Remember me When I'm Gone
Hey, guys I'm back. So anyway thanks for the reviews you've sent me I've liked the positive tone. So, anyway this is Chapter 2 and I hope you like it.
Chapter 2:
The following days were spent by Caleb not daring to leave his room while Josh and Keira tried to convince him to go out with them. Maybe if he left that room he'd forget his worries a bit. Josh was thrilled that Cornelia broke up with Caleb but he still felt bad for his brother. By now the gang, Will, Irma, Taranee and Hay Lin, all knew about the whole break up and they just couldn't think of how Cornelia could do such a thing to Caleb. After all the time she said how she truly loved him and how she just couldn't live without him and then she went and betrayed him like that. It just made no sense. But life goes on and they decided on not to bringing it up anymore. Maybe Cornelia felt a bit worse than Caleb did so it was best on just leaving it the way it was. But Hay Lin and Taranee didn't think otherwise.
They felt that there was something else they could do for the both of them but after they talked it over with Keira, Will and Irma, they didn't agree and so they never spoke of it again. But after some time of thought the guys thought that they would still talk to Cornelia just like they always did. After all, if a person did nothing wrong to you then there's no reason you shouldn't talk to them, right? Well that's what they thought. It had been a week since Cornelia 'revealed' the truth and she was now back from her weekend with who knew who.
Will, and the guys were at school just as always sitting at their usual place talking and just having a laugh when Cornelia made her way towards them. She put her things on the ground and sat crossed legged. "Hey, guys." She said politely. They just glanced at her and mumbled something. She let out a deep sigh and just stayed there in silence. Just at that moment the bell rang signaling the Sheffield students that another day of school was beginning. 'Saved by the bell' she thought sarcastically. Cornelia got up just like the others did but no one uttered a word to her, or to each other. She picked up her things from the ground when she felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was Keira, "Hey, Keira. Do need something?" she asked.
"No. But I have a question though." She said while crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Why did you cheat on my brother? Doesn't he deserve more than what you did to him?"
"It's… complicated. I just can't tell you." She said, she truly was sorry about what she did but she just couldn't tell them what really happened. "I'm sorry."
"Ok, whatever. Listen, the girls and I are going to that old abandoned building site we always go to; if you want you can come with. The girls need to use their powers because they say they're getting a bit rusty and I need to train with my sword for a while. It's your choice." She made her way inside the school when Cornelia called after her.
"Tell Caleb, I-I'm sorry." She said, she made her own way into the school and went to her locker.
"Sure, whatever." Keira went to get her books from her locker and then made her way to the first class of the day, Home Ec. And unfortunately for Keira, it was with Cornelia. They made their way into the room and found their working station. was putting on her apron and scarf until the class got settled.
"Ok, class. Today we're baking ginger-pudding." She said cheerfully. Hopefully, the class would behave themselves today. If someone flung flour or dough one more time she'd just lose it. Once they put on their aprons and scarves they sieved the flour and mixed in the salt, ginger and margarine. They did this all in silence, Keira just didn't want to talk to Cornelia and she understood completely.
They spent the following hour cooking, baking and steaming the pudding until Cornelia yelped out in pain, she accidently burnt her hand on the stove. Keira put her hand under running cold water and then bandaged it. She was feeling so tired that she accidently put her hand on the burner. But why she was tired Keira didn't have a clue but she sure as hell looked tired.
"Thanks." She said as she sat down on her stool and waited for the pudding to be ready.
"No problem." Keira sat right next to her and then said, "I'm sorry for giving you the cold shoulder. It's just… I feel bad for my brother, you know?"
"I know. I'm really sorry for what I did but I just can't tell you the truth." She looked at her now bandaged hand and just sighed.
"What do you mean the truth? Did you or did not cheat on my brother?" Keira asked eagerly. Cornelia didn't say a thing but then said;
"I can't tell you."
"I knew it. You didn't cheat on him. I knew you're not like that." She gave Cornelia a bone-crushing hug. "Take that Josh." She said, he wasn't in the room at that moment so she said it partly to herself which made Cornelia smile.
