Chapter 2
Yesterday was my last exam, which meant that I was now free for the summer! I am probably going to have to get a job, but my mother wanted to talk to me about something first. It turned out to be a trick, because I was cornered by my mother and father, who made me listen to what Mother had to say about my 'Grandmother Clara.' I'm still not sure if I believe what she said, but I promised that I would think about it. Basically, she told me that my 'grandmother' was a princess, which meant that I was a princess, even though the throne had been taken from my family right before my grandmother's grandmother got to become queen, or my great-great grandmother. Also, that Lucy really was a fairy, and that she was my fairy godmother. She also gave me some great news to help the shock sink in. I'm going to London for the summer!
"Your father has been able to arrange a trip to London for you to meet my family!" my mother said, with a smile plastered all over her face. "I know that you have only been able to talk to them on the phone, so I thought it would be nice to be able to meet them! Your plain leaves in a week, so you had best go pack your thinks and figure out what we need to buy. I know that you will have a splendid time. Now hurry along and tell your friends."
"Oh Mother, Father, thank you so much! I have always wanted to go to London! I can't believe that I get to go! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I squealed, enveloping them both in a huge hug. I ran up to my room and got on the phone to call all of my friends with the great news. As soon as they heard my door close, my father turned to my mother looking concerned.
"You forgot to tell her about the…"
"I did not forget to tell her anything." she interrupted. "I simply did not tell her everything." my mother finished regally.
"You need to tell her before someone else does, or before she gets hurt!" my father pleaded with her.
"I will tell her when she finally believes that I am not going insane! I do not want to hurt Kitiara any more than you do, but she is a fragile girl, and I don't want to stress her too much! I know that I am doing what is best. I promise, I will tell her before she leaves."
"If you say so." And with that my father left to go to work at Congress. My father is not a young man, but he isn't old either. He is about six feet tall, with dark brown hair that is beginning to show some gray. He has been a Congressman for three years now, and will continue to be one for another three, and maybe more if he decides to run again.
"I might be late getting home for dinner. I want to pick something up for Kit as a going away gift. Don't wait for me." he called from the door.
"Be safe dear!" my mother called after him. She is a few years younger than my father, and slight in build. She has wavy brown hair like I do, and green eyes. She has a wonderful sense for music, which I guess is where I get it from because my father is completely tone deaf.
"She will find out, even if you don't tell her you know." Nathanial said from the steps where he had been sitting listening to their entire conversation.
"What makes you so sure? I will tell her, but we don't know if it will happen or not." my mother answered back.
"It happened to you, and it will happen to her! You cannot deny who she is mother, and you cannot deny what will happen to her. This is the summer of her seventeenth year. If it will happen, which it most likely will, it will happen now."
"Just because I was cursed, doesn't mean that she will be too! Family curses normally die after five generations anyways." Mother stated in her defense.
"She is the fifth generation! If it will die, it will die after she finds her curse! For heavens sake, we don't even know what it is yet! How can you be sending her over seas when you know it will come? How is she going to handle herself over there, where she will have no one to turn to when she finds out? What if it is like the original curse? What if she has to be obedient? Have you thought about what is really best for her, or are you sending her away because you can't bear to see her suffer like you did? I care about my sister, and I don't want anything to happen to her."
"I care for my daughter too, but since we don't know what it is that will curse her, I am sending her to the only place where she can break it, like I did when I was her age." She was starting to weep now. "Her grandmothers are the only ones who can help her, not me. I wish that I could, but I can't! I just can't!"
Nathanial came over and hugged his mother because she was crying hysterically now. "Shh, everything will be okay. Everything's okay."