Chapter 19

"I know you probably hate me right now, I do to"

"If I could be a better person I would"

"If only I could go back in time"

"I would apologize and beg for forgiveness

but whats the point of that?"

"whats done is done"

"Such measly words aren't going to bring you back from the dead"

"If only I had arrived earlier"

Perla sat there leaning against the cold cement gravestone her body limp, black eye-bags under her eyes as she stared up onto the morning sky.

"Don't worry, I made sure to clean your house while you were gone, I know how much you despised dirty atmospheres"

She assured no one in particular as she talked to the gravestone wielding her dead lover.

Looking back down she remembered the box she had found in his house that she had yet to open.

A red box with black lining that read 'Perla' in bold cursive letters in the middle.

Picking up the box as she slowly scanned the designs on the box, she slowly pulled of the lid revealing an array of random stuff.

She bitterly smiled at the familiar items in front of her as her eyes landed on a book. More specifically an album.

All the pictures were of the duo, smiling and enjoying their fun adventures and dates.

The memories resurfaced as her heart ached at the memory of each picture.

As she neared the end of the picture album a white envelope slipped out catching the attention of the long brown haired female.

'To: Perla' the back read.

She carefully opened the envelope finding a paper to which she guessed was a letter inside as she opened it and read;

' Hey Doll,

As you read this I'm probably gone now. I knew everything from the beginning to the end. I have every right to hate you but I don't. I never will. Not in this lifetime. Or the next. Or more to come. I mean who could hate you? None of what happened is you're fault. Now that I'm gone I want you to go on about you're life, seeing your tears makes me crumble. I will be with you forever so don't go forgetting about me! >;( You deserve to be happy more than anyone, though I wish to share that happiness with you, I will be with you again. In Another life. I will always love you. Until the end of the world. I will never stop loving you. In another life we'll start a family together. The family we both longed for.

Goodbye love,

Until we might again,

In another life,

Best boy Ace <3"

Tears clouded her vision as her arms fell to her sides, her chest aching as her throat hurt.

It hurt a lot.

She got up stumbling as she picked up the box containing the painful memories of the one who loved her.

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She laid there on his bed staring at the ceiling as she hugged his pillow his scent slightly fading as time had passed by.

She hadn't eaten in days, sleeping through the day and overthinking at night as guilt ate her away.

She hadn't seen her cats in days.

To say the least she was worried but it was reassuring knowing they had a robotic food and water dispenser though it made her feel quite homesick as she missed them.

She heard footsteps near inside the house.

She didn't care.

It could have been and intruder, a robber, yet she didn't prioritize her life.

Ace had given her a reason to live.

That reason was him.

She took it away.

She didn't deserve to live.

She was evil.

A title she finally understood.

The door to Ace's room creaked open as Perla made no effort to look over.

"I finally found you" Edna cried out a sad smile on her face at the sight of her friend.

Perla looked over seeing Edna holding her two cats as they innocently meowed at the sight of Perla.

"Your cats miss you and I do too please let me help you cope" Edna pleaded as tears finally streamed down her face at the sight of her best friend's state.

She walked over placing the cats down as she laid beside Perla tightly hugging her as they silently sobbed together.

"You know the day Ace found out he was in love with you he came to me" Edna explained a strained sad smile on her face as she started explaining the memory of the other female's dead lover.

"He was like ' Do you think you can help me? I think I'm sick, every time she comes near me my heart races and I feel sick to my stomach, and I get this warm fuzzy feeling, I think I might have a disease'" she laughed remembering the memory as Perla sadly smiled breath hitching from the amount of crying she had done for the past day.

"I explained to him that it was love and that he loved you and I started observing your relationship more as I saw the way he looked at you as if you were a prized jewel, as if you were the world and without you his would crumble" she explained as hot streams of tears continued rolling as she hugged Perla who's head rested on Edna's chest as she softly stroked her hair planting a small kiss on the top of her head.

The two cats climbed on the bed licking at Perla as they rested on her stomach cuddling into her as to provide more comfort.

For the first time in a month Perla felt at peace again.

With the help of Edna maybe she would finally put pieces back together.

Collect all the rocks she had spilled and store them back into the pouch she had worked hard to get in the first place.

Maybe then she'll find happiness again.

Ace will forever be the missing part of her,

But Edna was also a part of her along with her cats,

And that maybe enough until the next life.

She still had a family.

With one part missing.

Maybe she could regain happiness.

And then,

In another life,

She would complete that family.

The End~

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