A/N: First Story, thank you for clicking on it! I'm not very experienced but i do have a love for Ib! One of my friends introduced me to it and i gotta say I'm a little obsessed. To curb it, I decided to write fanfictions! Thank you so much for checking it out and enjoy~

Ib belongs to the amazing Kouri, I'm just a small bug and he is a big garden

Chapter 1. Together Forever

"Ib, come with me."

I saw Garry's gentle yet familiar hand beckon towards me. As much as I want to believe it is true, I still remember the half dead Garry left on the floor of the toybox.

"Ib, no that's not the exit," He chuckles with a sound that I knew so well, "I found the exit over there in there, it's not in here at all silly!"

Memories flow rapidly through my mind. There's only a tiny chance that the Garry standing in front of me is the one I long for, and not an illusion of this god-forsaking maze. I took another glance at Garry's outstretched hand, almost drawing me to him with his warmth. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and then walked slowly towards him.

"That's it Ib, come on! Let's get out of here." Garry said.

The moment our hands touched, I knew something was wrong. The warm hand that gave off a warm lemon fragrance was replaced by a ice cold stone mold. Before I had a chance to process these new discoveries, the stone hand encased my hand tightly in it's, and dragged me into the next room. As much as I scream and tried to pull away, he only grasped tighter. Then all of the sudden, I felt the hold loosen and then release. Garry faced me staring right into my eyes. Instead of pupils in his lavender eyes, all I saw was blank. We stayed standing there, looking at each other.

"Bad Ib. Bad, bad, bad!" Mary's voice echoed through Garry's mouth. "You said we were gonna leave this place together Ib, you promised!"

I shivered though my dress.

"But it's okay Ib, best friends forgive each other." Mary's voice continued, "we can still be here, together forever..."

I shouted at the top of my lungs to the source of the voice. "No!"

"Together forever， together for…" the voice continued to echo.

Then, the Garry I knew melted right in front of my eyes. His sleek light blue hair fell out in patches and revealed a bald white dome, his skin and features melted off his body like hot wax, and his tattered old blue coat tore off revealing a headless mannequin combined with a bodiless head on top of its neck.

"Together forever." the head whispered one more time before collapsing on the floor motionless.

I took off sprinting back the way the fake Garry lead me. I run to the room with the painting "Fabricated World", but when I got there, it was too late, the painting was ruined. There were long slash marks on the paper. Also with the words "Ib and Mary best friends forever" painted on with red paint.

Seeing my only way out destroyed I ran again. I ran as fast as I could out of the pink house. Hot, yet sweet tears pushed up my eyes and eventually down my cheeks but I had intension of wiping them away. I didn't know where I was going, but I still ran. I ran to the artificial sunbeam next to the ice room because it was the place where Gary and I made a promise to eat macaroons after we get out of this mess. Mary is a messed up girl, but she is right about one thing: it's bad to break a promise. I gathered up my courage and knew what I had to do next, and I sprinted off again.

Garry lies motionless on the floor of the toybox; he looked so peaceful slumbering there like he was just taking an afternoon nap, but I knew better, as much as I wanted to believe that it were true.

"Garry," I whispered softly through his ears.

And of course, there was no response.

I didn't care.

"Garry, you jerk! You promised to take me out for macaroons! You promised."

Still no response.

I got up and trudged upstairs, to the room where Gary's forgotten rose lied there on the floor. But as I got a closer look, I realized that the last petal was clinging to the stem by a tiny strand. Hope began to arise in me. I then delicately picked up the last of Garry's life source and ran out of the toybox. I searched the entire land looking for a vase full of water, and hope. But I knew better than to put the flower in the lake, after having my own weakened by the rancid water. After what seemed like an eternity, I accepted that there was no good water left in all of crayon land. I hopes were dashed just as fast as it came. Then, I took the dying blue rose in my hand and walked back to where I left Garry.

"I'm sorry Garry, I can't do it." I whimpered.

Then everything came crashing down on me: getting trapped in this treacherous place, losing my parents, getting chased by scary looking monsters, and worst of all, losing the only person I had. I couldn't control it, a thin line of tears turned into a gigantic waterfall crashing down on the floor. I cried about Garry, I cried about my parents, and I even cried about Mary. There was an endless list of things that I cried about and I didn't even try to control myself.

But as my tears dripped onto the fallen rose, it became enclosed in a silvering blue light. The blue petals creeped from the stem and formed a small bud, then blossomed into full bloom and revealed a perfect blue rose with exactly ten shiny blue petals.

I didn't realize what was happening as I continue crying my eyes red. Then I felt a familiar hand cupping my chin.

"Ib's not pretty anymore when she cries, her eyes are red and swollen like two tomatoes!" a weak voice laughs.

The familiar chuckle hurts my heart.

I open eyes and gasp, becoming awestruck and the sight of Garry, laughing and alive. I immediately jump into an embrace in his arms.

"Woah! Ib! I missed you too!" He smiled and hugged me back tightly.

"I thought you were gone." I mumbled though his shirt, "I thought you weren't coming back."

"But I'm here aren't I." replied Garry, "And I promise, from here on out, I'll always be here, forever."