Go home:
After a long treacherous walk, I finally made it home. Outside of my house, Zach was standing there. He seemed to be waiting for me and waved for me to come over.
“Hey, Matt! I knew I would find you here… I just needed to talk to you about the pla-” Suddenly the door opened as a very sad looking Violet walked out. Zach quickly stopped slouching and put his hands together “Uh… hello Ma’am. It’s nice to meet you…” She just stared at him in silence and then turned to me, immediately taking a one eighty and hugging me instantly.
“Matt! Matt Matt Matt Matt! You’re back! You’re back!” She says almost choking me to death. I can barely breathe… “I love you I love you I love you!!!!” She said nuzzling at my neck until she remembered Zach was right there. She quickly went back to her more elegant tone of speaking and cleared her throat. “Oh hello. Are you a friend of his?” She asked gently as Zach tried to make sense of what he just witnessed. Hey I don’t blame him either.
“Uh… yeah I guess I am… I was just here to talk about things with him.”
“Well he’s occupied right now!” She replies, clinging to me tighter. “But you can still come inside if you like!” Zach looks at me for help. Unfortunately I can’t really speak right now due to being suffocated, but I just nod to signal that he can come in.
“Uh… alright then thank you very much Miss Kingsman.” He says walking in with us. Once I stepped in, an alarm blares, which scares the living crap out of both me and Zach. And then, running down the stairs, were my two bundles of joy.
Rose: Dad! Dad! You came back!
Petals: Welcome back, Father! I’ve been waiting for you!
They say as they both hug me. Fortunately they’re not as strong as Vi, so I’m fine with this. I shake my arm so I can break loose from my wife's grasp and give the two a hug. They then rush into the kitchen to do their homework like the good kids they are.
“Hey uh… I’ll go help them out, if that's okay?” Zach says, trying to leave me alone with Violet.

“Thats fine by me! I’ll be with Matt in our room!” She says dragging me upstairs against my own will. I tried to reach for Zach to help, but he gave me a look that said ‘you’re on your own’. Later I was in our room when Violet smiled at me and stood in front of me. “Alright! Now I can do what I wanted to do with you before!” She says before falling onto her knees and holding her hands up like she’s begging. “I’M SORRY I’M SORRY FOR EVERYTHING PLEASE DON’T DIVORCE ME PLEASE!” She sounds like she’s about to cry… Was she building up all these emotions when I was gone?
“Hey hey calm down. I’m not leaving you. It’s okay.” I say in a comforting tone. Violet looks up slowly and continues speaking.
“No… it’s not okay… I’ve said things… I’ve hurt you…” She says sitting next to me. “Sometimes… when I’m alone… I feel like I’m in pain…” Violet puts a hand on her chest “It’s like my heart aches whenever I’m not with those who comfort me… and it’s not just with you. It’s with Eren, Spark, Mercury, the kids…” She says rubbing her wrist. “I… I don’t want to be alone… I don’t want to feel isolated… being forced to wander by myself with nowhere to go…” I watched her and tried to think of something to comfort her with… But she seemed to notice my thought process and continued “Don’t worry. You just being here is enough for me.” She says hugging me softly. I hug her back and pat her head. Later I head back downstairs to see Zach goofing off with the kids.
“Oh! Oh! Tell us another one! This time about math!” They asked him as he smiles and speaks in a loud exaggerated voice.
“Ah! Math you say… math! You know they tried to teach a sheepdog math one time! They asked him what's 5+4 and the dog barked 10 times! They then asked, what's 9 times two, and the dog barked 20 times! I guess old habits die hard for the poor sheepdog…” He holds out his hands with a shrug. “He couldn’t stop rounding up!” The two kids burst into laughter as Zach notices me and gets up. “Thank you, thank you!” He says bowing to them. “I’ve been Zach Wilson and that has been Zach’s Fabulous lectures!” Rose and Petals applaud him as he leaves the house, but before he leaves he stops and turns to me. “Oh uh… Hey Matt? This is kind of important…” he says thinking about something. “Do you think I should have kept the pause on the punchline or just went with the flow?” I just chuckled and patted him on the back.
“I’ll think about it and tell you tomorrow” I say, closing the door.

“Bye mister Zach!” The kids yell as he waves through the window and leaves. I probably just missed one hell of a study session. I haven’t seen the kids this happy studying since… Never. I head to bed and get ready for tomorrow… As I sleep, I can hear a bird chirping…
“The answer… the answer…”

To be continued

This was one hell of a journey. A deep Journey, a very deep and peak journey