Pocketville Lost Diamonds: VOLUME 2

☆Special: you warmed my heart☆

Eva was walking on the street that brang from the Castle to Pocketville.

It was a pretty cold autumn late afternoon: the sun, ready to set behind mountains, had been totally hidden by gray clouds that painted the sky gray. Trees were losing their leaves, which were daingin with the wind, showing all their warm and lively colors. The same colors of fire, like the ones that lit the lamp posts, many of them magically began turning on.

Pocketville’s main square was full of  inhabitants, each of them with a happy smile on their snouts. Someone was shopping for winter supplies, someone else was visiting friends or relatives, someone was chatting with neighbours, someone was just enjoying the feeling of the cold season.

But Eva wasn’t doing anything of this: she wasn’t going to shop, she wasn’t going to meet someone, she wasn’t having a relaxing walk.
Neither of this.

All she wanted was being alone, as far as possible from the Castle and all the people inside. Those ancient and hard walls became too choking for her, just like Guards, manservants, relatives came to visit them, staff and her sister too.

Eva wondered what the heck was going on between them: time ago, even in the worst times, she and Ava always got along well. Now something was different. An invisible wall appeared to cut off their complicity and understanding and, despite all Eva’s attempts to break it down, it wasn’t going to leave them alone.

But Ava wasn’t even trying to help her. She was so busy with her princess duties, she seemed to not remember what having a twin sister meant.
Everyday she didn’t have a single minute to waste with her. Not a single chatting, not a single mischievous smile, not a single joke or a fight.

“I'm busy right now, Eva. Can we talk later?” “Can we walk tomorrow?” “I have no time for playing” “A break? Uh, not now…” Eva hadn’t been herself for months and she didn’t even notice it.

Or maybe she did, but she didn’t ask.
Did she really care that less?
Eva’s stomach hurted. It was killing her inside.

She was so alone, so lonely and… sad.

She entered in the Main Square of the city and walked on the road, looking at her own paws.

Many inhabitants gazed at her with surprise, some of them politely greeted her and other ones just murmured something to each other, pointing at her. Meeting a Royal cat in the Square wasn’t something which happened everyday.

She didn’t even give them a look and walked toward.

Eva wondered if they at least knew her name, or if she appeared to be just “the princess’ sister”.
Their names weren’t that much different, but for some reasons people only remembered Ava’s one.

Anyway, where was she going? Why had she been walking to the Square?
She would have happily sat in a corner and waited for sunset before going back to castle, taking as much time as possible, but…. all those people looking at her were upsetting.
She wasn’t really in the mood for it.

All the anger hidden inside in those days was ready to go out for anything.
Ava wouldn’t have appreciated another brawl against an innocent animal who just asked her if everything was alright.

Well, she neither cared what her sister princess thought about it: she could scream for hours, Eva would have just screamed back in the same way. They could fight for weeks, what was the problem? She didn’t care a bit if she was a princess, a Queen or whatever she wanted to be. For her, she was just her sister. Nothing more.

Rules were her last problems.

Eva noticed a small backroad which seemed to be empty. Perfect.
She immediately entered into it, without wondering where it brang to.
At the end of it, there was a very small yard covered with a minuscule fountain. Its water sound was calming and covered the noise of the Square. A nice place.