Chapter 3

Chapter 3

After two days had past, Susan, Caspian and Peter were ready to go. The mounted their griffins and waved goodbye to everyone, though some were coming with them. Trumpkin and Doctor Cornelius were coming on horseback as well as Glenstorm, his wife and sons, and many other Narnians and Telmarines were coming to help with construction. They got there in the early evening and decided not to start work for about a day or two. First they wanted to collect anything valuable or that they wanted to keep. Some of the Narnians and Telmarines were leaving early, and they would take the items with them.

That night at dinner, Susan was troubled. She wanted Caspian to feel the same way about her that she felt about him, but she wasn't sure he did. Everyone was chatting happily except her. Peter noticed. "What's wrong, Su?" he whispered. "Oh, nothing, just thinking." "If you insist," he whispered back. He was sure something was wrong. If he had to take a wild guess, he would say it was Caspian, but he wasn't sure. Susan finally decided she needed some peace and quiet. "Um, I'm going to go for a walk quickly," she said. "Ok, but don't go too far." Peter warned. Susan just rolled her eyes. She walked down to the beach and sat under a tree where no one else could see her.

Caspian saw her walk off and took this as his chance. He needed to talk to her. After Peter had finally struck up a conversation, he snuck off to where he saw Susan go.

"Hello," he said with a smile. Susan jumped and turned bright red. She knew what he wanted to talk about and it wasn't a good subject. Caspian came up and sat down beside her.

"I have a question for you," he finally said, starting to fear the worst. "Yes?" Susan said, shaking violently. "Um, how do I phrase this? Uh…," "Yes?" Susan repeated. "Uh, do you love me?" "Well, I guess… I guess I do," she said in a whisper. "Do you?" she asked, sure he was going to say no, and he would start asking her how he could love a girl like her. "Yes," he said quickly, his heart jumping for joy at the thought of her loving him. "Really?" Susan asked, not believing what she just heard. "Tell me, why would I lie to you?" He said. "I don't think you would, it's just I thought you didn't." "I love you more than anything I have ever known," and with that he pulled her into a passionate kiss. Susan was surprised at first, but quickly returned it, running her hand up into his hair. Caspian pulled her closer to him.

Finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, they pulled apart, needing air. Susan laid down and put her head on his lap as he stroke her head with his hand. Finally, they heard Peter yelling their names. "SUSAN!! CASPIAN!!" "We need to go," Susan said, disappointment in both their eyes. "You go that way and I'll go out this way. If Peter knows I was with you, he's going to kill us both." Susan smirked and Caspian returned it.

Lucy was sitting by herself in the lunchroom. Nobody seemed to like to sit with her. Just then, she saw some one sit down next to her. "Oh, hi Josh. Aren't you going to sit with your friends?' Lucy questioned. "Truthfully, I don't really have any." Lucy immediately thought of herself and how no one was really her friend either. "You could be my friend," Lucy said softly, smiling. "Really?" he asked, his eyes full of light. "Sure. I don't really have any friends either," she finished. "It's comforting to know someone is willing to be your friend," he said dreamily. "Yes it is," she replied.

"Guess what!" Peter said excitedly to Susan and Caspian as they were walking to the treasure room, because that was where they were sleeping. "What?" Susan said, immediately excited. Peter was rarely excited, so she was interested in knowing what he was so excited about. "Well, today is June 8th, right?" "Yah," Susan and Caspian replied in chorus. "Well, that means in exactly two weeks, I'm turning eighteen!" Peter finished. "Oh… Well that's great!" Susan said, trying to sound convincing, not wanting Peter to know she had forgotten. "You forgot, didn't you?" Peter said, reading her mind… or so it seemed. "Well, yes," she admitted. "And you're supposed to be my sister…" he grumbled.

"Well, good night then," he murmured. Within minutes, he was asleep. "Good night, Susan," Caspian said softly. He kissed her softly on the forehead, and she cuddled into his arms, and with that, they were asleep.

Evelyn was thinking. She had been so mean to Edmund a couple of days ago yet he had been kind to her. It had been embarrassing. Maybe she should be nicer to him from now on… but wouldn't the other kids make fun of her then? But Edmund didn't mind when they made fun of him, and if she was kind to them, they might respond the same way… maybe… but what if they didn't? She decided then and there what she would do.

That afternoon, the sat down at their desks for class, completely silent and sober. Their teacher was Ms. Rhineheart, but she didn't have a heart at all. They weren't aloud to talk at all. They had to stare and listen all through class, and the quietest sound would get them stuck in a week long detention at least. Edmund was thinking of Narnia again, the balls and centaurs, and rides, and the new King Caspian who was like a brother to him… He missed them so much… "EDMUND PEVENSIE!!" he knew exactly who it was. He looked at his teacher. "How many times do I have to tell you to PAY ATTENTION!" "I don't know, Ms. Rhineheart," he replied dreamily, his head still stuck in Narnia.

From now on, you are expected to take notes during class, and give them to me after every class, and if I see one mistake you will be grounded for two weeks instead of the one you are already grounded for not paying attention, if you need help, why don't you ask my excellent pupil here, Evelyn, who always pays attention and takes notes- these aren't notes!" her face turn crimson with anger written all over her face. She stared at Evelyn and screeched, "You've been drawing while you were suppose to be paying attention!! You will have a two week detention along with Edmund who is DAYDREAMING AGAIN!" Edmund snapped immediately back into the real world. "Yes, teacher," he grumbled. He looked at Evelyn, who looked at him and smiled. Did she do that intentionally? He thought. Maybe…

Susan looking through the chest the next day that held Lucy's things in the treasure hold, seeing if there was anything she might like for when she came back. Finally she came upon her favorite dresses and set of pencils. Wow, she had been looking for these for ages, and here they are! She would love it if I brought them back.

Susan looked for about ten more minutes, finding several other jewelry objects and little statues and toys. Finally, she took everything up stairs and set it upstairs.

She looked out through one of the windows that was still in tack and saw Caspian in the courtyard by himself. She looked around to make sure no one else was there, and then snuck off after him.

"Caspian are you ok?" she asked, not sure if he was. "Yes. I was just thinking about you." He smiled, his eyes sparkling greatly. He grabbed her gently around the waist and kissed her.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!!" they heard someone yell and quickly turned around to see Peter in a rage, his face bright red and eyes full of anger.

"Peter, it's fine." Susan was trying to sound calm but she wasn't. Just then, they heard a voice call Susan to ask her a question and she ran off quickly.

"You better keep your hands off my sister," he growled, still furious. "If I didn't have enough self-control I would have punched you in the nose by now," he finished. "I think you're being a little overwhelming right now," Caspian was clearly having trouble holding back his temper. "I would not do anything inappropriate to your sister, and just because you tell me to keep my hands off her, it doesn't mean I will stop loving her," he practically shouted, but quietly enough that no one else would hear. "You better hope you don't do anything bad to her." And with that Peter stomped off, clearly angry.

Brothers, Caspian thought. They have such bad timing.

"Lu, what happened to you?"

"Oh, that kid named Billy punched me in the eye," Lucy responded.

"What happened?" Edmund asked. "Well, I was outside during recess on the monkey bars, and he said he wanted them. So I asked him if he had a bad day and he didn't respond," Lucy continued,

"But then he said I was still on the monkey bars and then he punched me in the eye, and said yes he did," Lucy finished, still holding an ice pack up to her eye. "I hope you get better soon." "Thanks," Lucy said gratefully, "I do to."