Chapter 15: Your Highness
Jareth and Sarah spent the entire day together. He showed her everything. She had not seen the gardens around the castle, so he took her out there. They walked around and talked about everything that you could possibly imagine. They shared their deepest and darkest secrets with one another. Jareth's secret that he told Sarah, was that she was the first person that he had ever loved. And that he had sex with one woman before, but assured her that it meant nothing. That he was a wild teenager and did not know what he was doing. Sarah's secret was that she had never had sex before and that no man had ever seen her naked before this day.
When it was around lunch time, Sarah was starving but was afraid to ask Jareth for some lunch. He found out himself that she was hungry when he heard her stomach growling uncontrollably.
"Sarah are you hungry?"
"Ah, actually yes I am! I am starving."
"Then why didn't you say anything to me?"
"Because I feel bad having to ask you to feed me."
"Well, how else am I going to know, if you want anything or need anything. Alls you have to do is ask for something and you shall receive it. No questions asked."
"Okay."
"Come we will go back inside and we will get something to eat. Okay?"
"Okay, thank you."
"It is my pleasure Sarah."
They had some sandwiches and some soup. It was delicious. Sarah ate every drop of her soup and even had a second bowl.
After lunch Jareth told Sarah that he had some things to do, but she was welcomed to look around the castle or stay with him, if she wanted. She decided that she wanted to go back in the gardens and pick some flowers. Jareth escorted her there, and told her that if she wanted to come back in and see him at any time she could do so. He took her hand and kissed it and then bowed good-bye and turned to leave. Sarah watched him as he walked out the corridor and turned right, into the throne room. Then she turned around and began looking for the perfect flowers to pick, and bring into the castle. She had noticed that there were not flowers in the castle and that it needed some color.
She saw some really strange looking flowers that she was afraid to go near, and some that were to beautiful to pick. She also saw some fairies flying around. But these fairies did not seem like they were going to bit her. Instead they were completely gentle, and danced in the air, sprinkling fairy dust everywhere. Causing everything to sparkle. Sarah picked several different types of flowers and made several bouquets. She than went inside and knocked on the door to the throne room.
"Come in!" Jareth ordered.
Sarah opened the door, and Jareth got up from his seat and bowed at her presents. And he ordered the goblin subjects to stop what they were doing and bow to her as well. Sarah blushed at this.
"Oh thank you kindly. Your highness, sorry to disturb you but I have come to put a bouquet in here. You need some color in this room. And it will bring the sweet sent of outside in here."
"Well thank you Sarah. That is a very nice thought." He smiled at her. She was acting all proper and lady like. Not that she was not a lady to begin with, but this was something that she felt she should do, since she was going in his throne room, to disturb his work, and bothering his subjects. She was looking around for a place to put it but there was not table or shelf that it could rest on.
"Where can I put it Your Highness?"
"Ah, allow me." He walked over to her and took the bouquet from her hands and with one hand he formed a table beside his throne. He walked over and placed the bouquet on the table.
"Yes, I think it looks good there, don't you?" He smiled looking at Sarah.
"It looks wonderful. Now if you will excuse me Your Highness, I have other bouquets that I would like to put in my chamber, and if it is okay I would like to put one in yours?"
The goblins that were listening to this just rolled their eyes as they were disgusted with all of this "love crap". Jareth looked at them, with an evil eye and they quickly got back to work, before he did anything to them. Sarah bowed and said good-bye. Jareth bowed in return and again forced his goblins to bow to her as well. She turned around and walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her. Walking down the hall she looked at the painting of Jareth, she put a hand to it and trailed her fingers down the side of his face. Then she smiled and continued down the hall. When she got to her bed chamber she opened the door and walked it.
The room was completely different from when she saw it last. There were paintings on the walls. Dim candles in sconces on the walls, white silk drapes were hanging from a valence over her balcony window. Then there was also white silk draped hanging from the canopy of her bed. The bed had white silk sheets, white silk covered feather blanket. And on top of the blanket there were scattered red rose petals. Sarah was stunned at its beauty. She walked over to the vanity and placed the bouquet down.
She sat down on the little stool and brushed her hair. Just then when looking in the mirror, she saw a figure standing in the doorway…
