The Story of Family (Book 1)

Chapter 13 The Broken Angel

     Puddles slowly wakes up and winces as she sits up. She looks around her dark room and slowly climbs out of bed and rubs her eyes as she makes her way to her bedroom door and reaches up, grabbing the handle and opens it. She quietly walks out of her room and heads down the hall to the dining room and feels her head pounding and places her small hand on it as she walks. She gets to the dinning hall and slowly pushes the door open and looks around not seeing anyone yet so she slowly walks in and sits in the chair and sits down waiting for her two siblings to have breakfast with before school despite the pain she's in she wants to be with her brother and sister. She sits there for 20 minutes before looking at the clock and realizes she got up late which is weird because the other two usually wake her up. She forms and gets up from the chair and walks off heading for the throne room to find her father working, she lets out a small sigh glad she's not alone but frowns at the sight of work he has not thinking he'd have any time for her so she looks down and starts walking away until her stomach growls and she puts her hand over her stomach and runs towards her room not wanting to disturb her father. Azazel looks up hearing the rapid footsteps running down the hall he can only assume Puddles had finally woken up and he sets his work down and walks to the doors, pushing them open and looks up and down the hall trying to catch a glimpse of her but he didn't and he frowns. He goes back to his work and continues with it until he gets that stack done before looking towards the door and frowns. He sets down the papers and heads for the door walking out of the room and heads for his daughters bedroom hoping she's there so he doesn't have to search the entire castle like building.
     Puddles goes back to her room and closes the door before looking around her room and turning on the light and walks over to her small nightstand and grabs her brush and slowly starts brushing her and frowns before she starts thinking about her siblings, Seth, Thorn and their sister have graduated already from school and are in college, Zane is in high school like her sister Jasmine and Kali and then Steel is in middle school. Despite being in close range grades in school their ages are quite far apart. Seth and Thorn are in college, Zane, Jasmine, Puddles and Kali are in high school while Steel is in middle school. Puddles continues to think about her siblings as she climbs to the center of her bed and lays down and wraps herself in the blankets feeling token although it's nobody's fault that she feels this way she hides under the covers and closes her eyes to sleep a bit more ignoring her growling stomach. Azazel looks around just in case she's not in her room, once he gets there he slowly opens the door and peaks in not seeing his daughter he slowly walks in and over to the bed and calmly sits down and gently removes the blankets seeing his beautiful daughter asleep with tears stained on her cheeks.
     Azazel frowns at the sight before him and reaches out and gently wipes the tear stains away the best he can before looking down at her. He gently brushes her bangs away from her eyes and sighs but then hears her stomach rumble a bit and frowns, 'she hasn't eaten yet?', he thinks and gently shakes her awake and quietly says her name, "Puddles...Puddles sweetie wake up...come on let's have some breakfast dear", he says quietly as she slowly starts to move and slowly opens her eyes and looks up at him before asking, "Dad?" he smiles and nods, "That would be me now let's get you up and eat something ok?", he asks her as she nods and slowly sits up and climbs out of bed as he stands up. They walk out of the room and head down the hall and to the dining hall to get some breakfast, they sit down and a maid brings them out some food not long after they arrive. She smiles up at him not feeling alone anymore although she would be lying if she said she didn't feel broken that her siblings left her behind. They eat their breakfast and chat for a bit enjoying each other's company as they eat. Azazel smiles at his daughter as he chats with her, after they finish breakfast they get up and walk out of the dining hall and head for the throne room so Puddles doesn't feel alone. Once they get their he gets back to work as she sits in a chair and he shows her how to do some of the work as the two have a little father daughter time.
     As time goes by she and her father get the work done rather quickly with each other's help as she catches on quickly. Azazel looks at the time realizing that his other two kids should be home soon and he looks at her with a smile, "Your brother and sister will be home soon so you aren't alone anymore", she smiles back and nods. She looks at the work she helped him with before looking down feeling a bit of pain again although she won't admit it she's been in pain all day both physically and mentally but now only physically although she can still say she feels broken. She finishes helping her dad just in time for her two older siblings walk in, she looks up seeing Zane and Jasmine at the doors of the room and gives them a light smile and waves. Jasmine smiles brightly seeing her sister up and moving and runs to her and hugs her tightly, "Your ok!!!!", she says excitedly, Puddles winces and hugs back with a light smile, "Not entirely but I'm getting there", she says as Zane walks over. He smiles at her and looks at the work she's done, "Well I'm glad to see you up and about I'm sorry we didn't wake you up we didn't want you to be in pain all day at school and kids push you around", he smiles at her. Puddles smiles in understanding and nods before looking back at the papers and continues to fill them out as she responds to them, "Well I would be lying if I said I was ok about being left home but I felt really lonely until dad came to check on me", she smiles up at the 3. Azazel smiles and checks the time and looks at the three, "Why don't you three go get yourself cleaned up while I finish up here?", he smiles and they nod, Zane helps Puddles up as the leave while chatting about their days and the two promising not to leave their sister home again and hoping she'll be mostly healed by tomorrow. They go get cleaned up and go to dinner and talk about their days before heading to bed for the next day.