Broken (Gilbert Blythe)

chapter 3

-Lunch Time-

Nova sat at her seat, eating alone, trying to not be noticed by anyone else that day. "Nova, Anne!" They both turned to see Diana with a curtain in her hand. She waves us to come over there. Nova walks slowly, taking slow deep breaths, unsure if she should go over there, to where the girls were. "Come here!" Josie says to Anne. "I thought lunchtime would never arrive." Josie says with a smile to Nova and Anne. Anne smiles, "I feel the same way!" Nova smiles and sits beside Ruby.

Josie looks at Anne, "I'm just so excited to hear about everything that you saw!" Nova was confused, apparently she missed the memo of what was going on, so she listened. "Me too!" "Me three!" Ruby and Tillie said. Anne looks at the girls confused, "What do you mean?" She said with a smile still on her face. "Prissy and Mr. Phillips, silly. In the supply room." Josie looks at Nova, "You can't tell Prissy, she'll get upset we're talking about her." Nova raises her eyebrows. "Why are we even talking about them? There's no way they were in there. Together... and alone." Diana looks over at Nova. "They were. Weren't they, Anne?" All the girls look over at Anne. Diana leans over to Anne, "I told them about the pet mouse."

'Pet mouse?' Nova thought. "It's just all so shocking." Josie says, giggling. "I wasn't too sure about it, though, so I thought maybe you could tell them." The girls other than Nova, giggled. "I just can't believe it!" Ruby says with a huge smile on her face. "Me neither!" Nova takes a deep breath, there's no way that her sister, her best friend wouldn't tell her about her forbidden love, she knows Nova would never tell. "Prissy and Mr. Phillips are having intimate relations, all right!" Anne says with certainty. Nova decides to get up and leave without saying anything. She walks outside and sits down outside beside the creek. Nova was hurt by the fact that her own sister didn't trust her.

-End of the Day-

Nova walked the path on her way home, she ignored Anne's callings to her. She was mad at her for spreading such nasty things about her sister. "Nova, I'm sorry!" Nova can hear Anne's feet right behind her. Nova turned around abruptly and looked at Anne. "How dare you say things like that about her? About MY sister? She may be mean, but she's not a harlot that you are making her out to be!" Nova stomps away and finally makes it to her house. Nova walks in and goes upstairs to hear crying from Prissy's room.

Nova knocks, "Prissy?" She heard shuffles and sniffles. Prissy opens the door, Nova looks at her older sister, red puffy eyes, it was evident that she had been crying. Nova sits beside Prissy on her bed. "I guess you heard." Prissy looks at her younger sister. "That I'm a harlot or whatever. That has sex before marriage?" Nova's face softens. "Prissy, I know you and Mr. Phillips aren't together, and I sure as hell know you guys didn't have sex." Prissy looks at Nova. "Me and Mr. Phillips are wanting to get married, he's asking for my hand in marriage but we were trying to keep it a secret. But I guess that option is out." She looks down at her hands in her lap. "Oh." Nova said shocked. "Well, I am not going anywhere." Nova smiles at Prissy.

-Next Morning-

Nova gets up, feeling sad but weirdly more confident than she did yesterday. Nova picks out a yellow dress, has her hair curled, and white stockings like always. Nova walks down and sees her father, "Hello darling." He looks up from his newspaper for a split second and sees Nova, then looks back down. "Hello father." She says with a small smile. Nova goes to the kitchen to see her mother grabbing dishes to put on the table for breakfast. "Mother, I have to get to school early for me to study." Nova lied straight through her teeth. She just didn't want to see Anne on her way there.
"Are you sure, sweetie? Breakfast is almost done." Nova nods her head, "Yeah, I'm sure. I'm not really that hungry anyway." She smiles. "I'll see you later." She says to her mother and father. Nova walks to the path, she looks around at all the nature around her, breathing it all in. Branches crack behind her, Nova turns around, nervous of what is behind her.