LIONHEARTED LEOPARD: GIRL OF DREAMS
DISCLAIMED
-GALEN POV-
THE girl in the dream was beautiful. The girl in the dream was fierce. The girl in the dream was gentle. The girl in the dream was angry. The girl in the dream was endlessly hurt. The girl in the dream was wonderful. The girl in the dream was scared. The girl in the dream was vibrant. The girl in the dream was full of life. The girl in the dream had seen death.
The girl in the dream was perfect.
The girl in the dream was real, but she wasn't who I had to marry. I had to marry the witch-child, and the dream-girl had no place in that.
"What are you staring at, Galen?" my mother asked as she coolly brushed into the room.
"Nothing." I replied, still staring blindly at the white marble floor covered by a red carpet.
"Good, Dear, you're going to a human…mall today to meet you fiancé. Get ready." My mother called out as she walked back out of the room.
I sighed, this was so stupid, I didn't want to get married. Or be bonded to any one, especially someone I had never met.
But maybe the dream-girl, if I could ever find her. I had known her since forever, since she was left in a parking lot with a hurtful note tucked into the ragged blanket for a young girl to read and reread until ink faded with her tears at being abandoned at no fault of her own.
My father paused and at the door, "She's not real, you know." He stated.
"She is real, and I will find her." I said with false confidence.
He sighed and walked back into the room. "Even if you do find her, it doesn't matter, you will have to marry the witch-child. Even if you're in love with someone else." His eyes were soft. "It's for the best, Son."
"If I'm unhappy, how will it be the best?" I asked, feeling like a child again, anxious for my father's advice for some petty problem.
"Because it'll stop a war that's brewing, and it will save hundreds of lives." He said quietly, sitting down next to me.
"But what if I find her before that?" I asked, still feeling younger then I was.
"Then you will have to choose between what's right and what makes you happy." My father said.
"If something is right, shouldn't it make me happy, instead of unhappy?" I asked, "and if I choose happiness over what's right, everyone will hate me, so either way I'll be unhappy."
"Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your happiness and wellbeing for a greater cause." My father said and he patted my shoulder. "I hope you figure it out, Son." He left me to my thoughts with a quiet smile.
I stood up, intent on facing, and that's when in hit, I felt a wrenching pain, deep in my heart, like something was pulling me in one direction that I was helpless to fight.
And it was tide to her, the girl in my dreams.
I smiled grimly and grabbed car keys to one of our many cars.
And I drove as fast as I could to the dream-girl.
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