Selene frowned when she felt as if someone was watching her. She looked around, but couldn't find the source. She then shrugged it off. It probably was nothing, she thought to herself. She looked at Rajini, wondering if she had felt it right earlier, if Rajini really had a power as well. She looked at Kai, who had his shirt back on.
"If there's a stream, there will be a lake somewhere, right?" She then asked. Ray looked at her, but then turned back to Rajini.
"Most likely." Kai answered, he looked at her. She looked back at him, waiting for some more, but when he didn't say anything, she sighed.
"So… will we go there?" She asked.
"No." She just stared at Kai.
"Not? Why not? A lake…" she started.
"We have water here, she can't walk" He pointed to Rajini. "And we have an unconscious child here." She slowly nodded and sighed. She got up and looked around. Her back was itching, she groaned, knowing what it meant. She was aching to fly again, but she couldn't with those people around.
"I'm going to walk around a bit." She announced. Ray looked at her.
"Be careful, stay close to us, so we can help if something is wrong." He told her. She nodded and softly smiled. She then limbed away, trying to disguise her pain as much as she could. Ray looked after her and then turned back to Rajini.
"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked, worried. She hadn't said anything anymore. Rajini nodded again in reply, she slowly sat up. Ray supported her by holding her back. Rajini slowly stood up. "I don't think that's a good idea." Ray told her, softly pulling Rajini back down. She looked at him in return and then looked after Selene. She had felt the wave of energy through her body, but that had to mean Selene was one as well… but that was nearly impossible, the chance that they would meet would be one on billion or something like that. She stared at the sky, a wave of nausea washing over her when she realised she was really stuck here. Ray had said that there were no survivors of the plane crash… only the five of them… but that would mean… She turned on her side and started coughing, feeling terribly sick now. Ray started patting her back worried. No survivors… but he had promised… When she stopped coughing, she slowly leaned against Ray, tired.
"No… survivors?" She asked Ray. He looked at her, sad.
"No, only us five. With who were you on the airplane?" He replied, stroking her back, in case she would get in a coughing fit again.
"M-my brother…" She whispered, she looked away.
"I'm sorry" He whispered in return. Tears filled Rajini's eyes, her brother really was gone.
"Can we go to the plane tonight?" She looked at him. Kai looked at Rajini, and before Ray could say something, Kai answered instead.
"We can't, it's just a wreck, it's completely destroyed, you won't find anything there." Ray looked at him and then looked at Rajini. Rajini stared at the water.
"Oh, come on Kai." Ray said, eyeing Rajini. "If she wants to, she can go, we'll go with her, nothing can happen anymore." The only reply Kai gave, was rolling his eyes.
When Selene was sure the others couldn't see her anymore, she pulled her shirt off. She threw it on the sandy ground. She stretched herself and closed her eyes, then her wings came out of her back. She was grateful she could hide them, if she couldn't, she probably would've cut them off, as her brothers always teased her with her powers. When she found out she had wings, she started to try flying, but of course she couldn't fly immediately. Her brothers used to joke about it and ask her what kind of creature she was, with wings but not being able to fly. One time she got so annoyed, she climbed on the roof of the house and jumped down, to prove her brothers that she could fly. Too bad she couldn't yet… her father had told her she was lucky there was a huge pond beneath the roof, as she fell in there.
She stretched her wings, as she hadn't flew for a very long time. After a while she lifted up, she smiled, she had missed this feeling, she loved how she felt the air under her wings. She flew higher and after a while, she flew higher than the trees. She could oversee most of the island from here. It was pretty small and from here out, she nowhere saw smoke, so that would almost mean they were the only five here. The only smoking she saw, was of the plane. She looked at the direction of the plane. She flew down again, but when she hit the ground, something was in front of her. She yelped and stared at the two yellow eyes she saw in the bushes. She took a few steps back, but flinched in pain when her foot hit a rock, she fell down.
"Selene! Are you okay!" She heard Ray yell. She bit her lip, he couldn't find her here! If he would see her wings…
"I'm fine! I just fell!" She slowly got up and limbed to her shirt, she withdrew her wings and put the shirt on, she kept eyeing the bushes, but she couldn't see the eyes anymore. She slowly limbed back to the others.
"It's a small island" She announced when she was back. Kai eyed her.
"How do you know?" He asked her. Damn, good question… she thought. She couldn't really say: 'I flew up.'
"Er… I walked a bit that way" She pointed to the direction she came from. "And I was quite fast at the beach… And we came earlier from that direction." She pointed to another direction.