"I didn't say that. Don't put words in my mouth, Keira." Cornelia said after they pulled apart. "I told you, it's complicated. I just can't tell you."
"Ok, but just confirm one thing for me." She said hopefully.
"Sure, what?"
"Did you cheat on him?" she asked.
"No. But that's the only thing I can tell you." Cornelia was now facing another bone-crushing hug. She smiled and hugged her best-friend back. "Don't tell anyone though."
"But…"
"Just don't, please." Cornelia said.
"Ok, I promise I won't." Keira smiled at her, happy about the good news but she was a bit bummed that she couldn't tell her brother. It would make him feel so much better. "But the pudding is burning, I think." Once they turned around they saw that the pot was boiling, Keira turned the oven off and then lifted the pudding up. It looked horrible, just then came next to their working station and said;
"Hm… poor work Keira and Cornelia. But… I'll give a D for effort." She then continued walking and grading the other students work until they burst out laughing.
"She always hated me." Keira said between laughs. The rest of the day went by slowly. All the time, the guys kept giving Cornelia the cold shoulder but she just ignored it. Keira kept her promise and didn't tell a soul about the truth but she still felt a bit bad about it. During lunch Cornelia didn't feel hungry so she just drank some strawberry-milk which to her surprise was really good since she didn't like it. After lunch she had Math which was always a drag but for the first time ever she fell asleep while was explaining Pythagoras' Theorem. Since she was in the back no one noticed but Taranee sure as hell noticed that Cornelia had dozed off. She tried waking her up by talking to her telekinetically but it was no use. As soon as the bell rang Cornelia woke up with a start, totally confused at what happened. At this Taranee went by and asked her what was wrong but she told her that she didn't get much sleep the previous night. Finally, the day was over and Cornelia was free to go home. Once she was home she found that her mother's friend, Jennifer, was baby-sitting Lillian until Cornelia came home while her mother was off at work.
"Hey, Jen." She said as she put her school bag on the floor and closed the door behind her, "Thanks for taking care of Lillian for me while I was at school."
"It's ok. I'm happy I can help." Jennifer packed her belongings and then went on her merry way. Cornelia felt light-headed again but she steadied herself on a chair, just then Lillian came up to her and tugged at her shirt.
"Are you okay, Cornelia?" she said sweetly. A smile crept its way onto Cornelia's face at how cute her sister was. Sometimes she was a pain in the neck but sometimes she knew to be really sweet. Lillian grabbed a glass of water and gave it to her sister who took it, thankful it wasn't full of worms or anything disgusting. Lillian had a habit of doing stuff like that but in the end they were still family and they loved each other like any sister would.
"Thanks." She took a sip from it and then knelt down in order to get eye-level with her younger sister which was shorter than her. A big surprise for a 5 year old kid. Cornelia gave her a hug and just held her tight. They stayed like that for over 5 minutes until Lillian spoke up saying;
"Can we at least sit down? My legs are getting tired." Cornelia laughed at this and lifted her up to a chair around the table.
"There, better?" Cornelia just had to smile but the smile was quickly turned into a frown, she was feeling sick now. She went running into the bathroom and began puking her guts out. After about 5 minutes with her head in the toilet she emerged from the bathroom to find Lillian looking horrified at her.
"What's wrong?" Cornelia asked as she drank some more water.
"Why do you keep on getting sick? Are you ok?"
"Well… um… I just have the flu or something." Cornelia lied. At this Lillian went running to Cornelia and hugged where she could reach, which wasn't a lot, her legs. She wrapped her arms around her thighs and just hugged her tight. Lillian knew that it wasn't the flu; she knew that it was something more serious then any kind of bug but she just couldn't figure it out.
"I don't want you to die, Cornelia." She cried, Cornelia knelt beside her and hugged her back,
"I'm not going to die if I catch the flu. I've had it dozens of times before and I'm still here."
"Do you promise you won't die?" Lillian asked as she looked into her sister's eyes.
"Heh-heh, I promise. Now c'mon, you've got to do your homework."
