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A Race With Time
Chapter 5
"..." Talking
'...' Thinking
[Europe]
"Remember to tell...." Hiura started, and Enrique rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, remember to tell them immediately what happened. Hiura, you have said that 5 times for the past 2 minutes, we can remember it you know." He said with a laugh, Hiura just looked at him coldly.
"If you don't want to see the death of yourself on the newspaper's front page tomorrow, I suggest you better go right now!"
Enrique shivered and looked at her unbelievaly, "am I glad you weren't chosen to be my fiancee."
"Naomi isn't any better, remember her shelf full of black belts?" Oliver stated with a smile, Enrique just glarred at him.
"Get going!" Everyone turned to look at Hiura. "Now!"
[China- Lunch Time]
"I'll get it." Naomi offered as she stood up and walked over to the door, everyone's eyes followed her.
She opened the door and was greeted by a large smile, dazzling in the sun. "Hiya, Naomi babe! Long no see, I missed ya!"
With that, the guy jumped on her and placed a big kiss on her cheek, grunting, she pushed him off immediately. "Enrique!"
The Blade Breakers stood up as Johnny walked into the room, he glarred at Amara quickly. "Don't come near me! Sit and have your lunch!"
Amara whimpered and pouted at him, Naomi closed the door behind Enrique and walked in after them. "I believe you know each other."
Enrique winked at her, "of course, dear fiancee of mine."
Tyson's spoon dropped as he starred at them in shock, the rest of the Blade Breakers did the same, even Kai looked interested. Only Amara and Charlotte continued on eating like nothing's happening.
"EX fiancee you mean!" Naomi said, glarring at Enrique, Tyson visibly calmed down, but still glarred at Enrique, whoes smile was gone from his face as Naomi's words rang out. Kai looked at them, then looked at Johnny and Amara, understanding what this is.
"Ex fiancee... Naomi, weren't you...." Ray started.
"Social status." Kai stated calmly, Lily put down her spoon and looked at him. "It was just for the social status, Voltare tried to set me up on many of those dates before." He said boredly.
Amara nodded and smiled at them, then looked at Johnny. "And I was Johnny's ex-fiancee... whom got dumped by me later on."
"I am NOT your fiance!" Johnny yelled immediately, Amara smiled at him and turned her head away.
"I know, that's why I said I 'WAS'! Johnny... I know a few very good ear doctors, and very good English teachers as well, do you want me to contact them?"
Johnny glarred at her, his eyes sending diggers at her, Tyson looked towards Naomi for help, it seems like Johnny is going to explode soon. Naomi just crossed her arms over her chest, watching, as if this is all just an old play.
Amara then sighed and picked up little Alisa. "Alisa dear, let mommy tell you something." She then glanced at Johnny. "Guys like him are not to be treated nicely, when you grow up and meet one like him, you just kick him where it hurts and walk away, don't even bother with him."
"Um... Amara, Alisa is kinda young for this." Max said, looking at his wife, whom just shook her head at him.
"AMARA ZHAO! Why you litte..." Johnny started, then took in a deep breath and looked at Max. "Max, why did you marry her! Your life will be cut down into half of its length!"
"Johnny... long time no see." Max said with a smile, delibratingly ignoring the question.
"What.... are you guys doing here?" Charlotte asked as she looked up from her plate.
Upon hearing that, Enrique and Johnny's face darkened in seriousness, they shared a look and Enrique looked at all of them, then stopped on Kai.
"We're here about Cecilia."
Everyone looked up, even Lily looked up at Enrique.
"Why is everyone suddenly so interested in Lia these days?" Ray asked confused.
"Kai.... Lia told you that she's in Japan for a wedding gown try out, right?" Kai nodded, and Johnny sighed. "The problem is that... she never went for her try out yesterday, and she didn't go today either."
The room was suddenly very quiet, no one knew what to say, Lily smirked and looked at all of them. "This Cecilia girl must be lying to all of you then... she's probably meeting with a secret lover of hers... or maybe it should be lovers." She said.
