The scream was exhausting - it always was, but this wasn’t just a scream to clear her mind, to clear her thoughts. She was searching with this scream, for the lost, for the past, for the one that she had thought was gone for good. Lydia knew, before she even opened her eyes, that it had worked.
"Allison?“
The name came off her lips like a prayer, and she opened up her eyes to see her, her best friend, her sister, the one person that she had loved unconditionally and had asked for nothing in return. A sob escaped her lips, and she started nodding, not even certain she could voice how she felt in that moment.
She could see her Allison.
Shock ran clear through her veins, her dark eyes glazed over at the prospect of it working. Had it? Will it? But he friends matching expression, the feeling that centered from her. It had worked, she could see her. Joy spread through the girl, a feeling she didn’t know she was allowed to have. Still it was there, just for her best friend.
"Its me Lydia.”
Words almost choked from her mouth, Allison didn’t yet know if tears were possible. But deep down she knew if so, they would be streaming down her cheeks. Some of sadness for where they were, but for happiness that they might be able to have.