Chapter 2

Mini Flashback

"Victor...I will be gone for a while"

"O-Oh...where are you going?"

"My parents are having us go see the family and spend time with them before the wedding again since you remember what happened the last wedding…"

"I understand..But how long is a while?"

"I'm not too sure...but it will definitely be before our plan for the wedding"

"I will be writing you letters"

"And I will respond"

End of mini Flashback

Victor's P.O.V

I started packing up the picnic stuff back into the basket so I can bring it back but might have to give it back to the baker unless it actually belongs to Victoria which means I would have to give it back to her when she returns from her family for a while..while I do not know how long it may be away.

I let out a sigh to the thought of not seeing my beautiful bride and wife to be, not having to see her face nor will I be able to hear her lovely voice for a long while. I soon finished packing up but having to look at it makes me want to wander off through the woods. So that's what I decided to do.

I picked up the picnic basket and started wandering through the woods when I suddenly came to a stop when I had come to a familiar spot and started to think of a certain someone from the past. Someone who must have been beautiful when she was alive but even though she was dead as a corpse when I had met Emily, she was still just as beautiful. I will admit I did wonder to myself what she must have looked like when she was alive. But meeting her was when my weird life started with her.

I stared at the place where I met her, the very same tree where I had practiced my vow but to accidentally said it to a corpse. It had a been a crazy ride experiencing such a thing...but even though it was crazy, I somehow feel a slight miss because through it all I was happy and I was about to truly marry Emily when I had thought that my life and chance to be with Victoria was over but even so, that wasn't the only reason as I really was happy getting to know Emily and I wanted to make it work between us, make this marriage a chance to wanting to know more about her. Which also meant having to die to be with her. Remembering those times makes me miss her even more than I wish I got another chance to see her again...but I know it's not possible because she had moved on, not only did she moved on but gave Victoria and I another true chance to be together.

"Gah! Why am I feeling like this...having to think about her!?" I questioned myself out loud as I palm myself in the forehead "I wonder what all of these means…?" I let out a heavy sigh while setting down the basket and just sat down on a log by the very same tree in silence.

Suddenly something happened, out of the ordinary where I noticed a blue particular butterfly fluttering around in front of me. To be honest I'm surprised to be seeing this kind of butterfly because I haven't seen it around for a very long time, ever since after Emily crossed over.

I couldn't help but want to talk to it, well it's not like I never did it before or end up talking to myself if not anything.

"Hey there little guy" I started speaking to it when it then landed on my lap so I just continued speaking to it like it's an everyday thing "You remind me of the times when I've seen your kind...not to mention reminds me of that time when I last saw...her" I watched the butterfly flap its wings a couple of times before I could continue it took flight.

"W-Wait!" I shouted. I couldn't help myself for some odd reason to wanting to follow the butterfly to wherever it's heading to it's destination. But that is what I had done, I started following the butterfly full of curiosity where it might stop it. I continued following the butterfly to where it had gone as I soon find myself pushing through bushes when I had finally come to a stop at what it looks to be a garden with pattern pavement as a walkway through the garden.

"It's so elegant and beautiful. I should really bring Victoria here when she gets back" I said to myself. I then thought about the butterfly which brought my attention towards where I had last seen the butterfly flutter too. When I had come to see the butterfly had flutter towards a pot plant with flowers. But when I got closer I realize what it really was.

"Oh! You found the rest of your friends. Good for you" I said talking to the butterfly that leads me all the way here. For sure people saw me talking to a butterfly they would start to question if I were a mental person who had escaped from a mental home. But then again I guess it's not as bad as almost having to almost marry a Corpse Bride. The thought of Emily for those many moments spending time to get to know her made me frown because on that night I did believe we would have been happy together, I believed in her and I admit she's was a beautiful thing for a Corpse, it just makes me frown to how tragic her story was, but it all worked out where she was able to move on in peace.

"She would have been pretty…" I said my thoughts out loud thinking about what she would have looked like if she was alive.

"Is that you…?"

"Victor, is that you?"

Someone started calling my name but for some reason, I felt as if I was imagining things because I had thought I heard that gentle soothing voice that belonged to Emily. Emily having to call out to me.

"Victor" There it is again, Emily's voice calling out to me.

"I have to be imagining it...I-It couldn't have been her, she moved on…" I said to myself, trying to convince myself what can't be true and what isn't there. But suddenly I felt a hand placed on my shoulder causing me to react again when I hear 'Her' voice.

"Victor" I widen my eyes as I turned around catching me off guard in shock. But what's more shocking is seeing not someone else but someone familiar who shouldn't be standing right in front of me right now. Could it just be someone that happen to look like Emily instead?

I stepped back away from the person who looks a lot like Emily but more alive than the Emily that I had first come to known, who look more dead. With the pale blue toned skin, that you can practically see the bone and through her, that has no flesh. With her rip up wedding dress. Yet the woman standing in front of me is more alive with fair skin, long wavy brunette locks, and her eyes. Could this really be Emily? I had confusion written all over my face while staring at her.

"Victor. What's wrong?" she asks

"I-Is that really you..Emily?" I question still in disbelief to what my eyes are seeing. I stood there frozen on the sport but then the woman who stands in front of me looking like Emily, walks towards me but when she had taken a step forward to come closer, only to cause me nervously and unsure step back to suddenly accidentally bump the pot causing many of the blue butterflies from earlier to flutter around us. Watching them flutter around and in between us I lower my gaze to look towards the woman in front of me to suddenly see the image of Emily, the time I had met her. It was clear as day when she smiles towards me. Then the butterflies soon flutter away leaving both me and the woman alone together, I look to see the woman hold a sad expression on her face, hurt by my action from stepping away from her earlier.

"It's me, Victor...It's really me, Emily" she spoke still holding that sad worry look on her face as if I might run away from her. It felt almost like dejavu, how something similar happened like this but Emily was dead.