The Invisible Mystery

Chapter 28: Clueless

I saw how delighted they were the moment that I had said those words to them. I saw how they smiled at me, a genuine smile, that is, as though they were relieved that I had agreed to help them.

It was as though they were finally relieved, as they had already known that they would be able to do something about it, but then again, I already knew that it would never be that easy. I already knew that we were bound to face problems along the way, though I was hoping that we would still be able to hold onto each other as we faced those kinds of problems.

I hoped that it would never be the reason why we would fall apart, because if such a thing happened, I really did not know what to do anymore. I did not know what I would do if ever we really fell apart - because I really could not take it even though I was just thinking about it.

I tried to shake off that thought. I tried to remove those thoughts, because I think that this was not the right time for me to think about what could possibly happen after all of this - after I had finally accepted their request.

I figured that I should focus on what was happening as of that moment. I should just turn all of my attention to all of them and to what we were going to talk about after this, because, after all, we were only at the beginning.

We were just starting on the long journey that we should take in order for me to really help them - in order for all of them to succeed in their goals. We were only about to take this messy path, and I did not want to ruin it just because I was suddenly discouraged because of the thoughts of the problems that we would most likely encounter while we were taking this path.

I did not want to ruin this plan just because I was suddenly discouraged, and so, to be able to shake off those thoughts that had suddenly come into my mind, I decided to go and take a seat beside Winter, who also had a huge smile on her face.

She even anchored her arms to mine, and this time, there was no odd feeling inside of me. There was no awkward feeling that I felt, unlike before when I was hesitant when she had put her hands on mine. I did not feel any ounce of awkwardness, which made me smile as I figured that it might be because I had already made amends with myself.

It must have been because I had already thought about this over and over again, and I guessed that the talk that I had with Abigail the night before had helped me in making this decision of mine. It helped me to clear my mind and think about this, thoroughly, which made me feel happy as I knew that I would never doubt them any longer.

Even though I was still trying to figure some things out, I knew that it would not be that long until I had already thought all about it. Even though there were still some things that I could not explain, I knew that along this course that we were taking, I would be able to find something out about it that would not make me doubt if I really had taken the right path as of this moment - I would never have to explain to myself any longer and reason everything out as I knew that I would still be able to completely trust them without any hesitation.

They were still staring at me, though unlike before, I was not getting awkward about it any longer. There were no thoughts such as going away from them, or turning away from them, because it really seemed as though my mind was already set on the thought of helping them - I was already preparing myself as to what I should do about that.

“I am glad that you agreed,” Winter said to me as soon as I took a seat beside her, and that made me let out a smile at her. She even tightened her grip on my arm as though she was really happy that I had agreed about this. “We thought that you would not accept anymore, but Cloud had said that we should wait for your response before we even lose all of our hopes.”

I raised one of my eyebrows as soon as I heard that from her. It made me think that she was only joking around, though while she was talking about it, I did not feel that she was lying about it - I did not feel that she was only joking around while she was saying those words to me.

“Cloud had said that?” I asked her, as though I could not really believe that Cloud had said those words to them.

Cloud? The Cloud Sanders? The very same person who had said that they should not wait any longer because they had already found a way in order for them to cross the afterlife? That very same person who seemed so irritated at me because I could not seem to trust them before all of this?

I highly doubt that. But then...

I looked towards Cloud, who was sitting not too far from where I was and I almost got shocked when I saw that he had suddenly turned his head towards me with one of his eyebrows raised as though he was asking why the h*ck I had suddenly turned to look towards his direction, which made me shake my head to show that it was only coincidence that I had looked at him - though I must say that I did that because I wanted to observe him and see if what Winter had said was the truth.

Though that might really be the case, because, after all, now that I think about it, I had remembered that he had stayed behind before because of a reason that I really did not know about, as he even messed my hair as though he wanted me to know that he was just there would always be there for me.

I was about to open my mouth to speak to him, but I was not able to do so because of the next words that Evo had said to all of us, the words which made us think of the ways that we really needed to do after all of this, because I was a hundred percent sure that it would never be a smooth ride. I knew that along the way, there would really be so many problems that we needed to face.

The problem was that I did not know if I would be able to find a solution, because this was the very first time that something like this had happened – this was the very first time that I would ever experience something like this, something so extraordinary, to be exact.

“But what should we do in order for us to cross the afterlife, just like what Willow had done?” Evo asked, which made all of us look at him as we all thought of ways that would be able to help all of them, but then again, our minds were blank because we really could not think of anything at all.

“Don’t you have an idea as to how she had done that?” I asked them, because we might find a clue about what we should do, but to my disappointment, I saw how they shook their heads as though they also did not know how she was suddenly gone and would never come back again.

“We were also clueless as to how she had done that.”

I let out a sigh as soon as I heard that from Winter, and it seemed as though they suddenly felt gloomy because they just now realized that they did not know any single thing about how they would be able to cross in the afterlife.

That was also the moment that I thought… this would be harder than we thought it would be.