Out of the Cycle

[Alden's point of view]

Bacia's cigarette fell on the ground. She saw them. They saw her.

"Why?... She saw me, Alden... Is Arthur with her?" she rested her hand on my shoulder and turned her back so she faces inside again.

It was Asami; she looked at us from afar. Bacia did not notice it at first but she had been looking at us for a while. One of the guys was sitting beside her on a lonely table in the middle of the sunflower garden. Looking at them from the balcony, they were a beautiful painting. A painting painted by this world; surrounded by the wonders of the forgotten. Wonders of the unknown.

Asami smiled at me once Bacia turned herself to the opposite side, "Is she you're friend?" she played dumb. I knew she had something behind her smile - which she hid so well. "She is! She just arrived here and got lost so... I called her in here! I hope you don't mind!" I had to scream for her to hear me.

"How is Jessica doing?"

"She's fine now... Turns out she didn't eat well; that's all!" I lied.

"Aha... I see!"

Even though I couldn't see her, but I could say Jessica tears fell from her eyes. "Tik, Tik" I heard them.

"Why don't you guys come down?! Jesse is doing fine too! Lowell went to get him now! We'll have a picnic at sunset!" Asami proposed.

"In the garden?!... That sounds like you."

"Why are you surprised?! Ask Jessica and your friend (she stressed on "Friend") to come outside and join us all. Arthur is dying from loneliness here!"

From under the balcony walked Lowell, "Would you guys like her to start begging you to be satisfied?"

"Okay, we're coming!"

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[Bacia's point of view]

I had nothing to be afraid of, yet I still feared something. The fear of failing. The fear of losing everything... again. "Do I really have to join you guys so soon?"

"They already know you're here, Bacia Gold. You have your place back now. We have you back." he comforted me. But Jessica had yet to know. She knew but remembered none of her.

I pulled my had to Jessica to help her move from the bed. She glimpsed at me constantly as if she tried to confirm it was actually me; the girl who brought her pain. The three of us walked together, and with every step we took, you could tell this was our place someday. One day.

It was only a glass door standing between us and 'Asami's Sunflower Garden'. Jessica pushed the door open and walked her way out. Alden held the door for us as we left out. They were right ahead of us. The Golds.

Alden nodded his head at Lowell before she caught sight of me with her eyes red full of tears, she ran towards me. Throwing her body at me, she burst in cries that broke me even more. "BACIA! BACIA! I thought I'll never see you like this again!" she hugged me strongly with every limb of her body; clung on me. I patted her bouncy hair like I always did. "It still-l bounces li-like this?!" I laughed yet still was crying with her.

"It still does, hehe," she whipped her tears away, "You stop crying too, now. You look ugly when you cry."

She started taking her head off my shoulder. "I realized the other days I may not see you; she... when I saw Pandora. I felt you in her. She's Arthurs KEY." she murmured to my ears.

"I don't have a KEY..." I murmured back. She raised her eyebrows smoothly understanding what I meant by that. Playfully danced in her place, "Ladiess~ a~nd. Gentlemen (with a beautiful Latin accent) I present to you... the long lost Bacia Gold." She bowed to everyone.

The Cycles had vanished...

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