Chapter 8: What have I done?

"Where have you been?" Melanie asked going up to Scarlett as she came through the door. She couldn't believe it her best friend said she would be back by one and she was late!

"I'm so sorry I lost track of time" Scarlett said taking off her mask. She could tell by the look on her best friends face new what she was hiding.

"You kissed him didn't you?" Melanie asked with a smile going across her small lips. Melanie knew her best friend to well. After all they've been best friends ever since they where very young.

Scarlett smiled with her dimples showing. Melanie had guest right.

"You did. I knew it" Melanie said as her mouth fell open some.

"Ok yes I did and it was the best night of my life" Scarlett said handing Melanie the dresses. "I didn't even want to leave when it hit one. That's why I wasn't home right away". As Scarlett sat down with a sigh looking up at Melanie.

"That's alright if it was Ashley I would have done the same. What are you going to do when Rhett finds out you're not this rich plantation owner? That you're this servant working here instead of owning it?" Melanie asked putting the dress back in the box.

"I thought about that as well. I've decided I will just think about that tomorrow" Scarlett said biting her lower lip not sure if that was the right answer. If it wasn't what would she do? She just didn't know what she would do.

"I hate to cut you short Scarlett but I have to get this back to the dress maker or she will have my head" Melanie said telling Scarlett bye and leaving for the dressmakers.

As Scarlett sat in a rocking chair by the fire she thought back on the amazing night. Before she knew it she began to think about the time when her Pa was reading to her one night before bed. When she asked in her option a very important question.

"Pa do fairy tales come true?" a six year old Scarlett asked sitting on her Pa's lap with a look of wonder on her face. She had always read in fairy tales that they did and now she wanted to know if they came true in real life.

"No but dreams come true. One of these days you will find the man of your dreams. As long as he's a southern who thinks like you" Gerald told his lovely daughter.

"Gross Pa please don't make it mushy" Scarlett said with a nasty look on her small face. That was one of the last things she was thinking. After all she was only six. At the age of six you think about playing with your best friends all day and then plan what you're doing the next day. Not about the man your going to marry. But Scarlett did want to marry someone that was like her in many ways. But she wasn't going to think about that then she would think about it later much later.

Scarlett came out of that memory with a smile on her face. Now that Scarlett thought about it she was sixteen and now saw this in a completely different light. Maybe Rhett Butler was the one? Scarlett asked herself.

"Scarlett where's are tea!" yelled India as they came through the door. Throwing down the purses and Shaw's.

Scarlett ran in with the tray moments later. While she was sitting in the rocker she must have dosed off.

"Oh" India said sitting down "You had it ready before we came in that's a first".

"I couldn't believe that, that Rhett Butler didn't say a word to us all night" Suellen said "Instead he was with some girl".

"Fiddle Dee Dee he should have been with the other people" Scarlett said joining the talk.

"Did you say something Scarlett?" India asked as if she wasn't lessening.

"Well it's just that-"

"Hay the girl that was with him was about your size and looked just like you" Carreen said cutting off Scarlett.

Scarlett swolwed hard this was it her step family was going to find out and she would be dead. She could just see her life flash before her eyes.

"Scarlett did you go this evening?" India asked raising her eye brows glaring at Scarlett.

"No…no of course not. Why would you ask me that" Scarlett barley managed to get out. She was so scared that she thought for sure she was done for.

"Don't lie to me. Look me in the eye and tell me you aren't lying" India said putting her cup of tea down.

Oh no Scarlett hated this. India could always tell when she was. "Why would I lie to you stepmother?" Scarlett asked as she began to get very nerves. Her heart began to beat very fast that she was sure her step family could hear it.

"You did when you where younger" India said with cool mean eyes.

"What? I didn't I never did when I was a child" Scarlett said with shock. What was her stepmother talking about? It was her stepsisters who lied when they where younger not her.

"Oh yes you did you just don't remember it. In fact I remember one time you broke your mothers vase the one that sat on the table next to the front door" India said meanly.

"But I-" Scarlett started to say she wanted to defend herself of this.

"Leave where tired and we don't want to hear it" India said with a snap in her voice.

Scarlett left and headed to bed. But not before she heard her step family.

"Did Scarlett really lie and break the vase when she was little?" Carreen asked looking at her mother.

"Of course not her stupid dog did. But she will believe anything" India laughed as they headed up stairs.

A lump filled Scarlett's throat with in turn turned into tears tricking down her face. Scarlett knew the truth and always had. She never broke her mothers' china vase. She was not going to let India get to her.

