They were gone. Dinah Rae Lance and Larry Lon Lance, the parents of Dinah Laurel Lance and Krystal-Lee Nevaeh Lance were gone.
Krystal-Lee watched as both of her parent's pure white caskets were being slowly lowered into the ground. Sitting in her hands were two white lilies which she had yet placed on their caskets. Realizing that this might the only time she would have left she threw the lilies in the hole and watched as they landed on top of each of the caskets. She then turned around and walked over the wooden swing that was hanging from the tree next to the pound and away from the crowd of overly depressed people.
The young sixteen year was fairly tall standing at five foot eight without her shoes on, she was also not tiny weighing around one hundred and sixty-five pounds. Krystal-Lee had on a simple black polyester tulip tie-waist dress with bright pink metallic knot-front pumps, her mother's favorite. Her honey brown hair with let loose on her shoulders touching her elbow. She had also put on a pair big round pink sunglasses to cover up her big brown eyes from the view of others.
She stayed swinging on the wooden swing for most of the evening just staring at the pound, watching as the fish jumped in and out of the water creating ripples in the water. Soon she started to hear people leave the grounds and took it as her cue to leave also, but as she placed her hands on the swing she heard the footsteps of two people walking towards her. She took her hands and placed them back in her lap, pretending that she didn't hear them, hoping that they would get the hint that she didn't want to be bothered and would walk away. The footsteps stopped and Krystal-Lee continued to stare at the pound. The three of them stayed like that for about three minutes, the young teenager wasn't going to admit it but the presents of the two people standing behind her made her feel extremely uncomfortable. The two strangers must have felt that because they started moving towards her again. Krystal-Lee just sat there waiting for them to come up to her and start expressing how "deeply sorry they were for her loss" or "or if she needed anything not to hesitate to ask". Ugh it made her head hurt thinking about it.
"Hey Lee-Lee" The soft voice whispered from behind her.
Oh God, her head really started hurting now. She knew that voice anywhere and she had hoped that she would have been lucky to avoid it for the rest of the day but sadly that was not the case. She still refused to look over her shoulder, if Dinah wanted to see her she was going to have to walk over to her, after all she was the one who left her.
"It's just Lee," Krystal-Lee informed her as she still looked down at the pound. Her arms and legs were now crossed almost daring Dinah to walk over to her.
The sigh she heard from Dinah almost caused her to smirk.
"I'm sorry Lee."
Krystal-Lee rolled her eyes and shrugged her shoulders, "Whatever."
The two sisters stayed in silence, neither one of them said a word and it really was starting to get to Krystal-Lee, awkward silences were not one of her favorite things.
"What do you want Dinah."
"I… umm… I just wanted to see you."
Still not turned around Krystal-Lee threw her arms in the air in frustration, "Well here I am!"
Dinah sighed, "Will you turn around please?"
Krystal-Lee smirked at Dinah's request, "Nope. If you want to see me so badly then you can walk over here. After all you were the one that left Dinah."
Krystal-Lee's smirk grew as she heard Dinah walk over to her. As Dinah walked in front walked in front of Krystal-Lee the first thing she noticed was that her sister was not alone. Besides Dinah was a handsome blond hair, blue eyed man with a blond mustache and beard. The man was by far the best well-dressed man there, wearing a black tux with an undershirt and a black tie and black core frame shoes. He was taller than her sister by about a few inches. He had a muscular body fame that made Krystal-Lee think that he went to the gym every day. Looking back at her sister, she almost couldn't look away. Dinah was beautiful. She had long wavy blond hair and bright stunning blue eyes. Krystal-Lee didn't want to admit it but Dinah looked amazing. She was tall probably about five foot eight without her heels, she was also thin and fit probably weighing no more than one hundred and thirty pounds. She was wearing a black sleeveless squareneck jersey dress with black strappy lace-up heels.
