We were walking through the forest, talking about our future and our past. These were the times I liked Kartik. He showed off his wit, his intelegence, and his good-looks simply by story-telling. He would make a fantastic father one day. I blushed at the thought. had I really just thought the mundane, demure, thoughts that ran through the likes of Ann and Pippa's head every day? I shivered.
"Are you cold?" he asked immediately.
"No," I said honestly.
"You'll catch a chill," he said, stopping dead in the middle of the path and looking at me as if for the first time that night. I wore Felicities frock and nothing else. I wan't wearing my extensive underclothes, just bloomers, although the dress had a light, built in corset. He me his hand-knitted sweater. I declined, smiling at his thinly. He rolled his eyes at me and draped it over my shoulders. I didn't realize I was chilly until the heavy, fragrant cashmere was around me.
"So, what's your earliest memory?" I he asked me.
"I remember my mother singing me a lulaby... she said her best friend had taught it to her," I said absently, focusing on not turning my ankel in the complicated roots we were treading over.
"Do you recall the melody?" he asked, softly, taking me by the elbow and leading me through the last of the woods. The open moore spread out in front of us. He checked his pocket watch. It was almost 2:30.
"You should get some sleep," he said softly, steering mee towards the castle.
"I can sleep with you," I said, moving closer to him, trying to turn us around".
"Gemma," he graoned, "You know full well that--"
"Let them know!" I exclaimed, turning around, enjoying the free feeling under my skirt. "I don't care".
"Gem," he said. And then he laughed. I could just hear him saying 'let the child play'.
I took his arm and we walked towards the school.
"Indeed, I do rember the way it went," I said, after a moment's silence.
"Well?"I began to hum the haunting melody, remmebering my mother's warm smile. but looking back on the memory, herface was lighned and her eys frantic. I blinked a few times, swalloing the frightening image and I began to sing the words.
"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles await you when you rise.
Sleep pretty darling do not cry.
And I will sing a lullaby.
Rock them, rock them lullaby
Cares you know not,
Therefore sleep you,
Sleep,
pretty darling, Do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby."
When I was trough he was staring at me, his dark eyes twinkleing.
"My mother used to sing that to me," he said, a strange wonder in his voice. I smiled at him, my eyes tearing up. This was...t his was am i crying?
By now we were nearly in the shadow of the castle. My window was on the north side, not on the south side where we were standing.
"Allow me to escort you, m'lady" he said formally, bowing goofily. I giggled.
"No, sir, I really must take my leave without the precence of a man such as yourself".
"And why is that?" he asked.
"Because that castle is so full of girls wanting to kiss your supple lips that I just don't--" I broke off, disolving into a fit of giggles
"Ah but the only supple lips I reave are yours, m'lady," he said wickedly, grabbing me by the waist and drawing me in, kissing me long and hard and sweet. He made a move to pull away, but I wrapped my arms around his neck, not letting him leave. I didn't know when I would leave next... I needed a lingering mark, something to remind me of him while I was wrapped up in my alter-life in the school.
"Why, you--" I heard a voice, trampling on my special time. My heart froze. I knew all too well that furious tone. I tunred. There was Felicity, wearing a lavish gold frock with a pinnafore beneath, her chest heaving, her eyes shining. Her white-blond hair was piled on top hof her head and she wore her best diamond necklace.
"YOU WHORE," she screeched, apparently finding her voice once more, "YOU ABSOLUTE WRETCHED WHORE. YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SPECIAL, DON'T YOU? WELL?! DON'T YOU?!"
"Felicity," I said calmly. Really I wasn't calm at all. My heart was racing and my blood throbbing. How could we have been so stupid and blind? How long had she been standing there?
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK MY NAME!" she screamed then her voice got quiet, "I tursted you Gemma Doyle. I have told you things I have never told anyone else before in my entire life and you go and... FRATERNIZE with the man I am in love with. I hope you never try to speak to me again!" she turned and fled, sobbing, away from the school.
Without thinking twice I was after her, running blindly, tripping over the tail of my frock. I didn't know where Fee was going or what she panned on doing, but I knew I had to stop her.
Katrik P.O.V.
"I hope you never try to speak to me again!" she howled and turned, running surprisingly quickly towards the woods.
Before I knew it, Gemma was gone, tearing through the night, running after Felicity. I sighed, worried. Those woods are not safe at night. Its easy to get lost, even for someone like me who knew the woods well. I stood on the spot for a moment, thinking of what to do. then I began running as fast as my legs would carry me back to the camp.
p.s. that song is a beatles song, just so you know. My mom used to sing it to me so i changed the kyrics a little bit to how she used to sing it cuz i like that way better but here's the original...
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