By the Goddess Pond

The party I've been waiting for so long is finally here, the only problem I'm to star stuck to enjoy it. All I'm thinking about is a mysterious angel in the night with eyes like an aqua ocean.

"Jill... Jill...JILL!" Muffy yells in my ear.

"Ahhh oh, sorry Muffy I guess I'm just tired is all. I lamely reply even though I couldn't fall asleep for a million dollars if I wanted to.

She snorts in irritation, "Just tired? Well you were like a total space cadet for a second. Any way Jill, I was just wondering if you've heard of the phantom Skye?"

I immediately snap out of my spacey-ness "WHAT? The what? the who?" I ask quickly and a bit more urgently then I meant to.

"The phantom Skye! For goodness sake Jill where have you been for the past month?" She asks looking me dead in the soul with her crystal blue eyes.

"Umm... well..lets see... lying in a hammock drinkin' smoothies? I ask innocently blinking my lashes at her as if this is really what I do. She smirks at me and tosses her bouncy blonde curls as she comes around the counter to my side

"Haha very funny, but seriously, he's this thief that announces his arrival before he comes! Have you ever heard of such a thing!"

"Wow that's pretty brave if you ask me." I say leaning back on the counter.

"You sound like you admire him" Muffy says narrowing her eyes at me.

"What, I didn't say that Muffy. I counter quickly

"He steals people things Jill, their lively hood!" She looks fed up with me at this point.

I sigh, "No I don't admire him, okay? I'm just saying that he has a lot of courage to announce his arrival and that not very many thiefs do that, or well none that I know of anyway, till now."

I didn't know why I was being so defensive over this thief, but in the pit of my stomach I had a feeling I had met this certain charm thief.

"Speaking of arrival" I said coming back to Muffy standing hands on hips in front of me. "I've been here... what? six hours? and I should probably be going. Thank Griffen for

me, I really better be going though. I really appreciate everything everyone's done for me" I said announcing to everyone who was there that I was making my departure. To be honest I hadn't been very invested in the whole thing at all and felt a bit guilty.

"Alright Jill, you're welcome, oh do you want me to ask Griffen to walk you back it's pretty dark out there?" Muffy inquired looking concerned.

"Oh no no no, I mean no thanks, I'm just down the road, Ii'll be fine, thanks though." I said hurriedly

"Ok, bye Jill take care." She murmured looking at me like I was a confused child, her hand on her hip and her head tilted to the side, her thinking pose. I begin to walk home "I'm fine" echoes in my head, but I'm not fine. I feel weak and shaky, like I'm going to be sick. My hands are clammy and my thoughts are whirling around in my head about a thousand miles a second causing a sickening headache. I decide to head to the Goddess pond since I never officially made it there last time Thanks to Skye that is, and think about the man I was in supposedly in love with or if everything was true about him, the man I would have to be secretly in love

with. I couldn't believe how fast my heart had betrayed me. Muffy's words kept echoing in my head " He steals people's things Jill, their livelihood!" I couldn't love somebody like him, I was a good person and it seemed loving him was going to be illegal? Did I even love him? I hardly knew anything about him, how could I? Even though I knew that I had a slight tendency to fall for the bad-boys he was a wanted criminal! But how could he be? He seemed so magical like something out of a fairytale. He was Romeo and I was Juliet. Then a thought crossed my

mind. Perhaps he doesn't even care about me. He could have any girl in the world and he knows it, Maybe he was just flirting! Just-just-just using me for some fun!

"YET HOW CAN I BE IN FRICKEN LOVE WITH HIM!" I was yelling now on the verge of breaking down crying. "WHY WHY WHY SKYE, I COULD HAVE FALLEN FOR ROCK OR MARLIN OR, OR, OR, ... GRAY! BUT NO YOU JUST HAD TO COME AND SCREW IT ALL UP!" I was so confused, I barely knew him. Was I just attracted to his devilish good looks? Yet I just knew deep inside him there was good and that's what my heart had latched onto. I decided to try and just forget about him. I headed home even though I knew I couldn't forget him I would never forget. Little did I know that there was a pair of aqua eyes hidden by bushes and trees barely 12ft from me watching and listening to me ranting, raving, sobbing, pacing frantically by the Goddess Pond.

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