Chapter 292: Iris (3)
"Grandmother, are you just crazy like everyone says you are?" Annalise questioned as she watched her grandmother take a deep breath and smile for some reason. She was either crazy or smoking something she shouldn’t.
Annalise stood up when Celeste reached her hand under the table where she always kept her favourite tick. Her body could not take being hit with a stick after how long she walked to get there.
"You’ve returned home without your sense. You are lucky I don’t know where I moved my stick to. Sit back down, Annalise. We are not finished yet," Celeste said, taking the cup of water since Annalise didn’t seem interested in it. "We must have an important talk."
Annalise sat back down, but she pushed her chair away from the table. Her grandmother might want to use her hand since the stick was nowhere to be found. "I apologise. What should I do about Rafael? I cannot leave again. Father won’t let me out of his sight and I have a lot of responsibility before me now. I have to prove myself as a good leader."
"Tell me, child. If you had a sibling, would you care to lead us? The responsibility falls on you because your parents only had one child. If there was another, would you have returned?" Celeste asked.
Had Iris not been sick, Celeste didn’t think she would see her friend again. Celeste wouldn’t have been angry if it was the same for Annalise. For her to not see Annalise again. She wanted everyone to follow the path calling out to them.
"I could not just stay and never see my family again. My parents would think that I am dead," Annalise answered. The short time she stayed away had clearly stressed them out.
"You could have sent Thomas back to say you are staying, but then that boy is so in love with you that he wouldn’t allow it. I am going to assume that Thomas isn’t aware of your little love affair," Celeste said, wishing she had something to snack on while listening to Annalise.
It had been so long since she listened to a story about a forbidden romance.