Everyone turned and looked at her with a frown, Naomi closed her eyes, holding back the anger within her, reminding herself that she's Ray's cousin, and that she should not practice any of her skills on her and chop her into pieces. "Lily Kon..." She started coldly, her eyes closed. "I suggest you shut up right now."
Lily was about to say something, but Kai's death glare was pinned on her, she gulped nervously.
"Unfortunately, we do not know where she is right now." Enrique finished.
"Why are you guys looking for her?" Kai asked, standing up.
"Hiura..." Enrique started, but was cut off by Johnny.
"That witch said something about Lia's in danger, so she wanted us to check it out."
That's when the Blood and Roses tensed up, Hiura is usually right about those things.... just what happened to Cecilia? Kai frowned and looked down, worried. Where can she be?
In this tense situation, only Lily smiled within herself. Cecilia's not here... her plan of getting Kai for herself is getting easier and easier by the minute.....
[Japan]
"Where are we going?" Cecilia asked as she hurried to catch up with an excited Seith, whom is walking fast in front of her.
"You'll know soon!" Seith replied, not looking back.
Cecilia sighed, that's what he said 5 minutes ago. She just picked up her long skirt and followed him. Soon, they arrived at a garden of some sort in Voltare's mansion, Cecilia looked around the garden and gasped.
There are tons of flowers and plants around, how is it that... someone like Voltare can keep such a beautiful place in his ugly home? Cecilia looked around surprised, but also wonderiously at the different types of flowers and plants. Seith looked at her profile and smiled.
"Do you like it?"
Cecilia blinked, then nodded slowly. "Yeah... this garden... is beautiful. How can Voltare..."
"It's not Voltare's garden." Seith interruped her, she looked up at him. "This garden is mine, I like flowers and plants, so that's why I kept this garden." He said with a smile, turning to look at her.
Cecilia tilted her head and looked at him closely. "I have always wondered... just what is your relationship to Voltare?"
"I'm his other son's son... my father was never the favorite of Voltare, so that's why most people don't even know about me. I live here... from time to time." He explained, Cecilia nodded, so he's Kai's cousin, that makes sense.
A moment of silence past by, Cecilia took in a deep breath and turned to the flowers again. "Why are we here? Did you just wanted me to look at these flowers?"
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." Seith then looked up and snapped his fingers, Cecilia followed his lead and looked up at the sky as well.
Soon, helicopters appeared above them, making loud noises in the sky. Cecilia frowned as she put a hand on her hair to prevent them from falling into her face.
"Cecilia... I heard that you're sick... Voltare told me." Seith began, Cecilia turned and looked at him. "I don't want anything to happen to you, so... I present you with tons and tons of 'lifes' from all over the world. Look!"
Cecilia gave him a strange look before turning her head again, the helicopters spread down blue hyacinth everywhere in the garden, they blue hyacinth covered up all the grounds. Cecilia just starred at it amazed, he did all this just for her?
"Cecilia... I believe you know that in the the language of flowers, blue hyacinth means life... I have brought to you millons of lifes, hoping that you can live 100 years old." He said with a smile, and looked down at her grateful face.
"Seith... I don't know what to say." She then smiled and looked at him. "I'm sure with all of these lifes, I'll be able to live long enough to fulfill every one of my wishes. Thank you."
She then turned back to the flying hyacinth again, and slowly walked into them, the hyacinth fell onto her hair, her shoulder, her face, gently. She's the white in a world of blue. Looking up, she stopped in the middle of all the helicopters, where the hyacinth comes down the most steady.
Taking in a deep breath, she closed her eyes and spread out her arms. Slowly, she began to spin, spin, spin, and spin.....
Seith watched as Cecilia span around in the falling hyacinth, like usual... she's in all white today. The blue hyacinth decorated her, she's an angel that came down from the heaven, a smile spread over his face as well.
They just stayed there, she span, and he watched, enchanted. Suddenly, Cecilia turned to him and stopped, Seith looked at her surprised. She just looked at him calmly, he blinked and tilted his head, is something wrong?
Just as he was about to ask her, suddenly, her eyes rolled back and her body swang back and forth gently. Then right before his eyes, she dropped onto the ground full of blue hyacinth and fainted.
"Cecilia!"
