Eloquence

Eloquence Chp.2

                                                                     Chapter Two

                                                          10 Years later, Eloise is 17

                                            A lady marries a man that her father chooses.

                                 Society dictates that she should be a lady and marrying soon.

I opened my eyes looking into the sky. The pastel colours from my last days here. I looked behind me confused, I was past the line. That safe one I'd never crossed before. I was in the woods, again. But this time it was dying. You could see it, the tree limbs hung low and even with me lying down the grey limbs were touching, caressing my arms. I shuddered as a violent breeze waved my hair around my face like thousands of tiny whips, clutching and moving my white petticoat like prowling hands. I turned my head to the side glancing at the ground beside me, leaves that should be golden and floating on the breeze were shrivelling and turning grey before my eyes. A thorn shot out of the ground beside my head.

I shuddered and scrambled to my feet looking toward the sky, I watched a dark cloud hug it. It looked as if a curtain had been drawn around the sun. The light was gone and a sharp bitter cold crept up around me, blanketing me, warming my fears. I began panicking looking for an exit, I turned toward the line but it was no longer there. I studied the trees, they were slowly twisting and curling toward me. Trapping me and making escape impossible. I whirled as panic bubbled like a brook within me. I looked at the trees behind me. And stared.

Green in the grey. Wet jade green orbs blinking at me. His eyes. Thousands of spikes now protruded from the ground ones that grew between us, around me all over the dull ground. A vine whipped around my ankle dragging me back to the grey floor, slamming into the spikes, I screamed. But I never left those green eyes, I worried they'd disappear. I felt the stabbing pain in my chest and my eyes began to water I glanced down and saw red spreading beneath me, ruining the white.

"Jasper, help me," I watched his daunting figure stand and slowly back back away without blinking, I saw nothing else of his face.

"You left me," His dark face and green eyes stared at me.

"I'm sorry," I was crying loudly but his eyes showed no compassion.

"You. Left. Me," I watched his eyes slowly disappear within the grey, he left me. But I left him first.

Another vine quickly snapped whip like around my other leg and then my waist, squeezing. It slowly began dragging me across the thorns in the floor and I screamed as I slowly died.

"Jasper No-,"

"-oo-,"

I shot up in bed gasping for breathe, quickly glancing around me I tried to calm myself, come on Eloise, your okay. It was just a dream. Just a dream. But it wasn't okay and it wasn't just a dream, it was the dream. the nightmare to be exact. I'd been having this nightmare since the day I left Aunt Ada's.

Since the day I left Jasper to be precise. I'd always wondered whether Jasper had gone looking for me. If he'd plucked up the courage to reveal our friendship of course. But if Ada had heard from Jasper wondering where I was she'd tell father wouldn't see? She'd have told him to have me punished, right?

Still trying to calm myself down I glanced around the room. My room, ten years has gone by it's time I call it my room. Putting my face in my hands I felt tears prick my eyes. I rolled over tucking my knees under my chin letting the salty tears track down my cheeks. Jasper I miss you. But I had other things to worry about right now.