STORY OF A GIRL
Nayru: (typing away) Lucy in the Sky, with Diamonds......... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Xiao: Wow, Nay's gone uber-authoress.
Ran-Ran: It's just a bit scary, but she's already gotten to writing chapter ten of this story.
Xiao: And with no reviewer help. Of course, after the crap she's done in this chapter, she'll
get bombarded by reviews.
Ran-Ran: Or so I think.
DISCLAIMER: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. Unfortunately, not the rights to this video game.
CHAPTER 10
The Stars Gap! No Need for Silas!
"Cliff, you just can't keep it in your pants." Kai sighed. "I mean, you've only been
engaged, three, four days maybe? Every time I see you together, you're linked at the lip."
Cliff grinned proudly. "Wipe that smug look off your face."
"But I'm so freakin' happy! The greatest girl to ever enter my life is marrying me! And
every single day, our wedding comes closer, so the happier I am!" Cliff cried. Indeed, the
wedding of our lovely main character neared by the hour. They didn't know how much nearer, no
date set. They did know that every passing day was a day closer, and another day together to
make it all the better.
"Things can change. Didn't you hear the news?" Kai sighed nervously as Cliff shook his
head. "Silas has escaped. According to police, he's headed for this town, and if we know his
nature........."
"He's going to prevent our wedding. Damn it, you ruin my naivete!" Cliff jumped up. "I
need to warn Rae!" Kai raised an eyebrow. "Er, be sure she's alright, I just know he'll target
her. I mean, I'm sure she knows."
"So it's agreed, an outside wedding in the vineyard is most beautiful in late summer to
mid fall, if the wedding is in mid fall, late fall, or early winter, we should have the wedding
on the mountain top, or in late winter, the wedding should be in the church chapel, is that
right?" Karen repeated everything she and Rae had been discussing.
"Exactly, and I love your idea for the mountain wedding, letting doves fly at the end of
the ceremony! We also need to work on color coordination." Rae laughed. "I never knew a wedding
could be so much planning!" Just then, Maria joined the group.
"Hi Karen, Rae! I brought you those tuxedo swaps." Maria giggled. "You're going to be at
our wedding too, right? Mine and Gray's?" Maria had moved quickly in the two days since Gray
proposed. The proposal was the most unexpected event , but in the eyes of the townspeople, the
more the merrier. The date was set for early spring next year, because Gray wanted to be able
to keep his animals outside so they wouldn't go hungry his wedding day and early married life.
"It's wonderful that you two are having a wedding together. It's the biggest event planned for
the next year. I mean, there hasn't been a double wedding in this town since the economy crashed
ten years ago. It's a lot of planning, though. You two have to coordinate every single thing."
Maria continued to babble. Rae simply sighed in silent joy, finding it so hard to hold her glee
inside. She stared at the beautiful forest around her, seeing how much lovelier everything was.
It was a terrible mistake. Silas slid out of a bush Rae happened to be looking at, right
behind Maria and Karen. Rae blinked a few times. He grinned maliciously, took a knife from his
coat, gestured it at her neck, and slid back into the bush.
If any girl had been able to scream louder than the way Rae screamed at that moment,
she would have caught the ears of towns two miles away. As it was, every person in town looked
up at that very second to hear a terrified shriek. Everyone stared around them like dumbfounded
animals, except Maria and Karen.
"Rae, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Karen looked at her frightened friend with worry
and curiosity.
"It's Silas, he's come back, he's going to kill us all, he wants to kill me!" Maria and
Karen looked at each other.
"You saw him behind us? Just now?" Maria whispered, knowing her friend's fear of him.
"We should get the police, I mean, we can't take any risks!" That's when Cliff arrived, out of
breath. "Or better yet, her fiancee."
"Rae! I heard you screaming, what happened?!"
"She saw Silas!" Karen cried, shaking in fear.
"........ Maria, go get Harris. Karen, go to Kai, and inform him of a mandatory meeting
with us four as soon as Rae and I get home. Rae, stay here." Maria ran off.
"A meeting? Why so urgent?" Karen asked fearfully.
"If I know Silas, he will ruin the wedding. We need to set it quickly and secretively."
