The Story of WonderCraft..

Chapter 34

"I'm back!"

I looked at myself. I looked the same, with my untidy brown hair, light blue eyes, yellow sweater and red beanie. But something felt different. I took my beanie off for a moment.
There was a small white streak in my hair. (A/N: WHITE STREAK IN MY HAIR BUT NO STRESS NOW~)

"Wonder where that came from." I thought, put my beanie back on, and stepped through the portal to WonderCraft.
"April. You're here!" Gwen instantly hugged me. It felt nice to be with her, she wasn't a Samuel or a Kiara. She wouldn't betray me the way Kiara did.
"Did you miss me?" I noticed the tone of happiness in her voice.

"Of course I did! I'm your best friend, for goodness' sake!" she replied. "Actually.. I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Gwen, I swear if you say something extremely private I will kill you right now." Arnold was also there.
"It's not about you. It's actually about the lake."

"So, you know how there's some empty space there? I transformed it into an island called Luana Bay. You know, to honour Luna." My face dropped when she mentioned Luna. "Moving on, it's the home of all the marine creatures here. The people that are living near or on Luana Bay are called the sea people or people of water. Our home is water, given it's an island."

"Interesting. Who lives there, though?" I asked.
"Roman, Hailey and Niki." Arnold said before Gwen could say anything. He looked at my confused expression. "Hailey and Niki are some people who we found in the woods. They were just exploring with some other guy called Tom and found us."

A/N: Niki, Tom and Hailey r actually from another story I wrote, so it's like a whole multiverse of my works at this point.

I saw someone with long blonde hair and pink highlights talking to Roman.
"Oh, hey." Roman waved. "What's up?"
"Nothing much, just got revived. You?" I said, before looking around.

"Same, nothing really interesting. This is Niki, by the way."
"You are..?" she had a rather blank look on her face.
"April."

"Oh, so you're the person I keep hearing about! Something to do with a nation, then a prison, and then.."
"I get the idea. Moving on.." I said awkwardly.
"Well, it's nice to meet you in the flesh for once." She shook my hand and looked at me in the eyes. I looked away instantly, given I wasn't a big fan of eye contact.

"Tom!" somebody else yelled from the other side of the island.
"What? I'm busy!" a guy with blonde hair and bright blue eyes yelled back, running to us. "Niki, help. Hailey keeps-"

"I know, Tom. I'll deal with her later." she rolled her eyes. "Hailey keeps annoying Tom about little things and he keeps running to me about it. I'm more than happy to help, but it's starting to get a bit much."

"I have 2 brothers, but they get along well.. sort of. There was a bit of drama when I gave WonderTopia to Isaac, but that's behind them, hopefully."

Just then, Isaac came sprinting over to where we were talking. "April! Kevin's- trying- to-" he panted.
"Kill you? I can see why. You literally let Samuel blow up WonderTopia with no consequences whatsoever. I wouldn't be willing to forgive you." I said.

"I didn't want to!"
"Look, I should probably get going, so I'll see you later."
I found the others in the festival area, talking. I heard Yashi, Olivia, Kevin, Noah, Isaac, James, Gwen and Arnold. They all appeared to be discussing something. I hid in a bush.

"You're telling us now that she had a hand in Samuel escaping prison?" a voice said.

"But she hasn't even done anything!" another voice said. I knew that voice.
"I know! Freaking Diana said that didn't matter, though. And she said she'd do some horrid things to us all if it wasn't done." That's James, I can tell.

"It's honestly all horrible to me. April doesn't deserve this." They're talking about me.
"That's what I'm saying, but you guys know Diana. She won't let this slide. I just know it."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Diana believed I was completely guilty for Samuel's escape, and that I did it knowingly! I was done being accused, and got out of my hiding spot.

"What are you guys up to?" I said nonchalantly, pretending I heard nothing.
"Nothing. What about you, traitor?" Olivia loaded her bow, ready to fire right at me.
"Like James said, it's not my fault!"

"I don't believe it! You were a traitor all along, weren't you? I knew something was off, from the moment I saw you! I knew, April!" I held my will to attack her. I couldn't believe I ever trusted Olivia! She noticed that I didn't reply, still in shock. "Yeah, that's what I thought. Too scared to even face us. What happened? Cat got your tongue?"

That broke me. I started running to the panic room. I needed some time to myself.
I felt dead. Like there was no purpose of even living. Like I could go far from here and nobody would care or miss me. Like no one ever cared..

Nobody believed me. Literally no one, not one person believed I was innocent. Other than James, as far as I knew.
"I knew I'd find you here."