Chapter two

'Just wear one of your other dresses. The green ones nice matches your eyes' Baralie said

'You're just saying that' She said stopping and turning around to face him.

'Yes, we have a lot of work to do' He said smiling. She looked from the village to Baralie with a longing look on her face.

'You're right' she said taking a bucket from him.

'I'll get the water, you start cleaning the tavern' he said taking the bucket back.

Melodie walked back up to the tavern and put on her apron while Baralie collected water from the well. About half an hour passed before Baralie came back up with 4 full buckets of water.

'I figured out how I can get him to notice me' Melodie said to Baralie.

'Why me' He said sighing.

'Knights like to fight right? So all I have to do is become a good fighter' she said smiling happily.

'Great what can go wrong?' He said sarcastically.

'Will you help me?' She asked him hopefully.

'What makes you think I'm a good fighter?' He said putting down the bucket on a table.

'I've seen you fight, you're better than me' she said walking over to him.

'That's not saying much' He said ducking out of the way as Melodie went to hit him.

'This is our tavern, best beer in the land I say' A man chuckled as he led Arthur in through the main door. Several knights followed looking bored.

'We get it, it's a village' one said rubbing his bald head. Melodie quickly ducked behind Baralie as she spotted the knight she had seen earlier.

'What are you doing?' Baralie laughed trying to move away.

'Sorry, it's a reflex' She said straightening herself up. She looked back up at the knights who were sitting down at a table.

'You there, bring over some drinks' the man said pointing at Melodie.

She walked over to the bar and pored 4 drinks before balancing them in-between her hands. She slowly walked over to the table looking down.

'Thanks malady' one of the knights said. Melodie looked up and smiled to the knight. He had long blonde hair and a kind face.

'Keep em coming' the bald knight said taking a drink from his mug. She handed another knight a drink. He had long brown hair and tattoos under his eyes; he gave her a nod and took a drink.

'This village is starting to look better' a handsome knight said winking at her.

'Lancelot, drop it' another knight said. She looked to the knight who said it and blushed. It was the knight she had seen before.

'Sorry about him' He said smiling at her.

'I'm Galahad' He said

'This is Lancelot, Arthur, Gawain, Bores, Tristan and Dagonet' He said nodding to all the knights.

'I'm Melodie' she said smiling back.

'Well Melodie I look forward to getting to know you better' Lancelot said smiling as the others rolled their eyes.

She sighed as a large group of men came in and sat down making her hesitantly go over and serve them. An hour or two passed as people came and left and got drunker and drunker. Melodie went over to the knights table and served them what seemed like their 50th drink.

'Ahhh Melodie my fine women, come join me' Galahad said pulling her onto his lap.

'Galahad I think you've had enough' she said trying to stand up. But he wouldn't let her.

'Galahad stop' she said as he ran his hand up her back.

All of a sudden she was pulled up out of Galahad's arms and into someone else's. She turned around expecting to see Baralie but instead saw Lancelot smiling at her.

'Thank you' she said smiling back.

'Anytime' He said taking her hand. He lifted it up and kissed the back of it. Her stomach did somersaults.

'Lancelot Bores yelled

'I'll see you around' He said

She nodded as he walked back to his table and sat down backhanding Galahad on the way.

Melodie couldn't stop smiling the rest of the night.

'Why are you so happy?' Baralie finally asked.

'No reason' she said looking back at Lancelot.

'I thought you liked the other one' he said looking around for Galahad.

She looked back at Galahad, this time he had a pretty girl sitting on his lap kissing quiet passionately. Her stomach twisted and she felt sick inside looking at them She felt stupid for ever liking him.

'I'm taking a break' she said to Baralie on the way out who gave her a confused look. He looked back at Galahad and saw the girl.

She walked outside and lay down next to a tree with her arms under her head looking up and the stars. She heard Baralie walking over but didn't move. He lay down next to her, she moved so her head was on his shoulder he wrapped his arm around her and sighed.

'I'm an idiot' she said closing her eyes.

'He's an idiot' He replied

'I'm going to be lonely for the rest of my life' She sighed.

'You're 18'

'Don't rub it in' She said hitting a mosquito

'You are an idiot' He said closing his eyes.

'Tell me another story' she said ignoring his last comment. He smiled and told her stories of his time in France. They both fell asleep and about 5 hours later Melodie woke up. She slowly moved his arm so not to wake him and made her way up to the tavern.

The sun was just coming up and there were only a few drunken men left on the floor sleeping. She started to clean up when she noticed one of them was Galahad. She sighed and walked over to him nudging him with her foot slightly. He made a groaning sound and sat up slowly rubbing his eyes.

'Melodie' He said smiling when he saw her.

'Good morning' she said picking up some mugs of the floor.

'Let me help you' He said trying to stand up.

'No, don't' she said walking back to the bar.

'Galahad give it a rest' Lancelot said helping him to his feet. Galahad walked slowly out of the tavern clutching his head.

'Come with me' Lancelot said quickly grabbing Melodie's hand and leading her out of the tavern. He ran up to a row of rooms before entering a large one. It had a double bed in the middle and a large wardrobe at one wall.

'I have to show someone' He said excitedly opening the wardrobe.

'What is it?' She asked trying to see what he was pulling out.

She opened her mouth as he pulled out a long sword; it was carved beautifully with inscriptions in the handle.

'I found it when we were riding over the mountains' He said holding it out.

'You've been to the mountains?' she asked in awe

'Yes' He said a bit confused at the question.

'It had an inscription in the handle but I don't know what it says' She said showing her. She recognized it straight away.

'Ce n'est pas vous qui trouvez l'épée, c'est l'épée qui vous trouve'She read alowed.

'Yea I think it's Dutch or something weird like that' He said

'French, it's not you who finds the sword, it's the sword who finds you' she translated.

Lancelot looked shocked and happy at the same time.

'You're amazing' He said looking back at the sword.

'So, you've been everywhere?' she asked him

'Yea, most places' He said still examining the sword.

'I'll take you some time' He said looking up at her smiling.

'But for now I have to show this to Arthur' He said walking over to her.

'Thank you' He said kissing her on the cheek and running out.

Melodie ran down to the training ground were she found Baralie practicing with a sword.

'Lancelot said he'd take me to the mountains' She said happily watching Baralie practice.

'So did I' He said swinging at a post.

'I bet we'll have heaps of adventures' she said to herself.

'We'd probably have to fight of woads and sail across rivers and maybe go to the ocean' she said picking up a sword.

'Why can't we do that?' Baralie asked

'Because, you're…you' she said looking at him.

'I want you to forget that I'm your friend for a minute. I want you to tell me exactly what you think of me.' He said lowering his sword to his side and looking at her.

'How about I do this when you don't have a sword?' She said smiling.

'Is that it; am I just here until you find someone better?' He asked not smiling.

'No, I like you, I like your stories' she said not moving.

'Stories only go so far, you just said it then, you've found someone else who can make those stories real' He said dropping his sword and walking back up to the village. Melodie stood their confused at what had just happened.

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