The Death Sentence

Chapter Ten

A/N: Alright so in this chapter I’m going to explain a bit so that none of my readers get lost, you know who you are! J So without further ado, here is chapter ten!!

 

Cora’s POV:

As we walked back to Gale’s house, I thought about how much he had changed in the last year. Our moms were the bestest of friends and we used to visit them at least once a month, if not more. We hadn’t seen them since mom was killed. I don’t yet know if Gale’s mom knew, and I really didn’t want to be the one to break it to them. I could barely deal with thinking about it myself.

I shivered just from thinking about that day. With Gale standing so close to me, I felt me shiver and thinking that I was cold, handed me his jacket, grabbed my hand and pulled me closer to his body, trying to keep me warm. I wasn’t going to argue, I didn’t exactly object to being this close to Gale.

When we arrived at Gale’s home, all the lights were out and it appeared as if no one was home. He held his finger to his lips, signaling me to stay quiet. I nodded and followed him in.

He led me to an empty bedroom and put his bow and arrows in the closet, hiding it behind a bunch of stuff. Once he turned around, facing me again, I gave him a questioning look and he shook his head, but I took that as “I’ll explain later”.

He came over and sat on the bed next to me and I turned so I was facing him, hoping that I could explain why I was here without crying.

“I’m sorry that I just showed up with no notic….”  He cut me off by pressing his finger to my lips.

“Don’t. Not right now, in the morning. I’m tired and you look exhausted. We don’t have a spare room so you will sleep in here and I’ll go either in my brother’s room or on the couch downstairs.”

“But that’s not right! This is your room, your bed! I’ll go downstairs.”

“You will do no such thing. Here put this on,” he said as he tossed one of his shirts at me. “And then lay down and try to get some sleep. Ok? Please?”

“Fine” I mutter.

He leans over and whispers “thank you” in my ear, before giving my forehead a quick kiss (IN A FRIENDLY WAY ONLY) and walked out the door, closing it softly behind him.

I changed into his shirt and it fell down past my mid thighs. I climbed into his huge bed and pulled the comforter around my body. I felt comfortable and tried to force myself to think but I couldn’t, there were just too many thoughts and memories running through my mind. One of the hardest to ignore was the one of the first time I came to this house.

We walked all the way to visit one of mommy’s best friends from when she was my age.

“Daddy! Carry me!!”

He laughed and swept me off my feet and swung me over his shoulder. Mommy was laughing as I hung upside down over daddy’s shoulder. The world was all mixed up.

“Mommy, why are you walking on the sky?” I asked.

She just laughed and pointed somewhere in the distance and started running towards the horizon. Daddy started running too and I laughed as I bumped up and down on his shoulder.

He put me down at the front door of a big pretty house.

I looked up at my parents and asked

“Is this the house of a princess? Do I get to meet her? Can we live here with her! She can protect us from all the bad people back home!”

When I said this last part mommy stopped laughing and I saw what looked like tears start to form in her eyes. But before anything else could happen, the front door opened and there stood one of the prettiest women I have ever seen. Besides my mommy of course. My mommy’s the prettiest woman in the world.

She told us to “come in! Come in! Make yourselves at home!”

I rushed in when I heard laughter coming from inside. I wanted to be part of the fun!

I ran until I reached the sound of the laughter and barged into the room and was met by the sight of three little boys. Two looked exactly the same and were smaller than me. The other one was pretty. For a boy at least. He was bigger than me but not by much. He was nice and invited me to play with them. I did and soon felt like I belonged there.

Before we left, the big one pulled me to the side and called me “beautiful.” I just laughed at him but before I could walk away he, grabbed my hand and kissed my cheek and looked at me, and I felt my face go red. I walked out quickly and saw mommy and daddy at the door as the pretty lady asked them

“Are you positive you can’t stay? Just for tonight! It’s so dark out there!”

Mommy said “no its fine I promise!”

Before we left they hugged for a long time before the lady crouched down so she was looking at me and pulled me into a hug.

As she held me she whispered in my ear

“You are always welcome here, no matter what happens, you can come here and we will keep you safe. I promise you.”

I just nodded.

As we were leaving mommy pulled the lady into a hug and said

“Thank you for everything Channen. Thank you so much!”

Those were the best times. I wish I could go back. My whole family was happy and no one was hurt.

Gale’s POV:

She was here. She was actually here! Although I was happy to see here, but I had seen the pain in her eyes. I wanted to talk to her about it and know what was wrong, but then again, I had just almost killed her. Man, I felt bad about that and I hope that she could forgive me for it, but I don’t know if that will happen soon. She’s a bit withdrawn. But I won’t push her about it, I just hope that she will come to me in time.

I haven’t seen her in a year, and my god, she looks amazing! I won’t lie, she looks amazing. I knew that I’ve had feeling for her since the first time I saw her. She was beautiful, and I told her. Of course I also kissed her cheek. She was blushing so hard after that. It was pretty cute.

I kind of hope that she will stay for a while so maybe we could get closer, but I refuse to force myself on her.

I couldn’t sleep that night, for many reasons. One, I was thinking of Cora. Two, how I was supposed to tell mom that Cora was here, and how I found her. Mom didn’t know that I went hunting, I made money selling it to the people in the town. Secretly of course. And we needed the money. Three, what would my stupid twin brothers do? They have always been trouble makers, and recently it’s gotten worse. Ugh! I needed sleep.

I pushed these thoughts out of my head and finally fell into a dreamless sleep. If you could call it sleep that is.