Chapter 39

"Aurora are you okay". Arianna said leaping off the bed and pulls Aurora into her arms. "You heard everything, didn't you"? Aurora asks her and Arianna just nods in response. "That is what goes on behind the closed doors of the Salvatores, this is the reason why I consider marriage to be unnecessary, so you can be rest assured that me and you will not be fighting over a man whatever man it is you can have him". Aurora said and disengaged herself from Arianna and went to bed. "Aurora, I..... " "Just put the lights off Arianna I'm not in the mood for chats". "Okay then, sleep and get a good rest, I'll go keep the cakes in the fridge downstairs". "Keep them in my mini fridge here so you don't bump into my mom downstairs". "Okay". Arianna said and sat quietly on the floor for a little while, before getting up to keep the cake in Aurora's mini fridge by her bedside and goes back to lie down beside her. Both of them had their eyes closed but were very far from sleep, Aurora was bothered by what she had said to her mom. "She only meant well, she had to know that her dad had no plans of changing his ways and was going to continue like this, a man who dared to hit his wife for his mistress, how could mom still take his side, how could she still have any expectations for that kind of a man, she just couldn't understand. Nothing could be done unless her mom actually decides to do something, they couldn't possibly force her into signing divorce papers, nor take her away from the alleged love of her life, all she could do now was to sleep, get some strength for the fight tomorrow, Arianna's case is also there, school resumes soon why should they be having this issues? So tiring a day". Aurora said and sighed, before standing up from the bed to fetch a drink from the fridge. "Ari, you seem to be awake, I can't get any sleep should we have our cake slices now?" "Okay". Arianna replies and gets up immediately there is no use pretending with his witch of a friend she has, she couldn't sleep either ways, she was bothered by Aurora's statement earlier, and she was relieved as well, relieved for the surety that she now had Paul to herself, bothered whether Aurora was fine with finding out she liked Paul or not. "I don't want to go back downstairs to get us yoghurts, so we'll have to make do with whatever drink I have here". "Let's substitute the movie with novels". Arianna said and went to the bookshelf in Aurora's room to go and get them two books to read. "I don't want a romance novel, pick something adventurous". "Adventure it is, you're done with Griffin's?" "I'm on the third reading in a row that book"s written full of mysteries that I had to read and read again, pick Griffin's for me then". "Murder suspect right?" "Yeah, wanna know who ended up being the prime suspect?" "You've read almost five sequels of that book and you still haven't found out who murdered the storekeeper? Imagine all this stress over the life of a storekeeper". "Says the one who didn't finish the first sequel, and start learning life values all over again and humanity from the very first ###Chapter of the book, what do you mean the life of a storekeeper". "Shall we ?" "The sofa". Aurora gestured. The two girls lie down on the sofa facing each other and reading and snacking on the takeout from cream and slices. "Now that her kids were all aware of the fight, she was sure the troubles and tensions in the house was only going to increase". Mrs Salvatore thought to herself when she made it to her room. "Let's just hope Damon doesn't come back to create fresh trouble so it isn't too hard for her to deal with what was ok ground, even if they didn't make huge troubles the little little remarks would still be there. That bastard had faulted her kids, she had kept so many things away from the children, how could she tell them their father had doubted if he actually produced them, he had not just insulted the kids he had insulted her, suspected her of infidelity, when he was the actual cheat, the universe was indeed been bias giving her such a man to spend a lifetime with the challenges were beyond her". Mrs Salvatore sighed and went to lie down, there was no use crying anymore she might as well get some sleep before the impending storm. "Did you hear that sound?" "Someone is leaving the house, it's 11pm who could it be? Brandon or Mom?" "Your mom goes out this late?" "Judging by the meticulousness, it's Brandon we didn't hear a sound until the car was leaving the house, not even the front door, it's big bro". Aurora said and laid back down . "You're so sure? Where could he be going by this time?" "Anywhere he wishes, his movement isn't restricted he's a grown up man". Aurora said and went back to reading her novel. "We should also be heading to bed soon it's going to be 12am in no time". Arianna said yawning. "You can retire to bed if you're sleepy, I'm not I could be here till daybreak if I want, we still have two days to rest before school reopens". "I'm actually a little excited to be back at school it's the only time we get to relate with our human friends and all the bustles of school, fitting in with them and all". Arianna said excitedly. "Why you're usually so excited to go back to school is a mystery to me, all this excitement to hear people talk about you like you're inexistent, hear their fears and castigation". Aurora said and shut her eyes. THE VEIL ON THE DARK