Author's Note – I'm back!!!! (avoids cabbages and tomatoes from raging audience) OK, OK!!!! I'm sorry for this stage where my story was like in hibernation, but now my exams are over!!!! And…my grandma died this year so please pray for her…Now lets go to the story…
Love Is A Distant Dream
Chapter EightRising Again
Voices came to her as echoes as she ventured through the mystical caves of life and death. The journeys she made and the paths she took would decide her fate. She had no map to conclude her routes just her senses and Sakura nervousness was an exasperating dragging factor clinging to her all the way and renouncing it was not an option she was gifted with. The voices were getting clear, were there anyone present here – she was so consumed by happiness as it covered her like gentle leaves covers the fruit. She ran to where the noises were coming from and then there was a glowing light…
She instructed her hand to shield her from this illuminating object but still everything was very vague and it was hard to get a focus like a firm grip on a slippery pole. Then she heard the voices again. They just felt so distant but now they were coming closer to her due to the promising bliss that her eyes have regained their true posture. But what she felt wasn't comforting.
There was a bandage on top of her head and the pain regained consciousness and pressured into her. She let out a yell to release herself from inner torture for the distress within was too much to care for. The people dressed in white attire now had their attention on her. All eyes seemed to be entranced by her and this made her ponder a bit on her situation. Where was she?
Her head still hurt like a ton of pain was now being supported on it. But luckily she still felt alive though she felt a bit dead due to the lacking of strength, so a broken wagon tends to feel this way. The people in white were moving in such a way that she swore that she titled them as angels for even in her mounted chaos they moved freely as if they were sliding fingers in the mountains of silk. But then Logic was the carrier of the reality – they weren't really angels, they were doctors and their profession commenced them to take care of her ailing regions. But still they seem angelic and at the moment the thought was so warm in its pondering that she decided to let it nestle it for it could benefit her by being the antidote to her paining form.
' Miss Avalon, Sakura – Can you hear me?' His voice was not distant or elusive as a mist but the comforting feel in it was like being wrapped around angel wings. Why was she feeling like this? The answer was there to devour, her current moment was being rocked by chaos and the smallest of glows were the blessings of God.
' Yes…Yes…I can…' she felt her mind was actually breaking for the pain was intense but not too much to hinder her from telling anything. She was a bit perplexed, another weight climbing up to her already wearisome condition.
' Good, now miss Avalon, Can you tell us how you hit your head.' He asked politely and slowly as a caring gesture and it was much inviting to her.
' I…don't…remember…I…' this was not a false answer, well not in its full feel, she was at first too exhausted to be nostalgic but then a flash of Eli came upon her and just like a flash of lightning speaks the premonition of a storm her storm was spoken by Eli. She knew giving Eli Moon's name as a predator could not be entirely out of a hand of prosperity but it could result to a series of complications that she just didn't wanna carry right now.
' Its ok, relax for a while.' He said smoothly as though she was a new born puppy and she secretly thanked him for it, if he was reluctant to acquire an answer from her it would put a heavy force to her already fatigued body, so she was pleased, ' It may seem a bit difficult but focus will soon return. You took a large impact to the head but the miracle is that you aren't truly injured or bruised, but staying in the hospital for some days.'
' Thank you Doctor –' She didn't know his name and her voice was quite weak as though if it was a well, being soaked of on all its water.
' Richards, Dr. William Richards.' He spoke nicely to her seeing her position and understanding how tired she was to continue a conversation. In Sakura's heart a sort of animal was eating through any comfort and her painful head was truly another mass helping the animal to cause its destruction. ' Get some sleep Sakura, you need rest and I will allow your friends and parents to visit you later.'
' I…thank you Doctor…thank you…' she truly was grateful of his aiding movements. If he had pressed her to execute anything she would fallen deeply as her strength seemed to have abandoned her to go and heal its own wounds. So in a way she was like a decaying piece of rock, which would convert to dust even if it was touched by sensitive fingers.
The Doctor left and following his action was the two to four nurses that were in present with him. Sakura's eyes were not prepared to lift off into the world of dreams right ahead. She was focused on the fact that Eli's viciousness had reached such an extent that would a fence of pure strength to overcome. Not that she wasn't fighting off from the prologue to the horror but the truth was she was too tired at the moment that strength abandoned her like a flower in an already desolate place.
