The Lightning Queen

Chapter 2

Mare

I slept through the flight back to Montfort. I did not dream. Should I be alarmed? I suppose sometimes you need to rest your imagination. Rest your mind. Looking to closely into something exhausts your emotions. I suppose I consider them to have burned out after he framed me. That far from true.

Feeling someone shaking my arm, I will my eyes to open.

"Where here!" I open my eyes to see bright blue ones staring at me and Farley runs out of the jet and Shade follows.

"Okay that's great, don't wait for me." They don't pay attention to me their to busy with their daughter. A crowd rushes up to me until and squeezes me so tight, I almost can't breathe.

"Honey were so glad your home. Your never leaving again!" Someone pinches my cheeks I'm not sure who it is Mom and Dad and the sibling gang are suffocating me.

"Shades over there too." I direct their focus elsewhere and Mom walks off to pinches his cheeks and he glares at me and I smile playfully.

Davidson walks up "I'll give you sometime with your family and then we'll continue tomorrow." Farley and I nod.

I take Gisa hand and pull her too the side.

"Where are they?" I question her.

"Their under your bed in a box." She whispers back softly and glares at me with disappointment but I couldn't careless. No one will ever truly understand what I went through with him.

"Thank you." She rolls her eyes. "Your lucky I didn't burn them." She squeezes my hands and her words drip with acid.

"Tell me you didn't read them." She has a massive comment to make but the words die in her mouth.

"I didn't." I continue on my way to our room when she grabs my hand.

"Tell me, you have a good reason for keeping them." She examines my face for a lie. I nod. I do have a good reason, the reason is I can't help it, I need to continue talking to him, I bend down and take the letter from the box.

"Lock the door please." She hesitates but closes the door.

"Throw it away, rip it up into little pieces." She looks at me with disappointment when I open the letter. Before I read it I turn to her.

"Please don't tell anyone about this." she nods and jumps on the other side of the bed.

Dear Mare,

I am writing this letter to you because when I heard you didn't kill my mother I was astonished to know that you kept it a secret all this time. How could put yourself through that? how could you put us through that? How could you protect him? Your mind works in mysterious ways.

Sincerely,
Maven, King of Norta, Flame of the North.

"What are you going to do with the letter?" Gisa asks, she has gotten so beautiful. She deserves a better sister than me, one that's home all the time, one she can hang out with and talk about boys or girls or maybe both which ever one she prefers.

"When is this letter dated." She turns over the envelope. This letter came a week ago.

"Nothing." Nothing at all.

I spend the evening letting Gisa take me to her favorite spots. When I get back place the letter back into the box and close my eyes.

For the first time in a long time I have breakfast with my family. This is something I'm happy and thankful for.

"Where's kilorn?" Mom asks.

"He's staying with Cameron somewhere in Monfront." I reply and she nods.

"I heard he was getting promoted as a general." I nod.

"Yeah well he's been busy training and staying lately." I am proud of him but I'm not proud of how much we've grown apart.

When I arrive at the conference meeting with Farley and Shade we all take our seats and Davidson starts.

"We have a big problem. Norta isn't ready to be free from Kings and Queens." I guessed that, their are three strong kings in Norta.

"The citizens are suffering." He commented. They are, really badly. Things have gotten worse due to the war.

"We can't take Norta now the Silvers won't allow it." Shade says.

"They'll join together, to take us down." A parliamentarian interjects.

"Mare." I turn to Davidson who grab my attention.

"We need someone strong, powerful and intelligent. Someone who is known to the public. If we manage to get someone in power who we trust and who can make a big difference we can take piece of Norta. Reds and Silvers who want equality can live there, gradually the entity of Norta will be free from inequality." I nod in agreement.

"Who's the person." Everyone stares at me as if I'm dumb.

"You." Me! I tried to kill someone with a butter knife once. Queens don't do that.

"I'm sure your the best fit for something that important." I'm dumbfounded by his offer, I hope my expression doesn't look as dumb as I feel.

"Then why would I ask you?" I shake my head laugh.

"I don't know." I state.

"Mare, stop being selfish and think about this." I can't believe my own brother said that.

"I don't want to be Queen." Before I can walk out Davidson stops infront of me.

"You have 2 weeks lightening girl make your decision wisely." I nod and walk off.

I haven't been able to deal with my feelings for nearly a year and a half.

It's because he broke me and now I'm faced with a decision I don't want to make.

After walking up and down a dangerous mountain for an hour thinking. My legs feel tired and sore so I go home covered in sweat.

I spent an hour feeling hot pounding water running down my skin. Tears don't fall, how much I want to cry and feel emotional, I can only cry out of frustration now.

By the time I'm finished my skin is pruney and my eyes are sleepy.

I spent all day sleeping and eating. I didn't workout today. So basically I'm lazy.

I hear a brief knock on the door.
"Only come in if you have my sandwich!" Now I sound like an old angry lady. Great.

Gisa enters with my grilled cheese sandwich and pull it away from her.

"Mom sent this and by the way this is my room too." I glare at her.

"Do I look like I care?" She looks at me confused because she barely understood a word I said because I have food in my mouth.

"Anyways have you given any thought on the offer you were so kindly granted?" I lick my fingers.

"I got the offer this morning does it look like I had time to decided yet?" She shakes her head.

"No, it looks like you've been piging out all day." I scoff me piging out. Its believable though but don't I deserve it for the year I had?

"Cals getting married 24 hours from now. To your new best friend." That feels like a stab to the gut.

"Well. I'm gonna take a nap." I close my eyes and fake sleep.

"Mmm....another nap and you have some cheese on your cheek." I almost open my eyes but I know better it's a trap.

Eventually I fall asleep.