Alice and Jasper walked slowly up the gravel path into the graveyard. The stillness was only disturbed by the slow swinging of the graveyard sign. Graves were fallen and crumbling, and not a flower lay in sight. Alice gripped Jaspers hand as the scene began to become shockingly familiar.

"The grave should be up that hill…." Alice let her voice drifted off as they stood on the very same spot the girl disappeared the other night. The tree hung limply over the medium sized stone like a guardian. Climbing the hill slowly they reached the back of the stone. Alice paused as she waited for the voice, but it never came. Her body for the first time in years grew weary, and she walked around to the front of the stone kneeling in front of it. Jasper waited behind it carefully watching Alice.

Cob webs filled in the corners of the weathered stone, and all that remained on the plot was dead grass and weeds. Alice brushed off the veins and weeds to reveal the single name on the stone.

Rosa Olivia Xavier

1901-1920

Beloved friend, daughter, and fiancé

Alice traced the letters lightly with her finger removing the built up dirt so the letters shinned a bit more in the moonlight.

"Rosa Olivia Xavier." She whispered trying to force her mind to remember. She kept expecting the girl's voice to reappear, but all was quiet, and time stopped.

"Rosa Olivia Xavier." She repeated tracing only the first letter of each name. "R.O.X." Her head dropped slightly as she stared at the ground. "R.O.X" She said yet again, and this time the letters seemed to trigger a flash of remembrance.

"You can be so dumb sometimes." It was her, own voice this time it held a hint of laughter and amusement. "I swear that's why I love you Roxy." Alice's eyes had sprung open; she hadn't even realized they were shut.

"Roxy!" She yelled looking to where Jasper was standing, but he wasn't there. Instead the girl was sitting on the tombstone laughing and swinging her legs.

"Well, Well. Its about time Alice I thought you'd never figure it out." She smiled locking eyes with a very confused Alice.

"Where's Jasper?" She asked looking frantically for her husband. The girl sighed and reached out pulling Alice to look at her.

"You're the only one who can see me. He will be there when you return to….oh how to put this…..uh right state of mind so to speak." The dead droning of her voice was gone; replaced with a merrier ring. "But, Alice?"

"Yes?" Alice looked up in awe as she studied the girls face. Her heart shape face was etched with her age, and her cherry colored lips were arched in a bow. She was beautiful, but not like a vampire. No this girl was humanly beautiful.

"The image you see before you does not exist." She waved a hand in front of her gesturing to herself.

"What?" Alice leaned back a bit trying to meet the girl, Roxy's eyes.

"I'm only the mere memory of a once stubborn young girl." Her eyes melted to a saddened woe, and her head straightened causing the breeze to pick up piece of her hair and blow them in her face.

"You're a ghost then?" Roxy reached forward and ran an almost translucent hand threw Alice's hair, and closed her eyes shaking her head. A distant cry reached over the hill tops.

"No." She stated simply, and the cries and screams grew louder.

"What is that?" Alice fell backwards as the sounds grew into a horrifying ghastly noise. Roxy was unaffected and just sighed sadly causing her face to become a bit taunt in appearance.

"Your past, Alice." The sound quickened and a shrill shriek now pierced the night, and Alice's soul. "Just because you don't remember the past doesn't mean you can leave it alone. All open doors need to be closed before a new chapter of life begins."

"I-I…" Alice clutched her ears as the sounds became unbearable. "I DIDN'T MEAN TO FORGET!" She cried over the noise letting out a dry sob. "I-I want to remember its-its just…"

"Shhhh." Roxy slid off the stone and in front of Alice embracing her in a hug. The sounds suddenly ceased. Alice was trembling in dry sobs, and Roxy rocked her back and forth gently. "We know, Alice, and that's why I'm here."

"We?" Alice sniffled trying to calm herself. Her hands still shaking she pulled back. Roxy slowly lifted off the ground and stood in front of Alice.

"Four girls posses the sight, but if you wish the order to be restored then you must find the three others. Only then can your life go back to what it was before I stepped into your mind."

"But, your dead! How can….it's not." Roxy laughed.

"I'm not dead, Alice. As I said before I am a mere memory." Alice stood slowly; her eyes never leaving Roxy's. Roxy stood about five inches over Alice.

"Then where can I find you?"

"That is something you must figure out on your own." Alice closed her eyes and sighed.

"Of course." Roxy let out another amused laugh.

"Yes, it seems that's the way it works, but I must warn you." Her voice got stern as she looked at Alice with a deep trust. "I am not the same girl you see before you. My look and personality have become cold with time." She put a hand on Alice's shoulder. "Find my heart's desire, and you will surely find me. That will be the only thing left unfrozen by time." Roxy hugged Alice, and then slowly began to walk away. The wind began to howl again.

"Where should I start looking?" Alice called to her. One last time the image of Roxy laughed.

"Under your nose is a good place to start." With another howl Roxy was gone. Leaving Jasper and Alice alone in the run down grave. Alice looked down.

"Right under my…." A light gold sparkle caught her eye. Bending down she unearthed a gold locket on a thin gold chain. Gently she brushed off the dirt and blew it away revealing three beautifully etched words. My Heart's Desire.