Quiescent Storms

~FOURTY EIGHT~

"I'm sorry for taking this long to find you, mamma." I whispered out in a small voice as my watereted orbs gazed at the rose garden devoid of any flowers, beneath which lays my mother, my life giver. I heard a small sob coming from behind as I slowly kneeled over the cold ground grazing the dry soil with my fingertips.I watched as the droplets of my tears fell over the soil as my right hand fisted some of the soils as if trying to hold and feel my mother's presence.

I miss her so much.

It's been ten days of my stay in the hospital. Now that my legs are fully recovered and I can get back to my regular activities with my recovering stab, excluding any stressful or hard work,I instantly requested Karl to take me to my old abandoned house as I remembered Lucifer's word of burying my mother here.Karl was enraged hearing that  Lucifer was evil enough to hide this information from me.And soon,I was informed that everyone including the Ivano's will be joining me for visiting my mother's actual grave.

I really wanted some alone time here, but I couldn't say no to Althea and Kendrick's requesting gaze.My mother was someone akin to family, someone they cherished, just like me.

So, everyone is now standing infront of the barren land, which was once filled with red and white roses, the flowers my mother loved and cared with her own hands.

Closing my eyes, I bowed down my head with silent tears rolling down my cheeks as I leaned ahead spreading my palms over the cold ground.I was locked in the basement for two days after my mother's death. Padre's guards had locked me there as I had went into hysteria and rampage, almost destroying the whole house. And when I came back, mother was no longer in my bed, laying down. I cried to know where she was buried, to atleast let me go for one time but I was on house arrest and so close to her, crying for her presence, yet my father played the cruelest game and watched me wailing for my mother, not for once deeming it important to let me visit her grave,to let me cry out my heart over it.

I still don't understand what was the reason behind my father's cruelty, his evilness.My mother always said that he used to love her so much, treated her like a queen.

But suddenly,he just went from her knight in shining armor to nightmare she never imagined him to be.

And my mother yet hoped for the return of his usual loving and kind self,until her last breath.

"Lilli loved roses. She loved the meaning and significance it carries."I heard a small feminine voice whispering out beside me as I opened my eyes gazing over the soil.I hadn't noticed her presence at all.

"Specially,she loved red roses. And white roses were her next favourite because it reminded her of me." Althea Ivano choked out her words as I glanced over my right founding her tear stained face looking over the soil.My own tear falls increased more as I remembered the flowers of this rose garden she cherished so much.

Red and White.

"I wish I knew Lilli was alive,under the clutch of that human flesh monster."Another voice lowly murmured out with regret as my brimming eyes noticed Kendrick Ivano stand behind the kneeling Althea. My eyes averted over the ground as I wiped out my tears with the back of my hand.

"She never told me about her brother or anyone of you."I whispered out as my palm grazed the soil as if reaching out towards her for comfort.

A whimper escaped through Althea's lips as my eyes again brimmed with tears.I wonder what my father said or did to hold back my mother from communicating with them.

A small breath escaped through my lips as an abrupt feeling of calmness washed over me.At last, I can visit my mother whenever I want to.Be that in my time or happiness or in time of sorrow.