Moon and Sun

Secrets in the Library

Hide the secrets as hard as you can, the more you hide it, the harder it becomes for you not to let it loose on your tongue.

Flora angrily walked to the disciplinary room fearfully, not knowing her faith. The punishment board would be done and which ever one the board stopped on was going to be her punishment, She took a deep breath and walked in. "Lovely day, Mistress Dovey", Flora smiled, trying to relieve her own inner tension.

"Yes, Lady Flora, a lovely day for you to pick your punishment, turn the board and get on with it", she continued the paper work in front of her. Flora took a deep breath and s[un the board of doom punishment. Was it cleaning for a month? Being a piggyback for teachers? Ellie had gotten that punishment and she was still reeling from the humiliation. Was it the dark room?

"It has stopped spinning, Lady Flora, open your eyes to know your fate", the mistress said and Flora opened her eyes slowly. Seeing what was in front of her gave her the biggest relief of her life. She had library study, 5 hours for a month, she wasn't worried, now she had excuse for Nora as to why she could spend the whole day in the library, dreaming and reading storybooks.

"Thank you so much, mistress", Flora collected the punishment slip and ran to the library as fast as her legs could take her, with bliss and happiness in her heart. An entire five hours alone with books, this was bliss.

As soon as Flora settled down and started reading inside the library, she lost sense of time and got immersed in pages, if there was something else she loved more than her sisters, then it was mysteries. The writers who wrote them were intelligent, observative and smart, she wished she could just be like them.

She was still immersed in a perfect murder story, when Moon and Sun walked in smiling to each other. Nora must see this, she wished she could use her magic to record their soundwaves into the flowers, but use of magic in the library was prohibited and she was going to get caught, after all, the librarian could smell magic.

Flora rushed over to where they were seated and put her right ear near to the wall of books to get a better hearing, all the while peeking to makes ure they were still there.

Then they began to whisper. "Are you actually Peace from the ball?", Moon whisper-asked.

"Why do you ask?", Sun asked, looking skeptical.

"Because I heard you say my name which was Strong, you were begging to be with her. So, I am going to ask you again, are you Peace?", Moon asked again.

"Yes, I am Peace", Sun breathed out and Flora's heart lunged into her throat, nearly making her scream, she covered her mouth with her hands and fell behind pushing open one of the gargoyle statue on the table where she was reading, suddenly the floor gave way beneath her and she fell into an abyss of darkness.

"Did you hear that?", Moon stood up and went to the other side of the table to check out the noise she had just heard. "I thought I heard something like a scream", Moon shrugged, the tunnel had disappeared and the gargoyle statue was back to normal.

***

Flora opened her eyes, her eyebrows were wet with sweat and she was all covered in mud and sand. It took a few seconds for her to realize that she was not in the library anymore, but she was in a witch's lair. Which witch had owned this lair, Flora wondered. Books and books of spells littered each old wooden dusty shelf and potions of different colors were inside a cupboard. As she leafed through the papers and books, she recognized the names immediately, this was the lair of Melissa when she was still a student in the same school, she needed to find a way out of here and also a way to find her sister.