The Brown Book

Chapter 2: River Reminiscence

"I remembered that time... my mind's quite foggy though..."

Her eyes see the sun rays begin to fade away and the leaves leaving the water going back to the trees. The stars start shining and the moon is right up high. It was a foggy evening. The stars were twinkling and the lilies of the valley shined like them. A girl is alone at a brim of the river. It was Phemie, 3 years ago.

"Oh, what do I do now?" She finds herself talking to herself again "Why do I have to suck up to that wannabe princess? She's not even pretty!" and apparently someone ground up her gears this evening, some girl.

She goes on and on about how this girl seemed so boastful and self-indulging. About how horrible this party went. She felt like a bull about to rage-quit on a muleta... "Hey birthday girl, stop shouting." And here comes Amanda. "Oh my God, I'm Elisa Berdana! Like hell yeah she was! She's still strutting up there like it's her party." And I'm pretty sure that was an impersonation.

Amanda was tall, bright-eyed and a bit too happy? She always seem to wear green and somehow it complements to her complexion (which is for the reader to decide of course -wink-.)

"Amanda, that doesn't help me at all here. Ok?" Phemie starts to giggle sarcastically and then she sat by all those lilies.

"Girl, I'm here for you." Amanda sits beside "Still down because she took Troy? She acts like Troy is her dog."

"Well, Obviously... but I should move on..."

"YES! THAT'S THE SPIRIT GIRL!"

"Yeah... You're so right, YES! CHEERS!" She gestures as if something was in her hand "We don't have drinks Phemie" They start laughing hard. And as soon as that happened, Some birds started to sing songs! They sang along. They knew the songs and then curiously there was a boy's voice somewhere singing with them but they didn't mind. It was a really fun night. They laughed and cried tears of too much laughter. But then... there was a noise.

A brush past a bush? Was it a gush of wind perhaps? How mysterious? It was so much louder than that. And then this dark silhouette appeared.There was a gush of evil aura. They were taken by surprise. They fall into the river and suddenly the unknown man takes Phemie's hand.

"Hey! Let go of Phemie!" Amanda rushes to the apparition but was quickly pushed back to the river full of flowers. The fall rendered her stunned with her green dress full of lilies and water and Phemie finds herself in utter shock! Her hand slips his scrawny fingers in fright. What man would have the guts to push a woman just like that?

"Who are you?!" She shouts to that man. The birds flee but come swooping back attacking the man.

But the man was PREPARED! His cloak alighted in fire! In purpose, of course. Then the birds flew away.

"Amanda!" Phemie calls out to her friend who is now unconscious. "Amanda! Are you ok?!" She looks back to the dark figure. Quite tall, this man was. He takes her hand with force! This man had a dark hood and the night made it even harder to see his face.

"Who Are You?!" and in response he only laughed. Who on earth is this guy?

They pass across a flight of dusty cobblestone stairs leading to this dark alley full of dim lamps.

They dash across the dark paths of Lemington town, past lights of the lamp posts and the homes of rich people. "Let go of me or els..." "OR ELSE WHAT?!" the dark man shouts back like it echoes to everywhere! But no one came...

"Help me! CAN'T ANYONE HEAR ME?!" She shouts for help. She can't seem to slip through his fingers. The man brings her to his home (probably).

What a strange place to take a victim to, Cozy chairs and a nice fireplace... Why would he bring her here? "My dear Phemie..." Wait, He knows her? " I just can't seem to let go of you!" He suddenly clasps her to a chair! He ties her up so quickly she couldn't process it.

She is frightened and shouts as she tries to move and thrash about! but the chair was in place all too well... and to this the man chuckled in delight!

And now he sits on a chair. They were his chairs after all. "What do you think of my room?" The man says as he took his hood away. He was a very handsome figure for a kidnapper.

"What do you plan to do with me? I don't even know you! How did you know my name? Why did you..."

"Shh.. Little girl..." He begins to smirk with a very funny laugh which made her start to chuckle herself but then straightens up so quickly to this vague indifferent expression. "Do you know your father?" She gasped. She never saw her father before and never even heard of him. For many years she sought to know of this man who she never met until birth and so she asked this random kidnapper about her father like "YOU KNOW MY FATHER?!" but it was certainly strange... Why would someone go through all that trouble to kidnap her just to talk about that?

He giggles. He sounds a bit too funny and so she giggles and they start giggling a bit too much. What a strange kidnap scenario? but which will soon be ended... by a certain boy...