Us Two Siblings

Tesa was loving this island, there were so many different people and many different races from other dimensions. All of them were beautiful to Tesa, though that was partially due to her being the daughter of a goddess of sex and fertility. But she pushed those thoughts aside as she enjoyed her light meal in the sun. Tesa had been out shopping for some supplies so she could properly live and not feel like she was just travelling for an extended period of time. No, she was here to stay. At least until she got out of College, once that was done she could figure out what she was going to do with herself.

At the moment she was in an out door cafe sipping some wonderful tea and eating a small ham sandwich. It was early in the afternoon and she hadn't quite decided what she was going to do for Lunch yet. That was when she felt something, not the usual staring gapes of men (and some women) at her. She was wearing a nice light yellow sundress and hat, stuff she had from before coming to the island, and people were staring at her like she was a goddess...well she was, well mostly one. But that wasn't the feeling she was getting, she had learned to ignore those stares and that of the envious women (and some men).

No this one was strange, new and different. It sent a chill down her spine which made her sit up straight and look around trying to identify who was looking at her.

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For a little bit, Tesa couldn't find whoever it was that was looking for her and she almost sat back down but she turned around once more before hearing someone talk to her. Turning around she found a...woman? there who began to say something. But Tesa was a little distracted at the time as her mind began to work. This woman had a lot of defining features in her form. Specifically on her face.

This woman though still beautiful but having been around him for quite some time she could see the stronger lines of Hephaestus in the girl. Not knowing what to say she just realized that the woman had been talking to her. she was still processing the fact that she had a...step sister?...or at least a Half Step sister. The stunned look on her face probably wasn't making the situation any better.

trying to speak she put her hand flat on her chest as she continued to fail to speak. She wanted to cry thinking that she had a sister and no one had told her. Or the fact that she could see her mother not accepting her. Aphrodite had a strict definition of beauty and that was called Herself most of the time.

"I...I...think we might...be sisters...." She had said it...it felt right. "Please have a seat!" She was eager to hear who this woman was, in sort of an unconcious action she reached down into her hand bag, that was terribly small by most standards and she pulled out a somewhat large bottle of Olympia 250BC wine, it was Tesa's favorite of Dionysus's stock. "Where have you been!"

"Let's just say I find times at which I can pull out my favorite drink. Finding out I have a sister no one ever told me about, well I find that an excellent time to drink." Though she was putting on an excited face she was also chaffing a bit as Mia, that's was her name apparently began to ask her some questions. And explaining she shared her, terrible, horrible, self centered bitch of a mother with this poor girl. It also explained a little bit more why Tesa was never told of her Half sibling.

Tesa popped off the cork of the bottle and took a swig of the glorious fluid before finding her voice again. "I'm Tesa...I'm currently 42 years old. As for...our mother..." Tesa's smile turned into a grimace as she looked into the distance as if looking for the gaze of her terrible parent figure. "I haven't seen her in ten years when I left Olympus for my father's home in Greece."

Taking another swig of wine she stared down at it, her fingers paling as she gripped the glass hard. "I'm sorry that she is your mother too..." Now that it was brought up Tesa could see the hints and curves of Aphrodite in Mia as well. But if Aphrodite was next to Tesa there would be no doubt that Tesa was the daughter of the goddess, in any comparison though Tesa was the light of the moon, while Aphrodite was the blazing ball of fire that was the sun. "But, if I might say so myself. Hephaestus is a very kind man, and if i was of his blood, I would be proud to call him father." Tesa was still looking away from Mia. Her gaze still trying to burn a hole in the cloud layer hoping that it might pierce the veil between the world of gods and men and kill her mother.

"But that is neither here nor now. Where have you been! I thought I might be the only one here on the planet!" Tesa was trying to change the topic away from their parentage. She was genuinely curious where her half sister had been for so long that Tesa never heard of her.

Tesa was feeling terrible for Mia as she watched the whole girls world seem to shatter around her, "Mia...I'm sorry. Aphrodite...our mother...is nothing but a sick bitch in heat." She needed to have the girl understand this, rip it off like a bandaid. No matter how much it hurt both of them right now it was better to be bluntly honest right now then trying to nit pick anything that might have been good about their collective mother.

"Aphrodite...well I know deep down she's my mom and there is nothing I can change about that. But what I do know, is that if you had been kept on Olympus your father would have loved you. Hyphestus has a big heart and it was probably our mothers fault that you were forgotten. She know how to manipulate the gods, maybe one day we can find your father and he can know your still alive." Tesa wanted to move closer to this girl...her sister, that fact was still trying to sink in at the moment.

"Mia...I'm sorry...I really am, but I'd love to get to know you. If you're willing to..." She wanted to at least say that, if anything she hoped that one phrase would get through her sister's sorrow. Tesa was here for her, though Tesa didn't have the same childhood as her she wanted to have a sister and let her know that not all of Olympus was like their mother.

Only being able to sit there as her sister began to break down Tesa tried to think of what she could do. Not being able to think of anything but wanting to get up and hold her sister and tell her there were other gods who were better then their mother. But knowing that would probably only exasperate the problem. "I understand Mia. Take your time..." Tesa pulled over a napkin and with a pen from her purse she wrote where she was living and her phone number.

With that all written down on the napkin she slid it closer to her sister. "Please, I want to make up for our terrible mother...Please, when you're ready. Contact me, then we talk if you wish." She tried to give her sister a warm smile, and then pulled another bottle of the same wine out and also slid that over to her sister as well. "I hope we can get along together when your ready Mia."