---Patrick Patterson---
Trembling body, hard to breathe, and heart palpating. I drank again another cold water to soothe my emotions. Relax. Breathe in and breathe out. I have been doing that for minutes. I glanced at Davin who is better after ten minutes. I think he is ready to kick too. Marissa has been massaging my palms and then my head and my nape together with my shoulders.
"That was crazy," I mutter. Davin looked at me with a cocky smile.
"I didn't expect it too." He told me.
"Wait! Before you guys sing Keep Holding on, can you at least tell us what you saw? These things make me crazier than both of you." Andrew asked who look worried. "I am not trying to be Adam Sandler but, seriously, just spit it out. Everything. Oh, I wanted detail." Before I was about to speak, he raises his palms facing me to stop. "Wait! Hold on, brother." He glanced behind him. "Clarence! Get the chips and hurry up! Don't be so pussy!" I don't know what to do with my brother. I have this feeling like I wanted to smother him.
Clarence came running with tacos and give Andrew a bowl sitting beside Andrew as they start munching taco chips.
"So, you can speak now."
I sign and started talking and talking while they are listening and eating. Damn, they look like watching theater or listening to a ghost horror story. He even cussed. No. Both of them cuss. I am started to think that they are brothers than I and Andrew.
"Is the Goddess beautiful? The Goddess of Fire?"
"Of course, all of them have exceptional beauty on their own. I am just quizzical on why they have almost the same features as Adhiti."
"Something is missing," Andrew uttered. "Where's the Goddess of Water? I mean, it shows the death of three Goddesses. Fire, earth, and air. What happened to the Goddess of Water? Oh, and if there's another Goddess, who is she?"
"Well, you see, Princess Amanda known as a Goddess because when she was born everything is back to normal. And there's no show of the Goddess of Water-whatsoever."
"We should ask your parents about that," Marissa suggested that is the genius idea. That's why I kissed her on her cheek that both Clarence and Andrew throw us taco chips.
"Why are you guys disgusted, as if you never kiss a girl in front of us?" Davin said. I pick the taco on Marissa's lap and throw it on my mouth.
"He's right." I agreed with Davin. They are doing disgusting things that I and Marissa are showing, how could they just throw us tacos as if we are disgusting.
"You suck-face with the dead girl a few weeks ago and you," Davin pointed his forefinger to Andrew. "I saw you in my dream grinding on some pretty girl."
We all gape on what Davin said. Are there things that I haven't seen yet on his dreams? I mean, come on! I enter his mind. What else I don't know?
"H-how many?" Andrew asked.
"Just one, because it looks like you are head over heels on her…" he grins.
"Clarence, get ready," Andrew mutters. Which, I guess I know what they are up to. In a quick motion, Andrew and Clarence set aside their food and Davin scrambles on the sofa jumping off and running off as Andrew and Clarence are after him.
Marissa and I kept on laughing on how childish they all look. Davin was fast until they are all running on the kitchen and simply cornering Davin. I stood and took their bowls and started eating with Marissa while watching them. She lay on my arms and leans on my chest while chewing the tacos. I smelled her hair. It smells like an orchid with vanilla. I kissed the top of her head and gently circles my hand on her tummy.
I heard my parent's car and Davin is running out of the house. I heard my mom's voice scolding Andrew. Dad entered the main door greeting us.
"Andrew! Your chips are around!" Dad shouts. "So, something good happened?" he asked throwing his keys on the porcelain bowl, and while he is removing his coat, I told him what happened.
"Well, I and Davin just tour back to the tragic history of the three Goddess."
My dad seemed to stop for a while. My mom enters the foyer together with the three guys and their groceries. There are lots of bags and boxes seemed like a fiesta to me. My mom looked at me and to Marissa.
"You seemed pale, dear." I nod at her.
So, while Mom and dad are cooking for lunch together with Marissa, I started telling them about what happened. Of course, I am with Davin. While Clarence and Andrew are cleaning the couches and the living room with a noisy vacuum cleaner.
"Y-you saw our Adhiti?" my mom stop from chopping. I can feel her loneliness from her tone.
"Yes, mom. I saw her. She witnessed the assassination of the White Princess. I saw the man who erased the mate of the Goddess. He has a symbolic tattoo and…"
"There's the young Eliza."
"Eliza?" my father asked. "I am certain that Eliza hasn't born when the Goddess of Air died."
