Chapter 19: I love you!"
Once Jareth was out of sight, Sarah turned around and shut the door behind her. She walked around the halls for a few minutes and just looked around. She was looking to see if anything caught her eye that would be interesting. But there was nothing. Going back to her bed chamber she grabbed the book that was on the nightstand and brought it with her to the gardens. It was a nice day. The sun was out and beaming warmth around the garden. She sat on a bench in the sun and began to read. Reading the book made her eyes very tired so she closed them to give them a rest. She ended up falling asleep.
Meanwhile, in the Half-ground where the meeting was taking place. Jareth was explaining the situation that led up to King Locket's death. There were a few of King Locket's brothers that and they were very upset with Jareth and his reasoning for killing the king, all over a stupid girl. The king of the Dark-ground agree with Jareth that the king was not just in doing what he did to "Sarah, the mortal from the Aboveground", as he called her.
"The king of the Underground is right on this one. He had no right touching Sarah the mortal from the Aboveground!" King Roth from the Dark-ground stated to the other Kings and brothers of King Locket.
"Thank you." Jareth nodded, showing his appreciation to King Roth for sticking with him on this one.
"Now, I am sorry for your loss be we must discuss who the next king shall be to rule a Half-ground. And since I am the head King I think that I will decide!"
"Who…do… you… want to be King?" One of King Locket's, brother's asked, in a mocking way, giving Jareth an evil glare.
"Whom ever it is to be, they should have some one to help them, because it will be difficult to rule both their world, and this one." King Masque from the Fire-ground stated.
Jareth nodded in agreement.
"Well what if we don't have a world of our own that we rule? That pretty much cuts us out of the voting. Does it not?" Another brother to King Locket screamed out.
All of the brothers were about to leave to meeting but Jareth forced them to stay there. Just because they were not going to get the world did not mean that they could not vote for one of the other kings to rule the world. Arguing just continued for hours and hours at a time. It was really getting no where. So Jareth came up with the final decision, after all he was again the head king of all the other worlds.
Back in the Underground, Sarah finally woke up after about and hour. Feeling pretty hungry, she went back into the castle and grabbed a peach to eat. There was any entire basket full of delicious peaches. But Sarah only grabbed one. Sarah was going to go into the throne room, but when she opened the door there were goblins that were fooling around, being gross and loud; which was something that she did not want to get involved in. What she really wanted was to go out into the city. But she kept playing Jareth warning in her head. But she could not help herself.
She went into her bed chamber, grabbed a cloak from a larger chest that was on the opposite side of the room that the other chest was. It was a black velvet cloak with a large hood that hung on the back. She threw it over her shoulders and tied it around her neck. Quietly walking down the hall she went to the door to open it. Her heart was pounding. She took a deep breath and stamped her foot.
"Damn it! I can't do this. It is not right. He begged me not to go, and I agreed. No this is wrong." She took the cloak and untied it from around her neck and threw it over her arm, walking back to the bed chamber. She stopped when she came to the painting of Jareth and looked at it.
"Why do I not want to go outside? What did you do that makes me not want to upset you? This is definitely a first, for obeying you isn't it?" Sarah shrugged her shoulders and continued to walk on. She really did not know what to do with herself.
It was now diner time and Jareth was still at the meeting. How he longed to be with Sarah and see her beautiful face. To touch her long and silky smooth hair. And kiss her moist soft lips. The meeting was taking to long for his liking and wanted to get back. He had told Sarah that he would be back before she even went to bed, and was starting to doubt that, that was going to happen.
For diner Sarah went into the kitchen and made herself a sandwich. It was not as good as she hoped she was not much of a chef and couldn't even make a sandwich that would taste good. She brought it to her bed chamber and ate it there. Hours passed and still there was no sign of Jareth anywhere. Sarah walked to the throne room and opened the door. She walked in and asked the goblins when the King was to arrive back, and if they had heard from him. But their reply was "no".
"Damn what could possibly be taking him this long?" She screamed. The goblins all stopped what they were doing and looked at her. She looked around the room, staring at all the shocked faces that surrounded her. She cleared her throat, bowed and walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
It was now pitch black out and Sarah was getting really tired. So she went to her bed chamber grabbed her nightgown and then went into Jareth's bed chamber to go to sleep. She carefully pulled the gown off that she was wearing and laid it on the edge of the bed. Then she walked over to the vanity and carefully unfastened the necklace, placing it on the shelf of the vanity, and did the same with the earrings too. She slipped the nightgown on and took a deep breath. Walking out onto the balcony she looked at the three moons that were now being covered by clouds. It was a bit chilly so she turned around and went to the end of the bed. Pulling the covers down she climbed in and pulled the covers back over her body.
She laid on her side and curled up into a ball.
"I love you Jareth." She whispered before falling asleep.