"But homework is boring. All you do is write, write and write." Lillian pouted, she was lifted on the chair by Cornelia who then said;
"It's just drawing and adding 1+1." She sat next to her and took out her own books and stuff.
"Which is 2." Lillian took out a pencil from her pencil-case and began writing.
"Yeah, it is. You're going to become the next Albert Enstine." Cornelia said with a laugh.
"Oh, yeah. Oh yeah." Lillian danced a bit which made Cornelia laugh. The next 2 hours were spent by doing homework, teaching Lillian how to add and subtract, and by playing Barbie dream-house. After that time, came home from work. She took off her shoes and hung her car keys on the hook. "Hey, sweet hearts."
"Hey." They both said.
"Mom, I gotta go out so see you later." Cornelia got up from the ground and gave Lillian the Barbie doll she was playing with, "I got to get away from this tiny midget." She ruffled Lillian's hair and then kissed her mother on the cheek and went to the old abandoned building site Keira told her about.
She didn't feel like walking so she just decided on turning into guardian form and just fly herself to the old building site. It was getting dark now and so it was good cover. Not that many people usually went out this time of the day so not that many people could see her flying around. In about 15 minutes she was there, the others were already there all except for Keira. She usually was late, just like her brother usually was. At the thought of Caleb she felt her heart being squeezed. 'I wish you were here Caleb' she thought silently. Usually when they trained he would be there training with them but this time he wasn't. She landed right next to Irma which was battling Hay Lin.
"Need some help?" she asked. Without waiting for an answer she grabbed a chunk of earth and threw it at Hay Lin who easily dodged it. Just then Hay Lin sent a small tornado at them, this caught Cornelia totally by surprise and was caught in the middle of the tornado. Irma had moved out of the way just in time. After the dust settled, a coughing Cornelia was revealed. The guys were all in a laughing fit but Cornelia wasn't amused. She got up to her feet and then brushed the dust off of her skirt.
"Ok, ok it's not that funny. You just caught me off guard." She said as she took the leaves out of her hair. Just then Keira entered the building site.
"S-sorry about…. being late." She panted while holding her sword tightly in her hand, "What's so funny?" She adjusted her bow and arrow and waited for an answer.
"Cornelia, she was caught in one of Hay Lin's tornados." Irma managed to say between laughs. "A small one."
"Ah, just shut-up." Cornelia said, "C'mon, let's continue." And so they did, but now they switched partners. Taranee was now with Hay Lin while Cornelia was with Will so that just left Irma with Keira. She was pretty good, even fighting against Irma who could fly off whenever she wanted too. They continued on fighting just as always. Taranee was sending Hay Lin the most enormous giant sized fire balls that she could make while Hay Lin kept blasting them off with her wind power.
Irma was sending Keira water blasts from the air which would make Keira go for cover behind a bulldozer. But Irma couldn't keep that up forever so Keira leveled the playing field a bit by shooting arrows from her quiver. The bow and arrows were given to her by Elyon and so they held sentimental value. So everyday she would practice which always came in handy in these kinds of situations.
Next were Will and Cornelia, Will was sending her quintessence at Cornelia but she blocked them by a big boulder which would appear in front of her with a snap of her fingers. After Will's quintessence shots were blocked, Cornelia sent big chunks of earth whirling at the red head. Will flew off but was only caught by one of Cornelia's vines but just as quickly as she was caught she escaped because she cut the vines by using her energy blades, which, with training, she found that were useful in sticky situations. Will was now free again and sent a big blast of quintessence back at Cornelia, she didn't get the chance to block it and was hit hard in the stomach. She was sent flying in the air until she hit a steel barrel completely making her stop.
"Cornelia!" Will yelled. She didn't mean to hurt her, she was just trying to make her block the blasts. She went flying towards her and came to a halt right in front of her. Keira and the others stopped fighting and went to Cornelia's aid. "Oh my God! Cornelia! I didn't mean to do this. I'm so sorry!" Will said.
She managed to get up but she was now seeing double, "It's ok. It was an accident." She put a hand on her stomach and a shock of pain was sent through her whole body, "Ow! You sure pack quite a punch." She said with a smile.
