The Girl With The Green Eyes

Chapter 14 The Trial

Blake

What. The. Fuck.

"You will be challenged in ways you have never been before Blakey. You must demonstrate great strength, patience, wisdom, understanding, empathy, courage, determination, and above all else, true love" Avery continues

"What is this? The hunger games?" I question incredulously

"I can see you aren't taking this seriously Blakey. That just goes to show you aren't willing to fight for your true love" she says, pulling out a piece of paper and putting a cross next to the word serious.

"No wait I was just kidding Aves. Come on you know I'd do anything for Amelia" I chuckle nervously

"I don't know Blakey. You're not off to a very good start. 2 more strikes and you're out." She says with a completely serious face.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this. The whole thing was absolutely absurd. Did they really expect me to go through all these "trials" just to prove I was worthy of being Amelia's partner. What is she? Some kind of princess? They were being absolutely ridiculous right now! But I would humour them. I would easily complete all the challenges and claim my princess once and for all!

"Who even came up with this idea?" I ask

"I did." Liv says, proudly. "When you guys went off to do lord knows what last night. We watched Brave and that inspired me to come up with this trial" she says with a huge smile on her face

"Riiggghhtt" I say looking at her as if she had lost the plot. In fact I think they all had.

"So are you ready to begin then?" Jay asks

"I am" I say determinedly

"Okay, so it's just past 6 now. You have from now till 10 am to clean up and feed the bunnies. The same for the chickens and collect all their eggs. Then you need to go down and chop all the wood there for the fireplace. After that you need to make breakfast for all of us and there needs to be at least 5 different options. Oh and also the lawn needs to be done." Liv says

"What!? I can't get that all done by 10, that's impossible!" I say

"If you love her you'll make the impossible possible. Or can you not provide for my daughter?" Jay asks

"Of course I can" I respond

"You better get cracking then Blakey. You don't have a lot of time" Aves taunts

Fuck! The lawns alone will take at least 2 hours! Did my parents have to have such a massive piece of land! There was no point complaining about this. I needed to hurry if I wanted to get this all done in time! I quickly rushed off and started with the bunnies then rushed off to the chickens and collected all their eggs carefully. It was already 7 by the time I made it down to the firewood. Fucking Jay had a whole weeks worth of firewood laying there waiting to be chopped. I quickly grabbed an axe from the shed and hacked away at the wood. 20 minutes later I was sweating like crazy and I was only a third of the way through with the wood. I quickly pulled my beanie and hoodie off, wrapping the hoodie around my waist and continued to chop away in just my tank top and sweats. The cold air felt good against my hot skin. It was just after 8 when I came back up to grab a drink and then rushed back down to start on the lawn. I rushed as fast as I could to get the lawn done. Thank god Jay was on top of getting the lawn done every other week so I didn't have to worry too much. I was done with only 30 minutes to spare. I quickly put a whole bunch of frozen hash browns into the oven. I cut up some fruit. Then fried some eggs and sausages. I whipped up some pancake batter and quickly made those. I had everything plated and ready with 10 seconds to spare!