Chapter Seventeen: Trust
Chapter Seventeen: Trust

"Are you sure they're over there?" I asked uncertain.

"They went that way to talk," Vanessa replied drawing another arrow into her bow.

"Alright who shot this arrow!" Marcas demanded angrily as he appeared into our view with an arrow in his hand.

I tried not to laugh and had to bury my face into my mother's shoulder.

"I 'm sorry Marcas. My hand slipped and well the bow went that away and my fingers let go," Vanessa apologized.

"Here I'll teach you how to hold it," Marcas said standing behind her.

As Marcas was explaining away I moved closer to Alias when I noticed Folken not taking his gaze off Alias after father went to join my mother.

"If you have something to say, say it now Folken," I warned him grabbing onto Alias' hand.

During this time Marcas now also had his attention on us. Just what I needed.

"Give your brother a break after all the situation could be reversed," Marcas pointed out.

"How's that possible?" I asked irritated.

"How would you react if Folken was courting Alexis?" he accused.

"That won't happen, trust me," I said forcing that picture out of my head.

"I'm already interested in someone else," Alexis said to support me.

"You stay out of this!" Folken said.

"Hey watch who you're talking to!" I yelled.

"I'm sure Folken didn't mean to," Vanessa butted in.

"Enough Alias what do you have to say?" Marcas commanded.

"I can't really apologize to you for what happen to Trinity before when she had that vision. I had to bring her back to life when she went unconscious," Alias replayed the events in his head again.

"So you mean you didn't peak at all?" Folken scrunched.

"Folken!" I said in disgust.

"Ah ha, so you admit it," Folken said.

"Did I say so?" I insisted.

"Trina why are you so embarrassed?" Marcas asked.

"If I told you, it still wouldn't make a difference," I said tiredly.

"Marcas Trinity can't stay in the dark forever," Vanessa spoke to him in her gentles voice.

"Don't you understand that Alias is my friend," he said frustrated.

"And…" Vanessa prompted laying a hand on his shoulder.

"We have been friends since you came to live with us right Alias?" he directed his attention back to him.

"I believe so. You didn't ask any questions just wanted me to play with you," Alias recalled.

"You were a great friend. You accompanied our sister. I trusted you but you broke that trust and I don't know how I'll be able to ever look at you without a doubt," Marcas said crossly.

"I know what I did caused your trust to become weak. Trinity and I were friends since childhood but a few years back I started seeing things I had never seen before like how her hair blows in her face and she tucks it under her ear," Alias emphasized.

I was shocked, I never heard Alias express himself like this since he had told me about his parents.

"When I saw her lying on the ground with no heart beat, I was torn between my friendship with you and my feelings for your sister," he finished.

I walked up to my brother.

"Marcas if the situation was reversed I would try my best to separate my feelings of friendship from the trust. It would be difficult but I wouldn't want to lose both of them," I paused to lock eyes directly with Marcas.

"Besides you and Vanessa are to be married soon and Folken probably has a girl hidden somewhere," I added.

"Why you little sneak!" Folken complained.

I gave him my best innocent smile I could put on. Both of my brothers looked at each other and then at me before we hugged. They then messed up my hair.

"Unfair two against one!" I whined.

"So I guess that's settled," Merle asked as she popped out of the bushes.

She has a habit of appearing out of the blues.

"I believe so," Marcas said with certainty.

"Alias I have some good new and some bad news," Folken declared.

"I'll hear the good news first," Alias replied.

"You and Trinity won't be married for two or three years so during that time we get to watch you very carefully. If you do anything that makes Trinity upset…" Folken dragged on.

"Then you are toast," Marcas finished.

"I suppose that's your bad news," Alias said slightly amused.

"But I still expect you to be my sparring partner," Marcas said seriously.

"Alright! Now all we have to do is get Folken married!" Merle cheered.

We all laughed out loud when Merle started poking Folken for information.

Later that night:

"I guess you have to go back now," I said sadly.

"Don't worry you have my picture and I have yours," Alexis comforted.

"I still have to get use to you being gone," I said through my sniffles.

"Don't fret, at least I didn't have a thing with Folken," she confessed.

"I wish! But really I hope he finds true love like I have," I sighed.