Glorybringer AU ☆the fault in our stars☆

[14] Confession

☆Glory☆

"Mom, don't go."

I'm at some place that I assume to be an airport. I can see a figure next to her- her husband.

Blonde hair, cold blue eyes. "Jambu- perfect family- Europe."

Don't go. I'm trying to shout the words, but nothing comes out. No. They can't go. No matter what she says, she must love me. I'm her daughter. She has to feel something for me, she can't just leave me like this.

She yanks her arm away, her mouthing tilting up into a sneer. "Did you think I loved you?" She's coming closer, whispering softly into my ear: "You were an accident."

I can see her husband next to her- Jambu's nowhere to be seen. He keeps pushing an uncooked piece of meat at my face.

"Think of what they will say when a girl with cancer-"

Anaconda's voice quickly increase until so many people are talking at once.

"Leukemia-"

"Accident-"

"Ruining my family, my fame, everything-"

"GO AWAY!"

"I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"

"I have decided- to go- Europe-"

"GLORY!"

"GLORY!"

"GLORY!"

I wake up with a fever, my entire body wet with cold sweat.

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"Ma, I want to wear Scarlett's green dress to the ball."

That's the one line that I say in every practice. It is also the line that Kestrel mocks me for, also in every practice after school. She mocks me so much that I find my head hurting even more. Add that to Scarlet Sky coming up to me in the morning asking me if I'm natural blonde with eyes that say, I want to pluck out all your hair and make myself a wig. Which makes me say yes, it is natural. Which leads her to ask me about my cancer with taunting eyes.

Tsunami says her lines almost emotionlessly. Although she does fit her role- Scarlett's as fiery and brave as much as she is- she just looks like her heart isn't in it.

"Ashley can't marry Melanie Hamilton! Ashley loves me! Maybe he just doesn't know." Tsunami clears her throat. "I know! I'll tell him that I love him at the barbeque tomorrow. Then he can marry me, instead of that boring girl."

"Very good, Tsunami." Kestrel's eyes are darting back and forth between me and her. "Bright! Glory Bright! You're supposed to go out after that scene."

No, I'm not, we're supposed to say our prayers. The words don't quite come out from ym mouth. I want to say something back, but then I look at Deathbringer below the stage, giving me a thumbs up when he meets my eyes. There's Riptide, who drove to our school just so he can see Tsunami for a few minutes afterwards. So I let it go.

"Go to page 7, when Scarlett's confessing to Ashley."

I hear Starlight's sigh as he comes up to the stage.

Tsunami's looking at him with unbidden discomfort. "Do I really have to confess my neverending love to Starflight before the entire school?"

Kestrel doesn't laugh, but she doesn't exactly scold, either. That woman. "Just do it."