Chapter one – an uncomfortable meeting
Miraa's P.O.V
It was just as I was walking near Luminas House, on my Late night Walk. Well truth be told that was just my cover. I was really there because I was ever so curios of the burglar, who was expected to strike again tonight in this location. I walked with my horse Dusty, hoping maybe I could catch him myself, there was in fact a huge reward. He was described as an attractive young man, about sixteen of age, (which would be just one year older than me) Straight medium length silver, well groomed, shiny, smooth hair, but hey, this was an eyewitness, they could be covering up their own crime. As I tied my horse up to the lantern, in a rather loose knot, so if I must encounter him tonight, I can untie Dusty quickly and begin the chase. I circled the house one time, down The middle of the second time around I heard a noise. I chose to ignore it, it didn't sound like much anyways. I walked on for two more circles. Just when I thought of giving in and going home, I heard the words "Thief! Stop!' being screamed out by Romana from directly above of me.
I suddenly felt queasy, the thought of catching a criminal was exhilarating at first, but now, as the opportunity was coming up, I felt like bailing. It was like the first few seconds before the rollercoaster you arte on starts moving, and as it does, there is no escaping. There was definitely no escaping now, I couldn't even run before the window above me shattered. Pieces of glass came thrashing onto my head. The pain was so bad. Suddenly a dark figure appeared in front of me. He didn't seem to notice me until he ran a few feet away and looked back, he stopped in his tracks for a bit, looking at my wounds, My platinum blond hair, now turning red. He looked exactly like the eyewitness stated, except more gorgeous. I then heard his hot deep voice, not losing his cool say "Sorry for harming your beauty, I'd give you a full apology, but it seems I am being prosecuted after." and then he ran at the sound of Sebastian approaching. I placed my hand on my cuts to stop any further bleeding,. I ran after him, around the corner of the house and to the front, where he untied the knot and took my horse. Perhaps I should have tied that more skillfully… I ran after him down the stairs, where I tripped halfway down, tumbling, and hearing a crack along the way. I was now at the bottom of the stairs, I lifted my head, to see an impossibly bent arm. I couldn't have it broken now, its summer! I have work to do, this can NOT be happening. He stopped my, and turned it around. I screamed at the sight of my demented arm, with a bit of bone sticking out of the bent/ twisted part. "shhh…" were the things that escaped his perfectly shaped lips as he got off dusty and approached me. "It will be alright Miraa."
"How do you know my name?" I asked in a pained voice, This was a hundred times worse than the glass on the noggin.
"I've heard of you." He said plainly before picking me up. My arm twisted even more, there was no ground keeping it from doing that anymore. I garbed it back to normal and shut my eyes to keep me from crying, then I opened them because he was impossible not to look at. I tried not to cry and it worked. He seated me behind him on Dusty and stopped at the doctor's house. "Wait here beautiful" he instructed. I let myself cry when he was gone, it felt like my arm was on fire, I must have at least broken two bones. I quickly whipped away the tears as he approached me with cast like bandage in his hand. A mob was head about two minutes away. He quickly ran and jumped onto Dusty and we rode down to my barn. "Hold on just a little longer" he instructed me to do soothingly as he carried me up to the barn.
"So are you going to kill me?" I asked him calmly, getting right to the point.
"No, I want to help you!" he retorted "besides, you are to beautiful to kill. Hehe." He said flirtatiously as he seated me on a stack of hay.
"I have blood in my hair and a screwed up arm! How the heck is that beautiful!?" I exclaimed "besides you brought those things upon me in the first place!"
"It's kind of something only you could pull off. I am truly sorry about all the bad things I put you through tonight." He said as he was bandaging my arm up. Although my cool is being lost more, and more as the seconds pass, his was still intact. As he was bandaging up my arm tighter to straighten it out. Another crack was heard, mainly because straightened the broken bones right back into their place. A few tears rolled down my cheeks, but I wasn't the one who whipped them off, It was him, the burglar. He stroked my now dry cheek. He was now done bandaging my arm. I looked into his blue/grey eyes as they stared into my hazel ones.
"It's alright, I guess you didn't mean to, I guess I'll try to get the farming done with a bad arm" I said, no stuttered, as I looked down, trying to break the moment, or what may have been described my an onlooker as a staring contest. He wet his hand in the drinking space near us, and washed most of the dry blood out. Just when he lifted my chin the moment just HAD to be interrupted by the townsfolk mob we heard coming up. There was another of what I call a staring contest. I think I lost like so many times.
"Skye" he said simply in a whisperish tone.
"What?" I asked him confused. "What about it?"
"No silly! That's my name. Hehe" he said "I know yours, and now you know mine."
"How did you know my name in the first place?" I asked remembering when he just told me he had heard of me.
"Uh I dated your friend." he said "Nami"
"datED?" I asked
"Uh yeah, she got pissed off my schedule, I only come here in the night. The night is so nice and quiet." He said plainly.
