I'm sorry for not updating sooner, I had tests to do... I thank everyone for reviewing MYLY (Meeting you, and Loving you), I'm very grateful :).

Questioning the Truth

The voice was stuck in my head, I just couldn't forget it, it's like I heard the voice before but I don't remember who the owner was. Arthur was still holding my hand as we continued down the flight of spiralling stairs; it sucked because there wasn't any electric lights to help us lead the way, so instead, Arthur used the medieval torch with the flickering fire dancing on the spot on the massive wooden stick.

"Arthur... There was this strange voice in my head..."

Arthur looked at me as if I was insane for a second there; I rolled my eyes at his reaction and remained silent for the rest of the way down the stairs. Arthur's hand was clutching tightly around my hand as if he was desperately keeping me safe and protected. I wasn't sure if my heart skipped a beat there...

When we reached the end of the stair case, there was a small slab of rock sticking out from the entrance. Arthur quietly led me inside, I thought he feared the dragon might pop out of nowhere and attack us since it never really got a lot of visitors; actually, it never had visitors considering the castle is out of bounds.

"Welcome!" a deep, old voice greeted, shocking me and Arthur.

Suddenly, a strong gush of wind beat across our face as the massive leathery wings of the dragon same into view. I was breath taken; I've never seen a real life dragon before, let alone a talking one. Arthur seemed to be smiling at my reaction and expression towards the dragon and took a step forward staring at the magnificent beast. For some reason this all felt very familiar to me, it was as if I had spoken to this dragon before.

I gathered up my courage and spoke up, "Umm... Have I spoken to you before?"

Arthur looked at me like I had a mental disorder then looked back at the dragon. The dragon laughed a vibrating and chilly laugh as he bent his head down as if he wanted to see a better view of me while trying to push Arthur out of the way.

"I've known you for thousands of years..." he began, his voice was extremely loud like standing in front of an aeroplane taking flight, "I suppose you remember me too, young Emrys"

My eyes felt strange, it was as if a flickering fire had appeared, then disappeared when it heard the name 'Emrys'. Arthur looked twice as confused; it seemed he didn't notice my eyes' flickering in anyway.

"What are you talking about? Merlin's name isn't Emrys!" Arthur stated loudly and in annoyance.

The dragon spared him a glance and laughed, "You never change Arthur Pendragon, as arrogant as you always are yet noble and emotional all rolled up into one person. It seems you haven't learnt how to contain your wild and confused emotions"

This time it was my turn to gape at the dragon while Arthur seemed to blush a little for some reason, "W-What's going on?" I asked in puzzlement.

"Perhaps you should come back when you are ready young ones," suggested the dragon as he was prepared to set off into the upper half of the cave again.

"Wait!" Arthur and I yelled in unison, but the dragon already left and all you could hear was his flapping wings echoing throughout the cave and his taunting laughter ringed in my ears.

Meeting the dragon was strange and unnerving, never had I felt so confused and puzzled about what was happening in my life. Often I would wonder why I met Arthur and then forget him in the first place and why was Arthur the only person I had forgotten, not anybody else? I always thought there was something missing, but what - no, who exactly?

"Let's go eat something, are you hungry?"

I snapped out of my thoughts as Arthur dragged me out the dungeon and into the empty kitchens. It seemed odd having nobody around here, it was like there was supposed to be a dozen people here cooking and causing a racket.

The kitchens were bright; light was spreading across the dusty, unused tables, there were still knives hanging on the walls, cupboards filled with clay cups, metallic goblets, rock plates, china plates, fragile bowls, metal bowls and other extremely heavy eating utensils. The forks and spoons on the other hand were scatter across the table with words engraved at the corners. Strangely enough the handwriting was familiar.

"That's my handwriting..." Arthur interrupted, staring at the table oddly like I was, "That's weird..."

My eyes grew wide when I heard, I was beginning to feel this place was scaring me, it was like some treasure here, everything felt right to me but no pictures were forming in my head; great, more déjà vu. I tugged at Arthur's shirt, signalling him that I wasn't that hungry anymore and I didn't want to stay any longer; it seemed he was agreeing with me and pulled me through and out the castle.

"Is it just me or did this place just feel like I belonged there for some reason?" he asked as he led me back to the train station.

"I don't know. Did you feel like this before?"

Arthur shook his head, "It only appeared when you are around me actually, like at school I just feel like teasing you and ruffling your hair"

I was half shocked and half happy about the reply, "Guess I should be flattered then?"

"Of course you should be. Who gets to be on a date with the mighty Arthur Pendragon?" he noted with a laugh.

"Sophia..." I whispered quietly, not wanting Arthur to hear my comment.

"What?" he stared at me wide eyed, obviously he heard my remark, "I didn't know you were that jealous of my all so beautiful girlfriend!"

I raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, oh so beautiful indeed," I coughed under my breath, "If she were so beautiful why not go take her on this date as well?"

"Because she isn't special to me duh," Arthur replied smugly, "I know how you feel about me, Merlin"

Shit. That was the one word I thought of when I heard Arthur. I mean, like seriously? Was it that obvious? Did I blush too much? Or is it that he's just super observant? I really hated it when people just come out from nowhere and then straightforwardly blurt out something so tender and emotional. Dealing with a multi-faced Arthur was bad enough, but now facing an Arthur is not only multi-faced, but also knows my soft spot and is twice as observant and not to mention more arrogant than he was before!