"But, father, I saw young Eliza there. She's there."
"How is that impossible? Eliza and Nick are at the same age and those times, Nick hasn't born yet."
"This is making me crazy." I and Davin said at the same time. My father told me to continue. After I tell him everything, together with Davin, he told me only one thing.
"The Goddesses died alone. That is written in history. There's no witness."
"What about the death of the Goddess of Earth? Flame was there. He was devastated."
"Both the twin died at the same time." My dad explained briefly.
"Why do we have Goddesses in the Inside World?" Davin asked. Good question.
"Do you know Jesus of Nazareth?" my dad asked him, and we nod. "The same answer. However, things are different. Our Almighty God that has known for many names, sent down his daughters to protect his creation. Before they even build their Kingdom's, the Goddesses are always with them. So when Abyss the evil God of torment, trespasses and keep stealing souls to bring it to his evil world, the Goddesses asked their father to send them down to show people faith, love, mercy, and that their creator exists."
"One thing dad, mom. I hope that you all won't get crazy but, the Goddesses have almost the same feature of Adhiti."
They both stop what they are doing. My dad even dropped the tomato that he is holding.
"For us to be all certain, do you have the portraits of the Goddesses?" Davin suggested.
"Y-yes… it is in the basement."
"I don't know why my vision showed the flashback. I am certain that all that showed on my vision is always the future."
"It is because God wanted to show you what happened to our Goddesses." My mom spoke. "I had lived long enough back to the Inside World and I saw how chaos took the happy towns."
"We saw how people starve and died one by one because of the death of the Goddesses," Dad added. I am still confused on why they didn't show the death of the Goddess of Water. Besides the death of the Goddess of the Water, they showed me to the Kingdom of Psyche.
"How did the Goddess of Water dies?"
"Her name is Serina." My mom started and faced us. "It was said that she died in loneliness, cause of the death of her sisters. But I believe that it is not just the death of her sisters." She took the small knife and slices the carrots. "It is the betrayal of her lover."
"H-how?"
"It is what my father told me since he's a sailor. Inside the Kingdom, there's someone that are the mastermind of their deaths."
"What is the purpose of the Goddesses besides balancing the light and darkness?" Davin asked. Again, he's a genius.
"Their purpose is to give a gift to someone who deserved enough to Protect the Inside World."
After our lunch, we all headed to the basement again. Which fascinates Davin and Clarence. They don't have dark motives, so I am sure of that. My father showed us the portraits of the Goddesses in an old scroll. He put it on the long table and there is the same signature on each portrait. I touch the scroll and it is made of abaca and I can't determine what else. As we examine each of them, they have all similarities. The Goddess of air and earth are twins. Their face is almost alike at each other in a weird way but each of them has an exceptional beauty.
"You are right. Each of them has a feature of our Adhiti." Dad pulled another scroll and it is Princess Amanda. Mom put down the big smiling picture of Adhiti from two years ago.
"Maybe it is a coincidence. Since Princess Amanda is her biological mother. Does this mean that Princess Amanda is another Goddess that was sent by our Almighty God?" I asked.
"Yes, son. Princess Amanda was considered a Goddess, however, she never said that she was."
"Does this mean…" Davin prolongs looking at Princess Amanda to Adhiti. "Uhm, Adhiti's biological father is Marcus." Oh, he blurted it out. My mom gasps. "I mean, on my vision, I saw her," she pointed Amanda. "with Marcus and they have these sparks between them and vowing their love at each other." These things are getting, intensive.
"Oh, sweetie. Adhiti has been with Marcus all this time." My mom falls into tears. "She never knows. We need to let her know. If we don't, both of them… all three of them will suffer." Andrew wrapped his arms around mom and comfort her. I saw my dad trying to control those tears.
We are all hurting. My heart was squeezed with a juicer right now trying to drain the blood. It will hurt Adhiti a lot. I should've been with her and protect her. We should've been protecting her. I don't know what else will happen. We should tell Adhiti the truth. That her real parents loved her so much and they both wanted her. But it seemed impossible for them to be all together as a family, where lots of evil wanted to kill them.
We just slipped off the subject and I told Davin that it is alright that he said it. We are all surprise and he shouldn't blame himself. The truth is, we are all relieved and happy for everything that we witnessed because of him. We can save the whole earth, both the outside world and the inside world.