Chapter 7: Passing Fancy

Third Person POV

A lady wearing her below the knee white dress plays the piano inside the music room of the Smith's mansion.

She really doesn't know how to play piano but whenever she sees one, something inside her longs for someone she don't know and doesn't remember.

She would see glimpse of blur memories of a man in a piano sitting beside her while she was smiling so brightly at him.

She was playing the song Before you go by Lewis Capaldi but she only play the part of someone assisting the other, and that made her smile softly.

Playing like you were assisting someone are one of the reasons why would her heart ache like she misses someone and it would made her cry for no reason.

The other reason made her think, the song was released somewhere on November 2019 and it was impossible for her to learn it

because she went into a coma for a month because of the accident on the day of her graduation day on Senior High School and it was somewhere in March 2019.

Did the guy from her dreams taught her? But when? She asked her friends and they said that she always play it inside the school's music room for almost everyday,

she shakes her head a little and disregarded the forming thoughts inside her head and focus on playing the piano.

She was humming while playing when someone opened the door and a blind Azure entered with his cane while the maid opened the door for him

"Asha are you here?" Azure asked with a smile on his lips that also made her smile softly again and calms the longingness inside as if she has found what she longed for

Aurelius Azure POV

"A-Asha" my voice cracked as I called her name and I saw her smiled at me as if she has found what she longed for.

I was ready to take another step when someone knocked at the door. I looked at it.

The door opened and the maid showed up with a shock faced maybe because she saw me shedding tears but went formal immediately

"Sir, there's a package for you and I already put it inside your room" she said and I looked at the grand piano but Asha was no longer there.

I sighed in disappointment on how crazy I am to think that Asha was there smiling

"Did you checked first who sent it before putting it inside my room?" I asked formally after composing myself and faces the maid

"I asked but they also don't know who send it but we made sure that the package means no harm sir" the maid said.

I just nodded at her and it was the signal for her to bow a little and leave. I looked again at the piano thinking of what did I just saw

"Am I hallucinating again?" I blurted out but then again I just shrugged it off my mind, closed the door of the music room and walked to where my room was,

to see the package the maids received for me.

I sat at my bed after I picked up the package at the center table on the sofa residing near the foot of my bed.

The package was a small rectangular brown box and the inside of it was wrapped by a white fabric.

It has pictures on the left side and a rectangular light blue flat box with a small letter on top of it on the right side part of the box.

I picked up first the letter since the pictures' back part on the left side faces any person who would open the box

"Please give the locket to her, it's a gift for her this will help her remember.

Give it to her before it's too late

-AA"

The message made me furrowed my forehead, give it to whom? Why does the initials are of same to mine? What locket? I looked at the light blue flat box, I picked it up and opened it.

Inside the light blue box was a small round locket with a tulip design carved on the center of the small round locket, the side of the locket were like little tulip petals and it has vines - like lace.

I grip the locket tighter and stared at it intently with wide eyes as I moved the locket closer to my face to make sure my eyes didn't played on me again after I opened it.

Inside locket was a cut out picture of Asha and me.

Asha was wearing a graduation suit as she smiles lovingly in front and I was standing beside her looking at her and I was smiling there while I put around her shoulders my left arm.

With my trembling hands, I put back the locket inside the flat box and reached for the pictures this time.

My system went into haywire as I scan the pictures one by one and let it fall on my soft bed.

There were pictures of Asha and me, there were also solo pictures of her and also there were solo pictures of me too.

The last picture has written words on the back blank part. It was the same picture on the locket.

I didn't mind what was the message about earlier as I thought it was just nothing. It says

"AA,

I am happy that you came to me on the most perfect time where I thought I didn't need someone

else to help me through the challenges the life brought me. You help me to help myself to get up on

my knees and also helped me realized that I shouldn't locked myself from the help that the world is

willing to give.

Thank you so much, I will not forget how our paths had crossed. I promised to treasure every memory

you and I had made and so the memories we will make in the future

-Asha"

How is this possible? These picture, this letter. How is this possible? I helped Asha? But how?

How can I help Asha when I can't even helped myself in coping of losing her.

I hurriedly picked up the rectangular box with hope that the sender of these things will give me answers.

I looked at the address of the sender but the address and the name of the sender made me looked at with disbelief.

The package address was our address and the sender was me. Is this a joke? A prank? And if it is, This is not funny.