Soon the little strength she did have was cut off – and that meant the one giving her the light of consciousness. Her eyes felt like hard pieces of mountains that were yearning to close into plateaus. Soon the silent voices of breathing into the living dream swept across the room with a warm tinge like a hot droplet touching into cold skin.
' Wake up sleepy head.' The voice was known but the happy statement had this elusive sadness to it. It was for this reason that Sakura commanded her respond to awakening.
It took her reluctant eyes to devour in the radiance of reality but as soon as she was awake. She saw it was Madison holding a bunch of Daffodils. Sakura's impulse was to trace the beauty of them. She felt her heart be in the capture of sorrow. The flowers were alive and vivacious and so showering their spots of golden sun striped petals were welcoming to her as she yearned to be like them not in this broken up position.
' Sakura…' Madison was so low she could sink into the floor if she attempted to make her tone more whispering in nature, ' I… am… so sorry…'
Sakura was truly out of understanding. An Apology? What for? This was perplexing, or was there really a guilt that needed to taken of like a bloody armor? Whatever the cause was Sakura was tempted to question, ' Madison…' her voice was frail like a bleeding wound, ' What for?'
Madison's volume went past the limit of loud it was bursting with regret, ' THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF MY SELFISH DESIRE! THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE I WANTED YOU AWAY! THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE – I lead you into Eli's trapping sadistic self.' The last sentence was quiet as a silent deadly night piercing into the air of the unknown enigma called darkness.
' What?' Sakura got shocked beyond understanding, How comes…she knows… ' Madison what are you saying? What's wrong?'
Madison looked at her lying body with eyes rigid as stones hurling into the water surface of realization, ' The wrong was the blindness, blindness of belief and reality, blindness of naked truth. I saw Eli, I saw the hidden insanity but I always shook it off. OH SAKURA! Please forgive me! I was so stupid!'
With that she fell like a cloud from the sky so the fall was intense in her height. The fills of sorrow were falling from her eyes in such a way that a desert of sadness could be made from those painful droplets that didn't quench but destroyed serenity. Sakura could only placate Madison with soft caresses – her condition prohibited her to access further movements as her head felt the breaking of balance influence a cruelty of painful bundles. Madison eased after some moments for she knew that Sakura needed her support right then. Sakura smiled and lets the tears brush of off her beautiful orbs.
' Madison, taking others faults into your own lap is like carrying bloody knives of someone else's murder – especially in this sort of situations.' Sakura uttered the metaphor to placate her friend but her dying strength due to lack of serenity in her head was the cause that she felt weak. After all the pain engraved its powerful sinister claws into her head was making her think it was truly an unbelievable occurrence that she was standing still in the floor of consciousness.
Madison looked weary as well, Sakura though her lips were now empty jars where the lively ink of her former bliss roamed around. She truly wanted to make Madison feel better but a bleeding wound takes some time to heal and the guilty blood was still pouring out of her, ' Sakura, How long?'
' How Long?' Sakura repeated with a confused touch in her, what was she saying? What was she trying to dig on? Now she knew why ruin explorers had trouble digging out some pile of dirt at times probably the earth itself was perplexed in what they yearned for.
'…Has Eli been…abu…abusing you?' she almost let a breathing cry of sorrow but she decided not to fall down again for then Sakura's existing strength could get demolished as well.
Sakura fell hey eyes close probably due to the fact that the weight of telling the time also got hold of her vision and the pain that was caught in the midst of the reflection of memories was like going through a door and reaching those scenes once again – the pain was severe. ' Since I embraced Makoto Shizu.'
She felt her breath of frightened feeling like a cut of a knife in the air, ' That was like eons ago – eons, huh,' she let out a feeble laugh as a sarcastic slap to fate, ' Eons always seem to favor misery never elation.'
' Don't be silly,' She suddenly pronounced her feelings that got Madison's focus completely, ' Its like riding a swing,' she let her pause show the heart of her frailty, ' You fall down, you get hurt, refuse to ride it again, so the pain of the reminiscence stays eternal, the memory of the elated feeling disappears like a cloud never there. But you know what kept me forward remembering both – the yin and the yang – If I must say, the possible opposites – the bad and the good.'
