Blake stared at the little girl. She looked like a copy of herself but her hair wasn’t completely burgundy; it was reddish brown. But their set of blue eyes were as if they printed by the same machine.

The girl was busy playing with her crayons and coloring book. At times she would glance up at her and smiled brightly. Blake smiled back. She wasn’t used to be around kids so she didn’t know what to do exactly with this girl. Her gaze flew over to Michelle and Leana over by the couch.

They just got back from visiting Jimmy’s grave earlier and she saw many things there. His grave plate which says Jimmy jumped into life and never touched bottom, the generosity of flowers, and a lot of people. She wasn’t completely sure whether the crowd at the cemetery today was still alive or not. All she knew was the cold feeling she’d get everytime she stared at them, and they stared back.

Meanwhile, Michelle and Leana were immersed in their conversation over a cup of coffee that Michelle brought earlier.

“How are you doing, Lea?” Michelle asked her warmly.

“I’m okay I guess. I have a new therapist and he’s a pain in the butt.”

“Is it that guy at the cemetery?”

Leana nodded.

“He’s pretty hot.”

“He thinks I’m lunatic.”

Michelle reached for her hand and rubbed it softly. “We don’t think you’re a lunatic, Lea. In fact, we believe you now.”

“Don’t start that shit with me now, Mich. I’m recovering!”

Michelle took a deep breath. “If Jimmy really came back, would you like to meet him again?”

Leana took a long time to answer her. “No.”

Michelle raised her eyebrows. If only she knew that Jimmy was back, and really back. Maybe for good. She thought to herself.

“I don’t want to stay in the past. I want to move on. Alex asked me to stop by to Jimmy’s grave today to let him go. So I let him go.”

Michelle wanted to tell Lea so much but by looking at her state now, she was perfectly content with her life. She didn’t need to be distracted by something insane right now. It might drive her back into the ward again.

“I don’t wanna go back to that asylum again, Mich. I can’t. I love Zoey too much.”

“I understand.”

Leana glanced over at her daughter who was sitting side by side with a burgundy haired stranger at the front porch.

“Who’s that?” she simply asked.

Michelle bit her lip. Confused as to how she was going to introduce Blake. A seer? A messenger? A friend?

“She is Brian’s cousin.”

Leana nodded to the lie and didn’t ask further about it. In her heart she knew there was something familiar about that stranger. Something that really made her feel connected. Was it because of her amazing blue eyes? Or her fresh burgundy hair that resembled Zoey a lot?

“So where are you headed to after this?”

She turned her head to Michelle. Shrugging mindlessly, she sipped her coffee and answered; “I’m going out of the country.”

“WHAT?” Michelle couldn’t believe her ears.

“Alex said it’s all part of the process.”

“Where are you going?”

“Canada.”

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Valerie punched her time card into the slot, indicating that she was off from her shift now and can’t wait to get home. She walked past the second floor purposely, to take a peek at the beautiful newborns at the pediatric ward. She could spend hours watching them sleep and sometimes wailed hungrily at the attending nurses there. Her colleagues would let her in just to feed them and play with their little feet.

But today she can’t stay longer, she wanted to pack for Vegas next week and she already took a day off. Smiling briefly at the newest born baby in one of those incubators, she rubbed her own stomach slowly.

“Mommy can’t wait for you to get out and see the world. Your daddy too, he can’t wait to meet you.” she spoke slowly while looking down at her still-flat belly. One of her colleagues that was on duty that day waved at her. She waved back, signaling that she’s gotta run. Little did she know somebody was following her from behind.

Jimmy buried his head inside his palm, but looked up instantly when he heard a familiar voice in front of him. Valerie was there, standing in her nurse uniform and talking to her own stomach.

“Val!” He went up to her eagerly. As Valerie can’t hear him, he just listened to everything that she said.

“No, no. I can’t stay. I gotta run. Okay, bye!” she was talking animatedly towards another nurse from inside the soundproof baby room. Next thing Jimmy knew was he followed Valerie behind her until she arrived at the hospital parking lot.