Dinah smiled as she saw her sister face to face again, after eight years her sister had grown to be the spitting image of their father. She briefly saw her during the funeral but wasn't able to get a good look at her, but now that she was standing in front of Krystal-Lee she just couldn't believe just how much her younger sister had grown, "Wow look at you, all grown up. You look beautiful Lee." Krystal-Lee was about to return the smile when she remembered that she was still pissed off at Dinah.
"Yeah well if you hadn't left you wouldn't be so surprised, now would you Dinah?" Dinah's smile dropped and took a step back as Krystal-Lee got out of the swing and stood in front of Dinah and Oliver with her arms crossed.
"Who's this?" Krystal-Lee asked pointing to Oliver.
Dinah smiled again looking over at Oliver, "Oh this is Oliver Queen. Oliver this is my sister Krystal-Lee," Oliver smiled at her offering his hand to her, "Lee Oliver's my-"
"Let me guess boyfriend?" Krystal-Lee asked in annoyed ignoring Oliver completely. Oliver took the hint and put his hand back down.
Dinah's smile once again dropped, "Well yeah I mean-"
Krystal-Lee rolled her eyes at Dinah and turned around. She started to walk off and then she turned around to look at the couple, "Look I don't know why you're here but the funerals over. So go back to where ever you came from."
Dinah's heart dropped, she pushed herself away from Oliver and ran over to Krystal-Lee, "Look I'm sorry!"
Krystal-Lee shook her head and pushed herself away from Dinah, "Shut up!"
Dinah shook her head grabbing Krystal-Lee's arm and pulling her towards her, "I am! I am so sorry Lee-Lee! I never met to hurt you please forgive me!"
Krystal-Lee pushed herself away from Dinah and ran up the hill putting more distances in between her and her sister, "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH DINAH!" She look down at the ground and then up at her sister with her left arm holding her right arm and whispered, "Nothing you say will ever get me to forgive you."
Dinah looked up at her sister and saw as her face was red and even with her pink sun glasses on Dinah still saw tears falling from her sisters eyes while her entire body was shaking. Dinah's heart broke little by little as she looked at her sister.
Oliver stood back by the swing as he saw the two sisters yell at each other or Krystal-Lee scream at Dinah. He felt pity for Dinah the whole trip there and even during the funeral he watched as she stressed herself out. As soon as they saw Krystal-Lee at the funeral Dinah's grip on Oliver's hand tightened. She told him how badly she wanted to approach the younger Lance daughter but feared something like this would happen. Oliver silently thanked God this was happening now and not early when everyone was around.
Dinah slowly walked over to the broken child afraid that even the slightest wrong move would set her off again. She knew that when she left eight years ago it had hurt both her parents and her sister, and that Krystal-Lee would even hold a grudge against her, but what she didn't know was that Krystal-Lee would be as broken as she is now. What had happened to her in the last eight years? As she approached her sister once more she placed her right hand on her sister's right shoulder, but Krystal-Lee simply walked away.
"I have nothing to left say to you Dinah. So please just leave."
Krystal-Lee watched as her sister took a step back and then slowly walked back to her boyfriend, Oliver. Who did she think she was? She left eight years ago and hadn't even tried to make contact within those eight years. So what gave her the right to think that she could just come back and everything would be okay? It made her want to scream! She turned around and headed towards to the church only to be stopped by a pale man in navy blue suit. The man had black hair and dark brown eyes. He also had a brown briefcase in his hand. Krystal-Lee knew who this man was; he was her parent's lawyer, Chris Baker.
Chris walked over to the group and looked over at Krystal-Lee, "Krystal-Lee," Krystal-Lee nodded and walked over to Chris. Chris then looked over at Dinah and Oliver and questioned, "You wouldn't happen to be Dinah Laurel Lance would you mam'?"
Dinah looked away from Oliver and nodded her head, "Yes that's me."
Chris smiled at the two girls, "Good now if you all will follow me we have a will to discuss."
