Lost memories

The scenery was green and peaceful as she slowly walked by. There was a small sparkling clear pond that had a couple of Koi in it, and a beautiful garden almost fully encased it except one small opening by the Japanese style gate. On the ground were blocks, light brown in color. It had a black square in the middle where a small Japanese character was placed written in bright silver.

The girl has always loved this place. Her brothers and her stopped here for awhile and she was deeply saddened when they left. She was around nine at the time she was now eighteen. The place still looked deserted as she slowly walked up to the front door.

She knocked. No answer. She tried the door and found it was unlocked and decided to go in. The house was empty and a thin layer of dust covered the floor.

"No one must have lived here for quite a while." The girl said quietly. "But everything is the same as I remember it. I'm happy nothing has changed." She slowly walked from room to room which brought back both happy and sad memories that she had long since forgotten. She stopped in one room, her old room. There was an old window that was now broken, but used to be a beautiful gothic window. Like one that you could expect to see on an old castle.

There was something on the ground. The girl thought it must have been the thing that had broken the window. She walked over and picked up the dust filled object. As here hand touched the cold metal she remembered the locket her brother had given her. She wiped the dust off of the golden locket. On the front was a koi swimming in a sky blue pond.

The girls brother, Kadaj, had given her the locket when her other brothers had died. A tear formed in the corner of her eye and slowly fell down her face. All three of her brothers had been killed by the same man.

She hated him, despised him. She went and looked out the broken window and saw that the tree swing her brothers had built for her was destroyed. She walked over to her closet. Her brothers had made a secret hiding place for her incase anything happened. The floor of the closet had caved in showing the little crawl space big enough to fit a nine year old.

She shut the door with a sigh, she missed her brothers. She thought she could handle coming back to this beautiful house, but she wasn't prepared for how the memories broke down her defenses, making her want to curl up in a ball and cry.

She tucked the loose pieces of her silvery hair behind her ear before leaving her old room, locket in hand.

The man Cloud, he wasn't as bad as she used to think, but he still took her only family away from her. She heard how he held her brother as he was dying. How he didn't leave Kadaj to die alone. It takes a brave man to stay with an enemy, keeping them company until they pass on, brave and caring.

She wanted to hate this man Cloud, but then she could only dislike. Could not feel the hate, she knew he did it to protect those he held dear, that he wouldn't have murdered her brothers if there had been another way. But still he did murder them, just thinking of it made her throat close, she shut her eyes. Breathing calmly to try to get the knot out of her throat.

A tear ran down her face and she brushed it off. She opened the locket, the picture of her older brothers and her was still inside. Closing the locket she securely fastened the chain to her neck.

She left the house, shutting and locking the door behind her. She didn't know what she would do now, but she knew she had to talk to this man named Cloud sooner or later.