Annie's pov

Her voice was like nails on a chalk board. Like a train horn arrogantly announcing the trains presence. Her voice was loud obnoxious, taking every open space in the house, hammering away at my poor sister. I glare at her as I angrily chew my food.

I glance at my sister who drowns silently. The fire in my heart burns, ready to roast the brunette.

I could make s'mores out of her.

My mother and sister pay attention to her like she is some pristine princess, or traveler, telling her tale of adventures.

When really she was painting an old picture to smear the new picture. Old Chadum was dead, New Chadum was gone, no sign of him.

Next.

Time to move on honey.

My knee jumps in anticipation of a wrong move on Jacys part, I wait for the moment I can set her on fire.

Of course the over polite cow laughs and smiles about her stories.

Chadum, a werewolf and her sister, a one powerhuman. , met at college. Jacy introduced them.

My eyebrow twitches and my body tenses slowly at every word from Jacy.

Suddenly a small sound of scraping comes from Navis chair as she pushes it back and stands grabbing her plate keeping her head down.

"Where are you going Nav? I'm just now getting to the best part."

My hair suddenly is surrounded by flames.

She. Did. Not. Just. Call. Her. Nav.

Is she seriously guilt tripping my sister into staying and listening to this rat talk about her oh-so-innocent brother in law?

That's it, I'm about to erupt like a volcano.

"I have school in the morning and I'm tired. I must go to bed. Maybe finish some other time." Navi states with a forced smile, her eyes begging Jacy not to argue.

She then continues her walk to the kitchen and disappears.

"You know, I have a big test in the morning, I better go to sleep as well." I give Jacy my biggest, fakest smile I can muster up. I stand abruptly and take my plate to the kitchen. The kitchen is bare and I spot Navi's rinsed off plate in the sink. I follow her lead and soon am quickly leaving the kitchen. Up the stairs. I find myself at Navi's door. I hold my hand up in a fist and gently knock.

An exhausted looking Navi opens the door. One look at her and she is moments from breaking.

"Are you okay? " I smile as I try to come off nonchalant, I don't want to push her.

She forces a small smile on her face. "I'm fine."

My eyebrows furrow as I see the fight Navi is having within herself. It's all over her face. During the day Navi is good, to good, at hiding how much the kidnapping hurt her. The daily fighting at night is more obvious, I see it, the struggle, the waves that try to drown her.

"Are you sure?"

Her face falls slowly at first, yet soon her lip trembles and her hands go up to her face as tears fall recklessly. I close the door behind me as I step in.

Her shoulders shake, instantly with out hesitation I wrap my arms around her. My heart breaks as she flinches in my arms causing her to sob harder.

I rub her back and she wraps her arms around my shoulders, resting her head in my neck.

"I could roast her like a marshmallow if you want me to?" I say trying anything to make my sister feel slightly better. I know nothing I say could fix her. If me just being here made her slightly better than that's good enough for now. Seeing my sister like this made me ready to set fire to the bitch sitting in the dinning room eating happily.

I feel her shake her head no at my offer.

"Damn, I really wanted to. Well I'm sure she will leave soon. You'll never have to see her again." I tell her, hoping to ease her suffering. The lady had no reason to come back now, so surely she wouldn't. Navi backs away and gives me a broke smile. 

"Thank you." She whispers as she looks down.

"Would you like to sleep with me?" I tilt my head slightly with a smile on my face, the question lingering in the air.

"No its okay, I'll be fine," Navi sniffles, though she looks as though she is anything but.

I nods as I hug her once more. "If you change your mind, the doors open," I smile, pleading her with my eyes to come sleep in my bed with me. I hate when she sleeps alone now.

All I hear at night are her cries of pain and anguish. I hear her shift back an forth between nightmares and nothing at all.

Yet I nod at her and walk out closing the door.

My lip trembles as I quickly walk away. I find myself stopping at Iris's room, I swallow back my own tears and knock on the door. Iris opens and gives me a go to hell look.

