The Realm

Chapter 9

'You found her? Where is she?' Matts asks.

'We found her in the Forest. She is now in the dungeon,' Matts father explained.

'Sir, with all due respect I don't think it's a good idea to keep her in a cell,' I state.

'Please call me John. Anyway, she's in a cell because she put up a fight. She injured some of our best fighters.'

'She might not help us defeat the Prince because of putting her in a cell,' Matt butts in.

'She has to. We'll make her.'

'Well, it's good to know that you let people decide things on their own,' I mutter. Matt glares at me. Maybe I should of kept that comment inside my brain.

'I don't like this and Amelia doesn't like it either so I think we will go,' Matt says and I agree. We walk out of the room and I follow Matt.

'Do you want to see the garden?'

'Sure,' I answer but I would go anywhere to just be with him. We walk outside and the garden out the back is so beautiful. And hilly.

Matt laughs, 'you may want to take them off,' he points to my heels, 'because there is no way you can get up any of the hills with them on.'

'You bet?' and I take off running up the closest hill. Matt comes flying past and I know that I would never catch up so I pretend to twist my ankle and fall onto the grass. 'Oww!" I yell and Matt stops so suddenly that I think he is going to fall over. He looks back at me and sprints towards me. He falls on to his knees.

'Are you ok?' he asks.

'I think that I twisted my ankle,' I lie.

'Well, these shoes don't really help,' and he pulls my shoes off. He stands up, I pick my shoes up and he bends down to help me up.Once I'm up, I pretend to lean on him for support. I then push him and he falls to the ground while I sprint up the hill.

I arrive up at the top of the hill and see that Matt is walking up looking really angry. Maybe I shouldn't of done that. When he arrives he looks at me and starts yelling in my face. He is pissed.

'Why the hell would you do that?'

'There's no way I was going to win. You're too fast.'

'It's no joke,' he yells and then quietly adds, 'especially to me. I hate seeing you hurt. It kills me.' My heart flutters and I forget how to breathe and I think about him.

'Well, if I'm going up against the Prince, I guess you will have to deal with it.'

'Like I'm going to let you fight him. You too important.' By this stage, Matts hands are on my shoulders and I am staring into his brown eyes. His lips on mine is the only thing that breaks me from looking into his eyes. I close my eyes, sigh and kiss back and I wish I could stay like this forever. His hands rest on my hips and when he pulls back, I rap my arms around his waist and put my head on his chest.

'We can't let them inprison the Princess. It's not right,' he mumbles into my hair.

'Yeah, she's helping us and she gets treated that way, we need to get her out.'

Matt pulls back and looks me in the eyes, 'I have an idea.'