14 Mad woman

POV MC

Well, I have to say that wasn't the response I was expecting, I thought I would see a scared girl, but what I found was a mostly excited girl, I could see her slightly nervous, although I think it was more because of the identity of the bullies or rather her boss, I decided to stop being surprised by this girl and I said to her.

- I find it strange that you are not scared or disgusted by what you have just seen, even I recognize that it is not the most pleasant sight....

- And why on earth should it frighten me? Don't forget that I'm a Zaunite too, I may be a little disgusted, but these bastards deserve it, you don't know the things they do down here... I'm just worried that their owners will do something to you...

A little taken aback by the response, I just accepted it, I was even amused by the response, people down here are definitely build different.

- Don't worry, it's not like there's anyone left to rat me out, let's get you home, I think it's been too much excitement for one afternoon. - Hearing me say that, his face changed to one of sadness.

- The reason why I came here was because I ran away from home, I only give them trouble, breaking and destroying everything because of this.... - She said while looking at her hands, contemplative but with a clear bitter expression.

- Zeri it's normal, I'm sure your parents don't hate you, it's more sure they love you very much, let's take you to them, they will be very worried about you.

I said before grabbing her by the wrist to leave the area at a brisk pace, as I did not want to cross with more bullies, Zeri was showing the way she did not seem very convinced, but little by little I managed to make her see reason, after a few minutes of a calmer walk we reached a more populated area and, Therefore, with more life, the last rays of daylight barely filtered through the dense layer of toxic smoke that perpetually covered the city, but it was enough to reflect its light on the greenish windows of Zaun which made the city look like a lost jewel among debris.

After a while we came to a quieter area, but, it had an infinitely more decent appearance than most of Zaun, I finally recognized the area, here lives, most of the working class are poor, but this area is relatively clean of thugs and the influence of chemobarons. As soon as I entered this district I could notice how the street lights were blown out, well the lights and most things that uses energy to run, so that's why Zeri ran away, he had a bang and got scared.

As I was wandering around lost in my thoughts we were approached by a frantic woman much like Zeri, who was clearly nervous and scared, she quickly hugged Zeri brutally ignoring me, but I guess that's normal, I looked at Zeri's face and in her expression I could see nothing but guilt, a few seconds later a man approached us, he had dirty blond hair and light honey colored eyes like my companion's, he did notice me and greeted me, he looked cautious with me and I can't blame him in this city any caution is little, so I greeted him back as kindly as I could.

- Good afternoon, Zeri's parents I hope, it's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Deyn - Before her husband could answer me, Zeri's mother spoke to me and hugged me.

- Thank you! Thank you! For giving me back my little Zeri I thought we had lost her, at that moment both she and Zeri started to cry, I looked at her husband who just gave me an apologetic look, I just hugged her back to calm her down.

I explained to her without going into details about what happened saying that then she and Zeri came clean and started crying again with the help of her husband we calmed the two females down again and they invited me back to their house, but I refused because I had to go to mine before Vander decided to go out to look for me and we agreed to postpone it for another time, I said goodbye to Zeri with a hug and she forced me to promise her that I would come back to visit her, happy with today I went to my house although I decided to pick up some food at Jericho's place.

After a walk through the alleys to cut my way I ran into Vi who probably had the same idea as me, I sighed as it came back to my mind the situation I had at home in short a damn headache, anyway she is my sister I wasn't going to ignore her forever so I approached her waving at her from afar she looked at me and automatically turned her head ignoring me, giving another sigh I quickly moved to her side and dragged her by the wrist to one of the alleys to talk, there is no way I would talk about this in the middle of the street, obviously she resisted, but with my new strength I couldn't do much, which only irritated her, more.

When we got to the alley she looked at me offended and red in the face from the effort and angered her, then she said to me.

- Let go of me Deyn I don't want to talk to you! 

- Come on Violet it's no big deal, let me apologize.

- Do you think it's so easy to fix that one apology is enough? If so, let me tell you that you are very wrong.

- You know it's not my intention, to worry you all nor much less play with my life, but I need to be strong Violet to protect you all, I want you to live like kings you know that perfectly well Vi.

- I understand that Dyn, however, what good are you to me dead?! You think I can be happy after knowing that you sacrificed yourself for us for me!

After that silence reigned, I felt bad for making my family feel that way, I could only sigh as I looked at my sister, it was a very hard image for me to see Vi, the toughest girl I know look at me that way with teary eyes holding back tears it simply broke me inside that I was the reason for her sadness it destroyed my heart and at that moment I promised myself to be better so they would never cry for me again.

Turning my attention back to my sister I simply hugged her lovingly, at first she resisted, but then little by little she became still and began to tear up as she gave me light strokes on my back, with a broken heart I moved closer to her ear and whispered.

- Forgive me Violet, I'm sorry....

She didn't say anything, she just hugged me tighter.