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A/N: Hey cupcakes!
Sorry I was so lazy to update 😜, here's a little music for these frustrated magical fellas ;).
"If this night won't be forever, at least we'll be together".
Was that a spoiler? 👀
Yes🤘..
Mwahahaha....
Now getting on with the story now!
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Isabelle

I had missed school for so many days that, I had to start home schooling. It was like nothing cared to me anymore as I've lost everything.

During the homeschooling, I'd have no other option than to look silently at the teacher, but really I'm looking into the person's soul, wishing it was my Grandma's.

Oh Grandma, how I missed you so much.

After five hours of tittle-tattles, work, work and work, I finally had the strength to go to my room and sleep.

If you ask me, I've not been sleeping for four days straight now, and when looking at me, you'd compare me to a zombie.

Just when I was about to close my door, mum called from downstairs announcing someone's arrival. They've been doing this for the past two weeks now. I wonder if they even have feelings. They look sort of happy to me.

I'm not ready to see anyone now...

I've not yet recovered from this.

"Whatever". I grumbled and closed the door without a second thought. I needed time to get through this once and for all.

Most of all, I needed sleep and some breathing space around me. I mean, can't I ever get a break with someone who understands me better?

I need someone who had witnessed the same pain as mine.

Various thoughts got mixed up in my mind, making my eyelids slowly dance to it's tune. I felt sleep gradually take it's toll over me at last. What a huge relief.

It's been two weeks--- and yet sleep had refused to accept me, so now I'm relieved I could've a day to spare for myself.

Drowsily, I got into my bed, pulling my favourite cozy blanket over me---with the bedsheets entirely consuming me.

Somewhere in the middle of my consciousness and sub-consciousness, I heard a familiar song playing in the background---alongside with a female voice. What surprises me is that this music is from my musical box. This is one of the tones Grandma plays for me too.

Grandma?

No, it can't be her.

Julius?

She's here?

How did she get in?

Of course mum brought her here...

Sigh.

Smiling a little bit, I succumbed to the jaws of mother nature's beauty---or not so beauty sleep.

As usual, no dream of my grandma, or any unusual thingy like before...just normal teenage girl dreamy stuffs and weird stuffs that could make you go crazy.

But still, the setting of the dream was in that same garden as it always was, and always is, which still had a link to something I couldn't wrap my head on.

The garden was well...a garden, but when I was walking around, it was like a garden that never had an ending or direction. The atmosphere suddenly turned from day to night-time and soon enough, the moon was creeping out from the hovering clouds.

It took me three hours to reach what looked like the middle of the mysterious garden and yet, no signs of an edge or path. But wait, I could see something!

A door!

Something familiar - like a scent, caught my attention too, but before I could turn, my eyes snapped open at once.

I jolted back to reality---and the funny aspect was that the scent was from around me now. I felt shivers across my body when I saw I was no longer in my room anymore, but that of the living room.

Where is everyone else even?

There should've been a sign of someone awake at least!

Oh, it's very late now - but still...

The last thing that I remember if I'm correct is that, I was sleeping on my bed with my blanket across my shoulders.

And now, my blanket wasn't on me anymore, but was tucked neatly on a couch next to me.

Shit...so cold....

The breezy air that was whirling in the room was very cold. I could also see the moonlight seeping it's way through the curtains, despite the fireplace that was opposite me. I caught a glimpse of the harvest moon rising out from it's peak.

How did it get so late so fast-

-I'm so tired to think now...

My blood immediately turned cold when I realized that...that I wasn't alone!

What I thought was a shadow shifted swiftly from the corner of the room. I could feel my face turning pale and stiff immediately. Not again.

Not again with the hallucinations....

My lips parted to say something, anything! But nothing, not even a mumble, could come out of my mouth. It was like I experienced some sort of paralysis I guess.

And worse, the scent became stronger and stronger. I've never been this pale out of fear in my life, my heart pace literally increased.

I felt something deep within me clench or more like snap...which was shocking. And before I knew it, all the candles around the room burst into flames, and the fireplace got brighter than normal.

Wait a minute.

Candles in the living room?

All around where I'm laying down?!

Following the lit candles one by one, my eyes landed on something, or rather someone, at the edge of the casket standing still and staring intensely towards my direction. My chest rose and fell in fear as the assumed person's eyes shone brightly in the dark corner---glimmering red eyes.

W-what...is...that?

Perched at the very edge of my Grandma's casket---was a boy...no...a GUY!

A freaking weird guy!

His skin was paler than the glimmer of moonlight across it and more paler than the colour of bone even.

His dark emerald eyes were half hidden by the tufts of his curly black hair---as if the skylight itself was smooching his eyes. I could've sworn that I saw something red in his eyes.

His head was turned towards the direction of his hand which was laid gently across the coffin.

And as if that wasn't enough, his position on the high-placed casket was quite disturbing.

Not even I could climb there for anything.

"W-what are you-?!". In fear, I blurted out in a nervous squeaky tone. "-who are you?...H-how did you get here!...I'm calling the cops!".

I watched with arrogance at how his shoulders tensed up a bit at my voice, probably at my threat.

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A/N: Yes that's right, that has been the scent you've been noticing all these while Isabelle, but wait....how can you scent him?

What are you?

A sniffer? 😂

Lol, I felt so good actually writing this one and I'm even pleased with the word count unlike the recent one heh. The real question is...

Who is this weird guy that has his scent all over the place? And why's he here?

👀👉👈 No spoilers to those who haven't read it please! Thank you and buh-bye!

Your Writer,
TheMysticalQueen 👸.

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