Chapter four: Saor-speire liath ( Grey skies)
For what felt like an eternity, she was united. There she was embracing her beloved with tears following through her eyes, what made her cry more was that he was torn apart, torn apart by the time they were separated from each others embrace, and their care for each other. It tore her apart by the way time has a way with making things seem longer. It made her cry even more when she realised it was a dream.
Ginger jolted awake, her body covered in sweat and tears, and to be alone on the cold marble floor. She looked at the stone walls and broken furniture surrounding her, the place was unfamiliar and colder than the barn, she wasn't at the barn that she was sure of. She sat up and stood up. To her surprise she hadn't howled in pain, she remembered that Timmy helped her knee back into place.
" Hello?" Ginger looked around, she didn't see anybody she was getting scared by the aura that this place was giving off. She could tell that there was more than just empty walls in this place.
No reply was found, Ginger looked around in every angle, she slowly heard a door open up a creak. She turned around to find that a door was in fact opened a bit. Ginger had a heart in her mouth, she was scared but gathered the strength and courage and slowly walked towards the opened door.
Opening it slowly, it reveiled that there was nothing inside the room, just a stone windowless cellar, Ginger let go of her held in breath and turned around, she found a pair of eyes bulging into hers.
Ginger let out a huge bloodcurdling scream and jumped backwards into the cellar. When she stood back up she saw that she was staring into the widened eyes of Oreaium. Oreaium was holding in a laugh, she then walked in and sat beside Ginger.
" Are you okay love? didn't mean to scare you"
Ginger gathered her breath, let out a little chuckle still filled with octaves of fright, she smiled her goofy smile at Oreaium.
" Sure sure I'll be fine"
" What were you doing in there?" Oreaium stared around at the never ending tower that kept building upwards.
" I saw the door open a bit, so I figured that you were in here" Ginger smiled she was still looking for the culprit that appeared to be nowhere.
Oreaium looked at her like she had 3 heads, she then looked around unsure of herself. She then motioned for her and Ginger to get out of the cellar.
" None of us were in the castle at that time love, were all outside, I think you were tricked by a hooligan" Oreaium added while they were now outside in the nice sunshine.
" Whats a hooligan?" Ginger had a confused look on her face, more of wondering where was she now.
" A hooligan is a tricky ghost, it fools people by thinking someone is there when there is not, there not mean! Just like to play pranks on the living" Oreaium explained.
" Oh" Ginger said a little creeped out by the fact she might have been tricked by a ghost.
" Well look who's up" Timmy smiled grateful, Ginger smiled back involuntarily he was as nice as Kowalski, to her no one could be as nice as Kowalski even if they were nicer by 100 percent.
" Yep" Ginger smiled brightly, much to Oreaium's annoyance.
" Well we should keep on tracking love, we'll be in Wicklow by nightfall" Quirky announced as he came back down from flying, " You can see the outline of buildings from Wicklow"
" Who's that?" Ginger had to ask, she had never seen a bird so red in color or, or so fat! How was he even flying that was what she was wondering.
" Oh that's Quirky my Red Poll friend" Oreaium explained, Quirky flew onto her head and smiled at Ginger, turning red with embarrassment at the same time, Ginger didn't notice he was as red as he could get in her eyes.
" Nice er nice to meet you" Quirky said with too many octaves in his high enough voice.
" Yes, it is for me as well" Ginger bowed her head with acknowledgement. She looked back up to see that Oreaium was looking away from her with a look of annoyance on her face.
" What's wrong Oreaium?" Did she say something that offended her? Ginger was worried that she said something mean without paying attention, it reminded her of the time Kowalski kissed her unexpectedly.
" No love, I'm fine" Oreaium said with hastiness rising in her voice.
Ginger smiled a relaxed smile, it made her feel better that she hadn't offended Oreaium in any way, besides she couldn't lose an already made friend. It would make her feel upset if she did, she wanted her and Oreaium to be friends for their lives. It made her sad a little bit that she'd be living her newly made friend, she wanted to make her a present, her eyes glanced down at her proposal necklace, it gave her an idea.
" Already, If were going to make it to Wicklow by nightfall we'd better get a move on" Timmy said while stepping between Oreaium and Ginger, he glanced down at Ginger.
" Are you alright to walk? I don't mind letting you on my back for the ride to Wicklow"
" Oh no no no! I'm fine it would be too much of a hassle, I'm fine my knee had never been better like this before, and besides you already did enough for me but thank you anyways!' Ginger began sweating bullets, that's all she needed was for her to cause more trouble for Timmy, she had been passed out for a while on his back, she didn't want to keep bothering him.
