Always Be Forever

Chapter 39: Erica, What happened to Bellafonte?

2087, BCE, November 2

Come on Cashmere. Where are you?

More to the fact, where did Bellafonte go? There's no one who I could go to who could help me find her. Well, correction, there's one person I could go to, but it's a bit of a stretch. No scratch that, I can't go to Caitlin. She'll hate me for what I want to do. Well, I guess I could use Caitlin, but only to help me find the person I need. But how? How am I going to find her? More to the fact, him. How am I going to find him? He was the one that taught me, the one that gave me my powers. All of our powers actually. Okay, yes. Bellafonte dated him at one point, but if she's where I think she is, he'll know where she is. Plus he's way much older than us, and I know just where to find him. After grabbing Bellafonte's note, I run out of the hospital as fast as I can. Getting past the doctors that were trying to come after me, I sent them backwards using my energy against them as they tried running up to me. Once I was at the entrance, I levitated up into the air, while my energy was in good use. I need to find Caitlin, and there's one place where I know I'll find her. It's quite far, but I can fly there, as long as I can breathe first, that's what matters. Flying up into the sky and past the clouds, passing through the different levels of the atmosphere, I finally reach the outer edge of the atmosphere, staring down at earth. Seeing Venus on one side and Mars on the other, I slowly start to fly down to Venus. We each get a planet that looks alike. Mine is Mars, Earth is Bellafonte's, and Venus is Caitlin's. I wonder which one will be Lily's. It better not be Saturn, cause then I'll have to do something about it. Landing on the surface, the true colour of Venus starts to come back, lush green with plants and streams that come in and out of brooks. I don't see any animals, or even Caitlin, but that doesn't stop me from getting to her. Hiding behind a tree in what seems to be an open forest, I quietly step on a twig on the ground as I see a figure walk out of the awaited fog ahead of me. Who is this person? It better be Caitlin.

"Cra-ack", goes the twig. It echoes through the trees, and as the figure is walking, I hide my body directly behind the tree. As the person walks by to see who's there, I bring my right arm out and blast magic, causing the person to fall over and hit their head on the leaves. That should leave them unconscious for a little while. Slowly bringing myself up to the person, I crawl on top of them. Turning the person around, an arm had swung with a rock in hand, and had tried to hit my head. I don't understand, the trick should've worked. Ducking my head so the person misses, I look over to see that this person is wearing a purple cape. It's the same kind as Caitlin's, but this is not Caitlin. This must've been someone else, who was probably in a hurry. The person scurried out of my legs, got up and started running. Running through a forest that seemed like it was never going to end. Chasing after the person, cause I need to know who this is, the person was running through patches of twigs and branches, jumped over any holes in the ground, and was constantly going back and forth between two trees as I was catching up. When I had finally caught up with the person, this person was still running back and forth. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Until I shot my magic right at the person, and vines from both the trees on my left and right grabbed a hold of the person, and they weren't able to get out. "That doesn't work on me," the person had let out, grasping for air. "Then who are you?" I had asked, my voice having a crossover of curious and furious. "I'm the one who taught you the trick," this person had let out. Wait a second; all this time I've been chasing Enoch?

Lowering my hands to my side, the vines let go of him and he's brought to the ground in front of me. "What do you want with me?" Enoch had asked me, making me feel like a fool for chasing after him. "Where's Bellafonte?" I had asked him, furious at Bellafonte for leaving me. I don't understand why she would do that. What did I do to deserve Bellafonte doing this to me? "I don't know where she is, but if you want her dead there's only one person who you can kill, and that's going to be Cashmere. A word of advice? It's going to take all of your strength to kill her, because Cashmere has been given the gift by Aaron," Enoch had told me. Great.

That's fucking great.

Walking away sulking, folding my arms together, I realize that I've been so stupid. Okay, I may deserve this. Look, I know Bellafonte is my sister, but she betrayed me a long time ago. I was young. I was just about to turn 17, and I had feelings for a married man. I was originally going to wait for my ex to get back with me. Haven, was my ex's name. Jeremy was the married man. He had a wife, named Elena, and they had two kids. I wanted to wait for Haven to get back together with me, but my feelings for Jeremy had got in the way. Okay, I admit it; I wanted to fuck Jeremy, even though I was still a virgin. My mother didn't see me with Haven, so I wasn't quite sure of which option to go with. Either one was bad. So I had chosen to go with Jeremy.

Before we had started fucking, I could tell that he already had feelings for me, because Elena had accused me of having an affair with Jeremy before it had even started. When Elena had left him Jeremy and I had started fucking, and I had eventually got pregnant with my first kid, William. Haven had came back, and we had to pretend that he was the father for the time being, until Bellafonte had started questioning of who was the real father. Bellafonte and I were in the choir at mass, and Jeremy was the new pianist after Sarah and Tanner had left. I've bumped into Jeremy before multiple times throughout my life until that point, so I had thought it was meant for me to get those feelings, like it was bound to happen. But when I had found out that I was pregnant with his kid and Bellafonte was questioning who the father was, I didn't know what to say. Caitlin wasn't in the choir with us, because she was with mother on a trip. After one day with the choir and we were having our annual potluck, Bellafonte had noticed that Jeremy was the one who was helping me out, and that Elena wasn't there anymore. I can't remember the rest of the details exactly, because Bellafonte had drugged me. I do remember that after I woke up, I was put on a new planet, the one that I currently have, and I was no longer able to see Jeremy. I don't know where Bellafonte had put him. She betrayed me, which is why I must kill her. Ever since then, I've held this grudge against her, and now she's gone and messed everything up for me again. All I wanted was love, but Bellafonte took it away. That is why I will forever have this curse on my heart.

After I gave birth to William, Haven had found me, and we had got back together. I had told him everything that happened, including Bellafonte drugging me. Haven had got me pregnant with two other kids, Siad and Cash, and after a while Jeremy had came across me one final time, where I had got pregnant with his second kid, Ash. After Ash, Haven had left me. I still felt like I had this curse on my heart that I would never be loved for who I truly am. So, since I had secretly made containers of both Jeremy and Haven's sperm, I had inseminated myself a few times, and this time gave birth to girls for all my sons. No matter what I did, I was constantly feeling like I had this curse on my heart. So I had created my own son, out of a fire, which had almost killed me, and I created a new family tree. But that doesn't matter. What matters is having Bellafonte dead. She's done nothing but evil towards me, so if I have to, I'll go against her and kill her doppelganger, even if it kills me. Reaching the spot where I had landed, I had elevated back up and into the sky, flying back to earth. Being on Venus, it really brings out the emotions in a person. That's why it's Caitlin's. Landing at the Strapple household, I stand outside of the garden, noticing that it's locked. Cashmere, I will destroy you if it is the last thing I do.