Karen pondered this for a moment, nodded, and left. Cliff finally wrapped his arms around Rae,
who was at this point shaking and crying. "There, there, darling, the bad man can't hurt you now
that I'm here." He soothed her like one would calm a young child.
"But he has a big knife........" Rae sniffled. "I've never been this scared before..."
"You don't need to be scared........ nothing bad can happen as long as I'm here." Just
then, Maria arrived with Harris.
"It seems our town lawkeeper was already on his way." Maria peeped frightenedly, looking
around nervously.
"Rae, Cliff." Harris tipped his hat.
"Sir." Cliff answered, nodding.
"The town's on alerts, everyone is curious as to what's gone on here. What, with that
terribly loud scream."
"Silas has been sighted. By my fiancee." Cliff patted Rae's shoulder.
"How much has she said?"
"I can tell him." Rae sighed wearily. "He was in those bushes, he just looked at me, with
his evil smile, and gestured with a knife he was going to kill me!"
"Sounds like a scary experience. Were you the only one who saw him?"
"It was behind Maria and Karen, in that copse........" Rae gestured to a clump of trees
behind Harris, still obviously shaking.
Harris went to the clump of trees. "By the gods, she's not lying!" Harris pulled a
package from the trees. "Addressed to 'The Future Rae Sernet'".
"But Sernet is Kai's last name!" Cliff yelled in outrage. Rae blinked calculatively.
"It may be a clue as to what he plans to do." Harris opened the package. "A white lily,
with blood stains. Obviously a message of death. A piece of the church's broken window. A note,
in Silas' handwriting, and three Hawk's feathers, dipped in blood." Harris sighed. "The message
says 'I wish you well on your married life, for isn't misery better than death?' A strange
combination."
"A white lily, sent usually to a funeral..... a broken chruch window, broken vows.....
and a death threat for Cliff." Rae whispered. She stepped back from Cliff and Harris, wide eyed.
Suddenly, she broke into hysterics. "DON'T TAKE HIM FROM ME, I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM! YOU FREAK,
YOU DISGUSTING MISTAKE OF SOCIETY, LET ME KEEP HIM! KILL ME INSTEAD! DEATH IS BETTER THAN LIFE
WITH OUT HIM! I NEED HIM, I NEED HIM, DON'T TAKE HIM!" Cliff grabbed Rae's shoulder.
"Shh, shh, let's go home, darling..... I apologize for her, Harris, she's a bit unnerved
right now, if you can't tell." Harris nodded. "Good evening." Cliff half dragged Rae away.
Late that night
"Due to the reappearance of Silas, we need to start solidifying plans. A date, place, and
guest list. I've already finished the list for Rae and myself. Have you two gotten any work done
on the plans?" Cliff sighed. Rae was in the bedroom, sobbing softly to herself. Kai, Karen, and
Cliff were at the dining room table. And Dix, the lovable farm mutt, was guarding the door.
"We've got a list done." Kai pushed a sheet of paper forward. "Not too much, her parents,
my parents, two of her relatives, three of mine, and all our mutual friends. Totals 17. What's on
yours?"
"The hawk, the dog, her grandma, my grandpa, and our mutual friends which coincide with
yours. Ann, Maria, Popuri, Elli, Gray, the Doctor, Harris, and the mayor." Cliff read his list.
"So, that's 20 people." Karen murmured.
"Right. Outside of those people, the wedding place and date are undisclosed. A date, a
nice date. Sort of soon, but giving us enough time. Early fall at the latest. How about the
vineyard?"
"Anywhere but there!" Karen cried. "He knows we plan an early fall wedding to be in the
vineyard, why not the church?"
"But of course, it'll be a lovely sight... the fall sun hitting the stained glass window.
The church, it's settled. We're getting married in two weeks, the first Sunday of fall!" Cliff
smiled in relief. "Nobody can know about this. Tell nobody. We'll send out invitations next week,
and hope for the best. Karen, I request you and Rae go look at dresses tomorrow. Kai and I can
pick out suits or tuxes for ourselves, right? After tonight's church mass, I'll set this up with
Priest Maxwell. Be careful with yourselves. Adjourned." Cliff went into a more friendly
disposition. "Coffee anyone?"
"No, I need to get some sleep. Big day tomorrow, looking at dresses is no easy task."
