Living In Our Minds

Epilogue

"Madeline!" Gemma yelled while chasing after this heavily pregnant brown-haired lady.

Madeline decided to hid behind the door to their tree house. She prayed continuously that Gemma would not find her.

Now, what has Madeline done?

How dare she rummaged through my house for a condom, Gemma thought angrily to herself.

Gemma was about to tear her hair out the moment she saw the mess Madeline had made. With gritting teeth and red ear tips, Gemma was determined to hunt down Madeline.

Truth be told, Madeline had not changed much, she was still constantly picking on Gemma, vice versa. Madeline had found her soul mate -in a way. She met Bryan when she was on the way to meet Chris. Apparently, she tripped and Bryan caught her.

Talk about damsel in distress.

From then on, they had sex dates almost everyday. Gemma and Chris walked in on them doing the... a-hem, too many times to count. Nine months ago, all those sex dates had proven to be not in vain, they engaged pretty quickly once the news broke.

Wouldn't want all of Bryan's scientist mates to know what he had been doing in his free time.

Chris avoided Bryan everyday at work. Chris refused to look him in the eye, be in the same room as him or even talk to him. They converse about work through their other scientist mates. Of course, scientists aren't dumb, they smelled something fishy -pun intended. But sadly, these scientists aren't as inquisitive as they sound. They had not bothered to ask any questions about this situation to break the awkward ice.

Madeline continued praying, Gemma continued hunting and Chris continued avoiding. That's how life works for these three -that actually rhymed.

There was once particular place Gemma had not looked and Gemma knew it.

Madeline had put her guard down and opened the door to escape. Unfortunately, we all know she would not be able to break free from Gemma's clutches.

Gemma had her hand out, and we all know why -to get the condom back, of course.

Surprisingly this time, Madeline had not snapped back at Gemma, all those baby hormones had given Madeline a disadvantage.

Dang you Bryan, for knocking me up, Madeline thought to herself.

Madeline reluctantly gave the foil wrapper to Gemma and retreated back to her own house.

But there there people, a point is proven here.

Gemma and Chris, indeed had sex.

Well, at least not as much as Madeline, Gemma thought.

Gemma went back to the living room and sigh a little, time to get down to business. The one spot that Madeline attacked the most would be Gemma and Chris's bedroom.

How smart, Gemma thought sarcastically.

Gemma had also decided to clean up the bedroom first, in an infuriating way.

When Chris got back that evening, he found Gemma curled up on the couch, fast asleep. Puzzled, he wondered why she had not slept in the master bed room and had decided to check things out a little.

Chris turned on the light for the room and had the most unsettling surprise in the entire world.

The entire room was empty.

Not a single thing in sight besides the floor, ceiling and walls.

"Where is the bed?" Chris thought out loud, "Where are all my clothing?"

He went back to the living room and gently woke Gemma up. She lazily sat up on the couch and then snarled, "I. Hate. Madeline."

He frowned a little at her outburst. "What has Madeline got to do with our master bedroom?" He asked, confused.

"You can go ask her yourself." Was all Gemma suggested before slumping on the couch to sleep, all those throwing of stuff had indeed exhausted her.

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Gemma works as a caretaker for plants for a living, she is in-charge of grooming the plants so as they will be able to develop to form stable trees for tree-houses. People here in the real world now lives in tree-houses, so no surprise there.

Today was picking day which means that they will be picking the right plants for further improvisation.

For the left plants that do not make it?

You can either keep it or leave it.

Since today was Gemma's first time collecting all of the left plants, she was pretty excited.

Chris was on set today, doing the improvisations. They two had been sleeping on the couch ever since that episode, Madeline had not came forward to apologize, which both Gemma and Chris had already expected.

Old habits die hard.

After long hours at the plantation, they had a verdict, most plants are in good condition... except for one.

Gemma had an intuition that this was a very special plant, given that it was struggling.

Perseverance, just like when they were in their minds, struggling to be freed.

Somehow or rather, Gemma felt a special connection with this plant, it was as if they were representing life. Her parents and Claire had given her life as well.

With the Sun beading down and shinning on the plant, she finally felt inner peace and smiled for the very first time in two days.

-FINISHED-

Hey guys wattup? This concludes LIOM! For those who had been reading this story from top to bottom, a BIG BIG THANK YOU TO YOU!

I will be posting the love story between Gemma's parents in a new part someday, since Claire had not managed to tell the story to Gemma, so if interested, you guys might want to take a look.

Anyways, thank you for reading and have a nice day! x

P.S. the bodies for the people still living in their minds, were found.