this world wasn’t the same.
it wasn’t the same world.
not any longer.
bonnie lived on. bonnie was still alive, in her human world, her sentient world. apple was still stuck in the minecraft simulation; the only simulation of life she’d known ever since this account was created. she had no escape. she was stuck in this simulation of life until death came & embraced her, just as it had done to all the rest, yet…
she refused to go.
she refused to die.
not without keeping her promise.
she’d promised, way back when, to cherish—that she would find cherish if death came for them. cherish proposed that first. it was a jointed promise, sealed through shared messages through signs & sakura flowers planted into the earth & woven through hair.
the meadow.
the meadow was lain before apple; beautiful, long & lush. surrounded by a ring of mountains with raggedy peaks & sharp edges. a ring of danger protecting something much more fragile, much more…
apple made her way down.
she jumped down every peak, not taking damage at all as she fell down lengths that surely would’ve killed her if she wasn’t invulnerable. she was making her way down to the meadow, down to the shorefront of the lake that wove through the flower fields.
this was where she’d first seen it. the entity… it was hiding behind a tree, seemingly afraid of her. she invited it to talk, & hence it began to come after her.
she accepted it now.
she knew the entity was cherishdawn herself. cherish had promised, body & soul, to come back for apple if she died, to find her in some way or another. this was cherish’s way of doing so; coming back as a shattered entity to retrieve the only person she had loved during her time alive.
apple sat by the riverbank. she didn’t speak. her mouth was broken. she couldn’t. the lights all around her were gone. pitch darkness. not even moonlight shone down on her any longer. the entity preferred the darkness. apple knew that as well by now.
she sat there. silent, as she awaited cherish.
she was supposed to be dead. just like the rest of the members of her minecraft world. however, she’d persevered, someway or somehow, & cherish had came back to take her into the afterlife with her, hand-in-hand.
she plucked a sakura flower from near her foot, twirling it between her forefinger & thumb.
sakuras… they’d always reminded her of her sweet, sweet cherish.
she loved her. &, if death was the only way she could spend eternity with her? then so be it. she’d take it with open arms.