Bukan Pelangi Novels & Stories

her voice trembled. The weight of her words submerged the room in a deafening silence, everyone too stunned to speak. I flexed my fingers. "There're no such things as witches," my cousin Lucien broke the silence, his voice a low whisper. "She claimed to have seen it with her own eyes," Isabella continued. “A girl with strawberry blonde hair." I tensed. “And a rogue were locked up opposite her cell. She said they were rude, barely paid her any mind, and then they argued. The strawberry girl yelled at the rogue, and then walls started to fall, the iron cells bending in unnatural ways. She claimed the girl's eyes glowed blue."

"I'm here, please don't cry." But I don't stop, I continue crying, thinking about how much Santiago and I have hurt each other and how much I love Nicholas.

Celestina grabbed her hand and made to leave once again but I wasn't don't yet. "Oh, and Celestina," I called "I appreciate the thought but I don't eat apples".

Not a greeting. A promise.

How did this man know? She turned herself gently and said “We don't know where Isabella went. She eloped with her unborn baby and never returns” Maria replied to the best she knows. If it hadn't been because Jeniva took Isabella as her sister indeed, she wouldn't have disclosed to her that she was going away for a while. A while, she said. But a few years have passed and she hasn't returned nor even called Jeniva, who loves her so much. She doesn't know what else to say to this man standing before her.

“From the west. It always blows from the west this time of the day. It comes from the mountains, bringing clouds. Big fat dark clouds. It’s gonna rain tonight or tomorrow morning.” “So you can’t see the sun going down.” “Yeah, I still can. Funny, it’s like the clouds break to make way for it, you know? They’re already entangled around the top of the mountains, but there’s a breach right for the sun to go down.” “What color is your lake now?”