Chapter 12
Summer came too early for her that year. Many things that could have happened did not and many things that should have happen did. In a way, everything fell right into place for her life, except for one thing. One thing that she wished she did not have to live with. 'You'll learn to like her. I promise you that she has changed.' Chris words were much harder to digest, for everything was about Bianca now.
Andrianne knew that it was not her place to command her brother from doing or not doing things. She knew that his love for her was stronger since the day he met her in the past. Bianca was not like any other girl.
"You know, you should really be enjoying yourself outside rather than sitting here with you books. It is summer anyways." A voice said from her door frame. Andrianne does not even have to look at who it was to know who the voice belong to. His mind was just screaming happily since she asked him to be her boyfriend.
Andrianne just ignored her brother and pretend to focus on the book she had in her hand. The book in her hand suddenly shimmered into blue dust and it later appear in Chris' hands. "Give it back." She said quietly as she rose from the chair. Chris just shook his head as he held the book up high.
"You can just take it back from me." Chris said making her come closer to where he was. Andrianne just sighed and went closer to her brother. "You are not talking to me now?" Chris asked. Andrianne just shrugged as a reply. "She's not as bad as you think, you know."
"It doesn't matter what I think of her." Andrianne spoke sourly as she stopped in front of him. "Where are you taking me?" She asked finally looking at her brother, trying her hardest not to listen to Chris' mind right at that moment.
Chris stopped his sister as he went down to her level. "Where do you think? I know what you saw in the past and I know what she was in high school. She's not that person anymore." He said trying to convinced his little sister. "Andy, please give me this one time to make a mistake if you want to call it that. Let me live my life without thinking of the consequences of the future or even the failure of the past. You have to do the same. Unless there are something that you are not telling me about what happened when I left you in the past."
"Grandpa is waiting; can the two of you hurry up?" Wyatt said loudly from the stairs.
"I don't feel like eating. You and Chris go ahead with him. I just want to stay home tonight." Andrianne replied quickly as she turned back to her study table as she shimmered back her book on the table.
"Andy, come on." Wyatt said materializing in front of her. "You can't rot in this room, whenever he's at home. You two were very close, almost inseparable. Now you can't even stand to be near him?" Wyatt said. "Andy, there are things in life that will never go according to what we want." He spoke. "Grandpa is waiting and this fight between you two has been going on too long and it's getting absurd. Be down in two minutes or both of you will get something special from mom and dad."
Andrianne grunted as she pushed both her brother out of her room and changed into more appropriate attire for a dinner. "I'm sorry I can't accept her. Not for what she was and not of her doing in the past. But of what she did to us in our past." Andrianne whispered to herself.
"You okay?" Wyatt asked as he waited for his little sister in front of her room. Andrianne flashed him a fake smile and nodded. "I need more than a faux smile to fool me, Android." He said.
"Still playing that game aren't we." Andrianne said smiling more sincerely.
"I knew it would work." Wyatt smiled his victory smile as Andrianne's hand struck his arm. "For a little girl like you, you are terribly strong." He commented as he rubbed his arm.
"I'm a dancer." Andrianne replied.
"No. you're an android. A strong one at that." He said as they walked down the stairs. "What's with the fight with Chris?" He asked as he saw the living room was already empty. Andrianne just shrugged her shoulders. "It's not Chris is it?" He asked.
"Nope." Andrianne said briefly uninterested with the next name.
"Why do you hate her so much?" Wyatt asked.
"Hate is a powerful word. I don't hate her, I just don't like her." Andrianne replied as she looked up at her brother. "There are things that have yet to come that she did. The thing is, what she did, I could never forgive her. Not back then and certainly not now."
"Can I know what she did?" Wyatt questioned his little sister trying his luck in getting anything out of his little sister. Andrianne just shook her head as a reply. "Did or does Chris know?" Again Andrianne just shook his head.
The rest of the night went on in a blur to most of them except Chris. As much as he wanted Andrianne to be parted from him, he had no such intention for her to be so far as that she was out of his reach.
The night was terribly dark and everyone was already asleep. A dimmed light showered Andrianne's room as to give her little light for the words in her books before she goes to sleep. Softly Chris knocked before entering the room. Andrianne straighten up on her bed as she tried harder to concentrate on the book she was reading.
"Haven't you finished The Twilight Saga a long time ago?" He started as he sat on the foot of the bed, facing Andrianne. Andrianne just kept quiet and pretend to be intently reading the book in her hand. "You know you really should not strain your eyes like this." He said softly as he lowered down the book. Andrianne's eyes pooled with water and the tough façade she was putting was wearing out quickly. "Can we just talk? Like old times."
