Interdimensional Magic Shenanigans Reupload (In memory of Ch3rryblossom05)

38: Solace /Scars spin stories

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Cherry shot her head up from the now completed wreath. She placed the rest of the peonies as well as the ornament on the armrest then scooted over to make Poldara hostage of a side hug.

Alcohol, cigarettes ... she knew how dangerously addictive they were and how they corrupted one's insides as well as damage the brain. Alcohol is a depressant that completely blurs your rational thinking and turns you into a scary creature that is no longer you. If you do not quit in time your mind would never truly be sober at a hundred percent, and if you abruptly stop the overconsumption you could die.

-"Poldara" The teen murmured as she rubbed the other's back. " There are certain things from which you cannot escape no matter how fast you run or how well you hide. Staying 'innocent' in this cruel world sadly isn't an option. I learned quickly that it is not always all sunshine and rainbows, there are dark, really messed up, and horrible things that people do. There are times it's too hard to accept the fact you're alive in such a wicked place, its flaws toppling over the good side it has. You may want to return to the days when all was coated in glitter and pretend that nothing else exists. I wished more than once to turn back in time, to change the course of history and maybe even disappear six feet underground just to be all by myself in my own world of make belief where was no misery." She closed her eyelids as she spoke, talking moderately as emotions resurfaced from the deep.

"In my life, I only knew one person capable of freely traveling back in time. They could have returned to a moment they wanted to change and do it, yet they never did. I couldn't understand why so I asked them, and this is what they answered me:

'If you return to a place in time where something happened and change the slightest thing about it, you erase the rest in order to do things differently. Yet no matter what you do, if one thing is bound to happen, sooner or later it would occur and could be so not in the best of circumstances. You never know what is ahead, you only have the past to guide you. Do not try to change or return to it. Every action has its consequences which we must bare ... but it is our duty to take our life in hand and craft the future that we desire, despite the difficulties, because no sweet providence can save us from ourselves, from hell and the consequences.'

You see, we all get stupid at some point in life, we may hurt people around us, hurt ourselves ... but we can't just sit there and mourn over it, we gotta get up and try to make the best of any situation. Beating ourselves up for the rest of our lives for something that we've done doesn't help, just take it as a lesson to become a better you. "

Cherry finally opened her eyes to glare at Poldara. Her irises shifted from orange to pitch black, then one of them colored itself with red and the other one with electric blue. She breathed out before she continued.

-"What I mean to say is, you're not the only one like this, there are other people who did the same mistake, but see, right now you look absolutely nothing like an alcoholic, and even less of a freak listen if anybody ever calls you that I'll smack the shoot outa them. Nothing really stays the same. And the past does not define your future, the future is yours to create. You can't go back but you can move on ... and sincerely, if you returned back in time we would have probably never gotten the chance to meet! You would have been a completely different person. I like you how you are now, you're soooo nice and caring and ... and ... Yeah. Sorry if it sounded too blunt." Cherry's voice was lilting at the end of her speech.

There was a whine followed by grumbling.

Chandeler's little head popped out of the blanket cocoon and he groggily squinted at his surroundings.

-"Oh snap sorry I woke you up Chandy, it's okay you can go back to sleep," the teen said as she tried to put the top hat critter back in a laying position.