( Day 31 - 32 )
JasmineI was cold. My body felt like it was impacted with ice. I moved my hands in front of my face. My fingers moved yet I didn't feel it. Where was I? I stood up, my eyes wandering about. Trees everywhere. Dark and foreboding, just like the endless black sky above me. Why was I in the forest again? I could've sworn I had been in the castle when I blacked out. Something moving in the bushes caught my attention. I walked slowly and quietly. When I approached the bushes, I moved them aside. A little girl was hiding inside them. She was shaking.
Jasmine: "Hey, it's okay I won't hurt you. What's your name?" The little girl looked up and I fell backwards. Her grape lollipop eyes shining like a amethyst.
Crystal: "I am Crystal My Lady. Do not be frightened of me, I mean you no harm." I was shaking. I could only look at the girl. Her voices tone was like a child's mixed with a ethereal tune.
Jasmine: "Why do I see you everywhere?" The child/spirit levitated towards me.
Crystal: "Because only you can help. I died on the plane My Lady but not all are gone." I gasped as the mantra started replaying in my head. I cried out as the voices got louder and louder. Crystal's hands went to my head and passed through it. When they came out, the voices stopped.
Crystal: "I apologize My Lady. You are very susceptible to the other world for some reason I do not know. It is for this reason that you can help the ones who survived. I do not know where they are but you can find them. All you have to do is remember." I was so lost. Everyone kept telling me to remember or I could help. I was just some girl from Florida who just wanted to get away from a bad situation. Yet here I was, in a worse situation.
Jasmine: "Crystal, I don't think you understand. I blacked out and woke up in the forest. I was never near anyone else." Crystal turned around and started floating ahead of me, straight into the heart of the forest. "Come." The child like ethereal tune sang. So I was dreaming? Okay, yeah no, floating children were real. Despite the uneasiness I felt, I followed after Crystal. As we passed the huge oaks and hardy pines, my head started to feel it was on fire.
Crystal: "Keep walking please." Crystal pleaded. I pushed on, the fire in my head fanning out towards my body.
Jasmine: "Ahhhhh, it hurts!!" I cried as the burning sensation was overpowering me. Crystal pleaded once again for me to continue on. I damn near crawled through the path Crystal was going. She stopped and just stayed in one place.
Crystal: "Over there My Lady." I crawled over to Crystal, my body veins on fire. I looked down at the scene, my mind immediately searching for answers. There I was, laying there with a few other passengers from the plane. We were all in a ravine but I didn't wake up here. When did this happen? I caught a glimpse of red, gold, and grey. Queen Jessica!
Jasmine: "Crystal, I don't understand. I didn't wake up here. Where is this?"
Crystal: "I don't know My Lady. Only you do. But in order to find it, you must remember."
Jasmine: "Buts it's been nearly a month how will any of them still be alive?"
Crystal: "I do not know My Lady."
Jasmine: "Why do you keep calling me My Lady? I'm not Queen." Crystal turned to me, her grape lollipop eyes shining.
Crystal: "But you will be. Remember them, they're not gone."
I bolted up out the nightmare. My body had this leftover feeling of fire. I sucked in deep breaths, my body feeling light. I looked around the room. It was most definitely in the Kingdom. The bed I was in was comfortable but I couldn't sleep anymore tonight. I tried to get up and noticed a handcuff, cuffing my left arm to the left arm post. What the fuck?! I tried to pull on it, to no avail.
When I was on my 29th try, the doors opened. King Larry and Laurent entered, their faces a mask. King Larry slowly walked to my side of the bed, a wicked smile on his face.
King Laurent: "Tell me Miss Jasmine, why did you feel the need to attack my Princess. Jealously is a bad habit to feed."
Jasmine: "So is pride or deceit. Your Princess hurt my friend, I simply retaliated. As King, perhaps instead of exchanging wits with me, you should go and focus on your Kingdom. "
King Larry: "Very well Miss Jasmine. I can see you don't understand. My twin and I decided you can spend a few days in here, alone. Maybe then you can learn respect."
Jasmine: "I'll learn respect when you learn how not to be a womanizer. And King Laurent agreed to this as well. I see." King Laurent came up to me and I glared at him. He sat on the bed and played with a curl of my hair.
King Laurent: "Only because you really hurt Candice. Unfortunately, I cannot overlook this." I pulled the strand from King Laurent's hands .
Jasmine: "Yes, even Kings can be pawns." King Laurent's laughter rang out and King Larry's eye roll could be heard throughout all of Parisih. Then the flames returned to my head and I cried out.
( End Chapter )
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The Kings Love
RomanceRunning away from an abusive home, Jasmine Marie finds herself on a plane with tragic results, landing her in the kingdom of Parisih. The kingdom was ruled by the two great twin Kings Laurent and Larry Bourgeois. As she wandered about, she heard of...