She's An Orphan

It was dead obvious that my mother and sister had come to cause ruin in my life. Just when things were starting to look sunny, their presence in my life casted a gray cloud over the horizon of my existence. Elena was the catalyst for all catastrophic events in my life. Soon everywhere will flame up in a chemical combustion.

"Sister," Elena sang, as we were approaching the castle gate.

"Hmm," I sighed.

"You don't seem very happy to see us or are we not your family again?"

"Oh suck it up Lena, please for crying out loud don't ask me any more silly questions," I said, groaning.

"It's alright," Elena said, with imperviousness. "You do look lovelier from the last time we saw. Lance must have been kind to you, I suppose. Though now that I'm back in the picture, it's only fair he showers me with some of those affections. Isn't that right, mother?"

"Yes dear it is," replied Leah who seemed so far away. I suspected she only heard the last thing Elena said and did not even know what she wa