Nanita

FAYE

My first time trusting someone completely gave me my first heartbreak. I thought about it, and sometimes our first heartbreak is from the people around us. 

I remember the way my mother kept waiting for my father to eat with her. She stayed up every night only for him to put his work before her. 

The worst part was that sometimes when he wasn’t coming home to her, he was with another woman. 

When she found out, I could tell she already knew before being told about what was happening. I remember walking past her room one night and hearing her cries. That day, I promised myself that I won’t be like him. I won’t go to another when someone was waiting for me to come back.

The worst part was that I trusted him to change when he said he would.

He never did.

I made up my mind. People don’t change no matter what. 

And yet, even with that mindset, I believed that my older sister, Eloise, will never be like him. That she would always be there for me.

She lied. 

She killed everyone, and I saw it. But for some reason she left me to live. As if to tell me to live with the guilt that I could have helped. And I could’ve helped them. 

If only I never gave up on her. 

Princess Adina Edevenne Merrick, my twin sister, died. Because of my mistake. And now more people died because of it. 

Our little sister trusted me. Trusted me to save her. Trusted me to do something, anything, because she would have done anything for me to be alive. 

Now I stand in the royal garden where I last saw her alive with a new name, face , and history. I changed my identity all together just to pay for my sins. 

As I walk in the garden with familiarity I see a girl with purple hair and red eyes looking at her handkerchief. 

I know who it is. The moment she looked at me with those same empty eyes. The now Empress Eloise Edevenne Merrick. My older sister. 

I do not know if she recognizes me, she stares at me and make way to me. It feels as if the world slowed down when she stopped in front of me.  

“You must be the new duchess, Nora Ventura If i'm not mistaken?” 

“Ah yes your majesty, It is such an honor to meet you tonight” I bow

“The pleasures all mine, duchess” she smiles, an empty one that sends shivers down my spine.

“May I ask why you are here?” I know that look, she’s suspicious of me. And she should be.

“I just needed some fresh air you majesty” I smile, I try to make it as real as possible, she can read people like an open book after all.

“Hm, well enjoy the night Duchess” she nods and walks past me.

I don’t look at her walking behind me. I stare at the empty seat. We really are the same in one thing.