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Chapter 14: Will I ever see you again?
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"All right, we're here…", I said when we got to the inn.
We'd spent the last half an hour telling each other stories about our lives, and walking by the river. I know it sounds boring, but we were just being ourselves and we had some good laughs together. It's funny, we didn't have 'love at first site', or 'getting lost in each other's eyes from the first day', or 'people kept pulling us apart' things, and still…
Well, we had the 'I saved your life', 'I almost killed you twice' and the 'You're nothing but trouble' things, though. How romantic.
"I guess this is the goodbye then.", he answered me.
He had helped me climb to the balcony, where we were that moment.
"Damn it Connor, I'm going with you!", I said and he held my hands.
"I can't let you do that!"
"Why?"
"To the war? I'm not taking the girl I…", small pause, "I'm not taking you to a battlefield.".
I wondered if he was going to say love…
"Will I ever see you again?", I asked, getting really sad.
"I will look for you."
"I hope you find me then."
I got in and he waved goodbye. The bedroom was really dark. I was not sure what to do, I started closing the 'balcony door' and stared at him from the inside. Damn it! That was hard! Not sure why, I opened the door again and he hugged me. We held each other for a while and then he kissed me on the cheek.
That was it. Probably the last time I saw him…
I got in and didn't look back this time. The girls should be sleeping, so I didn't light any oil lamp. I heard him climbing down that plant and lied down on the bed. I just laid there for a while, thinking. I couldn't see anything.
"So what did you do?", a voice said in the dark and I recognized Tara. I just laughed and heard three other voices laugh too. Damn, they were all awake!
"Just sleep, people.", I said.
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I opened my eyes that morning and immediately thought about last night. I looked around, realizing I had fallen asleep with my clothes on and laid on the bed, which was 'attached' to the others. Tara was already dressing a blue dress (dressing a dress… Yeah.); Natalie and Sophia were still sleeping.
"Good morning!", Tara said when she saw I was awake.
"Not really, but… Hey.", I said, thinking about Connor, getting out of bed. She hugged me.
"I'm so sorry. I heard Mrs. Gretchen saying he left a few hours ago.", she said, putting her arms around me.
"So he did go…"
"I'm sorry."
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It didn't take long until we were all awake and ready for breakfast. I kept my normal clothes. They kept asking me questions about the previous night, but I just said 'we'll talk about it later'.
This is not important, but the bathrooms there were much different… The toilets were taller and there wasn't a bathtub like today, it was like a huge bucket… Why am I talking about the bathrooms?!
They led me downstairs into this huge room for breakfast. It had the tables attached to each other, which reminded me of Harry Potter's meals in that room with the huge tables, where they were all together eating.
We sat in a random place and the breakfast was… porridge. Yey… I had never eaten that, so I just stared at it.
"Something wrong?", Sophia asked.
"No, it's just… I'm not used to eat this.", I answered, twirling the spoon over and over again.
"Well what do you usually eat?", Natalie asked.
"Well, cereals with milk, or… Maybe toasts with butter…", I said. (just reminding that I wasn't born in America, so in my house we don't eat the typical American breakfast).
"Oh wow… Toasts? Where do you live? You must be rich.", Sophia said.
"Not really… It's just what everyone eats…", I said, not knowing how to explain that.
After lots of tries, I was finally able to eat it. It wasn't that bad after all… Kind of… I noticed there was also tea in the table and lots of alcoholic drinks (wow, for breakfast… nice).
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"So don't you guys have school or something here?", I asked as we left the inn to take a walk.
"There's no school in the village.", Tara said, "Mr. and Mrs. Clark teach us lots of things, though.".
"Don't change the subject, Hannah! We all want to know what you did last night.", Sophia said.
"Not much. We walked by the river and talked.", I answered and we sat on a wooden bench nearby.
"Well what did you talk about?", Natalie asked.
"About everything. We told stories about our lives and stuff."
"Did you try to ask him to stay?", Tara asked.
"Yes, but he said he had to go.", I answered.
"I'm sorry, Hannah.", Tara said. I shrugged.
That was a long day. We had lunch (dinner) with Lola and Rick, I found out that the girls had their own stand in the market, selling jewelry made from natural things, like leafs and flowers. I helped them sell some things and then they took me to a place I'd never been before: The stable.
It was huge, a little far away from the center of the village. It had lots of horses, beautiful ones. I'm the kind of person that just loves animals.
"Oh my… I can't believe Connor didn't show this to me.", I said, petting a very nice horse.
"They're beautiful, aren't they?", Tara said.
"Yes."
"You want to go for a ride?", Tara asked.
"Oh, I never had equestrian lessons.", I said.
"It's not hard.", Natalie said, pulling a horse out of the stable.
"And we can just take them?", I asked.
"My sister Sabrina owns this place. I talked to her. She doesn't mind.", Tara said.
"Sabrina? Connor's ex-girlfriend?", I asked and she laughed.
"Yes. What? Are you jealous?", Tara said, getting on a horse.
Oh God, here it goes, I thought as I got on the horse. They were all wearing dresses, so they rode with their legs to one side. That looked hard, thank God I was wearing my jeans and could ride normally.
End of Chapter 14. Hope you liked it – Please let me know in the reviews.