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In her hands she had a small notebook lined in black leather, the pages were wrinkled and yellowish that the only thought of open it and damage it was terrify for her.

Regina reopened the notebook and she took a deep breath before start reading:

I decided tostart writing this because I think just this way I can explain what I feel for her. Regina, my Regina.

I still rememberthe day I met her. I was ten years old and she was eight, I lived in a small house and she lived across the forest in his father's castle. She was a princess and I was a boy, the son of a hunter.

When Ifirst met her I thought she was the prettiest girl I had ever met. She ran behind a small squirrel until suddenly stopped because she lost sight of it. I watch her while I hid myself among the trees, being careful not to make noise.

She woreher dark hair blowing in the wind and a white dress of those who wore the princesses. The little girl stopped and started looking around; I noticed that her big brown eyes filled with tears.

I leftthrough the trees slowly and she looked at me with great fear in the face.

"Calm down" I told her showing my hands "Relax, I'm not going to hurt you" I took a few steps toward her and stopped when she took a step backwards "Are you okay? Is something wrong?"

"I think ..." Her voice was almost inaudible "I think I'm lost".

"I can help you ... If you tell me where you live I can help you get back".

"I live in a castle" she answered, this time with a higher pitch and I noticed that her voice was sweet and melodic.

I looked for a few seconds, and I guess my logic helped me suggest the following.

"Are you a princess?"

She nodded and took her hands nervously and then she looked back at me.

"My name is Regina".

"I'm Robin" I said with a smile.

She bowed as she was accustomed to say hello, and I replied in the same way. Slowly I approached her and take her hand slowly.

"Come on, I'll help you return to your home".

We walked without saying anything, I was concentrating on the road we followed and she watched everything around her and hold my hand. Several times she squeezed my hand when she heard some strange noise and she walked a little closer to me. I looked at her with a small smile because I liked the feeling of trust between us.

After several minutes of walking we could see the castle, Regina smiled broadly and ran still holding my hand. By inertia I followed her till she stopped a few steps before finishing the wood.

"That's where I live" Regina said "Thanks for helping me".

"No need to thank me, princess".

Regina dropped my hand and began to walk slowly backwards without stop looking at me. Several steps later, she turned and ran back to her castle.

I'll never forget that first smile she dedicated me.

Now I have 17 years and I'm still remembering clearly the first time she smiled at me and I keep it as my most precious memories.

I remember the following day of our first meeting. My father went hunting and my mother was doing housework. I got away from my house without my mother heard me and ran through the woods in the direction in which the little princess had come to me.

I stopped at the edge of the forest and observe carefully that no one was near the castle surrounding hinterland. I feel nervous, my fingers were shaking and my pulse was racing.

I ran as fast as I could until I ran into one of the castle walls. I walked along the wall and after a few meters I could see the castle garden, and as I had hoped there was the little princess. I let out a small smile and look at both sides.

"Princess" I called her trying not to scream but she did not turn "Princess!"

She turned in my direction, with scared face. She looked at me for a few seconds and her face started to show a relaxed smile. She started running towards me and stopped a few steps before me.

"Robin... What are you doing here?" She seemed excited and nervous at the same time.

"Do you want to play with me?"

Now I realize how stupid that question was. But if I had not asked that question I would never have had the joy of that beautiful princess became my best friend.

"I would love to" she answered with a smile.

I showed her my hand and she took it without hesitation for a second. That's when I knew she trusted me.

We ran into the woods and stopped at the same spot where we had met for the first time. After that race we drop on the grass, we sat next to each other trying to catch our breath.

"Where do you live?" She asked me innocently.

"In a cabin that is just outside the village, it's just a few miles from here".

"Then we will play every day?"

"Every day".

She grinned and her eyes sparkled with excitement.

Every day.

And so it was. Every day she escaped the castle and we were where on which we had called 'our place'. I was the first to arrive, and when I saw her running toward me, a smile ran away from my face.

We played almost all the time. We ran through the trees trying to get us to each other. My ears were filled with their melodious laughter and my lungs with her scent given off at every turn.

I remember that many times I just let her win so that she wasn't sad. I get caught up and lost her, just so that nothing will erase the smile on her face.

Sometimes we just sat and talked. We talked for hours. Most of the time she was talking, but I didn't care to hear her voice and see her expressions as she told me about her life in the great palace. At least once a week, Regina took a book from the library of the castle and took her along. We sat under the shade of a tree and she asked me to read as she dropped her head on my shoulder and played with the flowers she had found on the way.

Back then I couldn't realize, but she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and certainly from the beginning I knew I had found a home for my heart, and it was right next to her.

It may seem ridiculous, because we were too young, but my heart did not want to get away from her, not for a single minute. I liked her company and my heart leaped with joy whenever she said, 'See you tomorrow' because I knew it was a promise she would keep.

In my memory it is recorded one important day in our story. She had me read one of her favorite books 'The Promise'. A very common title, but with a very beautiful content.

"He knew it, he could feel it" I was about to finish the last paragraph of the book as she played with a daisy in her hands "he will never going to be away from her, not even in a million years; and that was a promise that would be fulfilled. A promise he had made to his lover in silent with his eyes full of hope and his heart full of joy. Now the horizon isn't seemed to be as far as they rode together holding hands.

Regina arrangement to look at me as I closed the book.

"Robin" she called "Promise me something".

"Tell me, princess".

"Promises me that we'll always be friends, we will always be together and you'll never leave me".

"I promise".

I don't hesitate for a second to respond. I smiled and she smiled at me.

That was our promise.

I sat in the woods to wait, in our usual place. I settled on a log and focus my eyes to the path that Regina always came.

Today was her fifteenth birthday and they have a big party at the palace to which I could not attend for obvious reasons. Peasants were not welcome.

