The Brown Book

Chapter 5: Revelation

"My God... Memories are rushing..." Phemie is crying in Amanda's lap. 

"I don't ever want to see my father again..." She stops to sob more " ... and I think maybe Emmett stopped him from following me..." Her tears fall to the the river. 

"What do you mean -you think-? He did it!" Amanda tells her and rolls her eyes.

"WHAT?!" Phemie says... The sky stays still but the water is moving in the river.

It was the afternoon 3 years after she met her father and she had taken a good deal of time to reminisce the events of that night. 

"If I saw that man, I would murder him!" Amanda says. 

"Amanda... WHAT THE HELL IS IN THAT MIND OF YOURS?!" Phemie starts laughing.

Their giggles... turned to painful giggles. They remember their laughter and the birdsong they heard. "How in Hope did you know about Emmett?" Phemie says with melancholy. 

"Phemie... Emmett went back to us and told us to go back to our homes and that his birds will guide us." Amanda says comfortingly to Phemie. "He even looked you in the eye and it was like I wasn't even there! How could a hottie like that not notice my sultry aura" She poses. Fierce.

"Amanda... Why do I remember the night but not him..." They leave the forest together. Well, it wasn't really easy because of all the bushes and grass. It was actually a bit more bushy than before and even more somber and dark. It was a familiar feeling.

They find themselves in the middle of the forest and it all seemed so familiar. It seemed very eerie. They hear a sound pass them. A noise, rattling the bushes, so creepy. And then a dark figure appears saying "Hello, my Phemie, it seemed so long ago!" He laughs as they look at him with bored faces. That... guy...

"Three years ago, Isn't really far in time you know..." Amanda says.

"Phwe! You guys from the countryside are so unamused by us high-class people." The man replies. He shrieked in laughter.

"Who in Hope are you?" (Hope is the name of the world they live in if you were wondering...) Phemie says. She goes closer slowly to the man with an annoyed face. He draws back in a frightened face with puppy eyes too but he resolves composure with fiery eyes which force Phemie back in fear. What a comeback.

"Let me tell you the story of a man who lost a woman" and to no hindrance he takes a seat on a invisible throne in the air.

"One day there was a man named Lucas and he fell in love with a beautiful lady named Athiria. Athiria seemed to love him too but then..." He gasped. " A man named Tharius swooped in and stole his precious woman with his abilities."

"What abilities?" Amanda interrupts.

"Wow... Would you cut the story-teller some slack?! I was gonna talk about that!" He sighs. "Lucas could light fires anyway he could and he could make darkness too but THARIUS was capable of making flowers appear from nowhere! And then he takes her by a flick of a rose..." He laughs a sarcastically unfortunate laugh.

"So I found another woman and we had a family... But my heart still belonged to Athiria..." "Athiria!" Phemie shouts as if she found her lost pencil. "What?!" Lucas and Amanda says together.

"Athiria is my mom!" She was expecting the man to give a shocked face but he didn't. Instead he replied "Gosh, I thought you knew. Oh well, As a gift for listening to the story of Me, your mom and your... Ugh..." She looks at him with a mad face. "Wow, you really hate him, huh?" Continuing, "I bestow upon you... This."

He reaches for something in his dark cloak and he pulls out a brown book. He hands it to her.

"Take very good care of this." He says as he goes into a big flame behind him! The flames disappear with him and Phemie and Amanda look at each other with funny faces and start laughing so hard! "He was so weird! Oh my God!"

They both say in unison as Phemie clutches the book in her arms. What's in this brown book?...

They both arrive in the clear and see Emmett at the tree full of flowers.

"You know?" Amanda says " I'm going to leave you two alone." She leaves and Phemie gets closer to Emmett.

"This tree... Reminds me of someone..." Emmett looks to Phemie.

"My dad?" Phemie says a bit reluctantly to him.
"I thought you hated him?" Emmett says "Weren't you supposed to cringe with a thought of him?"

Phemie blushes... "Uh.. That's because I feel comfortable talking about it with you..."

His face also goes red. "Oh, I-is that so?"

"Why did you faint?" Phemie says "It's not like it for my knight in shining armor to fall over just like that..." 

Emmett is silent. After a few seconds he says " Your father killed himself... And I was so confused If I was going to tell you... Or not" She laughs.

Emmett is confused. "What's so funny?" He says. " I wouldn't really be so affected if you just told me something like that and you just fell over because of that?!" She says. They spent the next few minutes talking to each other and then she shows him the Brown book.

"Where did you get this?" He asks her. "Let's just say, I forgot..." Phemie tells him jokingly but deep inside she just didn't want Emmett to be overprotective although she thinks it is cute. They open the book and...

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Finally the title is mentioned but... Does that actually impact the story?
Why did Lucas give her the book?
Stay tuned for the next chapter!