"The phone she last left charging in her room before she learned about the accident in June, saying she dreamed about the phone, and needed to get it. So, me and Sofija went with her, and her phone was still there, as if time had stopped then."
"It took minutes to use her phone, because of the waterfall of buzz and notifications, but when we did… there were three unseen audios from Felicity waiting for her. Two dating from two to three hours before the accident, and the last one… the last one was minutes before the accident," he struggled to speak. "She had hit her head little after she got to the train and fainted, and when she woke up, she had regained all of her memories."
"No…" zio Silas cried. "Please, don't tell me…"
"She told Missy everything. Then she apologize, crying like I've never seen her do before. She said she was having a horrible feeling, and that she felt like she had to be honest with her. And she was, for the first time, she opened up, apologized, and then asked Missy to find you," he pointed to zio, "saying that she would find Ari and then they would meet half way, and you would finally be a family together, with Kit and your son, like you should have been. She cried, scared of what you would think of her, of you thinking she abandoned you, she said she loved you, and for the first time… she told Missy she loved her, that she wasn't a flaw."
"In the last audio… when she was apologizing again, after crying for hours, Kit came in. The storm was heavy, we were able to listen it, and she was scared of storms, she always was, and so was Kit. He was crying, asking for a hug, saying he missed Missy, and that he was scared. Felicity held him in her embrace and they both said they loved Missy, that they were going to meet up in a week again, and that… you would be together. But… but then," he began to shake, really shake, "came the screams, and-"
"She recorded the moment they died in audio?" I asked haunted.
He swallowed, "Her last words… in her last seconds she begged Missy to find her sister and her father, then she and Kit screamed and the audio died. Missy cried to exhaustion and isolated herself for 15 days again, the day she came out, was the day she hacked you. I was having breakfast with Sofija and her cat Jungkook, and,"
"Wait," I blinked, "Jungkook is the cat of her aunt?"
A nod, "She likes BTS," he sighed. "She hacked you in front of us, then told us what she got. She was absolutely pissed, and sad, and glad that she found you," he pointed to zio, then to Addy, "and that you have been with your father all along. That you had a good family, that you were loved, both by your father, your adoptive mother, and by Felicity."
"Then why," Four began but ahjussi stopped him.
"She hates herself, boy. She feels dirty, broken. I tried to make her contact you, because I was scared of how she was fading away, but she was adamant, she refused and used her authority on us, as our boss aside from family. And she didn't shed a tear while she hissed at us that you didn't need her, that you were happy, that she didn't want to barge into perfect life with her destructive baggage. She gave up on you for your sake, because she didn't want to meet you, to give you hope over your mother, just to reap it away when you learned that Felicity died."
"That her entire family died. She felt guilty for surviving, when she was initially supposed to be in the train with them, to… die with them. She lost her entire family and her boyfriend in a spam of 24 hours, it was too much, she lost it. Kit was her anchor, her safe place, and without him she just… doesn't know how to live, how to want to live again. She never had friends, Felicity forced her to use her prodigy skills to jump many years in school, she forced her to early graduate and lose everything she planned."
"She forced Mischief to go to MIT for Computer Science, just so she could help her searching for Ari. And though Missy obeyed it, craving to be recognized, she loathed it, hacking, MIT, she loathed everything. She wasted her life away, and when she learned that none of this would have happened if her mom hadn't tripped in the stairs of the airport and lost her memories, she snapped. Don't judge her too, please," he cried, with his hands pressed together, "she's a child who was forced to stop living to do what her mother wanted, she's broken, she's hurt, but somewhere inside the void of grief she's lost in right now, she's still there. Dancing kept her sane when nothing else did, it's why I suggested her to get into social media, but she's lost motivation. She needs time to heal."
He turned to Abby, "She doesn't hate you, she's just wounded. She used to dream about having a sister when she was little, before Felicity all but fucked with her dreams. I hope you will be able to help me taking her out of that dark and dangerous place of her mind. She's just a little bit weird, but you will get used to it."
"How weird?" I asked anxiously.
"You will think I'm insane," he chuckled worried.
We all shared a look, "I doubt that," Four exclaimed.
"We are all weird too," Abby exclaimed, looking less despairing, as Pravya held her gently by the waist, like the overprotective girlfriend she is. "We won't think she's crazy."
"I wouldn't be so sure, when this is the reason Felicity forced her to take the psychiatrist medication," he mumbled.
Jesus, I can smell his anxiety. "Just say it, ahjussi." I yelled.
He glared at me, "You brat," I glared back. "She can…" he halted again, "she can talk to certain animals. And I know you may think I'm crazy, but she proved to me and Sofija."
"Animals? Plural?" Magnus grinned, his carrot hair glowing.
"Ravens, snakes, rats, black cats, and dobermans," sigh. "It's true."
We all froze.
Five different races? She can talk with FIVE different races?
"See? You think I'm hallucinating. But I swear. They talk to her, tell her things there's no way she would know if it wasn't true. They protect her," he turned to me, exasperated, "why do you think the cats were crazy after her, or that the ravens were so desperate they grabbed you and threw you in the pool to save her? I have no idea how this happens, but she has some real power, it's insane. And when they died, the animals made a parade in front of the place Missy was holding the funeral Korean style, and she said they were paying respect, honoring her pain, her loss."
"I thought she was going crazy, that she was skipping her pills and hallucinating, but she proved to us. A snake came from the drain of her bathroom after she blocked herself from the ravens in the window, and told her about the message Felicity left her in her phone. Jesus, I almost fainted when she came down the stairs with the black snake around her waist, resting on her shoulder. Then when she hacked you, she talked with Sofija's black cat, Jungkook, and she repeated to us something Sofija had only told him. It was incredible."
"I…" he stared at us, hopeless. "It's okay, you don't believe me. I… don't tell her I told you this. She'll be mad. I shouldn't have," he passed his hands over his sand blonde hair, frustrated. "I… I'll go to my room," then he got up and ran away from us, to the guest room.
"Five races," we all mumbled, as if part of a cult.