"Riel, Riel" remembering those words as I woke up from sleep, it seems that I had remembered something from the night my sister sold me off, but as I tried opening my eyes from my sleep the bright light of the morning sun entered into my eyes making me blink back on the bed.
"Silly mom,"
"Who are you calling silly" I said opening my eyes to the beautiful smiles of my son, "Come here" I said drawing my two him into a tight hug after all I don't know how my life would have turned out if I chose to sacrifice him that day.
"Mom, mom you're going to smother me" one of them said "Oh, shut it Levi, I know you love it when I smother you with hugs" I said with a smile spread across my face. "Are you dressed for school?"
"yes" Levi answered "breakfast and every other thing included"
"Breakfast?" I said confused "Oh no I had forgotten to make breakfast for you, you're only so little, and I can't even do at least that" I added disappointed In myself.
After all, I had promised to take responsibilities for their lives that day seven years ago, but I couldn't even wake up to prepare breakfast due to the late-night jobs and everything that kept me busy.
As if feeling the disappointment radiate off me, Leth cups my cheek, like to reassure me, his little hands warming up face.
"Leth"
"Alright have some rest I'm off" Levi said not wanting to waste anymore time after all it would take some time to arrive at the bus station.
"See you later" I said seeing them off at the front door.
"sure" Levi said waving with his back turned.Watching their images fade into the distance, I head back inside and freshen up to head for my morning job. But I wondered what was that dream I had about.
XX district,
Naveari States embassy,
GEMSTONE branch.
"Sir you've been invited for the engagement ceremony of FLARE TAIPERSON and SORREL WILDFLOWER."
"Date"
"**/**/**, your schedule will be free by then""…""Are you attending it sir?"
"If I feel like it sure."
"He must have woken up at the wrong side of bed again" Arielaze thought to himself. "Ok, then I'll go ahead and add that to your schedule"
HOURS LATER
After a long day of work Riel heads back home, but on her way notices some SUV's tailing her.
At first, she tries to ignore them but with every corner she turned it would follow precisely. Mortified she grabs a taxi to take a detour down the darkest round the block and follow through the darkest alley way.
Shaking them off, her heart races with fear. "Who was that, are they tracking me" she said silently asking herself
"No if it was them, they would have approached more directly…... what do they want?" she said, her heart pulsating faster than ever as she nibbles on her thumb deep in thought. "Oh no, the kids" she said remembering she hadn't picked them up from school. Racing out of the school she headed for their grade school to pick them up.
Her long hair flowing towards the wind that crashed her face, beads of sweat pouring down her face from the exhaustion of a long day, her legs continued moving until she was at the school gates.
Levi just exiting it, his face filled with surprise looking at Riel's rugged looks, before he could say a word they were embraced in a tight hug.Out of the silence that filled the air he could tell something had happened.
"Mom…?" Levi called
"What do you want for Dinner?" Riel ask releasing them from her tight embrace "I'll cook anything you guys want, just name it" she says trying to hide her fear and Panic.
But it was too late, as he looked at the running beads of sweat on her face, her rugged pants, her flushed red face from the exhaustion, they could tell something had happened and probably something not very good.
Embracing his mother with his small hands, he could feel the racing of her heart out of fear, then out of the corner of his eyes he could see them, the black SUV parked at the edge of the street. "So they've been following us" he thought to himself. Thinking that his stomach churned, "why can't they just leave us alone, if only I was bigger, no... If only I wasn't born mom wouldn't be leaving like this" he felt guilty, thinking maybe if he wasn't born at all his mother wouldn't have to live like this.
"How about Crabs? Or maybe steak... I'm sure you will love it" Riel asked
"No" Levi says
"What?"
"We're not some rich family of two that can afford steaks and crabs, and besides You're cooking stinks" he added with his tongue stuck out while drawing down his eyelids. "You'll probably burn down the house" saying that he walks aways, after all it was the only way he knew to lighten the mood. "hurry up" he added.
Standing there in awe, Riel just smiled knowing what Levi had done "Yes, coming" she replied
"What's the situation" A deep voice says whining down the windows of a tinted SUV.
"She's the one" his associate replies.
"Good keep your eyes on them, we don't want them noticing now do we?"
We sit at the table, silence filling the room as we stare at the mail we had received. I slowly pick them up, staring at them for a moment before going through them.
One of them seem to be an invitation, and just staring at it I had guessed who it was from, and I already had a bad feeling gnawing at me.
"An invitation, to what?" Levi said asking his head nuzzled against my left shoulder.
"If what I'm feeling is right, trust even I wouldn't want to know"
"Should we open it?" Levi said asking, his voice soft almost like a whisper.
"Trust me I don't want to" I said as I laid back into the bed, sinking in it as if to embrace me.Staring up at the ceiling board I asked
"So what are we going to do now?" mumbling to myself like a silent prayer.
"The wedding's in less than a day, me showing up will cause problems, me not showing up will still cause problems plus paparazzi, since my leaving the family wasn't publicized" I said pondering as I and Levi's eyes meet.
"Showing up it is" I say with a decisive tone in my voice.
"I don't think that's a good idea" Levi says, the displease in his voice firm.
"Trust me even I don't want to go, and with this nagging feeling in my gut I feel like somethings going to unfold" I say"Then don't" Levi says, his brows creasing "I'll only will be trouble"
"I understand, but if I don't it'll be even more trouble for us and they'll make our lives even harder for us, harder than it already is." I say trying to cheer him up, but his pouts only seem to worsen,
"Fine" is ay bringing up my Pinky finger "I promise I'll play it safe and try not to associate myself much with them, I'll come back no harm done, just as I leave alright?" I wait for his response, still holding out my Pinky
"You better keep your word for it" he said not convinced, but not as sad as before.But what I had said was harder than it looked, but since I had promised to return safely, to return to that one bright light that had kept me living in this dark world I would, at least that's what I had thought until