The day before, she had promised me to come. She said she would escape the castle to see me. I had bought her a gift, the first thing I could give her since I knew her. I saved the money I was paid working with my father in the field, and I bought her a small pendant with the letter 'R'.

More than a half an hour pass and I started to believe that Regina wouldn't appear. Perhaps she had been caught in any of the preparations for her party. The gallop of a horse replied me. I observe Regina on her white mare that she always rode.

She dismounted with a great leap and a smile appeared on her face. I got up slowly from my seat and look at her noticing every detail.

She wore a beautiful purple dress that showed skin from her bare shoulders. Her dark hair was piled on top of her head and adorned with a crown. Her hands were encased in long gloves of the same color of the dress and her beautiful brown eyes sparkled below her long lashes.

"Milady" I greeted her with a bow.

I listen like a giggle escaped her lips and then she replied with a bow.

"You look so beautiful" I approached her without couldn't stop looking at her from head to toe.

"Thanks" She replied with a small smile "I do not have much time. Things are crazy in the palace".

"I guess so... Happy Birthday, by the way".

"I will not have a hug this time?"

I nodded my head and take her gently in my arms, breathing deeply her scent of apples. I felt her small hands sliding down my back and her breath caressing my neck.

"I have something for you" I commented gradually turning slowly away from our embrace.

I looked in my pocket, and I took between my fingers the thin chain which hung the pendant I had bought for her. I raise the pendant to the level of her face with a small smile. Regina's eyes lit up and she leap to me to give me another hug.

"I love it" she whispered "it's beautiful" She pulled away from me and looked me in the eyes "Can you help me to put it in?"

"Sure".

I spread out my arms to her and with my nervous hands I opened and closed the brooch to putting on the necklace on her neck. Regina took the pendant between her fingers and gave me a gentle smile.

"How does it look?"

"Very well".

It looked just as I had imagined. The pendant standing amid the bones of her collarbone and the small silver chain adorning her long thin neck.

"I have to go" she said, making me flinch "I can see you at night?"

"Why at night?" I asked frowning "What is that about?"

"I want to spend the last hours of my birthday with you... And besides, I have a surprise for you. And I think you'll like it" She winked at me and I replied with a smile.

"I'll see you in the evening, then".

"Do you promise?"

"I promise".

"So, what is my surprise?" I asked as I watched Regina walking towards me.

She had changed her elegant dress for her comfortable riding clothes; she had tied her horse to a tree and walked towards me with a bag in her hands.

"Cake" she answered taking a big container from the bag "A lot of cake"

I smiled and take the vessel by removing the lid, a white glaze covering the bread and vanilla scent escaped. We walked to put us under a starry sky, without any tree obstructing our view.

We ate the cake in silence until our stomachs felt ready to burst. We lay on the grass with an eye in the sky.

"It's a beautiful view".

"It is" I said looking sideways "Won't you get in trouble for being here?"

"Probably... But I don't care" Regina let out a big sigh "I also don't think anyone noticed my absence.

"Why is that?" I asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.

"It's a party with lots of alcohol and by this time the birthday girl is no longer important".

"For me, the birthday girl is still important" She looked into my eyes with a smile "There are still a few hours of your special day, so close your eyes and make a wish".

"Do you believe that wishes come true?" Her voice was soft and her eyes were deep.

"I don't know... But you can check by making one and maybe it comes true".

"Good point".

The princess closed her eyes tightly and let out her breath formed a white vapor. The temperature began to drop, and I could feel the cold through my clothes.

When Regina's eyes opened I looked at her curiously trying to figure out what had she desired.

"And..? It came true?"

"I still don't know. Maybe soon it will".

She smiled at me and I smiled. I had already gotten used to my smile escaping my lips every time she smiled at me. I couldn't avoid it.

"What is it?" She asked, searching my eyes.

My gaze was fixed on the ground; I couldn't look into her eyes. I felt the pressure on my chest of the words I don't wanted to say.

My parents told me we had to leave the village. My father had lost his job and wanted to 'broaden their horizons' looking for another job in another city. I couldn't say I would have to leave her... I don't wanted to leave her.

"Tell me now what happens... Please you are scaring me... Is something wrong?"

"Regina..." My voice was almost inaudible. I felt a lump in my throat stuck "I have to leave here".

"Do you want to meet another day? For me there is no problem..."

"That's not... It's not just for today".

"What are you talking about?" When I looked up I could see that she was frowning.

"My parents are going to leave town... And I have to go with them".

The brown eyes, that I loved so much, filled with tears and I could feel how Regina's jaw was clenched.

"You promised me you would never leave me" she said through clenched teeth.

"Regina, I'm sorry…"

"No!... Don't tell me you're sorry" She warned me raising her index finger. You could see the anger in her voice "don't tell me that you're sorry because it is not true!"

"Of course I am sorry" I took a step toward her, leaving only inches between us "Do you think I want to go and leave you here? Do you think I want to go and stop seeing you?... Of course not".

"Then why are you going?!"

"Because I can't leave my parents... They are also my family".

Regina's eyes left mine and dug into the ground. My hands look her cheek and stroked it gently.

"I don't want to do it, Regina... But you have to understand".

"I know..." She took my hand and sighed "Sorry to react like this".

"No need to apologize... I'm the one who has to apologize" Now that my eyes were filled with tears.

"Do you remember the wish that I made on my birthday?"

"Yes".

"Now, I know that wishes don't come true".

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I asked to you never leave my side" Her voice was broke and a tear rolled down her cheek.

My heart was tearing apart to hear that. And then an idea crossed my mind.

Regina, I will come back.

"Really?"

I nodded and take her hands in mines. Those small and delicate hands that caused me a thousand sensations when she touched me.

"Say you'll wait for me".

"I promise".