Chapter two: Strange… and completely messed up in the head.
Recap: "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 is" I told her cluelessly.
"Oh you will know when he uses it on you!" she said and walked away.
One week later:
Miraas POV
People have planned to catch the burglar. They made a whole sequence of plans, making houses seem empty. The sequence of events would start in two days, on Tuesday.
Well the past few days since the occurrence have been like going to what is known as hell. I've been constantly tiring myself out to make just a little more, I am constantly Sick and blue-ish, and always faint with nobody but Murrey to find me, I wake up poorer. It sure is unfortunate, having a bad arm and having toiling and farming as my main source of income. But truth be told, I secretly wanted to see Skye again, even though I told my best friend Nami otherwise… she never even told me about her relationship with him anyways… he did, when I didn't even know his NAME.
Exactly a week later I was walking down the dirt road, for once I wasn't sick, but I felt it coming on. I went easy on myself that day, but I suspect I wasn't easy enough. I was suddenly frightened by a noise of bushes rustling. I started walking faster, toward the beach. Not wanting to seem like a running freak. But then I heard footsteps. I sped my pace up faster, after all, it is better to be a paranoid creep than normal and dead. The footsteps sped up as well. I was too fearful to look back. I didn't need to before somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I gathered all the courage I could have ever had at the moment and looked back at whoever it was. It was Flora. I secretly wanted it to be Skye though, so seeing her face was a bit of disappointment to me. "Mira, you forgot this" she said handing my digging tool, I grabbed it and placed it into my Rucksack.
"Thanks." I said in a tired tone.
"What's the matter?" she asked me "Digging too much? you could come by less often, it would mean more toileries for others… and I would have to carry you back less" She said before walking away, she never liked me. For some reason I watched her walk off probably into her Hut. I turned around and was surprised when I saw the face that mesmerized me days earlier.
"Skye. That's funny, usually people make noise with their feet when they approach me" I said calmly. "Whatsup?"
"I've been looking for you everywhere" he confessed with ease.
"Whatever for?" I asked him confused.
"I just wanted to look at you, I'm tired of laying my eyes on everything but you." He said flirtatiously. I had a bad feeling about tonight, something about the look on his face, the stare, the seemingly desolated beach we where on. "got anything you want to tell me?"
"Ah. Nope" I said smiling.
"I know they want to catch me Miraa." he said "They always do. Now tell me when and where."
"Never again will I help you commit a felony! You may be charming but that's just wrong" I exclaimed.
"Hehe, I see how it is" he said with a smirk. "Well were on the beach shore, nobody will hear you scream"
"I thought you said you wouldn't kill me!" I said recalling a week ago.
"Who said I would?" he asked me. "I can do other things."
"I have feet , I can move them." I said smirking
"Not for long darling, remember how I said I could do other things?" he said returning the smirk, "Chick-beam!"
"Huh?" I said standing there. I didn't feel any different. Nami referred to it as bad, embarrassing even. I don't know why Nami said that… It's really not that bad. Oh my Gosh! What if this spell molded my face into a monsters? So THAT'S why Popuris face is how it is. Ha-ha, just kidding. But seriously, what If I am a monster now for a temporary time period. I lifted my hand to my face to see if it felt any different. That's when his clever smirking expression turned to shock. My face felt the same. So what in the world did he do? What if he made my heart in submission to him? Because that's how I'm starting to feel… maybe that's what Nami meant when she was talking about Popuri. "What the heck did you just do to me?!" I asked panicking.
"Surprisingly, nothing" he stated still in shock.
"Then what was that big exclamation about?" I asked angered. "Are you trying to cause a scene?"
"What scene? There is nobody here." He said, he still appeared to be shocked for some reason. I took out my walkie-talkie,(I was to low in income to get a cell phone, especially in this town, there worth an arm and a leg here.) changed the dial, and put it to my mouth after pressing a button.
"Nami! Wake up and get over here!" I said while looking straight in his eyes while talking into the device.
"aghhh I was having the best dream, about rock… You should recall what I have told you, 'you can wake me up, but not when I am having a good dream'…. Night!" said a sleepy voice from the other end of the walkie-talkie. Namis current boy friend was Rock. She was so lucky to get boys like that, she was shy, but she had this way of getting people to admire her. Sure she wasn't exactly a social butterfly, she was just possibly the antithesis, but that doesn't mean she isn't an extremely nice person. Sure I've had my share of boyfriends, but they have never made me happy, or even smile. They tried with complements and nice little gifts, I guess this was the result of never really loving them.
"So that's who she's into these days… Rock the egomaniac" he said in disgust.
"what are you saying?" I asked him "Rock is an amazing guy, he gives us gifts, and he has nice hair and eyes!" I said before noticing how stupid I just was. I wished I could swallow those words back up.
"Hehe your cute when you're talking about people you like."
"I don't, I'm happy for her, besides I'm totally over him, we broke a LONG, LONG time ago." I said telling the truth, I really didn't like rock, or rocks for that matter. He was alright, and so where rocks.
