I was sitting on the window ledge of my small cottage by a stream. I sighed as my mother called my name "Rose help me with the cooking before your father gets home" My father is coming home? I hopped of my ledge and skipped all the way to my mother. She rolled her eye's at my grinning face. She knows how much I miss my father. He's finally been granted leave. I grabbed the plates and set them down on the table just as I heard the horses ride up outside. I opened the door and there was my father. He laughed at my grinning face and he jumped off his horse. He pulled me into his arms "I've missed you father" I whispered into his shoulder.
"As have I" he pulled back and smiled "You have grown so much" He moved a hair that had fallen from my messy bun behind my ear. I giggled and followed him inside. He pulled my mum into a hug and pecked her on the lips "I have missed you my love" My father turned to me "Rose dear will you tie up Phil" I nodded and walked back to the horse. It looked up at me from the grass he was grazing on. I tolk his rains and he snorted in my face. I laughed at the horse and stroked his noes. I led it over to the barn we had next door to our house. I took off it's saddle and rains and put them to one side. I closed the two big doors and walked back to the house. I heard murmuring inside and I stopped at the front door "Janine when will she marry?"
"When she falls in love with a man"
"What men live round her? Please tell me if any do" I looked across the crops and the small lane to the cross roads. He was right. There wasn't a single house in sight but I don't want to marry "There are many fit guards at my post. Let me take her there"
"But what id she's taken advantage of from the men. Do you promise that will not happen"
"I promise that will not happen at all... and if it does then I will never forgive myself" I walked in just then.
"what's going on?" I asked them both "Am I going somewhere?"
"Umm yes you are" My father cleared his throat "Let me explain over dinner"
He explain everything to me. I sat there in silence as he explained that he was going to take me to his post where I will meet people. I huffed at the end and finished my drink "May I go now?" My mother nodded and I started up off the stairs.