"Then you still don't know if it's a small island, we should walk the whole beach around for that," He told her. She stuck out her tongue at him and lied down. "Watch out with that tongue." He told her sharp. She sat up and looked at him.
"What do you want to do with it, cut it off and bake it?" Selene replied. He just rolled his eyes.
Ray
was supporting Rajini, they were walking to the airplane wreck.
Selene had stayed behind with the young, still unconscious, girl and
Kai had walked with them. "In case they would do something stupid"
as Kai said. After a while, they arrived at the wreck. Ray bit his
lip, there was almost nothing left, just a few parts that were a part
of the airplane once. Rajini stared at the wreck, feeling her legs
giving up beneath her. She almost fell down, but Ray held her up. He
slowly helped her sit down. Ray looked at Kai, who stood a few metres
behind them, leaning against a tree.
"Typical" Ray muttered
under his breath. Rajini looked at the wreck, tears appearing in her
eyes. Slowly, a few tears trickled down.
"But I want to go to Russia, Marc," Rajini told her three year older brother. He softly smiled at her.
"Own country not good enough, huh?"
"It's not that! But you promised me that we should go there once. To visit grandma and granddad." Marc smiled and nodded.
"We'll go there. Though I don't get why you want to see them, it's not like they are exactly the best grandparents around… wait… they aren't even around." Rajini let out a sigh and glared at Marc.
"They're family, Marc. They're our family. And they can't be around if they live in Russia! Can we go in two weeks? When I'm on summer break?"
"Can't it be in two months?" Marc asked her. She sighed in return.
"But…"
"Fine, we'll go there in two weeks. I'll book the tickets." He muttered, slightly annoyed that his little sister wanted to visit relatives they hadn't seen for ten years.
"Sorry, Marc." Rajini whispered. Ray looked at her and softly took her hand, slightly squeezing it to show her he was here to support her. "It's my fault." Ray frowned.
"Of course it isn't, Rajini."
"Yes, it is! I wanted to go to Russia! He wanted to wait a few months a-and if I listened to him, we would be at home now together, watching a movie or something! A-and we would've heard about the plane crash at the news and we'd think: 'that's awful' and that would be it! He wasn't supposed to die!" She broke down crying. "N-not him…" Ray listened at her and when she started crying, he pulled her in a hug. He stroked her back. "H-he's gone… w-why?"
A twelve year old girl stood in the door opening of her new foster family, she looked at the fifteen year old Marc. Tears were shining in her eyes. Marc crouched down to Rajini's level and placed his hands on her shoulder.
"I won't ever leave you, sweetheart. When I'm eighteen, you come live with me, okay?" She slowly nodded. "Rajini, I won't ever leave you."
"P-promise?" She whispered, hope shining in her eyes, she looked at her brother. Marc placed his hand on his chest, on the place where his heart was beating.
"I promise." Rajini softly smiled at him and hugged him.
"H-he promised!" She exclaimed. "H-he wouldn't leave me!" Ray pulled her closer.
"He's not gone…" Ray tried. Rajini looked at him.
"Don't give me that crap, heaven's not real, there's no afterlife. He's just gone." Ray stared at her, a bit taking aback.
"Perhaps you'll feel better if you say goodbye to him?" He said, calm. She looked at him and looked down, she slowly nodded and got up, Ray got up immediately to help her. She then shook her head and slowly walked closer to the wreck. She stared at it and pictured Marc in her memories. She didn't know what to say, but she couldn't just leave him without saying anything.
"Marc…" She whispered. She waited for a few minutes, the words not forming in her head. "I… you… you promised you wouldn't leave me… but… I guess promises are there to be broken." She took in a sharp breath. "I'll miss you, big brother." Tears trickled down her face again. She tasted the salt on her lips. "I'm sorry for wanting to go to Russia so soon… if… if I didn't push it, you w-would've been still alive…" She looked down. "I love you." She walked a bit closer and looked at Ray and Kai, who were watching her. She sighed and kept staring at Ray, eventually Ray looked away and walked towards Kai, they didn't look at her anymore. She turned back to the plane and opened the palm of her hand, letting a blood red rose grow. She put it down in front of the plane. "A rose for you, Marc. The one you always loved." She then made another red rose, she placed it down next to the other. "And this is for all the other victims." She whispered. She then turned around and slowly made her way back to Ray and Kai.
Sorry for the delay! Hopefully this chapter made it up. R&R!