The Waterfall's Nymph
Chapter 10 – Why?
Why? Why had he done something like this to her? What had she done to him to...deserve this? Had she done something wrong to him? Yes it's true that sometimes she might annoy him a little with her excessive curiosity but...had she annoyed him so much to reach the point of having him doing what he did? Why? Sitting on a corner, with her legs against her chest and her head hidden between her knees, tears spouted out from her eyes and fell silently down her cheeks...as the memories of a week ago came back to her mind once again...
"Is it really her?" "Yes, it's her" "Excuse me?" said Sulfus "We came to get that girl" answered one of the cops, the dark haired boy frowned, he wasn't understand the reason of why they wanted to take Nymph, he looked at his parents who also had stood up from the sofa and had approached, he hoped at least for them to explain clearly what was going on. His mother instead of speaking up approached them even more and put her arms, comfortably, around Nymph.
"May someone just tell what the hell is going on here?" said Sulfus, he saw one of the cops taking out a transparent bag that had something inside there, after well analyzed, the boy understood that it was a necklace, a pearl necklace.
"We received a complaint that a pearl necklace was stolen and it was described to us that this young girl was the stealer" the boy looked at the two cops, incredulous, Nymph stole? It was impossible!
"I don't believe in it" affirmed the boy
"Well you better believe in it, boy. The necklace was found on her bedroom and we also have a photo that shows us the moment of the stealing" explained one of the cops, taking out a photo from his pocket, the same moments ago h had in his hand, Sulfus took the photo in his hand and widened his eyes when he realized that the girl in the photo was without any doubts Nymph: the girl at the photo had the same blonde hair, the same celestial blue eyes, the same white rose hanging on the hair and exactly the same clothes she had worn about two days ago, he remembered both had gone out for a walk and that he had left her alone for a few moments to go buy a few things he needed...in the hands of the girl at the photo was the pearl necklace being hidden inside the jacket's pocket...
Was it really true that she had used that time to steal the necklace? But why? Why did she need a pearl necklace? That was when the words of a few nights ago that he had heard his father say and that for a long time had stayed wandering around his mind: I don't trust that girl...
The proof that she had committed that crime was at this very moment in his hands...and the cops had found the necklace in-between her belongings...he felt an anger that he hadn't felt for a very long time, he suddenly turned to the young blonde haired girl that was still in his mother's arms.
"How could you?" he said suddenly to the girl, she looked at him confused "How could you have done something like this?"
"Sulfus..." said Seraph, sending him a reproving look as if warning him to not talk like that...however the boy didn't listen to her and keep using the same tone
"I trusted you, I thought you were different! I never gave up on you when someone turned against you, I protect you from these people, I brought you to my house and you do this? You steal a necklace?" Ninfa jumped when she heard that, no, no, it was a lie, she hadn't done such a thing! She shook her head continuously, denying having done such a thing, she walk to him, grabbed his arm, begging with her eyes for him to believe in her, on her innocence! But Sulfus didn't do that, on the contrary, he rudely removed his arm from the girl's grip which somehow nearly caused her to fall, but she managed to keep her balance.
"You can stop with the disguise, maybe it's even true what I heard my father say...maybe you're not even mute, you made it all up only to approach me and my family!" Nymph keep shaking her head, trying to make him believe in her, he was wrong; she hadn't been the one stealing that necklace! But the next words told by the boy affected her in such a way...
"I don't believe in you"
The impact of these words on the girl's heart had been so much that the girl froze completely in that place, her crystalline blue eyes widened as never before...and as if affected as well by the words, the string of the music box's necklace that she had begun to wear around her neck, broke and the small music box slowly fell on the floor, echoing through the room...
Tears formed up on the girl's eyes, tears that quickly began to slide down her face...she didn't even know if she was breathing...her hands started shaking...her mouth dropped...she was too shocked to react...so shocked that she didn't even fought when the cops took her arms and guided her out of the house...she only had on her mind the hard words of Sulfus and the hatred look he had given to her...
Stupid, stupid! She should have never believed in him, she should have never trusted in him! The alpha male, that even though was an animal had raised her since she remembered, had been always right, he didn't trust in him until the very last minute and always had motives to do so...she instead had trusted too much in him, she had trusted him blindly, she had showed him all the secret places of the place she lived, place that should never be discovered by anyone...
And it was because of that blind trust that she was here now...arrested on that cell...like a bird locked up on a cage...ever since she had arrived there that she had lost her appetite, she had lost her will to sleep, she simply stayed there, shrunk on a corner of that dark cell...only Seraph and Elisabeth had come to visit her two days ago, Nymph didn't even try to get away from Sulfus' mother, it was with the boy she was hurt, now she didn't even want to see him in front of her but his mom...his mom had been an angel, she had gone to her, she had hugged her, comforted her as she cried and shook in her arms, she had told her that she and Elisabeth believed in her innocence...these last words had comforted her somehow but not enough, the person she most wanted to believe in her, didn't believe...he had abandoned her...
As if all of this wasn't enough, for a little while she hasn't been feeling well, the cell was cold and wet, however Nymph sweated a lot and felt too hot. She tried to stand up from the corner where she always had been sitting and tried to walk towards what in the prison they called a bed, but as soon as she stood up, she had to hold herself against the wall so she wouldn't fall, her vision was turve, unfocused, she couldn't see well the forms...that was when she didn't hang on any longer and fell to the floor, everything around her started becoming dark...
