Hey! Thanks for the review, Chocolate-Pringles, I'm happy that you're excited for my phic. To those of you who didn't review, that's fine too! Here's a very short chapter for you to read if you want. If there are grammatical errors, I'm terribly sorry, I did try to get them all out. Well, here it is!
A pause. A heartbeat-skipping, breath-taking, time-stopping pause. "H-have you f-forgotten your angel?" came the soft and slightly stuttered reply.
What a sweet voice he has, Sophie thought. She stood, staggering slightly on her sleeping foot. She inhaled sharply, stomach churning with the beginnings of a great adventure.
Katie continued singing, "Angel, oh speak; what endless…" she stopped, grinning. "Well, I guess the rest doesn't apply here."
Another pause. Sophie walked forward so she was next to Katie. Her eyes strained to see the stranger before them.
"How did you find me?" the young man asked.
"We heard your violin. We came to investigate," Sophie replied.
"What were you doing?"
"We were camping. We fell asleep and when we woke, you were playing," Katie said.
"I've never been found before," the voice had a musing tone to it.
"What are you doing here?" Katie asked.
The stranger didn't say anything for a while. Instead he jumped down from the tree and set his violin in its case, snapping the clasps shut. Then he regarded the two girls in the dying light before climbing back into the tree and settling himself to sleep.
The two girls stood there as the sun set. Sophie didn't know how long they stood there. She cleared her throat and asked, "Should we go?"
"No," was the fervent reply.
The girls looked at each other, but it was too dark for them to see one another. Silently, they spread out the picnic blanket and Sophie produced another from her backpack to cover themselves with. Sophie leaned over to Katie and whispered, "Do you think we're safe with him?"
Katie whispered back, "If he does anything, you know where to kick," and turned over. Sophie grinned to herself and was reassured. Katie could get her way with any guy. She fell asleep and dreamed.
Sophie was wandering through a labyrinth of dark and damp tunnels. When she got to the end, she found herself in a large cavern. In the cavern, there was a hooded figure. The figure spoke. It said –
"My name is Aiden," the stranger said from the tree.