Chap. 4
"Open it." He said, handing it to her. Curious she took it.
Inside was a bracelet. It was a beautiful silver chain with a heart shaped
locket on the end. Carved on the locket were intricate lines that wove in
and out. It was the most beautiful detailed Irish design she had ever
seen.
"Open it." He urged again.
She opened it with a click. There was a picture of him on the left side
and a locket of his fire red hair on the right.
She smiled up at him tears welling in her eyes.
"It's so wherever you go you can always remember me, even when I'm not with
you.' He smiled down at her.
Now tears started trickling down her cheeks.
"What's the matter?" He looked pained.
"Don't you like it?"
She started sobbing.
He frantically tried to calm her.
"There, there sweet. Look I have one too! Look there's you on the left,
and a lock of your hair on the right."
He hugged her and she cried into his shirt. HE lifted her up and carried
her over to the bed. He sat on it and cradled her trying to quiet the
sobbing girl.
"What's the matter?" He asked trying to get something out of her.
She sniffed.
"Oh Ron, it's not that I don't like it, I do!, oh it must have cost a
fortune! How did you manage to afford it?"
"I got a job; I don't have to rely on my mum and dad for everything." He
said, ice coming into his voice.
She looked up at him with wide eyes.
"Don't be angry with me. It's just so much happened to day and."
The whole story spilled along with another fresh wave of tears.
Ron got up and paced.
"You mean you're leaving?" He said with a pained look.
"Ron, I have to. I'm not safe here. And I'm going to see if Stri will let
me bring the girls, and Legolas is coming. He's my body guard now you
know."
He grimaced.
"That's what I was afraid of."
He stopped pacing. She stood up and crossed the room to him.
"Why?, it's not like we're lovers Ron, he's just my body guard and a good
friend of the families."
She saw him visibly wince when she said lovers. They both knew that
Legolas loved Erin. She had been betrothed to Legolas from birth. Before
Erin knew Ron, or that she was even a princess. But she changed all of
that.
She smiled a winning smile at him and said,
"You are my lover."
He relaxed noticeably and let himself be hugged. For the first time in
awhile Erin felt that something, like she did when ever she was with him,
like warmth, but better. She felt special, and loved. She smiled as his
fingers ran down her back.