Chapter 2: Stirring Up Old Ashes
Senza
I don't know why, but I was. I was walking down this street, on my way home from school. I hadn't came this way in over a year. A year ago yesterday was the day. The day that Lila left. I had been doing a good job of forgetting her, and had even made new creations.
I hadn't visited Eowain since that day, and I'd since grown past it all. I had created a new land, Shah' Rin. I instead visited that fair land. Never would it's beauty compare to that of Eowain, but it was still great.
My 16th birthday had recently passed, and my mom, who was content on how I was 'improving' had bought me a car. Not a new car, but at least it had four wheels. I actually wouldn't be able to drive it tomorrow when we got the insurance. So I figured it would be good to walk down this street the last time I walk home. I had forgotten how beautiful it could get in the afternoon. Much like the plains of Shah'Rin. When I got home later, I planned on creating some new characters. Iris was getting lonely.
Iris. She was indeed beautiful, but noting compared to Lila. She had straight black hair, and midnight blue eyes. Black bat wings sprouted from here back, and she had milky white skin. Iris was fun to hang out with, but she got jealous easily.
She asked Senza recently if I could commit myself to her land at night. She said that she got lonely at night, and needed someone to sleep with. I would, I had decided, but I wouldn't get intimate with her. She was too wild for me, just a friend.
Over the last year, Senza had grown physically and emotionally. Those same girls who had made fun of me last year, had matured a bit. Now a days they didn't even look at me. They had grown to be the 'queens' of the school. I liked it more this way though. To be alone. The other guys in school joked about me all of the time though. My frame was not built for sports. Gym class was pure terror, because I was always picked first for football, just so that I could be tackled. I was more than happy that this was my last semester taking this class.
I walked on in silence, thinking of recent and past events, not looking where I was going. All was silent…until…
I looked up. I swore I heard a girl giggle. But no one was there. I kept on walking, disregarding it.
I looked up again. A scruffing noise. Up ahead, where the alley was, a girl appeared. From afar, she looked thin, with brownish hair. I looked back down. Probably someone from school. As I walked closer, I could hear her talking to herself.
"Wow, this world is way more harder than mine. Where are the soft plains, and the fluffy trees?" That voice. It sounded so familiar. Where was it from.
I looked up again. This girl, had ears…bear-like ears. Could it be? Lila? In my world? No. She was gone. I erased her from my memory. But it wouldn't hurt to check.
Right?
Right.
As I approached the girl, the features got more and more defined. Yea, those were bear ears. Orangish-brown hair.
I got so excited, and I quickened my steps, to match my heartbeat.
"Now, to find him." The girl walked down the street with amazing speed. Moving swift as an elf. I tried to keep up with her, but she got too far ahead, and before I knew what was going on, she was gone. Lila.
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Finally in the comfort of my room, I rummaged through all of my old files. It just had to be here somewhere. I searched every nook and cranny until I found it, nestled between two issues of Anime Weekly.
It was the last thing that I had left of her. The picture that my mom had failed to burn. It as here alright. Or at least I thought it was. But, of course it wasn't. Was I going crazy? She lived in a fantasy world that I had ceased to visit for a year. She was gone by now. Plus, how would she go from fake to real.
I sat in my room all night, thinking about Lila. A year of forgetting gone down the drain. I fought so hard to forget, and now it has all come back. Lila. I could've sworn…nah…
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I just couldn't go to sleep last night. She was on my mind all night. All of the memories came flooding back into my brain. Her laugh, her smile. Our good and bad times. Eowain and all of the fun we had there. My pet Chinkos, and the tree homes.
I remembered the nights that we would stay up and talk and make plans. She was the one that I was closest to. We bonded the most.
Of course there were others there, but none of them mattered as much. There were all just built in as part of Lila's and my story.
Iris kept on knocking on my door, but I wouldn't let her in. I didn't want to talk to her at the moment, and I knew that she wouldn't understand. She just gets so jealous.
I decided that Lila was gone, and that she would never come back; this was just all a figment of my imagination, and I had to let her go.
There was actually, one person in real life who was his friend. Her name was Cherie. She went to my school, and was in my art class. She understood me. We both wrote stories on Iris together and sometimes even visited them together. Cherie had blonde hair and blue eyes, and she was pretty nice. I had special interest in her, but I didn't want to lose her as a friend since she was my only real one.
We both started to take art this year, and it was true that we only hung out in class, but I'll take what I can get friend wise. She keeps on trying to hang out with me outside of school, but she just doesn't understand, I don't do that.
Maybe one day she'll understand… maybe one day she will.
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The next day I woke up with a start. I looked at my clock in shock. I overslept! I jumped out of bed and ran to get ready.
I arrived at school, en car. I parked in the way back though, seeing how all of the good places were taken. I looked at my watch to see that I still had a few minutes to get to class. A good thing.
So today would be a normal day. I would be picked on, made fun of and the highlight would be last period with Cherie. Whoop whoop.
As I walked into my classroom, I noticed a new girl standing by the desk. Her eyes doubled open when she saw me. Mine did the same. Li-
"Good morning class, meet our new student, Lila…uh…Lila…" Mr. Smoltey looked at her. "What did you say your last name was?"
"My name is Lila and I have no last name. I am from the forest of Eowain, and I am here for an undefined amount of time."
"Um, ok, well you may take a seat behind Senza." All of the guys' eyes followed Lila as she walked to her seat. Not wearing her nurse outfit that Senza created her in, she was wearing a most revealing one.
She had on a short plaid skirt, and a white button up shirt, with the bottom tied so that her stomach was revealed. She wore smoky gray stockings and heels. Senza examined her. She was as pretty as ever, and she was here. In the real world. And the guys were looking at her like new prey.
She sat down and whispered in Senza's ear. The guys in the class immediately gave me a dirty look. Why would she flirt with me, of all people? If only they knew what she was saying.
"Senza, you've got a lot of explaining to do, leaving me like that for over a year. I'm going to give you one heck of a time." Definitely not flirting.