Chapter 53
FLASHBACK
Training today was brutal as usual and I hurt Michael real bad and right now my conscience won’t let me be. Michael knows I’m quite powerful, but he keeps orchestrating duos between us. Duos that end up with him being mercilessly beaten up by me.
I hate the fact that I hurt him.
I walk into the kitchen where I met our chef, Lucia and other servants cooking and I just smile. She’s one of my favorite people in this entire house.
“Hello Lucia”
“Hello, how are you doing today?” She asks enthusiastically.
“Perfect, thank you” I reply as I walk over to one of the kitchen shelves where I open it up and take out a pack of cornflakes from it.
“This is pure addiction!” She comments the moment I place the pack on cornflakes on the kitchen table.
“At least it’s food addiction, that’s healthy”
“Dinner is almost ready”
“I can’t wait Lucia, as it is now, I’m famished!” I lament as I take out milk from the fridge. “Where’s Wilma ?”
“I think she went out”
“Oh…” I exclaim as I take a little bowl and fill with cornflakes. I pour a good quantity of milk in it and put both the pack of cornflakes and jar of milk in their respective places.
I carry my bowl of milk and cornflakes and sneak upstairs into my bedroom, praying my father doesn’t see me. He really doesn’t appreciate me eating in there.
Once I get into my bedroom, I close the door behind me and when I turn around, I almost have a heart attack when I turn around and see Wilma sitting on my bed, with a wide smile plastered on her face.
Wilma never visits me and she never smiles at me.
We are sister’s but we are worlds apart. I can bet on my life that she doesn’t like me and now that she’s seated in here in my bedroom, I can’t help but wonder what she’s up to.
This cannot be good.
“Wilma?” I call just to be sure.
“Yes, it’s me, Wilma!”
“What are you doing here?” I ask calmly as I walk over to bed and place the bowl of cornflakes on the nightstand.
I’m still trying very hard to process the fact that she’s actually here in my bedroom. Through out my life, she has done nothing but ignored my existence and now, all of a sudden, here she is, being all smiley and nice.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.
That does seem like a good sign to me.
“Can’t an elder sister come to check on her kid sister?”
“After about seventeen years?” I ask with a raised brow and she exhales heavily as she takes my bowl of cornflakes and hands over to me.
“I know our relationship bias not been the best…”
“Wilma we don’t even have a relationship as siblings. You have done nothing but ignored all the attempts I made to get close to you. You have done nothing but ignored me for the past seventeen years.”
“I know and to be honest, it was not my making. Dad instructed me to avoid you, he was always about how dangerous you were and I was scared, but Reign I’m not scared anymore. From what I see, you are a nice person and I want to get to know you more” She narrates as she tries to hold my hands but I pull away.
“This doesn’t seem right, you can’t just wake up one day and start liking me”
“And just who said I have never liked you?”
“The way you always ignore me says it all”
“Like I said, dad was the reason why I did that. I honestly love you Reign and I’m so sorry for being so mean to your all these years. All I want is one chance, just give me one chance Reign, I want to be your sister and your friend. Please” She pleads as tries to hold my hand again and this time around, I let her.
I don’t really know what’s going on, I don’t really know why she is doing this, but I think I like the idea of being close with my sister.
I mean, she’s my sister and it’s only normal that have a healthy relationship. We have been distant for the better part of our lives, but it’s never too late for us to start all over.
At first, I was the one who tried to get us to be together, but I failed because she won’t even talk to me. Now that she’s the one taking that bold step, I’m really grateful and I’m not going to miss this opportunity to get to know my sister better.
It’ll be nice for you to have someone to talk to after practice and also, it’ll be nice to have someone to tell me more about the world. I still have a few months to my eighteenth birthday when I will be set free, and I could really use information about how the world works right now.
There’s so much I have to learn from her.
“Does father know about this?”
“Yes, I was finally able to stand up to him and express my mind. I told him I didn’t want to keep ignoring you and that I wanted to get to know you more and after a big fight, he gave up and said I should do whatever I want to do. So here I am”
“That means he’s not okay with your decision”
“I know our father all too well. If he didn’t want this to happen, he would have made it clear to me, but he said to do whatever it is I wanted, that means he’ll come around” She explains and I smile heartily.
“I really can’t believe this is happening. I have always wanted us to be close Wilma, I have always wanted us to have this strong sister bond and hearing you say all this totally warms my heart. I love you very much and there’s nothing I want more right now than to be your friend”
“Come here” She says as she pulls me into her warm embrace and I cling unto her.
This is the first time in my entire life I’m hugging my very own sister and it feels like heaven. Without warning, I burst into tears in her arms.
This seems too good to be true.
“Shh don’t cry, it’s okay” She coos as she rubs my back.
I disengage from the hug and try to wipe my tears away and she just smiles at me.
“It’s okay”
“I’m just excited”
“Me too. Mind if I cuddle you in my arms tonight?” She asks and I just shake my head as I bursts into tears and hug her again.
I cannot remember ever being cuddled in my life. Ever since I was a child, I used to spend the night in my room, alone!
My father never cuddled me, even when I had bad dreams or if there was a scary storm at night, no one ever came to comfort me, not even when I was sick.
I always spent my nights alone, this was actually going to be the first time I’ll be spending the night cuddled up in someone’s arms, not just anyone, but my sister.
I can’t help but cry. It seems too good to be true.
“Henceforth, it’s going to be different between us. I’m going make up for all the times I used to ignore you. I promise!” She promises as she kisses my hands and my heart swells with emotions.
My entire life just got better!
Or so I thought…