This chapter is for my Kitty, Emi_Hestia, whom I would burn down the world for, and I'd be worried sick if I didn't hear from her for even just one single day.

Can't imagine a life without you, Kitty.

Can't stop thinking about you.

I will forever love you!

Please don't ever leave me.

This chapter is also dedicated to my Can't-live-without-you person, aka Sokeefelover22, who means the world to me.

You are like the oxygen I need to breathe, Luv!

I love you so, so, so much!

More than you can imagine!

This chapter is also dedicated to my first friend on Wattpad, -_Lunar_Faerie_-, who has known me since the beginning of me being on Wattpad.

Honestly, Key, without you, I wouldn't have come this far!

Wish we could find time to chat more, I miss you so much!

I love you to the moon and back, Bestie!

I hope you know that!

I miss you.

And another dedication to SherryBaluch, who is the bestest friend one could ever wish for.

Honestly, your shout-outs to me in your stories were sooo sweet, YOU are so sweet and kind, you make me tear up everytime, and always leave me wondering what I ever did to deserve a wonderful and amazing friend like you.

I love you so much, my Bright Side.

More than you can ever imagine.

I hope you will come back to Wattpad a bit more often...

I know you have found better friends somewhere else, but you have friends here too.

Friends, who miss you.

So please come back for us.

There's not a day I don't think about you or check your account to just see if you're back...

Her_Royal_Slytherin, honestly, you're such a great friend, Bestie!

You always manage to bring a smile on my face!

You're caring, kind, sweet, and AMAZHANG, the bestest friend ever!

I love you so, so, so much, and we definitely need to chat more!

Muwahhhh!

Piper_3707

Honestly, Piper, working together with you on our book was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.

It brought me closer to you, and I love you so, so, so much!

I'm really sad that our timezones are this different, I miss our chats and remember how much fun we used to have!

We may not be able to find the right time for both of us, but we still can definitely chat!

What about we just write on each other's message board, and you can answer whenever you are online!

It won't be as effective as when we are both online at the same time, but at least we'll stay in touch, right?

I miss you so much, Bestieee!

And I love you so much!!!

Muwahhh

I really hope we'll figure out how to chat more often!

I really miss those times when we used to chat!

And at last, but not least, there's one more friend of mine:

perzoe_123

You, Siss, are the most amazingest person on earth.

I love you, I love you so much!

I smile every time I receive a notification from you. You always make my day brighter.

You're like my sun.

And I love you so much, I REALLY hope you know that!

Muwahhh, love you, Sis!

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This chapter is dedicated to all of the people mentioned above.

Honestly, you guys live Rent-Free in my mind (TayTay, hehe) AND in my heart. Permanently.

I always wonder what I ever did to deserve you all.

You all are my world. You all are the first things my mind shows me when I think about 'friends'.

You all are my suns, you make my day brighter by just sending a 'Hello' on my Message Board.

You all are the oxygen I need to breathe, I couldn't live without you all.

I may not be the same for you all, but what I said here is completely true.

I love you all so much, and I'm thankful every single second to have you all in my life.

I love you all to the moon and back.

Muwahhh

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To all my readers:

WOW, okay, this was REALLY emotional stuff for me, so if you read all of this, yeah, um...

Honestly, I don't know what to say, so...

Let's start with the story, shall we?

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Fun Fact:

I actually imagine the characters' accents inside my head!

You can, of course, imagine they're accents however you want, but this is how I imagine it:

Sia: She has this typical British accent

Ciara: This American accent- like Taylor Swift's accent, but with a little more "rrr" pronunciation

Brianna Sofia: Somewhere between Latina and typical Spanish accent

Sairan Grovas: Basically, the same accent as Sia's, with the same "rrr" pronunciation

More will be added in the upcoming chapters!

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Sia's POV

I think I figured it out.

I -or rather my consciousness - was trapped inside my own body, but another person, sorry, girl, was controlling my body, my movements, and she could read my thoughts.

Gosh, this was weird.

