Leave It

We finally got to the ice-cream parlor, and lucky for us there was no big line up leading out the door, like last time.

We walked inside and looked at all the ice cream flavors and Serenity asked the guy working on the other side of the till,

"May I get a cherry scoop and a banana scoop please," and looked over to me and asked,

 "What are you going to get Crystal?" Serenity and the guy at the ice-cream store glanced at me.

"I will get the same as you Serenity." I chuckled, trying to forget what happened earlier this morning. 

More than anything, I wish I could remove it from my mind, the horrific scene will always sneak into my mind, all the blood, and the smell of death. Take it out of my brain, kind of like when Dumbledore removing memories and putting them in his pensieve.  

It will haunt me in my sleep for sure.

Things are getting serious; not just that, but getting worse by the look of it. Something is coming. I can feel it. I dont' know how, I just do. Sensing danger was never a gift I was proud of, but it came when I was born. I saved my sister countless times. Once almost costing her life; I was there to save the day. Yet, why couldn't I prevent this. Things are not adding up.

Fuck.

The man scooping up our orders smiled at us and asked,

"Shouldn't you two be in school? It's not even passed 12:30 yet?" His face looked puzzled. I mean he had a good point to judge us for being out of school, but he had no idea the mooring we had, and I am not about to make him startled by telling him what happened.

We both looked at each other and said,

"We got out early today, not to worry, everything is fine though." I politely answered the man.

I hope...

He shrugged his shoulders and handed us our ice-cream. The scoops were definitely bigger then I expected, and that just means, I have to double my exercise  tomorrow. I am not a work-out junky, but I have to make sure I keep my strength us for our sake.

Haha.

We sat for a few minutes to enjoy our ice cream and I think my sister knew my brain was going aa mile a minute and gave me this confused look and I knew exactly what she was about to say.

Before she could say anything, I politely whispered,

"Serenity, please don't ask me about today. Just leave it, okay? It's nothing that concerns you and even if it was, you know I'd protect you. So please, don't worry about it. I can't handle the pressure as of this moment and all I need is you getting all worked up for something that I don't know all the answers for."

Her mouth slightly opened and then she closed it and looked down at her ice cream and back at me nodding her head.

I wish I could tell her. 

I hate keeping things from her, but this is for her own good. She looked gloomy, but I won't tell her. I can't risk her in something I know little about. It makes total sense to leave her out of it. I need to understand why Mr. Rosa? or was he just a pawn? Maybe, perhaps he was mistaken for someone else, or even worse, just someone in the way to their actual target? 

Serenity glances down at the dirty napkin on the table and then at me. I could sense she really wanted to know, but knew it was for the best she does not get involved.

After we were done eating our ice-cream, we headed home and on the ride home, Serenity looks at me and then she breaks down in tears. I had a feeling she wouldn't be able to keep her composure for very long, I just wish she wouldn't make her sky-blue eyes fill with tears.

While I am driving? Sigh...

"Crystal, why did mom and dad have to die? What did they do to deserve to die, when it wasn't there time to?! I hate not knowing anything and now, there was a death at our school! I know you say not to bring it up, but I cannot help it. You know this, you always did. I feel like it's surrounding us and I can't keep pretending that it 's not."

She was right.

Death and horrible things seem to surround us after mom and dad were deemed dead. I wish we could run away, but even if we were to run, I know it in my heart that death would always be a few steps behind us, we would never be able to get away from my parents death.

"Serenity, I told you I will get to the bottom of our parents murder case, I've got a few private detectives on it as we speak. 

Yes, I used some of Mom and dad's fortune to hire some detectives. 

"It's hard, I know it's extremely hard, there's not much we can do, but wait. I'm here, I will always be here. I am not going anywhere. Just don't worry about the incident at school, please? I am still trying to process everything myself, I am going to make sure that nothing happens to us and I will be ordering some more surveillance tech for home, and my car. Let's just get home and relax. That's all I ask, okay?"

Still tears flood her eyes and she sniffles,

"You sound worried and unsure. Out of these past years without Mom and Dad, I really got to know you sis, and it really seems like you aren't telling me something. You are keeping secrets from me and I am hurt that you still treat me as a kid."

She is a pretty smart girl, I'll give her that much, but to get her involved with everything, I just don't want to endanger her.

"I promise I am not hiding anything from you, that you don't already know. You are my baby sister and I just want to keep you safe. Now lets get home."

I was zooming in and out of traffic, as we were out all afternoon talking at the ice cream shop. I didn't really expect to be out for that long, but luckily I know some of the short cuts back to our house.

Yes, my bad habits are horrible, but I can't stand people who drive slow.

Finally we arrive back at our house. The sun was still shining; the sky vibrant with colors of pinks, blues, and oranges. It was a beautiful sight, at least that was something positive about today.

"It's almost 4 and since our lunch was ice cream, lets sit on the couch and watch a movie. By the time it's over we can eat? You pick the movie, kay?" I spoke gently to my sister while we got out of the car and she gleamed.

I quickly went on my laptop and ordered Chinese food and why my laptop and not my phone, that is because I do not trust ordering off my phone due to security reasons.  Yet, The cool thing about living in 2020 is, we can tell them when to order it by. I chose 5:30pm and then pressed enter.

How cool is that? Yet... ice-cream and now, Chinese food. My exercise tomorrow is going to bite me in the butt. I can just feel it, but Chinese food was always something Mom and dad bought when it was a crappy day, so it rubbed off on me.

"I got just the movie, let me find it." Serenity glanced at me and sat on the couch.

"Oh yeah?" I raise my eyebrow, as she grabs the Roku remote and scrolls through Netflix.

I am relived we are back home, yet, on the other hand my mind is going to explode with endless conclusions on what happened today. Sigh, I guess that's only normal, since that stuff never happens; rarely ever. I keep going back to the same question, why Mr. Rosa? I feel like I am missing something, maybe it was a diversion, but why? How? Could the people who were after my parents, be after me and my sister? It cannot be for certain, but that could very well be, a good possibility.

I have to be ready for whatever comes our way.

I look up, after being in my thoughts, and Serenity stops at a fairly known movie and I smiled. She clicks it, grabs the blanket and genitures me to come sit next to her.

She knows, i know that she knows I cannot stop thinking about today.

The movie starts playing and just as the title appears on screen we both say it in sync,

"Tangled."

Which happens to be my favourite Disney movie, while "The Brave Little Toaster" comes as a close second, as my favourite childhood movie.