Alice's Secret
Hey guys this is chapter 4 I hope you enjoy. (^-^)
Chapter 4: Friend or Foe?
"Because... I-I" I started bursting out crying from just thinking of my mom. To muffle my cries, I cover my face with my hands. "Mom... she was there. I miss her so much."
As I sat there whimpering, Mr. Smiles wraps his arms around me and gives me a little squeeze.
Still sobbing, I bury my face in his chest and let all my tears out. I also wrap my arms around his back and squeezed him as if my life depended on it.
"It's okay." He gently strokes my head.
A few minutes later, I had calmed down from my break down.
"I'm sorry," I apologized. "Your shirt's wet now because of me."
"Don't worry about it. Do you feel any better now?" He asks with his same bright smile. I swear if someone just looks at him they'll be blind from how bright it is.
"I guess I do feel better." I chuckle to myself.
Right on cue my stomach starts growling loudly.
"Are you hungry?" He asks standing up and bending over next to me.
"Um.. maybe a little."
"Okay then," He stands to his full height and looks down at me. "What would you like to eat?"
"Fruits so good right about now." I answer him.
He gives me a quick nod and turns toward the cave entrance.
"Wait! Can you also get me some meat and something to drink?"
"Sure I'll get you anything you need." He says with a smile.
With that said, he disappears leaving behind a trail of gleaming, purple sparkles. Now I'm left alone with only the fire to keep me company. As I wait, I watch the fire burn. When I squint my eyes the light of the fire looks like little people dancing. The wind blows in my direction and I shiver. To block out the cold wind I bundle myself with the warm, cozy blanket, lift my knees up to my chest, and bury my face in my knees with my arms encircled around my legs. As I sat there I find myself slowly falling asleep again.
"Don't fall asleep on me," came a distance, but yet a very close voice.
When I open my heavy, sleepy eyes the same boy from before was in front of the fire doing something with his hands. I didn't know what he was doing (my vision was hazy from just waking up), but I smelt fish being cooked, mouth-watering steak, some mashed potatoes, fresh picked fruits, and finally I smell chocolate. As my vision began clearing, the first thing I noticed was the pots and pans.
"Where did you get all that stuff?" I ask, sitting up on my butt again.
"Hm? Oh this? I got them from my village." He says without looking up at me.
"Where's that?"
He remains silent for a second before saying, "That's classified information."
I stare at him with a blank expression. "Okay you don't have to tell me."
He looks up at me immediately, "No it's not because I don't want to its just that..." He trails off.
I try to smile as best as I could. "No its really fine you don't have to."
He turns back to his cooking with a depressed face expression. As we sit there in silence out of nowhere he places a plate and fork on my lap with steak, mashed potatoes, fried fish, and fruits on the side. I look up at him and this time I really smile at him.
"Thanks for the food." I pick up my fork and dig into my steak first. "Wow, this is really good stuff." I say with food in my mouth. "Sorry." I apologize again while swallowing down my food, quickly. "That was very un-lady-like of me to talk with my mouth full.
"Oh, no problem I'm just glad you like my cooking. Truth be told you're the first to even eat my cooking. Tell me when your done so you can have dessert."
"Dessert! What we having?!" I ask excitedly.
"Well, I didn't know if you would like this, but I made chocolate brownies."
"If its chocolate then I would totally eat it."
His sad, depressed face expression lights up like a firecracker. "Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to tell you my name is Cole, Cole Brister."
"That's a nice name. My name is Alice Waters."
"That name is 'as beautiful as the flowers that bloom in the spring morning'". He recites.
"You've read the 'Spring Flowers' before?"
"Yes, its my all time favorite poem."
"I've never met someone who had the same interests as me, especially a boy."
Cole and I ended up talking about poems and books all through lunch.
"So? What clan are you from?" I ask setting down my plate.
"I'm from the Enderman Clan if you haven't noticed yet."
A flash back of eight years ago popped into my head.
"Mommy!" She mouthed the word 'I love you and vanished. My mommy, my only family member, was gone.
"Hello, Alice?"
I snapped out of my thoughts. "Yes, what is it?"
"Nothing, it just seemed like you zoned out for a minute."
"Sorry about that. what were you saying again?"
"I asked what clan were you from. Are you really okay? If not we could take you back home." He asked getting up.