Madison felt tears of a different reason this time; they were emitted with the sense of pride. Sakura's spirit was a special one and she felt joy to call her, her friend. Even in the plains of misery she walked onwards to try to find the ultimate satisfaction, she didn't fall to the threads of quitting so easily. The bird who falls the most while flying gets to the fly the highest afterwards, Sakura was a individual from that breed. Her beliefs on hope and doing the positive thing had left Madison's sorrow behind for the appreciation engulfed that negative feeling.
Sakura knew why she said that though how reluctant her heart may become at times to speak of it, the truth must be embraced even if it had sadness in every part of it. She had seen Eli's good shades though now they seemed like imaginary lights a person starts to muse on probably to escape from enveloping darkness. Eli had been healthy in his mentality at one time he was not so determined to make her obey him and moments were pleasant as they were supposed to be like. She hated Eli and pitied him as well for his lack of understanding of the feeling called love.
' Sakura, if Khushi didn't confirm I could still be away from the truth.' She had her head falling slightly to see the ground as if it contained some sort of comfort from her ailing voice.
' Khushi told you,' she was surprised, a bit disappointed for Khushi had told her that she wouldn't spark the truth but with the commotion at present people were quite to notice. ' So the others know too.'
' No…they don't…Khushi told me because she really felt it necessary to…seeing I was so angry at you for a stupid reason… But I told her not to tell Nikki, Chelsea or Rita. If Eli found out he could hurt you or them… I thought it was best not to after all Eli wouldn't be take it nicely if he knew that now everyone had a concept on what was happening.' Madison explained, still eyes looking at resting ground and a voice so full of sadness that it could have swallowed her up.
Sakura was getting tired of staying awake though the feeling was familiar and reminded her of moments of late night exam preparations – this time it was more weighted and the load felt that all the text books of misery were being pushed into her heat all at once. She started to think even if the pain could twist her into self-oblivion. Madison had been the intellect as usual. If Eli had managed to catch a slight idea of what and how people came to know about their little "relationship" he would draw out a macabre without pondering of what the disaster could cause. He could make a blood necklace around her friend's throats.
Madison saw Sakura's eyes feeling the mass of consciousness a load to hard for her wrecking ship called body. She decided it was best to leave, ' Sakura, take some rest ok. Li might bring you lunch later on.'
' Li.' Sakura's eyes were suddenly able to support her desires to stay balanced. Not once was Li's name mentioned but now it was beginning to be such a prominent name as if they were engraving history.
' Yeah, Li Shyaron. God bless the boy, if he hadn't saved you when you got hurt. You…You could have bled to death but he truly was a angel to your catastrophe.' Madison eyes now were heated with such gratitude that her eyes could be evaporated into memoirs of forgotten sorrows.
' Li…' Sakura felt his name's essence as long as she could for the name to her sounded like the most beautiful chime in the whole world. It was like a lovely droplet of water in a pool of terrible darkness. Li had saved her and now she had no idea were he was at present. The desire to know was making her senses wander into a sense of earnestness that could have made her float above her hospital bed.
She really did yearn to know more of his present position. If people did understand how she was feeling now they could see the shine of appreciation and warmth in her. Eli was a ruthless stallion trampling her under his hell cloaked feet and Li was the warrior who carried the heaven coated sword and commenced to swing it in the right path. She knew the comparison could create her with the image of a child for she was thinking of her own tragedy into a fairytale. But at that time even the childish thoughts were like fountains of paradise, for her own heart screamed for a little touch of elegance and this was it.
' Yeah Li…' Madison must have noticed Sakura's reverie on the name "Li" like as if she was engulfing its every structure to find the base of its origin, ' Listen Sakura, I'll leave ok. You get some rest. Li will get you lunch.'
' Bravo!' Sakura suddenly cried out a compliment making fear catch Madison with its sharp skin for confusion formed a mist in her.
' Bravo?' Madison looked so perplexed like a newborn puppy investigating everything in its newfound world that Sakura had let out a flock of giggles for her adorable visage.
' It's the performance I missed…' her voice started of with the previous humor of the giggle but became less in its nonchalance as the sentence ended, ' I bet it was a hell of a performance.'
