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Suletta lays in her bed.
“ Sayonara my mercurian country bumpkin.”
The words race through her mind, her heart aches. They were supposed to be getting rings, buying dresses, practicing their dance, picking flowers, but now that was all gone.
Aerial was gone.
Mom wasn’t responding to her messages.
Move forward gain two. The phrase that had been etched into Suletta’s mind her whole life, was it a lie?
Suletta fought the duel. She did everything right, and still she has nothing to show for it.
“Stay by my side forever.”
I wanted to, I never wanted to lose you.
She could hear the snores of the other girls in the earth house dorm. It was late, but Suletta could not sleep.
I did everything you asked of me, why would you betray me? Why would you force me to lose?
“You smashed a man.”
Was it wrong? In that moment all I could think was how I should protect you. You were, no you are precious to me. I would do anything for you.
Miorine.
Why?
I did it, 3 updates a day, clean your room, more compost for the tomatoes, the Andes model.
“And never lose a duel.”
The sound of Aerial’s blade antennae being sliced off rings through Sulettas ears.
She holds the keychain that her bride cast down upon her, dangling it over her face, staring up at it through her endless tears.
Reaching down into her p.j. shirt she unclips her own keychain that she had kept clipped next to her heart ever since the day Miorine accepted hers.
She holds it up to its match. As she stares up at both of them she notices something off about Miorine’s.
Wiping her tears away on her shirt she reclips her own next to her heart, and fiddles momentarily with Miorine’s.
The head pops off and inside is a small data drive. Pulling it out Sulettas inspects it and realizes it matches the port on her student notebook.
She plugs it in and finds there is a video file inside. Suletta quickly scurries out of bed. Making sure to be as quiet as possible.
“Hey…. Suletta?…. are you okay?” A dazed Chuchu says to her as she creeps towards the door.
“Y-yeah, I just need to go use the bathroom.” Suletta says.
“Just let me know if you need anything.” Chuchu responds.
“I-I-I will.” Suletta replies as she creeps the rest of the way to the door.
Suletta heads down through the Earth house lounge and into the hangar.
“We’ll make a mobile suit, that saves lives”
“Why does aerial have all of those weapons?”
“This is the gundams curse, it gets us all but you.”
What’s so different about me? Why does Aerial have those weapons?
Suletta walks through the hanger, Chuchus demi trainer is in its stall, the Pharact stands there still in place, and the empty stall where Aerial once stood stands looming over Suletta a testament to her failure.
Moving to the empty stall Suletta leans against the wall.
Should I play it? She thinks to herself.
Hesitating for a moment, her thumb hovers above the icon for the video. Untill finally she presses down.
“Hey, I don’t know if you will ever see this. I don’t know if you hate me. I don’t know how long it’s been, but I wanted to leave you with something.” The recording of Miorine sitting at her greenhouse desk starts. Tears begin to roll down her face in a moment of hesitation before she regathers herself.
“I’ve been thinking, a lot. Ever since the incident at Plant Quetta I wasn’t sure what to think. How could something that was turning out so great become something so…..” Miorine hesitates again as tears well up once more.
“After I was grateful for the distance, I watched one of the kindest, gentlest, caring people I knew kill someone. As I said before I am grateful for you saving me and my father, and I am sorry for calling you a……” Miorine pauses once more chocking through her words. Before while the tears from her face.
“A murderer. It was more the aftermath that shocked me. You were acting like everything was normal.” Suletta cuts the video off, tears well up in her eyes. She slides down to the floor and continues to sob for a moment to collect herself.
“While I was gone I became aware of more things, things that scared me. My attempts to confront you were… well probably weak. I still can’t explain to you what happened, what changed, but know that…. That…. That…everything I did was out of love for you.” Miorine starts sobbing uncontrollably. The video cuts and comes back on with Miorine dabbing her eyes.
“I will protect Aerial, I know how important she is to you. It pains me to have to force her away from you, but as long as you had Aerial you would have been embroiled in something terrible.” She pauses again. This time shuffling to grab something from her desk. She holds up Suletta’s gift.
“I need you to hold on to my he-hea-heart ,”She says pausing again fighting back her tears.
“Until the day that I can take it on once more. Please stay away from me. I barely have the strength to do what I’m about to do. When we first met you protected me, please let me protect you. Trust in me. Trust in our….” Miorine starts sobbing again and the video cuts once more.
“Please just trust in our love. Good bye my groom.” The video ends.
Suletta is stunned for a moment. She caresses Miorine’s frozen face on her phone screen.
“Sorry… I um heard everything.” Chuchu says walking out from around the corner. “I just wanted to make sure you were okay.”
Suletta still slumped against the wall looks away from her phone screen toward the pink haired girl that was normally full of rage. Tears streaming down her face.
Chuchu walks over and sits next to Suletta and puts her arm around the fiery haired girl.
“It’s all gonna be okay Suletta. You heard what she said she still loves you.” Chuchu says in the softest tone Sulettas has ever heard come from the pink haired earthian.