The Short Stories from a Woman (Wattys2016)

Unspoken

Sorry I haven't posted in a long while. I just started at my job and it is exhausting and takes away a lot of my free time. I still hope you guys love this one shot I made at work when I had a 30 minute break.

The sun shone bright in the blue summer sky. Her pretty dark colored hair full of cute daisies. The brown hair lay on the grass. It was a peaceful moment, the warmth consumed her like a warm soft blanket, the chirping of birds like music in her ears. She closed her eyes, smelled the air and listened to the sounds that was all around her, that always had been around her and will until she one day would not wake up. And that's how she fell asleep.

Her sleepy body woke up and so she opened her eyes. The sun was going down. It was sundown. That's when she saw a figure beside her on the ground. She was shocked but then she remembered the face. "Maurice you scared me!" Isolde said with a high pitched voice as she punched his shoulder with force, but not hard enough to intentionally hurt him.

"What was that for? I'm really offended." Maurice said in a playful manner. A cocky smile present on his pretty face as he said that. "You better be." "I sure am, no worry about that Iss." They looked at each other, brown eyes into blue ones and blue ones in brown. They sat there in the meadow full of summer silently for a few moments before Maurice spoke again.

"Your sister told me were here, well still are, but of course you already know that." He looked as if he wanted to slap himself in the face for ranting. "But I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go to the market with me, but you were sleeping so I scratched that." Isolde looked at him as he spoke. His eyes looked like a spell, like the eyes of the snake from Jungle Book, that made you mesmerized, even possessed at some occasions. "I will go to the market with you tomorrow, Maurice." His eyebrows raised at what she just told him.

"You do?" he asked her. "Yes, I loved to. Truly you're my friend, one of my best friends if I'm honest with you." She always had felt something for him. Something she couldn't really place under friendship, it had something more to it, but love, she didn't call it that just yet.

Maurice knew what he felt for Isolde, he really knew. True love, true and honest feelings that moved through his veins every moment of the day. Even at night Isolde filled his mind. They had been friends since they were young children. Eight and six years old and now they sat there, in the grass under the light of sundown at twenty-two and twenty years of age. He had to be brave with more things that were related to feelings. He was brave when it came to fight and to protect his home, his country. He was a prince, the future king. But this with Isolde, the daughter of a nobility, was it a different story. He couldn't hide it anymore, he had loved her since the moment she moved back to his home, his land, the land he once would rule after his father would pass away.

Maurice gave himself a prayer and opened his mouth, ready to speak, when he got interrupted. I think I'm falling in love with you." Isolde had said it now. She couldn't go back. It was all really confusing for her, it truly was, especially if you never had been in love before. "I don't know exactly what or why, but I think that I am." She looked vulnerable.

He was always funny or playful, but he knew he had to be serious now. She told him her inner feelings, her feelings she wasn't even sure of at that point. This in a matter of fact was serious so he would be. 

She, Isolde, was one step faster than he was. "I'll wait till you know for certain." A soft breeze was present in the meadow, making their hair blow softly in the wind. Isolde knew she was, but she just wasn't ready to open herself up at that moment. She had experienced so many hard things in her young life.

It took a while to trust people, even the ones closest to her again, but she knew she had to open the door that hid her soul. She would see what would come of it if she opened up to her friend. "But if you figure it out I'm here, because I am in love with you." That made her heart beat faster and he was proud he finally had spoken those words to her. His blue eyes were full of honesty, honesty for her only. Their eyes didn't look away from the other. It was like a staring contest, a game, but in both their eyes lay the answer.

And that answer was I love you too.