Chapter 1: The Uninvited
The girl sighed deeply when she tried to call her sister but there was no answer or anything, she got frustrated and wondered how she is. Her hand went over to brush her Auburn hair to the side and her eyes were shining towards the sun's bright light but she really didn't care or anything, all she cared about was her family and Oh how bored she is right now especially when her dearest sister is not with her.
She turned her favorite book's page and started reading, it seems that she's bookworm. Her glasses were reflected by thee bright sun, she wanted to do something but she has nothing to do since she's occupied with sso many duties.
As she flipped the pages she looked towards the chapters and how boring it is for her….
" Hey Josephine, didn't read that a-" a young lady approached her yet she was cut.
" A hundred times, I know…" I said while continuing what I was reading.
The other girl huffed and pouted at her like a little girl but nothing could disturb the young Josephine, she couldn't care less if she really cared at all. All she wanted is her peaceful surrounding and nothing else.
" Oh Josie! You stupid four-eyes!" The girl said boredly as the young Josephine looked at her friend's eye coldly.
" Okay I'm sorry!" The girl said while looking away, sometimes the young Josephine finds this girl rather annoying especially if she starts whining and complaining.
The young Josephine stood up from the tree and walked away from her friend's sight finding another place that wouldn't annoy her peace, this girl can be a loner but deep inside she's just too cold because of her mysterious eye color. It was very different, the people would stay away from her then sometimes they could comment how freakish her eyes are but she tries to ignore them.
Her eye color was brighter than the ocean's or the sky's color or anything, it was like a crystallize form of eyes but some ask if those are just fake. Ugo Belli would say that her eyes were perfect and very beautiful, Ayla would say that her eyes are like precious stone that fell down from heaven and even Fiona fells her that her eyes are made from diamond and etc. But dep down this girl thinks that she's abnormal.
Her feelings are misplaced sometimes when people try to bully her about her freaking eyes yet she ignores but those abusive people would say it again and again until her face is blown with anger, she thought about an eye transplant but Ugo her father would say no and never.
As the girl enters the huge building she took out a key, she turned the locked door and a click was heard. Josephine enters a condo that appears to be hers, she enters her bedroom and jumps on it with a huge pleased sigh with a small satisfied grin on her face.
Her hand fingered on the pendant that Ugo gave her, she lifted it up and smiled at it remembering those precious moments when she received this. It was a gift from Ugo when she turned 13, she never took the pendant off when she wore it.
It was made by a red godstone….
She treasured it somehow but something bothered her when she looks at it longer, she hated the color red because of her messed up tragic memories. Her parents weren't Ugo or Ayla, she isn't related to them even Fiona. She was only adopted by the Belli family.
13 years ago….
Josephine's home was in fire, her whole family died due to the severe injuries and burns. She was also trapped inside the house and no one could save her but Ugo saved her from that accident. He pitied the poor little orphaned girl and decided to adopt her. Ayla agreed and Fiona was very happy when she was going to be a little sister.
The young Josephine is 19 and she will be 20 in the next 4 months, she promised not to do something naughty until she becomes 30. This young lady is a very pure one and also intelligent, she was the class valedictorian when she graduated High school. Right now she's taking a teaching course, she wanted to be like her parents.
The girl closed her favorite book and shuts her eye due to exhaustion, she wanted to become a teacher someday. But will she survive the munchkin horde like Ugo said? She'll have to find out soon but she needs to rest and forget everything first.
The girl gave in to slumber…..
Hours later
The young Josephine woke up from her long nap and took her glasses and put it on, she really didn't need glasses because her eyesight is perfect but hesitates when she don't wear it. Actually these were fake eye glasses, it was only to hide her beautiful freakish eyes. She didn't want to wear shades because people will think that she's blind and she haqs no future.
She puts on her socks then her Doc Martins, then later on she took a long trench coat that stops on her thighs.
She opened the window's blinds and looked onto the beautiful starry sky, the moon was shining bright and the stars where twinkling like diamonds. When she looked up she felt something like something has past. She wanted to know how her family is doing.
She took out her cell phone and started calling Fiona, she waited for a minute then an answer was heard. She smiled whenshe heard Fiona's soft voice on the phone. They started taking conversations but minutes later screaming and trashing were heard through out the phone and this made Josephine panic, She called out Fiona's name but there was no answer.
" Fiona?! Fiona?! Are you still there?! Fiona?! Can you hear em?! Fiona?! What's going on?!" Josephine called out but there was no reply or anything.
" Shit….." Josephine muttered and hurried to her bedroom, she took out a flash light and her car keys.
When she exited the building she entered a parking lot, she ignored some people that were drinking and smoking. When she found her car she opened it then entered, she started the car's engine and sped off. A lot of people on the parking lot were startled at how she acted but they continued on partying.
Josephine prayed that her family is alright, Ugo mentioned about going to a place. A castle? He mentioned it a week before they go to a place to have a vacation. Ugo told her that she should come and join the vacation but the young Josephine declined because her college duties since the midterms are coming.
She wished that she was there with them but she was stupid to decline her father's offer, Josephine just wanted to become a successful teacher. Ayla told her that she had the brains to pass all the examinations but the young lady here thinks it's still not enough. Fiona also forced her to come but she just ignored and declined her own sister.
The young Josephine ignored all the gasoline stations that she passed by, she doesn't care anymore. What she cares about now that her family is still alive. All these years they took care of the young Josephine even though they're not really related, she wanted to pay them back by being a successful teacher. But what happens when something goes wrong? What happens when they're all hurt or something? Josephine shook her head and ignored the bad imaginations and focused on the good ones.
