Wanderers//5

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Finally I caught up to her and she spilled out her deepest secrets for once she was the one being peeled layer by layer her words stripping into my soul.

"I didn't mean to fall in love you know." She had confessed, her tears brimming at the edge ready to burst. "We have scrolls that are handed out to us as we're born, you and your friends just happen to be all destined for me."

I stayed silent not wanting her to stop in the middle of where I could get all of my answers.

"In this world love is like a foreign language it can only be learnt if you feel it and are vulnerable to learn." She sighed not wanting to go on but knew everything had to be said.

"You may think I'm an angel a goddess of some sort even, however I'm not. I myself don't know what I am. But I do know is that what we had was special."

"My task was to help each and everyone of you to reach your goal. For Joana it was her way of taking advantage. She never seemed to care about what she had in the moment. So me leaving her was a must. Although I do admit my way of leaving was a bit too harsh."

I nodded my head to assure her I'm listening.

"For Altagracia she was a beautiful soul. Even I didn't understand what lesson she had to learn. But when I was in her dreams I saw it. Even though she was so caring and perfect in any other senses. She was too dependant. From the first time she saw me to her final breaths she believed that I am her soul reason to be happy. It wasn't right she needed to have independentcy. So i was forced to leave."

The sorrow in her words really hit me. She was a pawn just as much as we were. And going through these tasks led her to see things that no human would wish for.

"Alexis was the definition of broken." Maria skipped over me. "Even I didn't know how to help. Though I saw the sincerity in her. I showed her the world I wanted her to see. Where love although seems like a lot of work still has a hidden beauty. However, during that time I lost myself. It was the moment I truly killed myself and thought that I would never be able to come back." The tears finally slipped as she collapsed onto her knees.

"And I was ok with that I didn't want to come, I didn't want to feel the pain, I didn't want to be brought back just to be left hanging." Maria tried to console herself heaving in large breaths. Hesitantly I placed my hands over her shoulder to help her know that I am here and always will be.

Slowly her eyes met mine. "You Keyla. You were the best one it was like your kisses were fire and we were living on the sun." I never wanted to let you go. But seeing you hurt killed me. So I gave you my heart knowing that I could come back. But I never thought that after I left you would lose your memory. It took me many years to the point you could even remember that I existed."

At that moment I understood everything. I felt Maria's pain, the restless nights and tear stained cries. I smiled at the irony we were lovers who who knew who to love and how but couldn't. Our stars were crossed and always will be.

"Maria tell me a poem."