Never till the end of dawn

Chapter 14

"I can't believe this" charlotte stared back at me. "This is bad, your their daughter, they're all going to blame you"

"I know," I said quietly."That's why this must be a secret, they can never know"

"Or you'll be the same as dead meat, except they will never do anything about them because you're their precious time traveler ruby," charlotte said. I could sense the sadness within her eyes. It was all supposed to be hers. Meant for her. This is what she was trained for her whole life. And now how I came out from the middle of nowhere and stole this opportunity of hers.

"wanna talk about it" I nudged her.

"No" she breathed out " But all my life this was what I was fighting for and now when It's not me who has the power to travel back in time, I don't know what to feel. The fact that I never had it in me to travel back in time is one thing, another thing is sensing the disappointment lingering in the eyes of my family, or should I say our family" She said sheepishly. "They all pity me because they all think that this great opportunity of an honor was stolen from us by a de Villers girl"

"It's not your fault," I say

"I know, I don't want to talk about it, Anyway, wasn't giedion supposed to meet us here"

"Ummm about that, I lied"

"No, you didn't" charlotte say. These are personally one of those situations that you wish the other person was lying, especially from her perspective. "wait, hold on, so you brought me all the way here to talk to you. Do you have any Idea How much I used to hate you, do you know how annoying you've always been"

"well not always, so forget it, what changed your heart today that made you less hostile to me," I asked curiously. It was true, when I came here, I would have expected her to rage out on me, and to well tell me all the unfortunate and horrifying truths about myself, my family, and my new role. And yet seeing this genuinely innocent charlotte is a bit shocking.

"well, I figured there's no point. I always hated you for one reason. You were always thrid-wheeling on me and giedion" I rolled my eyes "you made it seem like our love for each other was scandalous because we were time-travelers, and that was just heart-breaking because you were like a little sister to him, but you didn't like me"

"I was never like a sister to him, that's just disgusting to think about," I say.

"He always cared about you, and still cares about you, and he has a crush on me so I don't see any other options here, do you" Here and now only do I see the real charlotte coming out the envious charlotte.

"Is that what it was all about?" I asked separated "you had a crush on him, so you decided to stay away from me, oh please does he even like you" Her face went red, red as a tomato. On second thought, it was way redder than a tomato. Her eyes bulging out, I could tell that I caught her off guard. "Now that I'm not a time-traveler, I'm glad because I get to finally date him" Oh fuck me, I soo wish she hadn't said that. I needed to get out of her, I needed my alone time.

Because I swear, people piss the fuck out of me sometimes, and I can't handle it. Don't mistake me for anti-social or something but, I just need to get out of her and now.

"Anyway, I should probably go now, I promised giedion that I would meet him for lunch" I could see her eyes shooting open. Envy and resentment behind them. I not meeting giedion, but that bitch honestly deserved that remark. And I want to go check out the merchandise across the street, the one I and charlotte met paul in, or should I say my father. As if charlotte could sense my gaze going across that street, she said

"Where are you going? going to see that scary merchant who is your father, what was his name again? paul, I know you're not going to see giedion"

"Where I'm going is none of your concern"

And of course, she could go and tattletale everything she knows about me to the council, about my parents, my whereabouts, and even my intentions, but something in my gut tells me she will do nothing of that sort, especially because now she knows that I'm also a Montrose, and they have this stupid moto in Latin of Montrose's never betraying one another. Another assurance is that the core belief of charlotte having the ultimate honor of the family and traveling back in time was drilled hard in her head, and there is only one this that is drilled harder in all of our heads. The moto. We had one for the de Villers too, but it wasn't as important I guess. And so eventually I made up one excuse after another until she finally let me go in peace. I wasn't prepared for this, I wasn't prepared for any of this.

I had a normal life, everting thing normal, everything simple. No unusuality. And I liked it. Now, I feel sick. I just want all of this to be over, for things to go back to normal, which I had to worry about is school and boys. I sigh. Things better be better soon or this world is going to regret that fact that I've ever existed. 

AN - I'm pretty sure that was my longest chapter ever with 982 words!. Anyway, thank you @ZhanetV and @stella5307 for your encouragement and support. 7 votes for next chapter or I'm going to update anyway tommorow or the day after. Enjoy!