CHAPTER 13

About eleven years after I was reinstated as a ‘Rolland’, and had regarded this life as my primary life…It was also at this time, that not one, but two events were happening.

One was, my sister Gabriella, who had advanced in her schemes and bullying against me, the other was a strange premonition, that made me become more aware, yet again.

My sister had only started with small tricks that would cause a scolding, but over the years, it went from that to kneeling and to writing ‘lines’. I had tried to befriend her, to stop this at the very start, but it had not worked out well for me. Ever since the last time I tried, and she schemed against my thoughtful behaviour, I dismissed the idea to befriend her totally. I had only wanted peace, but I was also a realist. If she didn’t want to stop and try to be mature, fine!

So, over the years, for peace sack, I had endured.

But…Now it was different. The premonition that I had, about five months ago, was something I had in my previous life as well. It was strange, because I had only felt paranoid in a car…

Strangely, over a few years of feeling that way, and only in a car, I had a nagging feeling that something bad was going to happen to me. In the end, that’s how I had died, so, I had been right in my prediction. Of course, I never predicted that it would be in a police, ambulance car, but it was a car nonetheless.

This time…It was more generalized. I had no idea what I should be afraid of, it comes and goes at least three times a day. And this feeling was what changed things for me. I could no longer play with an immature, brat of a sister!

I don’t care anymore if she couldn’t grow up and live her own life! I don’t care if she was jealous because our father doted upon me more! I don’t care that she was still only a rank one cultivator! Her games were going to be stuffed up now, because I can’t take it anymore!

Actually, Gabriella seemed to be the only one to openly try and hurt me…Samuel, my brother, was quite doting towards me too, and preferred to try to learn from me, instead of being jealous like his sister. My mother was still friendly…Unless there was trouble between Gabriella and I. What I had found quite early on, was that Celeste would always take her blood daughters side, never taking mine, making me remember that in other people’s eyes, I was a commoner.

My father…Oh, he was nice, he played with me and helped me, checked my work and we would joke around. Of all people that surrounded me, I had only opened up to Talon, who now knows that I’m an extremely bubbly and a laid-back person. I am even positive that he comes to see me at times, when he is upset, so that I can cheer him up.

Samuel has started to see this side of me, but, I need Talon around for me to be like this in front of him.

I have travelled outside the gates of ‘Rolland Estate’ now, but not by force…I had attended a few gatherings, but found them boring. I attended some tea houses, but much preferred to just stay home to cultivate or to do Martial Arts.

There was another reason I didn’t go out very much and that was my sister’s constant bullying. She seemed to have no limits when her friends were around, so, for quite some time, I now stay clear of her totally. Even at home I insisted upon never being alone with that girl!

Her name calling did make me smile sometimes though, because I found some words that she had used, that she didn’t even understand them when I had asked her what they had meant. She would then just call me a commoner with no parents, leaving me to laugh at her and walk away.

I shook my head many times to her behaviour, wondering how she could be so devious. Did her mother teach her? It wasn’t father or brother…So, I had been stomped, until a day after, when I thought of her friends, as one of them was just as devious.

I tried to discreetly tell father that perhaps Gabriella wasn’t in the right circle of friends, but he didn’t act out upon it.

So, with everything, I believed I tried enough to straighten things out…Before I lost it!