After she saw my memories, it felt like as if we connected!

Like, we were stuck together!
It was really weird. This feeling, I had no words to describe it exactly.

It was like as if I was connected to her.

Something powerful connected us, took a rope, and tied us together, making it impossible to escape, we were stuck together forever and ever until the end of time.

There was no escape.

There was no escape.

No escape.

At all.

Stuck together.

Forever.

By something powerful.

So powerful.

It didn't allow us to separate.

A force we didn't know that it existed.

What the hell was going on?!?!

"Sia!" I was ripped brutally out of my thoughts and realized that it was my mouth, which was moving, my lips touching each other and pronouncing syllables and forming words, my throat, my vocal chords, creating sounds.

And I didn't even realize it.

I was a guest in my own body, my body, and it was controlled by a complete stranger I had never met before, and she could already read my thoughts and oh my gods, this was confusing, why could she control my-

"Sia!!!" The voice spoke louder, and I was startled. "You know I can hear your thoughts, right?"

Oh.

Oh.

I- I'm sorry.

I didn't speak it put aloud, I couldn't speak it out aloud, because I didn't have any control over my body, I just could see what my -or her, in this case- eyes could see.

But I knew she heard that I just apologized for my thoughts being too loud.

Again, I reminded myself, don't overthink.

You'll just give the poor girl a headache.

My chin nodded in response.

So, no more overthinking. Anyways, Ciara, I know you, you know me, our thoughts are connected, that's why.

You know about my life, I know about your life, and that's cool! I guess.

"It's pretty weird, actually." Ciara, aka my mouth answered, "I'm trying so hard not to freak out right now. Like, super hard."

I know.

I can sense your thoughts and emotions.

But we have to act mature and stay calm, or we'll be stuck here forever.

"Well, since I saw your thoughts, we -I mean, you- live in the Emerald Cities, right?"

Yeah, but I still don't know why your grandmother warned you about us.

Even though some shady stuff is going on here, considering my "best friend" just betrayed and murdered me.

"I'm sorry," Ciara responded, her voice full with emotion, her thoughts flooded by sorrow, "about everything you went through. Even though I just saw your recent memories. I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry about... you know... Gem..."

She trailed off and a heavy silence settled between us.

So, I think I just realized where we are right now. Now that I am not panicking anymore and I took my time to look at our surroundings, we are at the shadow forest. I used to come here, this was my safe place.

No one knew about this.

It was just me and the nature.

I now looked at the colorful trees, the leaves golden, orange, yellow and red.

Only a few green ones were left, it was almost fall.

The public transport is nearby, we can take it and go home.

Check your left pocket! We might still have the ticket!

Ciara did so, and indeed, there was a triangular shaped metal piece, a tesser, to be exact.

Ooo! We have one! I think Gemmy forgot to check our pockets for these stuff.

Bitterness filled my thoughts, and I knew that Ciara could sense my emotions.

Why would she check them? I was basically thought to be dead. I'm only standing up right now because there's some kind of magic and you saved me from being a stupid ghost for the rest of my life!

"Hey!" Ciara, patted my shoulder, as if trying to comfort me. Even though I couldn't exactly feel her touch, the thought counted. "Calm down, okay? You can be angry and sad about this when we go home. But now is not the right time. We have to act mature. Even though we are still kids." She grumbled the last part, but I still heard it.

Fine. I agreed, because I wanted to go home and NOT get us killed once again. Let's go!

I led her the way, it was a twenty minutes walk.

We arrived at the hodos stop, and I could tell that Ciara was confused.

She was confused about where we were.

Ciara, I explained, this is how we are going to go home.

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YEPPP, THAT WAS THE CHAPTER!!!

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-Umber

PS: I am so, so, so sorry, Kitty!

That's why this is an extra long chapter!

Hope you liked it!

And to the rest of you all, I am so sorry this chapter was delayed so much, but my schedule is pretty busy, so...

Yeah...

The next one won't take this long I promise!

Byeeee!