65 Here All Along

[Alden's point of view]

"Jessica!!" I saw her fall, "Jessica!!"

She fainted right in front of us. She seemed fine the whole day and did not show any sign of weakness, but knowing her, she had always been so secretive and kept her worries to herself mostly... and maybe gave some to Jesse.

I turned my head fast to Jesse to see his anxious reaction; he must have known something. His worries were drawn all over his face, and his physical expression proved it. Unaware of what he was doing, fear crumbled his self-control. He was lost and started unconsciously hyperventilating.

"Jesse! Snap out of it! What happened to her?!" Asami concernedly asked him.

"I..I do..don't knoow!!" his tears burst out of his eyes, "This is wrong! This is not what is supposed to happen! She always told me she will be fine! Did she lie?!"

He definitely was hiding something; Jessica did.

"Someone... Asami, help him. he's still hyperventilating... Arthur, you come with me; I'll take her back to her room" They all had frozen in their spots. I tried getting them moving. Arthur followed me as I took off my way to Jessica's room. I could hear Jesse, "Wait... fo..for, Huh, me!" His voice faded.

I carried Jessica to her room and slowly put her on her bed. Her expressions were frowny, sad, and painful for someone to see. Soon after, not only her expressions were concentring but her loud breaking cries. "It going to happen again!" her consciousness spoke as she still was out of her calm mind. "NO! NO! NO! DON'T GO,! NO! DON'T GO!" She repetitively streamed with her tears slowly drying out of her eyes from all the crying.

At last, "Alden..." She woke up.

"Arthur can you leave us?" she requested of him.

And when Arthur left, "Alden, Huh. Huh~, Alden, it was you... Tell me who is Bacia? Arthur's Bacia..." she knew her name. She knew who Bacia was?

"Could be she remembers?" I thought to myself. "That was a good thing you did just now; asking Arthur to leave. Before that, I have a question for you first. Do you actually know who Bacia is?" I stared into her deep dark flawless eyes.

"I don't know how she looks like, or who could she be, but I had met her so many times already. I saw her but did not know anything about her. Neither her appearance was clear, nor her name was mentioned to me; the same was for all of who was there. Yet today out of all the times, I saw her, you called her as she died between Arthur's hands..."

I walked to a random single chair that was in her room and rested both of my hands on it, "I see... Would you mind if I have a smoke?" I asked her calmly. She nodded her head, " Go ahead but please open the windows."

I moved to the windows. Opened them one after the other. Let the sunlight of that late afternoon hug the room by its colorful refractions through lenses that were inserted on the top of each window. Rainbow refractions danced in her room. It was beautiful.

I pulled my lighter and cigarette out of my jacket's pockets. Although with the sun out, it was still windy. I covered my cigarette's tip with one hand as I lighted it with the other.

"'Hooh'... You see, Bacia is someone we all have met here; especially as formers. As people who lived together in this house with her. A bright princess who walked on a sharp hard needled road yet smiled prettily. A princess who was socially born 'poor', yet she with her hard work was able to find herself a true prince; Arthur. He's a rich person no matter how you look at him - now, then, it doesn't really matter. She was Arthur's source of simple happiness. But not anymore, her death as you saw became his only sorrow..." I stood on her balcony while every single memory I had of her, Bacia, clip in my head.

"His only sorrow... I saw her... it can't be her..." Jessica stopped and was looking...

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[Jessica's point of view]

It's impossible... It can't be her... "SHE's a former" he said, but she's...

"His only sorrow... I saw her... it can't be her..." I saw HER standing in front of me. Her eyes looked down at the hollowness of her own shadow.

"You're here... I thought you left with Arthur," Alden turned his face away from the outside and faced us, "Pandora."

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