" Oh no I wouldn't mind, but if your feeling better that's fine too" Timmy smiled a warm smile which made Ginger blush a little, she pushed the though aside and started to walk beside Oreaium, Oreaium now had a more annoyed face painted on her face.
" What's wrong theres something bothering you isn't it?"
" It's none of your concern, Ginger" Oreaium said, her voice as sharp as a razor.
Her tone struck right to Ginger's heart, that wasn't the kind Oreaium she had heard, this was a different demeanor almost jealous in way. Aha, that was the problem, Oreaium was jealous of all the kind acts that Timmy was giving to herself, so Oreaium did like him and it made her feel upset that he was taking care of her, Ginger frowned and kicked herself for even talking to him.
Ginger raced up besides Oreaium, she was nervous for even bringing up the conversation but, they were friends and friends share secrets and talk out problems to each other as well, however the question was where they still friends?
" Oreaium, I'm sorry" Ginger came straight to the point.
It worked, Oreaium stopped right in her tracks, turned around and glared at Ginger. Her expression was anger mixed with surprise. She walked slowly over to Ginger and tried to keep her furious demeanor however, it was being faded away.
" What about?"
" For everything, I didn't mean to give the wrong impression that I had a crush on Timmy, I love Kowalski and you know that as well, I'm still sorry for all the attention that I've been receiving from him, if-if he asks me for something I'll turn him down, just for you Oreaium"
Oreaium looked up in surprise, her eyes darted towards Timmy then back towards Ginger, her eyes starting to fill up with tears, she started gasping for breathe and ran away from Ginger.
" Oreaium!' Ginger mangaged to scream out, her emotions were so tangled up in the confusion she wasn't sure if it sounded like a command or a question.
" It goes farther than that Ginger! It's none of your business" Oreaium yelled while climbing up the hillside.
Ginger was so confused about what was going on, she waited untill she saw Timmy standing beside her, his face was full of seriousness and worry. Ginger wanted answers she turned towards Timmy, her mouth was clamped shut by his hove before she could get the words out.
" I'll tell you later when we find our lodgings for the night," Timmy replied while taking his hove off of Ginger's mouth, " Right now let's catch up with the emotionally confused Oreaium"
Ginger nodded and they both ran after Oreaium. Ginger wasn't even worried that she was running with Timmy all that mattered was that they find Oreaium and keep her safe and sound, she heard some wolves howling last night while in her unconscious state, so the hillsides were full of them, that made her worry more.
When they finally caught up with Oreaium, it was about the horizon, she had ran far close towards Wicklow, Ginger was pleased about two things, one she found Oreaium and second she was one step closer towards going back home to her beloved.
Timmy had saw the night sky and they decided to sleep next to a stream, next thing in the morning they could grab a drink or maybe some food, even though Oreaium didn't eat fish she said she was hungry enough she could, Ginger thought there might have been some yabbies swimming loose as well. They all decided that they found their lodgings.
When Oreaium and Quirky were both asleep Ginger turned towards Timmy, he promised that he tell why Oreaium was so jealous of her and why she freaked out at her as well, Ginger looked at Timmy with eyes that rang, You promised.
Timmy sat down and asked Ginger to do the same, he sighed and looked up to the sky as if unsure of what to say, finally, he looked towards Ginger.
" When Oreaium met me, I was a young and foolish foal, we became good friends then when we got older we started to become more, the animals could all tell we were gonna get hitched. Secretly of coarse we knew that the animals would never allow a sheep and horse to get married, so we kept our love life a secret." Timmy paused for a break and then briefly began, " Then the farmer became supisious of us being together so.... he made more like forced Oreaium to mate with another sheep, she became pregnant and I didn't mind, I said I would raise the ewe as a son just like I promised" Another brief pause. " Then it happened so fast, it all went downhill from there, she was just went into labour to fast, I was there and the farmer's wife delivered, however it was a miscarriage"
Ginger's heart and eyes froze in place, she could feel her heart start to feel the slice of pain stinging through it,her eyes started to tear up a bit. A miscarriage, she never had a child but she saw of platypi's that had been through a bunch of agony of having to live through one. Ginger loved children but hoped never to have one, she felt Oreaium's pain of being dragged away from her child.
" I felt as if I lost my child as well, so I knew that I could never bear a child with her, it would be against nature. I then started to lost contact with her Oreaium would just break out into spasms and bawl her eyes out, I then realised that she wanted to be with me but my promise of being the father made her remember her loss. One day I took her and told her that I wouldn't be in her life anymore, that was a bad decision, it made her cry more and she became a wreck," Timmy was having a hard time decusing this as well.
