[Juna is still Juna here cuz why not, we need another Cat Queen duhh]

She remembered the vibrant color of crimson petal she used to cough up. Most of the times, she wouldn't even notice the blood that trickled down because it blends well with the color.

The rose petals felt soft despite hurting her so much. She did repeatedly cough up some small buds with tiny thorns. Even though it was quite disturbing, she find it very beautiful.

But the rose petals started to wilt.
Before, it was just one or two of wilted petals that she would often cough up.

Now, all of the petals she used to stare at for few hours are dark and wilted.

The shade of red reminded Wendy of her past, the ribbon. It was quite surprising that she survived years with Hanahaki. She guessed that it was all thanks to Cedric intentionally avoiding her.

But the roses were still there as well as the ribbon.

Rai mentioned something about her joking that she's going to live her whole life with hanahaki and she will even die because of another cause and not the flowery disease.

She was wrong.

After countless surgeries, she was still wrong. There's something wrong with her.

Surgeries were supposed to get the flowers out. As well the feelings, right? That would often cause the victim memory loss.

But why is she falling again and again..? How pathetic. She should try falling from the building this time..

Wendy sat down under a tree in Violet Hill.

She sighed, it's been a while since she was here, last... 24 years..? She remember it quite vividly despite the large year gap and countless of surgeries.

The nostalgic atmosphere is there thing she would never forget, of course.

The same old tree still stand, which surprised the young woman. She can still feel the warm breeze of the hill and the crickets convincing her to call it a night, since she was stubborn, she dismissed it and remained on her place, relaxed.

She missed this place. It's been awhile since she saw her old friends. She didn't plan her departure before, but she only agreed because Rai's family said that it was for her own sake.

Wendy wants to see her pals, so she decided to go back at her hometown after years.

Then, she heard soft

footsteps coming closer, but for some reason, she didn't really care a lot about that, The blonde woman was too busy humming to herself, picking up some small flowers that were near to her place.

She dropped it as the footsteps stopped.

"Hey, what's up?" A woman stood beside her, her long black hair draped up until her shoulder. The woman has brown eyes that seem to have

two layers of eyeliner and cheeks popping up. She wore an unusual outfit, black suit and red tie.

Wendy squinted her eyes, puzzled.

"Umm.. do I know you?" Wendy retorted with a bit of venom, the woman took a step back. She looked at her old friend in disbelief, as if she's disappointed

to Wendy's answer.

The other let out a nervous chuckle. "Dude Wendy, chill" The black haired woman said, her hands near her chest, before putting an 'okay' sign you see in stereotypical Italian TV chef.

Wendy stared at her, examining her whole appearance.

"Brian?" she unconsciously spoke and the woman smirked, her lip curling upward at the name. "BRIAN!" this time, with full realization, Wendy beamed.

"Oh for Pete's sake Wendy, we meet again after twenty-four years and you say Brian?" Brynlee found herself mocking her blonde friend, and earned a small laughter.
"I seriously doubt your sense of sanity"

"Is it as far as you doubt humanity?" Wendy mocked back, teasing her about a faded memory she remembered, she was with Bryn and Rai, she's not sure.

"I'm over that phase Wendy"

"Oh please explain yourself with

your clothes, you still look emo"

"Well that's not a phase" Wendy rolled her eyes playfully as she smacked Bryn's shoulders and the woman dramatically fell of the ground

"K.O" she then

stood up, dusting herself from the soil and leaves that were attached to her clothes.
"Anyways, I had this comic convention

earlier, since the release of the comic me and Irish were working on and all so we decided to play in character." she briefly

explained, but Wendy stared in disbelief once more.

Roleplay..?

The blonde female looked speechless at the moment. "What?" she asked.

"Yee, Irish wrote the plot as you can tell now I'm Vampire Vaughn" Brynlee added "And as you can tell, I'm grateful that I designed the

characters and all so now I look like my former emo-self"

Wendy began to laugh her lungs out as Brynlee stared at her blankly while she look like

a dying seal.

"Ha ha ha, laugh all you want" She said as she crossed her arms and her foot tapping, irritated.