" Daddy…." She muttered worriedly when she thought about Ugo, he saved her when she was a child and also adopted her.
But now…..
She remembered when he told her about his family, he had a brother named Rolando? Rafaello? Rugo? Richard? She can't remember. She listened to their conversation but she couldn't care less. She just looked at his face with innocence since she was 6 years old, Ugo finds her adorable with her big eyes with those mystical colored eyes.
The car's engine stopped and the young Josephine started it again and again but nothing came, she hit the horn then stepped on the accelerator pedal furiously but it seems that the car is not moving anymore.
" Damn it! I knew it! I should've stopped my car at a gasoline station!" She said with an angry look on her face.
She opened the car compartment and took out her cell phone then her flash light and lastly an army knife, Ayla would scold her when she brought an army knife with her. But Ugo suggests her to have one so she can defend herself when there are bad guys. Fiona would say that she's a bad girl.
When the young Josephine opened the car she exited it and continued on her journey, she passed so many trees and definitely she felt that they're close now. The girl went further and further in the darkened road until she saw a car crashed on a huge pile of lumber.
When she got closer to it she realized that it was Ugo's car, she gasped and rushed Ugo's side and started shaking him to wake up. She saw blood coming out of his chest and this made Josephine sob and cry violently.
" Daddy! Please wake up! Dad please don't do this to me!" She shakes him but he didn't wake up or anything.
When she looked at Ayla her face was lying on the broken wind shield, she went over to over shield and tried to waker her mommy up but she didn't wake up or anything. She cried louder then sobbed violently.
She couldn't believe this!
She suddenly about Fiona, she snapped from her senses and looked at the back of the car but she wasn't there, her eyes widened when she realized that Fiona might be still alive. When she looked at the Belli couple's corpses she smiled at them and gave them a kiss on the cheeks and she closed Ayla's eyes. She took Ugo's hand and Ayla's making the couple's hand interlock.
" Thank you…For taking care of me…For all of these years….I promise I'll Fiona…" She said leaving the couple in their eternal slumber. She didn't look back or anything.
She entered the dark part of the forest deeper and deeper, she followed Fiona's sense. Ever since Josephine was young she had a special skill, she can track people by using her instincts. Her hearts start beating faster or sometimes she can hear the person's heartbeat even from a far distance.
When she felt Fiona the young Josephine suddenly ran faster when she came closer and closer to her location. She stopped and looked at her surroundings, she saw a huge castle. Is this the castle Ugo was talking about years ago? But she has to be sure first, Fiona might be here since it stopped over this place.
When she went over the gate she tried pushing it open but it seems to be sealed tightly from the inside, damn what can this girl do? When the gate is locked…..
She knocked many times but there is no answer, she have to find another route. When she looked over the walls that was covering the castle's grounds, she thought of jumping over it but its impossible. She looked over her surroundings. She gave up and tried leaving but suddenly the gate opened without anymore opening it, creepy….
When she entered the gate was shut tightly, she tried to open it but it seems its locked again. But she has to find Fiona first then find another way to escape this castle. I wonder if Ugo's brother is his father Florenzo? Leonardo? Never mind….
She saw a maid coming out of nowhere, she was beautiful…
She had Lilac hair and fair skin, the young Josephine went over to her and tried to talk but it seems she isn't a social butterfly unlike her friend Morgan who was annoying her this morning. The made held no emotion.
" Please follow me miss, The master is delighted to have an uninvited guest today…." The maid said while walking away.
At first the young Josephine hesitated but it would rude if she didn't follow and besides she might lead her to Fiona or something, when they entered the great hall they used the staircase then later on they passed by a room that appears to be a child's playroom, then later on they went to another place that had a lot of figures that looks like a museum then finally the maid took her to a guest room. Everything is blue even the bed.
The maid went on her back and took off her trench coat then hanged it over to a random hanger , the maid walked over her and gave her a slight respectful bow and left. When the young Josephine went over the door she noticed it was locked, she cursed silently and walked over to the bed trying to find a way to escape.
Later on
A man was looking to his servant named Daniella and smirked, when he went over to her he pets her hair and gave her a smile showing his rotting teeth.
" You did well Daniella, It seems the uninvited guest will stay here for a while. Would like you to keep her until she finds a smart idea or if she finds Fiona. I would like to see Riccardo's reaction when he sees this young lady…" The aged man said to the maid while a huge grin…
" Leave it to me…." Daniella said with a small smile.
Mean while
The poor young Josephine seems to be lying on the bed since its impossible to escape, she don't know what to do. She fingered the pendant and tears were streaming down her face when she remembered Ugo andAyla….
She remembered the song that Ayla sang for her when she was a child.
She parted her lips preparing to sing the lullaby.
I still remember the world
From the eyes of a child
Slowly those feelings
Were clouded by what I know now
Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh, I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all
I still remember the sun
Always warm up my back
Somehow it seems colder now
Where has my heart gone?
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
I want to go back to
Believe in everything
Lesu, Rex admirabilis
Et triumphator nobilis
Dulcedo ineffabilis
Totus desiderabilis
As the years pass by before my face
As wars rage before me
Finding myself in these last days of existence
This parasite inside me, I forced it out
In the darkness of the storm lies an evil, but it's me
Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh, I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything
Oh, where, where has my heart gone?
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh, I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything
I still remember
The girl finally closes her eyes…. She let sleep take over her.
END