"So everyone knew who I was but me, everyone knew. Uncle Ardy was in it also too huh? I don't even know what to say." On the outiside, Portia stood firm, fingers wrapped a little too tightly around the back of a chair, but on the inside, her heart melted as she watched the tears start in her daughters eyes. "How could you? Ive always been truthful to you, I looked up to you...I can't believe it." The chair snapped in Portia's fingers as Winni turned and screamed at her sister before running upstairs and leaving the two traitors alone for a moment. Portia let out a miserable moan and slumped forward into the chair, dropping her face in her hands.
She knew Brynn was still there, and it was strange to see Portia broken, but she didn't care. Her daughter hated her. She was a strong woman. Nothing ever broke her, but this might be more than she could handle. She'd worked so hard to give her daughters a better life than she'd had. She'd raised them well, and given them all the love and motherly care that she'd never gotten, and her husband had been the perfect father.
Winni's returning footsteps caused Portia to lift her head, a look of hopefulness on her face, until she saw the expression on her daughters. "You know, you should take a look in my black room, take a look at my pictures. Don't follow me." Winni said and stomped out of the house.
Portia's shoulders drooped again and she groaned, letting a few tears drip onto the table. "Brynn." She said into her hands, "I know she said not to follow her, but I don't want her getting hurt because she'd angry. Please go after her." She said as she stood slowly. She was sending Brynn out for two reasons. Mostly because what she said was true, she didn't want Winni to hurt herself, but also because she wanted to be alone.
Portia was the type of woman who bore her suffering in lonely silence. She didn't want anyone to see her hurt.
So she left the room, heading up the stairs to Winni's black room where she gently pushed open the door and stepped inside, strolling around, looking at her pictures.
Captured on the small sheets were little depictions of fantastic things from the Shadow World. Slowly, Portia sat on the floor, sifting through a pile of photos with shaking fingers.
The yelling that came from the house a few moments earlier made a smile stretch across Fox's lips. It's not that she particularly liked their suffering it's more that she was a magnet for chaos. Her mother always told her that if she didn't have something to destroy, she'd go insane. Fox flicked the ash off the tip of her cigarette and, with her vampire hearing, listened to the entire argument. Inside, she supposed she felt a little bad for causing the family so much grief, but someone had to tell Winni. Otherwise she would have found out herself. And in a much more dangerous way.
The sound of an approaching vehicle caused her to whirl her head around, black hair flicking over her shoulder as she pushed her sunglasses up slightly to see Felix rolling up. She let them drop again, and turned back to face the house once more.
It was sad really, the girl's life. Litterally everyone around her was involved in the charade. Even her human friend Felix knew more than she did. Fox had done her a favor.
From behind, she heard Felix's approaching footsteps before he reached her.
"Fox, what the hell are you doing here? You know your forbidden to approach Winni while she's under the wolves care. You could screw everything......wait. Whats.....whats going on in there?" He said, obviously just realizing the yelling from inside the house.
Fox grinned and looked over at him, and slightly up, for she was small and he was insanely tall. "I'm screwing everything." She said with a smirk, using his words. "I know I'm not supposed to be here, but since when has that stopped me? I left Winni a little note." She said with a shrug. "She deserved to know."
Fox threw her cigarette into the grass and stamped it out. "Honestly, you're supposed to be friends with her aren't you? Why is it that Portia let's everyone in the fucking Shadow World come and get to know Winni but me?" She glanced at Felix briefly. "Don't answer that."
Just then, Winni came bursting through the door and hopped into her car. For a moment, she didn't seem to see her, but then she hesitated, her eyes focusing right on her, before tearing away from the curb angrily. Fox glanced at Felix. "Should we chase her?"