Divided

Mikey's POV

Me and Gerard are sitting in the library waiting for Jane and Andrew to return.
I don't like this. I don't like that Jane is alone with that creep, and Gerard doesn't like it either, I know.
But there's nothing we can do about it. Andrew was the man my father chose for Jane and neither of us can go against that decision without bringing shame and dishonor to our name. The Ways never broke an agreement. If we did that now, especially regarding a wedding, all hell would break loose and we would loose the respect of the community.
Even though I know all of this, I fidgeting. I can't seem to stop. I either bite my finger nails or pace around the room looking out the window expecting to see Andrew's car in the drive way.
Gerard let's out a long sigh, without looking way from his book, "If you don't stop fidgeting, I swear on our mother's grave I will pin you to the wall..."
"They should've been back by now!" I say, only now noticing how scared my voice sounds, "I don't like this Gee. I don't like the way he looks at her..."
"Who?" Gerard says, still not looking up
"The Cookie Monster... Who do you think?!" I snap at him
Gerard sighs again and closes his book. He looks up at me. HIs face looks peaceful, but his eyes say something entirely different, "We need to be pacient... For all we know, everything is going great..." In the last part his voice breaks a bit, he doesn't belive in what he's saying.
"You don't like him either. Beneath all that facade, you still care deeply about our sister... You don't want this marriage to happen anymore than you want the world to end tomorrow..."
"I never said I stopped caring about Jane. I love my sister as much as I love you ,my brother. But we are not children anymore. We all have responsibilities. Jane's responsibility to this family is to marry someone suitable and carry on our lineage..."
"But Andrew isn't suitable for Jane and you know it!" I cut him off, starting to get angry. How can he be so calm?! "You've seen how he looks at her! Beneath all that "no emotion" face he puts on, there's something else! Something vicious! I think he's going to destroy her! I think he'll..."
"Enough!" Gerard cuts me off and stands up, "Enough Mikey. Jane will be fine. She will be pulled to the Dark, she will marry Andrew and then all of this worrying will be over. She will have a good life..."
"No she won't!" I'm shaking now, anger taking over and the books behind me start to shake, "She will be miserable! That man is going to destroy everything about her! Even if she turns Dark, Jane will always be Jane, she will always be a rebel, she will always do what she wants and never what she's told to do! But if you force her to marry him, all of that, everything we love, YOU love about her, will be gone..."
Gerard and I are staring at eachother. His face is calm, but he's eyes are filled with different emotions, sadness, anger, doubt... He knows I'm right. He's just as scared as I am about what will happen to Jane of she marries Andrew.
"If you force her to do this..." I say, trying to calm myself, "you'll push her over the edge Gee... You'll loose her forever... Is tradition and honour that important to you, that you will risk loosing your sister?"
"We all have our duties..." His voice is cold, but his making an effort to keep it steady, "This marriage will happen. And it will happen before Jane's Chosing..." He turns around and started to leave the library.
"Before?!" I say, looking at him wide eyed, "Wasn't it supposed to be AFTER the Chosing?!"
Gerard keeps his back turned to me, holding the doorknob, "The quicker the better... I'll inform Andrew of the new date as soon as they arrive..."
" What happen to you Gerard?!" I shout at him, "When did you become such a heartless piece of shit?! What happend to my brother?!"
Gerard turns around to face me. His eyes are swollen and slightly red, like his fighting back tears, "He grew up and accepted his responsibilities... You should do the same, dear brother..." Then turned around and left, leaving me alone in the library, breathing heavily in anger.

Two hours later I'm in the music room, trying to distract myself from the fact that Jane and Andrew still haven't arrived. When we were yonger, Me, Gerard and Jane loved music. Our parents forced us to learn classical music, but we were passionate about human music. There was something about rock music that just spoke to us... the lyrics, the sounds. I remember spending hours in Jane's bedroom, all three of us, quietly listening to CDs we bought without our parents knowledge in an old second hand CD player we also bought in secret, and singing along to the lyrics. Those were good days... The days were we still all loved eachother, and would do anything for our siblings.
As I was reminding about our childhood, a sound of tires against gravel broke my focus. I looked out the window and it was Andrew's car. I sigh in relief and head to the door to greet them. When I reach the entrance hall, Gerard is already there holding the door open.
I wait for Jane to cross the door, but I only hear on car door being opend and the closed. Then I hear someone running to the door. Andrew comes inside, gasping for air, sounding tired and breathless.
We take a good look at him and notice he has a split lip and eyebrow and a bruised jaw. His clothes look dirty, like we had been rolling around in the ground.
"What happend?" Gerard asks, "Where's Jane?"
Andrew gasps again for air before saying, "Thank the Earth I've got here... Jane... That healer..." He's starts to cough, stumbling on his words.
Gerard and I change quick glances at eachother, he looks worried, "What happend?" Gerard insists
Andrew composes himself and says, "Miss Jane and I got to the restaurant and I stepped out of the car to go and open her door, when I got attacked from behind. I got knocked out and fell on the ground. When I opend my eyes again, I saw that healer from the other day and Miss Jane running away together. I tried to get her back, but the man punched me and threw me against a wall. I was unconscious for moments, but when I woke up again I noticed they were gone. I looked around town for hours, looking for them, but there was no sign of them anywere! They're gone!"

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