Chapter 20

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Everyone stays quiet as we arrive back at the headquarters. After a few moments of bare silence Aarav starts talking. "Another soldier down.." he points out. "We've lost so many people, and now you care." Viserra scoffs. Gaïa goes to comfort her. "It's okay Viserra." She whispers to her. She gives Aarav an angry look. "Let's not compare deaths." Zev states. "I wasn't trying to" Aarav comments. I just walk out of this situation, straight towards my room.

Viserra's right though, Aarav didn't give a shit when her sister died nor when Rob died, and now he does care about Nara's death. Pfft.

I walk into my room. "Poor Nara" I whisper to myself while entering. I notice my roses. Half of them have died. I sigh. As I go to grab the dead roses I see my mums picture again. I remember wanting to go to her grave.

I throw out the dead roses as I'm on my way to my mothers grave. I took the picture with me.

At the grave I kneel down and place the picture down. "I'm sorry mother." I whipser to the picture. The picture falls face flat making the frame come loose revealing another picture, one of my dad.

I gasp. I totally forgot about that picture. I sob as I look at it. I turn the frame around again and put the pictures next to eachother. They were such an amazing couple.

~ It's 1960, I'm 10 years old. I have no clue who my dad is, and my sister can't recall any memories about dad, since she was like 4 when he died, and I was just a baby. Still I wonder what happened and who my father is. I told my sister this, she told me she doesn't really want to know, she didn't want to get emotionally attached to someone she can't remember. What I understand. After a while of hesitation I walked up to mum. "What happened to dad?" I asked. Her eyes widend. "Promise to not tell anyone sweetie?" She demanded. I couldn't believe what she told me that day. We both hugged eachother and I promised to not tell anyone. Then she gave me the picture. "Keep it, and hide it somewhere where it's safe." She told me. I nod. Till this day i've kept it a secret, even for my sister. ~

I sigh. As I admire the pictures I hear a slight voice. "It's okay to love someone you're not supposed too." I let out a short laugh at that. "Thank u mum." I whisper.

After some silent moments I get up and put my dads picture back where it was. "I love you, both" I whisper while looking at the frame. I sigh as I head back.

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