Chapter Four
Fuu sat on her great canopy bed, her knees were drawn up to her
chin and her hands rapped around them. Her dark green silk gown.
"Ferio," she whispered for the millionth time. She
broke into sobs calling for him.
Fuu's mother, the queen, walked into her room. Her green eyes
were fierce. "Fuu my child, your father is very upset."
Fuu looked up. "And I am not?!" Fuu cried. "I left
and made a new life, and you tore me away from it!"
Her mother shook her head, "please Fuu-chan, you will forget
you ever left the castle."
Fuu glared at her mother with an even more fierce look than her
own mother.
"I have to finish getting ready for the banquet." Her
mother announced as she hurried off.
As soon as her mother was gone, she went out onto her balcony.
The sun had set leaving the sky just as dark as Fuu's mood. The
night chilled like her heart. Fuu longed for Ferio to snuggle
with during this cold. The coldness she felt could only be warmed
by Ferio and his love.
She clutched her necklace from Ferio. The only thing she had from
him, or at least she thought.
Fuu was less than excited to be sitting at the great table along
with a prince, the very same who had come for her in the village.
"My dear Fuu, what were you thinking running away and living
a with common boy?" He asked.
Fuu glared at him, "Ferio wasn't common at all."
The young prince laughed. "Silly girl, you weren't there
long enough to really know him. He had to have known you were the
princess, and being so poor he only wanted you for your
money."
"And that makes you any better?" Fuu asked. "I
think not."
Fuu's mother gave her a look and Fuu simply returned it, causing
her mother's eyes to widen.
'I'll get through this,' Fuu thought to herself. 'But before the
night has gone, I will be gone.'
Fuu's eyes widened as Lii's hand slide up her thigh. She jumped
up just as her father began to speak.
"May I present my daughter princess Fuu and her husband to
be, prince Lii." The king said in a loud and booming voice.
Lii stood up beside Fuu and kissed her hand.
"And the fist dance of the night belongs to them," her
sister Kuu said as she winked at Fuu.
Fuu cringed as the slow waltz music began. The last thing she
wanted to do was dance with *him*. But endure she must, for the
time being at least.
As they danced Lii talked only of himself and Fuu spent the
entire dance day dreaming of running back into Ferio's open arms.
Fuu sulked the rest of the banquet and was happy to retire to her
room at last at half past one. Fuu put on her white satin night
gown and went out onto her balcony. She wanted desperately for
Ferio to hold her.
Lii stepped into the room, "a guard will be watching your
room."
"No!" Fuu yelled angrily. "You can't treat me like
some treasure!"
"Oh, but you are Fuu-chan, a wonderful treasure." Lii
replied.
Fuu turned her back on him, and she didn't turn back, even after
he had left. Fuu leaned against a pillar in her balcony door way.
She closed her emerald green eyes. She rapped her arms around
herself and imagined that Ferio was there holding her in his
arms.
There are times
I swear I know you're here
When I forget about my fears
Feeling you my dear
Fuu again felt the all too familiar hot tears streaming down her
cheeks. She would be forced to marry Lii and leave behind her
only time of true happiness.
Watchin over me
And my hope seeks
What the future will bring
When you wrap me in your wings
And take me...
"Ferio will save me," she whispered with a smile.
A silly dream, but just like a fairy tale, he'd rescue her and
take her home.
Where you are
Where you and I will breathe together
Once again
Fuu played back a memory from her first night at Ferio's. How
they danced slowly in the moon light. How it was the most
romantic dance of her life.
We ' ll be dancing in the moonlight
Just like we used to do
And you ' ll be smilin back at me
Only then will I be free
When I can be
Where you are
Fuu stared up at the moon and prayed that Ferio was looking at
the moon and thinking of her too. A little way for them to
connect even though they can't see each other. She blew a kiss to
the moon and asked the moon to give Ferio the kiss for her.
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Ferio looked to the moon, though it's radiance had dimmed since
he had first lay eyes on Fuu. The girl he loved, was the
princess. And he had no claim to her, nothing to tie the two
together.
And I can see your face
Your kiss I still can taste
Not a memory erased
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A warm feeling crept over Fuu as she felt Ferio thinking of her.
Oh, I see your star
Shining down on me
And I'd do anything
If I could just
Be right there...
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"Fuu-chan, I wish that you were here." Ferio whispered
sadly. "But 'here', is so plain and un like a castle. How
could I wish her away from the wealth she was born for?"
She would be much better off, much safer in castle with a prince.
He assured himself of that. But it hurt him so that she was gone,
his one source of joy.
Now baby there were times when selfishly
I ' m wishing that you are here with me
So I can wipe the tears away from your eyes
"I love you." Ferio whispered.
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Fuu crawled into her big soft bed. It felt particularly empty and
large this night. Without Ferio to comfort her, she cried herself
to sleep.
While she slept, she felt his watchful and protective presence,
calming the lonely cries of her heart.
That every night while you are dreamin
I'm here to guard you from a far
And anytime I feel alone
I close my eyes and just be there...
Where you are
Fuu awoke suddenly and called out Ferio's name. Sobs racked her
body and she swore loudly. She couldn't live with Ferio, and she
couldn't live without Ferio, and she couldn't live then perhaps
she just wouldn't live at all.
"Why live at all..." She whispered.
The song 'Where You Are' belongs to Jessica simpson