Listen to the Flowers: 100 Drabbles
003 Spider Flower: Elope With Me
339 Words
Serenity carefully glanced around for anyone before she left the safety of the shadows. Seeing no one around she seized her chance and stepped into the light. "Oh." She moaned softly as she moved to shade her eyes from the sun with her hands. The sun was high in the sky making it around noon. She hated coming to earth this early; the sun was still too bright. With her free hand Serenity picked up her skirt so she didn't step on the hem and quickly made her way through the hedges the led to the middle of the garden.
Sitting there on the bench was the Prince of Earth, Endymion. He glanced up upon hearing the sound her heels made. Saying nothing he motioned for her to sit next to him. "Wha-" She began, but was silenced as he pressed two fingers to her soft lips.
Leaning down he whispered in her ear, "Shh, there are more guards out here during the day than in the evening. So we have to be as silent as possible." The princess nodded as he reached behind him and pulled out a red flower that could easily be mistaken for a bug if you weren't looking closely enough.
Serenity accepted it from him and looked at it carefully. He had told her the meaning of most earth flowers before and she knew this was one of them. However she could for the life of her remember what it was. 'I know it has something to do with marriage, but what about marriage? Will you marry me? No, that's it. What else has to do with marriage?' She scrunched her nose as she tried to dig deeper in her thoughts. 'Elope? That's something has to do with marriage.'
Then it hit her. He was asking her to elope with him. She leaned up and pressed her lips against his.
He smiled against her lips as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer.
That was all the answer he needed.
