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Well, here is Chapter 3, Enjoy!!
Chapter 3
Susan began her journey. She travelled to the western woods. The woods that where given to Edmund so long ago. She got as far away from Cair Paravel as possible. So the woods was the best option. She got to a small town. She didn't recognize anyone she saw there and no one seemed to recognize her. So she was safe there. She needed a place to stay and she since she knew that she would be here for a long time, she couldn't stay at the little hotel in town. She saw a small group of men. Susan walked up to them. She made them a deal, that they would build her a house in the forest and they would get paid for it. The men agreed and they started on it right away.
The men worked hard for two weeks. Then the house was finished. It was small but cosy and Susan felt great once she moved in. she knew that this was a perfect house for her. The first couple of days she felt a little lonely. She had always lived together with her siblings and now she was all alone. But she knew that this was her only option. She could never return to the castle and she would never be reunited with the people she loves.
"Make way for High King Peter, King Edmund and Queen Lucy!" Peter heard a man yell. The sentence didn't seem right. It was missing a big part. And because of that, it meant nothing at all. If Susan was here as well, and her name was being called along with theirs, then it would be complete. They would ride into the town together. all four of them. They would smile and wave at the forming crowd. Now they would still wave and smile at the people, but with a sadness in their hearts. It would seem like a happy royal visit. But it would be one big show. Because deep in royal hearts it was just another reminder of their missing sister.
Lucy watched as everyone came from their houses to see them coming in to town. She always felt a little uncomfortable when people were watching her every move. She always thought that she would make a mistake or fall of her horse. It had never happened, the fear was always there. Susan would say to her that she just had to be calm and focussed on her riding, instead of everyone around. Susan had the same problem. So they would talk to each other to take their minds of the intense staring. Now Lucy didn't have Susan to talk her out of her trouble. Susan wasn't here and she was. She got an idea. She stepped of her horse. She took the reigns in her hand and walked towards a small girl in the arms of her mother. "hello there, what's your name." the little girl looked at her with shy eyes. "my name is Susie, Your Majesty." She said. "that is a beautiful name. I have a sister who's name is Susan. That is almost the same as Susie." Susie's eyes started to widen. "really, Queen Lucy, where is your sister? Isn't she with you?" Lucy felt her heart ache. "No little one, she isn't with us today. I hope she will be soon though." she ruffled Susie's hair. "it was nice to meet you Susie." "Bye Queen Lucy."
Lucy walked on and looked around her. Next to her a voice said. "be calm and focus on your riding." Lucy gasped. Susan! She immediately turned her head to look for her sister. She saw so many people, but her sister wasn't amongst them. She sighed, put on a smile and walked on.
The minute Susan heard that her brothers and sister where in town, she panicked. It had been 3 weeks since she had moved into the town and this was the first time the royals came to visit. She walked into the forming crowd, pushing her way into the front line. She let her hair fall over her face and looked down a little. That way it was harder to recognize her. When she finally saw her siblings riding into town, she felt jealous. She had to be there with them. She was supposed to be there on a horse. Smiling at the crowd and talking to Lucy, to forget about all the attention. Now she was watching from the sidelines. She watched her siblings having the lifestyle, she once had with them. Lucy got off her horse. Susan saw her coming closer. She started to freak out. She turned her head a little so Lucy would see the side of her face. Susan followed her sisters moves. she walked to the little girl 2 metres away from her. She saw her sister interact with the small shy girl. Susan smiled, she realised that she wasn't looking at Lucy Pevensie from England, but she was looking at Queen Lucy the Valiant from Narnia. Lucy slowly walked past her and Susan couldn't resist to say: "be calm and focus on your riding." She used to say that to Lucy, when she was nervous about all the attention focused on her. The moment she said it, she turned around and walked away. She put on the hood of her cloak and walked towards her house.
