A new encounter
There is a rose, an only rose,
that blooms once in a life time.
That one that blooms in poison thorns,
the prettiest of all the Rhodes.
A royal tear, and without fear
it flourishes in moonlight.
It gives you this an only wish,
deepest-unknown desire.
The love you want the love you seek
a petal just shall give you dear.
The clock revise memories bring
if you point out the liar.
A hope that lives in broken hearts
the wings of dreams in sunlight. The legend of the magic rose.
The past two weeks were a real blast, and the highlight the incident with Kaede, well not an incident exactly, but it was the best verbal choice since she just couldn't bring herself to say the s-word, or love making for that matter(she was embarrassed alright?)
…Anis was sitting in her class looking out of the window, waiting for the bell to ring and for class to start. When that happened she continued staring the infinite, not really paying attention to what was happening around her. Only when the teacher got in, followed by a new girl she actually came back to reality. She had long wavy to curly hair that almost touched her waist. She couldn't tell what the exact colour was but generally something between golden and brown. Her eyes were green, her skin extremely pale but her cheeks had a tint of pink. She was short and had a smile on her face. Anis thought she seemed very pretty-and shy. Her name-that she had never heard before in her life-was strange but completely fitted her. Nefeli it was, she looked different to Anis, she had an aura so positive and innocent. Something about her seemed familiar though. The teacher showed her a seat, right behind of Anis.
'Hello.' she gave her a smile thinking it would be good to make her feel comfortable and show her around at brake.
'Hi.' she gave back a big smile, making the other girl think she wouldn't need much help making friends in spite of her shyness.
'My name is Anis Yamamoto. And if you'd want I can show you around school today, you know see the place and stuff. Oh and if you don't mind we could have lunch together. What do you think?'she tried to be friendly.
'Uhm…okay' she said shyly, smiling again.
And it happened so. They sat together and Anis tried to make her talk a little about herself.
'So, Nefeli wasn't it, why did you come to our school, I mean in the middle of the semester?'
'Errhm…my-my dad, yeah, he had found a better job and I just had to transfer to your school because we live permanently here now.' She seemed to struggle to answer.
'Hmm…that 's a nice bracelet you have there.'
'Yeah,it was a gift from my grandma…a lucky charm,you know before she…'
'What about you what do you like to do? I can help you find a club, to become member of, or any activity that you would like to engage in?' she changed the subject.
'Well, does this school have a dance club?' she asked hopefully
'Yeah…yeah I actually think it does. Ohh, so you enjoy dancing.'
'Not only enjoy, I love it, and I used to take classes but…with the moving and all I had to stop.'
'I get it…It might sound crazy but I have this stupid feeling that I have met you before. Something about you is so familiar, like you have in common something with some other guys I know.' she laughed
Nefeli just gave her a soft smile that didn't touch her eyes.
'Who knows, they say some people are destined to meet…' she liked to smile a lot but Anis could see her eyes being sad. She wouldn't dare ask why though.
Maybe she is lonely here. She might have not adjusted yet, leaving your home is hell of a change.
She hung out with her and made her laugh. She had a pretty good time whenever they were together at the point her knights got jealous of her new friend. They would be inseparable and Anis was neglecting her duties as a dominion. There was for sure something weird about her. Once Anis happened to be passing by the class of the dancing club and was astonished by the grace of that girl. She moved like she wasn't human, always knowing the right position for her arms and legs and swirling around like a fairy leaving her fellow dancers amazed. That was obvious even at the way she walked. Although she was always smiling Anis could feel the sadness coming from within her. But she was okay with it, being resistant to the uniqueness due to the amazing amount of time spent with the knights previously.
The only thing that bugged her was the sudden way she had to leave at some times and how she wandered in school as if she searched for something.
One day she couldn't restrain her curiosity and she followed her. Kaede sneaked behind her while she was at it .
'What are you doing?' he raised an eyebrow, smirking
'Waaaah! Do not stand behind me, damn it!' she said through her teeth.
