"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.
