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Yippee!! I finally managed to sit down and write the third chapter. I have been on vacation and was forced to live without a computer in my life. But I am back, so please read and review.
Looking Into Your Heart 3: A Simple Proposal
"What did you say?" Sarah asked, not really sure if she heard him correctly.
" You heard me." He said. " Although I really didn't want it to come out like that, and I apologize for being so blunt."
"No Shit," Sarah replied, shoving him in the chest and storming off a few steps away from him.
" No, you don't understand..." Jareth began, only to be cut off by Sarah. " No, YOU don't understand. What kind of a person do you think I am? Do you think that you can just walk right back into my life and request such a favor from me?"
" If you would just sit down and please let me explain," he said. She immediately sat down on the bench and he did the same. He was silent for a few minutes, staring at the sun as it settled behind the horizon. And Sarah became very impatient.
She finally said, " Well, are you going to talk to me?" He chuckled and turned his head to face her. " I see that not much has changed since we last met. You still are the impatient girl that I remember, even though you are now an impatient woman." He paused, then began:
" It all began when my father, Josephus, came to visit me not long after you defeated' me." He said, frowning at those last few words.
" I never knew that you had a father," Sarah said.
"Well of course I do." Jareth replied, " How do you think I came to be, or did you skip that chapter of human anatomy?" Sarah was ready with a snappy comeback, but decided to hold her tongue for fear that he might not continue with his story.
" Anyway, he came to see me and he explained that the reason he was there was to inform me that I should begin paying attention to my royal duties and the first order of business was that I should consider producing an heir in case something should have happened to me."
"So my father began to suggest many different women to whom I should court. And I did, but it was only to please him. He knew it, too. He would always visit to see if I had made any progress, and he always left a disappointed man. We kept this routine up for a long time, and after a few years I began to get bored, so I just gave up."
He paused again, then said, " On his last visit, my father informed me that it was a necessity that I have an heir because of a conflict that was brewing between his kingdom and a rival kingdom, and he feared that he would need me and my goblins help with any fighting that might occur."
" After he left, I sat down and really thought about it. And I came to a conclusion." he said, looking over at her.
Sarah had been hanging onto every word and waited for him to continue. When he didn't, she asked, " Well, What was the conclusion."
Jareth took a deep breath, let it out, and said, " I am not getting any younger. Hell, I am nearly 350 years old. And I realized that I wanted to have children, but not with any of those women that I courted. Sure, they all would've been wonderful mother to my children, but there was one quality that none of them had which I consider the most important quality in a woman."
" And what would that be," Sarah said. Jareth stood up and took a few steps away from her. then he turned around to face her and said, " They weren't you."
That caught Sarah off guard and she sat there, and she sat there and stared at him with a stunned expression on her face. They stayed like that for a minute or so, before Jareth finally walked over to the bench and knelt down in front of her.
He took her hands in his and he said to her, " Sarah, I have loved you ever since I first saw you. When you were in that park, reciting those line. I could see the passion that you had, and I fell in love with it. In the very end, when you couldn't remember the line, I was secretly hoping that you would never remember it, or that you would change your mind and not to say it at all, because I wanted you to stay with me and rule with me."
Sarah said, " Well, what did you expect? You had stolen my brother, forced me to play your games, and you even drugged me so that I wouldn't remember why I was there. You said it yourself, you can be very cruel."
"Sarah," he said. " the only reason that I drugged you and made you forget was because I wanted to show you how I felt. It almost worked, too. But you were so focused and determined. And in the end, I never would've kept Toby, I could see that he was loved. I only take the children who are unloved and unwanted by their families."
" And you led me on all that time?" she asked. " If I had known, I never would've had to go through that."
" True." Jareth said, " But you do have to admit, all in all, you did have a good time, didn't you?" he asked, a small, sly grin creeping on his face.
All that Sarah could do was look at him and smile before she began to chuckle, " I suppose I did, all in all."
She paused, then she said, "But I still don't know, Jareth. I mean, you come here and you ask me if I will sleep with you and have your child. I need time to think about this and I have to let all this sink in."
" I thought that you might say that," Jareth said. " and I will give you time to think. I will give you a week. But if you decide before the week is up, just call. I will be there immediately. But until then..." He kissed her hand first, then leaned up to give a quick kiss on the lips before she could react. Then he stood up and walked a few steps backwards, and he disappeared, leaving her there, a dazed look on her face.
Part Two
Sarah sat on that bench for what seemed to her like ten minutes. But she didn't realize that it had become completely dark. She looked at her watch and realized that it was after 10:00. She jumped up and said, " Holy shit." And she began to run home, her notebook tucked under her arm.
When she ran in the door, she found her father and her stepmother sitting at the dining room table, waiting for her.
" Sarah, thank god," her father said as he stood up to give her a hug. " I was about to call the police and report you missing. Where were you?"
" I was at the park and I just lost track of time," Sarah replied as she gave her stepmother a hug. " I am sorry. I just had a lot on my mind. And I had some things that I had to clear up."
" Well if it ever happens again, please call and tell us where you are," her father said.
" Now stop it," her stepmother replied. " But we aren't going to punish her because she probably had some women issues to deal with. Am I right, Sarah?"
"Exactly," Sarah said, looking from her father to her stepmother, and back.
" Well, I suppose that we can let it slide this time, just don't let it happen again. I am too young for a heart attack."
" I won't, dad." Sarah said. " Now you can go upstairs to bed because I can see that it's what you want to do."
He nodded, and headed upstairs. Her stepmother sat back down and said, " So, who is the guy?"
" How did you know?" Sarah said.
Her stepmother replied, " It is a woman thing. I can tell because you have that glazed look in your eyes. It says that you are in love, and yet you're confused. So who is it?"
" Well, it's a man that I met a few years ago. And I saw him again recently. I thought that he was out of my life, but when I saw him, I felt all of these different emotions running through me."
" Well it's obvious to me that you are in love with this man." her stepmother replied. " I had the same feelings when I met your father. It's the kind of thing where you can't get him out of your head. You're always thinking about him, no matter what." She began to walk over to the stairs to head up to bed, but turned around and said, " If you truly love this man, go for him. It will be a lot easier on you then trying to get him out of your head and out of your heart." And with that, she went upstairs and left Sarah sitting at the table.
Sarah thought long and hard about what her stepmother had just said to her. But she still was very confused. She decided that she would sleep on it and went upstairs to her room.
She lay in bed and looked up at her ceiling for a while still trying to sort the events of the day out and figure out what her reply was going to be. She gave up and fell asleep, unaware that her answer was waiting for her in her dreams.
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There!!! I did it!!!! And it only took me until three in the morning to finish it! Whatdo ya think about it? What do you suggest I do? Pleas, please, please, please review