Dream Fantasy - Collection of Short Stories

Short Stories 4: A Boy That Never Existed

Tilica is young maiden who has a beautiful as sun and sweet as a lily. She is just a peasant girl in a small village working in a mansion of a young Lord as a servant. Everyday she wakes up at dawn before sunrise but the world around her is brighter than anything else made the other servant can't help but smiling along with her.

As long as she could've remembered, she never seen her parent. All she remembers is that she came from an orphanage before she was bought by the young Lord from far away small village. At the time, she was just 4 years old while the young Lord is 8 years old. She then put under the old maid to be taken care of.

She was taught to read and write. Taught to learn to dance and singing. Most of all, she was taught how to serve the young Lord. To wash his cloth. To prepare his meal. To clean his room. To dress the young Lord handsomely. Even with all of that, she never complains and listen to instruction really well.

Other than the young Lord, Tilica never saw any child as young as him. This big old mansion always quite as if there is no one living in it. Every servant is well behaved and doing their job perfectly in silent. The Lord and his wife are not a talkative pair. Since she arrived here, all she has to do is tend the young Lord needs and play with him. The young Lord is a sweet boy, love story telling and like to play hide and seeks with her. She often loose.

Now Tilica is 18 years old but strangely enough, the young Lord never grow old and look as young as she ever remembers, just like the 8 years old boys. Even the young Lord never grow old but he indeed matures. He mostly read his book or write a light novel.

The madam of this mansion died few years back because of depression and sleep deprived. The madam kept on and on mumbling about some boy who was once lost and never been found. The lost boy was the madam son, the young Lord himself. Even everyone kept on telling the madam and even brought the young Lord to her, she kept on refused to acknowledge the boy as her son.

After the madam died, the Lord of the house who are the only one left to love the young Lord. He unexpectedly caring and love his son. While the young Lord never shows any other expression except smiling, their relationship was peaceful. He often asks the young Lord came to sleep in his room is he ever feels lonely or scared. The Lord was really like a perfect father figure.

One day, Tilica heard the young Lord screaming. It was so laud that it shocked the whole mansion. They found the young Lord hiding under his blanket crying scare while there are deep cut injuries everywhere in every place on his body. Tilica was the first one who found him and shocked by what she has seen. She tried to wipe the blood but never could. Its as if its paint on him.

When the other servant come to the room, they don't even show any worries about the young Lord condition. All of them just like come and go, that's it. This is not the first time that the young Lord has been acting like or turn like this, so, no one even bother about it anymore. The young Lord said there was ghost of a woman who are wet all over kept on asking him to his friend.

Except for Tilica who was put in charge of the young Lord well-being, she is definitely concern. So, she decided to ask for the Lord for help to calm the young Lord who was trembling scared. That night, the young Lord was sent to sleep at his father room. He was smiling again and well prepared for bed.

Tilica was just concern about the young Lord and decided to make a late-night snack for him because she knows that the young Lord have the habits of sleeping very late as if he was never need to sleep. Once he arrived at the Lord room and about to open the door that was slightly open, she peeks inside before open it.

The tray full of snacks and hot drinks fall on the ground. Tilica finally saw the reality.

In the room, the Lord was having sex with the young Lord. More accurately, a dead body of the young Lord that was well preserve as a sex doll.

All that Tilica have seen before this was the illusion created by the old maid who was once an old powerful witch. No wonder the madam gone crazy before she died.