Madison opened the door and kept a hold on it as if it was going to help her with a reply, her eyes lead themselves to her lying frame and she smiled a smile full of so much radiant edges that it brimmed up the air's liveliness back, ' Katie got the bows. I told her to do it – I couldn't do it without you Sakura… I couldn't believe I lost my mind a while ago and yelled my heart out…so I went to apologize and bring you back…that's when I heard you were…here… but Khushi thought I was still…angry…so she told me… You see Sakura a friend is more like a family – a little family of eternal treasures – if those treasures are not there in your crowning moments what's the reason to be queen of the stage anyway…without you it would have been nothing…'
With that she was out with the door respecting her wishes and closing. Sakura felt tears of elation be freed from the treachery of pain. Though Madison's kindness was always in infinitum of proportions she just couldn't help but let the tears feel her face once more. Probably that could be the reason – her eyes were so exhausted from melancholy that the explosion of bliss was a cure to the stain old previous haunting tears. She was quite in the favor of luck to be bound to a friend like Madison. Many are not blessed with companions such as this, it was like getting fresh water in a dirty old spring. She would always thank God for his kind present to her ailing life.
Madison got out of the room with a heavy pressure resting on her heart. How cruel could one be? Hurting the person they seem to shower on with love? Eli had always been a sort of a mystic, he never revealed fully like a moon's rays falling through curtains speaking an enigmatic aura. Even in his kindest gestures a hidden feeling seemed to arise – after all where there was fire there would be smoke. She had always believed it to be a suspecting sensation the mind sometimes acts to comprehend meaning not understanding that it was irrelevant. But probably and unconscious string in her was always being played but the music was shadowed by her own reluctance. How idiotic was of her not to see through the film of false happiness and look into her friend's true texture and see her heart bleeding the blood of such emotions? Was she a friend or a foe? Was she caring or just completely ignorant? Madison didn't have the will to stand her ground any more so she fell down and tears of sour sorrow filled the atmosphere around.
Sakura opened her eyes. Light was brilliantly waving to her through her opaque curtains as though they were reciting a "get well" song. Her rest had ended, oh; it only was for some minute minutes, about four to be precise. The torment in her brain restricted her from any leisure even blinking was to be considered a caution for her eyes could break down like a weighted shelf. She so wanted to sleep but how could one when thoughts of agitation were carelessly flocking around. Not to mention the bandages were too exasperating for her eye's pure vision. She just closed herself from the present world and situation due to find escape. It was working as her orbs were now slipping away from the rigid load she was carrying but the pain of thoughts revolving with Eli refused to let astray, why? Why? WHY? WHY? All the lacking of reason made it simpler for those thoughts to invade and incite.
Why did Eli do it? Why does he always have to hurt me and then believe to love me? Do people kill a person and then just say he/she loves that individual? No! That isn't just right! That bizarre and sounds sadistic! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM! Her words were with such force that it shocked back to the hour of reality.
' Are you ok?' he asked, entering with a tray of smashed potatoes and roasted beef and the concern in him was so delicate her hands would like to pick them out like dead flowers and pant new ones.
' Li…' Sakura felt she just connected entirely with elation; she was seeing him again…seeing – him – again… if only people knew what her emotions were right now they could name a fiesta after that.
' The doctor said that you should have rich food for some time, lost your…strength.' It was like he was swallowing charcoal. Li loathed to see Sakura this way, weak – she still had strength but it was hiding because it was fearing that the pain of issuing a motive for Eli's action. Yes, maybe she did know why he did it but the hurt was too unbearable for Eli never before had come to this limitation – it was like macabre in its shining form. Oh yes, he knew it was Eli – it doesn't take a genius to solve 22 mathematics, so it wouldn't take a detective to crack this code just some common logic. ' Weren't you resting?' he continued in his feeling of caring when he saw her focusing on him. Madison had told her after he had gotten her off the floor with an aid of a nurse. He felt bad for her for she presumed it was her fault for Sakura's wounds. Madison was in distress as well, and he found it as friendly obligation to comfort her though when the reality of environment caught in they were complete strangers. Its funny how unknown could be your true abode when known could be a vital enemy.
' Yes for about four minutes…' Sakura gave a small laugh to add to her resentful statement, ' I wish I could sleep but I just can't.'
' Try to,' Li brought the tray of food nearer and his advice was really in all of its concern, ' You should sleep Sakura you are really not in a proper position to stay awake so please try ok.'