"Why are you smiling? This is no laughing matter." Taranee said.
"Yeah, you could've gotten seriously hurt." Hay Lin said.
"Thank God you didn't." Will said as she sighed in relief.
"What's wrong with you, Cornelia? You've been skipping classes, falling asleep during lessons and now you just wiped-out. Two times in a row." Irma said in a worried voice. "Not to mention the way you burned your hand during Home Ec. Keira told us." Even though Cornelia and Irma usually fought over silly things, Irma still cared about her, she was like a sister to her and she wanted to know why she was acting this way.
"Nothing! Nothing is wrong with me. Shish, why do you guys keep asking me that? I'm fine, in fact I'm great." She said letting out her frustration towards everything; the world, her father and just about everything else. But she was mostly mad at her father for leaving her while she was so young, she still remembered the day he died. It was in the middle of November just 5 years ago and it was a dark and cold day. She still remembered the expressionless stare he had at the funeral and when she saw him she cried so hard that it made her little sister start crying as well. Lillian was still a baby so she didn't remember much of their dad. Cornelia took a deep breath and said;
"Look, guys, I'm sorry for my outburst. It's just… I've been so moody lately and I don't know why." She said calmly.
"It's ok. I think that's enough training for today, right guys?" Keira said as she sheathed her sword and put her bow and arrows around her back.
"Yeah, I'm pretty tired now. And I could use with a hot nice bath." Irma said as she smiled at the idea.
"I think we all could use a nice hot bath." Hay Lin said. They transformed into their normal, teenage selves and began walking home. Cornelia stayed behind with Keira while the other goofed off in the front. She touched her stomach and winced, God it hurt. That Will really knew how to pack a punch no wonder the guys she battled in Meridian never got back up.
Keira saw Cornelia was in pain and said, "Does it hurt a lot? 'Cause it looks like it does."
"Heh, you have no idea." Cornelia said, after a few minutes of walking they were at Keira's house and so they dropped her off. Cornelia noticed that Caleb was at the front porch staring at a magazine. God he looked hot! Cornelia gave Keira a quick hug just as soon as she was about to leave and whispered in her ear; "Don't tell him a thing that I didn't cheat on him, got it?"
"Ok, got it." She whispered back, "Well, good-night, guys."
"Good-night." They all said. Keira put down her bow and arrows and then gave her sword to her brother which he quickly put next to him. He saw that Cornelia was looking at him and glared at her, then he got up and went inside. Keira just shuddered and took the bow and arrows and the sword and went inside herself.
They continued on walking until everyone was dropped off at their house, only Cornelia was left and once she got home she entered quietly in case her mother was asleep but fortunately she wasn't. She entered the living room to find Lillian watching 'Barbie and Swan Lake', while she trying to act like Barbie herself but was always falling down on the sofa. Her mother was in the kitchen doing the dishes. "Mom, I'm home." She took off her coat and then went into the kitchen and kissed her mother on the cheek.
"Hi, thanks for watching Lillian until I came back from work." She said while she dried her hands in a tea towel.
"It's ok." saw that Cornelia was a bit sad but she didn't know why so she asked her. In return Cornelia said, "Well, I broke up with Caleb." Her mother was shocked at this but didn't say a word until Lillian came running into the kitchen, her pink tutu jumping up and down with every step she took.
"What do mean you broke up with Caleb?" Lillian asked, over the past few months she grew fond of him and liked having him around.
"It's complicated, Lillian. You're too young to understand." Cornelia said, remembering the previous week and how she felt.
"But he will come by and see me right?"
"Sure." Cornelia said, "I'm going to take a bath. Good night." She made her way to her room and got her PJs out of the drawer. Then she went into the bathroom and took the most refreshing baths she'd ever took. After she was washed and dried she noticed that where she was hit was turning violety-blue. She put on some cream on it and then put on her shirt on. Then she went to her room and slept a dreamless slumber.
End of Chapter 2:
Ok, guys. Its ready tell me what you think and by the way, in the coming chapter you'll find out why Cornelia was feeling dizzy and why she was feeling sick. Until then leave me a review or two. --xKrissyx--
