CHAPTER 7
Sam parks her truck at the entrance to a small path that leads to the edge of Lake Shoshoni. We walk down the path in silence, I know I’ll be in trouble but I can’t help but think to myself that it will be worth it because in the last few weeks when I was spending time with Peter and Lilly I was the happiest I had been in a long time. As I take a seat on top of the picnic table next to Connor, Sam paces back and forth in silence along the shore of the moonlit lake.
She stops pacing and turns to face me her deep chocolate brown eyes meet my purple ones and I can feel her hurt and her fear. She opens her mouth to speak but chokes back tears. She wipes the back of her hand across her faces to clear her tears, pulls herself together and looks back at me. “Violet how could you do something like this? You’ve now not only put yourself in danger but our entire family. How could you? You know the laws. You know the consequences. You’re my sister and I love you. I understand how you’ve always loved people and people always love you no matter who they are. But I thought you understood why we can’t be associated with them more then necessary. It’s not safe.”
“No! I don’t understand. I don’t understand why we can’t be friends with regular humans just because the enforcers say so.”
“Violet how can you say things like that?”
“Because you don’t understand what it’s like. You have never wanted to be friends with regular humans. So you don’t care.”
“You think I’ve never wanted to be friends with humans? You think I’ve never seen a cute guy and wish I could go talk to him? Cause I have, but I knew I couldn’t. I knew it wasn’t safe. Not because the enforcers said they weren’t safe but because I knew it wouldn’t be safe for our family if the enforcers ever found out about it.”
Startled by her confession I stumble for an apology, I now feel terrible about what I had just said. “Sam. I’m sorry.”
“It’s ok V.” She walk over and sits on the picnic table next to me and wraps her arms around me and pulls me close to her. I start to cry as I realize what the consequences of my actions will be. I stifle my sobs to ask Sam the question that is now burning in mind. “Sam, what are we going to do now?”
“I don’t think we have any other choice besides just laying low and staying as far away from your ‘friends’ as possible.”
“Are you going to tell Dad?”
“No. I don’t see any point in dragging him into this unless we have to.”
“Really? Oh, thank you Sam.” I give her a tight hug as we stand up to leave for home.
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Mountain Butterfly
Ficção AdolescenteVoilet Gordon is your average shy high school teenager. She lives in the outskirts of Rocky Heights, Utah, has two older siblings - a somewhat overprotective older sister named Sam, an older brother named Conner - both 17, and an overprotetcive fath...
