Rose Keegan ❀
I remember this boy, who was two years older than me before I died.
I didn't know why I was given a second chance to be reborn, but my head kept replaying that scene.
A scene where the boy from my first life told me that he liked me.
Although I don't know how I died, that scene, that memory will always keep replaying in my head.
I was only eight years old when I died…
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"Oof! I can't wait for Fall to arrive soon. This Summer heat is slowly melting me alive." My little sister, Bella, said while we both walked out the doors of our university.
"I know it's a pain, but at least can we enjoy the last days of Summer?" I ask her, enjoying the feeling of the last summer breeze before September arrives next week.
"If you say so, sis."
I'm now twenty-one years old and this is my second life, and it's not different from the first.
I still have flashbacks of my first mother, my first birthday present, my first lover, and so much more.
I was born again in a wealthy family in England, although my ginger hair doesn't seem so common here.
"Rose? Are you okay? You seem distant lately…" Hearing Bella asking me, and probably wondering why I haven't felt joyful about Fall every year.
"Oh, sorry. You know, history literature, and stuff. Been quite distracted. I don't know…" I reply, weakly smiling in her direction.
We were walking side by side, sisters forever, and besides I never had a sister in my past life.
"Well, you are studying to become a curator which is cool and all, but- how do I say this honestly?…" Hearing Bella groaning in dismay to tell.
I smile at her quirks, while I try to take a sip from the iced coffee I had gotten at our university's cafeteria.
"Just say it, I can take it, Bella," I said.
"Are you dying alone?"
I cough loudly, almost choking from drinking my iced coffee at what Bella said.
"-Excuse me?" I ask, questioning her words.
"Well ya know, like why haven't you dated anyone?" As she gives me a side glance in a direction, where it shows a group of boys.
"Oh well…" As the thought of the boy of my first life made me blush.
Seeing Bella looking at my reaction, she smiled wickedly.
Oh-no…
"You like someone already? Wow, that was fast Rose. Who's the lucky guy?" As if hearing a smirk through her words.
"I can't- say…" I said, reminding myself what life has given me.
"Why not? Don't you trust me? Do you even loveeee me?" Suddenly giving me her puppy eye stare, and shakes my arm like a child.
Life gave me a second chance…
"Bella, it's hard to explain, but for now. Please let this slide…" I pleaded, and my voice sounded like I was crying to death…
Bella looks at me for a second and shamefully nods.
"Sorry, sis." She said, apologizing to me, while her head was lowered down.
"It's alright, but I'll tell you one thing though. I'm pretty sure he doesn't even remember me anymore." I said, brightening her up with a piece of small information about my lover.
"Why say that though?"
Because it's been twenty-two years since I last saw that boy, and the last time I felt forgotten.