Valerie stood still, before she unlocked her Mercedes Sport that Matthew gave to her as a wedding gift. She felt the hair on her back stood up, like something was standing behind her all along. She gulped, and slowly turned around.

“Hello?” she called. Her voice just ended in echoes all over the parking lot.
Nobody answered.

Jimmy tried touching her, letting her know that it was only him. But as usual, he failed at that.
Valerie unlocked her door in panic and after she started the engine, she drove away in a lightning speed. Jimmy was already sitting inside her car - in the front seat, watching her calmed down and breathed slow eventually. Valerie turned on the radio and the frequency just buzzed, like somebody had tampered with it. She knocked it a few times before Jimmy realized that him being near the radio would make that effect.

“Ops, sorry. My bad.”

Jimmy moved to the back seat and the radio immediately went alright. Valerie tried to drive calmly, but she felt shivers when down her spine although it was only Jimmy behind her. Her phone rang suddenly, making her jumped and almost ran over a pedestrian. Smiling an apologetic smile at that random person, Valerie pulled her car over and picked up her phone.

“Hello, Matt? I was driving. What’s up?”

“Oh, sorry. Um, just wanted to check up on you. How’s my baby today?”

“Matt! I was fucking driving and I almost ran a person over! You gotta stop calling me every five minutes, babe.”

“Shit, I’m sorry! I can’t help it! Are you okay? Did you really run over that person?”

“No. Almost. I’m fine. Where you anyway?”

“At the studio. We’re on a break. Brian and Zack went to get some food. You didn’t answer my first question, Val.”

Valerie rolled her eyes. “Your baby is fine. He or she is healthy. I signed up for a prenatal class.”

“Good.”

“But the mommy is not really feeling good.”

“What? Why? What’s wrong?”

Valerie sighed and looked around. Jimmy stared right into her eyes, but she saw nothing.

“I dunno, I felt..weird. Like someone was following me.”

“Val. Go straight home. Don’t even try to stop by anywhere. Not even for groceries. I’ll do that later.”

“Okay, okay. How can I go home if you keep pestering me like this?”

“I just wanna talk to you. It’s been – 6 hours since we last saw each other.”

Valerie laughed softly. “What happen to you today? You sound clingy.”

She heard him sighed from the other side. “Jimmy’s missing again, Val. Blake and Michelle are trying to find him back.”

Valerie staggered in her seat. Her eyes widened as she let Matthew kept babbling about the news in her ear. Slowly she turned her head towards the back seat and felt the hair on her neck stood up.

“Matt, I gotta go. I’ll call you back.”

She immediately pushed the end button while her eyes searched everywhere randomly at the empty passenger seat.

“Jimmy? Are you here?”

Jimmy was sitting beside her, so near to the radio and making the frequency buzzed again. Valerie snapped her head toward the radio quickly.

“Shit, Jimmy. Don’t do this to me. This is scary as hell.”

Jimmy smiled weakly and his eyes gazed down towards her still flat stomach. He placed his hand on it and careful not to let it went through her.

“I hope I will be around to see this baby being born. The first Sevenfold baby.” He mumbled to himself.

Valerie then moved her body forward to turn off the radio and his fingers buried deep inside her stomach. He actually felt something. His eyes sparkled and his jaw dropped into a wide grin.

“Val, I don’t fucking know how the hell did I know this, but it’s a boy!”

Valerie couldn’t hear it, so Jimmy went all excited by himself. He can’t believe he can touch the unborn offspring of Sanders. Not long after Valerie started driving again, Jimmy felt the burn on his left arm this time, he quickly glanced at it.

"Oh shit! Not again!"

The tattoo of a dead Easter Bunny lying on top of coffin full of eggs was now gone, leaving his pale skin visible and when he heard Valerie finally spoke, he slipped again.

“Jimmy, if you’re here, give me a sign.”

Nothing happened.

Notes

A/N: sorry guys for the very laate update. been busy too fucking much :/