"What is she doing here?"
Ariana felt her heart sink as she stared up at her mother. "Mom, what are you saying? What do you mean?"
"Do not even call me that! You lost that right the moment you turned your back on us!" She spat.
This time she felt thunder strike within her as she turned helplessly to her brother for help. But the latter only shrugged as he also didn't understand their mother's outburst.
Calhoun unconsciously moved to stand protectively between Ariana and her mother. She broke into a laugh and took out a cigarette before lighting it and walking away from the scene.
"Fuckers!" She breathed.
Ariana's hands were shaking as her eyes caught the large portrait of her father down the hall. She moved towards it like a zombie. And when she got there she almost toppled over as s