The blue hyacinth fell, he ran towards her, and kneeled down beside her limp body. Gingerly, he picked her up and turned her around in his arms, brushing away the hair on her face, he looked at her face closely.
The first sign of Voltare's poison is working up already.
The blue hyacinth floated down one after one, piece after piece... her life is also floating away day by day, second by second....
[Later- Cecilia's Room]
Cecilia moaned softly and turned her head away from the light, sighing, she blinked rapidly, adjusting to the light then slowly opened up her eyes. A pair of worried blue eyes entered her eyes first, she blinked again, focusing on Seith.
"Cecilia... are you okay?" He asked worriedly, seeing her regain consciousness.
Cecilia smiled softly, and tiredly. "I'm fine, sorry I scared you like that."
Seith just shook his head, and held her left hand in his tightly, really looking scared. "It's okay... I just thought... thought that you left... left me for good."
Cecilia's smile deepened, using her right hand, she patted his hand comfortingly, like a big sister. "Seith... it's okay, I'm still alive, you'll still see me everyday, weither you like it or not." She looked at him, he seemed to have relaxed a bit. "Now... can you please help me up?"
Seith nodded, he bent forwards and slowly pulled her up, and she leaned against the head board of the bed. Cecilia placed a hand on her chest, feeling her heart beat, that simple action actually tired her out. Voltare's poison must be working properly, she glanced down then looked at Seith again, whom is now sitting on her bed, next to her.
"Cecilia.... your face looked really pale when you fainted back then... just what kind of a disease do you have? With the medical equipments now adays... they can even control some cancers. Tell me your problem, I'll see into it and get help as soon as possible."
Cecilia smiled sadly and looked at her arm, "Seith... it's not a disease... it's a poison."
Seith's eyes widened as he sat up taller and looked at her shocked. "Poison? Who... who would do such a thing to you?"
Cecilia looked at him, appearantly, Voltare didn't mention the little meeting they had before he came back. She tilted her head and thought of an answer, "that person is... someone whom is lost in his path of life, whom is..... misguided by the darkness in his mind."
Seith snorted and smirked. "You're saying that this isn't his fault."
Cecilia smiled and shook her head, "I never said that."
"You were saying that indirectly... why do you help him even after what he had done to you?" Seith looked at her, she just smiled at him, unable to hide away the sadness in her smile, suddenly, something came to him. "Cecilia... this 'he' that placed the poison in you... is he the guy that you're in love with?"
Cecilia's eyes widened, she looked at him surprised, where did he get an answer like that?
"No! Of course not! The person that placed the poison in me... is actually someone that I don't like very much." She said, an image of Voltare came into her mind, she mentally rolled her eyes at him.
"Then... does anyone know of this poison inside you?"
"No... I'm not allowed to have any contact with the outside world, or should I say, I'm locked in here without a way out, or anything related with the outside world." She said softly, that was one of Voltare's rules that she has to follow.
"Then... is there anyway that this can be cured? Whatever it takes, no matter how much the amount of money is, I'll get it for you." He said, panicking at the thought that she might die someday.
Cecilia shook her head slowly, and brushed a stand of hair behind her ear. "I don't know of the cure... the only one that knows about the cure is the creator himself."
Seith sighed defeated, she won't tell him whom the creator is... there's no hope for her. "Cecilia... how long do you have left?"
"Three weeks." Came her soft reply.
Another bomb just dropped on him, three weeks.... her life.... that's not possible. He looked at her, she's looking outside the window at the sky again, towards the direction of China. Who is in China that captured her heart?
"Cecilia... what do you want to see the most right now? I'll bring it to you." He said, wanting her to fulfill everything she's ever wanted in these 3 weeks.
Cecilia didn't look at him, she looked outside the window and slowly fingered her engagement ring. "See? I... I want to see... snow... pure, white snow." She said softly, she wants to forever remember that moment when Kai proposed to her, even after she dies.
Seith looked at the sunny sun outside, it's in the middle of July... there isn't possibly any snow around Japan, where can he get snow?
[China- Amara's Room]
Max walked into their room, the first thing that he noticed was the unusual silence in the room. The baby's not making any sound today, even Amara's painting something quietly... to quiet, not good.
