Moon Crystals

Chapter 2

Lenna wouldn't respond, she never did, but this time I could see in her eyes that it hurt.

“Not everyone is like you…” she said simply, turning her eyes to the stone in front of her.

I mumbled, shoving my face between my hands.

"I know, I'm sorry" I tried to say but she just laughed turning her blue eyes towards me.

“You don't even regret what you say. That's exactly what you think, isn't it?” I recognized that voice, that tone. I felt my chest tighten.

Even her?

"You got tired," I muttered.

“Who wouldn't tire? You're always like that Alena, always looking down on everyone…”

Yes, I found myself smiling. It was always like that, she wasn't wrong. Everyone acted like that at one time or another. They fled, ran, hid and threw in my face whatever they wanted before leaving.

"What's it?" I asked laughing “Won't it continue? You know, this is your golden chance, it's not like there's anyone to stand by me"

The blue eyes drooped and the pink lips pursed.

“I hate how you play the victim even here,” she muttered, fists clenched, “always thinking you're superior to everyone else, always acting your way and ignoring your true obligations while pretending you can take over the family. You've been that way since I've known you, look at me like I'm better off riding and hunting, but Alena, even the crystals tell you no. You are not special or different, you are just like me. You will get married, go far away and live peacefully in a little house and yes, that makes me happy. It makes me happy to know you are one of us. That we were never wrong."

My lips trembled and I could almost hear my brother's voice saying the same. Yes, they would. Everyone would talk and I was already prepared for that.

“Is that the truth you kept, Lenna? Jealousy? Envy? I thought it was better than that,” I muttered without lowering my eyes or looking away, hers seemed to burn.

“Yes, you're right, I was jealous. I was angry, jealous. You always… go out and say how different you were from everything else and how wonderful it would be when you inherited the marquisado, but guess what? You are not going".

I looked at her with disdain as I approached. The fingers that were still trembling touched her lips and then I smiled.

“You're right, yes…you are, but do you know the truth, Lenna? That even now, I still haven't given in. I haven't stopped fighting and I won't, but you? You're going to live a mediocre life, you're going to hide in shame when it's all over, and you'll never, ever get 3% of my brother's attention, so if your illusion was to marry him, give up"

Her eyes fluttered and I felt she was about to collapse, but before I heard an answer or any sound at all, I was gone. I turned around and walked out feeling my feet sink into the snow that made its way home.

Lenna was like everyone else.

Everyone always would be.

I sighed.

"I'm tired".

…

The full moon shone in the sky and I felt my body shiver, there was a humming voice in the background, as if someone were singing by the window.

"What the hell?" I found myself grumbling and when my eyes touched the window, I was startled. A countenance I have never seen smiled at me.

“Hello, sweet child,” he said reaching out with one foot propped up on the windowsill.

There were so many questions, so many things to think about. Was it a dream or just a freak that I should kick and kick? His smile expanded as if he could read my mind and the being's eyes sparkled with intensity.

“I know you don't like me, honey, but you should at least smile. You have such a beautiful smile that it's a sin to look at me like that,” I teased and I felt my cheeks burn for some reason.

It was annoying, yes, he was completely annoying, but at the same time I found myself thinking that this being was absurdly beautiful and his charming smile made me want to touch his face for once.

"Moon Crystal" I muttered and he, who was now sitting at the window, sighed with a stifled laugh.

"Yes my dear. You looked angry before and after, about to cry. I confess that I almost fell in love when I saw the teary eyes in her pretty pink face"