"Wanna come with us? Me, Irish, Tyler, Juna, Josh, Jared, Alice are going to this bar, I was just about to head there but as you

can tell, I wanted to stay here than stay in that rowdy wretched bar, but it wouldn't be so bad if you were there, I can't miss the

stories you have"

Brynlee shrugged, and soon as Wendy agrees, both of them head straight to the said bar.

"Hey yee came!" Irish called out to Brynlee and pointed at Wendy "Who's that?" she asked, her forehead creating lines and her

eyebrows slanted upper.

Now Wendy knows the feeling of disbelief Brynlee had earlier, now it was her time to shake her head in disappointment as Brynlee snickered for revenge.

"Guess who?"

"Wendy" Tyler said straight to the point, playing with his spaghetti. Irish's eyes shot wide open in shock. "Wendy?" she repeated.

"No shit Sherlock" Wendy answered back, before being tackled by Irish, a little aggressively, for a hug.
"Oh gosh I missed you!" Irish beamed, and Wendy's disbelief turned into a genuine happiness.
"You too"

Wendy replied.

There's a bit of a mess in the bar, with Josh mumbling incoherent words that irritates the others (mainly Juna and Tyler) and Juna having her millionth bottle again.

What caught Wendy's attention was the unfamiliar black-curly haired woman who was seating next to Jared. Soon, they were introduced with each other.

Brynlee smiled at the two. "By the way Wendy, Jared's married with Alice, that curly

black-headed girl's Alice"

Wendy was surprised to find out that Cedric and Jared wasn't married to each other. She wonders why, but remained silent.

She smiled and reached out a hand "Nice to meet you" the two shook hands "Nice to meet you too"

Alice smiled back at her sweetly.

"Where's Saint by the way?" Brynlee asked, leaving Wendy confused to as why would she asked for a saint.

The other noticed her expression and explained. "That's Jared and Alice's son, I call him that." she clarified.

"He's at home, playing Legos presumably" Jared replied as he took a sip from his glass.

He then asked Bryn, "And your twins?"

Twins?? Wendy almost looked like that confused meme, but she dismissed that for now.

"Ruby and Anathema are fine, they're probably in the old tree house" Tyler reassured with a small smile, Juna patted a seat beside her.

She called Wendy over. "Sit here so you're beside Irish" to which Wendy nodded.

"So... how are you guys, what are you guy's occupation?" They glanced at each other while Wendy waited patiently for a response.

"As you can

tell, I'm a comic artist" Brynlee started and Tyler placed his cup in the table "Band, same goes to Juna, I'm the singer and she's the

drummer" Juna nodded, not speaking.

"Rai's a successful author and so am I lately" Irish said with a huge grin.

"I'm a manga artist, Alice's a game developer" Jared was next, but Alice frowned "I wanted to say that" Jared seems to feel horrible at her statement so he apologized "Sorry Angel"

All of the sudden, Josh shouted "Professional dabber and meme maker!"

Yep.. he's so drunk.

"Pipe down Joshua!" Brynlee pulled him down to his seat.
Josh chuckled. "Imma just kidding mate, Imma gay rainbow unicorn bum-"
"I'm sorry about him he's... he'll tell you later when he's sobber"

Wendy only laughed in return, before heading to the last question she intentionally left.

"How about Cedric?"

Silence filled the booth, and everything went motionless. Wendy just stared at them, confused when she saw their disturbed expressions. She soon started to blame herself for saying something bad, even though she isn't aware of it.

No one dared to break the silence until Irish

cleared her own throat, taking her seconds to vibrate words from her vocal chords, she sounded.. hurt and doubtful.

"He was stubborn enough to decline taking surgery. Even with that confession with Jared, his hanahaki still took over, and eventually.."

"..he died."

{W H A T?

YOU NEVER PLAYED TUBER SIMULATOR-

ok i will stop, and bITCH I THOUGHT WENDY IS GOING TO DIE BUT I HAD AN EPIC U-TURN AND HAHA HERE WE ARE NOW

andd yayy, i finished an au. its a smol one though. jaric still rules even tho cedric died becuz hes being a lil bitch uwu

anyways, i hope i can make more au, expect me torturing wendy baii}