Note from Queenie – This chapter is from Beverly’s POV. This may be a one time thing. I’m not sure yet.
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There was a time when I never though I’d be happy again. There was a time when I thought I was stuck, doomed to roam the earth was a spirit, alone. I’m so glad I was wrong.
Because I was wrong, I have my little girl. I never though I’d have kids and that was before I died. It wasn’t that I didn’t want them, I did. I just thought I’d never find someone to have them with. But thanks to a Genie and a fellow spirit, one who I’ll be forever grateful to, I’m happy. I have a little girl.
I also met my soul mate, Gavin Gonzalo. I also gained new family. Gabby, who I view as a sister figure. I also felt what it was like to have parents again for a short time thanks to Gavin and Gabby’s parents, Lotta and Gilberto. I miss them. But I believe that they are with Greta and all their loved ones who passed on before them. That they are happy.
A lot had been on my mind since Gavin asked me to marry him. Hearing that question made me so happy. I was looking forward to our Wedding and our marriage. And maybe having another baby or two. I think the baby fever might have hit Gavin when we went over to Marigold and JR’s place. They invited us over after Marigold gave birth to their son, Eric. Gavin was clearly enjoying holding Eric and kept looking at me while holding him. I’m not put off by it, I’d love to have another baby with Gavin and give Bess a little brother or sister.
I also think Gabby and Cloud Dancing might be giving some thought to having some kids of their own. Gavin told me that Cloud Dancing plans to ask Gabby to marry him. I hope it happens, because I think those two are meant to be.
I loved watching Gavin have a pillow fight with Tara. Before we knew it Bess would be old enough to do things like that. Time seemed to be flying where my little girl is concerned. I’m excited to watch her grow, but I’ll also miss holding my little baby in my arms.
Outside of thoughts of the future, the past had also been on my mind. Thoughts of my past. My first life. They all didn’t know what really happened to me. I had kind of blocked it out to be honest. I didn’t remember until the day I saw the hot tub sitting in the backyard. The memories had hit me like someone had punched me in the gut. That day lead to the night Gavin and I had gone to the Toadstool to drink our troubles away. I went to get read of awful memories and he went to forget about Melissa and Conrad. That night gave us Bess and led to us eventually getting together.
But I felt that before I married Gavin, that I should tell him and Gabby what really happened to me. I didn’t want secrets between in our family. So, I sat them both down in Living Room one evening. When I told them what I was going to tell them and explained how what I was going to tell them tied in with why I was upset the night Bess was conceived, I could see they were both taken back by it, but kept their silence and prepared to listen to me respectfully.
“Along time ago I was born to Jane and Leakee Parrot. I wasn’t exactly expected. They already had triplets and weren’t planning for another baby, but they loved me anyway and they loved each other. Very much.”
“I had my older sisters, triplets. Clementine, Lucretia and Ramona.”
“There was also my Aunt Linda, my Mom’s sister. When I was younger I had a full family life.”
“Though when I got older, it became obvious to me that my sisters didn’t like me very much. Dad brushed it off as them just being teenager girls, but I really got the feeling that they didn’t like me. Only Clementine spoke to me nicely once in a while.”
“I tried not to let it bug me though. Mom and Dad did their best to make up for it by spending a lot of time with me. They always made me feel loved and safe.”
“They were always so supportive. So when my Girl Scout Award Ceremony was moved up a night, I called them and begged them to come home for it. They were at nearby island resort for the night. They told me they should stay, due to the weather. The seas were restless that night. It was pouring rain and windy outside, but I cried and begged them to come to my ceremony. I wish I had never made that call. But I did and I can’t change it. ….You see, the resort could only be reached by boat and on their way home….they had an accident. And..they were both killed.”
“My sisters blamed me for their deaths. I blamed me for their deaths. I always thought if I hadn’t begged them to come home, that they would have been safe at the resort. They would have lived.”
“I remember looking out the window, staring at the ocean through the rain that night. I remember wishing it had been me instead of them.”
“Aunt Linda was given custody of us and moved into the house to raise us.”
“The day of my parent’s funeral was the worst day of both my lives. I remember it pouring down rain as we stood by their graves and cried.”
“Time went on after that. It always does. Whether you want it too or not. Aunt Linda did our best to raise us, but by my teen years she was already an old lady.”
“My sisters were all young adults by that point. I was hoping once they got past their teen years things would be better, but that was a pipe dream. I would often catch them gossiping about me.”
“Though most of the time they were mean up front and to my face. They still blamed me for what happened to our parents. But I blamed me as well, despite Aunt Linda insisting to me that it wasn’t my fault. They were heading home because they loved me and wanted to be there for my ceremony.”
“I even remember one time that they told Aunt Linda that they would take me to one of the parks in Sunlit Tides. They did, but they also left me there by myself and I had to walk all the way home due to not having money for a cab.”
“Aunt Linda passed away eventually. It was a sad time for all of us and it appeared to have brought us together. They started including me in their plans when they went out places.”
“We often sat together, ate and discussed our plans for the future. Clementine wanted to be a Paramedic. Ramona wanted to marry a rich guy and Lucretia was on a mission to see how many men she could sleep with. I..I was considering going into politics. And they seemed supportive of me taking that path.”
“Even though things had changed, I still felt left out a bit sometimes. But I told myself it was all in my head due to the past.”
“A few weeks before my death I caught Ramona and Lucretia whispering to each other in the Living Room. The moment I came in, they stopped talking and smiled at me. Thinking about it now I should have known something was going on.”
“But I trusted them right up until the last moments. I didn’t think it was odd that they invited me to join them in the hot tub and didn’t get in. I didn’t think it was odd that Lucretia and Ramona took the radio from the side of the hot tub..after that all I remember is pain shooting through my body in my last moments of being alive…”
“After that I roamed around the graveyard as a spirit. The very graveyard that my parents and Aunt Linda were laid to rest in. I wasn’t buried near them though. No, my sisters had me buried far away from them. Among people I hadn’t even known. I was there for endless years until Kayla got a hold of my urn. I’m not sure if it was given to her or how it ended up in her hands…but you two know the rest.”
After I finished my story, Gabby and Gavin just looked at me for a few moments. Gabby seemed to be looking at me with tears in her eyes and Gavin seemed to be angry.
“Your sisters..killed you?” Gavin asked me.
“Yeah…” I replied, quietly. I still couldn’t believe it sometimes. They had gotten away with it too. I had checked online to see. I wasn’t sure if they were even alive though. To me it wasn’t worth looking them up. I wanted to leave it all behind. And even if they were alive, I really couldn’t prove they killed me. How would I explain me being alive to a court of law?
Things were silent after that. We all stood up and Gabby grabbed me, pulling me into a hug. She told me she couldn’t understand how someone could do that to their sibling. Especially when she’d give anything to have her own back.
Gavin asked me into our room and once inside, he placed his hands on my shoulders.
“I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. I just want you to know that you’re in a family that loves you now. None of us will ever do what you’re so called sisters did to you. We love you.” Gavin told me, before holding me. It’s kind of messed up that I had to die and come back to life just to find a real family after loosing my parents and Aunt, but I’m so grateful that I have them all now.
Awaken 