Loveless♣

Epilogue

Lyon,France.

     It was a cold morning, and even colder considering her location.Bella couldn't help but wonder if God had restricted the sun from radiating beams of heat in France.She certainly didn't remember it being this cold...and lonely.
Or perhaps the weather was just in tune with her spirits.
She sighed.
Wouldn't be the first time.

She threw her legs over the edge of the bed and let it dangle for a second as she stared out the window.The day was bright. She could hear the city coming to life already,could almost feel the people battling the ethereal cold that had enveloped their city.

She stretched her toes and bent them,heard them crack a little.She sighed again.

She was just about to tie her pink robe around her waist when she heard laughter drifting from the living room.

She frowned.

Who was Mara laughing with at--she took a quick look at the time--nine o'clock in the morning?

They hardly had visitors over.Bella hardly acknowledged the existence of their neighbours.Didn't even return their greetings.It was better that way.Most people she knew in the neighborhood were full of shit.They were only curious as to why the twins had come back.They didn't really care about their well-being.

So,who could it be?

She shuffled her feet into Marabella's bunny slippers and walked out of the room,shaking her head as she did.What twenty two year old wore bunny slippers and-

"Lord have mercy," she muttered and her hand fell from the ropes of the robe she was tying.

She blinked twice in surprise.

"Joshua."

He paused,the coffee cup in his hand hung in mid-air,and turned.

Her throat went dry.

He was here.

He was here.

No,no, she had to be hallucinating.She looked around frantically.

Yes,there was the kitchen her father used to make breakfast in.And of course,the bottle shaped lamp her grandmother had given them one Christmas was seated quaintly on the centre table in the living room to her right.Plus there was Mara...Marabella was sitting right beside him,with a mile wide cheeky smile on her face,so...she wasn't hallucinating.

Oh God.

"Bonjour,sister!Look who came to visit!" Marabella said excitedly and stuck a thumb out to Joshua."Can you believe it?"

Bella was silent.

"Uh,Mara-" Joshua began.

Oh God,he's speaking.I can hear him.Either I'm having a really wicked dream or Joshua Pere is in my house in France.

"-I think she's in shock," Joshua completed.

Marabella giggled."I know,right?The look on her face is priceless.Well,Joshuah, I have to go now.The stores won't run themselves. "

He frowned."What stores?"

She gave him a pointed look."The stores,J.The ones we opened here in France."