It'll be

Chapter three

The night was long and silent. But it was too loud for Megan, her thoughts were too loud, and all over the place. Confusion was written all over her face, and worry took over her heart. The tossed and turned in bed all along trying to meet Sage halfway but she did not have in her to accommodate her wretched behaviour.
Megan was convinced that she did not know the implications, that She didn't understand what really was going on. Trying to reason with her was the last thing on her mind because she knew what she was like. No one could ever change Sage Kingsley's mind on any account. She chose to do what she did and had no qualms nor second thoughts about it.
The morning finally came and Megan could not find it in herself to look at sage, at the breakfast table. While Sage was hypnotised by the outside. It was a bright summer morning and the birds were chirping, the air as crisp as it can be. To her she couldn't believe that her parents were gone. It all seemed like a movie that she played a part in.
"Girls we will go back to the house, see if there is something we can retrieve, and also grab Megan's car." Julia said to them who stayed completely quiet, Megan stabbing her fruit salad, Sage lost in the sight that was on the other sight of the window. "I will sort out everything with the insurance and then come back and discuss the next step." She continued speaking despite lacking the ears of the girls. All along she felt a compulsion to push them into solving their problem but she held back reminding herself that once again it wasn't her place to do so.

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Standing before the huge pile of ashes and burned wood, Sage refused to under stand how anything could be still in one piece, or even in existence. She refused to go into it while Megan did and cried a river again.
Sage never questioned Megan's ability to have compassion and the biggest heart ever. She knew that she loved her parents despite all that they had gone through, all they had missed because of them and their selfish choices. But she found it selfish of Megan to diminish her feelings and dismiss them as invalid, it wasn't her place to dictate her behaviour or feelings.
"You sure you do not want to go look?" The brown skinned woman, Julia enquired once more.
"What is there to go look at, ashes?" She muttered her eyes still not leaving the sight.
"I know you are hurt, and your guard is up, but you do not have to have these walls up with Megan and I," she tried to lay out her reasoning for the girl who just shook her head and walked away to the car.
The insurance company investigators were present and scanning through the property and got a statement from each of the girls, and some neighbours.
They finally got back to their teachers house, who sat them down to talk to them about the next step of their lives.
Both sat on the far end from each other on the couch which was across the table from where Julia sat.
"I need both of y'all to act like grown ups on this." She teacher started this behaviour new to her who has never seen them act the way they were acting.
"Oh you mean y'all want me to act like I give a shit? I don't, and I'm tired of behaving the way someone wants not the way I want." She yelled and sobbed the last part, she tried to steady her voice and breathing through it but she couldn't.
Julia saw the forthcoming outburst that was almost coming out of Megan, and by a simple raise of her hand she stopped her. "Sage, no one is telling you to behave in anyway. I just need you to work with me on this. It's tough, on all of us and we have different ways of handling it." She said then stopped for a deep breath. She did not want to go through with it, how come she had to be the one to do this. Julia considered herself unqualified for something as deep ad this. But she was all the girls had, but not for long.
"Your parents game me contacts to whom I should call incase of emergencies in times of their absence. Your aunt and uncle, your father's siblings are flying out this evening. To help us chart everything including the funeral out." Julia felt like a robot as she said this. Just the way the parents would have wanted it.
"Aunt and uncle?" Sage scoffed as she muttered this. "They said that they were fucking only children!" She yelled out, rage renewed in her. "These people lied to us our whole fucking lives, these are the people you want to feel bad for?"she barked out, her eyes red and full of tears.
Megan couldn't take the yelling and stood up to walk away, but Julia stopped her, and instructed her to sit down.
"They had their own reason, your aunt and uncle will explain further once they get here."Julia continued to explain her heart heavy but her face straight, and her tone steadfast. She had to make it seem as if she made sense of anything that she said, but deep down, sage's behaviour was justified.
"They will get here in an hour, please get ready for them." She said standing up to leave to the kitchen, but sage's words stopped her.
"Yay! We have to pretend again, I guess that is truly your hobby Megan." Her tone was heavy with sarcasm. Julia sighed, not knowing what to do with them.