"The train...it's here so soon," gasped Ruby who was looking at the bench where Sunny was sitting, giving her toddler skeleton brother, Galileo, a bottle. "We have to talk to Sunny," Ruby told Skull boy. He nodded, and they walked over to Sunny and sat on either side of her.
"I don't want to leave you!" cried Sunny, burying her tear-covered face into Ruby's chest. She could already feel the emptiness in her heart from longing to stay with her family.
"We love you and nothing will ever change that," Skull Boy said, taking her hand.
"It's more of a seeya than a good bye," came Ruby's melodic voice.
"There's no need for you to cry," Skull Boy joined in.
"When you look on the bright or the barley enough light side," they all sang together. Sunny grinned slightly from her parent's goofiness.
"But I'll miss you," Sunny sniffled, now curled up in their laps. Ruby reached into her bag, and pulled out a tattered blue book with a white skull heart on the cover.
"This is my diary, and my scrap book. I took pictures of all of my favorite memories, and recorded them. I never filled the whole thing...so the empty pages are for you," the red head slid the book into her hands. Sunny flipped through the pages, in awe of how amazing and beautiful her friendships were. She laughed at the pictures of Iris and Squig crashing. She hummed to the lyrics of Frank and Len's songs. She grinned like an idiot at Ruby's romantic entries of Skull Boy. It was like living Ruby's life, and like she said, loving every second of it. Then she reached the last full page that said at the top 'I loved my adventures, now go live yours'. It had a picture of Sunny, Galileo, Ruby, Skull Boy, taped to a picture of all of Ruby's friends. As a caption under the pictures, was: 'family is for all life. Love is forever'. A stream of tears dripped down Ruby and Skull Boy's faces, looking back on their memories. For once that day they all felt warm inside, happy. Instead of the cold bitterness of saying goodbye.
"ALL ABOARD!" The conductor snapped them back into awareness. Sunny gave them one last long, hug. As if trying to hold onto her old life so it wouldn't slip away. The conductor eventually had to pry her off and force her in line with the other children.
"Wait!" shouted Skull Boy. He quickly shoved something soft into Sunny's hands. She held it up, it was a bunny rag doll. "This can be your first new friend, Mr. Buns." Sunny held him, and said:
"We're going to have all kinds of adventures, Mr. Buns."
"Who's Mr. Buns?" came a low voice. She turned around to see a boy, with fringe-cut brown hair and dazzling bright blue eyes.
"Oh, my f-friend," she stuttered, completely lost in his sapphire eyes. A smile stretched across his face and he pulled out a gray puppy from his bag.
"Cool, I have a friend too. Her name is Gloom Dog," he patted her head. "Just don't tell...we aren't allowed to have pets." Funny, Ruby told Sunny a similar story about Doom Kitty.
"You can trust me," Sunny giggled with a wink. His cheeks began to turn a faint shade of pink. Sunny quickly scooped up Galileo and boarded the train holding the boy's hand.
"That's just like how we met," Skull Boy whispered into Ruby's ear, who replied with a soft kiss.
"You kept your promise," she said sweetly.
And, as the train left, leaving a trail of steam behind, Ruby took Skull Boy's hand, and he took Iris's, who slipped hers into Frank's, who held Len's, who grabbed Misery's hand. They all stood there, hand in hand, as a whole family. Never ending, forever, as one.
Childhood is the Kingdom where nobody dies.
So when you grow old, and do die, just remember love is more powerful than anything, even death.
Because death and farewells are an ending point, a match being put out.
But love is the fiery sun that burns forever.