Sisterhood

Iron Cross

Ages: Julia - 16

Monika - 11

Hope you enjoy this chapter!

~Silent Fangirl

Chapter 6 - Iron Cross

~Two years later~

With a slow creak the door to Lili's bedroom opened as the two sisters sneaked in, "sister what are we doing in here?" Monika asked.

"Shh, grandma took away my cellphone, she must of hid it in here," Julia whispered.

"You know maybe she took it for a reason, besides you'll get it back eventually," Monika argued.

"I want it now! What if Daniel texts me and I can't reply!"

"that's why your grades have been going down."

"Little less attitude more looking."

The two girls began to search the room. Monika finished looking trough the dewars when she noticed a leather book on top of the selves above the dresser. She tried to reach it to only realize that she was too short to reach it. Even on her tiptoes she could only get her figures to graze it. With a small jump she was able to get her figure on it to only knock it over with a bang, catching Julia's attention.

"Monika what are you doing? Grandma will hear us!" Julia hissed.

"I thought maybe it was on this book." Monika explained.

"What book?" Julia asked as she walked over to Monika.

"This one, it looks like a scrap book," Monika said as she picked the book up, as she did something fell out. "What's that?"

Julia picked it up, "it looks like a necklace, I think it's called an iron cross. What's in the book?"

"Pictures, Julia look your in this one!" Monika exclaimed pointing at the book. Julia looked over to see a picture of when she was a baby being held by a woman with long blonde hair next to a man with white hair in a hospital. "Julia, that man looks just like you!"

"Sorta, he has purplish blue eyes mine are pure red," Julia explained.

"Hair's the same," Monika stated. Julia only shrugged her shoulders.

"Monika doesn't that woman look like you?" Julia pointed out.

"What are you two doing in here?" Lili demanded, the two girls gasped Monika dropping the book but Julia holding tight onto the necklace. Lili noticed the necklace in Julia's hand, "why do you have that?" Both the girls stayed silent.

Monika looked back over to the book, picking it up, "grandma who's this?" She asked showing the picture they were looking at.

Lili at it and sighed, "those are your parents."

"Guess that explains why they look like us," Julia assumed.

"Yeah, that was before your father had to go back home to the military," Lili stated.

"Back home?" Monika asked.

"Yeah, your father didn't live in the America, he lived in Germany. Then again so did your mother but they lived on two different side of the country, he lived on the east, she lived in the west. She moved to America when she was little, he only traveled to America for military and met your mother," Lili explained.

"Grandma you use to live in Germany!" Julia exclaimed.

"Yeah, I never told you guys that? Lili said the two girls shook their heads.

"What happen to them?" Monika asked, unaware that Julia tensed up. Julia had found out a couple month ago when she over heard Lili and Roma talking about it.

"Monika," Lili started, she had no idea how to explain this to her.

"They're dead!" Julia blurted.

"What?" Monika gasped.

Lili sighed, "yes, your mother died after you were born due to illness, while you father was lost in a battle before you were born. When he died they sent that necklace back to your mother who gave it to me. She wanted me to give it to one of you guys, never did because I didn't want you two to fight over it."

"Monika can have it," Julia said sticking the necklace out to Monika who looked at it in surprise.

Monika slowly took the necklace cupping it in her hands, "thank you."

"Well come on you two, let's go downstairs. It's almost dinner time," Lili said leading the girls out of the room.

Down in the living room Monika sat silently looking at the necklace she cradled in her hands.

"Monika, you alright?" Julia asked, 'stupid question' Julia thought, 'how else was an eleven year old suppose to react to her parents death?'

"Sister is it wrong that I don't feel anything about this?" Monika asked, not looking up from her hands.

"Huh?" Julia asked dumb founded.

"I don't feel sad or anything, I should they were our parents and I don't feel anything about them."

"Oh, it's probably because you didn't know them, I barely knew them. I never saw our mom because they feared I would get her sick."

"But you still felt upset about this!" Monika exclaimed scaring Julia. Julia only shrugged her shoulders. "I killed mom didn't I?" Monika asked which really scared Julia.

"Where would you get an idea like that!" Julia exclaimed trying not to yell at Monika.

"She died after I was born, I'm the reason she's gone!"

"No, Monika, she got sick after I was born too, she barely survived! She knew what would happen when she had you but she didn't care!" Julia shouted, trying to hold back her tears. Julia knew it wasn't best to be yelling at Monika but she couldn't help but be enraged. "She could have back out of it but didn't, she had you anyway," Julia mumbled as she wiped away her tears. "And I'm glad she did," Julia leaned forward wrapping her hands around Monika. "Because your the best thing ever, your my little sister, my little blessing. I'm sure that if she was anything like you she'd be the greatest person ever. But she's not here and that's alright cause I have you and grandma." Julia stopped, Monika could feel the tears hit her as Monika rapped her hands back around Julia.

"Thank you," Monika mumbled as she looked at the necklace in her hand, she clutched it. She would never forget the man and woman who gave her everything she loved and cherished, even if she never met them.