He closed the door behind him, and walked over to Amara, she just glanced up at him, but didn't say anything. Her whole body, covered by the huge painting.
He walked around and stood besides her, looking at the painting. It's Cecilia... Amara's painting Cecilia.
In her paiting, Cecilia's sitting in a garden, fields of flowers surrounds her, all sort of colors. She's leaning back on a weeping willow, a book in her lap, 'Romeo and Juliet'. She has a hand on her hair, preventing it from flying too wildly, while the other one is on the last page of the book, she's looking into the distance, a ghostly smile on her face. There're red primroses gently flying down at her, covering up the whole place... but... nothing, nothing in the picture can cover up the sadness on her face.
A sad painting..... Amara Zhao's first sad painting in yeras....
Max caught her right hand, and turned her around to face him. Then, suddenly, he noticed the tears in her eyes, the tear trails on her cheeks, her rarely sad and serious face. He looked at her worried, not knowing what to do. Sighing, he pulled her into him, hugging her close to him. She dropped her paint brush and hugged him back, no more tears, but her body trembled.
"Amara..."
"Max, Cecilia is going to be okay, right?" She asked quietly, he just hugged her, not knowing what to say. Truth is... no one knows where Cecilia is right now. "Tell me! She's going to be all right! Max, tell me!" She yelled out the last few words, but her yell was muffled by his chest, Alisa just turned a bit on their bed.
"Amara... truth is... I don't know where Cecilia is right now, but I'm sure that... someone as kind as her... she'll be fine. She's strong, she'll be strong, she'll pull through everything. Stop worrying, it's okay." He said, not making much sense.
Amara sighed and after a minute, she pulled away from him slightly and looked at her painting. "Max... did you know that the red primrose was my favorite flower.... before?"
Max followed her gaze and nodded, "yeah, I do. I remember... I wanted to give you a bunch of them before, but you strictly told me not to, I have always wondered why."
Amara glanced down, then looked at him. "Max... before I met you, my paintings were full of sadness. Before, the only flowers that I accepted was red primroses, but after I met you, everything changed. After I met you, my life became colourful again, you gave me happiness and brought my soul back, I no longer need to do sorrowful paintings anymore. The reason why I didn't want you to give me any red primroses was because of the meaning behind them."
Max blinked and looked at her face, there's a meaning behind it? "What is it?"
"In the language of flowers.... red primroses mean sorrow, I didn't want that sorrow I felt come back to me, so I forbid anything that have to do with them, but now..." She looked at her painting and sighed. "I think... I might want to change that, after many years... today is the one day that I truly felt sorrow and sadness. Us five, we're not blood sisters... but we're sisters at heart, we love each other deeply. Cecilia... she's like our old sister, our mother... how can I let her go?"
Max looked at her, knowing that this is hard on her, and on everyone else. Even though he's not showing it, but... he's worried about her as well. Charlotte and Naomi aren't doing much better either.
Charlotte had been signing wrong names and just basically losing everything in her work room, her business is not going well today. Ray checked in on her, she just sat there with a pen in her hand, there's nothing in front of her, but she's still moving her pen as if signing something.
Naomi sat in her car, gripping the steering wheel, as if going somewhere, but with nowhere to go. Tyson sat beside her all day long, even forgetting about dinner, Naomi eventually came around, however, her cell phone was in trouble. She picked up her cell phone and dialed Cecilia's number again and again, again and again, every time, she got her voice mail, every time she'll leave something in her voice mail. Again and again, again and again, again and again.......
Max placed his hands on her face and turned it back to him, he brushed away her tear trails and looked down at her. "Amara... I promise, Cecilia will be fine. When she knows how worried all of you are, she'll know that everyone loves her and cares about her, she'll be fine."
Amara looked at him, trusting in his words, Cecilia will be fine. She's never let them down before, and she's not going to let them down ever, she'll be fine! She will be fine!
Leaning up, she locked her arms around his neck and pulled his head down. She closed her eyes as their lips touched and joint in a kiss.
Beside them, the red primroses continued to fall in the painting.....
TBC....
