Pain of the Whispers

Chapter 34

The question Bill asked me was the strangest question I ever heard. What did he mean by I didn't have a normal life? My life was normal.

It was.

Right?

I shake my head at him. "What do you mean?" Bill declares as he asks. "Have you not realized that everything you do is not normal. All the training you do, all the moments that happens. The day from the climbing wall is an example. No girl at that age is that strong, do you really think that's normal?" I shake my head even harder. "You're making no sense." Bill askes with harshness in his tone. "You train like a solider, no one your age should be able to do such things, let alone master them. You're only a ten-year-old girl and you have the strength of a grown man, that's not normal Rice." I stand up and roar. "Your speaking lies, I don't know what you're talking about." Bill stood up and the height different between us shone brightly in that moment, he over toured me. "Don't you see it Rice, I'm trying to help you. You're not normal, and your life is not normal." I turn towards the kitchen door about to storm off, I didn't believe a single word he said. But what he said about me not having a normal life rose up a few questions I always thought about. When I go to leave, Bill snatches my arm in a tight grip. "Mother is hiding something from you, so is my father. This matter doesn't just concern you anymore. I want to know what my father is up to; I deserve to know. Don't you want to know what Mother is hiding from you?" I consider his request for a moment until I realize, Mother would shred me to my core if she knew I was disobeying her like this. I shake my head vastly, shaking my head so hard that it makes me a bit dizzy. "No, I don't. Mother has a good reason for everything she does." Bill tightens his grip on my arm, searching my entire face for something I didn't know. "It's like she programmed you." I was speechless once again, not knowing what he meant by that. Bill sighs and drops my arm as he points to the dagger that hidden in my waist band. "I gave you that dagger to protect yourself from danger, promise me you will protect yourself whenever its needed." I just glare at him, speechless to no words for a long period of time as we both stare at each other. Minutes of staring at each other pass by. We were both trying to scan and figure each other out, we were similar in ways I didn't want to admit we were. But like always the voices chattered off in my mind. As well as so many questions popped in my head, wanting to be free and spoken. Bill broke the silence when he put out his hand and asked. "Are you with me in this mystery or not?" I stare at his hand; while my mind and voices scream at me not to. But the bitterness from somewhere deep inside me overpowers my better judgement. 

I take his hand.