Dancing With A God

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

5th of July 2020

"Quinn !" Called out Rose, appearing in the front door, her feet bare from shoes or socks and her soaking blonde hair falling in a waterfall behind her tan skin. Quinn saw, under the morning light, how her surrogate sister was pretty and she wondered, with a slight worry, what she would look like in her twenties.

"Rosie." She respond with a slight smile, walking towards her under coming to her height. "Come have a walk with me."

The young girl had a hesitant pout on her face before she told her to wait for her and she ran to dress herself. Coming back, both girls started pacing in the garden, humid by the morning dawn. It was a bright day of summer and they enjoyed the simple heat of the sunbeams falling on their faces.

"I've missed you." Suddenly said in a murmur the youngest.

"Rosie . . ." Quinn stopped, pulling the girl into a bear hug, feeling again the tears pickling her eyes.

"Don't speak now." Cut the girl harshly but therefore wrapping her arms around the waist of her sister. "I know you had no time to think about us, I understand well that your life was so hard you had other things to deal with but . . ." She stopped and Quinn felt that she was crying "It's still hurting and the feeling of having been abandoned is still there." Now, the sobs could clearly be heard.

Quinn hugged even tighter the young girl, kneeling down to be at the height of her chest and pressing her head on her heart, hearing it beat in an endless rhythm.

"You must have been such a good mother to Aaron . . ." Said Rose with a smile, drying with the back of her hands her tears and her nose.

"I was barely even a sister to him." Quinn replied, pulling away from the hug and rising again, oblivious to the look Rose was giving her.

"But you've told us you spent months taking care of him !" Bluttered the girl, confused.

"I had," Told Quinn, turning away her glare to the rising sun. "But a mother would be able to give a roof to her child." She scoffed and Rose knew that she was trying not to cry,

Sighting, Rose stood closer to her sister and wrapped her arms around her, resting her head on her back.

"You may not have been able to give him a home but I am quite sure you've given him the love he needed." She said with a hint of jealousy over a boy she would never meet. That Aaron had taken all the attention of her friend she would never get. "Sasha and I see how much you care about Sebastian. I am sure you are seeing him like your second son."

"Yes." Quinn scoffed before crashing down on her knees and crying without being able to stop herself. The weight on her back gave her comfort but she couldn't stop feeling loneliness in her heart. Even if Aaron would never be her son, even if he surely even remember her, he held the most important part in her heart. She wished she could see his face at least once, stare at his grey eyes one last time, grasp his soft blonde hair for one second, nestle him in her arms.

But she wasn't an idiot and she knew well that her Aaron had surely forgotten her face by now ; if ever he was still alive. And that thought broke her heart and cried more, welling like the empty hollow she was at the moment. Her sweet darling was surely dead at the year she was, killed maybe by an illness or old age. And she would never be able to see him again, never be able to tell him how much she had loved him and how he was her everything.

Because even if she couldn't admit it to herself, Aaron had been the one who had saved her. He had been the one who made her discover what it truly was to love somebody and he had made her realise who she was : a girl craving for a goal. And when she had thought she had found it, making a promise to her parents at her fifteen years old, her boy had been there to save her from the brink of madness. Because she wasn't blind enough to believe that she wouldn't have started her quest for avengeness, even after changing era.

"Quinn." Said sternly Rose."Calm down." She Said then, more softly.

And Quinn did just that. Her tears kept running but her wails had stopped. She stood up, her legs shaking, and she smiled. It wasn't a grin, neither was it a smirk. It was a small smile that mothers would give their children to reassure them.

"I may not be a mother -" She started.

"But you have been one to Aaron." Rose completed with a nod.

***

Within an instant, the sun was up and the children in the orphanage waking up. Sasha, when seeing that his two sisters weren't in the infirmary ran outside, in the garden and he stopped, bewildered when he saw them two embracing each other, the sun playing out of his mind and making him see them as an illusion. And when his Quinn opened her eyes, his breath stopped as his heart ran faster.

The one he loved was beautiful indeed under the morning sun. Her sickly pale skin who slowly gained more colours with time matched well with her dark eyes who seemed to hold so much love for her boy. And her rosy cheeks who translated the way she has cried earlier gave her an even stronger look with the slight frown on her lips. Even if Sasha knew he would never say it in front of the girl, he told himself that he was falling deeper in love with her each day who passed.

His Quinn was indeed a beautiful woman who had grown much in nineteen years. She had lived through more things than a girl of her age would experiment which made her a very special and unique girl in the world.

But the boy told himself that instead of ruining his wonderful sibling relationship with her, he should keep and hide his feelings down in his heart. And he also loved Rose as a sister. Together, they had a strong bond.

And I will never break that bond.