Chapter Fourteen

Days passed.

It became easier for siblings Arianna and Tommy to live those days now.

As her brother started to work in the fish ponds early in the morning and came back to help her sell whenever they had more produce from their little garden than they could use in the house, while their mother started to show more vigor, Arianna just couldn't help but hope they have left the past behind.

It would become easier to act like she had forgotten about it if Tommy wouldn’t look like he had been bitten by a snake every time he remembered. She knew whenever this happened, and she pretended not to, either.

Instead, she would try harder to show it did not affect her anymore, even though there were times it would hit her, and she would just feel out of bounds.

Like, for a moment, she was just not herself.

It had become more and more like she was a different person that night. Like it wasn't her that walked towards that dark house at the end of that road, and she wasn't the woman who had been ravis