Team RVER

Chapter 35

Rinni Bellereve and Rhys Carlson walked towards the exit but the former stopped at the same destroyed home they saw all those months ago. Rhys watched and soon followed Rinni inside the house, they both saw a makeshift camp with some supplies. They assumed this is where Kiona Fiore Bellereve and John Aiden Scarlet-Bellereve stayed. They looked around the belongings, looking for something to bring home. Rhys' attention was taken by a picture frame near Kiona's bag. He picked it up and saw a picture of what seemed to be a younger version of Rinni and a woman who resembled her. He accidentally dropped the picture frame upon feeling his leader's robotic arm on his shoulder.

"Sorry didn't mean to scare you" The red-brownish-eyed teen just signed that it was okay

The brown-eyed teen's brows furrowed upon noticing the picture, she pushed away the broken pieces of the frame and and glass before picking it up. Rinni saw the face of her biological mother for what she felt like forever. Truth be told, she didn't remember what she looked like because, after all, she was too young to remember her when she was found. The woman shares a striking resemblance to Rinni. Her sun-kissed complexion and ebony hair flow purposefully, though Rinni somewhat faintly remembers her mother often lets down neatly with gentle waves at the end. The eyes of the woman explained why Rinni had some other form of heterochromia, a captivating shade of red on one eye while the other held a warm brown eye.

Rhys, who knelt down upon noticing something, tugged on Rinni's black shorts, gaining her attention, before handing what seemed to be a letter. She gulped before she opened it, seeing words written down, what caught her attention was a picture of two babies. The two infants had bonnets that seemed to be handmade. One had Reed and the other had Rinni, making it blatantly obvious that the latter had a sibling. Another feature was writing, there was a date, April 22, but the year was smudged out making it unreadable.

Rinni was confused at what she was seeing, she had more questions now because of this. Rhys took a glance and his eyes widened as he frantically tapped Rinni's shoulder. The brown-eyed teen looked at her teammate before he began to sign.

"What do you mean that's you? Rhys that doesn't make sense, you're from Vale right?" Rhys signed out his answer

"You're adopted? Here from Mistral?"

Rhys nodded as he brought out his scroll, it took a few minutes before he showed a picture of a family portrait to Rinni. The picture comprised of a couple holding a baby that looked exactly like the picture Rinni.

"Rhys this might be a coincidence, and the other bonnet has the name Reed on it."

The red-brownish-eyed teen glared before zooming into the picture of his infant self on his scroll and grabbing the picture Rinni held putting them side by side.

"Okay, fine, let's just say that is you. That means you're my brother... That doesn't make any sense... Like... Why were we separated? O-or why were you in that orphanage? How did you get there? So many questions that even if we have this it might not answer everything" Rinni uttered as she pointed to the letter

The mute teen nodded before pointing at the letter as if telling her that they should read it, and so they did.

My Dearest Rinni,

As you are reading this you are probably old enough, or you were looking around the stuff inside the house. You were always a curious child. You are also probably wondering about the picture of two babies behind our picture. Well, to be truthful, that's you and your twin brother. I know you'll have many questions and hopefully, I can answer them. First of all, I named him Reed, granted I wasn't able to register you both as my children into the system, seeing as I couldn't get into any towns at the time and I didn't want to register you without your brother, so I hid you. I wanted you both to have some similarities, even though you both are twins you both look nothing alike. Now, I don't know where he is but where I saw him last was at an orphanage, Glimmering Haven, where I had left him.