Hey everyone! The last chapter
was really short I know, but so sue me for it. This one will hopefully make up
for it. My Internet connection has been "disconnected" for a while, too. Enjoy! Pease review it when you are done.
Disclaimer: sorry, I don't
own Escalfowne.
Chapter 10 innocence
By. Lady Emerald
"What am I suppose to do
now? How are you going to fix this?" Adiris roared.
"Well… you could go to Geae
and bring her back."
"Hmm… that isn't a half bad
idea, seeing how none of you nitwits seemed to have tried to stop them from
leaving here in the first place."
"All we have to do is
reverse what the machine did to bring her here to send you there. Your
appearance will be changed though."
"No, that is a good thing.
They will never know until it is to late." He said will a smirk.
"That is good sir. When
would you like to leave?"
"Tomorrow
at dawn."
After an hour of Merle
going on and on about her wedding, she stopped and took a good look at Hitomi.
"She looks so worn down,"
Merle thought.
Just then Hitomi's stomach
gave a monstrous growl indicating it was hungry. They all laughed. Van, who was
sitting next to her on the bed, put his arm around her tinny waist.
"I think we better get you
some food," Van said.
She nodded and looked at
Merle who had seemed to quiet down.
"What's wrong, Merle?" she
asked.
"Uh? What? Oh, nothing."
"Ya, right," Van muttered.
"Hey, I heard that!" Merle
said sarcastically.
"Um, is the kitchen still
open, so I can make myself a sandwich?" Hitomi asked, still Hungary.
"What? We can get one of the
servants to that for you." Van said.
"Oh, well can you tell me
how to get down there then?"
"I'll take you," Merle piped
up.
"I'll go, too. I'm kinda Hungary
myself."
Since they all agreed they
went down to the kitchen. It was about seven, so dinner was over.
"I don't think that I will
ever got over how big this place is." Hitomi commented.
"It is pretty big." Van said
looking at her.
She, though, wasn't looking
at him, but at everything around her.
"Everything is so beautiful.
Like the walls are made out of stain glass or something." She thought.
They finally got to the
kitchens after twenty minutes of walking. They sat down at a rather large wood
table and the servants instantly appeared ready and eager to get whatever they
wanted. After ordering, Van asked something that Hitomi had tried very hard to
forget about, even though it only happened a little while ago.
"Hitomi, how are things on
the Mystic Moon? How is your family?" He asked eager to here about her "other"
world.
"Um, well." She said looking
down at her hands trying to hold back to the tears that we threatening to
spill.
"Hitomi, we don't have to
talk about it right, if you don't want to." Merle said quietly, seeing how
upset her friend was getting.
She shook her head.
"No, I have to tell you. I have
to get it out."
"Hitomi, what is wrong? What
happened?" Van asked, gently placing his hands over hers.
Just then Allen walked in
and sat down with them. He looked around and saw all the gloomy faces and knew
something was up.
"Who died?" he asked.
Hitomi gave a small laugh.
"No one." She said.
"Yet," thought Van.
"Hitomi was just about to
tell us about her life on the Mystic Moon till you interrupted." Merle said
bluntly.
"That is ok, I guess he
should hear it, too." She paused trying to figure out where to start.
"Well, I guess the best
place to start would be when I got back home. My parents were going to take my
little brother up to see my uncle. I didn't want to go so I stayed home. Then
my friend, Yukari called and said that she and Amono were going to the mall and
wanted to know if wanted to go, too. I was so far behind in school, then, that I
had to make up tons of assignments. I declined and made myself some dinner and
did some of my work. Then it was about midnight when I got the call. I was
going to go and open a window when the phone rang…"
"What is a "phone"?" Merle
asked.
"Oh, I forgot you don't know
about that stuff. Well, a phone is something that we use to talk to people all
over the world."
Seeing their confused faces
she just said,
"Never mind. Any way, when I
answered it was the hospital. They told me to come up as soon as possible. When
I got there they said that… my parents and brother had died in a crash. Their vehicle
had been in a head-on crash and had flipped over five times. They died
instantly. Then and officer took me home and Yukari and Amono came over to stay
with me. After that Yukari's family took me in and I started to become very
dedicated to track and school. My grades went threw the roof and I became a lot
fast runner. The Olympic team wanted me, but I declined. Then local collage
offered me a full ride for every year I went there for track and academics. I did
accept and then I came here right after I announce that I would be going there."
She let out a big sigh and waited for some one to say something.
"Oh god, Hitomi, I am so
sorry." Merle burst out crying and wrapped her arms around Hitomi.
"Shh… it is ok."
Then their food came and
they all dug in. after they were finished they sat around and talked about,
just about anything. Merle yawned and said good night and then Allen left. By now
it was about eleven and it was really dark.
"It gets dark," Hitomi said
as Van walked her back to her room.
He put his around her.
"Don't worry, I'll keep you
safe."
"I know."
Van opened the door for her
and they both walked in.
"I don't know how I am ever
going to feel comfortable in such a huge room." She said. It was about football
field size.
"I'll stay if you want."
"Would you?"
He nodded. He walked up to
her and put his arm around her waist and started to kiss her neck. After a few
minutes she turned around to face him. He stoked her cheek with his hand. He was
warm and comforting. She leaned in to him. He kissed her, as he had wanted to
do for so very long. She in turn wrapped her arms around his neck. His hands
wandered all over her. They pulled away, needed oxygen.
Then Van noticed wear his
hands were. One was down her skirt and the other had some how open her shirt.
He blushed deeply and started to remove his hand when Hitomi looked him
straight in the eyes and kissed him hard. Her hands started to remove his
shirt.
He pulled away.
"Are you, ok with this?"
"Yes."
Van
lifted her up in one swift motion and laid her on the bed.
"Please stand right there
and we can begin, Lord. Any questions?"
"How will I get back?"
"Push this button and we get
you and the Lady back here in a minute."
He nodded and ginned. This was
going to be fun.
END OF CHAPTER
Well? Ok so I did put into
detail what exactly happened. Maybe later. (Hint, hint) I'll keep going and try
to get the next one up soon. Bonboyawsh