"Susan!" she heard a voice yell. She immediately stopped when she recognized the voice. She turned around and she was standing face to face with her best friend Carlina. She had been here for 3 weeks and instantly became friends with the girl. They were about the same age and Carlina had been the best friend she could have wished for. She trusted Carlina with everything. She also trusted her with her secret. She told Carlina about her love for Caspian, her pain for leaving him and Narnia behind to return to England, she told her about her desire to forget about Narnia and everything around it, the accident, and she told Carlina about her return to Narnia and about her escape from the castle. Carlina asked her about the reason she didn't want her siblings to know she was in Narnia, but Susan never told Carlina about her dream. it was to painful to talk about the nightmare she had, still it haunted her every single night. She always dreamed the same dream. she woke up every morning crying and sweating and Susan could do nothing to stop it. She shook the thought away. "Are you still coming to my birthday party tonight?" Carlina asked her. "Of course I wouldn't want to miss it for the world." Susan replied. "You know Su, it must have been hard on you, watching your brothers and sister coming into town without you by their side. And if you ever want to talk about it, you know you can come to me, right." "Yes, Carly I know, thank you." Susan hugged her friend. "But now something else. Why didn't you tell me that your brother is so gorgeous." Carlina said with a dreamy look on her face. "Carlina! You did not just say that." "Oh yes I did. His Majesty, High King Peter looks Magnificent." She said with a playful smile. "this is getting disturbing. My best friend and my brother. I'm going home now. See you tonight." With that Susan walked away. She didn't walk home straight away. She wondered through the forest a little. She heard a noise and quickly hid behind a bush.
She carefully looked around if she saw anyone. Again she heard noises. She followed it and stood behind a tree, when she got close. She glanced past the tree and gasped. Caspian. there he is, finally I can see him again. finally I can look at his face. I can see the way his hair slightly falls over his eyes. Susan had to restrain herself from running to him and jumping in his arms. I have to go. If he sees me, all will be over. He will ban me from Narnia. Or even worse. He will have me executed. No, Caspian wouldn't do that. but I can't have him hating me. that would be the worst of all. Susan turned around to silently get away, but she stepped on a twig. She panicked and did the only thing that came up in her mind. She ran.
Caspian was sitting in the forest. He needed some time to think. He was holding the horn his love left when she left Narnia. When Peter, Edmund and Lucy stumbled into the throne room he was shocked. Because Aslan specifically said that Peter wouldn't come back. He remembered looking at the door in hopes that Susan would come walking in gracefully like the queen he knew. But she never did. Peter, Edmund and Lucy told him their story. They were in a train accident. When the trains collided, everything went black. After that they were some place they didn't know with Aslan standing in front of them. They told him about how Aslan told them that they were going back to Narnia because they had died in their world. They asked Aslan about Susan, but the Lion said that he wasn't going to tell them the story of others. Then they stumbled into the throne room. They also told Caspian about Susan's situation before the accident. Susan had changed after they came back from Narnia the last time. She never wanted to talk about Narnia any more and she started going to parties and coming home late and she was always worried about how she looked. Then they told Caspian that after a while when Lucy asked Susan about Narnia, Susan said that it was a kids game they used to play, that it was just their imagination. That it wasn't real and that they were just pretending. When Caspian heard that his heart broke. Then Lucy told him that Susan screamed his name once when she was asleep. When Lucy confronted Susan with it, Susan denied it of course. But it happened more then once, so it gave Lucy hope that Susan hadn't really forgot about Narnia. She wanted to forget about me though. a little voice inside his head said. But she didn't forget! another voice said. I should hate her for trying though. this battle went on in his head for days and days. It had been 10 months since the 3 siblings came to Narnia, and still no sign of Susan. I could never hate Susan. Even if she forgot about me, about us, about our kiss. I will always love Queen Susan the Gentle of Narnia. I just hope that one day she will choose to remember me again. so that if she ever comes here, I would be able to see her again. maybe I can never be with her, just to see her and even be around her is what I ask for. Suddenly he heard a noise. It was the snap of a twig. "who's there." He said with a stern voice. His hand went to his sword. He heard someone running away. He got up and looked into the forest. He saw someone with dark curled hair and a crimson red dress run away. The woman reminded him of..
"Susan."
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