Thorn (Discontinued)

Chapter 8

The twilight began to overtake the night sky. I walked inside and sat down just to think of what I should do now. I felt like I had messed up now, I ruined something that could have been something more. I didn't know what to do now, I felt alone and abandoned now. I sat in the foyer watching the servants walk past doing their daily duties. My mother walked into the foyer with a odd look on her face. She walked down the steps and over to me. She sat down next to me on the couch. She then said "I think you should go to the ball...I know what happened, but all in all just try to be happy." She then hugged me and left the foyer. I thought about her words for a long time. I should go I thought to myself, I should just try to be happy even if it was for once. I got up from the couch and arranged for transportation to the ball. It felt good to leave the manor for once, to be independent or just be myself. The carriage had finally arrived at the ball. I walked inside taking small steps and taking my time. When I walked I smiled. I became happy for once it seemed. Hours had passed, but the laughing and the interesting conversations never had stopped. I sat on a couch in the room watching many people dance and chat. I yearned for some type of company now. As I was watching a woman approached me. She then asked why I was alone. I told her that I had came alone due to certain problems. She then introduced herself as Elizabeth Rosen, the governors daughter. We then became involved in a long conversation and spent the rest of the night laughing while having many suitors come by and ask us to dance, which we would always refuse. The night seemed to go on forever. As I was beginning to leave, my fiancé ran into me as I was on my way out. He then said he wanted to talk to me.

"Rosette, I just wanted to tell you it's okay. I thought about what you had told me and I understand now about what you said. I know Im abusive to you sometimes and I'm sorry about that...its just sometimes I can't help it."

I just smiled at him and told him it was fine and I understood. I too wasn't the perfect person either I was rather rude and mean sometimes and just unexplainable. Besides everything that had happened it seemed it slipped away from me for once. I felt as if I were carefree, with no problems. I then started on my way out but inched I reached the door I stopped. I then said one last thing to him before I left. "I'm sorry...just for everything I might have caused" and then I left. When I returned home it was rather dark outside and the cold wind swept against the manor. The snow now had began to fade away it seemed like, slowly revealing a new world underneath. I walked inside to find no one to be seen in the main rooms downstairs. Nor the lights or the fire was going. The house had a silence to it, almost an odd silence. I walked up the stairs and into my bedroom. I lit a few lights and threw myself in the bed. I was exhausted now, I closed my eyes and slowly fell asleep. I was still strangely happy. I then drifted off into a deep sleep.

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I opened up my eyes to a bright light. I felt grass in my hands and the ground was hard. I got up from the ground and looked around. The manor and everything was gone I was in a large meadow with a forest backing up into it. I was confused of my surroundings, I felt as I were in some type of dream. Strangely enough nothing was happening around me and no noise except the howling of the wind was to be heard. I started to walk around the meadow but I saw nothing odd or abnormal around. I then started to move into the forest. The forest was rather light and lively unlike the forests in Maryland. The farther I got the more the place changed, it seemed as if it grew dark and something evil lay inside of this forsaken place. I then noticed a woman, but she looked as if she was from a different era. She wore a black dress with a black shirt as well as heels. Behind her was a small stone house. Then I was shocked. I then saw myself meet her and she then lead me inside. I ran toward the house and started pounding on the door but no one answered. I guess I was invisible here, I was an unseen observer. I couldn't stand anymore, I then ran deeper through the forest only to see demons talk to me...just all these horrible things involving me. I then saw my mother hung and my father chopped up with an ax. I went mad then...

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I then woke up. I was I my bedroom just the way I left it with few lights on. I sat up sacred and breathing heavily. It was only a dream I thought just a dream....