On my honor

1

My dress waved in the light breeze as I run from my older brother Nicholas.

"I'm going to get you!" Nicholas yells behind me as we play tag

"Nu-uh" I playfully cheer back

Nicholas tackles me and we crash into the soft grass and both giggle uncontrollably.

"Hehe, I caught you Bianca! Your turn! You're it!" Nicholas exclaimed, pushing me

A man riding a dark horse with brightly polished silver armor stood behind Nicholas.

"You boy!" Yelled the man on the horse

Nicholas quickly puts me behind him to protect me from the strange man.

"Yes, sir?" Asked Nicholas politely

"Who's crown thy be loyal to?" Asked the intimidating man

"King Carter, sir" answered Nicholas

The man's face snarled in disagreement and a long silver blade swiftly found shelter in my brother's chest and Pierced through my beloved sibling enough for the tip to appear before me.

"DISGRACEFUL SCUM! " The man yelled pulling out his sword and raising his beast than road off

"NICHOLAS! MOTHER! FATHER!" I Squeal loudly as blood stains my soft cotton dress while Nicholas holds his chest in pain

I quickly ran away from Nicholas to get my father in the barn, tears run down my face as I run through the tall grass then onto the gravel at the barn where father was shoeing our mule.

"Father! Nicholas is hurt! Hurry! Hurry!" I sobbed while I pulled on my father's trousers

"My god girl what happened to you?!" Father asked as he couldn't understand what I had said before

Once I knew I had his attention, I ran away to Nicholas in the field. My panicked father close on my heels.

"Nicholas!?!" Father exclaimed as we reached him

His eyes stayed wide open as crimson Slowly colors his clothes and the grass below him. His body lays motionless and pale as he bleeds out.

"Go get your mother girl!" Father shouted urgently

I run quickly back to the house and halfway through the field I hear my fathers cry.

"Nicholas! Why?! My boy!! Ahhh!" I turn back to see my father rock back and forth holding the corpse Nicholas has become

I turned around and got my mother pulling on her apron frantically as she cut carrots from the garden

"What has gotten into! I have a knife in my hand girl!" My mother exclaimed not taking her eyes off the cutting board.

I keep tugging to get her attention I would speak but I would only ramble and she wouldn't understand me. She looks at me in irritation then shock as she noticed the tears and blood that stains me

"MARTHA!" My father's voice shouted from outside

My mother quickly dropped the knife and ran out to the porch to see my father holding Nicholas's dead body in his arms stumbling toward the house

"Benjamin?! What happened?! Nicholas no!" My mother cried walking towards my father

We gathered around his body and wept mother took me inside and washed away my tears and Nicholas's blood. we all sat and ate our dinner but I couldn't help but stare at the empty seat next to me

"Bianca eat your food," my mother said as she noticed my gaze

I sighed and finished my plate and set in the washtub then layed down on my bed and my gaze landed upon another item of Nicholas's fresh hay lined with quilts and a sack full of duck down as a bed stayed eerily empty. I blow out my candle and go to sleep