Snippets

Winters run

"Lia, back to your room sweetheart. Luna will be up when we are finished"

"Its Tala dad" Lia and I sigh at the same time. Dad just smiles and hands over the copy of my documents.

When the purple monkey gets to my job, he lets go quicker then speed of light and shoves the documents back at my dad before leaving the house. Lia winks and I chase after him "I have your name, number and I will be finding out where you live buddy, you're on the list!" I shout, finding it funny as his hairy hands shake trying to.open the car door.

"Luna" my dad sighs

I turn round smiling and watch him shake his head. "What?"

"You are going to get in trouble one day and I won't be there to save you"

"That day isn't yet" I reply and throw my hands around him. "Thanks dad"

"Anything for you honey"

I let go and look at Lia "where's your mom?"

"Doing a talk in the latest hide out, some of the rebels were back tracking and getting worried"

"Typical" I sigh and walk in to the purple front room and collapse on the settee. I kick my boots off and rest them on the poof and relax.

"For you to be here and needing papers it's one of two things" dad says sitting opposite me. He was a handsome man with strong features and sharp eyes. His shoulders were broad and I know he was decked with muscles. Women had told me in the past. "Your mother or a job"

"Both" I mumble settling into the cushions.

"What's she done this time?"

"Were you aware of Sophia being engaged to a lump of lard?"

"No but that explains your mother. I haven't seen soph for a few months"

"You wouldn't have, mom made sure she was decked out with wedding plans so you couldn't put your foot down. I any got told last week and have yet to see my sister "

"Typical"

I mumble in agreement as sleep starts to take me. I didn't even get to do my job and then to make the night even worse I got caught when I reached home. I wasn't going to have them drag me to my mother's house for her to whine at me like some prat. I had one choice and it was always dad.

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Mom wasn't impressed when dad and I showed up the next morning. Despite everything, mom never quite got over him. I don't blame my dad for moving on, I loved Lia like the sister she was, Adrena, dads new wife was brilliant. She accepted Sophia and I as much as her own daughter.

It was just a shame my mother couldn't do the same.

"You could have been killed!" Mom's voice rang through the living room. The ceiling became interesting suddenly and I began to count the cracks.

"Anna, please. She was perfectly safe"

"It's not the point Horne! She could have been killed for being out!"

"She is stamped Anna! She is legal to be out, stop babying her. She is twenty four years of age not four. Let the girl grow up will you!"

"She is my daughter and will do as I say!" Mom's scream made me lose count

"With that attitude it's no wonder she never wants to come back to you! She has been caught more times then you can count and she has never once come back here! Why!? You answer that Anna and when you do get to know your own God Damn daughter instead of trying to find the next alien to shack up with!"

That was a low blow. My dad had never spoke so ill of my mom and especially not in front of his daughters before. I look over the two and see both of them in each other's face, red from anger and both shaking like a leaf in the wind. Tears were rolling down mom's face but I could see it in dad's eyes. His love for her had finally died and there was nothing she could do to get his respect back.

I get up from the settee and leave the two of them to it. I wasn't going to get involved and truly, mom did deserve a blow but I never expected him to bring up mom's secret life like that. Even I wasn't fully aware of what mom got up to, now I know.

I open my bedroom door and smile when I see Sophia sitting on my bed, her arms wrapped around her knees as she watches the wind sway the tree outside my window.

"I don't know if i feel sorry for her or not" her voice was soft and it was only years of knowing her that enables me to hear her.

"Yeah well, I'm starting to wonder what your lard babies will look like"

Sophia looks at me and smiles "only my sister would wonder that"

"Do you love him?"

"Now I do, yes. I couldn't imagine being with him to begin with but he is nothing like his parents, I swear. When you see him you'll understand" 

"Jesus in heaven, that's so mom"

Sophia laughs and lies down on the bed "I know but I truly mean it. I've done everything now and I said to mom that I didn't care what she comes up with I'm spending the next two days with my sister"

"Really?"

"Yeah, go grab Lia before dad storms off. We're going out"