Thanks for reading, please R&R.
A Race With Time
Chapter 5
"..." Talking
'...' Thinking
[Europe]
"Remember to tell...." Hiura started, and Enrique rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, remember to tell them immediately what happened. Hiura, you have said that 5 times for the past 2 minutes, we can remember it you know." He said with a laugh, Hiura just looked at him coldly.
"If you don't want to see the death of yourself on the newspaper's front page tomorrow, I suggest you better go right now!"
Enrique shivered and looked at her unbelievaly, "am I glad you weren't chosen to be my fiancee."
"Naomi isn't any better, remember her shelf full of black belts?" Oliver stated with a smile, Enrique just glarred at him.
"Get going!" Everyone turned to look at Hiura. "Now!"
[China- Lunch Time]
"I'll get it." Naomi offered as she stood up and walked over to the door, everyone's eyes followed her.
She opened the door and was greeted by a large smile, dazzling in the sun. "Hiya, Naomi babe! Long no see, I missed ya!"
With that, the guy jumped on her and placed a big kiss on her cheek, grunting, she pushed him off immediately. "Enrique!"
The Blade Breakers stood up as Johnny walked into the room, he glarred at Amara quickly. "Don't come near me! Sit and have your lunch!"
Amara whimpered and pouted at him, Naomi closed the door behind Enrique and walked in after them. "I believe you know each other."
Enrique winked at her, "of course, dear fiancee of mine."
Tyson's spoon dropped as he starred at them in shock, the rest of the Blade Breakers did the same, even Kai looked interested. Only Amara and Charlotte continued on eating like nothing's happening.
"EX fiancee you mean!" Naomi said, glarring at Enrique, Tyson visibly calmed down, but still glarred at Enrique, whoes smile was gone from his face as Naomi's words rang out. Kai looked at them, then looked at Johnny and Amara, understanding what this is.
"Ex fiancee... Naomi, weren't you...." Ray started.
"Social status." Kai stated calmly, Lily put down her spoon and looked at him. "It was just for the social status, Voltare tried to set me up on many of those dates before." He said boredly.
Amara nodded and smiled at them, then looked at Johnny. "And I was Johnny's ex-fiancee... whom got dumped by me later on."
"I am NOT your fiance!" Johnny yelled immediately, Amara smiled at him and turned her head away.
"I know, that's why I said I 'WAS'! Johnny... I know a few very good ear doctors, and very good English teachers as well, do you want me to contact them?"
Johnny glarred at her, his eyes sending diggers at her, Tyson looked towards Naomi for help, it seems like Johnny is going to explode soon. Naomi just crossed her arms over her chest, watching, as if this is all just an old play.
Amara then sighed and picked up little Alisa. "Alisa dear, let mommy tell you something." She then glanced at Johnny. "Guys like him are not to be treated nicely, when you grow up and meet one like him, you just kick him where it hurts and walk away, don't even bother with him."
"Um... Amara, Alisa is kinda young for this." Max said, looking at his wife, whom just shook her head at him.
"AMARA ZHAO! Why you litte..." Johnny started, then took in a deep breath and looked at Max. "Max, why did you marry her! Your life will be cut down into half of its length!"
"Johnny... long time no see." Max said with a smile, delibratingly ignoring the question.
"What.... are you guys doing here?" Charlotte asked as she looked up from her plate.
Upon hearing that, Enrique and Johnny's face darkened in seriousness, they shared a look and Enrique looked at all of them, then stopped on Kai.
"We're here about Cecilia."
Everyone looked up, even Lily looked up at Enrique.
"Why is everyone suddenly so interested in Lia these days?" Ray asked confused.
"Kai.... Lia told you that she's in Japan for a wedding gown try out, right?" Kai nodded, and Johnny sighed. "The problem is that... she never went for her try out yesterday, and she didn't go today either."
The room was suddenly very quiet, no one knew what to say, Lily smirked and looked at all of them. "This Cecilia girl must be lying to all of you then... she's probably meeting with a secret lover of hers... or maybe it should be lovers." She said.
