10 Chapter Nine: Victoria's Past

Reginald P.O.V.

I don't know what or why, but Matthew has been acting strangely ever since Father Joshua called on him. Has he already found out? No, that can't be. If anyone is acting fishy it should be him not us. I'll just go visit Matthew when everyone's asleep.

Matthew P.O.V

The day passed by without much of anything except the fact that Father Joshua is hiding something. Could it be related to the conversation "they" were having? "What was it again?..." I asked myself and tried to reply the events in my head.

I tried to think about what the topic could have been, failed, and then thought about the specific words.

Something like… "Is that… all you saw?" then… "he's - just a street child…" ugh… I am not helping myself at all.

Alright Matthew put yourself together, what could it mean. I faced the mirror and scanned myself up and down. Weird… I thought my eyes were green, alright so they're grey now.

Anyway back to the point… Maybe like… maybe I witnessed something and was not thought of as a threat… The village!

The priests know about something that could answer my question. Maybe not directly, but it just might help me to understand even a little bit of all the wacked up stuff in my life.

After all; whether its 'useless' or not, you'll need everything you can get to attach anything that fits, and solve the puzzle. And I might have just found the piece I need. All I have to do now is find out a way so I can get it.

I wonder if 'they' would be out again tonight. I'll have to do everything I can now, there'll be plenty of time for regrets later.

Victoria P.O.V.

I escaped from the village along with my three brothers a few days ago, if only I knew that this would happen I would have just stayed behind.

I can't really remember much since… well….I can't remember much at all. All I know is my name and a few memories with my brothers before we got separated.

Now I'm just thankful that the church invited me in. I'm thankful that Reginald and Matthew brought me here, but I just can't help this feeling of hatred for Matt. I know that I should be grateful, after all; he was the one who stopped the bleeding of my wound and carried me all the way here. It makes me feel even more awful that I don't even know why.

At first I thought "maybe he's just ugly~" but I can't lie to myself, HE'S GORGEOUS!!! It also seems that he has a good personality, first, he helped me, and second, he gives of this aura of kindness, gentleness, and a feeling that he would protect you with his life. I hate it, I am a horrible person- *period*

Backstory

It has only been a few minutes since Alphonce left but Miss Everdeen had already gone back to her original form - a cruel, evil, sadistic, and demonic woman who lives out her life to make children suffer. I do not lie when I say that she is truly the scariest adult in Thirvania.

"Girl I'll be out to looked for my little boy, you better keep this place spotless or else, do you understand?"

I turned around to find her right behind me glairing me down.

"Y-yes! Miss Everdeen."

"Also remember to feed all the little brats, we don't want them starving to death now do we."

"Yes Miss Everdeen."

She then turned around and stormed away leaving echoes of thunder equivalent footsteps in her trail.

I'm sort of grateful and not that Alphonce became her favorite, I'm grateful that now all her attention is on him so that leaves us with less attention=punishment, and not because He was my best friend, back when he was still a 'brat'.

I know that I have absolutely no chance with him now though because compared to the girl he likes who has golden wavy hair, green and round doll-like eyes, and practically glows like an angel every single day, well… let's just say I have no chance.

The only 'chance' I might have with him, is of his more human like version in my head, dark brown hair and maybe emerald green eyes is humanly enough to me. maybe a few beauty marks here and there… ugh get yourself together Vicky!

"Hey Victoria, so what leftover can we eat, I'm starving."

I turned around to see Henry, one orphan I'm best friends with who has been here before a certain you know who betrayed us.

"Miss Everdeen told me to feed all us little brats food to not starve our way to death so in translation: I am not feeling crappy today- eat all the leftovers you can find."

"Yes!"

"You're too happy about this."

"How could I not be, it's a buffet night!!! C'mon lets go tell the rest."

He pulls me by my sleeve and drags me to where all the others are.

"Alright! Just slow down!" I say between giggles.

OOOOO

"Alright guys, I think that's enough playing. The demon might come back any minute."

"Lighten up sis! It's not every day that Al does us a favor and stalls her."

"Fine but I don't want to get punished for this later alright."

"Yeah yea-" his eyes widen as he gasps looking at something behind me."

No… I am so dead… I turned around to see her at the door with Al just behind her in muddy and tattered up clothes.

"I…I-"

"Girl go get my boy some decent clothes and be fast with it."

"Y-yes Miss Everdeen."

I rush out as fast as I can and headed straight for the laundry room while hearing all the others gasp and greet her at the same time. We are so gonna get it later.

I took out the newest clothes that the Miss had bought for him and compared it to mine for a while. Nice, soft, clean, and new to ugly, rough, dirty and closer to a rag than actual clothes.

I sighed for a bit and headed to his room where I knocked on his door. After a few second the door opened and I gave him his clothes. What shocked me was what happened afterwards. He actually bowed his head and said thank you… di the old Al come back.

I looked at him for a few seconds and noticed a mole under his left eye. Did he always have that? I shook my head and disregarded the thought. I bowed my head and left. This day just gets weirder and weirder by the second.

~The next day~

I woke up greeted by the sun rays that seeped through the window curtains. The hard but comfortable pillow under my head and the blanked that was warm enough to survive with. Then I heard a loud voice thunder through the door.

"Victoriaaaa!!!"

Oh no! I was too tired thinking about all kinds of things last night and did not wake up early to prepare the breakfast. Nooo. I hurriedly scooted out of bed and shook all the others to wake them up. I was also in charge of waking them up by the way.

"Wake up! Wake up! We're late!!!"

"What?!!!" was the only words that came out of their mouths before doing the same and almost tripping all over the place.

As soon as we all lined up and got punished. The Demon told up that she'll be having breakfast and lunch with Alphonce elsewhere. When she finally left all the tensed up muscles in my body relaxed.

"I am so sorry everyone."

"Don't be. It wasn't supposed to be your job to wake us up anyway."

"You guys."

"Yeah, one for all, all for one!!!"

I spilled into tears as they pulled me into a group hug. All five of us, Me, Marie, Simon, Jerrard, and Luke.

"Together forever!"

I'm so lucky to have them as my family.I couldn't have wished for anyone else.

OOOOO

The shy turned red and the ground below us shook is all directions. I quickly rushed out of the house having narrowly escaped the debris that almost hit me head on. I heard all the village people scream and run around frantically. I ran into the forest hoping to escape whatever was happening. There, after a few hours of walking aimlessly, I met up with Simon, Jerrard, and Luke.

Luke cupped his hands on my face and wiped away the tear that escaped my eyes.

"Where's Marie?"

I shook my head and tried to stop the bucket of tears that were threatening to fall down.

He hugged me and at that moment my legs gave out having the both of us kneel down. I summoned up my courage to try and connect my words.

"Wh-What hap… hap-"

"Shhh just calm down first."

I nodded my head and let it rest on his shoulder. After I had calmed down I continued to speak.

"What happed?"

"There was a witch that invaded and attacked our village. We don't know what she looks like though."

"A witch? You're joking right" I gave a forced smile and chuckle. I looked at all three and it looked like they weren't joking.

"Let's just head on to the next town. i got all the money that demon was saving up before the quake. We might have better luck finding Marie there."

"Yeah she's the smart one. Let's go."

To be continued…