Midnight Meeting[Rhea]

[Haven Raines]

Haven was nervous. She was sitting her close to midnight in the Ravenclaw tower. Staring into the fire millions of thoughts ran through her mind. Mainly about what she was going to do about this moment. With all the information she had flying around and in her hand, she was nervous. Scared. Confused. Angry. Happy. Nearly every emotion that a person could ever have at once.

Haven believed she had found her long lost sister.

Clinging to the photo she had found in her father’s room, it was of him and her mother. Haven had gone snooping when he went to work-curious about what she would find. Careful not to disturb much else, she was a little shocked. And confused. Staring at the photo it was him and the headmistress-Semena Andonevska. For days she thought about if it was a mistake or not. But it was no mistake-it was of their wedding day. And the only woman he had ever married was her mother.

That meant her sister had been in the very same house as her since she arrived at this school. And the headmistress did know who she was-her and her father had come in for a meeting. It was thinking that it dawned on her how curt and sugary polite they were with one another. Neither wanted her to know who the other was.. So Haven had remained clueless. Until now.

Sending a note to Rhea Andonevska, she felt butterflies in her stomach. How would she say it. She had signed that note Haven. Did Rhea know she had a twin sister? Haven remembered them playing and being inseparable up until they were about six. Behind the picture of her parents was the one of her and Rhea she always carried around. Her hands shook slightly as she bit her lip, hoping her sister would come.

[Rhea Andonevska]

After she'd recieved the note, she'd just stayed up there, re-reading the note, decoding every word. After she'd figured it out, she'd looked through a very old scrapbook album--one she hadn't looked at in a while. Her sister was there--and had been there. Under her very nose. After looking through the pictures--and going over old memories, she just sat there in her bed. Thinking. Should she go down and talk to her? Should she ignore the note completely?

Next thing Rhea knew, she was getting up, tieing her dark blue robe shut. Biting on her lip, she walked downstairs. Before she knew it, she was looking at her twin sister--the one who'd abandoned(in Rhea's mind, anyway) her. Rhea felt her heart turn cold for a moment, as she wanted to talk to her, wanted to hug her. Something just didn't let her do it though--too many years of sadness had done that.

"You're the one who left me, remember? What are you doing here?"

[Haven Raines]

Haven almost thought she wasn’t going to come. And that depressed her a bit. Haven was really trying to find her. Had been for years. Her father hadn’t been any help, trying to keep them apart. Feeling her eyes well up with tears, she blinked them back. Even though she felt like her heart was breaking, she wouldn’t let it show to anyone.

Pushing to stand up, she heard a sound behind her. Looking behind her shoulder, she saw Rhea standing there. After a moment of silence, Rhea spoke. Looking down a moment, she fiddled with a piece of string sticking out of the couch.

“I didn’t leave you. Our father left you and brought me along. So don’t say I left you.” Rubbing her neck, she curled her legs up beneath her. “I’m here because my-our father decided to move back to London. So I’m here now.”

[Rhea Andonevska]

It broke her down, truly, it did. This was her sister standing infront of her, her sister. Her twin. The one who was her best friend. She had the chance to have her back in her life again, but there was still some unresolved anger buried within Rhea's heart. She just couldn't be nice right away. She was too wounded for that right now.

"Elven years. Eleven freakin years without word. You know where I was, you didn't even write to me. You just stayed gone. You could've told him you didn't want to go, I would have. I would have instead of leaving my sister behind. Do you have any idea how much that hurt me? How much it still hurts? So you're here now. After eleven years of being gone."


She was really, and truly, on the verge of just saying that it'd been better for her to have stayed gone, instead of coming back and screwing up the life she'd built, trying to hide the emptiness inside of her. But she couldn't say that. Not unless she was really pushed to.

[Haven Raines]

Haven was kind of hurt that Rhea was so angry with her. Haven hadn’t asked to be ripped from her mother and sister. She had written to them and hadn’t gotten a single reply. She wrote every single year on their birthday and holidays. So there was no reason for Rhea to be angry with her. It was just as much Rhea’s fault as any other.

“I wrote you every single day for two and a half years. And I sent letters each year on our birthday, Christmas, New Years and Easter.” Pushing up and standing parallel to Rhea, she crossed her arms, glad no one else was around. “I didn’t know what was happening until about three or four months later. That we were apart for good. I ran away several times to get to you, but to no avail.”

Clenching and unclenching her fist, Haven was now angry herself. “This isn’t all on me. You could have written. You could have fought to find me.” Taking a deep breath, she looked down at the floor shifting her weight, her voice lowering. “But that’s why I’m here now. We’re here now.”

Looking back up, she pushed her hair back. “I didn’t know you were here. I didn’t know Semena was our mom. Ethan never once told me. I had to find a picture of them to figure it out.” She finally let her eyes well up a little more. Waiting patiently.