Sorrow, tears of blood

We were as close asthe campfire as we could get, after all we went through you couldn't blame us I guess. Sylvia was out, doing her watch;Reaper was asleep in his tent waiting for his turn. Meanwhile I and Alice werejust not able to sleep. She kept sharpening the blade of her scythe, making theshrieking that was making me insane, over and over and over again.

After some while I couldn't stand it anymore and tried to start a conversation:

"Alice...." I started

"Yeh?"

"You, know we have been travelling for a while now, yet I don't seem to know much about you..."

"So..."

"If we are fighting side by side I guess I should know more about you"

"Like.....?"

"Why are you always wearing that mask?"

"......"

"So...not telling huh?"

"All right, I guess you are right.... It's quite a long story, and you are probably not going to likeit"

"Guess we will have to find out"

After that she pierced the floor with her weapon and started using the stick of it as a seat.

"Pay attention" she started "as I won't be telling you twice....it goes like this:"

"I was 6 years old, and lived with my parents my big brother and my sister. My brother was 17 years old and was about to go to college and my sister was only 9 years old, so we played a lot together. Is like she have been born to make people smile, her smile was so contagious nobody was ever sad aroundher.

One day she seemed to start spacing out. She sometimes just stood there looking at some far away point in the sky. I just couldn't understand what was on her mind and as soon as I asked her about it she would just blush and say it was nothing. Phew months later I finally understood. She was holding hands with an older boy, about 12 years old I if remember rightly, and kept smiling even more beautifully than she was before. It was more than obvious, even for me, that she had fallen in love.

I started becoming a loner, sinceI wasn't much of a friend maker to start with. I expended my time jumping from one tree to another and playing I was an assassin ninja killing shadows. The distance between my sister and I kept expanding as we had no longer anything in common at all.

We stood like that for 3 years,and then the sadness began. One day I just came back to my room and felt surprised by my sister being there on her bed, sobbing. Couldn't get her to talk so I got from my mother next day her boyfriend had cheated on her with an older girl and left my poor Elise on her own..."

"Elise?" I asked by pure instinct

"That was her name"

"Was?"

"Agh! Just pay attention would you?!" she replied annoyed

"Day after day she kept crying, not getting any better, but worse everyday. I just couldn't stand her anymore so I started roaming around at night when my parents went to sleep. Maybe I was a little selfish, maybe I was heartless, or maybe I just felt she was being ridiculous but I never tried to get her better.

Believe it or not we were like that for 3 more years, until Elise died. She never stopped crying, and I mean literally never, even her corpse kept dropping tears of blood. I forgot to mention, at some point she started crying blood, I guess because her eyes couldn't stand the crying anymore. When she died my family started splitting, we couldn't stay at the same place anymore. I moved with my mom and my dad moved by his own; at the same time since my brother was already in college he didn't came home any longer. I basically stopped talking to anybody but my mom and focused on my school and my exercises, as a "ninja".