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Gardens of Time: Chapters Four, Five, and Six

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Chapter Four

“Again?”

“Yes. Over and over and over again.

“It’ll only be over when--”

She woke up to a knocking at her door. Aevum got up to answer it, and found Eden (who else), awaiting her. “Hey, Eden,” she yawned. She used one hand to rub her eyes, and the other to ruffle the shorter boy’s hair.

“Hi, Aevum! Good morning!” Eden grinned. He reached up to ruffle Aevum’s hair in return, but had a significantly larger amount of difficulty with it.

Aevum smiled. “You feeling better, already?” She asked.

“Yeah!” Eden exclaimed. “My immune system is strong!” The black-haired boy proclaimed, proudly.

“If it were strong, you wouldn’t have gotten sick in the first place,” Aevum replied.

Eden paused. “Huh? Is that true?”

Aevum chuckled, and shrugged. “Eh. Probably.” She began pushing Eden away from her doorway. “C’mon, I’m going to the pie place.”

“Oh! Right! I’ll come too! And I can pay!” Eden expressed, moving out of Aevum’s way.

Aevum shook her head as she put on her shoes. “Like I say everyday, I can pay for myself.”

Eden nodded. “One day!” He assured. Eden began following Aevum down the usual route she took to get from the motel to the pie place, rambling on about various things, as Aevum simply listened.

“Oh, I talked to Larry last night. Did you know he’s a vegetarian?”

“I like milk, but I think Rose milk is the best kind. It’s nice and bitter, I think it goes well with coffee!”

“Do you think there’s more kinds of magic than just the elemental ones? I don’t think so, personally, but I read a book about the potential for it.”

After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at the pie place. They took their seats at their normal table, and ordered what they usually did. Aevum ordered a Chess pie, and Eden ordered a coffee.

And, as usual, Eden went on rambling about arbitrary happenings and subjects, while Aevum sat in silence.

“Hey, does that pie have eggs in it?” Eden asked, distracting himself from his previous topics of cats and dogs.

Aevum shrugged. “I’m pretty sure,” she replied.

“You should stop eating it,” Eden paused, a smile curling up on his lips. “Or else… The consequences will be eggstreme,” he said, finishing off his pun with a huge grin.

Aevum stopped eating her pie. “Wh-why would there be consequences? Are the eggs in this town bad?”

Eden’s face dropped. “It, uh. It was a pun,” he explained, before shaking his head. “Ah, nevermind.”

Aevum very cautiously ate the rest of her pie, while Eden swiftly moved on to another undirected subject for rambling. Eden ended up ordering two more coffees in the span of time it took for Aevum to finish her pie.

Chapter Five

“Oh, Aevum, tonight everybody’s celebrating the last day of spring!”

Aevum had been in the small, rural town for quite the length of time now. It had been two months, edging on three, and now, the end of spring was here. She had arrived near the beginning of spring, actually. It’s the longest she’s managed to stay in one place without anyone noticing or somehow figuring out she was actually Aika.

“Is that so,” Aevum replied, quietly. “Did you have any plans?”

Eden shook his head. “I think I’ll just stop by the local bar. Do you want to come with me? I think you should come, too!” He exclaimed.

Aevum shrugged. She didn’t have any other plans, and it would’ve been a good opportunity to try and make new friends in the area with someone that wasn’t Eden. “Sure. I’ll see you later, then, Eden. I’m heading to the library now,” Aevum said.

Eden continued to follow Aevum. “I’ll go with you!”

Aevum sighed. “Alright,” she said, rubbing her forehead.

“Oh,” Eden began. “I won’t bother you while you’re reading!” He assured.

Sure enough, Eden didn’t end up bothering Aevum one bit, but he did end up bothering some of the other patrons of the library with his incessant rambling. He quickly got kicked out, and when he was able to reenter, he decided to just sit silently next to Aevum.

A few hours passed, and the library was near-empty, with only the old librarian, Eden, and Aevum left in the run-down building. It was starting to get late, and Aevum figured it was a good time to leave for the local bar. She got up to leave, and Eden followed after her.