Sakura knew she was being completely thrown into the pool of emotions for she could have cried and the reason would be Li's kindness and sheer sympathy. She would love to show some reward for his gratitude but what could he do to help him just the way he had helped her. He had carried a mountain of her shoulders, not a typical thing for a person to dive into – it was like diving into a lake full of sharks for worries are true breakers of strength and bliss. She wished she could do something for him but what could it be? She was acting…like…like they…they were couples and she was thinking what to give him for his birthday or any other special moment. The thought let a streak of scarlet on her visage as though her blood had stopped flowing to take the weight of the thinking. ' Thank…you…'
' Are you ok Sakura?' he asked his eyes fully out of concern. He saw that her cheeks were so intense there could be a lamp in there. Did she start developing a fever?
' No Li-chan, I'm ok, just thinking.' Of course Sakura's wit allowed her to tell the truth to some scale but her nervousness was hard to contain as it was like a jumping frog trying to leap out of her throat.
' Well ok then.' Li replied simply elated that Sakura wasn't in the grim event of a fever but he decided his concern should not be windowed in his eyes for Sakura needed strength and if he were to show ailment then how would she be strong? They talked as Sakura devoured her food in rapid hunger – she was too exhausted and the scrumptious delight in front of her was a star in her wounded night of events. Soon sleep did summon her and everything diminished as light closes while shutting a distant door…
Whither it was a sore nightmare or a present of a ghost in her head Sakura suddenly became dissatisfied with sleep. She let her eyes pull off from the flower called dreams but why did she face the storm of reality. There he was smiling the most angelic print on a face she ever saw…ELI.
' Hi honey.' Eli's voice was so smooth she swore it could have been a knife scratching into her. Had this man not a conscience? Or was he really a devil, who offered only misery and torment? The answer was not a bit relevant right now for if she could she would take her glass of water and slam it across his face to scat his idiotic smile like he had scarred her all over.
Sakura didn't speak in fact it was like she hurled her lips somewhere else. Eli was getting more upset and a bit incited why wasn't his love talking to her. YES, HE ADMITTED HE HURTED HER VERY BADLY!!!! But he loved her!!!! She should listen to him!!!! Boys like Brian only wanted to corrupt her beauty and angelic innocence!!!! HE LOVED HER!!!! He had to make her listen to him!!!! He knew better than to treat her like dirt you could kick around!!!! She HAD to listen to him!!!! For he saw the pain of life ever since he was a boy she just couldn't understand some things!!!! He will make her talk to him!!!!
' Talk to me Sakura.' It was like a whole twenty minutes where slapped away by his desperation. Obviously this guy couldn't take the meaning of an example.
' There's nothing to say…' Sakura was looking at the window where clouds were starting to consume the blue powder of gentleness, it was clear that even the sky was furious at this bastard of a man. She was wondering why anyone would let him in. Surely, Madison and Li were talking to some doctor or doing another task while he got in. Madison could have broke of the cement and completely butcher him just even with a peek of his arrival.
' Sakura, I'M SORRY, please forgive me darling…I love you…' he was angry at her refusal in communication but Sakura knew that he was deeply regretting his actions for his last lines glowed that too.
But she was being rigid as brick on a window. In a way she was trying to break Eli let him the same emotions she was dwelling on. But Eli was persistent as usual, he would done great as a barbarian in Sakura's eyes for then he would be determined to let the rain of dead bodies and flying heads be the fertility of victory to the savages.
' How…how are you feeling?' Eli's whole aura was getting weak for his sense of desperation grew stronger just seeing Sakura reluctance to talk to him.
Sakura's face was still turn as if she didn't want to see his darkness even through the texture of his shadow and Eli's hung head expressed the atmosphere of melancholic molecules toxin the air making it thick from the fever called discomfort, '…Pain is something you made well associated it, it's a foolish question to ask in the first place.'
Eli's eyes were filled with the space of hope; it illuminated a bit of the atmosphere though this fool of love neglecting Sakura's position for a moment. He was a fool of love for he thought he knew everything of love when he knew so little it would be smaller than a grain of sugar, when one says that the lake was not a obstacle without understanding shows how irrelevant his intrepid it for its of false thinking, he has to swim the lake to meet the depth.