Karen departed the house.
"I'll go with Karen. Be careful with Rae, keep a close eye on her." Kai followed Karen.
Cliff peered in on Rae. She was fast asleep, curled up in Cliff's bed. Cliff stroked her
soft gold hair. He smiled softly, and began to sing a soft song. "Close your eyes, close your
eyes and relax, close your eyes, close your eyes and relax, for everything's alright, yes, every
thing's alright, yes, close your eyes, close your eyes and good night....."
A week and a half later.....
"So, the dresses will be finished by tomorrow?" Rae asked Karen. A leaf fell onto the
coffee table. Eggplants and cabbage were planted in the garden, and growing. The wedding was on,
and no appearance of Silas in ten days was to keep it that way. Ten days, a wedding planned. Ten
days, invitations sent out. Ten days, and four lives about to change.
"Yeah, the alterations are almost finished. Popuri's coming later today with the designs
for the bouquets. It's so exciting, in four days, we'll be Karen Sernet and Rae Hawk! Grown
adults, me out of my dad's home! It's so wonderful....."
"Wonderful it is, Karen. But the risk still exists in those four remaining days. We have
not won yet." Rae sighed nervously, and swiped her hair from her eyes. "All could be lost in a
matter of hours."
Meanwhile, not too far away...
"So, a wedding in a church, love?" The man asked his lovely girlfriend. Ann nodded.
"It's a double wedding, two of my friends. I'm sure you'd like to come with me." Ann
smiled sweetly at him. Silas thought for a brief moment, and leaned forward to whisper in Ann's
ear.
"I won't be there." Silas grabbed Ann's hands, and grinned insanely. "And nor shall you."
TBC.....
Nayru: I don't know how to looooove him.....
Xiao: Erm, next time on Story of a Girl!
Ran-Ran: The big wedding day arrives! But will the brides and grooms be there?
Xiao: What does Silas have planned?
Ran-Ran: Will he succeed?
Nayru: He scares me so, I love him so.....
Xiao: Should we interrupt her caterwauling?
Ran-Ran: Nah. Let her have her fun. Review, peoples!!!
Xiao: Peaceout, yo!
Nayru: (typing away) Lucy in the Sky, with Diamonds......... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Xiao: Wow, Nay's gone uber-authoress.
Ran-Ran: It's just a bit scary, but she's already gotten to writing chapter ten of this story.
Xiao: And with no reviewer help. Of course, after the crap she's done in this chapter, she'll
get bombarded by reviews.
Ran-Ran: Or so I think.
DISCLAIMER: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. Unfortunately, not the rights to this video game.
CHAPTER 10
The Stars Gap! No Need for Silas!
"Cliff, you just can't keep it in your pants." Kai sighed. "I mean, you've only been
engaged, three, four days maybe? Every time I see you together, you're linked at the lip."
Cliff grinned proudly. "Wipe that smug look off your face."
"But I'm so freakin' happy! The greatest girl to ever enter my life is marrying me! And
every single day, our wedding comes closer, so the happier I am!" Cliff cried. Indeed, the
wedding of our lovely main character neared by the hour. They didn't know how much nearer, no
date set. They did know that every passing day was a day closer, and another day together to
make it all the better.
"Things can change. Didn't you hear the news?" Kai sighed nervously as Cliff shook his
head. "Silas has escaped. According to police, he's headed for this town, and if we know his
nature........."
"He's going to prevent our wedding. Damn it, you ruin my naivete!" Cliff jumped up. "I
need to warn Rae!" Kai raised an eyebrow. "Er, be sure she's alright, I just know he'll target
her. I mean, I'm sure she knows."
"So it's agreed, an outside wedding in the vineyard is most beautiful in late summer to
mid fall, if the wedding is in mid fall, late fall, or early winter, we should have the wedding
on the mountain top, or in late winter, the wedding should be in the church chapel, is that
right?" Karen repeated everything she and Rae had been discussing.
"Exactly, and I love your idea for the mountain wedding, letting doves fly at the end of
the ceremony! We also need to work on color coordination." Rae laughed. "I never knew a wedding
could be so much planning!" Just then, Maria joined the group.
