Broken In two

Chapter 3

Claire's P.O.V

As the sun finally rises, I woke up again, barely getting any sleep at all. Whenever I wake up I feel a huge burden in my heart in the terrible attachment I had with my parents where, on a beautiful day like this, I lost them both who I will give anything to once again have them in my life. I didn't even say a proper good bye.

I finally drag myself out of bed, check up on Lisa and went out to have a bit of fresh air, taking my mind off what I have to face everyday of my life, caution and awareness. Knowing that the enemy is right around the corner. As I stare absentmindedly at the bustling streets where we have finally settled in, I notice a highly peculiar person just staring directly towards me, eyes bulging as though warning me of a danger yet to come. This strange scenario that I was cooped up in actually distracted me for a brief moment. everything seemed to slow down. Out of nowhere a sudden gush of fear sweeps over me as though all my instincts and senses was concentrating on one thing. Keeping Lisa safe. That peculiar face, the one I just saw moments ago, was a face that I feel a sense of disgust towards and a sense of pity. He had sea blue eyes that stare deep down into the soul. His hair was an inky black flat against his skull, not a hair out of place. That person was my brother. The person who was there for me in my childhood dramas that not even my parents knew about. He was the only person that I looked up to as a role model and loved with all my heart.

Flashback (The day my parents died)

A good 5 minutes later, my brother enters the living room. His face crumbles up as he races towards the area where both my parents were lying limply at each other's side. I feel as though a huge hole has entered in my heart when I see my brother mourning and sobbing which I never ever acknowledged before. Seeing him in this state destroyed the hope of once again having a loving family that I just had only hours ago. When my brother Seth finally rose up from the resting place of my parents, I saw the difference in the person I loved to someone I vaguely recognised."Claire it's all that so called friend of yours fault, keeping you away from mom and dad in the first place! Don't you worry Claire she'll regret for ever leading and destroying my family!" I was totally taken back by surprise as I look up and down my brother who I believed was possessed. I couldn't believe that he could even raise his voice at me let alone blame Lisa for the outcome. In one single moment, he rushes to his bedroom. I could hear the rustling of clothes being thrown into a suitcase. "No!" I scream. I rush to his room and held his hand against my chest trying all my best to persuade the person who was the last of a family that I have left. He pushes me across the room and in a blink of an eye he disappears from my life all together. He never even came for the funerals. That was the last I saw of my brother Seth. But there was one question that is now bothering me even till this day. How could Seth come straight away to the place my parents died, when, in actually fact he was gone to work camp for 6 months in Germany? How did he come back from Germany to Russia in just 5 minutes? However, when witnessing the tragic event that took place, I didn't acknowledge this fact at all. I was alone to face the world and sucked into an entire universe altogether. Only holding myself for Lisa.