Chapter 4: A Rival at Hand
It had been a cold harsh week. The winds were following me everywhere I went. I worked myself harder to rid myself of the pain inside my chest. The worst feeling was that I could still feel the warmth of Luke's body when he held me. His warmth was like a branding on me, I began to crave for it. Luke stopped visiting me every day, his face just became a blurred image of my mind. That unusually pointy blue hair, that cute little Band-Aid, his bandanna, everything, and it all was only a distant memory to me.
The week wasn't only bad though, I did meet one person. I had to walk to Prailine woods, because in thanks of Anissa and her family letting me stay at Soufflé farm when I first arrived, I wanted to collect a variety of herbs for them. So while I was walking to Prailine woods, I saw a peculiar man standing in front of the blacksmiths. I walked up to him and said hello. He looked at me from my head to my toes and back up to my head again. He slowly turned, his purple hair flowing in the wind. He played with his right earing as he leaned to his left. "OMG. " He said with a gasp. "What!?" I yelled as I looked around anxiously. "Girrrrllllll~ you have your style ALL wrong. Come with me!" He grabbed my hand and dragged me to an empty house next to the clinics in town. "What are you doing!?" I said with a surprised tone. He sat me down on a stool and walked up to a big curtain that went across the room. "Don't worry about trespassing or anything. The tailors moved out of here a while ago, they told me I could use it whenever I wanted 3" I blushed, A LOT. I mean, who the hell is this guy!? Some kind of rapist? Maybe a killer? SHIT! What did I get myself into this time!?
The boy whispered in my ear "Get ready to be dazzled! 3" I gasped as the curtains flew open. Every teenage girl's dream was behind those curtains. Everywhere you looked clothes, Clothes, CLOTHES! The boy sat and laughed at my reaction. "I'm gonna make you worthy of my attention!" He said with a wink. He dragged me through his collection and showed me every selection of clothing he had. Eventually, he asked me if there was a boy I liked. I told him all about Luke, I don't know why, but I spilled everything. He smiled and listened and cared when no one else did. He even laughed when I gossiped about the people in town! He was like….my gay-BFF! I found out his name was Julius, and that he was living with the blacksmiths and working with gems, but what he really loves is fashion.
Julius began teaching me about fashion every day, and finally he designed something perfect for me. I told him about how I thought Luke likes a woman with a nice figure based on the whore I saw. The outfit was a tight black shirt, with red skinny jeans, black boots, a red and black bandanna, and Luke's red jacket. "This has to catch him off guard! It sure caught me off mine 3" Julius chuckled. "Thank you Julius!" I said as I reached for a high five. That night I prepared my outfit, because Julius and I were going to stop by the carpenters and ask for part time work so he could see what he was missing. Sadly, I don't know how I'm gonna react to Luke, and I don't know what I will do if he does realize he was wrong. "Well, I'll be fine" I thought, "As long as I have Julius with me, I'll have nothing to fear…hopefully."