I despise you ♥ (Edmundxreader)

Chapter 7

The rain hit the glass windows of an underfunded orphanage. As a man made his way through the wet gravel road. The man was covered in dark gray clothes, and a fashionable top hat that couldn't help but let a lock of his unusually golden hair stick out.

The man was carrying a sleeping toddler in his arms. The child was shivering from the cold.

The man swiftly opened a door that led into the Saint Paulas orphanage. The air was considerably warmer inside than out in the wet rain, but as the man stepped through the stained glass doors of the orphanage it was as if he had never even noticed the rain.

"Hello sir, can i help you?" a young lady sweeping the floor asked. She was dressed in a maid outfit a few sizes to small, most likely from not being able to afford a new one.

"Hello ma'am, i found this child asleep, just outside the train station down the road" the man said, dripping water onto the newly sweeped hardwood floor.

"Sir, was the child awake then?" the lady said, concerned, as she put the broom up against the wall.

"Yes they were awake, and so I asked them where their mother was, or father." The man handed the toddler to the young lady. "They said that they didn't know what that ment, and so I only thought of bringing them here."

"Oh alright then, thank you" the lady said looking at the child's wet face. "Miss petersen!" the lady said leaving the man in the foyer.

"May I please take your name sir?" she asked once she returned but he was nowhere to be seen, and neither was his rain puddle.

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(back to the previously scheduled program)

We had started walking through what seemed to be a rocky forest. Peter was walking in front insisting that he knew the way. While I was left in the very back, struggling to get through without falling over the rouge roots sticking out of the terrain.

"Need a little help there?" a voice said from above.

I looked up to see who it was, when I was met with a familiar smirk standing on the higher point of a rock. My face dropped "screw you" i said with a straight face.

"What did I ever do to make you hate me so much?" he said, obviously mocking me.

I took a second and pretended to think, "hmm... god i don't know, Exist." I answered, still not wanting to give him a real answer, like 'you're ugly' or 'annoying' or 'the fact that you make me feel things'. The last one was not phrased correctly, I think.

"Auch!" he hissed, "fine then, don't tell me, i don't care." he said in a not so believable tone.

"Who are you trying to convince? Me og yourself?" I asked him.

It seemed like he was almost in pain trying to find a good answer to my question, occasionally stammering an 'e' or two. "Neither! I don't have to convince you that it's true." he finally said and jerked his head forward, like a five year old trying to look unbothered.

I smirked slightly "so you then?" I said looking back up at him awaiting an answer.

For a moment he just stared at me, then he muttered out "n-no!" and walked faster to get away from me, as I chuckled under my breath.

I looked forward again trying to keep up with the conversation which I had forgotten about.

"I'm not lost" I heard Peter insist.

"No, you're just going the wrong way," Trumptik argued.

I saw where this was going and stopped paying attention, I looked around and tried a second time to take this whole experience in. what the fuuuhh... was literally the only thing i could think about without having an aneurysm. I think I was still somehow convinced that this was the result of a head injury or food poisoning or something else, it was just so unreal.

I came back to life when the group started to move again.

The next stop was at the edge of a cliff looking thing with a small river below.

"You see, over time, water erodes the earth's soil, carving deeper..." Susen started before being RUDELY interrupted by "oh shut up" coming from an incredibly insecure blond.

Susen had always been the smartest in our school, even though I had never been in the same class room as her, I would often hear tidbits of other girls talking about her.

"Is there a way down?" a halfway defeated Edmund asked.

"Yeah, falling," Trumpkin said, shutting him down immediately.

"O- umm i vote against that... please "I say so awkwardly I feel like my face is about to fall off. I don't always realize that my most confident moments are very, often fueled by anger.

"It's not a vote! This isn't the time to joke" Peter breaks out, and I feel my confidence growing.

"It's always the time for jokes," I said, receiving a couple of small chuckles from certain people.

"Whatever" he sulked. "Well we were not lost!" he redirects his attention back to the rest of the group. And I looked over at Susen with raised eyebrows.

"There's a ford near Beruna. How do you feel about swimming?" Trumpkin suggested.

"I'd rather that, than walk," Susen said. "I wouldn't!" I whispered and yelled at Susen. "Why?" Susen replied. "Well, maybe because I don't know how to!". Susen looked at me perplexed. "Look, I live in England. I have never left England. And my school has never thought it necessary to teach us to swim." "really?" Susen said but our talk was interrupted.

"It's Aslan, It's Aslan over there!" Lusy called, and like dominoes they all turned at the same time. "Don't you see? he's right..." Lucy turned around and stopped talking as there wasn't a sole on the other side of the cliff. "...there..."

"Do you see him now?" trumpkin asked in a mocking tone.

"I'm not crazy" Lusy spoke "he was there. He wanted us to follow him."

Now I have never met Aslan, but I'm pretty sure that if someone asked me to parkour my way over a long drop. I would run the other way.

"I'm sure there are any number of lions in this wood. Just like that bear." Peter said in disbelief. "I know Aslan when I see him." Lusy protested.

"Look, I'm not about to jump off a cliff after someone who doesn't exist," Trumpkin said, sounding like he was trying to spare her feelings.

"The last time I didn't believe Lucy, I ended up looking pretty stupid." Edmund said. I am intrigued, a story about Edmund looking stupid that I haven't heard.

There were a couple seconds of silence, where I pondered saying something funny, before Peter said "why wouldn't I have seen him?". "Maybe you weren't looking." Lusy answered. (uuuuuu burn) "I am sorry Lu...".

I decided that this maybe wasn't the time for jokes.

Peter and them started walking again and i didn't know what to do with myself since neither Edmund nor Lucy was moving. But then we started moving again and i followed suit.

A/N:

sooo ... I mean it hasn't been that long right..? I mean it's still 2023.

I hope you guys enjoyed the flashback in the beginning and if you didn't catch that it was now you know it was a flashback.

Also small Edmund moments uuuu... and not to mention the fact that this chapter was a lot longer then most of the others.

Anyway yeah so please vote or comment if you see reason or if i misspell anything i am not a native english speaker so yeah 👍. See ya later!

hopefully not that much later...