Everyone turned and looked at her with a frown, Naomi closed her eyes, holding back the anger within her, reminding herself that she's Ray's cousin, and that she should not practice any of her skills on her and chop her into pieces. "Lily Kon..." She started coldly, her eyes closed. "I suggest you shut up right now."
Lily was about to say something, but Kai's death glare was pinned on her, she gulped nervously.
"Unfortunately, we do not know where she is right now." Enrique finished.
"Why are you guys looking for her?" Kai asked, standing up.
"Hiura..." Enrique started, but was cut off by Johnny.
"That witch said something about Lia's in danger, so she wanted us to check it out."
That's when the Blood and Roses tensed up, Hiura is usually right about those things.... just what happened to Cecilia? Kai frowned and looked down, worried. Where can she be?
In this tense situation, only Lily smiled within herself. Cecilia's not here... her plan of getting Kai for herself is getting easier and easier by the minute.....
[Japan]
"Where are we going?" Cecilia asked as she hurried to catch up with an excited Seith, whom is walking fast in front of her.
"You'll know soon!" Seith replied, not looking back.
Cecilia sighed, that's what he said 5 minutes ago. She just picked up her long skirt and followed him. Soon, they arrived at a garden of some sort in Voltare's mansion, Cecilia looked around the garden and gasped.
There are tons of flowers and plants around, how is it that... someone like Voltare can keep such a beautiful place in his ugly home? Cecilia looked around surprised, but also wonderiously at the different types of flowers and plants. Seith looked at her profile and smiled.
"Do you like it?"
Cecilia blinked, then nodded slowly. "Yeah... this garden... is beautiful. How can Voltare..."
"It's not Voltare's garden." Seith interruped her, she looked up at him. "This garden is mine, I like flowers and plants, so that's why I kept this garden." He said with a smile, turning to look at her.
Cecilia tilted her head and looked at him closely. "I have always wondered... just what is your relationship to Voltare?"
"I'm his other son's son... my father was never the favorite of Voltare, so that's why most people don't even know about me. I live here... from time to time." He explained, Cecilia nodded, so he's Kai's cousin, that makes sense.
A moment of silence past by, Cecilia took in a deep breath and turned to the flowers again. "Why are we here? Did you just wanted me to look at these flowers?"
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." Seith then looked up and snapped his fingers, Cecilia followed his lead and looked up at the sky as well.
Soon, helicopters appeared above them, making loud noises in the sky. Cecilia frowned as she put a hand on her hair to prevent them from falling into her face.
"Cecilia... I heard that you're sick... Voltare told me." Seith began, Cecilia turned and looked at him. "I don't want anything to happen to you, so... I present you with tons and tons of 'lifes' from all over the world. Look!"
Cecilia gave him a strange look before turning her head again, the helicopters spread down blue hyacinth everywhere in the garden, they blue hyacinth covered up all the grounds. Cecilia just starred at it amazed, he did all this just for her?
"Cecilia... I believe you know that in the the language of flowers, blue hyacinth means life... I have brought to you millons of lifes, hoping that you can live 100 years old." He said with a smile, and looked down at her grateful face.
"Seith... I don't know what to say." She then smiled and looked at him. "I'm sure with all of these lifes, I'll be able to live long enough to fulfill every one of my wishes. Thank you."
She then turned back to the flying hyacinth again, and slowly walked into them, the hyacinth fell onto her hair, her shoulder, her face, gently. She's the white in a world of blue. Looking up, she stopped in the middle of all the helicopters, where the hyacinth comes down the most steady.
Taking in a deep breath, she closed her eyes and spread out her arms. Slowly, she began to spin, spin, spin, and spin.....
Seith watched as Cecilia span around in the falling hyacinth, like usual... she's in all white today. The blue hyacinth decorated her, she's an angel that came down from the heaven, a smile spread over his face as well.
They just stayed there, she span, and he watched, enchanted. Suddenly, Cecilia turned to him and stopped, Seith looked at her surprised. She just looked at him calmly, he blinked and tilted his head, is something wrong?
Just as he was about to ask her, suddenly, her eyes rolled back and her body swang back and forth gently. Then right before his eyes, she dropped onto the ground full of blue hyacinth and fainted.
"Cecilia!"
