Forever connected

Chapter 15 (Waiwai

For the past month I was avoiding my MeetKeep group. Why? Because I was absolutely horrified at what happened the day when The Lovely Cafe opened.

But today, I decided to meet up with them at the park for ice cream. You know, bring the group together again.

While we were at the park, I noticed a couple of creepy men in the bushes. They were all wearing grey beanies and all black.

It seemed like they were watching us.

I poked Luna and Kiki, whispered to them, and off we went into the hidden forest I found the other day while walking with Kevin.

As we were walking down the peaceful, mossy path, littered with multicolored butterflies, I heard footsteps.

The others heard them too. As we stopped walking.

We turned around and saw four men. Three of them were the same men I saw in the bushes. The other one had a face that looked familiar, but I couldn't quite place my finger on it.

They ran towards us.

With that, our little trio dropped our ice cream and ran for our lives. We bolted around the paths, branching into smaller paths, like the trees zooming by as the four men chased us.

The three men wearing beanies leapt forward and caught us all.

The two who were buff and strong caught my friends, whereas the puny one caught me, and I fought him off easily and knocked him out. My friends, who were much more ferocious and stronger than me, could not escape the huge men. Their mouths were covered and they were pinned to the mens' body.

I sped off, tears streaming down my face at the thought of ditching my closest friends.

Then there it was, the dead end the four had been waiting for.

The man without the beanie snarled, "I've got you now, Li!"

A pang of memory hit me as he said that name, nearly knocking me over...

It was mine! The one I was always called before I was brainwashed. All the memories flooded back.

I snapped back into reality, remembering what was happening.

I leapt into the brambles and ran for my life.

"Capture her!" The man who knew my name shouted.

The men ran after me, I took a right turn in the pitch black shade of the trees and ducked down.

I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I turned around and had a sigh of relief.

It was only Kevin. But then I saw what was behind him.

It was the most beautiful place ever.

A lovely waterfall gushing water into a little pond, with lotuses floating on top.

Lily pads were seats for little frogs, croaking. Butterflies were littered throughout the sky, fluttering their tiny wings. Flowers of all kinds sat around the pond, patches of dandelions were everywhere. Shade was littered throughout the area, with a little sunlight coming between the thick leaves of the trees. It looked like an image out of a fairytale.

"Waiwai," Kevin said, "Sit down. I need to tell you something.

"Ok," I said, as I sat down next to Kevin around the little pond.

He sighed, "How do I begin..."

Then he told me the most absurd story.

Back when I was only 5, his father kidnapped me. I had extreme powers, and he wanted them all for himself. But when he asked for my powers, and I refused, he brainwashed me, then ditched me and the plan.

But when he found out I joined the same school as Kevin - or at least I was planning to - he remembered he needed all three of the "goddesses" for the plan to work.

He made the app MeetKeep, and inserted me into a group with the other two he needed to collect. Those two were Luna and Kiki.

He waited until we were good friends and then he fused the worlds. That way, he wouldn't have to go through realm portals to collect all of us, which would take quite a long time and increase the chances we could escape.

And letting us be good friends made us even easier to capture, since we would most likely cluster together.

But what about Kevin?

His father sent him to track me; to monitor me. Kevin was his fathers security camera he used to make all the timing perfect.

But all Kevin's dad had said was, "Why don't you go hang out with Waiwai?"

And at home at dinner he asked, "How are you and Waiwai doing?" And Kevin told him all the info he needed to know.

Kevin overheard him the other day, the day when I told him that Kiki, Luna, and I would meet up at the park and get together again. Today.

He was so sorry and kept on apologizing, tears were welling up in his eyes.

I told him It wasn't his fault.

Technically it wasn't either way.

"But my friends are still captured," I said, "We need to come up with a plan to free them."

Then I thought about my name. Everything came back to me. I could remember everything vividly, as if I was there. But then the next thing I knew, it was reality once more.

I was in Kevin's dad's laboratory, bounded to the chair, scratched and wounded.

The only difference was my friends were there with me, including Kevin, in the same circumstance.

I was also older, smarter, and had anger rushing through my blood.

I had a plan.