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( chapter unedited ) *⋆ฺ࿐✩⡱ 02. CHAPTER TWO " the luck in them "
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CELESTES eyes were quickly filled with tears. Fucking good luck she had.
Breakfast at the Crane household was not always as silent as it was now. Years ago, people laughed and people talked among themselves. But now, after the patriarch died and Seneca left them to go live in the capitol, everything was silent. Everyone was aware of the mothers addiction, everyone was aware of Fleurs problems with control, everyone was aware of Axels anger issues, everyone was aware of the loneliness and pain Celeste went through every day. But nobody cared enough to fix anything, they just learned to live with each others struggles.
It was reaping day.
And also Celeste's birthday.
Celeste was the only one in the table, eating a toast as she stared at the chair her father used to sit. Dagon had always tried to make everyone happy but at the same time he ruined them from the inside. Now, months after his death Celeste could clearly understoo it. He would buy her a new dress, but then yell at her at dinner for not trying hard enough. Celeste tried to remember him for his good things, but she couldn't, all the abuse he had caused all his children was something Celeste couldn't overlook. Her hatred was spread in his funeral, as everyone had left, Celeste called him out of everything he had done and then spat on the coffin.
"What are you thinking about?" A male voice interrupted Celeste's thoughts.
Celeste could say that she wasn't close to any of her siblings, but if she had to give an answer she would say Axel. Axel at least tried to help her in some things. He knew what kind of things Celeste had to do in the academy. They knew each other pain.
Axel sometimes felt responsible for all the pain Celeste had to go through under their father eyes. If he had volunteered the. Celeste couldn't have been put into the academy.
