Wintersmoon

Chapter 13- Don't Apologise for The Truth

For the wrens, the world was a buzz of life, they would be cheery whilst the cuckoo was growing up. The difference wouldn't even be noticeable yet. And then as the cuckoo turned into an adult, the family would be angry and turn it down in anger, and it's purpose had been fulfilled. Then it would leave and never return again.
In some ways, I was this cuckoo. It had been dropped into an environment where it had felt at home, only to realise it was not at home. It was different. And it's family and those she trusted were merely there because they thought they could relate to things. But apparently, that didn't mean a thing. It didn't want to be different, it wasn't its fault it had been abandoned there, it could not help it!
I realised I was still screaming and then the room began to come back to life. Annalise lifted her hand to her chest and carried on her meaningless spoken words. Little Jema gripped my hand tightly and looked at me with widened eyes. Sarra stood behind her, shaking. Eyes widened the same, filled with terror. I ripped my gaze away to check the clock once more and flicked my eyes back. They stared at me as if I was a monster. They stared at me as if I had meant to freeze time...
    Annalise glared at Shæyn and suddenly I could hear her words again, her tiny high-pitch voice filled with dread, "Shæyn didn't mean that Vals. He didn't mean to say that. Don't listen to him. We don't think you conned us. We just want to know why you didn't tell us before. We wouldn't have told everyone."
    "You all knew how much I hated the Royals. They were- no, they are stuck up pricks who look down upon their people as toilet paper stuck to their shoe that they just can't seem to get rid of. I did not know I was somehow related to them. This is not my fault."
    At this moment in time, I noticed Kalis again. He wasn't looking at me like the others, his eyes held another emotion. Sympathy.
    "Look, don't listen to them V, I know you didn't know and they know deep inside. They're just trying to cope and come round to the fact that you're better than us." Kalis spoke. His dark chocolate eyes boring into me.
    "We all know you, my family, are better than me." I growled the sentence, emphasising family as I directed my gaze at Shæyn.
    My girls tapped me at the same time. Jema spoke in her adorable little voice that made everybody secretly shrivel up and die inside a little bit at how cute it was.
    "V, we think it's pretty cool our big sister's a princess. Shæyn'll come around to his senses. He's just a stupid boy who thinks he's too big to play with his toys," she whispered in my ear.
    I gave her a small smile, glare still residing on Shæyn. He huffed and stormed out of the room in a tantrum.
What was wrong with him? I thought to myself. Anger was boiling up inside of me, threatening to spill and release the storm of the century.