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𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝕯𝖔𝖜𝖓
Anne walked into school with fear surrounding her every move,
What could people think of her hair?! The humility she'll have to face!
Her classmates crowded around someone she couldn't see, though Cole saw her, and so did everyone in the room as she announces her presence,
The room fell silent as Anne, the fiery-tempered and extraordinary redhead girl walked with her hair short as a boy's, she stepped avoiding everyone's gaze, her eyes cast on the floor as she walked,
Though the girl was taken aback by the boy she wasn't expecting would be there at the exact moment and day of her humiliation,
Everyone laughed at her but one,
"Anne." Gilbert called, "You're back!" Anne exclaims, "Yes. Hi." Gilbert says, "There's no gold!" The girl blurts out, "I-I know, I heard." Gilbert responds,
"That's not why I'm here," He follows, a blonde girl appeared in his mind as he spoke, though that specific girl seemed to have been missing as she wasn't at school.
"It's really good to see you," Gilbert says as the door opened, telling them that Mr. Phillips has arrived.
"Open your readers to page 20."
...
"Hey! Anne? Diana!" Gilbert called as he hurried towards the girls who were beelining home, Diana halts but Anne continued though the raven-haired-girl grabbed the redhead's forearm before she could enter the forest,
"H-Have you seen, Cassandra? I was wondering why she wasn't at school or at her house..." Gilbert trails, Diana and Anne both looked at each other with wonder before giving Gilbert a confused expression,
"We thought you knew?" Diana starts, "Knew what?" Gilbert chuckled, "We thought she wrote to you," Anne continued, "She left, Gilbert. After Mrs. Deighton died, they gave their land to the bank and left to find their father." Diana explained after a moment of pure silence,
Gilbert's face dropped as he processed what the girl has said,
"They left? And Mrs. Deighton d-died?" Gilbert spoke with shock,
How couldn't he have known? How could he leave? He left her to get through everything alone! Mrs. Deighton was the only parent Cassandra had- she experienced the same he did when his father died and he left her! He couldn't even be there for her!
"I-I" Gilbert stuttered,
"She said goodbye to everyone and I sent her a letter as well, about the gold, even though there was none-" Anne rambled, "She hasn't replied yet, Gilbert. And we think that the letter has been lost, it's been months since we sent the letter. We think that she'll never come back." Diana says before both girls said their goodbyes and started sprinting home,
Leaving the poor boy stunned.
Gilbert's world has once again broken to pieces,
Just as he thought everything was back to normal,
He finds out that the person he loved,
The person he spent most of his life with growing up,
Has left and was never coming back.
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Meanwhile, the Deightons sat in a café, their uncle had left them a few hours before they decided to talk in a café wherein their father insisted they order everything they wanted.
"So you didn't want to leave us?" Cassandra asked her father, still processing his point of view and the reason why he left them just a few years after she was born, "Of course not, I wanted you to come with me. But Allison didn't want to because of Margaret and her son. I tried sending you letters, my dear. But then, your mother has moved someplace else and I couldn't have known." Her father reasoned,
"So you don't have another family here?" The girl asked once again, "What? Of course not! I couldn't- I can't. Your mother was the perfect woman I could have ever loved, I couldn't move on from that." The older man explained, "I knew what mother said was false," Joseph replied,
"I'm sorry, to both of you. I shouldn't have left you, I shouldn't have chosen wealth over family." Her father grabbed both his children's hands tenderly,
"How is Allison? I know her stubbornness wouldn't allow her to come with, though I wonder why she had let both of you travel alone... Did you run? Oh lord, what will she think of me." Christopher rambles,
"She-she passed." Joseph answered, their father's grin turning into a frown, "What do you mean she's passed?" The man questioned, his face contorting into disbelief, "She's gone...and her last wish was for us to find you." Cassandra mutters,
Christopher Deighton could not believe what he was hearing, his beloved Allison, even if years had gone by and both were apart, he never stopped loving her.
He thought that one day he'd be back and all will be well, but now he realized that he may have waited too late.
