Journey to sandri state

Arella stayed in an apartment building.

She wore a short red floral flay gown,no makeup,and her black hair dressed in a ponytail. She wore blue small earrings,hanging her black purse and with the other hand, she was rolling a small purple box out of the building.

She exhaled and saw sam leaning on his car,his hair was styled in a side parted quiff, wearing a royal blue

T-shirt and a black jean.

He held his phone with one hand and the other was sunk inside his pocket.

He raised his head up,saw arella and smiled.

"I look pretty right?",she chuckled and twirled.

He chuckled,"of course you do,you always do".

"In fact,the most pretty",he said as he walked towards her and stretch his right hand.

She blushed as she held his hand.

He guided her to the car,opened the door and she entered.

After he closed the door for her,he turned to the driver seat,sat down and drove off.

He glanced at arella.

"Are you okay with coming to the high school reunion in sandri state?",sam asked, looking worried.

"Of course" ,she sighed,"am okay" .

"I can't keep on avoiding it,after all is been a long since I saw the rest".

"I wonder how they will all look like",she smiled.

"I brought the keys to my house in sandri state",sam said.

"Oh ,I think I'll stay at mine",she smiled.

Sam glanced at her,"do you mean_?"

"Yes,where I onced lived with Alex and my child",she said as a sad expression took over.

Her eyes turned watery,as a tear was about to drop,but she held it and looked outside the window, leaning on the door and holding her seatbelt.

She closed her eyes, exhales and opened her eyes slowly.

Sam glanced at her and focused on the road.

Sam POV

That's why.

It doesn't matter if she accepts me.

I do care to see her happy but she's unable to move on from the accidents that happened years ago.

I understand,is traumatizing.

Her blood sister committed suicide and in not less than two years after that,she lost her child and the love of her life.

It was not easy,being young parents

.

She lost her mum when she was six and had an unsupportive father and Alex's mum was unsupportive,it was only his dad.

She was 15 and Alex was 16.

They went on a vacation,and stayed at their lake house and they were attacked and the place was set on fire

.

They weren't robbers, their aim was to kill them.I don't know who held grudges against them.

Alex and the child died in the fire.

That day I was coming to join the vacation,my parent drove me there and we saw the house on fire.

It looked like it was just starting.I quickly ran out from the car.

I heard my parents yelling my name.

I entered the house and saw arella first.I quickly carried her out to the car.

As I was about to go in again,the fre increased and my parents dragged me to the car as I screamed and yelled Alex name,hoping for a miracle.Tears flowed continuously from my eyes as my parents called the fire department and drove off to the hospital.

If her son grew up ,he will be a teenager.

I just wish she will move on,instead of beating herself up.Am probably the only guy she's close to.

He stared at her for a while and loved back at the road.

******************More than 16 years ago.

"Big sister!am home" .

Arella drops her bag on the couch and sunk in it.

Heaved a sigh and closed her eyes.

"At least I came home before those weeds came", referring to her step sisters and brothers.

"Big sis!am hungry",arella yelled.

"Why is she not answering me?"

She gasped,"did she find out that I stole some cash from her bag".

"She could have just giving me freely,when I asked",she pouted,sucks teeth and nods her head.

She stood up from the couch.

"I know your part time job starts by 4 o clock.so you are still here"

She walked tiredly to the room they shared.

As she walks closer,she saw red liquid flowing from the door of the room.

Her heart beats faster,"what's this?".

"Is this_?" ,panicking.

She approached the knob of the door shakily,hoping it was not what she thought.

Her breath shakes.

"It can't be",she mutters.

She slowly turned the knob,and slowly opened the door,shakenly.

"Ahh!!" ,She screamed, screamed the fear gulped in her.

She fell to the floor and crawled to where rachael lay on the floor looking lifeless.

"Ra_" , trying to call her name,but her breath was still shaking.

"Ra___rachael",she managed to say.

She called her name repeatedly as she saw her big sister lying on the floor looking lifeless,blood gushing put from her wrist profusely,with a knife near to her second hand,it looked as if she lost grip of it.

She hurriedly rushed to her to feel her heartbeat,she was still hearing her heartbeat but it was slow.

"Somebody help" ,she yelled and rushed outside the house.

A neighbor called the ambulance which carried her to the hospital.

She waited as the operation began.

Her secondstep mother,rose,who took rachael and Arella as her own biological children,unlike her first step mother violet,came.

She saw arella and hurriedly rushed to her.

"Child" ,she called.

"Mom" ,she cried bitterly and lowered her voice.

"Rachael" ,she muttered.

"She's gonna be fine,child,Is okay",rose embraced her.

After some time,the doctor came out from the operation room.

The doctor came out,heaved a sigh and bent his head.

"No',arella muttered.

He lifted his head and opened his eyes.

Rose looked at the doctor,as tears rolled down.

"Am sorry,we tried_"

"No!!"arella, screamed as she rushed and grabbed his hand tightly.

"Please! mister!',crying bitterly.

'Please,I beg of you,please!".

She cried heavily and bitterly as the doctor removed her hands.

Rose dragged her from the doctor and hugged her.

She lowered her voice,"arella,Please calm down" .