Just the beginning of what I will think will happen in Light, or what I want to happen in Light: p But anyway in honor of Michael Grant I'll be changing perspectives. So yeah… Without further ado, read and review!
P.S I don't own the Gone series unfortunly:,(
The sunlight shone directly on the lake, a soft breeze teased the soft grasses that surround it. Those same grasses made a soft bed for Diana's bare feet. No one who lived in the lake really wore shoes and Diana wasn't an exception. Her jeans were rolled up all the way to her knees. They were beginning to get tight where the jeans rolled up and a little at her hips. Diana was a freak like the rest of them only her power wasn't something she could use in battle or anything like that. Diana had the utterly useless power of reading other people's strength, not even see their powers, just read how powerful they were. She saw people's strength in bars, kind of like cell phone reception, one being the lowest and four being the highest.
In reality she had only ever read two four bars, both of them lived in the FAYZ, both shared the same blood. The same blood, Diana thought. She automatically reached down to her slightly swollen belly which now carried what she could only see as a curse. She had no doubt how powerful it would be, it shared blood with one of the most powerful people of the FAYZ. One of the smartest, most charming, witty, evil, people Diana had ever met. She shook the thought away for it only caused a weird feeling in her heart. She skipped a beat but at the same time her heart was strangled by some evil force.
"Yoh! Diana!" someone shouted from behind her back. She recognized the voice immediately, no one else in the FAYZ had the nerve to shout 'Yoh Diana' at her. She was still associated with Caine.
She ignored Brianna; she had never liked her much. Furthermore the Breeze had almost single handedly spread the rumor of her…state. Thank god Sam had stopped it before it spread to town. Since then she had started to avoid the Breeze.
"What?" she answered roughly.
"Well look whose hormones are acting up?" she said. Diana turned to her and gave her one of her famous scowls.
She turned around sharply and stared at the lake. She had to behave if she wanted to stay here, and that itself had proven a difficult task. She had to admit hormones where only part of the problem, even back before the FAYZ she hadn't been the most loved person ever.
"What do you want?" she asked, less roughly but harsh enough to be called impolite.
"Lana's here" Brianna said, sitting next to her at abnormal speed. Diana had to admit she felt glad the Healer had arrived, she had suffered incredible malnutrition during the time she had lived at Coates but whatever was left was being cured by the Healer. Not to add that she would continuously place a hand in Diana's small belly and muttered, "Just making sure it's healthy too".
She was sure 100% now that she'd never be a good person. She loved one person in this world, just one. He wasn't with Diana at the moment. Even the baby she carried she didn't love. She didn't hate it either, she just didn't love it. In fact it scared her. She gasped every time she placed her hand in her abdomen and she saw the steady two bars that were starting to look like a three by the day. Diana sighed, she didn't love her unborn child but she still cared for it because it was Caine's and because she wasn't Caine. She wasn't heartless like he was or a phsyco like Drake, she wasn't nice but Diana had a heart. She unlike them felt and she wouldn't be a murder. She stood up from the comfort of the grass and looked Brianna in the eye.
"Where is she?" she asked, sounding as tired as she felt.
"In the left shore, Sam's place" she answered. For lack of better people named different parts of the lake. North shore, East shore, West shore, and South shore. In those the shore broke into nicknames of certain areas. Sam lived in the biggest residence in the lake, a medium sized house with three bedrooms and two showers. Diana had lived with him for about a month, but seeing that too many town people visited the place she had decided to get her own place. Diana hated depending on people nowadays. She had depended on her father and he had abandoned her mother. She then depended on her mother, who had brought perverted men to the house who had constantly molested her. Then stupidly she had trusted Caine, stayed with him after every lost fight, through starvation, she had given herself physically to him, and even then he had failed her. She wasn't going to depend on anyone anymore, so Diana had begged Albert for a job. She was now one of the people who worked in his boat, even though Sam had told her not to. He said she'd hurt her baby and that what they paid her wasn't enough. Diana had ignored him, she now had a small cot for herself, one room with a bed , a restroom, and a stove. That's all she needed.
She had tried not to but she was already planning ahead. Her small cot was a privilege, most people had something a bit smaller shared by 2 to 3 kids. She was saving money, like she had to buy her cot. She was going to make a crib and acquire baby clothes and provide for her child. Diana knew in her heart that she would be the one to raise her baby.
All this she thought as she made her way to Sam's place. When she finally did she digged for her shoes in her bag that hung in her shoulder and knocked the door. Soon after Sam opened the door, his eyes were dark; they had been since he took charge of Perdido Beach. Today he looked particularly alarmed.
"Hello Sammy" she said smirking up at him. He was the same height as his brother.
"Hey Diana" he answered plainly. He made way for Diana to get in. Inside sitting in a red couch was Lana.
"Good afternoon Doctor" Diana said smiling at the Healer.
Lana smiled briefly at Diana.
"So, what are we doing today Doc?" Diana asked sitting across from Lana in Sam's living room.
"I just wanted to know how you were doing" she said, not looking a least like that was her reason for coming.
Diana laughed out loud throwing her head back.
"What? Do you think I'm stupid?" she said wiping a tear from her left eye.
Lana blushed and Diana heard Sam sigh from the other room.
"Of course we don't think that", said Sam, "I just don't know how much the news will affect you".
"Try me" said Diana with a grin.
"Guess there isn't really a point on holding back" said Lana to Sam. He sighed again. His eyes turned even darker. He looked Diana in the eye and looked down at his feet then looked at her again.
"Diana, Caine…. He" Sam began. Diana knew already she looked at Sam, "He's coming isn't he?"
"Munchy, munchy" .
Of course she heard it; he had been repeating the words for hours. Astrid herself was hungry but she didn't have anything for herself, let alone something that would satisfy Little Pete. She knew that it wasn't a matter of going out and digging trashcans as it had been in the early days of the FAYZ. People were working now. Unfortunately Astrid had been struggling to find somewhere to work. The positions were few and many didn't suit her.
She had no more Sam to baby her, it was all her now. The thought overwhelmed her. She looked around to find Little Pete curled on the floor he was still ill. Not quite as much, but her was still certainly weak.
Astrid still feared what would happen when people started realizing that her 5 year old brother had created the FAYZ. Moreover Astrid hated.
She hated that she had become a mother to her younger brother. She hated that Sam had left and she hadn't followed. She hated her brother for creating it, the FAYZ. Astrid hated the world and what it had made her become. This was their world, a ghost town ruled by children.