The next day morning after having the best sleep of his life, Zayn and Framton drive in the limousine to the other mansion. Framton was set on meeting his children and spend quality time with them.
He’s come to realise how he almost abandoned them. Even if they are all grown up, they would still need his support from time to time as their father. Just his little presence is enough for his lovely kids to make their day lively and joyous.
“I’m home!” Framton’s elderly voice calls. Zayn was hanging onto dear life with the immense amounts of bags that Framton insisted to gifting everyone. He wasn’t assisted by anyone, since Framton ordered them not to.
“Whoa whoa, easy there.” Louis comes to help his younger brother after hugging his father.
“Ha! That’s his punishment for calling me a grandpa yesterday.” Framton says, folding his arms over his chest.
“Hey!~ You’re still sour about that dad!”
“Dad?” Alex enters, hugging his father too.
“Since when did you learn manners and began calling papa ‘dad’?” Asks Alex.
“That’s right. It’s as if he’s a new soul in my Zayn’s body.” Framton’s words gave Zayn a huge fright. It’s the little things in the family that can easily make a difference. They quickly found out the change in personality of Zayn.
“Where’s my daughter?” Framton enquires, Nick sighing as he plops on the couch.
“She’s been behaving so weird pa. She’s cooped up in her room and refuses to come out at all. She behaved like she saw a ghost yesterday, isn’t it?” Dan nods vigorously.
“Oh no… is she having one of those days?” They all know what Framton was talking about.
“No, papa. She’s had it only a week ago.” Framton begins to walk towards Cassandra’s bedroom. He was concerned.
“Something feels wrong.” He mumbles as he follows the corridor to get there. Zayn follows Framton, knowing she was scared to death when she read the mysterious letter. It was already worse for him. He couldn’t imagine how worse it was for her.
“Cassie? Papa’s here baby. What’s wrong?” His gentle fatherly voice made Cassandra gasp. She was lying on the bed, cooped up and her windows all closed so the boys won’t enter from there.
The house reminded a lot of her own, except it was way bigger and fancier.
“Go away!” She screams. She was extremely scared. She waited for the whole day for zayn to arrive. She thought at least he would be reincarnated and alive, just like her.
She was damned for the whole night.
“Cassie?” An almost familiar voice greets her.
“H-heyya, it’s me. Zayn.” Says the young man from outside.
“Zayn!?” She runs to the door at lightspeed. She flings it open, only to look at the two men. Framton stared at her with wide eyes.
“I didn’t see anything!” He yells, Cassandra still refused to wear anything from this house other than what was on her. She looks at the person resembling Zayn very closely and pulls him inside the room. She locks the door at an inhumane speed, Framton was left stunned.
“W-what’s my full name?” Cassandra asks to Zayn.
“You’re Cassandra Sympsons. 24th Avenue New York Downtown.” Cassandra couldn’t believe Zahn remembers her name as well as her address.
“Oh, fuck. I was so scared!” Yells Cassandra to Zayn. They hug each other tightly.
“Shush… I know you were scared. I was too.” He assures her.
“Well… I read the letter and I couldn’t understand a bit of it. Did you?”
“I did and it says it’s a messenger. We are somehow messengers again. We have to prevent them from dying at the times mentioned.”
“Do you remember it? All the timelines?”
“No, but I have the letter with me.” Cassandra pushes her eyebrows together.
“Why did mine say it should be burned in the trashcan then?” Cassandra says to him.
“And you burned it away?” Zayn pulls out the letter and the text was already written on it. Nothing was changed. Why did only one of the letters remained?
“Maybe only one of the letters must exist. Let me write down all the dates before it disappears.” Says Zayn as they begin writing.
However, numerous times they’ve tried but the ink won’t write on the piece of paper. They found it strange and mysterious.
It was either the paper was flying away with the wind, the pen drying up out of the blue and the nib of the pen or pencil breaking off.
“What the actual fuck…” Then he realised.
“I think the messengers are setting us up. They don’t want another copy of the dates to exist.” He comes to a conclusion.
“Okay, but what’s the guarantee that those dates won’t disappear?” Asks Cassandra logically.
“That’s true. Let’s by heart them…” Saying, he opens the letter to by heart the dates.
However, a new text appears below the dates.
“None of the survivors must know their fate. They may or may not die, but if they know their own dates of passing away…
You will die.”
The letter reads. The two look at each other in fright.
“Let’s just keep everything to ourselves then.” And so, they keep the dates in mind. As they did, the new text says “Burn me away.”
“I think it means no evidence must be visible to these people. I can’t believe I’m in the past and interacting with the ones who’ve died in our timeline.” He says as Cassandra fetches the lighter.
Zayn tears it up and adds it to the ashes of the previous letter in the dustbin.
Upon its fire, Zayn turns to Cassandra and touches her face.
“You’re… just like my Cassandra. But with bigger eyes and no spectacles.” Says Zayn.
“Do you prefer her or me?” The question was confusing in itself.
“Don’t know. In both of our reincarnations, we love each other. That’s the truth.” He says as he kisses her.
While kissing his lips, she realizes something.
“Zayn… in my letter…” he pulls away to look at her face.
“What was written?”
“It was written I was proposing the idea of a reverse harem with me to my brothers. The- the old Cassandra did so. What do I do…?”
And on January 16th of 2022, the reverse harem with Cassandra and her brothers began in history.
Even if it was a pleasurable occurrence for Cassandra of the past, they’ve come to realise how wrong it was in a third person’s perspective.
Falling in love with five people at the same time was tedious. All five falling in love with one girl was like a fairytale.
To prevent from heartaches and heart breaks, this reverse harem was hence deemed Forbidden.
The Forbidden Reverse Harem shall not continue.