Ch 13: Snow Covered Evidence

When Sunlight Meets Moonlight

Ch. 13: Snow Covered Evidence

Serena was startled. " Why would he care?" Serena thought, heart racing and breath short.

" Well?" Darien whispered. He settled close to Serena.

As soon as she felt his warmth, Serena shifted over. She pulled at her dress length till it was stretched over to her ankles. Her head was bowed down with her chin on her arms, wrapped around her legs. She felt her body shake as memories of the past flooded her. She began rocking back and forth.

" Serena?" Darien asked, panicking. He touched her shoulder. She continued rocking, as if she was a trance.

" It began the night father opened his new academy." Serena started in a flat, low tone. " He was interviewing new teachers."

" Miss Ireland." Scott Tenor smiled, as he sat across the young teacher.

" Hello." The young blonde returned the grin, spreading to her eyes as she viewed the handsome blue-eyed founder.

" What areas do you teach?" Mr. Tenor asked.

" English Lit. I also have a degree in mathematics, but I'd rather not teach that." Miss Ireland laughed softly.

" I see." Mr. Tenor broadened his smile, jotting down notes.

" What's so bad about that?" Darien whispered. Serena's head snapped up and her tear filled eyes looked straight at him.

" They began dating. One night, when dad was drunk from a party he and Miss Ireland…made a small mistake. Resulting in me. They weren't married, but it wasn't a big town. Word got around and Miss Ireland lost her job, respect, everything. Eventually Dad gave in to his guilt and married her. He…he regretted it. He never loved her and he never will. Soon he grew bitter towards her when she had me. Oh, but he adored me, which made Miss Ireland's life miserable. She was green with envy whenever Dad showered me with gifts or kisses that she never received. I guess it also partially Dad's fault, but she never saw it that way. She always saw me as an obstacle. An obstacle to Dad's love." Serena continued, her voice getting stronger with each word.

" Don't touch that!" Miss Ireland screamed as her little daughter reached for an apple on the table.

" Angie! Don't yell at our daughter!" Scott scolded, scooping the crying blonde in his arms.

" Your daughter! Your bastard's daughter!" Miss Ireland shrieked back.

Scott looked as if he aged years. " Angie, please." He sighed.

Miss Ireland's eyes softened. " Scott, I'm sorry." She moved to touch is shoulder. He swung back, veering from her touch. Her eyes hardened and narrowed onto the blonde toddler hanging onto her father's lapel.

" What happened?" Darien asked softly. Serena had stopped rocking for a minute but begun again as soon as he asked the question.

" Now don't you dare tell your bastard of a father what happened! Or I swear it'll be more painful next time!" Miss Ireland yelled at her ten-year-old daughter cowering in the corner of the living room.

" Sorry, mother." Young Serena whispered. Suddenly blood choked up from her mouth. Serena tried to cover it up, with her hands but the crimson blood trailed down the pale skin of her hand.

Miss Ireland's eyes narrowed. " How many times have I told you to call me Miss Ireland? Only in front of your father do you call me mother. Do you understand?" Miss Ireland said through clenched teeth.

" Yes, Miss Ireland." Serena said, biting her lip to prevent the blood and sobs to come crashing through her mouth.

" Now clean yourself up. Your father will be back." Miss Ireland ordered, putting the belt away, tucked in bottom of the closet.

" Serena!" Darien gasped, as she begun breathing quickly and grabbing herself tighter into a ball.

" I'm sorry she had go in such an awful way daughter." Scott Tenor said softly, staring at a picture of the family during Christmas. " I know she was unhappy but I felt at certain moments she was content. Even for a little bit."

" Yes Father." A teenage Serena whispered, sitting with a blanket wrapped around her trembling body as she stared into the blazing fire. Her faces had scratches on them and a bruise on her head. Outside the snow fell hard, covering the earth. And covering the evidence.

" She had gone overboard that day. Father had took me out for a birthday lunch and for a present he got me this tattoo." Serena murmured, feeling the smooth skin underneath her eye. She rubbed blazing sun with a crescent moon connected to it.

" What does it mean?" Darien asked staring at the bright spot on her pale face.

"Dad says, that he never found true love. He says that when my sunlight meets another's moonlight I will feel my true love. After all these years I still don't understand when he means." Serena sighed. She lifted her face from her arms.

" What did your mother, I mean Miss Ireland, do when she saw you?" Darien wondered.

" At night, Dad had to go to Rye Christi's to help out with the new academy. It was snowing that night. Miss Ireland…she got mad about my tattoo. In fact she was furious. I, being older, ran outside trying to avoid her. She tackled me in the snow and scratched my face. She hit me one too many times in the head and I passed out. Dad wouldn't have noticed but it had stopped snowing a few minutes after she dragged my body in. She must have been really mad to not notice. Dad came home to find blood and body marks across the front yard. Dad came in, ignoring Miss Ireland's pleas not to go to my room, and barged in my room when I was sleeping." Serena continued. Her face was buried in her arms again.

" Serena!" Scott Tenor bellowed.

" Father!" Serena gasped, pulling her blankets around her body and face.

" What happened?" he shouted. He pulled the blankets away to find his daughter covered in dry blood. Scarlet blood hid the bruises and scratches underneath.

" Angie what did you do?" he yelled. " Hold on honey." He kissed his daughter's bruised forehead. He ran out of the room, leaving his shaken and sobbing daughter on the bed.

" Angie?" he inquired. He walked into the kitchen to find his wife on the table with a knife through her heart. There was a note still clutched in her cold hand. He opened it up.

Scott,

I know you always loved her more then me. I couldn't stand it. I never could figure out why. Why you loved her more, why you never touched me after that night. I will always wonder, but I have no regrets to what I have done.

Miss Ireland

PS- Serena, although I haven't been the mother you needed, I hope your sunlight meets your moonlight.

To be Cont'd………………………

AN- you think I should redo this? I'm not quit over my writer's block but after all those reviews, I've just been so impatient to get this out!!! ^_^ I hope you enjoyed it though. LOTS of romance the next chapter, I PROMISE!!! I even have all the ideas! If it weren't midnight I'd type it up! But just hold on for like a couple days? ^_- PLEASE REVIEW!!! ( or flame )