The World Cannot Know

Chapter 5

Matthew Wild

Edited 

The sun has now set and all I can say was, today was fun. I haven't had fun like this since I was a child. There is always joy being able to enjoy yourself like your inner child. The way your eyes sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary and mundane things.

The Prince and I certainly got odd looks from the servants and workers being all wet and leaving droplets of water after every step we took. Some more annoyed than odd, knowing they would have to clean up the mess.

There was a sense of calmness getting out of my wet clothes and stepping into the steaming hot bath. Letting out a much needed, deep breath, I lowered myself further, completely submerging myself into warmth. I closed my eyes and laid there for a moment and let my thoughts run wild. There were moments when I was little and my mother could always make me feel this calm in an instant by doing something as small as, stroking my hair, her pale, bony hands cool and jangling with jewellery, her hair perfect as ever and her perfume fragrant and light. If only we could turn back time once adult life got too much.

Wrapping a towel around my waist and taking out my night attire ready to get into, my door slammed open. Startled, I quickly turned to see Kathy quickly closing the door behind her.

"Kathy!!" I exclaim, stunned by her abrupt arrival.

"Matty" she said, turning around, then faltering in her steps. "Oh! I didn't know you've just had your bath"

"Is everything okay", I asked, grabbing my top and quickly putting it on.

"Get properly dressed, I don't know what to make out about what I had just seen" Kathy responded, shaking slightly. She turned around and I quickly put my trousers on then walked over to her, worry etched on my face.

"Is everything okay", I asked walking up to her "What happened?"

"I don't know what to say, I don't know if I should say. But it was wrong, so very wrong, what I've seen" she rambled, while taking quick breaths, and putting her hand on her chest. Clearly, she was shaken.

"Calm down, just breath then speak" I said, trying to reassure her a little.

Kathy never usually becomes like this; she is usually the tough sort of girl who is hasty when it comes to adventurous activities. She would always go first, and she will go like a wild child with a reckless mind and a rebel heart.

"I don't know, I don't know" She whispered, letting out a deep breath.

"What is it, what did you see" I said, grabbing her hands and forcing her to look at me.

Kathy was only slightly trembling now. She took a deep breath, then spoke. "Lady Alice, she."

As soon as Kathy uttered her name, I got a dreaded feeling. Alice was eccentric in her ways, and clearly the sort of women who would do anything to get what she wanted, and it is only understandable that Kathy would be her rival and the person able to get in her way of getting what she wants.

"Did she do anything to you, did she insult you?" I asked

"No, she didn't. She was too busy to even notice me" she said, beginning to shake again. I started to rub up and down her arms, trying to sooth her.

"What do you mean?" I asked

"She was having sex with a woman" Kathy exhaled, shoulders instantly drooping as she pulled away from me, while putting her hand on her head and began pacing up and down the room.

Shocked by her statement and frozen in my stead, I couldn't imagine what I was hearing. Maybe Kathy saw wrong, and she wasn't having.... I couldn't even say the word. But then again this was Alice. The eccentric Lady who philandered with any man she came across.