The bar, dubbed by everyone in town as ‘The Salty Pig,’ was filled with people. Near everyone in town decided to go the local bar for celebration. They were chatting away with each other, using the holiday as an excuse to skimp out on their work and drink.

“It’s very crowded in here, huh?” Eden commented, as he attempted to find two seats next to each other for him and Aevum to sit.

Aevum nodded, and did her best to follow after Eden through the throes of people.

“Aevum, I found two seats over here,” Eden called out. Aevum managed to catch up to him, and they both took their seats. Eden ordered Aevum a shot of vodka, and just got himself a beer.

“Oh, actually, how old are you, anyways?” Eden asked. “We’ve known each other for near a month now, but I still don’t know your age! Ah, I’m 18, by the way.”

Aevum shrugged. “Around 26. I don’t really keep track,” she answered.

Eden pouted. “Huh? Aww, man. Why not?” He asked.

Aevum rubbed her forehead. “Never thought it was anything worth keeping track of,” she said, cradling her newly-obtained drink. “Besides, there’s tons of other people keeping track of how old I am.”

Eden nodded. “Whatever that means… Anyways, you’re pretty talkative today!”

“Huh? Am I normally not?” She asked. “I guess I’m just getting used to conversing with you,” she said. “We’re friends, after all.”

Eden’s eyes lit up when she said that. “Yes! We are!” He smiled.

Aevum smiled in return, and proceeded to down her drink.

“Wow, all in one go!” Eden admired.

Aevum turned to look directly into Eden’s eyes. “You should take me home--” She vomited, and collapsed.

“...Oh.”

Chapter Six

In no time at all, they were in--

The sunlight pouring into her room was blinding. She tried to get up to close the blinds, but noticed she had to go to the bathroom first to vomit. The back of her throat was burning, and she had quite the headache.

The young lady forced herself to all her windows to shut the curtains, and immediately threw herself onto her bed, groaning.

“Oh, Aevum? You’re awake?” Eden asked, from a different part of Aevum’s motel room. He had said it quietly, taking into consideration Aevum’s massive hangover.

Aevum groaned in response.

“I brought you some water,” Eden offered. “The well was kind of crowded, so I couldn’t get that much, and if you had any water containers, I didn’t find any.” He placed a small wooden bowl filled with water next to Aevum’s bed. “I’ll. Uh. See you later,” he said, going for the door. “You have a nice place,” he said, leaving.

Aevum groaned in response, reaching for the water bowl. She knocked it over, though, and all the water spilled onto her shirt and mattress and floor. “Augh, fuck. Why,” she whined. Aevum didn’t end up bothering to clean up the water, hoping it’d just evaporate later.

“Oh, yeah,” she realized. “Eden!?” Aevum shouted, before stopping to wince from the noise she was creating.

Outside of Aevum’s room, Eden heard a faint voice calling his name. “Huh, is that Aevum? Does she need water?” He pondered aloud, before turning back towards her room.

Aevum waited for a response, but when she didn’t get any, she shrugged it off, and sat up slightly from her previous position of lying down to take off her wet shirt.

She almost had the shirt off, but Eden reached her door. “Um. Aevum? Are you okay?” He asked, his voice so gentle Aevum could barely hear it from the other side of the door.

“Don’t come in!” Aevum shouted, before, again, wincing from the noise she made. “I just wanted to say thanks, and stuff-” Aevum stopped when she noticed bile was building up in the back of her throat, and she started making choking noises.

This, obviously, concerned Eden very much, so he ended up opening the door (since it wasn’t locked). “Aevum, are you--” Eden stopped, and his eyes slowly wandered to the location of Aevum’s birthmark, which also happened to be, well, her chest. “Uh, sorry! Sorry! Holy shit, okay, bye--” Eden slammed the door.

Aevum flinched at the noise, and found herself blushing. She flopped back down onto her bed, defeated. “I hope I have enough money to last until the next town,” she muttered.

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