chapter 4

Letter 2

Dear Lil Sis,

If you are reading this then that means you traveled to Milan and met Alex. It means that you love and trust me so much that you are taking on the final adventure I left you. I wish I could've done this before leaving you but shit happens.

I wanted this to be my final adventure for you because it was something that always made you smile and laught when you was younger. I used to send you to look for something so random and you used to come back smiling rambling about what you learned while looking for it. you had the whole story of an item that, honestly, was random.

Back then I did not choose the items and how to find them for any meaning behind them. I chose them because a little girl like you did not need to be in the house to see what was going on. I know you had witness the financial difficulties with them but there was so much that I couldn't let you witness.

Sky by now you explored Alex's home and she probably already told you some of my paintings. Every painting has a story behind them, you just have to look at them and you should have some clue about it.

One of the paintings does not match the same theme of the others. Look for that painting and analyze it. You know me the best and although part is subjective to the person, I know you will figure out the meaning by that painting.

There is a story behind it and if you feel like you are ready to hear it, Alex will give you the other letter.

Love always and forever,

Stormie Mae

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Skylar's POV

Of course she couldn't just outright tell me in the first letter. Of course I have to analyze everyone of her paintings in this house. Of course they are all flowers shaped into people doing some sort of actions.

Alex had said that she had about 15 paintings hung up all around the house. I somehow need to spot the different one and figure out what these flower figures are doing that she saw when she painted them.

"Alex is it okay for me to move all her paintings into one area?" I asked her the next morning

"Yeah it's okay, but when you finish with them can you please remember where each one went when you are done? It would feel weird if they went into different locations since they were there for so long," she told me.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure they are all back in place. I even take a photo of them and place it there while doing this."

"Thank you that would mean a lot."

I get started by taking a Polaroid of all the paintings and placing them in the empty spots. I bring all of them to the guests room and line them up.

They all are floral shaped into people. They are all very colorful flowers and different types of flowers in each one. I have absolutely no idea what type of flowers they are but some of them look similar, no correction most of them look like the same flower just different colors.

I grab my phone and try to search up some of these flowers by the looks of them to see exactly how many are similar. Turns out almost all of them have roses, lilies, peonies, tulips and hydrangeas. Only one of them had orchids and dandelions.

One of the figures was tall and then there were two little figures next to them. Stormie had used the dandelions as their blond curly like hair for the little figures and the tall one had no flowers but was painted using moss like design instead.

I decided, after 3 hours, that this was the odd one out due to having no similar flowers as the other ones. I put all the other ones back to their original place and stayed at what felt like forever at the odd one out.

The painting felt weird to me in a way. one of the little figures was taller by maybe a couple of inches then the other one. She used red mini orchids in an almost splatter like around the taller one of the little figures. What does it mean though?