Behind The Lies

Letters II

While Carlos and his parents were on their way back, sitting with his mother by his side, the thoughts of leaving his friends suddenly came to his mind, worrying him. Susanna had explained it all, yet he was still not in the right mind to make decisions. He was not ready for it. His thoughts bugged him while his mother was calming him down and his father explaining things that everything would be alright. He was silent yet the words came in his mind. 'What if I failed? No- what if they won't like me as their Prince? No! What if I am not acceptable to be in that position? Soon I'll be the heir to the throne. What- what if I fail?' Thoughts have already made him worry more. This whole ride seems to be his worst day of all.

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"Are you fine?" Tina asked while cleaning Peter's wound, while Jesiah, sitting next to Peter, blanked. It had been an hour since the Jimson—Wright family—had left.

"I am fine Tina, it's just a small wound."

"You call this small, Peter?" Asked Tina while finishing bandaging the wound,

"I promise you, I am fine don't worry about-"

"What do I tell the kids?" Jesiah started talking, interrupting the both of them. They both looked at him, worried.

"Whatever do you mean?" Tina asked,

"What do I tell them?" Jesiah went closer to Tina held both her hands up to his chest and clasped them together, "Tell me, what do I tell them? No- what do I do? What would Bella think? My acting little sister will get mad at me for not telling the truth!"

"I do too don't know what to tell Bella and Zack," Peter added.

"Stop overthinking it, both of you!" Tina reversed, clasped her hands with Jesiah's, and forced him to sit next to Peter. Now listen to both of you. I will handle it and explain everything to them. Just promise me that you two will help the sheriff find the man behind this. Do you understand?" They both nodded slowly, but it never stopped Jesiah from thinking about their reactions.

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Bella woke up early in the morning as always. After breakfast and helping out with the chores, she went ahead to their spot and only saw Zack sitting beside the tree, she always saw him with Hanes talking. A thought came to her mind that maybe Hanes was busy or late. She sat beside him and talked about how it was the first time that Hanes was late, after a few minutes of talking and waiting, Zack told Bella that he decided to go to Jesiah and Peter because he was expecting that Hanes was probably helping them out again since Jesiah and Hanes were close, yet Zack was closer to Peter, and Bella is close with Jesiah and Peter more, especially to Tina.

Meanwhile, Bella was called out at home, and she went home. When she was inside, her father gave her a letter.

"I saw this under our mat, it's for you." her father said,

"Thank you, father," Bella replied.

It was a bit stuffed for a letter, she sat on their porch, flipped the letter, and saw that it was from Hanes. Her heart fell and thought that maybe something had happened to Hanes, she could not think of a reason why Hanes made her a letter, she calmed herself down and opened it. There inside she saw a letter with a necklace, she studied the necklace, and it had an Aukremore logo on it. She was confused. Hanes had given her a necklace that Susanna told him to give her, so Bella could still remember her friend, she will never forget him with this gift. The necklace was Susanna's, she had kept this for years because it was the only thing that reminded her of the Aukremore she had loved.