Another chapter, yay! I got such a positive response on the first chapter that I decided to continue the story. So, here it is.
"I don't like you at all."
The tears fell freely from her eyes as he turned sharply and walked away from her.
"I hate you!" She screamed at his back, her shoulders shaking with sobs and anger as he paused. She didn't notice the few drops of water that appeared at his feet while she turned slightly away from him. Wet paths were retraced down her pale face as she bawled silently, hugging herself.
"I don't want to be friends, either." Bloom didn't hear the anguish in his voice; she was too wrapped up in her own desolation.
"I never want to see you again!" She screamed at him as she ran from the clearing and up to her room. She ignored Stella, Musa, Flora, all of them. She fell onto her bed and sobbed into her pillow, too absorbed in her depression to hear his ship taking off.
She was broken hearted.
It was only later, as the sky was kissing and molding with the horizon, that Bloom finally stopped crying. She was lying across her bad, cradling her head in her arms. Her back was up to the air, with a pool of water soaked into her mattress.
Now, she was spent. Her blue eyes looked up in exhaustion as the red sun gave blush to her cheeks. She didn't even have a sigh left in her for her troubles. She didn't think, merely rested on her bed with eyes open wide. Her body was still, and she didn't move as she heard the door open.
"Bloom?" Came Stella's voice.
Bloom didn't respond, merely watched the sun sink lower and lower, with darkness reaching up to drown the world.
"Maybe she's asleep." Musa's voice was next, soft in the darkening room.
"We should leave. People need to rest." That was Techna, always having trouble with emotional things and always practical.
"Good night, Bloom." Flora was last to speak before the door was shut again and the girls left Bloom be.
She had not fallen asleep, her eyes still stared unseeing towards the open window as the last ray of sun disappeared and the world was tucked into darkness for night. She didn't move as the stars came out, smiling and laughing at the sleeping world. She didn't move as the moon chastised the stars and bade them merely twinkle in the silent night.
She didn't move at all.
When the sun rose again, she was still there, her eyes unseeing, her body unmoving. It was Kiko who woke her, his impatient noises signaling feeding time.
Blindly, she moved, gave him food, and was about to lie down again when Kiko pointed to the clock. Class was starting soon.
Bloom walked towards the classroom, her hair unbrushed, her makeup from the previous day still on. Her clothes were the same, more worthy of a date than of class. She had dark circles under her eyes, yet she didn't feel tired.
She felt exhausted.
It was after lunch that she finally pleaded sick and went to her room. She collapsed on her bed and finally slept, the sun watching over her peacefully. It was her dreams that taunted her, now, dreams of her and Prince Sky eating lunch on a checkered blanket in the middle of a meadow of flowers. The sun shone down, warming her shoulders in a blue halter top, and ants trying to crawl to the food without being noticed. Sky sat beside her, leaning on his hands and watching the clouds.
Bloom bent down to brush the ants aside, and when she looked up again, Sky was gone. She jumped up and looked around, trying to find him. Clouds covered the sky as Bloom ran towards what she thought was her date. When she was near him, the clouds opened and rain flooded her senses. The force of the water drove her to her knees, crawling through the mud to reach Sky.
Her hand hit something in the mud, and the rain let up enough for her to stagger to her feet. She could see him, standing in front of her, merely a foot away, yet when her hand reached out to touch him, it passed right through him. She got the shivers, and tried to hug him, falling through him and back down to her hands and knees on the ground.
"I don't think that… we should see each other again."
She could hear him say it, but her mind refused to believe it. She got back to her knees again, and reached out to him. This time, her hands were solid on his shoulders.
"Ever. I never want to see you again."
She turned his body to face her.
"Because..."
He had no face. There was a mouth, but the rest was flat, with blackness in that mouth, that seemed to suck in all light and spew out darkness.
"I don't like you at all."
She screamed and a step backwards, tripping once again into the mud. The rain fell heavier and heavier, blocking her view and isolating her.
"I don't want to be friends, either."
The cool, calculated voice did what it meant to and the light of the meadow disappeared. The rain fell around her in the darkness, the only sound to accompany her sobs.
She was utterly alone.
Bloom awoke with a start and realized that it was the middle of the night. She had dreamt the whole thing, she was certain. She picked up her phone in one hand, dialing Sky's number with speed while her other hand clutched the blanket beside her.
No answer. She dialed again, still no answer. Finally, she leapt from the bed, rummaging through her closet until she found black pants and a black t-shirt. She snuck from the room and out of the gates of Althea, intent on Red Fountain. Sky might think she was a little crazy, but the dream had been so real. She needed to hear his voice telling her that everything would be okay, she needed him to hug her.
The trees above her were menacing in the darkness as the full moon slipped behind a large cloud. Bloom could see monsters in their branches, but calmed herself as the moon flooded the area with light.
It seemed like a jump and a skip until she was at Red Fountain, trying to figure out where Sky slept, and how to get there.