My Rebirth as an alien Queen

Episode 36-The shocking revelation.

I had been mentally cursing myself since I arrived in my room, after few drops of my blood were noticed by my brother, Claire, and Nick, I ran upstairs and shut the door tight. I could not face anyone and have been pretty much stuck in my room with Barb, I had not woken her since I woke up, I wanted her to maintain the rest of her battery until we find a way to recharge her. I heaved a heavy sigh after I finish devouring another packaged food among the stuff we brought, I had taken it for lunch and also took it for dinner on realising that I was hungry again, It’s definitely been more than six hours since I lock myself up and no one has bothered me since then until it was late.

I heard my mom knock a couple of times at the door and I hesitated before standing up. I knew when mom arrived from work with dad, I could see them walking towards the house from Charlie’s window and I thought perhaps one of them would come up to check up on me but none came until now, they probably wanted to give me some time off, I hoped. But mom was never like that, neither was dad. If any of us refused lunch, they’ll come up to our room and keep knocking until we open up and have our meal but they only find the courage to come check up on me after dinner, I didn’t want to judge them too quickly so I decided to give them a chance, my hand had fully healed up so it wasn’t bleeding anymore, neither does it leave any scar. I opened the door and mom moved back slightly giving me a forced smile.

“Hey” My mom smiled awkwardly trying to hide her nervousness, why do I feel she was terrified of me? I subconsciously asked myself but acted cool and calm regardless.

“Hi mom” I gave her a warm smile which she returned eagerly now; it looked like her anxiety had melted a little after I spoke.

“Do you wanna come downstairs? You haven’t had lunch or dinner” My mom offered and I smiled glad she asked me for that.

“Sure mom” I replied closing the door behind me and following her quietly.

“Charlie told me what happened…with you and Claire” My mom started off looking nervously at me once in a while.

“Yeah, it was an accident,” I told her as we slowly climbed down the stairs. My eyes fell on Charlie, dad, and Nicholas in the sitting room watching TV or pretending to, the silence and the awkwardness warned my senses they were all up to something. And there is Claire by the table eating an apple and pretending not to notice me.

“Do you want to tell me what exactly is going on with you Claire?” Mom asked moving to the kitchen, then reappeared with a tray of food, which was all meat and heavy organics that had high oxygen content, they must have guessed, it was just better to tell them, they’ll just keep suspecting me anyway.

“I know Ghafils don’t eat earth meat mom, for crying out loud I made all these findings for you” My words and a sudden rise of my voice had Claire moving her hands down the table and it was easy to guess they had pure oxygen down there.

“I was just a soul with no body mom; Hero put me into his wife’s body. She was a Ghafil and a defender” As I spoke, I subconsciously let my body take its true form and my body started to change colours and slowly I appeared in front of them like a Ghafil that I was.

“I didn’t want this…I want neither of this, in fact…I’d rather had died. I even tried to kill myself in Zullion but I thought…it was a second chance life and I should just cherish it, it was one of the reasons I returned home. I didn’t want to be like this” I cried and I saw tears gloss my mom’s eyes as well.

“I just wanted to die, my life has been messed up over and over again, from dying and coming back to warn you of the future, then dying again, then becoming this…I didn’t ask for any of this” I added already sobbing hard, mom rushed to me and pulled me into her arms, as a Ghafil, I was several inches taller than her but she managed to hug me properly; consoling me as I sobbed and cried.

“You’re my daughter and you’ll always be, I’m so sorry to doubt you even for once, I didn’t know what to think. I’m so sorry” My mom pleaded, apologising and rubbing my back soothingly despite I had to bend a little to meet her height.

“I told you all of it had a logical explanation” Charlie frowned at Claire before moving to me.

“Even as an alien, you’re still cute” My brother remarked and I smiled sadly at him, trying to stop my running tears.

“Even with all this…I never doubted you” My dad assured and I gave him a warm smile.

“Me too, I know Claire far too much to consider she meant any harm, alien or not…you’re still Claire” Nicholas smiled and Claire gave a loud scoff.

“So I’m the villain now, I’m the only one who thinks she was an imposter and was here for other reasons, a few minutes ago you were all planning how to trap her and apprehend her…you were all saying a lot of things. Mom, you brought up the oxygen idea, and Charlie you…brought up the meat idea, and now; I’m the villain” Claire huffed loudly and hit off the oxygen cylinder under the table before heading upstairs. My family turned to give me a guilty look and I scoffed seeing recalling how hostile we used to be with Ghafils.

“I can’t blame you for that, we fought side by side against the Ghafils so; I can justify your hostility towards them” Relief spread over their faces almost instantly but I knew I was gonna ruin it for them.

“But I can’t say I’m not mad at you” Then their expression suddenly read panic.

“Not because of me, not because of what you tried to do to me, but because of what you did to her…Claire” Then their expression changed again to confused.

“She’s like this because of all of you…why did you turn me into that?” I pointed towards the direction of the stairs where Claire had left off.

“I wasn’t that, I didn’t have so much hatred and resentment inside of me despite how cruel the world was to me. I didn’t hate myself no matter how crazy my life gets but her; she does and it was all your faults” I told them through clenched teeth slowly turning back into Claire.

“She’s me, why don’t you all get it? Why do you all keep making her feel she had to compete with me? I haven’t been here for the last five years but I could easily make sense of things” I told them as they all stood speechless staring at me.

“No, she isn’t you Claire. She is the one that always feels she has to compete with you. She’s the one that kept growing distant and distant…you really think this was our fault, she’s not like you…she’s never liked you, experience had moulded you but-

“You had moulded her” I cut Charlie short almost immediately.

“When she was growing distant did you ever made any effort to bring her back on track, did you ever tried to assure her everything was gonna be fine. You didn’t show her it was okay to feel powerless sometimes, it was okay to feel that you can’t meet people’s expectations. Instead, you let her hate herself…you let her drifted far…you let her try to compete with me? You let her differentiate herself from me when we are literally the same person” I tried as much as I could to speak calmly but I ended up raising my voice.

“Mom, you could have at least tried to-

“I tried, it was just never enough to bring her back, she was far gone” My mom immediately defended herself.

“No, you didn’t try early enough. You could have noticed sooner. Do you think it makes me happy to see her like this? Having so much resentment in her? She’s me we are the same-

“No, we are not!” Claire was back at the end of the stairs and was glaring daggers at me.

“What makes you think you know it all? What makes you think you could help me? What makes you think you know everything?” She scoffed staring at me with the coldest look I have ever seen on anyone.

“You want to know who turned me this way; it’s you Claire. All these years, your cries tormented me” I froze at her accusation and I could tell I wasn’t the only one shocked by her revelation.

“Your call for help maddens me, it fuelled me and I hated you…for the sleepless nights and the nightmares you made me have…actually, I knew you were coming. About nine months ago, the nightmares stopped and I knew something must have happened, it must probably be because your soul was now inside a body and not a f*****g jar!” Claire snapped at me and I stumbled back a little at the revelation. What on earth does she mean by that?

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