"Merlin, are you still living?"

Great, now he's emphasising my name? It also appeared that he was enjoying doing this bickering...

"Umm... Merlin, why are you ignoring me?" Arthur stared at me in confusion, and then burst out laughing, "It's the name isn't it?"

"No it's not," I denied, crossing my arms.

"Oh, it so is! Come on don't run away like a girl," Arthur pushed my buttons one by one, trying to test my patience, "Wait don't worry, you're already one"

"Heh, you'd wish that then I'd be perfect for you," I remarked, smirking at him while he was blinking in shock, "Oh yeah, go ahead and blink, I've won this round"

We were already arrived at the train station and the clock said it was 3:20; I didn't know we spent that much time at the castle. Arthur seemed to have given up on conjuring another insult, or he might be thinking about the perfect one to aim at me when we get back home.

Taking a seat, I waited for Arthur as he went to the nearest vending machine and bought me a small bar of mars chocolate while he got himself a long flake. He remembered that I wasn't all so into sweets and was very sensitive about my physical appearance and weight. He had tried to convince me into eating more chocolate by saying that I was way too thin for my own good and practically resembled a stick.

The arguments went on and on until the train finally arrived, but we even argued about sitting in which seat; the passengers all stared us we're insane. I tried my best to keep my cool and not get irritated by Arthur's annoying and taunting remarks about my oversized ears.

"Come on Merlin, given up already?" Arthur smirked as he leaned forward.

"You have no idea how bad –"

"You want to thank me for bringing you to this magnificent date?"

"No, I was meant to say... How badly I want to punch you at the moment"

Arthur raised his eyebrow before leaning in closer, "You wouldn't be able to even leave a scratch on me," he smiled cheekily.

"Don't judge a book by its cover," I stated, "I'm stronger than I look you know"

"Oh, really?" Arthur didn't look convinced, "The very book that blushed every time I passed by... Very strong of you"

I rolled my eyes in exasperation and ignored him the whole time during the train ride while he tried to regain my attention by either leaning closer to my face or 'accidently' bumping into me whenever the train came to a stop at the train stations. Sitting next to Arthur Pendragon has never been so tiring...

When the train stopped at our station, we exited and headed home hoping nobody would catch us together; after all we didn't hang out at school. Unfortunately, Sophia seems to be at the exact same train station we were currently on. I noticed Arthur nervously fidgeting as we headed to the stairs passing Sophia and some other guy she was with. I felt sorry for Arthur; his girlfriend was going out with some other guy...

"Are you OK?" I asked in full concern as we walk past a small fountain; we were at Sherman Park, "Arthur?"

Arthur snapped out of his trance, "Huh? Oh! Sophia? Nah, I'm fine, she's always like that, besides, she's been like that with her previous boyfriend too," he answered quickly, trying to not make eye contact with me, "Look I gotta go and think about some things..."

I nodded in understanding while Arthur headed for the opposite direction; right where Sophia was. I didn't know whether to feel guilty or to feel jealous, he took me on a date when he already had a girlfriend, I liked him, but he still liked Sophia.

Trudging past the school building, I took a peek inside; Gwen and Lance were hanging out together while Morgana was whining about something to Brendan. It seemed they were doing drama outdoors today. Mr. Swadling was talking to Nimueh, well mostly ordering her to keep the class silent while she was listening to her iPod ignoring him. I chuckled to myself when I saw Valiant in a rosy pink gown saying the lines of Romeo and Juliet, he must be Juliet.

Creeping past, I was luckily enough to pass the school gates without being caught wagging and when I reached home I realised I had nothing to do. Arthur's laptop was open and there was a message left for him. I didn't want to intrude, so I tried to ignore the beeping, but my curiosity got the better of me and I rushed towards the laptop and opened the message.

It said:

Hey, this is Will, how are ya man? I heard Merlin is living at your place, you better not lay a finger on him, otherwise... Besides that threat I wanna tell you I don't want my best friend hurt thanks, if you wanna play games then use someone else. Oh, don't you dare tell Merlin that I bloody hell talking to someone like you alright?"

I heard about you and Sophia and that engagement your father arranged for you. I still don't get why you moved man. Oh well, see ya.

I read the message over and over again. Will, my best friend was talking to Arthur without me knowing. Did he know Arthur before? I knew I lost my memory, but Will said he told me everything that should have happened in my past life, yet I didn't remember Arthur.

My own mother kept some things from me too. I realised as I scanned through my memory, that she never talked about Arthur either, she had hidden the doctor's information about the accident and she never told me about it. Will too, didn't tell me about what happened and now I didn't know whether to trust Arthur at all.

The sentence Sophia and engagement struck me like a sharp knife. Why didn't Arthur tell me? I felt betrayed, I wondered if he was playing around with my feelings since he knew about them already and perhaps that date was to lure me into a deadly trap. Unfortunately though, I had already begun my long fall down...

"Merlin... What are you doing on my laptop?"

I turned around to find an extremely pissed off Arthur... I shrunk down into the chair as Arthur moved closer, his eyes dark and emotionless. I just hoped this wasn't going to scar me for the rest of my life...