Hi, readers, thanks for the nice reviews. I didn't know what to write in the next chapter yesterday, but in school today I had an idea. Guess what! It gets worse! Yes, worse than it is already! Curious?

So here we go again...


Chapter 6: The next problem

The next morning Alanna went to the training yards to improve her fencing skills like every morning. After quite half an hour more and more squires and pages came to do the same and with them came a few ladies to watch them. Alanna didn't like to be watched so she wanted to go. Then she saw Lady Delia.

Suddenly a thought hit her, it hit her so hard that she dropped her sword. Almost every head in the yard turned round and stared at her. Alanna flushed and quickly bent down and picked it up. Then she went away very fast, so fast that she nearly ran.

Lady Delia watched 'Alan' going away and then she saw something lying on the floor. She came closerto it and grabbed it. Delia rased her eyebrows. It was a charm. It was white with a golden symbol on it. Delia touched her own charm and took it off to look at it. It looked more expensive and it was more decorated but the golden symbol on it looked almost the same as hers. Mine is a pregnancy charm, but why should Alan need something like that?, she thought suspiciously, He's a guy, it must be something else. She shook her head and put her own charm around her neck again.


When Alanna reached Jonathan's chambers she was out of breath and sweating, because of her hard training and because she had run the whole way. She knocked on his door and waited.

A few seconds later Jon opened the door. "What have you done? You're sweating like...like you were running for hours", he said.

Alanna made a face at him. "Thanks. I just love getting compliments", she said sarcastically. Then she walked in. "Could I wash my face in your bathroom?", she asked.

"Of course."

When she stepped in front of the mirror, she let out a shriek. Jonathan stormed into the bathroom, his face pale. "What happened?"

"My charm's gone!", she cried.

"What charm?", Jon said, looking confused.

Alanna's face turned into a deep red. "Well, it's a charm that...should keep me from getting pregnant", she stammered.

Jonathan raised his eyebrows.

"Don't look at me like that! Mistress Cooper gave it to me a long time ago. I didn't ask for it, okay?" she said angrilly and embarassed.

"Sorry", Jon said. He flushed and walked quickly out of the bathroom.

Alanna stood a few seconds more in front of the mirror then she followed Jonathan. "Jon, what if someone finds it? What if...someone sees that I have lost it? They'll find out that I'm a girl!", she said and she was near tears again. As if I hadn't enough problems!, she thought.

"Alanna, please, we don't know what has happened. Let's see if we can find your charm before someone else does", Jon said. Alanna nodded and they walked back to the training yards.


But the charm wasn't there anymore. Then Alanna saw something sparkling in Lady Delia's hand. It was her charm. Oh, no,she thought. She grabbed Jonathan's arm and dragged him behind her. When they where out of sight and earshot she said, "Delia has it!"

"What?", Jon asked.

"You've heard me. Lady Delia has my charm!", Alanna almost shouted at him.

"That's a mess. Do you think she could find out that it's a pregnancy charm?", he asked worried.

"How am I supposed to know that?", she asked. Alanna was really frustrated. What should she do? She couldn't just go to Delia and ask her to give her the charm back. But maybe Jon could do something..., she thought. "Jon, you have to do something!"

"And what?", he asked and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Sleep with her!", Alanna said.

Jon couldn't believe his ears. That was something he really hadn't expected. "What?", he cried, so loud that some servants that were passing by turned their heads and stared at him.

"Don't be childish! I know you've heard me. Spend the night with her and when she sleeps you look for my charm and take it. And if you make sure that Duke Gareth sees you when you go to her chambers with her, he won't think you're gay anymore. It's the way out of both our problems.", Alanna told him.

A part of her was happy to have a way out of that mess, but the other part of her felt sick at the thought of Jonathan sleeping with Delia. But anyway, Alanna would never admit that. I'm not in love with Jon or something like that! So why does my stomach feels like someone had hit it?, she thought.

"No!", Jonathan protested. "I'm not going to sleep with her!"

"Oh, come on, Jon! You did it before, admit it! It can't be that hard, can it?", she asked, angrilly.

"I said 'No'!", Jonathan shouted. It hurted him that she wanted something like that from him. Did she really didn't understand that he was in love with her?

"And why?" Alanna didn't think that he was serious about her and so she just couldn't understand him. She didn't know that Jon's feelings for her where not the same as his feelings for Delia had been. He had had a crush on Delia but he loved Alanna. That was much different.

"Because...because of us.", he said.

Alanna didn't want any relationship with Jon so there wasn't any 'them' for her. "Us? Look, Jon, there had been no us, there is no us and there'll never be any us. You understand me?", she shouted.

Jonathan looked away. "If that's what you think", he said and walked away.


Oh, poor Jonathan, isn't he? How was it? I like it, what's with you? Tell me!