Andrianne still kept quiet and she just turned away so that her eyes do not have to meet his. "There's nothing to talk about." She said quietly. "And it's getting late."
"There was a time when you just can't stay away from the phone just to call me every night. Just to say good night. Why are you pushing me away, Andrianne?" Chris asked as he lay down on the bed. "I was with Bianca for quite some time now. You were never like this before; tell me what you see or what you remember. Andy, you know I would do anything for you right?"
"I'm tired Chris, I want to sleep." Andrianne said as she curled up on the bed with the pillow covering her face.
"The only time you sleep like this is when you are crying princess." Chris said as he moved closer and removes the pillow on Andrianne's face. "Don't cry princess. Tell me what is going on." Chris said as he thumbed the tears from Andrianne's face. Andrianne just shook her head at him. "Andrianne, please."
Andrianne took a deep breath and touched took her brother's hands in hers. "I swore to him I would never let anyone know of this and I shall never speak a word of it to another soul. The day Ryan was operated on, the few days that I lived on without you in the past was without a doubt the worst days in my life. That day when I tried to call you during the surgery, the same dream came to me over and over again. And you being with Bianca do not help." She said.
"Tell me what I did to make you this angry at me." Chris asked almost pleading to connect to his little sister.
"It has never been about you. It's not you. It never was." Andrianne answered. "It could never be you." She said as she shimmered away.
"Andy. Andy wait." Chris shouted. "And she ran away again. Damn it." He shouted to himself forgetting the other occupants in the house.
"What happened?" Wyatt quickly asked as he orbed in the room sounding alarmed. "Chris, where's Andy?" He asked skeptically.
"No idea. She disappears every time I ask her that question." Chris answered.
"Then why ask? Are you that stupid? She's difficult, but she needs time. If anyone she'll tell anything to, is you. Just wait." Wyatt said as he heads for the door.
"That is the problem." Chris replied trailing his brother. "She rarely even calls me anymore. She just don't talk anymore. She keep burying herself in those books."
Wyatt just replied with a sigh. "Well, I wonder who gave her, her first book." He said cynically. "And you do know she's in the basement don't you. She told me about some kind of sanctuary or something, you and her used to be in."
"She told you about the sanctuary? And you didn't say anything?" Chris asked.
"Let's leave the past in the past. I'm not that person anymore you know. Thanks to you and Andy, I'm stuck in a business school now." Wyatt speaks as he smirked annoyingly.
"She told you anything else? About what had happened?" Chris pried more information out of his brother.
Wyatt shook his head. "She tells you and Ryan more than she tell me anything. She talks to me. She speaks, but she don't tell me everything. But that's fine, because I am bound to find it out sooner or later. She's special that way."
"She wants people to just forget her. She have seen them hurt." Andrianne said walking up the stairs from the basement. "She hated the moment she was born because she was bound to hurt the very person she loves and cares about." She paused. "I just want to be distanced from everyone so that when I leave, I would not hurt them that much."
Slowly Chris moved forward towards his little sister, trying to process what Andrianne just said. "Chris stop. I need the space. I need to know that my brothers are perfectly fine when it's time for me to go."
Chris stood stunned in his path. "It has never been about Bianca?" Chris questioned her suddenly. Andrianne just smiled curtly at her brother.
"It has a lot to do with her. Yet there are things that you should not know." Andrianne replied to her brother. "Not yet. You will someday."
"She's really cheating on me, isn't she?" Chris sighed. Andrianne shrugged letting her brother think about the answer himself. "Shit." He cussed underneath his breath.
Andrianne shook her head at him. "No cussing. Not under any circumstances right?" Wyatt stepped nearer to his little sister and simply screamed the plea of an answer in his head as she said it. "No. As much as I enjoy watching you two don't happen, it would never be as good as finding it out yourself."
Wyatt opened his mouth only to close it again without saying a word. "You're the first seven years old to be speaking in riddles and puzzles all the time. Can't you just speak like normal kids?" Wyatt spoke finally. Andrianne just smiled. "No orbing. Just, tell us what happened? Just speak like a normal person, not like Chris or Ryan."
Chris just squinted at his big brother shaking his head. "You do know she is a stubborn little lady, don't you?" Chris asked. Wyatt just shrugged and sat on the dining chair as he waited for either of his little siblings to speak. "Why…" Chris trailed in his own question. "Never mind, you'll tell me when you are ready. Like the last time right?" He asked.
