“Alexis, did you fall asleep out here again, sleeping on the ground in the garden, you’ll catch cold.” My older sister Jennifer calmly said as she began to sit me up. “You know that you are not in good health, mother and father would be furious with me if they knew I let you sleep on the ground like this.” She can be a bit over barring at times but she means well.
“It’s not like they’re going to find out, they can’t see us when they’re six feet under.” I wasn’t very fond of my parents, even when they were around. They were rich and gave me everything I wanted, I didn’t like that lifestyle; they were trying to buy my affection. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for the things we had, but I would have been fine with just spending a little time with them before they were gone.
Jennifer had already been married when our parents passed away, so I went to live with her. I was only ten when they died, I shall soon be 18 and I too, just as my sister, will meet my Sutter. This man has been picked out for me by my parents before they died. Apparently he is a son of a company that our family doe’s trade’s with. I have never met the man, and I am not looking forward to it. Living in 2011 England, you would think that arranged marriage would be a thing of the past.
My sister still insists that I go through with the marriage just to fulfill our parent’s last wishes; she says that would have made them happy. I still don’t like the idea but I’ll do it for her, I don’t like free loading off of her so much.
Jennifer looked at me with sorrow, “I know you do not like to bring up passed memories, I’m sorry.” Her eyes began to flood, but she held them back like a dam. She had always spoken with a formal speech pattern, it was nice and soothing. I had always admired that about her.
She had always been able to pull off the pretty lacy cloths better than I could when we had to go to special events. She was perfect beauty to me, and she was something to make me jealous. Not only did I admire her, but I wanted her to go away. I wanted her to stop being so perfect, I wanted her to stop making me look bad in comparison. I wanted to stop comparing her to myself.
“Please, just leave me alone for a bit, it’s not that it bothers me, I just…I just can’t.” I do hate talking about it but I know it hurts Jennifer more. She loved our parents more than I did; she knew them longer than I did.
Jennifer looked at me with a pitiful look; she bent down and kissed me on the head. With that she left me, with only my thoughts.
I lie back on the ground and shut my eyes, “it is starting to get a bit nippy out here; maybe I should go inside and get a jacket?” I thought. “I guess, but if I go back in then I won’t be able to come back outside, why did I let Jennifer talk me into wearing this dress today!?”
My long ash-brown hair was thrown around on the ground; I started to shiver as the wind threatened to blow the skirt of my dress up. I grew colder with every second, this wasn’t normal, was it? I felt a clench in my throat. My body started to convulse every time I coughed. My eye’s flung open from pain.
“Oh no, this is bad, I need to get to the house, it’s happening again!” I shouted in my head. Words wouldn’t escape my mouth, they couldn’t. My entire body was paralyzed. I needed help. “Please, Jennifer, help me, come save me, please!” I screamed in my head, but I was the only one that could hear, was I going to die?
My eyes closed, and I calmed my body. Everything was silent.
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Alexis In Underland (On Hold)
Romance"I chose to fall down the hole, will I ever be able to return home?" Alexis Laclaire has lost her parents and now lives with her sister Jennifer and her husdand. Alexis is, like all younger sisters, a bit envyous of her sisters grace and compsure...
