Matilda stood in the door way, unable to move. her green eyes wide with fear. Serenity came up behind her, with tars in her eyes. Those tears flooded over when she saw what was happening in front of them. The three old woman had their father on the floor in seconds. Their mother stood bravly in front of him, determination lit in her eyes. Two of the woman held a long string. The toerh a pair of ugly scissors. Serenity used one hand to cover her sisters eyes, and the other to cover her own mouth to keep from screaming. She could feel her sisters silent tears on her hand. The lady with the gory scissors, raised and opened them for use. Serenity shut her eyes tight just before the scissors re-closed n the hazel-nut coloured string. She heard the snap of the sting, and the thud as her mother fell.
Later that week -after the woman Serenity lerned were the 3 faites eft- Serenity and Matilda plained a small funural, betwen the two of them. The buried both their mother and father on an old hill they used to visit. It a flower patch at the top, along wth an old swing tied to a lone tree. Serenity and Matild used to lie in the flowers and watch the clouds while there paternt sat on the swing watching them.
Matilda dug the hole directly onder the now rotted swing. Serenity gentaly placed them, side-by-side and had-in-hand into the hole, then help burie them. All the while her face blank betraying no emotion, while Matilda sobed and shot death glares her way. She belived it was Serenitys' fault for the grusome death of their parents. And in a way, Serenity knew it was something wrong, something different about her. Everyone knew and acnoliged it, but Serenity had alwaysed brux=shed it aside with a shrug. Untill now. Now she knew. Ir was her fault. If she hadn't been the way she was, this mostly lkely wouldn't have happened.
Once they returned home, they found it was no lnger a welcomeing place. As soon as they steped through the threshold, terrible memorys flooded back. And the place it self gave a bad vibe. Serenity feld to her room, Matilda to hers.
Serenity had been laying on her bed face up, when she heard a light knock at her door. "Come on in." she said blankly. Matilda walked in and to Serenitys' window with a bag in her hands.
"I'm going to live with Aunt Cloral in Alaska." she announced. What?" Serenity gasped standing. Matilda turned and faced her. "we no longer have any ties to each other, so why stick around?" she said plainly. "No ties? Your my freakin' sister, what other ties do you need?" Matilda rolled her eyes. 'We'd rip each others throughts out and you know it Ser." She walked out of the room. "Dont stop me. Aunt Cloral knows already." She paused. "oha and she thinkgs your at a boot camp or something." she snorted "Keep it tht way." she left closing the door silenlty behind her.