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It was Christmas Day and however Sulfus didn't felt like celebrating anything at all...he couldn't take her out of his mind...it has been a week since they had taken her and however the memories of her didn't disappear from his mind...he felt betrayed, he had trusted in her and she had broken that trust...why had she stolen that necklace? His father had always been right, she hide a lot of things and now he could see why...however he couldn't get rid of the weight of a guilty feeling that he felt in his heart...maybe he had been too hard on her or maybe not...he had seen the state she had stayed after he had told her these words...
I don't believe in you
He still remembered clearly how the tears had fallen from the girl's eyes, how her crystalline blue eyes had widened...in his hand was now the small music box that had stayed behind when Nymph was taken by the cops...he opened it and let the soft melody play...he remembered well when he told her the story of Raf and on that same day he had told her to wear the small music box around her neck as if it was a necklace...
It came back to his memory a Summer day they had spent together, it was a day where Nymph had showed him one of the many hideouts of the place she lived
"Are you sure this liana is safe? It seems to me that it's going to break anytime soon!" said Sulfus when he held the old liana, he had to balance in it to be able to reach the other side of the land, under them stood the lake and they were a few good feet from it, not that the dark haired boy was afraid of heights, but he didn't really want to fall down there...Nymph nodded with her head and took the liana, she took some impulse and balanced towards the other side, landing there perfectly, then she threw the liana to him meaning it was his turn to do it.
Sulfus sighed, grabbed the liana tightly, he took some impulse and balanced just like she had done so he could reach the other side. However it seemed like the nature was against him, on the moment his feet were about to touch the land, the liana broke and the boy fell into the water, making a huge splash.
He came to the surface as soon as he could, obviously he was completely wet, he looked daggers at the blonde haired girl who was a few feet above his head with a funny face "Oh so it is safe huh?" he barely had time to react because when he realized, the girl had thrown herself next to him, inside the water.
Suddenly Sulfus stopped the melody, closing the music box in his hand, a hatred look suddenly filled up his amber eyes, damn it! He couldn't stop thinking about her, damn it! He looked with anger at the object in his hand and with intentions of throwing it to the floor to break it, he raised his hand in the air but then...it started shaking...the object fell on the bed's blanket... the boy's hand keep shaking...he couldn't...he couldn't do it...he couldn't break that music box...he couldn't get rid of Nymph's memories...
That was when Seraph walked in the room, weirdly she didn't even knock, she closed the door strongly so her son would raise his head and realize that she was there in the room...and that was what exactly happened...
"We need to talk" she said using a hard tone
"If it's about what I'm thinking then forget it, I'm not talking..." answered the boy
"But you will"
"Will you make me?"
"If it's needed, yes and you'll listen to me either you want or not!" said Seraph walking towards her son, sitting down next to him on the bed, the boy was about to stand up so he wouldn't have to listen to his mother but she grabbed his arms and forced him to sit down again on the bed "Sulfus Zolfanello, you will listen to me!"
"I don't want to talk about her!"
"But you will talk! You will talk because you committed an injustice!"
"Oh I was the one who committed injustice? She was the one who stole that necklace! She betrayed my trust!"
"No Sulfus, you betrayed her trust in you! She trusted you, she always trusted that you would be there to protect her and however you turned your back on her when she more needed you while she always was with you on the hardest moments!"
"I didn't turn my back on her, I simply realized who she really is and she is nothing more than a stealer, a liar-"
PLAF
Sulfus touched his face that was now turning red, his mother had never slapped him...and he also had never seen her so angry before...
"You turned your back on her Sulfus" affirmed Seraph "You have no idea in the state she is, in the state you put her in when you told her that"
"And I suppose you know..."
"I do, I do more than you think. I went to visit her two days ago with your sister, she is very down, the guards told me that she hasn't been eating anything, she hasn't been sleeping, all they see her do is cry, shrunk in a corner, she doesn't react to anything"
"Oh and I'm the culpable of all of it?"
"Partly yes you are, she wanted you to believe on her innocence, for you to support her now that she needed you. She trusted more in you than she ever trusted me..."
"I saw the proof, the necklace was in-between her things, that photo proved that she was guilty!"
"Forget what you saw, instead of that listen to your heart, deep inside there what does your heart tells you? Do you really think she would do such a thing?"
Sulfus didn't answer for a few moments, then he shook his head "I don't know...I don't know what to believe..."
That was when a soft knock on the door interrupted the conversation of the two of them. The door opened and Bianca walked in "I'm sorry if I disturb but Miss Kabale Rosso is here and needs to talk urgently with Mister Sulfus" Sulfus frowned...Kabale wanted to talk to him? Why? And above all with urgency?
"Let her in" Bianca stepped aside and Kabale walked in slowly on the boy's bedroom, she seemed nervous, so much that he saw her putting a piece of her hair behind her ear, a sign of nervousness. He thought he had seen her gulping...
"Sulfus I need to talk to you...it's really important...it's about that girl..."
"You want to talk with me about Nymph...?" said slowly the boy
"Yes I do...she...she is very ill"
TBC...