Atonement

Put on Trial

As me and my sister stood next to each other, my eyes faced the floor while hers were piercing everyone with her sharp dagger like gaze.

Everyone in attendance were all Rageons, not a single Troll or other species here but that didn't help because I couldn't even think how vile I would feel if more Trolls witnessing by me and my sister's cruel actions.

The judge was as spindly as all his other brethren but his skin was a very milky blue color with gold star shaped blush on his cheeks, but his pink eyes lit up at seeing us,

"Oh my gosh is that Velvet and Veneer!" The judge fanned himself upon seeing our tiny forms being presented to him.

I kept my gaze on my cyan blue toenails as I couldn't even look anyone in the face after what I've done. My sister giggled and pretended to flush,

"Do you want an autograph!" Her voice raised itself in pitch as to sound baby like and it worked sadly on the judge because he nodded his head and proclaimed,

"Uh yeah obviously I love your song Watch me Work! I'm such a fan!" He let velvet into his hand and lifted her high enough to have her take his sharpie and she slowly started signing his phone case making cutsy remarks at him. After she was done trying to clearly butter him up, She fluttered her eyelashes as she pecked him on the cheek and cooed,

"It's always so nice to meet a fan." She kept up the fake blush and shy demeanor and I felt bile coming scorching my throat as she was clearly doing this to reduce our sentence.

He chuckled before he let her down and coughing awkwardly before officially starting our trial. He started talking,

" REPRESENTING THE COURT OF MOUNT RAGEOUS IS, JUNE J RILEY." Then a smug Rageon appeared before us with her string like hair being the color of my sister's lipstick and her skin matching the beige walls of the courtroom. Her smile looked sinister towards us and I looked towards the audience of the other Rageons who were witnessing their Troll Idols being sentenced. Many gave us sad looks that made me want to shiver but my attention was turned back to the judge as he then proclaimed

"REPRESENTING THE DEFENDANTS:
JULIET MONDIAS, MOUNT RAGEOUS PUBLIC DEFENDERS." a new member strode in her strawberry colored hair was loose and reached her shoulders with her wide golden eyes that screamed confidence.

She sat at the table we were placed at while the judge looked towards the both of us and said,

"Now we're going to do you guys separately and we'll start with Veneer since he admitted it and stuff-" he waved his fingers at the guard and they took my sister into the next room while I felt boiling hot stares on my skin as I was now vulnerable to their face twisting in pity.

A gentle voice drew my attention to it and I saw how another teenager, this one with orange vibrant hair that faded into a lime green with blocky spectacles calmly said,

"State your name, age, species and your crimes for the record please." I felt more tears cluttering my eyes as I was brought back into the reality that I was here because I'm garbage.

"My name's Veneer, I'm 22, I am a pop troll and I'm guilty of Trollnapping, torture and fraud." I hiccuped all of that out while my chest felt as if it had a boa constrictor wrapping itself around me. I felt as if there was cotton in my throat as I felt those beady stares becoming more heated from their silent rage.

"So uh.. why did you do it?" The judge unwrapped a piece of bubblegum and threw it into his mouth to rapidly reduce it to nothing. Just like my career as a fake pop-star.

"I Just wanted to make my sister happy! It was bad enough that we had our mom eaten! Then to find out that we were trolls who couldn't sing we were embarrassments! " I sat down and started sobbing uncontrollably and I didn't care that everyone was uncomfortable my body couldn't hold back the tears and sobs anymore. Through my tears I saw that someone from the jury and slid a tissue over to me and I selfishly took it and started blowing my nose, trying to soothe myself enough to answer their questions.