Somewhere near central Italy, at Tuscany, right in Florence, among the
sunflowers fields, soft sunshine and breezy light wind of summer. There she
sat, Mia, the farmer's daughter, the night before she had just celebrated her
25th birthday. Her reddish brown locks fly playfully with every being at the
field. She had just finished her college life at Santa Reparata International School Of Art. Her
family isn't the wealthiest one but she was lucky to have a full scholarship
due to her excessive work, effort and passion.
This simple yet soulful way of her lifestyle
was what she always needed, till the day she will find out that this wasn't the
way she wanted. Or, is the fate who doesn't want it for her?
She's her parent's only child, their one and
only grace. Her life had gone by so calmly and slowly.
Until, a one early morning she's woken up by a
loud clash downstairs. She tiptoed till she reached the staircase, and waited
to listen to some murmurs that followed up the clash and shouting, it looks
like her father and a strange woman.. arguing and whispering about HER?
"Alesso, you have to tell her! She hasn't got any much time. It's not her
fault she was born to our family with this curse. Does Gianna know? Or you
haven't told her too I assume!" the stranger exclaimed. "Alessa, turn
down your voice! Of course I haven't told them yet. Sister, you have to
understand that it's aching for me! How can I tell my only baby that the sand
in her life's hourglass is about to shed its last granule for you?! Oh what
fate is this!" her father said with a drenching, clear grief and agony.
So this is my aunt? How Peculiar! My father
hadn't mentioned that he has a sister, and she looks like she's his twin too.
Oh, what secrets am I about to unveil.. And, Am I ready? Looks like I don't
have much time to do that anyway. Mia's knees couldn't hold her any longer, so
she fell down on the top of the staircase, causing a loud alarming thump.
Her father and Alessa shared a concerning
knowing eye contact and went for the staircase, and found her staring blankly
with hot silent tears streaming down her cheeks. Panic and fright is swarming
around her like hungry sharks, and she had sunken into their ocean like a
helpless little fish.
"But, what does this even mean? I didn't
even finish dreaming about my upcoming adventures and life routes." She
stated weakly, the words falling from her insides into the void.
Her father rushed to her and held her, calming
her down.
Alessa took a deep breath and without any
hesitation decided to take the chance to confront her with this heavy dark
secret. She went on telling her the tale of the curse.
It all began when Alessa
and Alesso's father, Mia's grandfather, fell in love deeply and destructively
with a southern witch at Juliet's house at Verona.
That witch was just a delicate young lady
named, Mirabella who was praying to be loved, and have a fairytale like
love story. That's when Pietro, Mia's grandfather, emerged into her eye
level from behind the bench she was seated on. And in a flash of light, they
fell in love at the cursed Juliet's house; but to their misfortune their love
story became cursed as Romeo and Juliet's story as well.
His family came after him, trying to separate
them, and then they came after her years after years, until they captured and
banished her in an unknown place. Pietro searched for her over and over but he
gave her up and moved on with his life. He got married and had the twins,
Alessa and Alesso.
Mirabella broke free after being abducted for 25 years,
finding that he had already settled down and broke not only her heart but her
whole being. Her powers became stronger than ever before and she became hungry
for vengeance. She visited him one year after the birth of the twins. And cast
her curse on them, overpowered and damned him that he shan't see his
grandchildren live more her dark times. When, the twins shall give birth to a
child after it turn 25 years, the same amount of time he let her rot and cry
her soul out, will fall dead. Only, a pure sacrifice could be the antidote that
shall left this curse.
Gianna appeared with tears and utter horror
mirrored in her eyes and expression, begging for her only child's life. Before
anyone could utter a single syllable, Mia had decided her fate. She rushed down
the stairs, running through the field, down the road, till she was standing in
front of the grand old white house of her grandfather.
She dashed onto the farmhouse, where he spends
his early mornings, "Grandpa!" she called for him at the top of her
lungs. But, when she entered the farmhouse, there was another surprising guest
came for her grandfather too.. And probably for her too. The vigorous,
devilishly beautiful Mirabella was waiting for her. "So, after knowing
your fate, dear child. Which will it be? Sacrificing or dying?" She
wickedly smirked.
Mia couldn't comprehend if this was the pure
horror and confusion she felt, or her great fright on her family that came over
her. Nevertheless, she had made up her mind. Numbness took over her, while she
gave up her youth, soul and dreams for this hungry creature.
Death for Mia
wasn't a frivolous matter; it was just as essential and soulful as life. And
her fear on her beloved ones was much stronger and urging than her own ego. At
last, Mirabella was dead inside because of a broken heart and love. So was
Mia.. Her death would be a celebration for love. Her one and true belief. May
her soul fly above the wide sunflower field she had seen the first seed of love
planted there.
