A/N: Thank you, Naku111 for reviewing. Although I hoped I would get more reviews. ANYways, cant get too hopefull. I know, it's a bit weird that she randomly meets this guy, and they talk. But honestly, it's a story, and I don't care if that shouldn't happen. And in my last chapter name, how I called it a new Aquaint---- D, ----ance, I was wondering if anyone would notice. Cause I thought it was clever...but anywhoo.

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"You pick up dancing fast" he commented, breaking me out of my thoughts. I shrugged.

"Can you talk? Or are you like a mime?" I nodded to the first question, but my indignant eyes widened at the thought of me being a mime. He laughed; a deep, pleasant, reassuring sound and I sighed.

I pulled my hand from his, ignoring how his eyes got a glimmer of disappointment, and pointed to my throat and grimaced.

"Oh...you lost your voice." He said, smiling at my frantic nodding, "I hope you find it again, wouldn't want such a pretty girl to have lost a voice for good." I blushed again. My mother said I was too humble to accept complements, and I suppose it was true. I rolled my eyes at him. He shrugged.

"What can I say, it's true." I made a sound like a hmmph.

After a while the music faded, and I willed it to stay, but alas, since it was growing darker I suppose they had to go.

"Where do you live?" he asked. I pointed with my finger towards my house, which was a bit away. "I live near this village too. Not quite in it, but not in another one. We are in between. Do you have any siblings?" I nodded sardonically, and with my fingers showed him the number four.

"Any sisters as pretty as you?" he asked with a glimmer of mischief in his eyes. Up to this point, I had not once wondered why he was even talking to me, and why I did not run away. But I took another look at his face, and I only saw kindness in his eyes, and not an ounce of mean. His laugh reverberated around the clearing, and I closed my eyes, trying to remember the sound of it.

It was a wonderful sound.

I heard my mother calling my name, and I groaned inwardly. He looked at me.

"Your name, its Falya?" he said smiling, "It is very pretty. My name is Kaspar." I smiled, and then set my worried eyes towards home and shrugged. "I know, you need to go home," he said frowning, "Well, I hope I see you soon." I nodded in consent; I couldn't wait, and if no one found out, then it would be even better.

Secrets were better left untold.

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I ran home, and my mother, being the worrisome thing she is, demanded where I had been all afternoon.

"Out."

"Out where?"

"By the river, getting water." My throat was killing me, and it pained me to talk as it was, but if I stopped then I would be in more trouble.

"Really. Well. It took you four hours?"

"I stopped by my friends' house."

"Which friend?" At this point I was starting to get very frustrated, but I also felt quite bad, lying to her about such a thing.

"Anelise"

"Really. So if I called her over, she would confirm that you two had been together today?"

"Yes. She would, and if she didn't, then she is a fool." I felt bad calling my friend a fool, because in reality, she shouldn't have been brought into this at all.

"Alright then, I will."

"Oh maman, you wish to ask Anelise about something we both know is true?"

"Yes, because for some reason, I do not believe you." She got Galatea to run over all the way across the village and to Anelise's house and brought Anelise here. It was a horrible wait, we both did not speak, and I did not look at my mother, for fear that I would give it away. I went and got Galatea's hem that she was fixing, and started to work on it for her. I made a couple mistakes, and the hem was a bit crooked. I hoped that Galatea wouldn't notice. Soon, my mother and I heard Galatea and Anelise panting and running up the stairs. They opened the front door and they came walking in to the kitchen area with some more composed dignity.

"Good afternoon Anelise, I know you are probably wondering why I called you over here in such a short notice."

"Yes, I am ma'am." Anelise politely spoke back to my mother. There was a glint in her eyes, and I guessed that she did obviously not want to be here.

"Well, Falya said that she was with you today, but I do not know whether to believe her or not. She does not lie to me, but I never know. She could have been doing the good Lord knows what, and I would not know." I was standing slightly behind my mother, and with my eyes I pleaded with Anelise that she would not give me away.

"Ma'am, I can assure you that Falya was indeed with me today. She even brought some water to my house, and I know she brought some over here too." She raised one eyebrow testily, as if to urge my mother to go on with her accusation. I tried to bite back a laugh that was threatening out of my mouth, and Anelise had a cheeky smile. I felt a little bad for Galatea though; she was looking back and forth between us like we had a giant secret, which we didn't. Well not really.

"Well then, Anelise, I am sorry that I bothered you for this. And thank you." My mother said with a polite, but curt nod. I noticed that my mother could be very cold towards people that she didn't particularly like. I guess she didn't like Anelise that much.

I was lucky that I was off the hook, but I know that my mother did not trust me in the least, and I would have to be more careful and craft up better lies to tell her. Not that I was planning to, but it would be better to be safe. I didn't even know if I would see Kaspar again, and who knows, I may have been asleep this whole time and this could all be a dream. I pinched myself a few times, and then smiled to see it was not a dream. That would have been very disappointing.

"Maman, I am going to bed." I told her, walking out of the room.

"Well don't wake up too late, I need to go visit Katerine at her new home, and I need you to be awake when I leave. Galatea, you can sleep if you like." She kept talking, but I walked out after she started talking to Galatea. I washed my face and then I fell right asleep, not even changing my clothes.

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