Shattered Into Ash

Shattered Till Death Do Us Part

Ames:

There was a raindrop and a spark of fire who meet by accident as they fell to the earth.

All their lives they had been told never to touch each other or they would destroy one another.

The fire gave light and warmth but it also burned and destroyed. Water smother and drowns, yet it is essential for life.

The flame and the raindrop wanted to touch each other. When they did collide they did not die, they became smaller then eventually became one.

Their relationship only wired because of two facts. The fire destroyed everything while the water created something new. They became smoke, bonded together forever.

I have heard this story before from Azun. When I was four and he tried to be a brother, he failed.

I watch on my computer screen the old footage of when Nathaniel was eight and Azun was seventeen. Azun was tucking Nathaniel into bed, and as usual, Azun was telling his brother a bedtime story.

"Thaniel." Azun laughed. "Let me tell you a story about how the sun died each night so that the moon may live."

"I didn't know the sun and the moon were alive." Nathaniel smiled, fixing the sheets around him.

"They are very much alive." Azun lied. "The sun and the moon are lovers. They constantly chance each other around the earth, searching for one another, always missing each other by minutes. They rarely get to meet."

"What about in an eclipse?" Nathaniel asked, pulling a stuff animal under the covers with him.

"I'm getting to that." Azun sat down on the bed. "Every once in a while they meet up, and they kiss-"

"Gross!"

"Not gross." Azun ticked his brother. "If it is so gross, why does the world stare in awe at their eclipse?"

Nathaniel thought about it for a moment, unable to come up with an answer. Much like how I couldn't come up with a weakness to my older brother. No footage of his history was getting me anywhere. I turn off my screen in frustration and walk over to my mirror.

Well Azun and I haven't always had this bad of a relationship. But I know I will be happy with him dead, because that who I am.

Azun always told me to listen to my heart, to be who I am on the inside. I want to see his insides on his outside. I look at myself in my bedroom mirror, what does he mean by what is on the inside? Larkin sits on the bed behind me, fiddling with my duel gun I gave her.

I fiddle with my necklace, its shiny, like me, a diamond in a family full of silver coins. My family are all idiots to underestimate me. Azun is a fool to even think about dueling with Larkin, who has perfect sight and can hit a pencil eraser from a mile away.

Azun is dumb, he will chase anything that is thrown at him, like a cat with a laser pointer. This will bring death upon him. I glance at my watch, thirty minutes.

"Lets go Larkin." I tell my sister as we head to the door and into the elevator. My hand still fidgeting with this necklace.

We arrive in the woods behind our house, in a spot we agreed to meet.

"Ames, Larkin." Azun greets us as he leans against a tree.

"You can get out of this easily if you tell everyone you take back your word about Mike and Luke." I warn him, knowing he will ever back out if I call him out.