"No wonder your so pale." I said looking at his skin. We laughed for a second, until we noticed that the mob was dangerously close.
"Crap!" he exclaimed "What do I do?" he asked me with an unsure/worried look on his face. I hesitated to help. I guess he didn't deliberately hurt me.
"Hide in the hay" I suggested.
"OK!" he said and jumped in as I helped burry him. As I finished I started feeding my cows. That's when the mob broke the door down. Luckily they didn't see my arm as I was facing the cows and my arm would only be seen from the back window.
"Your paying for that you know." I said tilting my head to face them. They had a clueless look on their faces.
"Where is the Burglar!" exclaimed rock.
"Yeah, where is Skye!" yelled Nami.
"Interesting… So the burglars name is Skye…" I said calmly as she realized her mistake "care to tell us how you know that Nami?" Before I could here the awaited answer Muffy broke out.
"LETS SEARCH THIS PLACE!" Muffy yelled and ran around the whole barn, looking in crates and whatnot. I couldn't even think before Ruby saw my bandaged up arm.
"You know Miraa, Bandages like that where stolen from the docs house" he said.
"I Bet she is the thief!" yelled Muffy. I didn't know what to say. I decided to tell them the truth, but altar it a bit.
"NO! I wanted to catch the thief, with this drought and what not, I am not making much money, I NEEDED that reward!" I exclaimed. "It all started when I was walking around Romanas place, trying to catch him, when glass came crashing down on me, that's when I saw him jump out of the window, he apologized and kept running. He then got on MY horse and rode away, I chased him down the stairs but I stumbled and tumbled down halfway. That's how I broke my arm! So I grabbed it and ran after him for a few more minutes, like seriously he stole my horse! After about three minutes I found it was useless. So I walked home in pain, grabbed the bandage my father left at the farm in the first aid kit, and started wrapping my arm. I then heard a whinny outside of the barn. I walked out and saw Dusty, but no guy."
"But that doesn't seem like Skye. Skye is a gentleman." said Nami in a confused tone to herself "What did he look like?"
"Ah, he had dark red hair, dark eyes, and tan skin, he also had ugly clothes." I said giving a fake witness; I didn't want Skye to get caught because he was rather nice, for a thief at least.
"I knew it wasn't Skye!" yelled Nami.
"Skye, Skye, Skye." I said in a sigh looking at her. She just shut up.
"Well we better get back to sleep, I'll fix your door tomorrow" said Gotz and they left.
"It's safe." I said walking up to the hay I hid him in. his gray head emerged out of the golden hay and contrasted perfectly as he lifted himself up.
"Thanks for not saying anything to them, and hiding me." he said thankfully. "We will meet again, it's in the stars" he kissed my cheek and then added "Now the sun will be up soon and I must take my leave."
"Yeah because it will just KILL you to get some sun." I said. I used to be pale like him as well, but farming in the day has really given me a nice skin tone.
"hehe" he chuckled before leaving.
We thought we were alone, but as it turned out Nami walked out from behind the tree, into my barn. "Well I never knew you had it in you Miraa."
"Had what?" I asked pretending not to know.
"Lying to the whole town." She said plainly.
"I don't know what your talking about" I replied. If I looked calm on the exterior, It would have been a miracle, because I was spazzing and hyperventilating inside.
"I saw everything, I watched you from behind a tree when you were at Romanas. I watched you run after him, I saw him stop to look help you, uncovering your first lie. I saw him take you up on Dusty and take you away, I then followed you from behind trees. When the mob saw me outside of your barn looking into the window of your barn, they asked me what I was doing, I said I heard some suspicious noises. What happened after that is probably clear to you." She said staring at me. I was speechless and in complete shock.
"Why were you watching me in the first place?" were the only words I could utter.
"Well you were walking with your horse at night, that is never normal. I kind of knew what you were up to as you came up to Luminas house." She said and paused "I didn't want Skye to hurt anybody, and for some reason I was also worried about Skye getting caught. I still care about him you know…" said Nami in an embarrassed tone.
"So you still like him?" I asked her.
"No, I don't, I just don't want somebody I used to like get smothered by the town."
"Ah I see. So um… what's Skye like??" I asked having a strange drive to know.
"Oh my." She said smiling "You can't be serious! You just met him and you like him! Your JUST like Popuri!"
"I am NOT!! Wait, Popuri knows about him to?" I asked in disbelief.
"yeah shes the only other girl that I know of, he used the chick beam oh her, ha-ha" she said happily.
"I don't know what that" I told her cluelessly.
"Oh you will know when he uses it on you!" she said and walked away.
Ok should I end it right here, because I don't want to go on if it is pointless… and if you want me to go on than just comment, I will write the next chapter when I get ONE review. It isn't like I'm doing a "you HAVE to or else I won't write on". I just want to know It's is being read.
Thank you for reading :D