Hey, Nukia here!
This fanfiction is a side story to Beyond This Love.
I wrote this chapter last week sometime, but I've been too busy to post it up. I always find that I can write a chapter quicker when it's shorter. I think I'm going to concentrate on this fanfiction for a while, I will get back to Beyond This Love at some point. I just want to finish this one first, then the rest will hopefully be easy and I hope people are enjoying this because I've got no idea if people are reading this story anymore. I'm going to be busy for the next two weeks, so I'll try my best with updating.
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Chapter 4!
Christmas had come and gone, it felt strange being in my Aunt's cottage for my first Christmas without my Mother. Rose had made me feel welcome and my Aunt had brought me many presents even though they were very old fashioned, but I guess it's the thought that counts. I got changed into my blue woolen dress and white coloured tights, I was going out for a walk this morning down by the bridge which wasn't that far from the cottage.
I grabbed my yellow raincoat from the hallway and put it on while I made my way to the kitchen, I then told Rose I was going down to the bridge now. She told me not to be gone too long and to wrapped up in case I caught a chill, she also mentioned that the bridge could sometimes be slippy after it had rained. I told her okay has I fastened my buttons up on my raincoat and put my woolly hat on my head, I then said goodbye to her before I left the kitchen by the back door.
The sky was very blue today and the birds were singing in the trees, it was a nice day even if it was cold this morning. I put my wellington boots on which were left at the back door, they were still muddy from yesterday when I went walking with Rose in the field behind the cottage. I hurried down the garden's pathway and out of the wooden gate at the bottom of the garden, I couldn't wait to stretched my legs before lunch I thought to myself has I began to run across the overgrown field.
I loved the location of my Aunt Thora's cottage, it maybe quiet around here and very creepy at night though. But it was also pretty and peaceful, I bet when it's Summertime the fields around here will be swarming with wildlife. I could now see the bridge in the distance near the woods, but I swore I could see someone standing on the banister of the bridge. It could be my eyes playing tricks on me because the sun was shining brightly today, but it looked like a person was balancing on the bridge's banister.
I began to slow down when I got to the pathway that led to the bridge, I could now see that the person was in fact a boy. He was quite tall with black messy hair and pale skin, he looked around my age. He was wearing a black hoody and blue jeans, he soon jumped down from the bridge's banister when he saw me stop my the entrance of the bridge.
" Hello, where are you from?" I asked while I rested my hand on the banister of the bridge and gave him a smile. " Do you live around here? I'm from the cottage over there just beyond those bushes, it's my Aunt's cottage..."
" I live far from here, you would have to enter the woods to get to the location where I live..." He replied with a smirk as he walked over to me and leaned back on the banister of the bridge. " I live in a house with many unintelligent children, it's a cage for the unwanted and twisted children with gifts from the unknown..."
" That doesn't sound very pleasant, but the nearest house from my Aunt's cottage is an orphanage..." I said with a sigh. " I'm unsure though about houses on the other side of the woods though, how long did it take you to get here?"
" Not that long, I'm a quick runner when I'm being chased through the woods by my elders ..." He replied with a chuckle while his gaze turned to me. " Tell me, does anyone else know that you're at the bridge today all by yourself?"
" Of course, I always tell my Aunt's housekeeper where I am..." I replied.
" Pity..." He chuckled.
I watched has the boy took something from his hoody's pocket, he then asked me if I would like to play a game with him. I told him I may play a game with him if he told me the name of the game first, but he just chuckled at me while he showed me a jar of strawberry jam. I gave him a small smile and turned my gaze to the water of the stream which was running underneath the bridge, he then began to speak with me while I watched the stream.
" Do you like strawberry jam?" He asked.
" Yes, it's nice on hot buttered toast..." I replied.
" How disgusting, I like strawberry jam straight from the jar..." He said.
" I think that sounds quite disgusting if you ask me, it would rot your teeth over time..." I said while I looked up from the stream at him. " Doesn't it ever make you feel sick or gives you an aching stomach?"
" Never, it fuels my mind and keeps my brain active for my studies..." He replied and removed the lid from his jar of jam. " There is nothing worse than the stupidity of others, this is why sugar keeps your brain alive and buzzing with waves of knowledge..."
" You mean for your school work?" I asked.
" You could say that my dear, but school work never came into my criminological studies..." He replied.
" I see..." I said.
