Chapter 5

It had been nine days and Serena woke up to the tenth one in some kind of pain. Her heart seemed like it just didn’t want for her body to go on anymore. She just didn’t want to live in this existence any longer. Her body now felt like just some big pile of worthless muck, and when she tried to get up her starved body only protested to any kind of work.

She had not stepped out of her room for the nine days since she had seen the bird. Her worst thoughts had come true. Her truest friend had left her and never come back. She preyed for the bird to come back even for one last time. Just so she would know why.

Why did he stop writing? What happened to him? What was his name? Everything question ranging from trivial to something that seemed to eat at her heart ran through her head. She slowly opened her eyes to complete darkness, her chair turned away from the earth now. She just couldn’t look at it anymore.

She cursed it's bright and happy exterior. But she knew it crumbled under the pressure. The dark kingdom was growing stronger everyday, and she heard of spies in the kingdom of earth. She would feel sorrow for those on earth if she could stop feeling jealous.

She didn't even read anymore it just brought too much pain to handle now. So she pretty much did nothing anymore. She felt like she was pitiful and she knew she was filled with self pity, but she didn't deserve to be like this. She didn't deserve everything taken away from her. Not even her cats were beside her anymore.

They had left unexpectedly and she wanted them to come back. They brought the slightest bit of a smile to her face, but when the letters stopped coming the kitties left. Serena thought it was just mere coincidence.

"Meow" Speak of the devil. Serena shot up from the chair and she cringed for a while as she felt her muscles strain to get her up, but she soon ignored it as she ran to a little gray cat who sat in her corner. It's belly even bigger than the last time she saw it.

Serena scooped it in her arms as the cat rubbed her face with it's beautiful fur. Serena smiled for the first time in so long.

Luna and Artemis were soon behind and they were also welcomed into Serena's arms as they meowed. She walked them out to the balcony she almost sat down before a shrill voice pushed her eyes into a roll.

Serena bent down to pet her beautiful cats and walked to the door opening it with the gloom of a funeral placed on her face. The queen was all smiles as she pushed a huge ball of purple material into Serena's arms.

"You have an hour to be ready and I suggest you wash up." The Queens eyes narrowed at every speck of dirt on Serena's skin and turned with a not very well hidden look of disgust on her face.

Serena turned to her cats shutting the door and mouthed the words witch and they seemed to smile. She smiled back and slipped on the dress at didn't even mind her dirt clad body as she walked out into the hall. Her hair dragged a couple of inches behind her and now it was a dirty brown.

Diana still played with her hair even though she seemed to be too old for that. As her parents walked beside her and held their heads up high. As if they were proud to be walking beside such a dirty girl with such a horrendous dress.

Serena walked down the stone corridor and suddenly felt like taking a detour.

Her body collided with someone else's as she made it, Diana scattering to the side of the wall to dodge her falling butt and the others running forward to meet the body she had collided with.

She heard him cough and her heart skipped a beat once she felt something so familiar make her heart sweat. She kept her eyes to the floor not wanting to show the surprise on her face, as she knew it was a male standing before her. She just waited for him to walk past her, but instead she soon looked at a hand about as dirty as her face.

"Sorry miss, I didn't see you." Her head shot up as if she had heard something scandalous. Her eyes connecting with a blue that she knew she would never she in her life and for some reason she had to gasp for breathe as she kept looking. "Endymion?"

His eyes widened only for a second and that was all it took for Serena to notice his blonde hair. She turned her head in shame. It couldn't be him. She felt like she wanted to die. She turned back to him and he still held out his hand to her. For some reason it came so naturally to grasp it that she didn't think of the consequences.

'I have to find her.' His thoughts sounded like a some song she longed to hear. God did it sound like him. "Excuse me who are you looking for?" She asked with out thinking. Her curiosity got the best of her and his eyes widened in surprise.

"How did you know I was looking for someone?" She looked at him for a moment and realized how familiar his face looked.

'She seems so familiar.' His thoughts whined as she realized she still held onto his hand. She quickly took her hand. His hand hanging in midair as he still looked at her.

"I guess you could just call me gifted." She said to the floor. He would find out sooner or later, by one of the other servants. She guessed she could at least avoid it as long as possible.

"Nobody, don't worry about it." He looked at the floor now both in an awkward moment of their own until finally he made an excuse to leave and he did.

She searched his fleeting back for something. She didn't know what, but she only turned away when he had turned a corner. She began to go towards the dining area and when she past a coupled of servant girls she couldn't help but listen in when she heard them speak of a new servant boy.

