AFTER THE SUMMER BREAK, THE FINAL SEMESTER BEGINS
Teddy was sitting quietly in his chair when Divina rejected him during the camp trip. All his friends were staring at him as it concerned them.
"What happened to him? Is he alive?" Rejean asked them.
"He died. His heart just broke after that rejection during the camp trip," Riley stated.
"I'm sorry… Theodore…" Divina said.
"What are you going to do now Ellie?" Alex asks him.
"I will always be his best friend! It's our last year of high school, so it means… It's our Promenade!" Ellie said, and then all of them follow his lead.
"It's our Promenade!" they all said.
"It only happens once a year. It's the event that allows you to dress like a prince!" he said, as if whispering to him.
"Promenade!" they all said again, like they are bribing him.
"It dyes this city in a different realm! It will lift the oppression against us for one whole day! It's our Promenade!"
"Promenade!"
"Our Promenade?" Teddy murmured to them like he was asking.
"Yes! Our Promenade!"
"It's our Promenade!!!" Teddy was overjoyed when he learned that their Promenade was near.
"YAHOOO!!!" Rejean screamed as they all shouted in joy. It seems like Teddy is back from being troubled about the rejection. In three months, their Magical Promenade will begin at their school auditorium.
1 MONTH LATER
"Welcome students! Tonight is the night we are all been waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen! It's Juniors and Seniors Magical Promenade!"
All the students dance a waltz with their preferred partners inside the auditorium. The students are wearing their preferred suits and gowns, as the teachers required them to wear. Rejean and Riley are dancing to each other and they are enjoying it. Teddy and Divina became friends while they are partners too in dancing. While they are all dancing, Ellie is waiting at the gate for Alex to come out.
"Ellie?"
Ellie turned around, and he sees Alex is walking closer to him. Time slowed down suddenly when he saw Alex shining so beautifully. She's wearing a pink gown, with a tiara on her head. She's wearing a pink lipstick and pink long gloves on both of her arms.
"Good evening?" she said to him while Ellie was still staring at her. He smiled at her like he's being attracted more to her.
"H-Hi! Umm… It really looks good on you!" he said as he flustered. "I enjoy being with you from the bottom of my heart,"
"Thank you. I feel the same way too," she said, and she smiles at him. Ellie took her hand and they also waltz in the stage. They are dancing like the prince and the princess on the Wishing Upon a Star. After they danced, they smiling to each other as they feel the magical that binds to their hearts.
"Ellie, I—"
"It's time…" Alex hears something as if someone is whispering to her.
"What?" she mumbles to herself.
"It's time…" It seems like her consciousness is whispering to her.
She runs away from him, but she doesn't know where to go. Alex was confused when she heard herself whispering. She felt dizzy as she surrounded by the students who are dancing. She clenched her fist, and she covers her ears as she wants to hear nothing. Her consciousness that it's inside her head kept telling her it's time to tell him the truth. Ellie runs to her as he concerned what happened to her.
���Hey. Are you okay? What's wrong?" he asked seriously to her while he took her hand. Ellie saw her she's not okay.
"Ellie. We've already been dating for half a year, haven't we?"
"What?"
"That's the… situation…" she let go of his hands as he tried to walk away.
"Wait!" he suddenly grabs her hand. "I don't get it! What's with you all of this sudden? Are you moving somewhere? What are you saying?"
Alex mustered up her courage to tell him her genuine feelings. She looked at him properly in the eye as she confronted him.
"Ellie. You know what?" tears fell from her eyes. "I have a bad bug right here…" she said as she points her finger to her head.
"That's a joke right?"
Alex nodded in disagreement. "It's the truth. I need to exterminate it. They don't know… if the surgery is going to be successful. That's why… I'm sorry. This is farewell,"
Ellie thought, this can be the happiest time of his life. He realizes that she so bright on the outside but inside, she's suffering from an illness. The time when he carried her to the hospital, he thought it's just anemia, and she's okay. The time when they had a celebration, and she joked about she suffers from an incurable illness. He realizes that she wanted to become a magical fairy because she wanted to use it to live with the love of her life. Tears flow from Ellie's eyes as he heard the truth from her.
"I'm sorry! I didn't notice! I—"
"Don't apologize. Ellie, please forget about me," she softly said to him. She saw him for the first time he cries in pain so she gently wipes away his tears. He clasped her hand to his cheek as he doesn't want to let go of her.
"Don't cry, Ellie." she said as she smiles at him. She let go of his hand and walks away as she left him. His world crumbles and his heart breaks into pieces, leaving him paralyzed during their promenade. He thought he can be truly happy, but she left him.