"Hmmm… well If you aren't completely over him, I could help you out with that." He said inching closer to me with a flirty expression on his face.
"Looks like you need help yourself… seems like you still like Nami, the way you said Rock's name, made it apparent in the broadest terms" I said emphasizing Namis name, to see if his pupils would grow larger, usually this happens when somebody has an interest in another. They didn't grow in size, they had been huge all night. What a weird wide eyed weirdo.
"No, I have my eyes on somebody else" he said as his pupils got even larger. Oh my, he couldn't, NO! That is simply impossible. Unless- "But I'm also kind of tormented by the thought of getting caught and not being able to talk to you anymore." Those words broke my thoughts right out of my head. Like a tree branch going down a fast current, then getting caught horizontally in between two rocks, simply snapping and flowing away.
"Look I won't tell you any details, but you might want to stay clear of any thievery for ten whole days." I said helping him.
"That's kind of not what I was trying to imply. Hehe, but thanks beautiful." Silence broke out in between us. Yet it was not the awkward type of silence, it was a soothing pause. It was one I used to look in his eyes as he moved even closer. I felt as though I needed to break the silence. Usually I would ignore such a thought and kiss him without a seconds notice. Yet something held me back, something made me actually fear what he would do back. Would he respond? With any normal guy I would just know. He was mysterious. Maybe there is a chance I truly care about Skye. No I don't like him, I probably just care about him, and maybe, just maybe, he cares about me to. We were now only centimeters away. I had to say something, fast.
"So may I ask what the chick-beam is anyways?" I asked him out of curiosity, more unstable on the inside as I was the night I met him for the first time, this is probably because of the distance in between us, although, I think it was even too small to even be classified as that.
"Oh, that's supposed to freeze you temporarily. It's supposed to paralyze all the beautiful maidens I use it on, yet I am clueless why it didn't work on you." He said thinking deeply.
"haha, that's because I am not a beautiful maiden." I said smiling. "I am an everyday, average, farmer chick. I am the total antithesis of what you said"
"You will always be a beautiful maiden in my eyes." He said, but not flirtatiously, he said it more on the tone of thoughtfulness. I was speechless. It's not that nobody was ever nice to me in that way. All the others, they where flirty, I saw no meaning in their words. At that second I was overwhelmed with emotions, but I shook it off quickly.
"I like you a lot more when you aren't flirty." I said hoping he would catch my drift.
"hehe, but I wasn't even flirting just now" he said smiling.
"I know" I said returning a smile to his.
"Well that's good, because I like being that way with you. Honesty feels nice when you bring it out in the open." He said "So how's the arm?"
"Ah, It's hard to work without it, It's so tiring." I said hoping not to sound like I was wining.
"Well of you ever need help, just tell me. I would be happy to assist you, seriously." He said kindly. I could feel another mind numbing silence coming on, I need ed to resist it, I had to say something, every silence we experience he seems to move closer, the more he does that, the more closer I feel to him, and not just literally.
"Why do you steal?" I asked him randomly hoping to prevent another silence.
"I honestly don't know…" he said before engaging in more deep thoughts, oh how I wished to be inside his head right now.
"Is it being fun have anything to do with the cause?" I asked him smiling.
"Maybe... maybe not." he said making me wonder.
"It's a little late… maybe I should go" I said as I was rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.
"Awh. Need somebody to walk you home?" he asked "I dislike the idea of girls being out this late, but it's ok if you want me to be there…"
"Oh please brave thief Skye! The outside world is so cold and scary! Help me walk home and totally steal my independence and dignity like the thief you are! PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU!!" I said mockingly.
"well I do like to help damsels in distress." He said chuckling.
"So I'll see you later?" I asked him simply for assurance that I would see him once more.
"hopefully, see ya." He said before I waved and left him standing there.
The more I approached the house, the more giddy, and shaken up I got. I also got even faster as well, when I reached my door I was catching my breath from running. I wondered about how successful I would be at falling asleep. No worries, it's late so I probably won't get much sleep tonight anyways.
I was at my door when it hit me. No, not the door, I was smiling! I turned stepped in and turned on the light to reveal my mirror and uncover just how big of a smile was on my face. I had to mentally slap myself to stop. I slid down my door. This couldn't be happening! Although smiling isn't such a bad thing, what bothered me was that the cause might have possibly been caused by a guy. This wasn't just any guy, it was Skye, The phantom thief. This was Strange. I was strange! And completely messed up in the head, to like a thief, a cute thief as well. oh my gosh! I do not like him, aghh! I calmed down my stupid smile. But once I lay in my bed, with the covers over m body, I couldn't help but think of him and smile. It was so strange it wasn't even funny. I just hoped he wouldn't haunt my dreams.
Ok that's chapter two, hope whoever read that enjoyed it. Sorry that I didn't put much characters in it. But I think that was bound to happen soon, especially because this is a romance fic. Please review if you can.
Thank you for reading