Love and Hunt

Chapter Twenty-Three

He was looking at me who was approaching him. He was staring at me. I knew I was the other girl that he met. But I wanted to him the truth about me. When I had been in front of him, I could see that wonder and curiosity from the reason why I asked him to come to this small bridge.

"You don't go to work?" I said.

"I will." He said. "I'm going to work actually. As you've called me, I come to this small bridge." He said.

"Sorry for that," I said. "and thank you for coming here for me."

"And?" He said.

"I love you, Will," I said. "Sorry, if it sounds sudden. But I want to live with you. I want to get married with you. I love you, Will."

I could feel the emotion that became the fear inside me. I knew that it was such a shame for a girl to say that she loved a guy at first. But I wanted to live together with him. I wanted to be his wife.

"Please, Will," I said when my tears were going out of my eyes. "I want to live with you forever. I want to be your wife. You're the one for me. I love you."

"You might find somebody else, Anna." He said. "I have been with somebody else. And I couldn't resist that. I will get married to somebody else. I'm sorry I have to tell you this. I have to go."

I was just looking at him who walked away from me. When I kept looking at him who made that direction behind me, I knew holding him to stay would be nothing. I could feel what I had faced when I told him that I loved him. I had been walking along the path for this moment. I had spent those struggles that I knew it had to be for this moment. I had told my father that I didn't accept that matchmaking as I had waited for this moment. Tears were flowing down my cheeks. I stood still. I tried to breathe with the effort that was still left in me. He left. I wouldn't meet him again. I was crying. I closed my eyes. He didn't belong to me.

***

I stayed. I had been quiet. I didn't know what I wanted to say. I could feel as if my mouth couldn't speak anything for the time that I had stayed in. I was alone, sitting alone on this bench. I couldn't hold the longing that had been away from me. It had disappeared from me. What I had been seeing when I knew that I saw a tree over there. I had been so desperate. I was still in this city garden. I felt like I wanted to stay. Then, I found that siren going out of the ground. When she had been on her feet, she sat next to me on this bench.

"Aaron wants you to come back." She said. "Take my hand."

"I want to stay!" I said. "Tell him I want to stay here."

"Well, I do." She said while walking away from me and heading for that way behind me.

I stayed when I knew that siren had left me. I could feel that I wanted to hold the tears coming out of my eyes, but I could feel that I was too weak to stop them out of my eyes. Then, I wiped them out from my cheeks. When I was still in this tragedy, I heard the sound of wings coming down in front of me. Then, I saw a man landing on the ground with his Pegasus.

"Need a ride?" Adam said.

"No," I said while he was still on his Pegasus.

"Grace has called me to take you back." He said. "You're not supposed to be here. Your father is going to come. You know that about his decision."

"You just have one Pegasus, Adam," I said.

"Well, I'll give one for you." He said. Then, he went down to the ground. He took his sword from a small sword on his wooden bracelet. And that tiny sword turned into a real sword. Then, he cut the head of that Pegasus in front of me, and I didn't scream. I had seen that before. That head would be another Pegasus, and that Pegasus which had lost its head could get his head back.