Puppet Master 🥀

Unwelcomed

Alice's POV:
Staying positive for the people you love is a joke.
Let them sulk!
As Dianne would say: 'People always have something to whine about, might as well embrace the madness!'
I didn't want to embrace any 'madness' a year ago, when I our boat docked at Nowhere. All I wanted at the time, was for things to go back to normal. For everyone to be happy and chirpy and cheerful!

I plod back to ToBeFound, passing the familiar mossy stone arch that welcomes every new-comer. Though it welcomes me now...I remember a time when it was plagued with a low cloud of sorrow looming around it.

Flashback:

At a time when doubts of things going adrift would slip out of my mind just as bad thoughts used to.
'Stay positive!' was my motto and it's a shame that every time I tried to apply that to my attitude, that positivity was drained out of me. Only leaving despair and guilt.

I shouldn't have murdered Belina Alcompt, but she was the mere price to pay for freedom. Her life was her price due for sacrificing so many lower-class people.

I grin at the damaged gateway before me, I look back to my family, sighing excitedly and gripping onto my backpack. My mother scowls back at me as her reply. Her silence was deafening, aching my heart as my smile falters at the sight of her unhappiness.
"Alice. The priviledge you recived, living in Beyond, the dignity I upheld from years of industry work, GONE. Because you threw a tantrum?!" My mother lets out an exasperated laugh. Even after the three days of travelling by boat together, she's still in utter shock of the crime I did.
"Why can't you just behave like a good kid?" My dad whispered, pain evident in his face. I could feel my chest ache inside, my hands slightly shaking from hearing those words.
Even Archie couldn't bring himself to even look at me.

My future just a few strides in front of me, I mutter something under my breath.
"I'll do bett-I'll be better, I promise."

***

Hah.
I may have promised, but I took it like an oath.