Long Story Short, I Survived

just follow me and you'll be fine

"Wind Flower! Last call for Wind Flower!" I woke up to the sun shining on my face and a muffled call from the conductor. "Guys come on we're gonna be late get up!" I shouted, shaking the siblings in front of me. They quickly bounced up and got out of their seats, we rushed to the trains exit and stepped into wild flower, the town I missed so much, I couldn't help but let out a sigh and small laugh. Ian nudged me and I snapped back into reality. "Well I guess this is where we part ways?" Ian sighed. "But I don't want to leave Aurora." Scarlet whined. "I know but we have to." Ian whispered to his sister as he picked her up. "Do you guys have anywhere to stay?" I asked, I couldn't help but be kind it's so hard to be so cold hearted all of the time, even though it's growing on me. "Well uh no." Ian hesitated. "Well I guess if your desperate you can stay with me." I said, extremely hesitantly, I instantly regretted my decision. "We don't want to bother you, we will find our way." Ian smiled. "Please I wanna stay with her she's so nice!" Scarlet cried.
"If it isn't too much trouble, we're in." He declared. "Okay then, follow me." I said walking down the road. We eventually got to my street and I walked up to my home that I haven't seen in weeks, it honestly felt unsettling, my last memory here I was sick and scared. I slowly opened the creaky door to my cottage stepping in onto the dusty wood floors that made the loudest echoes when my heels touched them. "Well this is it, come on it." I warmly smiled. "That's more like it." Ian chuckled. "Shut up." I laughed, closing the door behind them. "Wow this is like a real fairy princess cottage!" Scarlet exclaimed, taking in the scenery. "Scarlet calm down." Ian told her. "Oh don't worry about it she's fine." I said, I was still very worried about how I was going to solve this mystery and find Rosetta while I had them here. "Hey you okay?" Ian asked me, he must've noticed I spaced out. "Just fine." I smiled. "Well let me show me your rooms." I said walking up the spiral stairs, signaling them to follow me. "You will stay in Rosetta's room downstairs ." I said to Ian. "And scarlet you can stay in my room with me or with Ian." I said, surprisingly I've gotten close with scarlet, she's like a little sister I never had, I almost feel motherly toward her. "I'm definitely bunking with the beautiful fairy princess!" She giggled. "Well than let's go fairy princess!" I grinned, picking Scarlet up and running over to my room.
I looked back to see Ian with the biggest smile on his face, I quickly winked and walked into my room, setting scarlet down. It all felt so real, so uncomfortable being back, oddly I didn't know if I liked it, I walked over to my bed and viewed my untouched bedroom. "Wow you have so much accessories!" Scarlet exclaimed, looking at my vanity. I smiled in return, still processing my return. "Can I play dress up?" She asked. "Sure, I'll make you look like the princess you are!" I responded, it would get my mind off of my plan, I'll figure it out tonight after scarlet is sleeping. I put some light natural makeup on her and gave her an old dress of mine that would fit her, and then I put a pearl necklace on her and finally I French braided her bright orange/ginger hair. "I look so pretty." She gasped as she looked in the mirror. "You look gorgeous!" I added. "Woah what happened to my baby sister." Ian said. "We were just playing dress up." Scarlet cheerfully expressed. "I have some old dolls in my closet if you'd like to play with them." I told her. "Okay!" She excitedly replied, rushing towards my closet. "Thanks for doing this for her, she's never really had a girl in her life to do these things with her so I'm happy your here." He explained. "No worries, she's the only reason I let you stay here." I winked jokingly, going to help scarlet with the dolls.