The blue hyacinth fell, he ran towards her, and kneeled down beside her limp body. Gingerly, he picked her up and turned her around in his arms, brushing away the hair on her face, he looked at her face closely.
The first sign of Voltare's poison is working up already.
The blue hyacinth floated down one after one, piece after piece... her life is also floating away day by day, second by second....
[Later- Cecilia's Room]
Cecilia moaned softly and turned her head away from the light, sighing, she blinked rapidly, adjusting to the light then slowly opened up her eyes. A pair of worried blue eyes entered her eyes first, she blinked again, focusing on Seith.
"Cecilia... are you okay?" He asked worriedly, seeing her regain consciousness.
Cecilia smiled softly, and tiredly. "I'm fine, sorry I scared you like that."
Seith just shook his head, and held her left hand in his tightly, really looking scared. "It's okay... I just thought... thought that you left... left me for good."
Cecilia's smile deepened, using her right hand, she patted his hand comfortingly, like a big sister. "Seith... it's okay, I'm still alive, you'll still see me everyday, weither you like it or not." She looked at him, he seemed to have relaxed a bit. "Now... can you please help me up?"
Seith nodded, he bent forwards and slowly pulled her up, and she leaned against the head board of the bed. Cecilia placed a hand on her chest, feeling her heart beat, that simple action actually tired her out. Voltare's poison must be working properly, she glanced down then looked at Seith again, whom is now sitting on her bed, next to her.
"Cecilia.... your face looked really pale when you fainted back then... just what kind of a disease do you have? With the medical equipments now adays... they can even control some cancers. Tell me your problem, I'll see into it and get help as soon as possible."
Cecilia smiled sadly and looked at her arm, "Seith... it's not a disease... it's a poison."
Seith's eyes widened as he sat up taller and looked at her shocked. "Poison? Who... who would do such a thing to you?"
Cecilia looked at him, appearantly, Voltare didn't mention the little meeting they had before he came back. She tilted her head and thought of an answer, "that person is... someone whom is lost in his path of life, whom is..... misguided by the darkness in his mind."
Seith snorted and smirked. "You're saying that this isn't his fault."
Cecilia smiled and shook her head, "I never said that."
"You were saying that indirectly... why do you help him even after what he had done to you?" Seith looked at her, she just smiled at him, unable to hide away the sadness in her smile, suddenly, something came to him. "Cecilia... this 'he' that placed the poison in you... is he the guy that you're in love with?"
Cecilia's eyes widened, she looked at him surprised, where did he get an answer like that?
"No! Of course not! The person that placed the poison in me... is actually someone that I don't like very much." She said, an image of Voltare came into her mind, she mentally rolled her eyes at him.
"Then... does anyone know of this poison inside you?"
"No... I'm not allowed to have any contact with the outside world, or should I say, I'm locked in here without a way out, or anything related with the outside world." She said softly, that was one of Voltare's rules that she has to follow.
"Then... is there anyway that this can be cured? Whatever it takes, no matter how much the amount of money is, I'll get it for you." He said, panicking at the thought that she might die someday.
Cecilia shook her head slowly, and brushed a stand of hair behind her ear. "I don't know of the cure... the only one that knows about the cure is the creator himself."
Seith sighed defeated, she won't tell him whom the creator is... there's no hope for her. "Cecilia... how long do you have left?"
"Three weeks." Came her soft reply.
Another bomb just dropped on him, three weeks.... her life.... that's not possible. He looked at her, she's looking outside the window at the sky again, towards the direction of China. Who is in China that captured her heart?
"Cecilia... what do you want to see the most right now? I'll bring it to you." He said, wanting her to fulfill everything she's ever wanted in these 3 weeks.
Cecilia didn't look at him, she looked outside the window and slowly fingered her engagement ring. "See? I... I want to see... snow... pure, white snow." She said softly, she wants to forever remember that moment when Kai proposed to her, even after she dies.
Seith looked at the sunny sun outside, it's in the middle of July... there isn't possibly any snow around Japan, where can he get snow?
[China- Amara's Room]
Max walked into their room, the first thing that he noticed was the unusual silence in the room. The baby's not making any sound today, even Amara's painting something quietly... to quiet, not good.
