Autumn Secrets ✓

N i n e t e e n

~ L e v i ~

As soon as the doorbell rang, I rushed to open the door, already smiling to myself.

Elsa stood in front of me, as blissful as ever.

Just the mere sight of her made me even happier.

If this was how happiness felt like, then I might go greedy for more of it.

"Good morning Levi," she handed me something, which I didn't even notice until my eyes left hers.

I noticed her gift was a bouquet of roses.

I've never been gifted flowers before, and it made me feel so special.

"Thank you so much, Elsa," I appreciated in complete awe.

"You're welcome," she patted my head and entered into our home while I froze to the ground.

So this was how being flustered felt like.

"Elsa!" I heard Seth call out her name.

I chuckled and walked towards the source of sound.

This was surely a surprise for them.

"I wasn't even gone for that long," she seemed to be amazed by their reaction.

"I missed you, Elsa." Asher gave her a quick hug.

"I'm glad you're back," Dennis looked like he was proud of her.

"Aww, this is so overwhelming," she blinked back her happy tears.

"So it's a group hug then?" Joshua announced, and all of us gathered together for the 'group hug'.

I smiled after realising how quickly our 'house' had changed to 'home', at the mere arrival of a person whose smile could light up our dull house, just like Hannah.

Elsa surely did bring back the once lost light and harmony of our house.

As we hugged, no problem in the world seemed like a problem anymore.

This hug was all we needed.

This moment was our home.

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A few more days had passed, and things had gone back to its normal state.

But today, it was making me feel a rollercoaster of emotions.

Because it wasn't any other day - it was Hannah's first death anniversary.

And maybe that's why I just felt the strange need to visit the last place visited by Hannah - the cliff.

I set off to the cliff by evening.

I didn't want them to recall the essence of pain again. That's why I didn't inform them about anything.

Reaching there, I just stood simply staring straight, closing my eyes and forgetting myself in the moment.

My hair moved along to the rhythm of the cool breeze, and I was subconsciously asking my sister, a constant string of 'whys'.

The sun was just going down exactly like my hopes, for getting an answer from Hannah.

But it was then that I noticed something shine under the bright rays of the setting sun.

With strange curiosity, I walked closer to the illuminating object, only to find that it was just a button.

But what struck me stranger was that the thing looked familiar.

A blue button with a particular alphabet on it.

It looked familiar because it belonged to someone familiar to me.

It belonged to... Seth.