A/N…And introducing, Mr David Rossi!
See chapter one for disclaimer
I didn't know that I could call people by their names until I met him. Sometimes, I wish that I had listened for my Lady's name, so that I could think about it when I remember her. I always thought that people called other people whatever they wanted. It felt wrong to listen when I thought that. I learnt about names when the Old Lady, the one who introduced me to the Lady on that first magical day, gave me to him. To my David.
It had been a hard time, the days after the Clown came. When my David was the man in the suit, I watched him in the red room, with lots of other men in blue. He seemed sad, but I was sad too. I'd lost my Lady and the Little People made me feel funny, with their screaming. The poor Little People. The Old Lady came and took them away and then soon – after two cold and lonely nights – she came again and took me too. For a while, I rested on her wrist. It felt different. She was warm but she was also shaky. Always shaky. I think it happens when they get old.
One day, she took me and the Little People to a beautiful place with lots of trees and silvery stones all over the place. The trees waved to me but I ignored them. I didn't care. I didn't care about anything. There were lots of people there and all of them were sad. It was a strange; they were sad about two wooden boxes that they were putting in big holes. Sometimes, people confuse me. For a while, a man talked and everyone listened. I saw some of the men who had been in the bedroom, the ones wearing blue, and I saw the man in the suit. I didn't know his name then. He was standing at the back and watching the Little People. Soon, all of the people left. The man in the suit came to talk to the Old Lady. They talked for a long time, and she cried, and then I felt her shaky fingers on me, handing me over! She was giving me to a stranger. I wanted to cling onto her, to promise that I would do better to make her happy if I could only stay with her. I'd already lost my Lady and now she wanted me to leave. It wasn't my fault! I couldn't stop the Clown! He was too big, too fast! It wasn't my fault. Please don't make me go. I'm sorry.
I was scared. So scared. She put me in his hand and I sat there, unable to argue. He was nodding as she talked and then I heard her say a word I had never heard before.
David.
I liked the sound that the word made when she said it. It sounded nice. I wondered what it meant. My Lady was clever and knew lots of words but she had never said it before. David. David. David. I thought hard about the word, so that I wouldn't be so scared that she was making me leave. I needed to be brave. She said the word again and he nodded. I started to get a funny feeling that it was one of those things that people called each other, even though I didn't know it. I didn't like those words. They belonged to people. But then a man in blue, who was stood by a tree, said something and he said the nice word too. David. Two people calling the man David? Maybe they had decided to share the word! And it was so nice that I thought some more about it. David. David. I already had a Man, even though the Clown had made him not wake up. I had to call the man in the suit something. I could call him David, secretly. No one would ever know that I had taken it. David. I liked that word.
I was so busy thinking that I didn't notice what was happening until it was too late. David closed up his hand and the light went away. She was really making me go away! She must have been so sad at me, for not stopping the Clown, that I had to go away. I wanted to say I was sorry again, to make her see that I just wanted to be with her and be warm on her wrist, but I couldn't. His hand moved and I was dropped into a place that was soft and warm. I didn't know that places could be warm without being close to a person. I realised that I hadn't got to even look at the Old Lady or the Little People for one last time.
I never got to say goodbye.
To be continued…