As she headed to bed a second time the sun was already starting to rise in the distance.

"No I need sleep I won't make it through the whole day with out sleep" Scarlett told herself as she put her head in her hands.

As she turned to go back inside. Scarlett spotted something out of the corner of her eye. In a small corner of the Tara Plantation stood two small stones. Scarlett went up the stones. Which read Ellen O'Hara born 1814 died 1849. The one to the right read Gerald O'Hara born 1805 died 1851. Scarlett fell to her parents graves and wept.

"Mother, Pa why did you leave? Why!" she cried into the cold hard ground. As Scarlett cried all her sorrow out she heard her mothers warm voice.

"Are little belle of the ball. Please don't cry"

"Why not?" asked Scarlett. Then her Pa's Irish voice came.

"Katie Scarlett don't cry. Crying only makes things worse. We know this is very heard for you".

"Isn't there anything you can do" begged Scarlett as more tears fell. She could really use her parents help right now. Just like she had needed for these past two years.

""I'm afraid not dear. We can't enter fear with anything on earth. Where only allowed to watch over you" Ellen's voice came once again.

Before Scarlett could answer she head something, something calling her name more like yelling her name.

"KATIE SCARLETT O'HARA! GET IN HER YOU HAVE CHORES DO!" yelled India form the front door.

Scarlett looked up with a gasp as her eyes looked back at her stepmother.

"DID YOU NOT HEAR ME GIRL. GET IN HERE NOW! BEFORE I DRAG YOU IN!" threatened India for the last time.

Scarlett began to get to her feet when something jerked her to them.

"You never lesson do you" India said with cockiness.

"But stepmother I was just-"began Scarlett with fear.

"But stepmother I was just" mimicked India. "What? Hoping your dear and loving parents would help you? There dead they can't help you".

Tears of neglect, pain and sorrow pored down Scarlett's china face and onto the hard,cold ground.

"Now get your butt in that house and do your chores. Me and my daughters want are breakfast" India said pointing at the house.

Scarlett walked to the house as she wiped her last tears away.

A look from heaven

"Why did you marry her?" Ellen asked looking at her husband. She really wanted to know the answer too this particular question.

"When you died I knew that Katie Scarlett needed someone to look after while I was away. I wasn't going to put that on Mammy's shoulders." Gerald answered his wife still looking down on his daughter. "So I married India. Plus she had two daughters that Scarlett could play with. India always showed that she loved Scarlett".

"Well India doesn't now. She's made a servant out of are poor daughter" Ellen said as if she was going to cry. It was very heard to watch her only daughter being treated the way she was.

"I'm sorry if only I would have known this was going to happen" Gerald said conferring his wife. As he conferred his wife he began to think if there was sigh all these years ago.

His mind wondered back to the river. Right before they got home Scarlett was trying to tell him something. But when they got home she got scared as her new family came out. That's when it all started. When he was at the Wilkes Scarlett was threatened not to say anything. That's why she didn't say anything. It was all his fault that this had happened. If only he would have taken Katie Scarlett with him to Twelve Oaks. Then none of this would have happened.

"Oh my lord what have I done" Gerald said allowed.

A/N: I know before you say anythings it was a short chapter I know. But don't worry the next one's should be longer I worked on this whole story while I was going and coming to South Carilina a few weeks ago on vacation.

Sneak Peek

"Why doesn't Scarlett ever come out with us?" Frank Kennedy asked looking up at the window on the seconded floor.

"Oh she's not allowed to" Suellen said taking his hand.

"She's are servant. Ever since her Pa died two years ago India just put her to work. "Come on lets go pick on her" Carren said taking Bert's hand.

"Hay you missed a spot" Suellen said pointing to a finger print on the nicely clean window.

"You put it there" Scarlett said glaring at Suellen.

"Come on girls stop being mean" Bert and Frank said looking at there girls.

"Don't be silly Scarlett doesn't mind. Do you Scarlett" Carreen said looking at Scarlett with a laugh.

"If you will excuse me I have other things to do" Scarlett said pushing past them.

"Um where are you going?" Suellen asked stepping in front of Scarlett.

"I just said I had other stuff to do" Scarlett said.

"Are mother wants you" Carreen said clearing her throat.

Scarlett went into the kitchen. "You wanted to see me" Scarlett said stepping into the kitchen. The next thing Scarlett knew she was smacked across the face.

A/N: Sorry its a short sneak peek but I don't want to give the chapter away:)