Okay, here's my latest chapter and some of you will be very happy and some of you won't be.. Just depends on how you take it. ;) Enjoy!
Sarah woke up and rolled over to find the other side of the bed empty. Even though she hated the way Jareth was was treating her, she felt strangely upset. She didn't want to be his prisoner, but something inside her made her wish he was there. She sighed heavily and closed her eyes thinking of last nights events.
Meeting his family had been, well it had been weird for her. His mother seemed nice, but his brother seemed like an arrogant jerk. Much like Jareth. Only worse. She wished she had gotten to know Rowanda more. She seemed upbeat than anyone in Jareth's family, although she hadn't really talked to King Abbot. Rowanda wasn't usually the kind of person that Sarah would hang out with, but if she was stuck here, she would try to get along with at least Rowanda she decided.
"I would hope you would try to get along with your future husband."
Sarah sat up fast and looked around the room until she found Jareth sitting in a chair. "How long have you been there?"
He shrugged. "After you fell asleep, I got out of bed and sat down." She looked at him dis-believingly. "It's the truth." He paused. "You gave me much to consider yesterday and last night." He stood up and walked up to go over to her. "Besides, you weren't comfortable with me sleeping next to you." Sarah went to explain but he put a hand up to stop her. "Sarah, I heard it all in your dreams. No need to explain." He started to walk away from her. "You can choose what you want to wear today from these three dresses."
Jareth flicked his wrist and three dresses appeared. "You're letting me have a choice?" Her eyes went wide as she asked in shock. He nodded. "That's so unlike you." She paused and looked up at him. "Jareth, what happened?"
"I want you to be happy." He walked to the door. "You pick one of those for today and the other two will go back into rotation." He walked out and stared after him. She could clearly see how it pained him to give her a choice. He was so used to having everything go his way. She walked over to the dressed and stared at them. One was a pink mermaid dress, one was a purple princess ball gown, much like the one she had worn the night before, and the last one was a deep v-neck green dress.
Sarah stared at them for several minutes before finally choosing the purple dress. When she had completely made up her mind, the other dresses disappeared and the silver heels appeared. She smiled in spite of herself.
She heard the door open and she hid her smile as she turned and found Carlida standing there. "Great choice milady."
"Please, call me Sarah."
"We've all been instructed to call you milady. You are after all going to be our Queen."
Sarah cringed at the thought of being a Queen. But isn't that what she had wanted when she was just fourteen going on fifteen? They always say be careful what you wish for, and she should know that better than anyone now. "How about you call me Sarah when he's not around, and milady when he's near?"
Carlida looked at her with worried eyes. "You want me to lie to my king? If I got caught doing that, I would get dipped into the bog of eternal stench. I'm sorry milady, I can't do that."
"Good answer Carlida." Sarah and Carlida both jumped at his voice. Jareth had re-entered without either one of them knowing it. He walked over to Sarah. "All my subjects will call you milady or Queen Sarah. Whichever suits them." He turned away from her. "After you take a shower and get ready, I have a surprise for you."
After Sarah got dressed, Carlida did her hair reluctantly. Sarah tried to tell her she didn't need her to do her hair but Carlida insisted. "All Queens have a chambermaid who help them get dressed and do their hair. So you are of no exception." Sarah sat down and let Carlida do her hair.
Jareth showed up and took her by the arm, like a prince would do with a princess. "Are you ready?" Sarah sighed and nodded. "I promise you, you'll like this surprise." He smiled and they took off out of the bed chambers into the hallway.
Sarah was feeling a little uneasy about the whole situation, because just yesterday he was being mean and nasty with threatening her family, but today he had been somewhat sweet. She didn't know whether to smile or cry.
Eventually they made their way outside to where the rose garden was. She gasped in awe. She had never seen anything like it. "Beautiful isn't it?" He asked as he turned to her.
"Yes." She barely whispered as she looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"The other day, you had thought about wanting to be out here, so I thought you would like to sit out here for a while?" Sarah nodded. "I have some work to attend to, so you'll be alone." He turned around and then turned back. "Make no mistake though, I have a barrier spell up so you can't leave the garden. If you want to come inside, you just have to call my name and I will be here in a flash."
"Thank you Jareth." He nodded and walked inside leaving her alone. She started smelling the roses and walking around looking at the different colors they came in. Pink, red, blue, green, purple, orange, white, and some of them even glittered! She was shocked, she had never seen so many roses in one place, nevermind so many colors of roses in one place. She sat down in the middle of them all. She heard something behind her move and she looked, but she couldn't see anything so she returned to looking at the roses.
"Sarah."
She looked behind her and couldn't believe what she saw.
Sorry it's so short, but I have to go work on my other fanfiction! Hope you like this one. I know I left it on a cliff-hanger. ;) Hopefully you like it. What did she see? You'll find out next time! Oh, and as always, thank so much for the views and the reviews! They mean so much to me! :)
