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Jax has been searching for Pomni for three weeks now. Every YouTube channel that goes to abandoned places has some kind of special interest to it. Some paranormal, some just wanting to see old buildings. He can't seem to find hers though. He's yearning to see what she looks like in the real world.
Is she as short as she is in the circus? Does she have the short hair? The sad look in her eyes that screams for her to get out of her boring job?
He had told some of his friends about his journey. Telling them that he used to watch this YouTuber who did all that but he can't remember at all. He's lying through his teeth but they don't need to know about that.
One day while he was scrolling on instagram as he checked on family members that he hadn't talked to in a bit, he got a notification.
|Dude! I think I found the girl
|you were talking about!
Jax sighs while he really hopes it's her, he's losing hope. He opens the link and sees a channel that's small but seems to have grown a following. Then he read the username.
Finding Pomni
He sits up fast in his bed as he stares at his phone, seeing the profile picture being a girl who looks like the jester he messed with with big blue eyes and her hair cut in the same bob like in the circus.
“I found you…” He mumbles while he feels his heart beating faster as he checks her videos and sees that she seems to have a break in time where she didn't post for a year or two. He clicks the video of the one before the skip and sees it's probably just a quickly edited together and poorly done but you can see Pomni looking tired as she mumbles about it being an old mill in her town.
Her hair is long and kinda a mess if he had to be honest. He doesn't think it suits her. He checks out the next video, the one when she must've come back, less than three weeks ago.
“Hey Jax! Guess where I am!” Is the first thing he heard, making his heart flutter as she was smiling at the camera, hair cut and her eyes sparkling as she seemed so excited. She then starts to talk about the building she's at, wearing a silly jester looking shirt.
“She's so stupid…” He mumbles while he watches the whole video, seeing her walk around and talking to the camera like it's him. Feeling like he's on the adventure with her.
Climbing up into a loft of a building as her camera showing her standing there, her smiling brightly as she waves. The video cuts to her outside with her under a tree, starting to sing Daisy Bell.
He nearly tears up as she sings softly. He checks every video after that and all of them start and end the same. Her saying hi to him while asking him to guess where she is, then telling him and her singing the same song. Every single one.
It seems she's slowly making her way down south as she works her way from Maryland to Georgia. He thinks about it and he huffs in frustration. “Why do I have to live on the west coast…?” He grumbled while he lived in southern California.
He gets up from his bed as he starts the newest video. He grabs some shirts to see which one is clean as he listens to her.
“Hey Jax! Guess where I am!” She starts while the sound of wind blows in the background. “I'm in Georgia with someone very special!” She squeals and he feels his heat squeeze as he wishes he could hear that again. He throws on a shirt and goes to replay that part but freezes as he sees big red curls.
“Hi, it's Ragatha.” She waves while she says with a thick southern accent. She stands in a nice black dress while she has her hair pinned back on the side while she wears the biggest smile. “I found her first!” She squeals while she hugged Pomni close to her.
Pomni giggles as she smiles. “Shes been helping me get down here. Still looking for you though.” She says as her eyes sparkle in the sun while his heart flutters. He remembers the promise he made with her before they got out.
He rolls his bottom lip between his teeth as he thinks. He gets an idea and he rushes out of the house to the drugstore. On the way there, he had the video playing as he heard them going through some random building. But at the end, they were sitting in the middle of the room, talking about the others.
“Have you found Zoople or Gangle?” Ragatha asks while Jax walks into the store with headphones on.
“Yeah! They're both in New York actually! They met up and sent me some pictures.” She pulls out her phone and Rags smiles brightly. “Oh that's so nice. Still haven't found Kinger.”
“I mean he could just want to be alone.” Pomni says as Jax grabs a box of hair dye. He walks to the counter as he listens to them talk about random things about their lives.
“Purple…? Really?” The cashier asks as she gives him an inquisitive look while she rings him up. He shrugs as he gives her the cash.
“Just like purple.” He simply puts his receipt into his pocket before he leaves. As he walks out into the sunshine, feeling the wind blow on him sending a chill down his spine as he sees people walking like they haven't been through hell.
He sighs as he starts to hear Daisy Bell again from the girls, feeling lighter than before.
He never thought that dying his hair would be the hardest thing he's done before. He had to mess with his curls and only tried to do the blond highlights but it kinda went everywhere.
He looks in the mirror as he laughs softly at the purple dye still on his ear and neck while he lets his curls air dry after the shower. His brown eyes look darker than before with the dye. He smirks softly as he hums. “This should do.”
He goes out of his room and grabs his guitar before he heads outside with his phone. He smiles brightly as he heads down the street to a park to set up.
He sets up between two trees, having his phone record him as he leans on the tree. He had looked up the cords for Daisy Bell before he got there and he was trying to practice.
He starts up as he sings the song softly, hoping that no one comes up and tells him to stop. He looks at the camera while he feels his heart flutter a bit. He finishes before he smirks at the lens and tilts his head.
“Found you, Pomni.”