Ginny snuggled under Himi's quilts. Her dark brown hair was frizzed. Her hazel eyes closed. Himi read a book in a corner of the room by the window. Ginny opened her eyes, and looked at Himi for a while.
"What happened to your eyes?"
"Pardon?" Himi looked at Ginny confused.
"I remember, they used to be dark blue. Now they're grey." Ginny sat up slowly.
"Oh yeah. It happens to most kids on my dad's side of the family. A...friendly curse lets say." Himi smiled at looked into her mirror. "Kids born to my dad's side of the family are born with the other parents eye colour, then after a while they mysteriously change to grey. Everyone in my dad's family has grey eyes."
"Friendly curse or not, I bet you are a spitting image of Gwendoline."
Himi smiled as she thought about the conversation she had with Mr.Dresty all those years ago.
"Yeah I bet."
"Himi?"
"Yes Ginny?"
Ginny looked uncomfortable and shifted. "You do understand, me and Yuki never really-"
"Yes I do. Ginny, don't worry." Himi flashed a smile. "You faked to protect me."
"But what about you and Imato?"
Himi felt her blood run cold at the name of her ex. Who turned out to really be a victim of Desunoto being controlled.
"We were very close..." She murmured. Ginny raised an eyebrow.
"You kissed right?"
"Duh. A few times. I really liked him...but still. I kept thinking about hurting Yuki when I did those things."
"What about Medio?"
"What about her?"
"What actually happened? The scar on her neck remember?"
"Oh yeah! Yuki said she saw Imato in her dream and he sliced her with a knife." Himi sighed heavily.
"Gwendoline, Yuki's dad, Desunoto, Imato Osuden, Medley, the Future Changer book....us. What do they all have in common? How are they all connected?" Murmured Ginny.
"What makes you think we are connected to them?" Himi asked surprised and looked up at Ginny from her book.
"Yuki first met you in your mind...your dream. Medio was kidnapped by the Guardian of Winter and this Future changer book has something to do with her too, plus she is his heart. Yuki is Winter itself, and Medley is Desunoto's wife. And me..." Ginny trailed off.
Himi wondered if perhaps she was actually feeling a little disappointed that she wasn't a part of this war in a personal way like them.
"Well, it doesn't stop the fact that our best friend was taken from us. Our little blue and tawny bird. And that you are the fastest person in the universe. You have power Ginny. Me? I have to be protected by Yuki. At least you can do something."
Ginny smiled at her best friend. "Yeah...thanks."
"Now. For a change of subject," Ginny wiggled her eyes at Himi, "what's up between you and Yuki?"
Himi scowled. "N-nothing."
"Ooooooooo. Lil Himi s-s-s-stammering l-l-like a f-f-frozen rat." Sniggered Ginny.
A full scale pillow fight began, and the girls had laughed themselves silly by the time the sun went down. A call to Ginny's parents had it sealed that she was to stay the night a Himi's house. As they snuggled into their respected sleeping areas, Himi whispered to Ginny.
"Let's talk about stuff like that again."
"What stuff?"
"About Yuki."
"You wanna talk about him THAT much?"
"No no no!!!!" Himi blushed. "I meant about normal things. Like romance, and university life, you know? Normal stuff."
Ginny smiled, then pulled a face. " I'd love to do that too. But kidnapping, snow magic, danger...to us this is normal stuff. We aren't normal girls Himi...not any more..." And she drifted to sleep.
Himi sighed. 'Yes...but it was nice to have a change of topic...'
YOU ARE READING
Come Winter
FantasíaI may be hallucinating, I may be crazy. But when winter arrives this year, I feel like something is going to happen. And every night, I have dreams. Of a boy, dressed as white as snow.
