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Three Hundred and Thirty-One

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Three Hundred and Thirty-One
by PuppyNoelle

VaniHopu Day Contribution

Description: LR-verse. Vanille awakens from crystal stasis to a promise of affection that can never be.

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Three hundred and thirty-one. That’s the number. Three hundred and thirty-one of them, all colored a passionate crimson red. They were covered in a thick layer of dust from the past one hundred and fifty-six years of remaining unsoiled by human touch. Three hundred and thirty-one notes attached to each green felt stem. All tied together by pieces of thin, white ribbon.

Three hundred and thirty undying, silk roses littered across the marble floor. Three hundred and thirty letters of affection. Three hundred and thirty tales of a life now lost. Three hundred and thirty tears streaming from once cheerful emerald eyes. Three hundred and thirty promises left unfulfilled in a dying world.

Three hundred and thirty down. One to go.

Three hundred and thirty-one letters he had left her. Some of them even contained thousands of words, and yet this one carried only three.

‘I love you.’

Her screams of agony deafened even the dead voices inside her head.

The slip of paper disappeared from between her writhing fingers. Her wails continued as her fingers instead dug deep into her auburn pigtails.

Tan arms wrapped around her shoulders in an attempt at comfort. It didn’t help. All she could do was scream his name. He loved her, and he was gone. And the worst part was that she loved him, too.

Three hundred and thirty-one pieces of a shattered heart.

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~fin

Three Hundred and Thirty-One
by PuppyNoelle

Description: LR-verse. Vanille awakens from crystal stasis to a promise of affection that can never be.

This brief one-shot was my contribution to the VaniHopu Day celebration over on Tumblr.

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