Chapter 3: So, it is a system.
Moon marched towards Sunshine and grabbed her hand. "Where is it? Where are you hiding it?" She screeched.
Sunshine drew her hand back and she slapped her cousin. There would be no more soft Sunshine. That idiot had died in the apocalypse. "Cousin, you need to get a grip."
She shook Moon really hard, pushing her into the wall, in a deliberate attempt to smash her head in. Memories of her cousin’s betrayal traveled through her mind. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, and her hand went around Moon’s neck. No matter how much Moon tried to push her away, Sunshine just squeezed tighter.
Something hit her on the back of the head, and Sunshine winced. She let go of Moon and turned around, eyes blazing with the fury of a thousand hell fires as she looked back at her aunt, Rowena.
Rowena had never seen so much hatred or felt such a chilling threat of danger. "She has gone crazy; Sunshine has gone crazy." Rowena screamed.
She went around Sunshine, grabbed Moon’s hand and pulled her out of the bedroom, escaping Sunshine’s fury.
"This is why I told you not to marry Cassius, she wants to kill you all because of the fool." Rowena scolded her daughter as they escaped the house.
Moon had yet to ponder on the reasons as to why Sunshine had attacked her, and she assumed that what her mother said was the truth. She smiled through the pain in her neck. No matter what, she would not give Cassius up. He was the key to her living a good life in the apocalypse.
Back in the bedroom, Sunshine had managed to calm down. She opened one of the mechanics books, which had been thrown to the ground. In the middle was a large square shaped cut and in that cut was a wooden box.
She removed the box and smiled. Moon had looked everywhere but she never thought to look inside the books. This book in particular belonged to her grandfather. It had been passed to her by her mother and inside was the cut and the box. In the box was the bracelet, also a relic left behind by her grandfather.
Sunshine locked the door and all the windows. Then, she sat down on the chair and observed the bracelet, wondering what made it so special. She thought about anything out of place that had happened when she gave Cassius the bracelet.