I Fell in Love with a King of Narnia (book 3)

chapter 11. testing the waters

♟Charlotte

"Charlotte," I hear a voice whisper.

I turn onto my other side ignoring it, it has to be in my head.

"Charlotte," I hear again, "It's me Charlotte, your
mum."

I jerk up but see nothing. I'm breathing hard and long dark strands of hair are sticking to my face. I rub my eyes with the heels of my hands hard and see a flash of lightning, as I do, I suddenly see the door of our room open and a shadow run out of the room.

"Mum?" I ask swinging my legs over the edge of my swaying bed.

"Charlotte, follow me," she says. It sounds just as I remember how it did. Soft and sure. Her voice always seemed to calm me and made me feel like I was safe.

I get out of bed and stumble on the floor and accidentally crash into the door frame, but it doesn't seem like it woke Lucy or Gael so I continue.

"Mum, where are you?" I ask looking up and down the hall.

"Here," the voice replies. I look and see the silhouette is moving up the stairs and onto the main deck, "follow me darling. I must tell you about your father now. It's time you knew."

I start to walk towards the stairs and as I reach the bottom, the cold rain and sea water chill my bare feet, but I'm still in tranced by my mum's voice.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I ask setting one foot on the first bottom stair.

"Come up and I'll tell you," she says but this time theres a weird more eerie sound to her voice but I can still hear her. I have to keep following.

"Mum why-"

Suddenly I'm grabbed from behind and I realize it's Lucy. I start to scream but her hand clamps over my mouth and I see my mother disappear above the stairs which makes me push her away and scramble up the stairs.

"Charlotte, stop!" Lucy yells at me as she grabs my ankles and starts to drag me away from the stairs, "whatever you think is there, it isn't! It's not really there!"

I stop fighting and she stops pulling me.

"Are you alright?" Lucy asks me with worry in her eyes. Her and Edmund may have different color eyes but their expressions at every similar. Only the worry isn't the kind that says she's concerned. It's he kind of worry that oh no there goes Charlotte on another mad episode again. She looks as if she is looking at a crazy person. As if, I'm the one who is going insane.

"Don't look at me like that," I whisper to her. What is wrong with me? Is there something wrong with me? I can't be normal for more than 24 hours. I'm a complete mess.

"Charlotte, what did you see?" Lucy asks and my mind is reeling with too much emotion. I can't think straight. I shut my eyes tightly, "Focus on one thing Charlotte," Lucy tells me as we face each other, "focus on one thing and don't let it go. Just focus."

I clear my mind of everything and search for something, anything. I find it. Edmund.

The first time I saw him when he saved me from drowning with Trumpkin. He looked so handsome with his dark hair and dark eyes. He was wet from the water and a look of curiosity in his eyes at who I was.

I remember how we started out. I didn't like him and he didn't really like me, but then as we started hanging around each more and more something happened between us. I was falling for him long before he was falling for me. Mainly because I knew that we were never related and he didn't. Everything seems so complicated then it shouldn't have been. I want to stop denying and finding excuses to not be with Edmund, but with my recent history discovered I don't know what the hell I should do.