"He is quite handsome isn't he." They both giggled. Serena smiling only slightly. Her cats stood beside her all three seemed to listen in on the conversation.

"Serena where are you?!" Serena ran down the hall thinking she must be late and she quickly made it to the staircase her joint's creaking with such extreme activity after so long with none. She looked around and her heart start to thump inside her chest noticing all the people who ad gathered in such a small room.

They all ate, but the one head that stuck out was a blonde one. The boy from the corridor. He was serving food and the queen seemed to notice how handsome he was by the way she smiled at him. 'Gag me.' Serena thought slightly smiling.

He seemed to notice her presence because he had looked up for just a second to catch her gaze causing what ever he was pouring to end up on her majesty.

"Stupid boy!" The woman shrieked and everyone turned and he ran be smart and ditching any attention he got. He took one second, though, to smile at Serena as he retreated into the kitchen. She smiled at couldn't but to give him a fake bow.

When he was completely in the kitchen she turned back to see what the queen was doing, and she sucked up every face expression. Seeing that the queen was giving her an evil glare.

Serena walked down gracefully and soon she was at the table sitting next to the king, and when she looked around she found to know none of the people around her, except the king, the queen, and Diamond. His brother Sapphire sitting next to him staring at a servant girl.

Serena shook her head until Diamond caught her attention. His hair tied up in a pony tail. He looked particularly handsome this evening, but she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. His eyes were hypnotizing so she could only look directly at them for a few seconds without feeling a chill run down her back. Not a good chill either.

She looked at the food set in front of her. Stirring it around with a fork and motivated by only her boredom. She didn't notice Diana was missing from her feet, until she heard a shriek from her being kicked across the room.

"Cat!" An extremely old man screamed at everyone at the table, as if they all needed to know it. Serena ran to go see if her kitty was alright. She ran to her, but before she got there, Luna and Artemis right behind her. Diana was happily purring in someone else's arms. Dirty muscular arms that belonged to the blonde hair, blue eyed boy she had met.

He handed it over to her? She felt something rush up her spine. 'Serena?' His eyes almost popped out of his head as the thought came to him. 'How does he know my name?' But before she got her answer she turned away and ran up the steps to get away from everything.

The cold air from outside of her balcony had hit her like a moon cow. 'Oh my god.' She bent over as the breathe caught in her throat and her stomach collapsed in pain.

Diana licked her face as if she sensed Serena's pain, but it just became worse with every breathe she took. She had run up the stairs faster than she had in so long.

After a few coughs, thank god, the pain turned into just a dull annoyance. Calmed enough so she could get up and get to her chair. She sat gasping for moments on end.

"How does he know my name?" She asked herself as if it hurt to just think. She had to get the question out in the open. Maybe the wind would answer her questions or maybe the stars will form it. She looked up at them for a second. They remained stars nothing spelled out in them.

Soon she got tired of looking so she just closed her eyes and just focused on her breathing, but soon enough two deep blue eyes filled hers. Her heart slowing into a dream of complete bliss.

“Serena, I love you.” His voice made her feet begin to move. He was right in front of her, but soon he was just moving farther away. She was running through fog and her lungs begun to fill up with it, making her want to drop to the floor and give up, but she wheezed and wheezed as she wouldn’t stop running.

“Endymion?!” She screamed. “Endymion?!” She screamed it over and over again. She looked for him, but now he was completely gone. he had disappeared into the fog and the never ending dark.

Soon her body gave into her lungs as she couldn’t breathe anymore. Then the song played out of the dark mist. Her locket was not even on her chest and the music played softly. Soon she began to hum with it letting her eyes fall and droop closed. Soon she was laying on the ground and she felt like the fog was a blanket and she hugged it to her body as if it was solid. One tear falling down her cheek knowing that she had given up.

“Endymion?” She whispered one last time as she breathed through her nostrils the smell of roses. She smiled sadly and then she felt a slight pressure on her shoulder and a kiss on her fore head.

She opened her eyes and saw him. “I’m right here Serena.” He smiled and she smiled back. She rested her head and snapped up when she felt it was a dream.

She snapped back into reality to feel a blanket tightly wrapped around her. She felt so sad that he wasn’t there. She was about to fall asleep when she noticed her locket was opened.

“It felt so real.” She whispered to the wind, and sat awake until it was time for the next day to begin with the queen yelling at her for her rude exit.