Later that night...
The diner was quiet when we entered together, hand in hand and heart in heart. Silence deafened my ears as I ate the food that had been placed in front of my blurred eyes for nothing was clear now...
He knows of so much that I have yet to grasp! In those eyes of sapphire, he keeps his secrets clasped...
The food was eaten, the breaths were taken, and the stares of utter confusion were cast before I found myself in my room. He lay by my side that night and I lay in his arms. My dreams were strange and filled with riddles that only he could answer. Torment was hidden in my distempered sleep.
Of my dreams was an angel, a child who spoke of things that would trouble my mind and fill it with thoughts of things I would dare not speak of. The only comfort that night I felt was of Christian's arms as I lay in them.
The child was of a very young age and yet spoke of things that were beyond her years. Golden hair and blue eyes were of the child and a smile of heaven's white clouds coveted her face.
The child spoke...
Oh moonlight does thou death not fear?
For hence doth this I see the vile sun rise?
When thou's end is near?
For the angelic stars steal thy prize.
O nay God and stars and death of life!
Shall this tormented day turn to soothing night?
Or shall fountains red pour from thy knife,
When love is a battle no man can fight?
Not of death's temptations do I see,
Nor of life's blessings do I grasp.
But death's angel hath come to me,
And freedoms in love do my quivering hands clasp.
Oh comets strife! Oh welcomed night!
This battle of love, I shall not fight.
And as she spoke those final words, she drove a dagger into her heart. Stopping her breath and ceasing her heart's frantic beats. I watched in horror as the young child fell to the blood stained earth. I slowly knelt down beside her and wept till my tears turned to blood.
I woke terrified out of my wits to find myself alone in my bed, and the sun slowly rising over the balcony outside of my room. A warm breeze rustled the curtains by the balcony as I stood from my bed. I walked towards the door to my balcony to find it opened and occupied.
"Christian?" I breathed as I stepped into the blinding morning sun.
"Oh Mon ange did I wake you?" he inquired as he saw my dazed state.
"No you did not." I replied my voice wavering.
"What has happened?" he asked as I leaned onto the balcony rim my hands quivering.
"It is nothing... just dreams..." I replied trying to pull what sense of sanity I had left and put it to use.
"Nicole... This has been happening to often." He said his voice full of concern.
"And how would you know of this?" I replied my voice sly as a smile began to appear.
"Is that rhetorical? Or is an answer required?" he spoke smiling as he gently wrapped his arms around my waist.
I could not help but smile as I felt the warmth from his embrace flow through my bodice and the pain and terror of my haunting dreams slowly fade away to be sealed inside a foreboding memory.
"Let us go out today and leave this prison for a while." Christian said after a moment.
"Where shall we go? Adrianna told me that it is a hundred miles to the shoreline and a hundred miles to a nearest town." I spoke.
"Well, my mother does not get out much and believes what my father tells her." Christian replied, chuckling a bit.
"I can believe that. Oh Adrianna, how much she has changed." I breathed.
"You know my mother?" Christian inquired as we sat down together on a small bench on the balcony.
"Yes. She has been friend with my mother for quite some time. I met her on... my first birthday." I spoke my voice breaking.
"Oh my... She was there? At that birthday party?" Christian inquired, shocked coveted his sapphire eyes which gleamed through his white mask.
"Yes... What shock is this to you? What do you know of this?" I inquired as he began to stare off into the sunrise.
"I did not know that she was there... When that happened." He spoke, is voice soft yet deep.
"Who told you of this?" I inquired feeling as though my entire life was being told for the entire world to know.
He bowed his head away from mine as I tried to get answers, he would not give me, from his sapphire eyes. He turned away from me, hiding the mask, hiding his eyes.
"I believe the phrase "in due time" is the correct answer." I spoke smiling a bit and gently laying my hand upon his shoulder, "She told you, no?"
"Who told me of what?" he inquired.
"Melissa... She told you what you have been speaking of... She did talk quite a bit anyways... It was only a matter of time I suppose and..." I continued but was stopped.
He gently placed a finger on my lips silencing them so that my eyes may become lost within his own and as the world slipped away, I heard the voice call to me once again.
"You need not speak my angel for you talk only of what you know and you soon shall speak of what you feel and see. Leave all thoughts and all perceptions behind and go with him... Stop time... Save him and in this you may even save yourself."
At this, I felt the warm morning breeze turn cold and it seemed as if the sun paused for a moment before continuing to rise up above the horizon and bring garish light to the barn land.
"Come with me." I heard the voice coo as Christian reached out and grasped my hand in his own.
Stop time... Save him and in this you may even save yourself...
