Memory of A Rose part III

“What are you doing?!” Jennifer quickly stepped back. She had just got a kiss, from the most disgusting person she ever known. She trembled, and fell down. Joshua walked slowly toward Jennifer and Jennifer used her hands and legs to stay away from Joshua, moving them all at once to push her backward. She was shocked and could no more gather power to stand.

“D, don’t come near me… don’t… a… ARGH!!” This time, a headache attacked Jennifer and she was at her limit. She couldn’t see clearly anymore and her head was spinning. And suddenly ‘it’ came… from the depth of her heart, and finally emerged completely from its confinement. The Memory.

“You seem to be in a great pain, dear Jennifer.” Joshua smiled and removed his glasses. Then he pulled his hair, which actually was wig, and instead of a boy, there was a girl, smiling to Jennifer.

Jennifer recognized the voice, and the face, which made her tremble more in fear.

“Wendy?”
“My sweet Jennifer, you have actually remembered me! I’m so flattered!” The girl called Wendy smiled, and closed her hands as the sign of delight.
“Wendy, why, why did you do this?”
Wendy chuckled, and with a misplaced gentleness she replied. “It was all for you, and for our eternal bond.”

“But that was a long time ago! I didn’t even understand what love is, it was all children promise!” Jennifer replied hard, trying to deny that she was once love one of her kind, a girl, even though she was still small and didn’t understand about forbidden love.

“Childish? You called our promise childish, eh, Jennifer?” Glimpse of anger came from Wendy’s eyes. Suddenly there was a big thumping sound in the room, followed by the sound of several light footsteps. They sound were coming nearer to Jennifer and the dim candle finally revealed the source of the sound: mermaid imps, goat imps, bird imps, pig imps, and dog imps.

“Well, Jennifer, have you ever wondered where the imps came from? They are very obedient and lovable -at least much better than you are now, and the best thing is… they will forever retain the memories when they used to be an Aristocrat, all I have to do is remove their soul and they will become a body controlled by Memory, Memory of being an Aristocrat who obeyed the Rule of Rose... Now Jennifer, be a good girl, and you will always be by my side.”

The imps were dispatched, every of them hold Jennifer’s arms, legs, and head. Jennifer tried to fight, but she had lost power to even hold her knife properly. The knife fell down to the ground, and Wendy picked it. She grinned, and then bent her body forward. She caressed her cheek and touched Jennifer’s lips with hers.
“The secret has been revealed, Jennifer, and it was the Rose of My Lips. And Rose isn’t always meant to be sweet is it? Because, rose do have thorns, and that’s exactly what I’m giving to you.”

Wendy grinned, Jennifer cried. Wendy used the tip of the knife to slit Jennifer’s arms.

“Beautiful isn’t it, Jennifer? The dark red color, the color of the roses! Ah… amazing, just look at how much of them flowing out of your body and make you all filthy!”

The pain, the torture, Jennifer had always able to resist them all… No matter how cruel they had toyed Jennifer but she would always be patient, always be, patient…

“I had it… ENOUGH!!”

Red clouds filled the head. A surge of anger rushed toward senses. Jennifer broke free of the imps’ hold and kicked Wendy to the ground. Jennifer took the knife and she came to Wendy. Jennifer pointed Wendy with her knife and slowly she approached Wendy, then she grinned. Suddenly everything was black.



Jennifer awoke the next day and for the first day in her life he felt so alive. She was awaked on a garden of rose, under the roof of blue sky, in front of a dilapidated building. She had no memory of what that place was, the building, nor any purpose of why she was there. All she could remember was that she had a strange dream last night, and in her dreams she had became a Princess of a very Noble Family. In her dream she lived in gloom for everyone hated her, except a mysterious Noble who always wore mask, in which later she gave the mysterious Noble a love letter.

“Huh, what a strange dream I had last night. Anyway, I have to find a way home from here. Wonder where I should go to…”

Jennifer left the garden of rose, further, further away, leaving the old building and the garden. She was finally free of her memory, a prison that locked her in her past…