He put his hands around her waist, still behind her, hugging her, resting his cheek at the side of her head.
'You haven't even talked to me today. I hardly see you.' he pouted
'I need to go.' She touched his hands placed at her stomach telling him to let go
'See, that's what I m talking about.' He turned her around, a little frown in his face as he looked at her. He leaned forward pressing lightly their lips together. And again and again and again…she was certainly tempted to forget about what she was doing and stay with him. Kaede…Nefeli…Kaede…Nefeli…arrrgggh…he sucked softly her bottom lip, making her sigh and put her arms around his neck. Ah… stupid Kaede, now I will never find out what she's up to .Damn you and the way you can manipulate me…his tongue asked for entrance and she let him in. He was a good kisser she would give him that; he made those crazy butterflies in her stomach go wild. When he stopped he rested his forehead on hers. He looked into her eyes and caressed her cheek with his knuckles.
'I love you.' He whispered
Every time she heard that an electric wave washed through her. She crushed her lips on his with such force he almost lost balance.
'Gotta go.' she smiled at him and proceeded running to catch up to the other girl.
Wonder if she'll ever say it back to me? He gazed her as she was running, a sad smile on his face.
Nefeli was good at keeping it low and could sneak in a lot of places. Anis grew even more curious about what the other girl was doing. When the curly gal managed to find a place without people, the pinkette saw something that she for sure hadn't expected. A light blue sparkly thing came out of her friend's fingers and swirled around her before it was sent towards every direction. It looked like Mutsuki's strings but it was prettier, and kind of blatant to do even in a place like this. She continued putting up and down her hands and moving them graciously around her, performing some kind of a magical dance and the glitter like strings followed her movements. Anise's jaw dropped and she didn't think before she run to her.
'You…and, and…strings …and glow…and fshhh around ….whaaa?' she was waving her hands trying to find the right words
'Anis what are you doing here? You weren't supposed to see this!' she was shocked
'I am the one doing the questions here!' the pinkette said
'I didn't want you to know, I figured you'd freak out…' she bowed her head
'Are you a dark stalker or something?' she questioned, still astonished.
'What? No!' she grimaced
'Then how can you do that thing with the sparkly…strings or whatever?' she was confused.
'Let me introduce myself properly then. I am the pink rose.' She slightly bowed.
'You are a knight! But you're a girl!'
'I wouldn't call myself a knight, I am a guardian.' she placed her palm over her chest.
'So that means…you know what I am right?'
'I would be damned if I didn't…rose princess.' she smirked.
'What were you doing just now?' she looked at her friend's hands.
Suddenly the other girl got really sad.
'Searching…' she looked away '…this…' she said making little circles with her index finger, followed by the glitter '…is magic dust. It can change colours, depending on which of its properties I am using. Now it was investigating.'
'What are you looking for?' she frowned.
Now Nefeli looked devastated. She fell on her knees crying hiding her face with her palms.
'What is wrong? You can tell me, we are friends remember?' Anis kneeled and put her hand at her friend's back.
'What I was guarding was stolen; I failed my family and disgraced our kind, entrusted with such a great treasure. I was trying to pinpoint its exact location. I knew it was in the school but I can find it nowhere. I don't want to think what is going to happen now that it has fallen in the wrong hands.' She shook her head.
'What was it? The thing you guarded, what was it?'
'Triantafillon.' The wind made the two curls at the sides of her face wave. '…It is a magical rose, at the colour of iris, the one that hasn't be seen, that has no knight but one terrific property. It grants you one love wish.'
Oh God! I was so anxious about posting this one and I continuously postponed it…Sorry. But I couldn't help it at all…I'm such a wuss (and there were a lot of forehead slaps involved when I was writing the poem haha).Please be gentle, and review. Tell me if you don't like it( I usually find it hard to like characters created by the writer, so I guess it's the same for you…)Anyway, ill just have to go with it…^^See ya next chaptaO.O
Love,
Q.V.O.O.