He closed the door behind him, and walked over to Amara, she just glanced up at him, but didn't say anything. Her whole body, covered by the huge painting.
He walked around and stood besides her, looking at the painting. It's Cecilia... Amara's painting Cecilia.
In her paiting, Cecilia's sitting in a garden, fields of flowers surrounds her, all sort of colors. She's leaning back on a weeping willow, a book in her lap, 'Romeo and Juliet'. She has a hand on her hair, preventing it from flying too wildly, while the other one is on the last page of the book, she's looking into the distance, a ghostly smile on her face. There're red primroses gently flying down at her, covering up the whole place... but... nothing, nothing in the picture can cover up the sadness on her face.
A sad painting..... Amara Zhao's first sad painting in yeras....
Max caught her right hand, and turned her around to face him. Then, suddenly, he noticed the tears in her eyes, the tear trails on her cheeks, her rarely sad and serious face. He looked at her worried, not knowing what to do. Sighing, he pulled her into him, hugging her close to him. She dropped her paint brush and hugged him back, no more tears, but her body trembled.
"Amara..."
"Max, Cecilia is going to be okay, right?" She asked quietly, he just hugged her, not knowing what to say. Truth is... no one knows where Cecilia is right now. "Tell me! She's going to be all right! Max, tell me!" She yelled out the last few words, but her yell was muffled by his chest, Alisa just turned a bit on their bed.
"Amara... truth is... I don't know where Cecilia is right now, but I'm sure that... someone as kind as her... she'll be fine. She's strong, she'll be strong, she'll pull through everything. Stop worrying, it's okay." He said, not making much sense.
Amara sighed and after a minute, she pulled away from him slightly and looked at her painting. "Max... did you know that the red primrose was my favorite flower.... before?"
Max followed her gaze and nodded, "yeah, I do. I remember... I wanted to give you a bunch of them before, but you strictly told me not to, I have always wondered why."
Amara glanced down, then looked at him. "Max... before I met you, my paintings were full of sadness. Before, the only flowers that I accepted was red primroses, but after I met you, everything changed. After I met you, my life became colourful again, you gave me happiness and brought my soul back, I no longer need to do sorrowful paintings anymore. The reason why I didn't want you to give me any red primroses was because of the meaning behind them."
Max blinked and looked at her face, there's a meaning behind it? "What is it?"
"In the language of flowers.... red primroses mean sorrow, I didn't want that sorrow I felt come back to me, so I forbid anything that have to do with them, but now..." She looked at her painting and sighed. "I think... I might want to change that, after many years... today is the one day that I truly felt sorrow and sadness. Us five, we're not blood sisters... but we're sisters at heart, we love each other deeply. Cecilia... she's like our old sister, our mother... how can I let her go?"
Max looked at her, knowing that this is hard on her, and on everyone else. Even though he's not showing it, but... he's worried about her as well. Charlotte and Naomi aren't doing much better either.
Charlotte had been signing wrong names and just basically losing everything in her work room, her business is not going well today. Ray checked in on her, she just sat there with a pen in her hand, there's nothing in front of her, but she's still moving her pen as if signing something.
Naomi sat in her car, gripping the steering wheel, as if going somewhere, but with nowhere to go. Tyson sat beside her all day long, even forgetting about dinner, Naomi eventually came around, however, her cell phone was in trouble. She picked up her cell phone and dialed Cecilia's number again and again, again and again, every time, she got her voice mail, every time she'll leave something in her voice mail. Again and again, again and again, again and again.......
Max placed his hands on her face and turned it back to him, he brushed away her tear trails and looked down at her. "Amara... I promise, Cecilia will be fine. When she knows how worried all of you are, she'll know that everyone loves her and cares about her, she'll be fine."
Amara looked at him, trusting in his words, Cecilia will be fine. She's never let them down before, and she's not going to let them down ever, she'll be fine! She will be fine!
Leaning up, she locked her arms around his neck and pulled his head down. She closed her eyes as their lips touched and joint in a kiss.
Beside them, the red primroses continued to fall in the painting.....
TBC....
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