Alice

The Rebirth

“What did you see, Es?” Mike enquired frightened by Esme's supposition.

She replicated, “I saw the crow downstairs and he was analyzing the surrounding of the ballroom.”

“The crow? Oh no! Not him. This means...” Livia said.

“The Amr-father-father.” All of the three said in unison.

“Where’s the heiress?” Esme asked hastily.

Livia was about to reply, “She’s de…”

But Esme cut her short, “You little piece of crap. Didn’t I told you to maintain your flaps close? Listen to me carefully ungrateful witch. If there is an atom of air that passed in between your lips again, I will cut open your throat and remove your tongue from it. Hear me?”

Livia swallowed her words and sat quietly in the corner of the room.

Esme said, “Okay brother, stop playing. I am not going to ask you about how you got those life threatening injuries or why you missed your injection. Just answer me please.”

“Where is the heiress?”

“We need to prepare her to meet father. We have to discuss about the procedures and initiat…”

Mike stopped her, “Esme, she is dead.”

“What do you mean, she is dead?” Esme asked hesitantly.

He replied, “She is not from this world anymore, Es.”

“That’s not funny bro. We don’t have time for your stupid game right now. We need to get her ready immediately.”

“She is not ready, she is new to this world. So stop this gibberish right away and let’s get her ready.”

“The clothes that she is wearing is totally inappropriate to meet father. I know she is the heiress which implies that she is our queen but until she take the oath, she isn’t the official queen yet. We have the duty to make the transition as smoothly as possible.”

“We didn’t even had time to tell her about the customs and way of…”

Mike went up to Esme, he bend down and looked at her, “Es, she is not alive anymore.”

When the latter saw the extreme anxiety in Mike’s stare, she realized that he was totally serious.

“No, no, no, no.
Heck no.
You’re lying brother,
You’re freaking lying,
Tell me you’re lying!
Please tell me this is a joke.”

Mike looked at her with regrets as crystal tears glide down his left cheek.

This was the most dramatic tears ever. It seized the attention of both Esme and Livia as it glide down Mike’s suave cheek.

Then suddenly, it dropped from his jawline to oblivion as a rhetoric to the situation they were locked in.

They had a gem in the form of Alice and they lost it by being greedy and stupid. The gem was now lost in darkness.

Livia and Esme were so focus on his cheek that it left them speechless for some seconds.

Esme slowly came to the knowledge that her best friend was no more. She stood up and went near the little table across the room.

Her vision blurred by tears and her heart full of sorrows, she looked around to find something to hold to. The room felt so tiny even though she wasn’t claustrophobic, she had the feeling that the walls were closing on her.

Her head spun and her breathing became heavy. She gasped for oxygen but couldn’t find any. She was at the peak of Mount Everest inside the 4 walls of this giant room.