Twenty One Scratches
Strangers
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt had been three years since Yacqueline and Meteora departed from mortality and became spirits. Yacqueline had killed herself, and Meteora asked Midnight to do it for her. They had gone to separate places: Meteora had gone to the Celestial Plane, and Yacqueline, for no reason, had been banished to Tartarus. They missed each other dearly, and they sang a duet together.
"Save me" Yacqueline began. "I'm drowning so deep in the darkness. I'm waiting for your touch to stop this. There's smoke blinding us with goodbyes, and I... Keep hope, cause this feeling's different and I know, I've staggered so long that it can't go! Alleviate me, I'll be fine. In time!"
"Please remember that I miss you," Yacqueline prayed in song to Meteora. "Young and reckless, what did we do? Broken promise, gone forever? Maybe one day, we'll get better. Right by your side, that's where I'll be, in a heartbeat, if you ask me! Let's stay strangers, like we're meant to. Oh I wonder if you miss me too?"
"Find me," Yacqueline could hear her lover singing. "I'm waiting right her, where you left me! Still shredded and bruised, but I'm breathing! Be brave for me, ignore their eyes, just try! We're dancers, and I've picked petals, looking for answers, and I've received these edges from chances! Indelible, but I'll be fine, in time!"
"Please remember that I miss you," Meteora prayed in song to Yacqueline. "Not caring, is so hard to do? Everything, we loved together! It's not the same, with out you there. Feels like you were just beside me, how did time go by so quickly? Now we're strangers, but I miss you. Oh I wonder if you miss me too?"
The two of them vocalized in harmony for four "Whoa"s and then began singing different lines at the same time.
"Please remember, don't forget me," Yacqueline sang.
"Please remember, I still think of you and I," Meteora sang.
"I'll be leaving, this heart empty!" Yacqueline added.
"Tell me, what does this all mean?" Meteora added.
"Burn our bridges, are you still there?" Yacqueline asked.
"Are you even still there?" Meteora asked.
"All these endless circles do nothing," Yacqueline sang.
"These circles do nothing!" Meteora agreed.
"And I don't know, why I can't just let you go?" Yacqueline asked.
"And remember, I've been waiting, ever since this started aching" Meteora told Yacqueline.
"Can we go back, can we start again?" Yacqueline asked Meteora.
"Now we're strangers, but I need you!" Meteora exclaimed.
"Because I need you!" Yacqueline exclaimed.
"Oh I wonder, if you need me too?" They sang together.
And at that moment, the two of them were brought back to life by the spirits of their love. And they lived happily ever after.
Author's Note
Dedicated to my exes, Red and Rachel.
Just one more cheeapter to go, and it's for the bonus track!
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