"Hi Karen, Rae! I brought you those tuxedo swaps." Maria giggled. "You're going to be at
our wedding too, right? Mine and Gray's?" Maria had moved quickly in the two days since Gray
proposed. The proposal was the most unexpected event , but in the eyes of the townspeople, the
more the merrier. The date was set for early spring next year, because Gray wanted to be able
to keep his animals outside so they wouldn't go hungry his wedding day and early married life.
"It's wonderful that you two are having a wedding together. It's the biggest event planned for
the next year. I mean, there hasn't been a double wedding in this town since the economy crashed
ten years ago. It's a lot of planning, though. You two have to coordinate every single thing."
Maria continued to babble. Rae simply sighed in silent joy, finding it so hard to hold her glee
inside. She stared at the beautiful forest around her, seeing how much lovelier everything was.
It was a terrible mistake. Silas slid out of a bush Rae happened to be looking at, right
behind Maria and Karen. Rae blinked a few times. He grinned maliciously, took a knife from his
coat, gestured it at her neck, and slid back into the bush.
If any girl had been able to scream louder than the way Rae screamed at that moment,
she would have caught the ears of towns two miles away. As it was, every person in town looked
up at that very second to hear a terrified shriek. Everyone stared around them like dumbfounded
animals, except Maria and Karen.
"Rae, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Karen looked at her frightened friend with worry
and curiosity.
"It's Silas, he's come back, he's going to kill us all, he wants to kill me!" Maria and
Karen looked at each other.
"You saw him behind us? Just now?" Maria whispered, knowing her friend's fear of him.
"We should get the police, I mean, we can't take any risks!" That's when Cliff arrived, out of
breath. "Or better yet, her fiancee."
"Rae! I heard you screaming, what happened?!"
"She saw Silas!" Karen cried, shaking in fear.
"........ Maria, go get Harris. Karen, go to Kai, and inform him of a mandatory meeting
with us four as soon as Rae and I get home. Rae, stay here." Maria ran off.
"A meeting? Why so urgent?" Karen asked fearfully.
"If I know Silas, he will ruin the wedding. We need to set it quickly and secretively."
Karen pondered this for a moment, nodded, and left. Cliff finally wrapped his arms around Rae,
who was at this point shaking and crying. "There, there, darling, the bad man can't hurt you now
that I'm here." He soothed her like one would calm a young child.
"But he has a big knife........" Rae sniffled. "I've never been this scared before..."
"You don't need to be scared........ nothing bad can happen as long as I'm here." Just
then, Maria arrived with Harris.
"It seems our town lawkeeper was already on his way." Maria peeped frightenedly, looking
around nervously.
"Rae, Cliff." Harris tipped his hat.
"Sir." Cliff answered, nodding.
"The town's on alerts, everyone is curious as to what's gone on here. What, with that
terribly loud scream."
"Silas has been sighted. By my fiancee." Cliff patted Rae's shoulder.
"How much has she said?"
"I can tell him." Rae sighed wearily. "He was in those bushes, he just looked at me, with
his evil smile, and gestured with a knife he was going to kill me!"
"Sounds like a scary experience. Were you the only one who saw him?"
"It was behind Maria and Karen, in that copse........" Rae gestured to a clump of trees
behind Harris, still obviously shaking.
Harris went to the clump of trees. "By the gods, she's not lying!" Harris pulled a
package from the trees. "Addressed to 'The Future Rae Sernet'".
"But Sernet is Kai's last name!" Cliff yelled in outrage. Rae blinked calculatively.
"It may be a clue as to what he plans to do." Harris opened the package. "A white lily,
with blood stains. Obviously a message of death. A piece of the church's broken window. A note,
in Silas' handwriting, and three Hawk's feathers, dipped in blood." Harris sighed. "The message
says 'I wish you well on your married life, for isn't misery better than death?' A strange
combination."
"A white lily, sent usually to a funeral..... a broken chruch window, broken vows.....
and a death threat for Cliff." Rae whispered. She stepped back from Cliff and Harris, wide eyed.
Suddenly, she broke into hysterics. "DON'T TAKE HIM FROM ME, I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM! YOU FREAK,
YOU DISGUSTING MISTAKE OF SOCIETY, LET ME KEEP HIM! KILL ME INSTEAD! DEATH IS BETTER THAN LIFE
WITH OUT HIM! I NEED HIM, I NEED HIM, DON'T TAKE HIM!" Cliff grabbed Rae's shoulder.
