Undiscovered Territory

Chapter 10 - New Beginnings

Chapter Ten

(Sky's POV)

In that one moment it was as if my world stopped spinning, and tilted violently on its axes. My heart leaped into my throat as my breathing seized. I didn't know what to think, words where out of the question seeing as every word in my vocabulary seemed to have vanished without a trace to be found. All I could do was stare, and stare I did.

"Are you going to open it?" He whispered, his voice leaking his nervousness. I still had yet to find my own voice, so with shaking hands I silently took the box out of his hand and lifted up the lid.

Did I know what to expect?

...Well yes...

Where my suspicion's correct?

...Well NO – A big fat no with an almighty cherry of disappointment on top.

"It was... It was er... My grandmothers." I felt my head nodding, but my voice was still hiding – lost within my aching chest. My eyes where fixed on the diamond droplet pendant I now held in my hand. necklace... Necklace... Just a necklace. I wanted to kick myself, pinch myself – Something, to stop this overwhelming sense of disappointment coursing through my body. It was beautiful, it really was - gorgeous in fact, but its beauty was tainted with the expectation that is was something else, something round, something promising and something offering me my man – Klaus for the rest of my life. "If you don't like it... you don't have to wear it." He muttered, and with that I was finally able to tear my eyes away and look up at him.

"No" I shook my head, trying desperately to clear my head of its wayward thoughts. "No it's lovely, beautiful in fact. You're... You're giving it to me?" I asked bewildered.

"She gave it to me just before she passed and told me to give it to the girl who would love me like she did." He murmured, wrapping his arm around my shoulder and pulling me into his chest. I suddenly felt choked up as I stared back down at the locket in my hand.

"Tell me about her." I asked when I was finally able to speak.
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Klaus's POV

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2 years earlier

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I hated it here. This was no home for my grandmother to live. She deserves so much more. I hated seeing her here. She should be at home sitting on her front porch reading one of her romance books, or watering her potted plants. She didn't deserve to be sitting in a hospital bed with metal bars just in case she happened to fall out. My grandmother had been sleeping in a normal bed all these year without falling, so why the hell does she need them now? I wanted to rip them away, but she'd always give me her light hearted laugh, shake her head and tell me to humour the staff. I visited every day after school unless I had football practice – I would have visited then too but she would refuse and tell me I couldn't spend every day watching her waste away.

"Klaus." She scolded looking up from her book when she noticed me stood in the doorway. It made me happy to see her sitting on her arm chair instead of in bed. It made her look less ill.

"Football practice was cancelled." I shrugged, sitting in the chair opposite her.

"I've told you, you don't have to waste your time here. You don't seem to realise that I'm quite happy."

I shrugged, that was my only saving grace, if she wasn't happy here. I'm pretty sure I would have broken her out of this care home already.

"What have you been up to today?" I asked, deciding to ignore her previous statement.