"I can't tell you. I want to if I could. If I could do it without hurting anyone else. It's in the past, yes. But it felt like it happened yesterday. It felt like I died and lived through the worst part of dying." Andrianne said without making much sense.
"Well, I know I'm no more the evil brother here, but I somehow think it does have something to do with me. Ryan in the hospital, me being bad. Let me guess. I killed Ryan to get to Bianca, thus turning her to get to Chris?" Wyatt said guessing the mind of his little sister.
Andrianne stared at her eldest brother stunned by his guess. "Andy, I might not be the brightest, or the sharpest one in this family, but I am your brother, I don't need to be a mind reader to see what you are screaming about many nights when you are asleep. Only two people that can make you struggle in pain like that." Wyatt said.
"No." Andrianne said suddenly. "You were evil. Yes. Very." She paused. "But you could never hurt me. Ever. You wouldn't. By hurting Chris or Ryan, means you are hurting me. You wouldn't do that." Andrianne said. "She killed him and let Chris to the future so that she could be with you. She had planned it all out. The time, the schedule and the set up saying you sent her back to take him back to our future."
"She needed my powers so you would bow down to her." Chris said quietly to Wyatt. "Ryan tried to stop her?"He asked. Andrianne just nodded. "But that would never happen would it?" Again Andrianne shrugged. "Andy, please. Tell me what you have seen happen. You're killing me here."
"It feels better than being killed. It's a miracle what time travel can do." Andrianne said as she shimmered back into her room.
*******
The noise made by the television set does not make any sense to Andrianne. She curled up on the couch as her eyes glued on the television set yet her mind was fluttering to another dimension. "It's happening." The word flashed over and over in her mind yet she was not sure of its importance. It was two weeks ago that she had the huge fight with Chris. Her senses were spot on yet, she felt so wrong.
Chris gently sat beside her on the couch. "I'm sorry." He started. "Andy, what happened to us?" He said quietly. "I want to be the big brother that over bearing protective over his little sister. I want to be the big brother you have always known me to be. I can't do it if you keep pushing me away like this."
Andrianne turned her head slowly to face her brother. A smile formed on her face as she threw her arms around him. "Tell me everything is going to be fine." She said as her voice cracked. She could literally feel Chris's heart beating much faster than it was and worry overwhelms him.
"Everything is fine." Chris said soothingly as he caressed her hair. "What's wrong, princess? You can tell me anything. Tell me what's wrong? Don't cry darling."
"I don't want to remember anymore. I hate the dreams. Everything has changed but everything is the same. Make it go away. Please make it go away." Andrianne pleaded to her brother. Chris just held his little sister as long as possible. He was stunned and confuse, but he could never let her go. "Make it go away." She said as her voice lowered down to a whisper.
"Make what go away, Andy?" Chris asked finally. "You have to tell me. I don't know what you are talking about."
"Make the memories and the dreams go away. Make the visions go away. Take everything away. I can't stand it anymore. I can't stand the pain." Andrianne said as she buried her face in Chris' chest. "Make everything go away." She pleaded.
"Calm down." Chris said gently. Soothingly he whispered a chant to calm his little sister down. "Just relax."
"Don't leave me." Andrianne said suddenly as Chris parted slightly from her. He shook his head.
"I'm not going anywhere. Just relax okay." Chris said. "Close your eyes." Gently he placed his hands on Andrianne's head. "Everything is going to be just fine." He whispered softly as he concentrated to block certain things in her mind. "I should have done this earlier for you. I'm sorry."
Without a word Andrianne laid her head on Chris' chest weakly. "Why didn't you tell me?" Chris whispered as he let all the images in Andrianne's mind flood his.
"I…" Andrianne started but words could not form quickly enough for her to speak. "I don't know how to." She managed finally. "I tried. Many times. I tried to tell you. To tell Wyatt. But I just couldn't. I don't know why." Andrianne replied quietly.
"I do." Chris said. "You can't keep everything to yourself Andy. You had me before, you have me now. You have big brother now too. We have mom and dad. And everyone else."
"I'm sorry you have to find out about her this way." Andrianne said as she straightens up and faced her brother. She could not feel him that intensely anymore. Although a pinch of sadness wallow her, but she was glad she could live as she was again.
"Don't" Chris said shaking his head. "Don't apologize. It was not your fault. I could not believe it if you have told me before. Not without seeing it with my own eyes. How could she do that? I trusted you with her."