Burning Ice

Chapter 2-I don't speak Angel

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I slammed the door close as I returned home. Quiet. That's what I want.

"Raven!" Uh-oh my dad's home.

"Hi dad."

"Don't hi dad me! How many times must I tell you to close the door without slamming it. Raven keep this up and I need to get someone to teach you proper etiquette!"

"Dad I really just am having a bad day-"

"Having a bad day is no excuse for this kind of behaviour"

Dad  I really don't need this right now is what I want to say but I know it will only make the situation worse. Instead I ball my fists as tightly as I can until I feel my face turning red.

"Raven I've known you since you were a baby and I can't help but notice you still haven't changed. You bad tempered and that is that. Not to mention do you know how much those waffles cost!" Dad scolded me, "And until you can master this you can just bet your life will be a living hell!"

That's it! "Dad I only act this way around you and mom and-"

"Don't talk back to me, your showing me disrespect! Kids like you are so lucky to have a life and freedom. Back in my days food was a treasure we always treasure things. And  I buy you a cell phone for you to just leave on the sofa where people can sit on it. What happens if someone broke in for that cell phone! Raven your my daughter and I know you hate being lectured but sometimes you need to look yourself in the mirror and think how can I be better. Because in life people aren't-"

I didn't let him finish, I was done with him and his lecturing. I get it I'm not the PERFECT ANGELIC CHILD that you or mom hoped and prayed so much for! I storm to my room.

"Raven! What do you think I'm telling you this for fun?! Fine if you don't want to listen to me just runaway, one day your gonna get a job and when your having a bad day do you really think their going to tolerant your behaviour? That's the thing you know, you kids make mistakes like there is no tomorrow!" I listen from my bedroom as he walks into the kitchen making a loud uproar.

"Hey Raven it's okay, your strong and I believe one day your going to do something maybe not everyone but at least you will be proud of. No matter where you go people will judge you. So remember this, this is your life your living, live it like it's yours"

I often wonder why my inner-self is so smart in comparison to me. Sometimes I feel so alone, tears stream down my face and I sniff uncontrollably. A drama plays through my head, mom comes home and she asks,

"Hi Raven. Your brother Kai isn't home yet? Why is your dad angry Raven, why can't you just behave for once?" Then she and dad will team up and scold me until I turn from a stream of water to a puddle of mud and evaporate into air.

I fall into my bed and squeeze my pillow until everything becomes black.

...

"Hi there."

"Who are you? I don't know you, why are you here?" I should be panicking but my nerves aren't acting up. The serenity that I feel when looking into her face and her long flowing, silky white hair. Her eyes that melt like an ocean. She's everything I want to be but no matter what I do to be her I can never be her.

"I mean know harm... ?"

"Your so beautiful, are you an angel? WAIT AM I DEAD! No, no, no ,no! Oh my god I can't be dead, how can you possibly die from crying? So it's true that when you die you see angels and devils. Oh I must be in heaven. Oh thank you, thank you, thank you-"

"*Cough, cough! Sorry but I'm no angel. You should keep in mind no one is an angel."

"So..." As I calm down I realize that she could fit as the spitting image of Elsa from Frozen. I mentally slap my forehead. Why didn't I see it before? Her long white hair, pale face and icy gleaming dress that glistened in the setting sun.

"So tell me your name?"

"I'm Raven. Raven Xiu." Wait I asked first, great what if she does mean harm. She keeps dodging my question.

"Raven, It's so strange to meet someone in these circumstances."

"Circumstances?"

"Yes, I've been having this same dream for some time... except no one has been in it you see."

"I'm dreaming? But why haven't I had this dream before." A dream but it feels so real, not like any other dream I ever had.

"Perhaps you have heard of magic." What is she pulling here, is she some kind of witch. Someone please wake me from this bad dream.

"What are you saying?"

"The magic- look at the moon then the sun, how can you have something so different. But perhaps one is more beautiful, they say the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The magic is in you to decide."

The awkward silence fills the night as I try to absorb what she is explaining.

"Now you mentioned earlier something about me being an angel?"

"Well..."

"And the opposite is..."

I wait for her answer but as she provides none I reply,

"The devil."

"Raven, you seem like a great person, but sometimes the world is stronger with nothing to burn the light."

"I don't understand." "But indeed you do, in an opposite out of the two one might appear the stronger and more beautiful one. the other has no existence to make the other shine brighter. The contrast is everywhere even in a single person."

Why I needed to know this I won't know. I raise my gaze but I'm startled to see her eyes, their no longer warm like the Caribbean sea but the rough Atlantic ocean. The tides become so strong, a massive wave like a tsunami bends over my head throwing me into the chaos. The world begins to fade, as my body numbs I hear her voice once more.

"People only see the good when there is nothing bad, don't ever forget!"