"Oh no! I'm perfectly fine really."
"Okay I guess. If you say so." He sits right back down.
"Okay um... I'm from the Human Clan." (She doesn't know what mob(s) she is, so she thinks she's human.)
"I figured."
"What do you mean by that?" I ask kind of surprised, but at the same time I'm not.
"Well I just figured I guess." He says looking up at the ceiling.
I just stare at him not knowing what to do or say.
"Shouldn't you be getting home by now?" He asks staring at me and for the first time today our eyes met. His eyes were so addicting I couldn't look away, but I could see there was a mixture of sadness, grief, and regret in his eyes.
Finally, he looked away toward the cave entrance where the waterfall crashed against the rocks.
"What time do you think it is?" I ask filling in the silence.
"I'll go check." He stands to his feet and walks away without even a glimpse back at me. As he comes walking back from checking the time he says with a hint of sadness, "It's almost sunset so it must be around 5 o'clock."
"Okay then it seems like I should be heading out." I try to stand, but I end up falling on my butt with a pain going through my ankle.
Cole runs over to me and carries me bridle style and grabs my things from the cave wall, but at the same time he averts my eyes.
"Where do you live? I'll take you home." He walks toward the cave entrance and within seconds we're outside again. The air isn't as cold as it was before. Now it feels like a cool breeze. I look toward the lake with a sadden look and I'm guessing Cole noticed because he then asks, "Do you want to do something fun before you go back?"
"What do you mean by 'fun'?" I ask looking up at him.
"I'll show you. Just hold on tight." One moment, Cole is standing front of the lake and the next he's standing on the outskirts of the jungle biome.
"H-how did you do that?" I ask totally surprised.
"Every Enderman can do this its called teleporting, but this is only part of the fun." He looks at me with a smirk.
Cole teleports again and we're standing in front of a steep ravine. It was all dark and scary, but the worst part was that I was scared of heights so that just made it 5,000,000 times worst.
"Ready?" Cole asks.
"Ready for what?" I ask trying to stay calm, but it wasn't working. As soon as I saw him look down I knew exactly what he was planning to do. "Cole please don't." But Cole acted as if he couldn't hear me and he jumped. "AAAAHHHHH!" I screamed so loud that I think China could hear me.
Meters before we hit the ground Cole teleported and we ended up on the grass miles away from the ravine.
"Wasn't that just fun?" He says with a smile.
"I can't believe you thought that was fun! Cole, we could have died!" I shriek.
"But we didn't."
"Take me home, Cole! NOW!" I snapped, pounding on his chest.
"Wait one more pit stop." He said as if my punches were nothing but a cool breeze against his chest.
"NO!"
Cole wasn't listening to me. He started off at full speed toward... I don't even know what he was running at because in front of us was nothing but the plains. He was so fast that if you were watching him from a third person prospective he would have looked like a cheetah running by.
"We're getting closer to our destination!" He shouts through the wind.
As I saw what he was running to I almost had a heart attack. It was a cliff. Once we reached the edge he jumped again! This time I wrapped my arms around his neck as tightly as I could and hoped for the best. I tried to hold back my screams as best as I could.
"Hey you can open your eyes now."
When I open my eyes I found myself looking at a beautiful sunset. Cole was standing upon a mountain high up in the sky.
"Wow." I speak in amazement.
"I know right."
"Look I can see my village." I point out in the distance a group of houses that looked like a tiny ant.
Cole and I spend a few moments looking at the sunset till I ask, "May I go home now?"
He doesn't look at me, but he answers, "Yeah."
Next thing I knew Cole and I were standing one of the tiny village's doorstep. Cole places me down on the porch and knocks on the door then vanishes leaving behind the same trail of purple sparkles I once saw him do. As I stared off into the night hoping to see him the door opened.
"Alice!" Said a voice happily.
I looked at the source of the voice to find Lily getting down on her knees and giving me a great big hug.
"Where have you been? Everyone was worried when you didn't come back." She scans my body and her eyes laid upon my ankle. "Alice, what happened to you?"
"I sort of fell."
"I'm going to get Logan and Steve, but first we need to get you into the house."
As Lilly helped me into the house I noticed someone was watching me, but it wasn't Cole because this person was a girl.