The Dark That Comes After Sunset

Epilogue

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He watched as she was escorted through the door by the female warden, her hands cuffed to her front clad in the prison outfit if green and white checkered dress, and the same material for a head scarf he wondered why the dress seemed so loose, looking at her face it was evident that it was because she'd lost so much weight, and knowing her former bubbly figure, bright and robust he nearly wept for her on the spot, her eyes were dark with sadness, he had not actually seen her happy since their mother died, not that he was any happier himself, but he had to try at least for her to be the strong one cause they needed the strength. She sat down across him, placing her cuffed hands on the table, failing at keeping eye contact with him because her eyes were already teared up, she had cried everyday since she had arrived here, she cried so much that she felt she couldn't stop, even more than she cried when her mom died, she had tried to be strong for so long that she felt she couldn't hold back on the tears anymore.
"You have twenty minutes, keep your distance and no touching" The female warden instructed and moved to a corner giving them privacy.

"Kelvin" she muttered, still looking down fidgeting with the cold metal binding her hands. Kevin almost wept looking at what he felt to be the shadow of his sister.
"You don't look so well" he commented. "Look, I'll try to talk to daddy, we will get you a lawyer so you will leave this place"
Her sad eyes finally met his, giving him a sad smile
"What are you even talking about? Is he not the reason I'm here?, I'm surprised he even let you come to visit me, I thought I'll never see you again"
"Vivian you don't deserve to be here" he said almost bursting with tears, he blinked back the tears.
"I'm a murderer, Kelvin" she stated, then shrugged "well at least everyone thinks I am, including your father"
"But I don't believe you did anything, dad too, he's just really angry, I promise you I'll get you out of here, I will-" He was cut short by the lump in his gut that almost gave way to tears, but he gave in anyway. Vivian rolled her eyes  so as to stop her own tears from pouring down in torrents, she hated seeing her little brother cry and whatever action she had taken in the past had been to protect him, but now she couldn't do anything, for him or for her.
"Why does bad things keep happening to us?" He whimpered, his eyes bloodshot from crying. "First mommy, now you"
Vivian watched her brother helplessly, she was on the verge of crying herself, but she knew she had to be the strong one.
"It's okay now, stop being a baby" she tried to joke, consoling her brother, getting himself he sat straight up  wiping his eyes using the back of his hands hands. "So tell me about school or something else abeg, let's end this crying spree"
He laughed softly and adjusted on the hard wooden seat, it was what he felt may be the hardest wood he had ever sat on in his life.
"School is fine" He simply said and nothing else, making Vivian conclude that it wasn't so, but she pushed.
"How are your friends? How is studies? Your grade?" She asked.
He shook his head "I don't talk to anyone anymore, you're the only one I've spoken to in months"
"Kelvin I know that and it shouldn't be like that, you have your whole life in front of you!" Vivian cried out.
"Quiet!" The female warden warned from her corner.
"Well so do you, but you're stuck here, how can I be happy? You're the only one I have" Kelvin said, bringing his voice down to a whisper
"Kelvin you have daddy also" Vivian butted in.
"How can you still mention him after all he's done!" He whispered fiercely.
"He's our father"
"He failed us!"
"Kel-"
"When mom died, we looked up to him and he failed us, so how can you still look at me and tell me that he's still my father, he stopped being my father ever since he brought that woman into our lives" He said without sparing a breath "and now you're here, and now you need him the most but once again he's failed you"
They both sat in silence, wallowing over and over on their misery. Vivian concluded that she hated her father, the turn he made after their mom died was monstrous and she had hated him since then, the problem she had with him was infact the reason she landed a twenty four years prison sentence at twenty two. But She didn't want the same for Kelvin, he wasn't like her, Kelvin was calm and sweet and didn't deserve to go through whatever he was going through, and he needed to be in his dad's good book, that was the only way he was going to survive. She reached further with her cuffed hands and placed her palm on his giving it a gentle squeeze.
"Just promise me you will be okay" she said with pleading eyes. Kelvin took a long look at his sister and nodded. "I'll try"
"And know that I miss you so so much and that I love you" she said.
"Time is up!" The warden announced walking towards them.
"So soon?" Kelvin lamented.
"Come back visiting day, you'll have more time" she told him.
Vivian got up slowly, her heart broke in many pieces again.
"Wait, wait, please " Kelvin begged, the warden heeded, then he turned to his sister. "I'm going to get them to re-open your case, I promise you, if dad doesn't do it, I'll do it myself"
"Kelvin what does that even matter, the evidence all pointed at me" Vivian implied.
"But you didn't do it, right?" He asked her.
"Young man" the warden called in reminder.
"Please just wait!" He begged her. "I just want to know you didn't do it"
"Kelvin don't get yourself in trouble because of me" Vivian begged.
"A yes or no Vivian "
She looked up at his tall frame with tears filled eyes and his heart confirmed what he had believed all this while.
"I knew you couldn't do it" He heaved as he watched the warden escort his sister back to her cell.