While Lia and Derek secretly enter the school building a message pops up on Derek's mobile from Kai, "Hey buddy, I found Kiya. Everything is alright, talk to you tomorrow!" Derek smiles in relief and tells Lia about it.

"Who's there?" asks a middle-aged man wearing a security uniform flashing light inside the classroom where Derek and Lia are standing. When the light enters the classroom Derek and Lia quickly hide under the desk.

As the guard enters the class to search further a cold wind crawls under his skin, guard screams "ghost" and runs away.

Derek looks at Lia with a surprised face, "let's go" Lia says knowing that it must be Dandelion.

Derek and Lia run out of the school, "That was a close call!" Derek says and Lia replies with a small chuckle.

On their way back home Derek tells Lia about the strong bond between Kiya and Kai, and Lia replies with a happy face saying "Yes the twin bond is the strongest, no matter what they will always look after each other like the twins in my grandma's fairytale."

"Did you grew up listening to fairy tales?" Derek replies with a sweet smile on his face.

"Uhm, yes childish isn't it?" Lia says looking down.

"Well, of course, things about your childhood will be childish, it's a good thing!" Derek replies slightly bending down looking into Lia's eyes.

"Yes there is nothing wrong with it, my grandma's fairy tales are my greatest strength. I just thought you might make fun of me li.." Lia stops in mid-air and doesn't complete her sentence.

"Why would I make fun of it, it sounds so lovely. I want to hear your Grandma's fairy tale Lia," Derek says cutely pouting.

Lia softly chuckles at Derek's attempt to act cute and replies "You are good Derek, you all are".

Derek slightly scratches his head and says, "You too Lia, you are really good, so does your grandma lives in Yellowhood town?".

"She's no more," Lia replies putting her head down.

"Oh, I am so sorry Lia!" Derek replies with a concerned face.

"Oh no, it's ok," Lia replies with a small smile.

They both walk home in complete silence.

Lia gets lost inside her thoughts, she starts wondering, is she really good or maybe she's just a bad omen like Sophie called her. Negative thoughts start controlling her again, She starts thinking that maybe Kiya became a victim of her bad omen. She starts thinking maybe she brought bad luck on Kiya too.

Derek breaks the silence by saying "Let's take a left turn," pointing at a concrete road slope. Lia looks at Derek with confusion and replies, "but that's not our way, we should go straight."

"I wanna show you something, it will only take 5 minutes," Derek says making puppy eyes.

Lia's heart melts looking at Derek's adorable pleading face. She hesitates a little but then agrees gently nodding her head because of the soft look in Derek's eyes.

Lia follows Derek and gets awestruck looking at the view ahead of her, a city filled with colorful lights looks like fairies have come down to have fun with the beautiful colours of the world.

"Thank you for bringing me here, this is so mesmerizing," Lia says with a sweet smile on her face.

Derek sweetly smiles slightly tilting his head to the right side.

"You see those stars, when I was 6 years old I lost my mother. I used to cry a lot back then, so one day my dad brought me here at night and pointed at the sky and he said to me that my mother is up there in the sky looking after me from above. Just like you grew up with fairy tales, I grew up with the magic of the stars." Derek says warmly smiling at Lia.

Lia looks at Derek's eyes with a soft look, she feels sorry for Derek's loss. Lia looks down and says "I am so sorry, I don't know what to say. I never know what to say, I want to say something comforting to you but I don't know how. I am always crying, so pathetic," a tear slid down from Lia's right eye.

"It's okay to cry, as long as you can look up and smile after that, look in the sky Lia, your grandma is watching over you too. Maybe your grandma and my mum became good friends just like you and me. Also, you don't have to find anything comforting to say, your presence here is enough. Life happens so stop giving yourself so much stress about everything, take your time I am always here!" Derek replies wiping Lia's tear.

Derek's words reach Lia's heart, she looks up in the sky with a big smile and says "It's too pretty!"

"Indeed," Derek replies looking at Lia.

Sometimes you believe you are who you are as to how others see you. You take others' perspectives about yourself and start to believe that maybe you are exactly how they see you. Lia started living her life in Sophie's perspective believing that she is a bad omen. But after meeting Dandelion, Derek, and the group she started gaining little confidence as in their perspectives she was never a bad omen.

Even though, Sophie's words haunted Lia again, the light of Derek's warm words made her realize that to move forward she needs to stop being a puppet of the past.

Lia looks at Derek and says, "thank you!" with a bright smile folding her hands behind her back.

"Let's go back home," Derek replies with the sweetest smile.

Lia says good night to Derek and went inside her apartment. As Lia enters the apartment she sees Dandelion crying sitting on the couch. Lia rushes over her and asks her what's wrong, looking at Dandelion's tears Lia starts crying too. Dandelion tells her that she was crying over a movie in which a little girl learns to open up after shutting herself in. Lia sighs and wipes her tear saying, "you are too much Dandelion, you made me so worried."

Dandelion cups Lia's cheeks in her hand and says "you are too sweet Lia," and starts to cry dramatically again.

Lia softly punches Dandelion's right arm. Dandelion whines and tells Lia to check the phone. Lia takes out the phone from her pocket and sees the message from Rimi along with 2 miss calls 1 hour ago. Rimi texted her "Hey Lia, did you reach home? Sorry I couldn't come along. I guess you are asleep, meet you tomorrow. Goodnight dear!", Lia reads Rimi's message and grabs her head.

"What should I do, Rimi must be thinking I was ignoring her," says, Lia, looking at Dandelion.

"You think too much Lia, just tell her what happened!" Dandelion replies while switching the channel from remote.

Lia calls Rimi and tells her what happened, Rimi shouts over the phone saying "This girl! I can't believe she decided to hide instead of telling us. Lia tomorrow we will talk to her and make her spill everything".

Lia could feel Rimi's frustrated tone, she could feel Rimi was very disappointed because Kiya didn't tell her anything. After saying good night and hanging up the phone Lia looks at Dandelion's weird smirk.

Lia says "What?" and Dandelion replies "you forget to tell her about you and Derek part". Lia blushes and runs towards her room.

to be continued...

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