"What do you want." She ask venom dripping into the words .

"To drop off a warning." I state as I cross my arms. Iris snorts and rolls her eyes as she goes to close the door.

My hand shoots out quickly stopping the door midway. I then grab Iris by her tshirt collar and pull her close, my other hand balled up with fire surrounding it.

"I have let you push Navi around for to long," I start as I look into my sisters eyes, her eyes widen as she looks back and forth between the fire and me. "But listen now, and listen good cause I won't repeat myself. If you ever throw a fire ball at my sister again, I promise you, I will roast you, I'll burn your body until its charred if you every put Navi in danger again. Got that?" Iris nods her head frantically. I shove her back into her room grab the door knob and slam her door shut.

Then I turn and walk towards my room. By the time I get there my anger has reduced to agony for my sister. I shut the door as my lip trembles. I lean my back against the wall and let my head fall, tears slowly cascade down my cheeks. For a moment I sit there and let myself mourn. For my sister.

The rest of the innocence she had, was gone. I couldn't replace it, I couldn't fix her.

She would never be the same, she would have to always be careful of drinking water, lukewarm water was a trigger for her. She would always flinch from loved ones, I hope it would lessen but I don't hold my breath. I don't even know what all happened to her, or Chadum. I have a feeling something bad happened. Navi carries a guilt with her, its evident in the way she moves, the way she closes herself off for moments, only coming to reality and feeling for shorts amount of time. She looks uncomfortable. She won't look at herself in the mirror.

She doesn't deserve any of this.

I change clothes and quickly slip into my bed. I lay on my back and stare up into the ceiling as I wait to hear the whimpers and cries from my baby sister.

I count the dots on the ceiling. I get pretty high before I hear the first small whimper. I close my eyes tight as I debate in going and forcing her to come and lay down with me.

Though I wait, I know soon enough she will come down.

Hours pass and I hear it, the soft patter of her feet, she heads to my room and with a sigh of relief I turn on my side, my back facing the door.

The door quietly creaks open, I hear some shuffling and then the door closing. I lightly feel the covers lifted slightly. A dip in the bed as Navi slowly climbs into bed. She lays on her side, her back facing me. Her foot moves until it slightly touches right above my ankle. I sigh, close my eyes and relax, I feel her do the same thing. I then let myself sleep.

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Is it bad I'm updating after I said I wouldn't? I mean it's still a week day so I mean it doesnt necessarily count as the weekend . Anyhow

Okay so I can't tell you the whole idea of what got me to write Glitch because thatll screw up some details you haven't learn just yet.
But I can tell you some. I actually started Glitch 4 years ago. I didnt publish her till a while ago, I wanted her perfected before I published, this book is my baby.

Anyhow I remember I was reading a book about a hidden mate, but the mate wasnt exactly hidden the guy found out minutes after she said she was gonna stay hidden, so that was false advertisement. So I go and read another book, about a girl getting kidnapped and going through some torment. And I got upset when the man of her dreams rescued her and she came home and had a day of flinching and stuff and then she goes back to normal. So I wanted to see more books present ptsd. And the more I looked the more I found there wasnt a lot, there wasnt character development either.
So I decided I wanted to write my own that dealt with ptsd, character development and a girl with issues with her powers. This was when Frozen first came out when I first got the idea. But I didnt want to do a complete copy. 🤷🏻‍♀️
I wanted a character to grow, as she goes through life in general and ptsd and learning to live with ptsd.
Yet I feel like I still dont do a good job representing ptsd but I'm a perfectionist so I try not to beat myself up to hard.
Anyhow there is a part of how I got the idea of Glitch.
Also. When I first wrote this, Navi was a slave to a vampire, she was a human that had powers of ice she kept hidden from the vampires in fear of being used as a weapon. But that got scrapped and Navi my power human was born 😁😁

Anyway, Dont forget to vote and comment what ya think?

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