"You and Mo are like, the main characters in the Inkheart series!" She was very happy at this realization, that is, until she finally noticed the tears pooling on the floor, "did I say something, what's wrong?"
"I'm just… a story book character?" I asked trying not to let that much emotion into my voice, which I failed miserably at.
Fengolio, got up, "I have to go!" Guys just can't take it when they start seeing tears, even old men like Fengolio seemed that way. He anxiously ran down the stairs.
"Uh… well…" she looked like she didn't know what to say.
"Ok," I tried to fake a smile, but the tears seemed to be coming faster.
"Are you Ok?" She asked, looking really worried.
"Yes of course! I always guessed that maybe my reality wasn't really a real reality," I managed to keep my voice from cracking that time, and wiped the tears away, but she wasn't fazed.
"No you're not," she stated, "you can't just bottle it all up, spill." She said. Of course, Cornelia Funke just had to read a smart girl here, couldn't she read somebody who could give it a break when I say I'm fine! Gosh!
I sighed she wasn't going to take no for an answer was she? "I guess I just feel bad because, I don't get to be a part of reality, I can't ever have an effect on a real person, I don't exist." I whispered the last word; it's terrible to learn something like that.
"I know you love books," she said, "are you going to tell me that the characters in your favorite books have never had any effect on you? Really, when you think about it book characters can affect more people than actual people do, and you are kind of famous in my world, the books you are in, sell all over the world, I live in Florida and your author lives in Europe. Hey, you don't speak in any European language, or even accent! Well I guess that makes a little sense since she was reading out of the English version... anyways you are just as important as I am."
At this I looked up, I think I felt allot better, "thank you... What's your name? I didn't get to ask you."
"It's Nikky, and you're welcome," she said, she looked kind of relieved, "so, what was that paper you were about to read?"
"Oh yeah, I really need to read it, Farid got shot!" I was fumbling around my dress pockets for the paper.
Nikki was in shock, "is he okay? Wait a sec, how are there guns here, I am in the right Inkheart right?"
I nodded, and finally found the paper, "here it is! Do you want to listen?" she nodded, so I started to read.
"That sounded just like how Cornelia Funke read it!" she said once I finished.
"I wouldn't be to surprised since she was the one who read you here," I said kind of quietly, "knowing Farid, as soon as they take out that bullet, Farid will be up and probably want to come over here," I cringed, I doubt he will actually get over me anytime soon, he really needs to accept that I'm in love with Doria. "They were planning on getting all the herbs and stuff ready by about, well, now, so he will probably have it out within a good hour," I looked at the watch I had asked Doria to make me, he was amazing, I just showed him Mo's old watch and he opened it up and copied the mechanisms exactly for my watch. "Do you want me to send you back now?" I asked, though she was taking being read into a book surprisingly well, she does seem a little off.
"No way, I need to at least stay for a couple more days, since I'm probably never going to come back here again, and it is completely beautiful here. There's the fairy nest!" she said pointing at the bee hive looking nest hanging from the ceiling, "I guess there not out since it's winter, and are they really the same color as Doria's eyes?"
"Yeah, I don't usually like blue eyes that much, but his eyes are such a pretty blue! Exactly like the fairies!" I said dreamily, I was smiling, thinking about Doria's fairy blue eyes.
"I hope I'll get to see him!" Nikky said, getting all excited again.
"I'm sure you will get to see him, maybe tomorrow!" I said, then I told her pretty much all I knew about the Inkworld and how the creatures looked and acted, then she started telling me about all these weird new technologies, like an IPad, this place doesn't even have plumbing!
It felt like we had been talking for only minutes, but when I finally looked at my watch, an hour had passed, I heard the door down stairs open, "right on cue," Nikky looked confused, then I told her, "Farid's here."
"Cool! I hope it went well!" she said, "Of course it went well!" she told herself, she went ahead of me out the door, and before I could register what was happening she fell out the door, since the step is like a foot below it, and I knew that the flight of stairs was very long, so I slowly walked towards the door expecting to see a bloody Nikky at the bottom of the stairs. Instead I saw Farid's shirtless back to me, with a bunch of gauze on the shoulder, I guess he couldn't put a shirt over the wound, he was holding Nikky up around the waste with his good arm. I walked down the steps to them, their noses were less than a centimeter apart, they were in a kind of shock and staring at each other, both wide-eyed, "Um... thanks for saving my life," she said still kind of frozen.
"You're welcome, for saving your life, I'm Farid by the way," he said, now smiling.
She immediately smiled back, "I'm Nikki."
I cleared my throat, they both blushed, but were still smiling at each other.
"Can you walk up the stairs Nikky?" Farid asked.
"Oh no, I might have hurt my ankle a little, I guess you'll just have to carry me," Nikky said pretending to be sad she had to be carried by the hot shirtless guy who just saved her life.
"Oh well, I guess I'll just have to..." he said, scooping her up in his arms easily and taking her upstairs to the room.
He didn't tell me he had feelings for me until after a whole year of knowing each other, yet here he is, I'm pretty sure he just fell in love with Nikky judging by the way he was just looking at her, I sighed, and followed them upstairs.