Letters in My Mind

[~Persephone~]

Persephone walked up to the owlery. Her steps were slow, comtemplating and saddening. She looked like she wanted to turn around, but she didn't. She kept trudging up the stairs, up to a place she hadn't been in so long. Up to a place that she had never had a reason to go to...and still really didn't have.

But Persephone walked on. Her long silver blonde hair danced around her with each foot step. Her small five foot body was dwarfed by the towering walls and huge stairs. She looked fragile, and all to easily broken. Her green eyes looked dull, her inner fire almost completly extinguished.

As she made her way up to the top, she shivered. Why had she come? She had no reason to send a letter, no one for it to even go to. She was an orphan and her twin and little sister went to school here. IF she wanted to send them a note, it was easier to give it to them first hand. But she hadn't come up here to right to her sisters. She had come to right a letter that the person it would go to would never read.

In her mind she thought of the letter she would right to her parents, if she could. The words formed in her mind, and tear drops fell from her eyes and slid down her face.

Dear Mutter and Vater,

I miss you much. Today Ari and I decided to pull a prank on Allena. We decided not to do it though; we knew how upset you'd be if you found out.

I really miss you. Some of my friends' parents are coming to school to pick them up, or send them Halloween stuff. I wish you could come too.

I really love you.

Deine,

~Sephe~

[Dante Rose Black]

Dante walked up the stairs she was sending a letter to the ministry when she heard a quiet tear drop. She walked in to feel the presence Persephone, oh strange that their places would be reversed this time.
"Are you ok Persephone?" Dante's voice was quiet, so as not to startle her. There was irony in this, how long ago had it been when Persephone had found her crying in the dark of the night.
"Do you want to be alone?" Dante asked moving in slightly.

[~Persephone~]

"No. Not really....I think..."

She looked up at Dante. Last time Dante had been crying and Sephe had done the comforting. This time though...this time, Persephone's tears were the ones hitting the ground. She was glad though that her friend had found her. At least Dante knew...at least they both knew how it felt to cry.

"I was thinking...about my parents..."

[Dante Rose Black]

"Ahh a delicate subject for the both of us I think." Dante walked in and came next to her friend, she put a comforting arm around her shoulder.
"You know thoughts like that can only bring pain Persephone, we've both learnt that over our time, what brings you to this dreary place if you don't mind my asking." Dante looked out the window this place practically screamed sadness, what was her friend doing here?

[~Persephone~]

"I guess...it's wanting to be like everyone else. You know, write home...but I know I can't. I think...I just wanted to pretend..."

It was a weird thing for her to say. Usually Sephe tried to speak logical rational things. This just wasn't like her. This was part of Sephe that had been hid for so long. Dante was right. Thinking of her parents only brought her pain, but some how she just hadn't been able to stope herself.

[Dante Rose Black]

"But Persephone you aren't like others you've excperinced pain beyond pain...I'm sorry but thats the truth you know it." Dante hated being blunt but her friend had to hear it.

[~Persephone~]

Persephone flinched instinctively. She had known that she wasn't like the others. She knew that what brought others comfort only gave her pain. She knew that yet, yet she hadn't been able to stop herself.

She had let her guard down for only a few seconds, and she had become what she had always hated. She had become a person that brought pain onto herself with the purpose of seeking pleasure. She should have known better. She should have...

"You're right, but sometimes, I just can't help it...."

[Dante Rose Black]

"I know I really do, pain grips at you and for once you feel alive like you are actually here instead of some shell." Dante put her head on Persephone's shoulder.
"But pain that gives pleasure will eventually lead to more pain." She whispered, her voice full of understanding and regret.

[~Persephone~]

Persephone nodded, not sure if she could say any thing. Dante was like another sister to her. She understood the Sephe's pain so complety. It made her feel better just knowing that Dante knew that.

Pain that gives pleasure will eventually lead to more pain. It was true. So true, and yet so inevitable.

[Dante Rose Black]

"We both know pain on levels that no man or beast or any creature should ever have to know, but here we are barely but we're here, your were the only one who ever undertood me when I hurt and you hurt now so I'm here for you." Dante smiled she knew her friend could see it. She turned her blind eyes to her and for a moment she could see her friend and she knew they would always be friends. That mad a little of the pain go away.

[~Persephone~]

Persephone smiled back at her friend. They were true friends, and in many ways sisters. There pain was equal and in some strange way they had been able to find a way to share it without over burdening each, heck, without burdening each other at all!

"Thank you..."

She didn't know what else to say, but she knew that Dante understood. Dante understood it all.

[Dante Rose Black]

"Your my best friend here I would do anything for you." Dante smiled giving her friend a hug.
"Now lets get you out of here before one of the owls gives us a present we don't want." Dante laughed .

[~Persephone~]

Persephone smiled. Dante was right. They should leave, and she didn't want to be covered in owl droppings! She couldn't help but laugh at the thought, and she pulled herself off of the ground.

"You're right!" Sephe said through the laughter.

[Dante Rose Black]

"I know I am for the owlery is a bad place unless you want to get dirty which I don't." Dante laughed as well, She felt as though the laughter would tear her apart but in a good way.

[~Persephone~]

"So, where do you wanna go?"

She said smiling and still laughing. It seemed right to hang out with her friend after this.