Hey guys, sorry I didn't update last week (I was very sick ironically enough). So here's this chapter and I'm sorry it's so short (I'm still sick and was barely able to write this chapter).
This chapter is in third person P.O.V. because this is the P.O.V. that I'm most versed in and I didn't want to do the hasstle of you guys not being able to read it because I can't pay attention and switch back and forth (which is what happeneds when I'm sick and try to write in first person... -_-)
So here you go and please review.
Third Person P.O.V.
About a half hour from landing, Feng went to the planes bathroom for some privacy as she called Mairi, telling her that she'd arrive in the airport soon. They agreed that Mairi and her older sister Kate would come pick Feng up and they'd have a girl's day – Feng would be dragging Sammy and Sara along. Of course, Feng didn't tell Sammy, Sara, David, Isaac, or Dante that little detail. When Feng saw two girls at the airport holing a sign with her name on it she dragged Sammy and Sara behind her and told the boys to take the luggage to the hotel and that they'd be back later.
"Hello, my name's Feng Hua," Feng said to the younger of the two girls holding out her hand. "You must be Mairi."
The eyes of both girls grew large when they realized who this was. "You mean Feng Hua as in the daughter of that rich Frenchman who was in the papers? You're that Feng Hua?"
"Seriously, you're not that famous, girlfriend, so get your head out of the gutter," Sammy said poking Feng in her side. "Yes, she's that Feng, and no she does not want the publicity so if you have camera's turn them off now before her head gets any bigger than it already is."
Feng just laughed and tugged all four girls behind her towards what she presumed to be Mairi and Kate's car. "C'mon, I'm in the mood for Chinese and I know it makes everyone feel better."
"Didn't she just have some for breakfast?" Sara whispered to Sammy while Mairi and Kate were dragged along in stunned silence.
"Yup, but she could eat Chinese food ten times a day and still not be sick of it," Sammy groaned. "It's like its water to her."
"Oh…"
For the whole day, Feng had them running from one side of town to the other. They went into all types of stores, tried all sorts of food, and they even went on a boat ride in the river and went swimming – though Sara didn't swim since she didn't like how murky the water looked. Not once in that whole day did Mairi think about being raped, she was having too much fun.
"Mairi, come here please?" Feng called from the cabin of the boat. She closed the door behind Mairi so that no one else could hear their conversation. "How did you like today? Was it fun?"
"Yup, I don't think I've had that much fun in my entire life," she said shyly sitting down on one of the couches.
"That's good," Feng grinned like the Cheshire cat. "After I'd been raped, you could say that I went into a depression of sorts. I didn't want to do anything and I thought I was inferior and wasn't allowed to do things like a normal girl. I was 'tainted'. I never left my grandparents' house, or my room for that matter, unless I needed something and no one would get it for me.
"I think in my unconscious mind, I thought that I couldn't be a normal girl because of it. I was so worked up over it that I didn't see how stupid I was being and it took Sammy to get me out of it. She dragged me to the nearest theme park and we stayed there for the whole day and went for Chinese food and ice-cream. The next day, she took me to the ocean and we swam there until lunch and we went for Chinese food before going to the aquarium where the animal keepers allowed me to swim with the dolphins and the whales and the sharks.
"The third day, we shopped until we dropped and by that time I hardly remembered that I'd been raped until she sat me down that night and gave me that talking of a lifetime. I was never quite the same as before it happened, but who would be? She showed me that I could still live my life how I wanted to and that maybe I wasn't as 'tainted' as I'd thought," Feng smiled happily at the memories. "She said 'sometimes the best revenge is to forgive and then live your life to the fullest.'"
"Have you ever forgiven him?" Mairi asked curling her arms around her knees and leaning against the cabin walls. "Can you every really forgive someone for ruining our lives?"
"We can try, now can't we?" Feng smiled sadly and then a few second later she smirked. "But between you and me, I hope that bastard burns in hell. And then he's going to be Satan's plaything and then I'll forgive his sorry ass. But don't tell Sammy that; she'd kill me."
Mairi laughed. "You're weird."
"I know," Feng grinned. "But hey, it worked now didn't it? You're laughing. Just be glad that it was me and not Sammy giving you this lecture. She didn't have any compassion for me because she didn't know how I felt at all. I think she might have even punched me once or twice."
"I did not," they heard a familiar voice from the other side of the door. "I only slapped you a round a tiny bit!"
"Does it really matter?" they heard David complain and laughed when they heard the tell-tale sound of a fist hitting skin.
"That was a punch," Sammy said. "Would you like to feel a slap now?"
"No thank you," he said as the door opened and the girls came in and closed the door on the boys – who they'd picked up for the boat ride when David had called them in the middle of their Sushi dinner and complained.
"Thank you," Kate hugged Feng. "She hasn't laughed or even smiled since that man touched her. You don't know what this means to me, especially since she's the only family I have left since Mama and Papa died."
"Hey, I'm not a cold hearted bitch, sadly enough," Feng grinned. "You guys don't happen to play Second Life, now do you?"
"Oh God, she's addicted," Sara groaned as Sammy rolled her eyes up to the sky and raised her hands in the air. "It's bad enough with Chinese food and ice-cream!"
"Hey, I like fried Ice-cream better than plain old ice-cream," Feng huffed. "And I'm not addicted. I just like to play it a lot…"
"The difference being?"
"I can quit whenever I want to," Feng smiled as both girls rolled their eyes. "And I just happen to not want to quit just yet."
That night they stayed out in the boat – after calling Mairi and Kate's adopted parents – and swam under the light of the moon… Or at least the girls minus Sara did, the guys were just happy filling up water balloons and throwing them at Sara until she fell in…
All thought was as far away from the trial and the rapes as humanly possible.
Again, sorry. Thanks for reading and please review! I won't be able to update again for a while because I'm being dragged out into the wilderness where there is no electricity or internet (sadly for me...).
Thanks for reading,
Sero
