𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓮

Sunday SereniTEA: Brewing Family Ties

Elen stomped her way through the heavy traffic almost getting hit by a truck. Her mind was all over the place & she was uncontrollably dangerous. Her eyes were bearing & losing water droplets. She wasn't thinking, she managed to cross the street unharmed & without looking anywhere twice she dragged me into the nearest dimly lit abandoned alley that reeked of unbearable guttural smells, only a cornered wall to it with no further routes in the place. The visible tremor in her hands and the shaking in her limbs didn't go unnoticed by me, or Dante. "Do you think I am blind? Do I not see that you're moving carefree, hand in hand with a man you don't even know? We've been searching for you for weeks. Aunt Carla dried her eyes crying for you & uncle looked at her every single time as if they both share a secret understanding, leaving us once again unaware. We even thought that you were dead for some time. Lily blames herself & me for the entire thing. If you were alright, which I reckon you were not why didn't you bother telling us? Why Rosalia why?", Elen shouted & pointed with her limbs. Her features were stressed & her eyes had blackened eye bags underneath. 

I know what she feels like, I was too selfish to keep it all to myself. But we couldn't have risked the involvement of just another person in this hefty clutter of unwanted events. I should have shared with at least Elen or Aunt Carla or Uncle as the head of the left family. I do not know how to deal with all of it, I may as well be just as confused & unsure. If a smile on my face doesn't look plastered I don't know what it is. I'm not intent on leaving my loved ones, I have wanted to be there for them & I have done my duty to the family. What's not questionable is that they fret over me & I cannot blame them for dumping all the duties over me. Nobody wanted any of it, they had their stupid behavior stretch as they did only because they had me to depend on, there was no one there for me though. We never talked if I was getting crushed by everything, they didn't talk to me about having fun & living life to its fullest because they knew deep within that they wanted to continue having a shoulder to rest upon. That doesn't leave room for complaints, but it's also the fact that they care & all they wanted was hope to see me or learn that I am in fact healthy mentally & physically wherever I am. 

"There is something quite wrong happening. The police don't care. Do you think I didn't notice the fearful eyes of the policemen on the road as they eyed this man beside you? Do you even care? Nobody answers us, everybody knows something but none of you are guilty of keeping us in the dark. Even Aunt Carla had gone mute for some time, rambling on about a certain power over us that might have returned. She talks about these dangerous people who may have found their way back to us & that we cannot escape a certain part of us. For some time I wondered if she was insane but then how people act when we talk about a certain man that we barely managed to see in a CCTV footage of the store you had been to. I understand now that the walking danger among us is none other than this man. If you don't care & you wouldn't wanna share with us if you're well enough. Fine, we don't want answers but at least let us know if we should be allowed to escape this sense of guilt or not-", Elen collapsed before she could continue any further.

"DANTE! please take us to the hospital. Now!", With one motion of the devil's hand & we were off with a delicate, almost breakable Elen. "Dante, we should go back to the hospital, why in the world are going back home? this is not a time where we should care about other matters at hand.", I told Dante with a slight tremble to my words, in an inaudible throaty whisper.  "Trust me, Rosa, everything will be good I assure you.", with that he tapped my head to his shoulder in reassurance & words of affirmation. 

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It wasn't long before we reached home & Dante's family doctor treated Elen. She was weak & hadn't had proper meals for weeks which led to her drastically losing weight which wasn't good for her. The doctor designed a plan for her IVs that'll repair the damage to her health within the shortest possible span. I was relieved to hear that she would be better but it still left some scars on my heart. How can I be the reason for Elen's deteriorating condition. "Oh, I'm so sorry love. I'm so sorry but I don't always do the right things. I am not always sure of how to handle the situations myself. There's no one by our side, no one to lean on. It has always been hard but we've fought together through the harsh times & it's wrong of me to leave you to suffer like this. I will tell you everything even if it costs me my life but the reason I never said anything or tried to reach you was because perhaps those uncertainty-bearing thoughts had you well protected.", I wept into her sleeve & to my surprise Elen wasn't unconscious & she had heard everything I said. "I'm sorry Rosa. I don't even know if you were well wherever you were not. I'm sorry, I was so panicked after seeing you for the first time after we'd lost you that night, I wasn't in my senses", Elen said while inspecting me for any signs of harm. Then she proceeded to stare at Dante with doubts & unanswered questions but she kept her mouth shut. 

Dante looked like he might do something, anything, he was genuinely disturbed that I was being accused. It hasn't been long but I've noticed Dantes' protective side for me. He didn't want anyone near me also because he might be acting possessive to something he had no right over. It was hard to digest at first but I concluded that I was in denial of it for a long but he is after all doing it for the good. He wants revenge more for me, he doesn't like someone saddening me but I cannot allow him to be angry at Elen. He might not even know that we're sisters but he has more power than I can think of so what are the chances that he isn't aware of everything that happens in his area?