Secret Goddess

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Secret Goddess

Thirty-Six: Running

Elizabeth was excited everyone was excited. Jacqueline was excited but not too happy either. Today Michael was going to return and that meant he would be courting her. He had sent her letters but this would be different. As she looked herself in the mirror, she was dressed in a nice dress and her hair was held back.

"Oh I think they're coming." Jackson said.

Mary was already outside and, Elizabeth pulled Jacqueline forward as they saw the carriage that was bringing Michael and the rest of the man that had left. Jacqueline looked to her side and her mind was going to the man of her dreams, she would see him almost every night. He would talk to her about the flowers in the place she seemed to be able to explore. He would tell her about, how well he had kept her flowers. He would be so kind to her and she loved it, loved him.

"He's here." Her mother grabbed her arm and Jacqueline looked up to see the carriage with other boys of the village coming. Pippa held Jacqueline's hand she smiled bright at Pippa so she wouldn't know that she was freaking out.

"Mother!" they all heard and Jacqueline tried to hide in the back.

"Michael." Mary said and hugged her son. "Come see Jacqueline."

Both Michael and Jacqueline looked at each other and they weren't seeing each other as future husband and wife, they saw each other as the best friends they were.

"Jack."

"Michael." They both ran at each other and hugged each other tightly. They were going to get married in a few months so it didn't seem weird to them. The looked at each other and both noticed the changes in each other. Michael was taller than she was with dirty blond hair and blue-gray eyes and his body was huge, she was slim but strong with her brown hair long to waist and her brown eyes.

"I've missed my best friend." She told him.

"So have I." he told her, he let her go and looked at her. "Is good to see you, Jacqueline." He said.

"You too." Jacqueline said.

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The Burgess had done a dinner; where they were invited and all night Michael and Jacqueline were taunted to be together. Both of the them rolled their eyes and looked at each other with friendship affection not the ones their parents were looking for but the one that they felt it was the most real for them.

"So, son what will you be doing now?" John asked as they were all sitting on the living room.

"I plan on being the Sherriff of the town." Michael told him.

"Good, that is good." John said.

"How do you feel about being the future wife of the Sherriff?" Mary asked Jacqueline who was playing with the younger children.

"Okay." Jacqueline told them.

"Jacqueline will be well taken care of Jackson and Elizabeth." Michael told them. He turned to look at Jacqueline and she saw something there, like if he was losing something as well, the same thing Michael was seeing in her eyes.

"I'm certain you will." Jackson told him.

"I want the official permission to court your daughter." Michael told them but grabbed Jacqueline's hand tightly in his.

"You have it." Jackson told him.

"Thank-you." Michael said. "I also have a question, May Jacqueline and I go out to walk?"

"Of course, I understand both of you have much to talk about." Jackson said with a smile, he trusted Michael not to disgrace Jacqueline before their marriage.

"Jacqueline?" Michael said. Jacqueline got up and grabbed the hand Michael gave her, so she could stand from the ground where she was with the children. They walked outside and Jacqueline grabbed the staff that had belonged to her now that her Father got a new one.

"Good-luck." The adults told them.

Outside Jacqueline and Michael walked together looking around. Michael didn't know how to bring up what he wanted to say.

"It's been long." She told him.

"It has." He told her.

"Why Sherriff I thought you wanted to be Mayor?" she told him. Michael looked at her than looked at the forest and around the place to the others that were out.

"Many things changed." He told her. Jacqueline looked at him and saw that his eyes seemed to get this determination.

"Michael, what happened in that trip, you seemed changed?"

"I can say the same thing about you." He told her.

"I don't mean the physical Michael I mean something else happened with you something I can't explain." Jacqueline said.

"Do you remember when we were kids, how we always kept the secrets for each other." He told her. "Like the fact that you saw things that weren't there."

"Yes." She sighed out. They began to walk into the forest.

"I don't like the things going on, I see so much violence I saw it while I was away you know with the Indians I saw how some of us took their land." Michael said and Jacqueline grabbed his hand and pulled him farther into the forest. She knew that even if John Burgess was a bit more tolerant about some things said, if he found out Michael was very tolerant it wouldn't be so good.

"I race you to the lake." Jacqueline said with a smile and Michael laughed at that.

"You got it, I have longer legs now."

"I'm still faster." She told him. They both ran and were laughing as they ran in different places toward the lake and it felt like they were children again. They both arrived catching their breath as the lake came to view. It was already getting late but to them it didn't matter.

"Okay, so you got me alone." Michael said. Jacqueline grabbed some of the water and threw it at his face.

"Hey." He said.

"Now talk, you know not many people are tolerant." She told him.

"You could not believe what I saw, everything was terrible and some of them they were children there, Jack, the woman they were abused by us, how are we to say we're civilize when we do things that are terrible that way, they just want to defend their lands." Michael said sitting down. Jacqueline sat down next to him and hugged her knees. She laid her head on his shoulder.

"I don't think we're little kids anymore." She told him. "You haven't told me about Thomas." She said. She looked up to see that Michael turned to the other side.

"I…I can't talk about him." Michael told her.

"Why?" she said. "You always talked about Thomas; you told me that you cared a lot about him." Michael got up suddenly and grabbed at his hair.

"I just can't, Jacqueline you're going to be my wife you..." Michael didn't say anything and just threw a rock at the lake. Jacqueline got up and grabbed him, before she pulled his face toward her trying to comfort him.

"Michael you can talk to me, you have always been able too." she told him. Michael had tears in his eyes.

"He was very liberal and I liked that." Michael said.

"You were in love with him." she told him. Michael looked at her with frightened eyes. "I'm not going to say anything Michael."

"It's not right, it's a sin." Michael told her.

"I'm in love with an Indian, Michael." She told him. Michael laughed and grabbed her hands in his.

"It would be us who would be friends, he died got killed he was opened with what he was and I was not, I was weak." Michael said and Jacqueline pulled him close.

"I'm sorry." She told him. "I'm so sorry, you're not weak Michael."

"I should have gone with him." he told her. "I could never make the sacrifice for the man that I loved." They held each other like that.

"It's going to be fine." She told him.

"I love you too." he told her.

"I do too." She told him.

"But you're not in love with me." he told her.

"Neither are you." Jacqueline told him. Michael pulled her and looked at her.

"I promise to make you as happy as I can." Michael said.

"So do I, I love him, but I promise to make you happy, we'll have fun we always have, we'll be happy." Jacqueline said.

"Okay." He told her. "We should go or they going to think that we are doing something improper."

"Let's go." She told him.

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