"Shh, shh, let's go home, darling..... I apologize for her, Harris, she's a bit unnerved
right now, if you can't tell." Harris nodded. "Good evening." Cliff half dragged Rae away.
Late that night
"Due to the reappearance of Silas, we need to start solidifying plans. A date, place, and
guest list. I've already finished the list for Rae and myself. Have you two gotten any work done
on the plans?" Cliff sighed. Rae was in the bedroom, sobbing softly to herself. Kai, Karen, and
Cliff were at the dining room table. And Dix, the lovable farm mutt, was guarding the door.
"We've got a list done." Kai pushed a sheet of paper forward. "Not too much, her parents,
my parents, two of her relatives, three of mine, and all our mutual friends. Totals 17. What's on
yours?"
"The hawk, the dog, her grandma, my grandpa, and our mutual friends which coincide with
yours. Ann, Maria, Popuri, Elli, Gray, the Doctor, Harris, and the mayor." Cliff read his list.
"So, that's 20 people." Karen murmured.
"Right. Outside of those people, the wedding place and date are undisclosed. A date, a
nice date. Sort of soon, but giving us enough time. Early fall at the latest. How about the
vineyard?"
"Anywhere but there!" Karen cried. "He knows we plan an early fall wedding to be in the
vineyard, why not the church?"
"But of course, it'll be a lovely sight... the fall sun hitting the stained glass window.
The church, it's settled. We're getting married in two weeks, the first Sunday of fall!" Cliff
smiled in relief. "Nobody can know about this. Tell nobody. We'll send out invitations next week,
and hope for the best. Karen, I request you and Rae go look at dresses tomorrow. Kai and I can
pick out suits or tuxes for ourselves, right? After tonight's church mass, I'll set this up with
Priest Maxwell. Be careful with yourselves. Adjourned." Cliff went into a more friendly
disposition. "Coffee anyone?"
"No, I need to get some sleep. Big day tomorrow, looking at dresses is no easy task."
Karen departed the house.
"I'll go with Karen. Be careful with Rae, keep a close eye on her." Kai followed Karen.
Cliff peered in on Rae. She was fast asleep, curled up in Cliff's bed. Cliff stroked her
soft gold hair. He smiled softly, and began to sing a soft song. "Close your eyes, close your
eyes and relax, close your eyes, close your eyes and relax, for everything's alright, yes, every
thing's alright, yes, close your eyes, close your eyes and good night....."
A week and a half later.....
"So, the dresses will be finished by tomorrow?" Rae asked Karen. A leaf fell onto the
coffee table. Eggplants and cabbage were planted in the garden, and growing. The wedding was on,
and no appearance of Silas in ten days was to keep it that way. Ten days, a wedding planned. Ten
days, invitations sent out. Ten days, and four lives about to change.
"Yeah, the alterations are almost finished. Popuri's coming later today with the designs
for the bouquets. It's so exciting, in four days, we'll be Karen Sernet and Rae Hawk! Grown
adults, me out of my dad's home! It's so wonderful....."
"Wonderful it is, Karen. But the risk still exists in those four remaining days. We have
not won yet." Rae sighed nervously, and swiped her hair from her eyes. "All could be lost in a
matter of hours."
Meanwhile, not too far away...
"So, a wedding in a church, love?" The man asked his lovely girlfriend. Ann nodded.
"It's a double wedding, two of my friends. I'm sure you'd like to come with me." Ann
smiled sweetly at him. Silas thought for a brief moment, and leaned forward to whisper in Ann's
ear.
"I won't be there." Silas grabbed Ann's hands, and grinned insanely. "And nor shall you."
TBC.....
Nayru: I don't know how to looooove him.....
Xiao: Erm, next time on Story of a Girl!
Ran-Ran: The big wedding day arrives! But will the brides and grooms be there?
Xiao: What does Silas have planned?
Ran-Ran: Will he succeed?
Nayru: He scares me so, I love him so.....
Xiao: Should we interrupt her caterwauling?
Ran-Ran: Nah. Let her have her fun. Review, peoples!!!
Xiao: Peaceout, yo!