Breaking the Madness

Twenty-two

Anna

Tomorrow is Jared and Jen's bonding ceremony.

I was over flowing with excitement, not only was my sister getting married, but I was the maid of honor. over the past two days since I left the hospital, I had joined Jen in a fun chaos, planning her dream day.

Now we were currently situated on the currently overcast beach, setting up the Rose covered arch, that Jen was going to be bound to her mate under. As I twisted the pink roses around the arch gently, I felt at piece. My life was falling into place, I had a Jen, I had Ben and I had Luc. Luc had become the light that peaked through the grey clouds that were my life. He was the glue that stuck me together and the hand i could hold when I fell apart.

He had kept his promise, and everyday I would go down to the lake where he would teach me how to swim. I had almost mastered freestyle. I was proud of myself for the first time in my life and Luc had helped me. I knew that i would forever be in his debt. I wanted Jen to meet him, it was a shame that she never would. That was the only thing in my life that was bad, I wanted my two new best friends, Jen Jen and Benji, to meet the man that made my heart flutter.

Jen knew that i was meeting someone when i was going to 'lay in the sun' by the lake. She thought that i was secretly meeting Ben down there, that Ben and i had some kind of illicit love affair. Jen-Jen is funny sometimes.

"OMG! Annie! this is simply amazing!" Jen exclaimed as she ran over to me, admiring the arch.

"Thank-you?" I said half asking.

"I'm serious Annie, you are incredible at gardening, i just... well i just wanted to tell you that you are the best maid of honour that i could ever ask for," she gushed throwing her arms around me, pulling me into a great bear hug.

I smiled softly lowering my head as a blush seeped into my cheeks.

"I was wondering....."

i looked up at her, "You were wondering?"

Jen took my hands in hers as she bit her lip, nervous to ask, "I was wondering if you could.... Dance at the ceremony?..... i know that you don't really like people watching you, but, well you just so talented and i guess it just reminds me of Mum. I want something of Mum at my ceremony."

She missed mum, as did I, i understood what she was feeling and that is why i replied.

"Okay."

Jen squealed in excitement and pulled me away from the arch, across the beach to the rock cliff face. She pulled me into one of the small caves in the rocks surface.

We sat down at the edge and stared quietly out into the waves. I knew she wanted to talk to me about something, so i just sat there quietly and waited. I didn't know why she wanted to talk to me. I was the crazy sister who never did or said the right thing, that didn't understand things the way others did. I don't know why she wanted me...

"Do you believe I'm doing the right thing?" her voice interrupted my thoughts, as quiet as the gentle hum of the breeze.

"What do you mean?"

She waited a moment, took a deep breath that asked, "Do you think that im doing the right thing in bonding to Jared? I mean, i know that he is my mate and all, but i never really believed in any of that stuff before, so why should i know? I always believed that 'mates', 'soul partners' or whatever you want to call them, didn't exist. I believed that maybe there was someone out there that was made especially for me, but that it wasn't by some supernatural connection that i would find them. i believed that i would find them like every other human being, that one day id walk down the street and bump into some random stranger, and then he'd give me his number as he apologized and wed go for coffee and chat and do all that normal stuff that humans do. But instead I'm here, the day before my ceremony to a guy i met a week ago, talking to you."

Listening to my sister i was confused, i thought she loved Jared.

"I thought you loved Jared?"

She turned and looked at me with a sad smile, "I do, its just that i...."

That was when it clicked, i knew what my sister really wanted.

"You want to be human," i stated frowning.

Jen sighed, "I guess that what i really want. Youre right. I guess ive always kind of wanted to be human, and live a normal life in their wold."

"Why?"

"Human have so much power. They can choose who they want to love and who they want to run their country. I know that in some places its not like that but to me they just seem so free, i want to be free. I dont want to have to do as my father tells me twenty four seven. I dont want to marry someone just because of some magnetic pull between us. I dont want to simply be a women who has no prospects in life besides giving her husband a child. I want to see the world, I want to study journalism. But instead I'm here, stuck in this little community, which I'll probably never leave, because father will never let me. But most of all I wish I was human so I could have helped you."

My eyes widened, "What do you mean?"

She gave me another sad smile, "If we were human, I could have done something all those years ago, when he had you in that God forsaken attic, torturing you. I could have told someone and they would have helped us, they could have stopped father. But instead when I asked for help, did I get it? No. All I got was get my self locked away and beaten until I promised never to say a thing again. I'm so sorry Annie. If I had been stronger, if I had fought them, I could have gotten us out. I could have saved us. But I didn't. And now, we are both stuck in this hell, going from one kind of oppression to another."

I looked out into the ocean, what she said made sense I guess.

"Do you really believe that?"

She nodded as she turned her eyes out to the water, "I do. And I wish to hell and back that I set us both free."

I did too.

It was a shame that a simple wish can't change a thing.

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A/N
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