" Timmy what happened to Oreaium after?" Ginger asked, Oreaium seemed to be so happy and careless not upset about anything, she just gave off that vibe.
" After I left to be in a riding school, I returned to find her to her normal carefree self, she no longer seemed to be upset about the miscarriage or anything, it seemed almost as if her memory was erased, whatever it was it must have took a while to suppress those feelings of depression"
Ginger nodded in agreement,
" Stop it" They both heard a voice from behind command them, turning around they say Oreaium glaring through tears, she was gasping for breath, she must have heard the whole conversation.
" Oreaium" was all Ginger managed to say.
" Stop talking about.....MY WHOLE LIFE STORY! STOP TALKING ABOUT THE WHOLE DAMN THING TIMMY! IT'S NONE OF HER BUSINESS!" Oreaium yelled at the top of her lungs.
" I'm sorry Oreaium, but she deserves to know, she is your friend after all" Timmy replied patiently.
" She is nothing but a sore reminder of those days! Those days when you were my everything, my world, my sun, my whole damn life! and you blew it by breaking up with me"
" Oreaium, say your sorry" Timmy said starting to get annoyed.
Ginger was a little confused, she was a sore reminder? Why didn't Oreaium say anything? She needed answers and she was going to receive them.
" Oreaium? can I ask you something?" Ginger asked in her quiet timid voice.
" What?" Oreaium replied with a lot of hastiness in her voice.
" How am I a sore reminder? I don't mean to be if I imply it some how, but please tell me so I can correct my mistakes"
Oreaium looked at her with such surprise, she seemed to vent off so much anger she wasn't really watching what she was saying.
" You always talk about your one true love him, Kowalski. I felt upset because it reminded me of me, you put your love and life into one person and what do you get? Torn apart, breakups and heartbreaks, I just don't...... I just don't" Oreaium started to cry while trying to finish her sentence.
" I JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO GET HURT LIKE I DID" Oreaium screamed and took off towards the hills.
" OREAIUM!" Ginger and Timmy yelled together.
" #!? doesn't she know that the hills are dangerous at this time of night? There's wolves out everywhere" Timmy started to run after her.
Ginger felt herself start to choke back his words, Wolves? This was serious, starting to follow after Timmy running with all her might, fighting back exhaustion, she managed to catch up with Timmy. After a while of running they heard something they wish they hadn't.
A wolf call, and a scream of terror.
Oreaium! Ginger's eyes widen in fear, Timmy was cursing and holding back tears, first the story about the miscarriage and now this, Ginger couldn't take it, with Timmy by her side she and him ran over the hillside.
Please be okay was all Ginger could think while her eyes bawled out tears.
" What the heck?" was all Kowalski could manage to say, he saw Ginger's GPS start to dash towards Wicklow of Ireland.
" What's wrong Kowalski?" Private waddled up towards him while starting at the globe.
" It's Ginger, by the looks of her GPS she's probably running" Kowalski could feel a wave of worry wash over him.
All the other 3 penguins tensioned up, they watched Kowalski with watching eyes, they knew that he'd be worrying if he found something that reeked of danger, running with no intention of explanation would mean something was wrong.
" I wouldn't worry, Ginger is a strong, brave girl" Skipper said while breaking the tension.
" I guess so..." Kowalski said letting his eyes turn glassy and his mind start to wonder, he turned towards Skipper and tried to speak.
" Skipper, if-if I could have a moment"
Skipper knew what this was about, he put his flipper up to tell Private and Rico to leave the room, immediately. He walked over towards Kowalski, slowly of coarse there was enough tension in the room he didn't need to add more. Kowalski just had a look of embarrassment but tension on his face.
" I-I accept your invitation"
Skipper smiled a keen smile, but dislodged it right away, he knew that Kowalski would take his offer and relax for a while with Ginger, if she came back that is, he wasn't holding his tongue however.
" Okay Kowalski, I'll talk to Missy, she'll get you in there anytime" Skipper walked away and to where the others were.
He could feel a new determination coming over him, mostly because he felt like he promised Kowalski that Ginger would come back, he wasn't promising anything but he felt like he was, Kowalski knew that Ginger might not come back, there was a good ratio that she might not. Skipper's heart however was telling him different. In his heart she'd be back.
And she'd be back for good.
P.S: yes I tried to make it interesting, but I'm just so busy with school so I apologize, for the people wondering, When the heck are Ginger and Kowalski reuniting? It'll come slow you have to go through the punches in life I'm afraid, but I won't linger too long.
Gotta.....keep....writing.....
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