Connections spark reality [Oliver/Jory]
Apr 21, 2020 12:58:15 GMT -5
Post by * on Apr 21, 2020 12:58:15 GMT -5
Jory Brontz
Birthdays?
They've never been the same without her. She always made us all feel special. From the moment the midnight bell struck, she made sure to wake us up without regret, kiss us on our foreheads and then lull us back to sleep singing with her gentle voice. It's been twelve years. It's the memories that hurt the worst and now as Lotus will be entered into the reaping on the last year I will be eligible, I wonder just how much I could do to protect her as she stands where my sister did for two years before being shoved off to the capitol. Her fourteenth year will be a momentous thing to mourn - each year she turns another year older, I only remember Cecilia. How could I not?
She looks so much like her -
Though these past few years has been easier. Especially knowing that Oliver's last year to be reaped was just passed. He'll no longer have to endure the torture from the threat of the games. His body and soul are free from the capitol's reigns and I am happy to have him to myself.
A few days ago, my birthday came and went and for some reason, my parents had forgotten. One working a double shift and the other asleep for their day off. Lotus was the only one to really make a big deal of it, though I miss Jacob. He's finally moved on with his life leaving me the oldest to remain to care for Gage and Lo. Gage's presence in this house was null that day and try as I might, the only person I wanted to spend it with was Oliver.
He's just not been the same since he's returned, so I don't hold it against him for forgetting. His presence was enough to be honest. The best gift I could ever have was having him back in my life after those games because it was not long before that I realized my feelings for him was much more than friendship. It was more.
A note was left on my window this morning from him. It simply read to meet him at the oak tree. He knows my mornings are the same routine just as Cecilia had done. The window was the first to be opened unless there was rain. Seeing that note there was enough to make my morning gleam. So I threw on my white top, laced up my shoes and zipped up my fly before I made my way to our meeting spot.
"Oliver?"