Chapter two "you took my goose":

"She's gone where she could be...mina!!"
Isabelle ran down the lane looking for the young goose. Mina was Isabelle's pride and joy. When she was first chosen as goose girl sir Robert Dudley gave it to her as a gift. Since then she is very protective of the young goose

"Mina, here love"

Isabelle suddenly gave up and all broken hearted she walked to her house. She cursed James for jinxing her day. As she reached her house she spotted James with what appeared to be mina

"MINA!!"

Isabelle lifted up her skirts and ran towards James. When she finally reached the house she scooped up mina and held her close she hugged the young goose. James was awe struck by how motherly Isabelle was until suddenly

"How dare you steal my goose, first you insult me sir...and then steal my goose"

"Why Lady Parker it was not that at all..."

How dare you sir call me a liar... you where here holding her!!"

"Isabelle I was only trying to return her..."

"You have now right sir by saying Isabelle for only those I know/love/like can say it!! Good day"

James just shook his head; he hopped on his horse and looks her in the eye

"I'm sorry if I have displeased you miss... I bid thee good day"

Isabelle ran into her house and mumbled under her breath

'"urg how I can't stand James!!"

An old women with salt and pepper hair appeared, she smiled and hummed a song. She looked at her only child with passionate mother like eyes

"Such a nice lad Isa, he would make a fine husband such a good Boy returning your goose which you left"

Isabelle was shocked by what her mother was saying, but in side of her heart she felt something different, a burning lust for him. Suddenly her words came out like vomit

"He is not a good man mother for he is an awful veil thing god help the lass who falls in love with him, I spit on the ground he walks on."

A sudden blow came across her face, she looked up at her mother, and she held her face. Her mother looked her in the eyes

"how dare you say such sinful things, I want you to head over to lord Tradescant house and beg for forgiveness for what you have done; I'm ashamed you have become a ungrateful flea."

The words stung, Isabelle held her tongue. She thought back to when her father was alive and what he would do or say. Suddenly the pain came over her, just like the way it did when she watched him die back home in Spain. Once her mother stop yelling Isabelle felt tears slowly fall

"You are to go and ask for him to forgive you for non-lady like actions"

Isabelle at a loss for words nodded and left the house onto the dirt road she began to walk. Tears where slowly falling as she thought of her father and how bad she wanted to see him, but suddenly James two green soul searching eyes came into her mind; it soothed her. Suddenly out came the words dreaded in her heart

"Why do thee taunt me so...? I wanted to see my father's face not the shrew you are James Tradescant...how I hate thee"

James sadly galloped towards his home; it hurt him to think that Isabelle would accuse him of goose napping, he was about to say something until he laid eyes on her. He saw her loveliness as she walked; her brown beautiful hair, those kissable lips and then that soft skin he wanted to touch. He noticed that she was crying and holding her right cheek. He rode over to her

'May I ask you m'lady what is leaving you in such woe??"

Isabelle turned around she looked him straight in the eyes and hid her tears, she was in no mood to see him

"nothing I was on my way to beg for your forgiveness for how I acted as my mother requested but now I think not.. Good day"

James knew there was something else bothering her; he blocked her other way of leaving with his horse. Isabelle needed someone right now and he wanted to be that someone.

'I will not let you pass, what happened to your face tis red!!"

"Nothing lord Tradescant, I'm fine"

"No something happened"

James's voice sounded like a worried lover when he questioned her, Isabelle felt her heart stop. Slowly the tears began to fall, slowly she begins to confess what is on her mind, and James listens closely

'Because of how I acted towards you my lady mother hit me, and called me an ungrateful flea"

James got off his horse; he looked Isabelle in the eyes. His yearned to hold her close and tell everything was alright.

"May I be so bold to call you Isabelle?"

Isabelle nodded her no longer cared it felt so good to cry. When asked if it was ok if he could show her his home, Isabelle allowed him this to. James was shocked Isabelle's sudden change of heart. Upon arriving to his home Isabelle let out a gasp; every where she turned she saw roses, and garden mazes.

"I see you like it; it was passed down from my great grandfather to my grandfather to my father and now me... may I show you to the lake."

Isabelle tuck her hand into the crook of his arm, they began to talk; He walked her past his rose garden, Isabelle's eyes landed on the roses. James asked what else had been on her mind that day when she was crying. They arrived to a mini cliff and not that far down laid the lake. Isabella turned her back to the Mini cliff and looked up at James

"When I was young very young back home in Spain I witnessed my father die before my eyes... after hearing my mother yell at me, I wished that I could see him again, but alas I couldn't something else came to mind"

"What else came to mind?"

"I don't remember"

"I can relate to losing someone who means the world to you, I lost my father to the sweat when I was only 17 studying aboard, I soon found out that their never really gone their still with us"

Isabelle looked James passionately in the eyes; James smiled at her... no longer fighting the urge he moved closer to her. Isabelle felt her heart race, as she took steps backwards. She found it unbearable the feelings she was feeling right now. How she longed for him to kiss her. She thought about until suddenly

"Isabelle watch out"

Isabelle felt herself begin to fall, but suddenly James grabbed her before she fell into the Lake. He held her close in fear that she would fall in again. His breath was down her neck, she felt desire rise up. She broke away from him

"I must go!!"

She ran off, James could only stand there and calls out

"Wait Isabelle come back!!"