⚬ The Whole Truth ?! ⚬

Chapter 1 - Death Overules

Chapter 1: Death Overules

What I was hearing I couldn't admit. Why was the truth always harder to endure? Every lie they told me built me up, and now every piece of the truth is breaking me down. Even when the curtains had fallen and everything was exposed I still couldn't admit the truth.

"Mom...Dad!", my voice projected threw the room unsteadily, as I tried to speak with my much lost confidence from before. I felt the boiling hot tears running down my once, dry cheeks. Two bodies laid there, two people whom I loved now snatched away from me. Two beautiful souls, who were now gone forever. I felt my mother's cold bare skin touch against my body and I shivered from her freezing pale skin. Her dried up blood now staining the expensive white carpet she had bought on one of our family trips, and the memories of that wonderful trip came rolling back. More tears fell out of my eyes as I realized, nothing like that would ever happen again. My knees felt wobbly in the process and I fell to my knees, not caring who saw my horrible state.

Kaiden rushed to my aid, whilst Aiden looked shocked and fell next to me. I looked up in to his stormy gray-blue eyes and all I could see was shock and guilt. Everyone else looked at us in utter disbelief and shock still thinking of what they just saw. As I scanned the room, everyone stared at our now broken family and they all had the same pity and sadness in their eyes. "Shh, it will all be fine", Kaiden cooed, whilst crying. He was wrong, nothing could ever be 'fine' after what just happened. We all knew it would never be the same, yet alone 'fine'. Nothing could ever go back go to the way it was. Not unless they were still alive, and that is impossible because their dead corpses were lying in my arms. "No! There not dead! They cant be!" I jumped at Aiden's sudden outburst, he leaned against my bare shoulder and cried. He cried like there was no tomorrow.

It felt as if there would be no tomorrow.

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Two Days Later:

"Janelle!" Aiden yelled my name, I rushed out the door, dying to get in my car. As I opened the driver's seat door, I sat and something moving caught my attention. I turned around looking in the backseat and jumped so high,I swore I hit my head on the roof of my luxury mobile, there sat my older brother Kaiden sleeping. I rolled my eyes and poked his shoulder hard, so it would hurt. And he moved, not having a care in the world. I heard yelling, and saw Aiden running to my car so I started the engine, and my car came to life. I pressed the accelerator but Aiden had already gotten a hold of my car door and wouldn't let go. "What?!" I said annoyed while screeching the tires of my new car and staring at the passenger door.
"You almost forgot me!" He yelled in my right ear as he jumped in to the passenger seat while adjusting his freshly steamed tie.
"No, I didn't. You have your own car, get out and use it!" I screamed smacking his head, he had really done it now. "I know." He looked down and I quickly understood why he wanted to ride with me. A look of sadness flashed his eyes as I looked at them for answers. I looked at my steering wheel and realized that it wasn't just me who lost a mother, a father, a family. It was both of us.
I broke down, and every inch of me yelled not to, but I felt the need to let him know that it wasn't any easier from my side. He stared at me with utter disbelief and shock. We sat there for about 20 minutes crying and thinking of great memories and last memories we had shared with our parents. Our heros.
"I'm sorry." I said through my sniffling.
"Dont beat yourself up, your just as hurt as us, maybe even more." I heard Kaiden say from the back almost as if his tears were choking him. Me and Aiden were startled when he spoke, Aiden didn't know he was here and I thought he was still sleeping.

"I am so sorry, for being such a bitch this morning. I just really miss them, and I dont want to go to their funeral today. It would just make me break down even more." He looked at me with teary eyes and and Aiden brought me in to a side hug. "I miss them too, and we should go, I mean funerals dont happen everyday. Do they know?" He said with a hint of laughter in his voice and sadness in his eyes. It was then, that I realized how much he was trying to keep it together.
"It's okay to cry, Aiden. You dont have to act strong, today of all days." I spoke without trembeling; I touched his hand reassuringly. "I know, but I just dont want you to be so sad, it hurts seeing you like this, Janelle." He said whilst motioning his hands to my smeared makeup and the dirty tissues surrounding me.
I grabbed for another tissue but it was empty as all the other ten boxes, I had used last night. "Here, I brought a box from the house. I was here all night, thinking about them and how you would probably be having a break down like this in the morning." Kaiden said like the older brother he was and wiped my tears away with the tissue, that met my red puffy cheeks. "Why does it have to be like this," I spoke first, breaking the silence. Aiden looked at his lap and started playing with his fingers to get his mind off of things. I knew what he was doing, I would do it way to often. Kaiden spoke after I broke the silence

"Everything happens for a reason Jan, it's not okay but we will just have to live with it. Okay? Or atleast for now." His said, his eyes focused on the napkin that was still brushing against my soft pink subtle skin. He acted as if this was his fault some how, and I didn't know why he felt so guilty.
"Here Kaiden, let me." Aiden said whilst putting his hand out. He wiped my now ruined mascara off of my eyes, and told me to stop crying. I did as I was told, and Kaiden kept handing him tissues, after tissues.
I saw the two of them and felt so thankful, that I wasn't going threw this alone. I stared into Aiden's caring and sad eyes as he looked at me with admiration and guilt, he rubbed vigouresly. Even though he was a sixteen year old in highschool, he nearly looked eight as I looked into his gray painful eyes and all the painful memories of us growing up with my parents came back. "All done!" He chirped to make me feel a bit happier but it made no difference.

I still smiled at him, and gave him a small tight hug. I didn't want to let him go, as I snuggled on the nook of his neck, my tears poured and didn't stop pouring, Kaiden came into our hug too. And we three stayed like that for a couple of minutes until I thought of the time and pulled away, because we were running late anyways. I wish we could just stay in my car forever and talk about all of our worries amd troubles. But we couldn't and we loved our parents way too much to not go to their funeral.

Anyways, death overules all in the end right?