I watched the boy smirk has he dipped his fingers into his sticky jam of the jar, he stirred them around in the jam until he removed them. I couldn't help but pull a face over his odd habit, he was truly the strangest boy I had ever met in the town of Winchester so far. He licked all of the jam away from his fingers and screwed the lid back onto his jar, he then asked me again if I would like to play a game with him.
" What kind of game?" I asked.
" A game only you and I could play, I like to call it contusions of innocent souls..." He replied with a smirk while he eyed me up and down. " There is something very odd about you Elizabeth Mirabella Mayhem, your lifespan is different to other people I encounter in my day to day life..."
" How do you know my name?" I asked.
" I can see your name with my unnatural eyes, you interest me with your frozen lifespan..." He replied.
The boy chuckled has he turned his gaze away from me, something tells me I'm not going to get any answers from him. I told him that I had to go now because I would be missed if I didn't return back home before my lunch was ready, but what he did next frightened me. He grabbed hold of my raincoat's sleeve and roughly yanked me across the bridge, I then told him to let me go while I kicked his left leg.
The boy told me to stop it has he pushed me to the ground, he also mentioned that I was ruining his game with a cruel smirk on his face. I told him I didn't want t play with him while I quickly got up from the ground, I then hurried back along to the entrance of the bridge and yelled when I felt a sharp pain on the back of my left leg.
I stumbled slightly has I made my way onto the pathway, but when I glanced over my shoulder there was a jar of strawberry jam rolling down the pathway. I glanced over at the boy and to my surprise he was making his way back into the woods, he must have thrown his jar of strawberry jam at me I thought to myself as I hurried up the pathway towards my Aunt's cottage.
I fell over a few times until I got to the back gate of the cottage's garden, the pain on the back of my left leg was getting really sore now. I leaned back against the gate and looked around at my surrounds before I checked on my leg, but I couldn't really see my leg while I had my white tights on. I took a look at my raincoat next and it was cover in mud, I even had dirty marks on the knee parts of my tights. I could help but sob over what had just happened at me, I don't understand why he had thrown his jar of jam at me or why he wanted to play horrible games with me.
I took a few moments to claim myself down before I opened the back gate of the garden, I didn't want Rose to know what happened to me just now or that I had been crying over it. I closed the garden's gate behind me and limped down the pathway towards the cottage, I then took my wellington boots off by the back door. I placed then by the back door's steps and slowly opened the door to the kitchen, I just hope I don't get into trouble I thought to myself as I walked through the doorway.
I closed the kitchen's back door behind me and called to Rose while I entered the kitchen, but when she looked at my over her shoulder she gasped loudly. I jumped slightly when she hurried over to me and began to unbutton the buttons on my raincoat, she told me not to move while I took my hat off my head.
" Oh my dear child, are you alright?" She asked with a hint of concern in her voice. " You're has muddy has a pigsty, have you been rolling in mud?"
" I'm okay, I just slipped down by the bridge while I was collecting leaves and twisted my ankle..." I replied while she helped me take my raincoat off for me. " I will go upstairs right away and get cleaned up before lunch, I don't want my Aunt Thora seeing me like this because she may scold me if I get mud on her hallway carpet..."
" Okay my love, but be careful going up those stairs and getting into the bathtub..." She said with smile. " I'll have a little look at your ankle in a little while for you in case it's swollen, but I did tell you to be careful down by that bridge. Just look at your tights and fingernails, you look like a little muddy scarecrow..."
" I'm really sorry Rose..." I sniffled and let out low sob while I brought my hands to my mouth. " I didn't mean to do it, I'm so sorry!"
" It's okay my love, I know it was just an accident..." She softly said while she put her arm around me and kissed the top of my head. " Now don't you get upset, we're have you right has rain and all cleaned up before lunch is served. Let's keep this little incident to ourselves and I will tell your Aunt that you fell, I will not breath a word about your muddy clothes to Miss Havisham... "
" Okay..." I nodded.
" That's my girl, let's get you cleaned up then..." She said.
Rose told to me go and get some clean clothes from my bedroom, she then said she would fill the bathtub for me with hot bubbly water. I gave her a nod of my head has I watched her leave the kitchen, she then yelled to me to get some bubble bath from one of the shopping bags near the fridge. I did what she asked and joined her in the bathroom upstairs, I just hope she doesn't stay with me while I have my bath I thought to myself while I went to get my clean clothes from my bedroom.