Stuck in Runes

Chapter 14

(Sophia POV)
I lay back in the soft bed I was staying in for the night. Master said I could stay at fairy hills for the night because I had no were else to stay and no money for a hotel. Mina made some small squeaking noises from the bottom of my bed; I sit up and pet her.

"Every one is so nice here" I mumble to myself as I lay back again. I think I want to stay but what if they change... I think to myself. The wind blew hard, while rain pelted the window.

"I wonder how Freed and his friends are doing" I say to Mina who is fast asleep. I stare at the ceiling. I couldn't seem to fall asleep, my mind was running a mile a minute. I think about what happened when I let someone in last time.

(Flashback)
It had been almost a year after Artuna had left, I went to a village that she had sometimes had me go in to get things that were hard to find in the woods. I walked through the the village looking for a vender that I recognized, I walk up to the man who always sold me wool. His big bushy beard looked like wool, and he always looks happy and kind.

"How's it going kid? What can I do ya for?" He ask me. I looked up at his kind face and started to cry. I didn't know what to do. Startled he walked around the table he was sitting at and picked me up, he brought me back to his house and gave me some soup.

"Now, say it again? I'm old and have bad hearing." He smiled, a sad smile. I explained how my mother was a dragon and that she had left, and didn't know where do go. I herd a door open and a round women walked in covered in flour.

"Who is this little muffin?" She asked the wool man. He walked up to her and whispered something into her ear, all I could hear was, orphaned. The woman nodded, but looked at the wool man and started to tear up. He smiled and they hugged. I looked at them confused.

Apparently she was his wife, and they were never able to have a child. They asked me if I would be ok with them adopting me, I happily agreed. We all moved into the house in the woods where I had stayed with Artuna. We were a happy little family. My new mother's name was Barta, and my father Tom.

They cared for me as if I was their flesh and blood. After I had gotten bigger and they had thought me human traditions, I realized how old they really were. I started working more so they could do less. In their later years they told me all the time how much they were happy, and how they would never change a thing about their lives. They passed together in their sleep and I bairred them next to the house. I cried daily and stopped working all together. I never left my house and only got up to eat and drink.

Until a few years ago when I found Barta's journal, she wrote about me, and how she hoped when they pass I will not think they left me. And I would live my life to be amazing like Tom wanted me to, and find people that I loved as much as they loved me. The next morning I packed up a large bag, left and started fighting. I have been fighting to save people ever since. I still live in the house when I go by my village.

(Present again)
Although I never believed they left me, I did feel alone. I eventually thought that it would be better to be alone, than with people. Because in the end I would be alone.

A loud crash of thunder filled the room and then it was lit up by a streak of lighting. I sighed and closed my eyes hopping to get some sleep.

(Freed POV)
The rain came down hard the night we stayed in the woods. We of course all had tents, and I used a simple spell to block the rain and lightning. Although Laxus did have a second and third dinner of lightning.

I couldn't sleep. I still couldn't decide why I feel like I do about her. Her eyes? Her hair? Her smile and laugh? I felt my heart pound. I think back earlier in the day when laxus had me step outside. I knew the stunt he was pulling, I did it to him. I used all my will power not to blush. It worked I guess. I fall asleep thinking about her smiling face, hoping we will be home, before she leaves, if she leaves.