Xavier

"I'm sorry but I can't.. Your-your parents won't allow it"

"We don't care Nona. You're coming with us and that's final". Xavier says coming in front of me.

Eleanor grabs Nona's hand.

"I can't go with you my flight..."

"Forget about your flight Nona!" I yell.

"But your parents fired me I can't come back". Nona fights back

"Wait what?". Eleanor yells

"Well I'm rehiring you I'm a boxer so I'll use my money from matches and my savings to pay for your salary" I say cutting Nona's sentence even before it began.

"I can't let you do that Scarlett". Nona says

"Then come with us" Xander replies.

After much persuasion Nona didn't fight the urge to come back with us.

We left the airport and got into Xavier's car.

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The car ride was a very silent one, Nona kept looking outside. She would smile for some seconds put up a straight face. She kept doing that for a while.

I guess she was thinking about Lisa.

That's how she behaves when she thinks of Lisa

~FLASHBACK TO 7 YEARS AGO~

"Lisa you'll get hurt if you keep running like that. Be careful. And just give Xander his icecream would you". Nona says

"I won't get hurt mom. You've said this over 50 times now". Lisa replies still focusing on the race to get away from Xander.

"Well I won't continue if you stop playing roughly".

Xander keeps running after Lisa to collect back his stolen icecream from her

"Give it back Lisa". Xander yells

"And what you gon do if I don't" Lisa yells back and runs faster.

"Woahhh Lisa look out". I shout

"Look out for what" she shouts back still running

"LISA STOP RUNNING ". We all yell in unison

"Come catch me" she smirks very oblivious of the fact that she's about to fall off a cliff.

Lisa stops just at the end of the cliff. The icecream falls of her hand and as she stretches her hand to grab it her leg slips and she falls off the cliff while screaming out loud.

"LISA! " we all shout in unison as we run to the end of the cliff.

Lisa screams loudly for about 5 seconds.

"LISAAAAAAA!!" We all yell continuously.

No noise is heard from down the cliff. Lisa's voice fades away quickly.

We immediately called the cops and explained everything to them. They called a few experts who went down the cliff in the search for Lisa.

All to no avail as her body wasn't found.

Only her wrist band was found.

Every other thing relating to Lisa was gone. Everything!

Lisa was gone.

We all run to Nona to comfort her seeing how she shouts continously amidst tears on hearing her daughter's body couldn't be found.

Nona couldn't hold herself. My parents couldn't stop crying.

Everyone was in tears. Eleanor and Xavier kept on patting Nona's back whilst crying.

And Xander?

* Sigh *

Xander sat in one corner of the cliff crying and wailing.

Everyone was tensed. Everything was messed up. Everyone was sad.

No one was themselves!

Especially Nona.

Ever since then Xander became the quiet type. He stopped talking much and he always blamed himself for Lisa's death.

It got a point where he almost told the police he killed Lisa.

He couldn't forgive himself.

Nona felt more pain than all of us.

She lost her only daughter.

After all the stress of giving birth to her.

Nona got pregnant in her teen years. She got deceived by a man and eventually got pregnant. The man denied the pregnancy and told her to abort it.

She couldn't bring herself to abort it so she kept it. But the day she gave birth to him he died.

Nona almost ran mad as she had to stop her school cause of the pregnancy.

She later got married. But before she gave birth it took about 18 years.

When she was pregnant her husband died.

She gave birth to Lisa and was so happy. Lisa was her joy and her everything and she just lost Lisa.

Nona wasn't herself for a while.

A very very long while...

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