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Chapter - 3

Her eyes flung open in a sudden as if she just had a nightmare. Ilestial sat up from where she slept before staring at her surroundings by turning her head left and right. The girl felt cold sweats on her forehead with her hands and lips trembling in fear and shock. Her heart almost stopped upon realising something. Something that she never expect would happen,

" Why and how in earth did I get here again? " The girl asked herself in a not so loud volume, but only loud enough for herself to hear. She stared at the grass she was sitting on and the bushes infront of her, with the same trees beside her.

' Please tell me this is a joke. How did this even happen? It all seems too real to be a dream. I thought the second time I came back here was a dream, but turns out that it was not. ' She was now frightened at what was happening. Fears started to fill in her while she grew even scared. Her mind went blank where she could not think of a word for a minute or two.

She took her phone out after shoving her hand in her pocket, to look at the date and time.

30 August 2018, Thursday, 1 : 12 P.M.

She gulped a lump of her saliva before she tried to raise her head a little bit more higher just to look at what's infront of the bushes,

" I-i've always had a crush on you! " Andrea said, which Ilestial had been hearing this sentence for the third time. That was until it was confirmed that everything is going to to repeat again where Jackson is gonna die again.

' Since I had the chance to come back here again, I must save Jackson from dying. Maybe that might also be a way to stop this day from repeating over and over again. ' She thought to herself before lightly nodding her head in agreement with her own words.

" I'm sorry Andrea. We barely know each other. " Obviously, it came from Jackson. Ilestial knew what exactly was gonna happen next, that is why she didn't bother watching them. Instead, she drifted off in her thoughts while she sat, laying her back on the bushes.

' How am I supposed to save Jackson? I remember the second time I came back, he wouldn't listen to me. ' Ilestial frowned upon remembering the bad memories where Jackson decided to save the kid, not knowing that he'll die instead. But, Ilestial knew he had always been a guy who likes little kids a lot.

' What should I do to make him listen to me. . . '

" But, we can try to get even more close. We can try to understand each other. "

' He wanted to save that kid, while I wanted to save him. ' Ilestial heaved a sigh, trying to brainstorm of a way to help Jackson yet helping that boy at the same time. But, no matter how Ilestial think, she knew she was in short of time. Somehow, there's just no way to save both of them.

' I don't think I could save the little kid. It's not that I don't want to save that kid. But, it's either I stop Jackson from going in the alley, or I go in that alley and save that kid instead. ' Ilestial thought to herself with her eyes shut.

" Maybe. "

" I'm really sorry Andrea. But I've got to go now. " Without even looking, Ilestial knew this is the part where Jackson pulled his hand away from Andrea's grip.

" Damn, I'd better get going. " Ilestial stood up in a hurry before patting the dust and dirt on her skirt away to keep it clean.