CHAPTER TWO: Visited By a Shadow?
I gasped as I jerked foreword, my bright blue eyes searching the room for anything familiar and slowly my eyes shift to the darkness. Shapes of my bedroom come into play and I feel the tears soon ready to form and slip down my rose cheeks like trails of glittering silver. I was in my room, still in the Moon Kingdom. The same dream had shown it's self to me over and over and over again and each time I awoke more empty then the night before and less satisfied. Would we ever reunite? Would I ever see their smiling faces ever again? Darien...how I missed him and yet hated him at the same time. I hated them all. Not a single one had come to take me away from the kingdom I had been so stuck on protecting and ruling. Not a single one.
Suddenly, my anger reached the surface like boiling lava and a I jumped from my silken canopy bed and rushed past the tall white oak pillars that stood at each end to hold up the white silk lined with gold that cast shadows over my bed. Pushing past my large doors, I walked into the cool air of my balcony and stared out into the gardens filled with bright vivid colors and every flower I could ever want or desire. When I first came her I was so stuck on the beauty or the kingdom that I missed how suffocating it really was. The scent of flowers twirled around me slowly in the summer air and I felt myself go calm, my thigh high night gown ruffling around me like a sheer blanket. Truthfully this was not what I would do for the rest of my life? Trapped in a kingdom that no longer needed me as they where now protected by my presence alone?
A sigh left my lips and mixed with the summer night air as I pushed a strand of blonde from my angelic face. Here I was, angry for being trapped in a world that seemed grateful to have me and resenting the fact that my friends had all abandoned me. Is this what I wanted to fell like as each day passed me? No. It surely was not. With my thoughts now collected, I walked back into my large room and closed the balcony doors behind me. I had no choice but to try and gather more sleep since in the morning I knew that I would need to go and and but the final touches on the ball tomorrow. The ball that was sealing my fate in the Moon Kingdom forever. For I had a husband now, hand picked by the kingdom elders, and was soon expected to have a child after the ball for my marriage. Yet, I was not ready for that, the fact that the man was also a pig in my eyes had nothing to do with the matter but only pushed my anger further.
Gracefully gliding back to my bed, I slipped back under my white silk sheets and let my blue eyes slid shut with the thoughts of my old life lingering on the back of my eye lids like a broken film in black and white as it jumped from picture to picture, only reminding me that I had failed to keep what was trully mine. My life. Little did I know, that my life had not left me or forgotten me as I thought it had but I was already fast asleep and reliving the same dream once more when the dark shadow crept into my room from my balcony, his dark hair framing his face as he smiled at my sleeping form. "We will all be reunited soon enough Serena if you just keep faith." walking over to me, he placed a small wrapped box in the palm of my hand and it puled lightly with pure white light as he pushed my bangs from my forehead, the crescent moon on my forehead clear. "Till we meet once more." placing a small kiss on my forehead, the shadow soon vanished and all I could do was grasp the small gift in my hand as I slept, unaware of my visitor.