But now Eli was too happy to see through his own stupidity of the fact he thought Sakura had accepted him once again just because she furiously brushed her tongue savagely to give off a reply, how naïve people were at times, ' Sakura…I know its hard to forgive but give me a chance ok. I am your boyfriend after all.'
Sakura's rage was like a fireball shooting into her orbs for to attack this man of incognizant belief, if her strength were to permit blows then blows would be her answer but her voice now held all the fire of poison and she desired to feed him with it, ' WE ARE NOT T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R ANYMORE MR. ELI MOON.'
Eli's soft laugh of not allowing acceptance of what she explained right now was making Sakura's akin stream scream in such a rage she would tear out of her skin to be acid on his face. Eli just stroked her cheek in a delicate nature as if showing his eternal affection, ' That's just the hurt talking honey.'
Sakura made her face look at other positions allowing nausea to bring its bitter displeasure to her burning throat. For she was afraid the next time she spoke her blood would slide out of her lips. Eli was too happy staring into her like he would always do as if he was devouring his beauty to feed his comfort but Sakura's attention ignored it after all the gleam shadow of a knife should not enter her senses making them uncomfortable so she would feel more feeble (even if that were possible) I hate him so badly, he's a nightmare that won't go astray, it stays with me like a dog leashed to a street lamp, Sakura thought vehemently feeling the erosion of her patience to his eyes of admiration.
' Darling,' he continued in his feathery tone not focusing on her anger, ' I got you some red roses and a card, with a poem I wrote like a Valentine's Day gift.'
If I were a butcher and Valentines day were a cow I would dismember it in a few seconds so its identity would be lost…forever, her arms were bringing themselves into fists of stoned walls ready to crush as Eli set the flowers on an empty vase.
' Hey,' he suddenly voiced in a mild irritated voice catching Sakura's head due to the emotion released, ' They are a bunch of red roses already here.'
Sakura studied the set of vases – Daffodils were from Madison but they were more now obviously Nikki, Chelsea and Rita had come to visit her while she slept, the Lilies were obviously from Khushi for she shaped them to be the tips of her elegance (that's how she compared Sakura's posture by) but the roses…LI!!
' Yes…' she was in the more radiant shade of the sun now, ' They obviously are from Li, I think he knows that I like roses a lot.'
' He knows it…well…' Eli's accentuation was strongly on Li's name and the sinister bitterness dropped of his tongue like a drop of ash on pristine water. Instead of showing his exasperation, Eli just put the flowers still narrowly looking at the other beauties as though his scissors were his spheres and he was snipping them off but said nothing else about them, ' Please honey read the card. I'll see you later.'
After he disappeared, Sakura could have exploded for it felt like a blessing that a poltergeist had finally vanished but instead she took the card to study it. It was a beautiful couple sitting together on a bed, as if taking a nap, with a blanket on top and holding a large pillow, in it the poem was written:
"
You are a princess in my eyes,
Like a cloud stretching on blue
skies.
A storm grows without your presence
For the sky is angelic with your
innocence.
I need you like sun yearns light
A moon beaming on winter's night
You are my love and with you I bind
You are my constant image in my
searching mind."
If it was a Valentines Day card Sakura was sure it would have been affectionate to a lover's heart but with it, it only called Rage in Sakura's face as she tore the card into fury pieces and got up from her bed incarceration though it felt like she was moving a relic of statue, which was her body. She fell down with a hard sound as though her body was reprimanding her for breaking its painful wounds. But Sakura stood and grabbed his vase of roses and broke it while putting its shards in the waste basket neglecting that the reluctant glass sank its opinion into her skin making crimson fall as though a dress for the fury. Sakura put the card remnants in to as she fell on the floor with rage not allowing her to stay still as they made lightning efforts to recover.
' HERE'S MY LOVE SONG FOR YOU BASTARD!!!!' She screamed with the heavy hatred dipping in like a nail onto her voice:
" Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
So are my bruises
And My blood hate for you!!"
Her strength seemed to evaporate for the hate ate it up. Hey eyes were blinded by fatigue as present objects were pushed off by distant calls of isolation. Her consciousness bled as her eyes drifted off into the open ocean of dreams…
Author's Note – So the chapter ends. Will Sakura be all right? Will Li help her? Will Eli find out what a bastard he is? The story moves to another page. I'll update as soon as I'm able to!
