Family secrets (1)

"Wait a minute. Give me one second to sit down and process what I think I just saw," Regina blinked her eyes repeatedly expecting the plant which had grown to look normal afterward. Her eyes had to be playing tricks on her. It wasn't possible for her sister to do such a thing.

"You're already sitting down," Aurora said looking down at Regina sitting on her bed. She expected Regina to be this shocked. Aurora herself was shocked and scared about all of this. "At least you believe me. I don't know why I can do this."

Regina couldn't imagine how scared and confused Aurora must be after learning about these new things and there was mention of a werewolf? "Can I do that too?" she asked.

"I think there's only something wrong with me," Aurora frowned.

"You mean special Aurora. I don't see anything wrong with you. I just can't believe that you can do something like that. What else can you do? Can you make my dance teacher disappear?" Regina said, moving from being shocked to being excited.

There was no point in acting scared for whatever was happening with Aurora when her sister was already scared. Regina didn't want to add to Aurora's fears so she decided to make her sister happy even if she had to ignore the chilling feeling at the back of her mind.

Aurora smiled, admiring how Regina returned to normal after a couple of seconds. It was good to see that her sister was not scared of her. Everyone in the town and the entire kingdom did not like things that were not normal or human as she should say. Aurora went to the bed and sat down beside Regina. "I truly do not know what else I can do. Making the plant grow was all an accident. I'm scared not knowing what I am and people possibly finding out that I am not normal. Why can't I just be like everyone else? First my hair and now this."

Regina didn't miss the way Aurora's hands trembled in fright. She placed her own hand on top of Aurora's so her sister knew she had someone here to help her. "We're going to find out about everything Aurora. I don't know how yet but we'll figure this out. Stop feeling like you are not normal. Do you not have a good look at the people we live with and those who live around us? I caught my dance teacher talking to a portrait she drew of her delivery boy and she talks to it like they're in a relationship."

"Really?" Aurora exclaimed, finding it to be very weird. "She seems so strict. I would never expect her to do such a thing."

"There's a lot of things that come out of her mouth which is not proper. I'm waiting for her to scold me so I can blackmail her with it before she goes to my mother. I have heard too many of her naughty stories when she thinks I have left the building." Regina shivered remembering the details of what her teacher said about her and the delivery boy. "Let's just say I am not a fan of icing any more."

Aurora chuckled loudly unable to resist laughing at Regina's torture. "I'm sorry for laughing at her sad situation. You better hope she doesn't get the idea to put the portrait on a doll or you'll be traumatized for life. Why doesn't she just talk to it in the privacy of her own home?"

"It seems like she acts out him coming to visit her at work. If I ever become that lovesick, please stab me. Moving on from that, the point I was trying to make was we're all weird and not normal. Stop feeling like you have to act like the next person because their skeletons are shaking in horror in their closets."

"The difference between me and those people is clear in the history of this kingdom. People like me get hanged or burned to death. I already hear the haunting yelling of people trying to burn me and calling me a witch. I don't know when that happened because I have always been here feeling locked away." Aurora sighed fallings backward to lay on the bed. "The worst part about it is Minnie having some secrets regarding me and the wolf. I trusted that she had my best interest at heart but hearing her talk about me just stabbed me right in the heart."

Regina laid back on the bed right beside Aurora and asked, "Out of everyone, Minnie has always been the fun one who tried to understand our feelings and actions. Lately, it feels like she has been lashing out. Any other day she would've taken our side at Madame Eloise's shop when it came to picking out what we wanted to wear. What did you hear her say?"

"Something about putting me to rest and when I wake up everything will be better. We previously had a conversation about her taking me somewhere for my birthday and I have a weird feeling growing inside. My heart starts to rush when I think about it," said Aurora.

"I'm just putting this out there but could this be a case where you accidentally forgot the things you experience like the people calling you a witch or maybe you were forced to forget. You can make plants grow so there might be someone out there who could also make you forget?"

It seemed possible to Aurora. She didn't plan to ignore any kind of theories because anything was possible in this household right now. "Minnie called me the heart of this house for some reason. If I am important enough to be called the heart then the reason for it has to be here right?"

Regina squinted her eyes confused as to why Minnie called Aurora the heart of their home. They sure didn't treat her like she was. "Does that mean this house is alive and if you leave it'll die or something because that is as much as I can take before passing out."

It sounded like a joke but Regina and Aurora both looked at each other petrified that it might be true.

"I really hope not. I am not going to get the simple happy ending that I have always wanted now that I have some sort of power and Minnie plans on keeping me here."

"You can if she and our parents die," Regina said.

"Regina!" Aurora exclaimed, taken aback by her sister's words.

"I'm kidding."