"Morgan! Baby open the door, we have to leave," My Father futilely attempts to talk Morgan out of her room. Both my Mother and I attempted the same, and got the same results.
Morgan tried and failed to fight back tears for the entire walk home. I did the best I could to console her, but there was very little I was able to do, I don't think anything could be done to heal her. The second we got home our parents were just waking up and she immediately locked herself in her room. She hasn't come out since, but we can all hear her.
"Any ideas?" Father asks.
"When the heart is damaged, the only way we can help is give her time, I doubt she wants to be around anyone at the moment," Mother says.
"I don't understand, we all thought it was a sure thing, no one knew he was dating someone else," I explain.
"That kid, I'll show him for leading my girl on! You don't hurt one of my daughters!" Mother was getting rather emotional.
"Calm down Tharja, it's just a misunderstanding with a high school crush, these things happen all the time," Father says attempting to calm her down.
"So! This doesn't happen to Morgan all the time, what if it happens again or to Noire?!" Mother was getting very amped up. I felt very uneasy about this conversation.
"Look, this is no reason to go to war okay, we just got to let her cope with this her own way," Father says, he knocks on Morgan's door again. "Morgan we gotta go, we won't force you if you want to be alone, we'll bring you back a plate."
Mother continues to look frustrated, but she always ends up agreeing with my Father. The three of us head toward Nah's house. We are greeted at the door by her mother.
"Robin! Tharja! Noire! Welcome!" She said.
"Long time no see Nowi," Father says, the three of us receiving hugs from Nah's short mother.
"Libra is cooking in the backyard, there is already some food made, come on in," She says.
Father and I start walking towards the back, but I overhear Nowi talking with Mother about something.
"Nowi I am not talking about this here," Mother said.
"But Tharja I need to know how you got your boingy bits," Nowi says.
"Call them that one more time and you will feel my wrath," Mother replied. I'd rather not know what they are discussing.
I reach the backyard and spot Yarne, veggie burger in hand, and Nah sitting at a table. I spot my father heading towards Yarne's parents and Nah's dad at the grill by their pool.
"Glad you could make it," Nah says as I take a seat.
"I wouldn't miss it," I say with a smile.
"Where's Morgan?" Yarne asks.
"She's…going through some things," I say, trying to keep the details vague.
Nah starts to look around, "Morgan would never turn down a good meal, is something wrong?"
"I-I don't think she would want me to talk about her business," I didn't want to talk about her troubles, but if anyone could be trusted it would probably be Nah and Yarne.
"C'mon Noire, we both care about Morgan we wanna know what's bothering her," Yarne says.
I give them the benefit of the doubt; those two are definitely the most genuine people I could share this information with. I bring them both close.
"It's about Owain," I whisper.
"Of course," Nah says, breaking the quietness, "That girl is obsessed."
"Nah keep it down!" I forcefully whisper.
"Sorry sorry, to be honest I should have known, but I can't imagine what she'd be sad about," Nah explains.
"Well that's just it, it seemed like those two were practically made for each other right?" I ask.
They both nod.
"Wait did Owain turn her down or something?" Yarne asks.
"Well not exactly, you see me and Morgan went to the school this morning," I explain.
"Wait why did you go to the school on a Saturday morning?" Nah asks a perfectly reasonable question.
"I-It's a long story, but we saw Owain there," I say.
"Wait, what was Owain doing there?" Nah asks.
I was growing frustrated, "We don't exactly know, but he wasn't there alone. He ran off but me and Morgan followed him, he was in some different part of the school with Inigo and Cynthia. We aren't sure what Inigo was doing there, but Owain and Cynthia were, saying things." I explain.
"What kind of things?" Yarne asks.
"It was kind of odd, but they were saying how much they were in love, and then they kissed. Me and Morgan watched the whole thing, she ran off with tears running down her face, I felt so horrible." It was hard to recount what took place that morning; I still couldn't shake the image of my always smiling sister crying alone in her room at home.
Both Yarne and Nah had a look of disbelief on their face. "That's impossible, Morgan and Owain were just spending time together yesterday, smiling and laughing, they practically looked like a couple already," Yarne says.
"That's what we all thought, but we saw it with our own eyes," I reluctantly reply.
"Something isn't right here, there must be more to what's going on here, there is no way Owain has been dating Cynthia for so long and nobody knew," Nah makes a good point, I suddenly got a good idea.
"Wait, Kjelle and Lucina are Owain's cousins right Nah?" I ask.
"Umm, I think, why?" Nah says.
"If they are cousins they should know what he has been getting into right, is Kjelle coming?" I ask.
"No, she and Lucina called earlier and said they can't make it today, they have something else to do or something," Nah explains.
I let out a sigh, "Well I will have to talk to her on Monday, hopefully I can get this all figured out, I hate having to see my sister like this," I say.
"Well if there is anything we can do just let us know," Yarne says.
"Yeah, we'll do whatever we can to bring back Morgan's smile," Nah says, it warmed my soul to have such dedicated friends who cared so much about me and Morgan, I truly felt blessed.
"T-Thank you guys," I utter.
"Cannon Ball!" There is a loud yell before I spot my Father and Yarne's Father launching themselves into the pool. Their splash range was pretty impressive.
The two of them poke their heads out the water. "Lon'qu! Don't do that so close you almost got water all over the food!" Yarne's mother patronized.
"It's alright Panne, we got covering over it, let him have his fun," Nah's Father said.
The three of us all share a laugh, all our parent's went to high school together, it's nice to watch them interact.
"Yarne!" His father says, startling him.
"Uh, yes Dad," Yarne replies.
"You brought your trunks didn't you, get in here and swim," He says.
"B-But I just ate I gotta wait thirty minutes."
"You ate a veggie burger, that hardly counts, we don't have a pool at home you better get in."
"O-Okay, just give me some time."
"Hmph," His father grunts before going back to swimming.
"Oh no…" Yarne whispers back.
"What's the problem?" Nah says.
"I was afraid this was going to happen, I didn't want him to find out I can't swim," Yarne explains.
"You don't know how to swim!" Nah mutters.
"Shush! I am just gonna have to find a way to fake it, wish me luck." Yarne says, before going to change.
I laughed at the whole situation, it was nice to be able to relax like this and celebrate Nah and Yarne's track victory, these get togethers are truly a blessing. Now I just need to focus and helping Morgan