Remember: Lost love

her head swarming with thoughts of d

ruly didn't have anyone in the whole wide world; fri

hing was wr

er the table. She bent and picked it up slowly, e

she see i

d to pulse with an otherworldly glow. For some reason, Thalia's heartbeat sped up in excitement. She traced the inscriptions

Thalia felt like she'd found a hidden treasure or something of the sort. The thought made her ch

ile, both drawn, entranced, a

age. She had to squint to read wh

rness of possibilities, and the present the delicate thread that weaves them together. Travel wisely,

She flipped to the second page

urs. Every adventure you seek in the new world won't b

new world? Like she would lose her memories? Thalia doubted it. She flipped through the book, inspecting it

n in her bag and recited the popular saying un

opened the first blank pag

would sh

ke to travel to. The only country Thalia had ever learned about or been obsessed with was the tropical island nation, Ri

yway, because it wa

ould

ding a hardcover historical romance recent

r a handy person because of it. Even as a child, she carried around things like scissors, tiss

large tote bag for so long. She opened the first p

7

nd wrote the year down on

ng ha

e her big tote bag. Although it was false, the book was neverth

tingle at the back of her ears, which made her pause in

o leave and waved at the table where the little girl was still sitting with her family. The little girl waved back. And as Thalia always does, she pulled

ed to not like it because it wasn't socially acceptable to not avoid rain or to go around looking like a drenched rat. Her favourite memory with her

en away from h

er tear up as well. She hadn't walked far from the restaurant before she f

f her. It looked like a portal of some sort, but she couldn't see what was on the

ear them. As the portal swirled open in front of her, Thalia hesitated. She had always dreamt of time travel, but now that the moment wa

even w