Hello people! Now I wrote this since i've read loads of stories where Maria is going away, but never one where Robin is. I'm sure there is one out there but I cannot find it. Now this is more based on the movie than the book, but I think you will enjoy it either way. I don't think it's very good personally and the characters are OCC, however if you like it please tell me, if you don't still tell me, and please offer some ways i can improve. But first and for most, enjoy reading.

Disclaimer: Although I do not own anything associated with the Little Horse book or secrets of moonacre movie, the plot in this fanfiction does belong to me, even if it is slightly clichéd. Thanks

Chapter one

Maria's P.O.V

He is going away. I know it isn't for long- only a week- but I know that it will feel like an eternity. Gosh… now I sound like a cliché. But, truthfully he was leaving the valley. My home...our home.

Robin. My best friend. The man I love was going to London. My homeland. For a week he is leaving my side. I can understand why he must go. After all, his father ordered him to receive something: something important. However, I do not understand why I cannot go with him. I asked Robin's father, Loveday, my uncle Benjamin, even Robin himself, but none would give me an answer. Why am I surprised? I am nothing special.

A moon princess, yes, but nothing more. People only think of me as important when the moon pearls are mentioned. All I am is a dumb, little girl. Not someone anyone should worry about. I bet the De Noir teen agrees with this. How could he not when there are so many beautiful women in his families castle. What use am I when he has them. I maybe his best friend but I am nothing more.

Loveday says not to give up, nonetheless how could I not when all I can do is watch him pass from woman to woman. I bet in London he will meet another girl to flirt with, maybe he will stay with her… forever. Oh, how my heart will weep if this occurs.

I sign as I close the piano lid. I had not played it at all, just walked into the grand room and settled on the bench before it and stared. The black and white keys contrast against each other. The personification of my emotions. The black, dark emotions of the hopelessness I feel and the bright, white happiness he provokes with only his presence. Something that will be gone for an entire week. A humourless laugh escapes me. He doesn't even realise.

Never knowing that I love him, he plays with my heart. You see, that's Robin all over: never seeing what is in front of him. Unobservant would be a good word to describe him, yet it cannot be used. That's the funny thing about Robin- he can see something, that others overlook, so clearly and then not notice the aspects of his life which are obvious. Well, obvious to everyone else. A characteristic with is completely opposite to his sister.

Loveday knew before I that I loved her little brother. She never told me she knew, but her sideways glances brimming with hidden meanings and apparent schemes involving the bird boy and I, told me she knew. Now she has gotten my uncle Benjamin involved. At least, he is more subtle and only drops hints about our relation. Then again, maybe, Robin will finally get the hint and release that my feelings are far more deep than he believes. We can hope.

Robin's P.O.V

How could he? He knew I wished to spend the week with Maria… but, no, instead I'm to go to London to listen to balding senile men and to fetch a stupid object from an old, crazed man. The nature of that object is not know even to me and I'm his son. It's bad enough he wouldn't reveal his plans to me but now I don't even get to take my Maria on that picnic I promised her.

Who am I kidding? She probably doesn't even want to go with me anyway. I mean, lets be serious: I'm a De Noir, obsessed with the forest, not that bright and, oh yeah, I kidnapped her, put her in a dungeon, chased her through the previously mentioned forest and then became her best friend. At least, I'm handsome. That's always a plus.

I mean, if the young moon princess doesn't want me other women do, like that girl… erm Ella… Edna… Elizabeth. That's it. I think. But, the truth is she the only one I want, need. Maria, I mean, not Elizabeth.

Can you blame me? She is beautiful, gorgeous, irresistible. Her hazel eyes capture my thoughts every time I gaze into them, the only thing that can wrestle my attention away from them is her lips. So pink, so full, giving the impression of softness, something that I desire to see if true. But, alas, it is not to be. She does not see me that way, the way I want her to see me: lovingly.

Loveday knows. I can tell. I don't know how, I never told her, but this is my sister. She sees things that not even I can. I think she's trying to hint to Princess about my feelings.

I kind of hope that she won't tell her whilst I'm gone. Gone for a week. To a place she spent much of her life, a place I first visited during her fathers funeral. The first time I saw her. Even then she took my breathe away, even when she was in mourning and dressed in black. The contrast between her pale, moonlight skin and her dark, night-sky black dress offered a breathe-taking image: well it took my breathe away.

When I asked my father if I could take her with me, his only reply was, "she is not needed". Not needed, of course she was needed. I needed her. She is my everything… well nothing is important without her. She has already saved the valley, saved the two families from continuing their feud, saved me from giving up. Giving up on my life, my family, even on the valley. But, when she's with me, whenever she is near, I feel there is reason for my life. My purpose being to protect her, make her happy and just supporting her. My father won't except this. My life no longer belongs to the De Noir clan, but to the petite, young Merryweather, along with my heart.

I frown as I put a final shirt in the bag I was packing before I closed it. Tomorrow was when I left. My last day was today. Thank God it was only morning, I still had the rest of the day with her. And that's how I planned to spend it; with her. That was my resolve, and plan. I'm smiling now, looking at the door…and now I'm running through the castle. On my way. To see her. To talk to her. To laugh with her.

To say goodbye, for only a week, but what seems like an eternity for me.

Maria's P.O.V

"Maria, will you be spending the day with my brother?" Loveday, as always when discussing Robin and I, eagerly addressed me. "I'm not sure. It really depends on him." I smile to myself- a smile filled with hope.

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