All In The Past

Chap.4

"I won't say much because I am not sure of many things yet, but I have heard of the the young witch with healing powers and soon decided to find out who you were. And I found out..."
Toffee paused and looked past me in annoyance, I turn around to see mayhem with a smirk.
"Sorry is something wrong toffee?" Mayhem's smug look make me smile but uncomfortable.

"Could you please just give us some privacy?" Mayhem giggles as he says this
"OOooooo Ok toffee I got you." She winks and I lightly laugh.
"Ugh." Toffee rolls his eyes.

Toffee's pov

Mayhem always teased me about this situation even though I clearly have no affections for Carla. This is a serious matter and Mayhem never takes anything seriously I want to strangle her till she dies but I won't I still need her for this plan.
I inhaled heavly in frustraton as Mayhem skips away.
"I apologize for Mayhem being....her." I say and Carla shrugs.
"It's fine I understand" She replies simply
"As I was saying, I found out that you are hold a powerful magic within you that is capable of doing so much more than just healing."
"I'm not interested." She interrupts and I raise an eyebrow to her words.
"Excuse me?"
"I don't want this power I have. It's the reason why I am not trusted." Carla looks in the distance not making eye contact with crossed arms.
"That's ashame." I reply plainly, glad she mentioned this.
"I would get rid of them if I could." She quietly speaks and I fight back a smile.
"Oh? I've never heard that before."
"Yeah well whatever." I could tell Carla didn't want me to speak of this any longer.
She sat on the ground and played with the dirt.
"So do you do anything besides all this stuff with the royals." She asked me now making a mini stick house on the ground. I opened my mouth to answer but found out I didn't really have a answer.
"Like hobbies or whatever." She adds and I shrug.
"Eh Nothing to your liking."
"You don't know that." Carla replies smiling at me destroying her creation on the dirt and stands back up dusting herself off.
"I like anything has to do with crafting!" She smiles, It then occurred to me that she is only a child.
"Ha. Can you even read?" I teased and she laughs.
"Haha That's mean! Of course! I self taught myself most things I'm learning cursive though."
"Oh is that so." She notices my doubting smile. I bet her handwriting is trash.
"I'll have you know my skills are at least descent." Carla crossed her arms smiling.
Adorable really.
"DID YOU TWO KISS YET?!"
I cringe to Mayhem's outburst.
"Shut Up will you?!" I spat back, ugh she ruins everything.

Carla's pov

"DID YOU TWO KISS YET?!" Mayhem yells and I laugh. I don't think much of it, it seems she just likes to annoy him.
"Shut Up will you?!" He says back I just smile enjoying this.
Mayhem hops next to us
"Aw come on Toffee let's do something fun! Let's Burn a village or something." She suggested and I look at Toffee.
"You know why we can't do that." He replies and she protested. They acted as if they were related in some way but they clearly weren't. I had sat down on a rock listening to thrm go back and forth and it soon came to a stop with toffee winning the argument.
"Hmph!" She crosses her arms pouting in a joking sort of way.
Toffee walks passes mayhem done with her act and comes up to me and I froze. He wasn't that close to me but I felt as if he was.
Mayhem handed toffee what seemed like a journal, he flipped through pages and sits next to me.
GAH!! TO CLOSE!TO CLOSE I NEED MY SPACE!!
My mind shouted but I kept calm though I was a bit tensed up. I didnt like anyone getting close to me especially a monster I didn't know.
"Here." Toffee pointed to a bit of a sketch that seemed like a map of the town that surrounds the castle.
"This is where we are." I looked at the map and couldn't help but glance at his face, his captivating yellow eyes. Yet I quickly turned my attention to his words.
"-I have a separate map of the castle." He flipped more pages, His artwork was insanely accurate and flawless I couldn't even Draw a stick figure if I tried.

"See." He stops at the page of the entire insides and outs of the castle.
"Whoa. Yeh." I reply.
"How come you haven't even asked him why he needs you to memorize this stuff?" Mayhem points out and I never had thought about that.
"Er I donno I guess I assumed he would tell me later." I reply not turning my head toward him Since I felt if I did our faces would nearly touch.
I felt my face burn a little.
Aw crap why do I have to blush now?! I was annoyed at blushing ruins everything I hated blushing.
"Yes I will speak to her about that tonight." Toffee says flipping through the pages of the journal. I wanted my own journal and keep things in them, like his. He had drawings and notes and what not I felt like it was really cool to keep an ancient looking journal like his.
"Can you teach me how to draw?" I suddenly say without thinking. Ugh I'm so stupid! He must think I'm such ignorant kid who cant do anything.
"What would that help with anything?" He says raising an eyebrow turning toward me and I nervously shuffle my feet.
"Uh I donno I just wanna learn."
He thought for a moment and closed the journal.
"Okay."
"Wait, really?" My mood improved with hope that I could be able to have a drawing skill.
"Sure, but remember don't expect yourself to have any skill. It takes time and patience."
A smile formed in my lips I was oddly over excited to learn something.

Toffee's Pov

I have no idea why I agreed to this silly thing she wanted to learn. She is just a kid and self taught at that. I'm surprised she has made in this far in life without being incredibly over confident in herself.
Her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"We need to get you something to practice drawing with." I smiled as I brainstormed what she needed.
"Yay!!" She says clapping a little in excitement and I chuckle, adorable.
"Here." I hand her a pencil and open a blank page in my journal.
"Oh no, you do t have to do that! I don't  want to ruin your journal." Carla protested and I shrugged.
"I don't mind."
I motioned the journal for her to take it. She glance at me and quickly back at the journal and hesitantly took it. Carla was very odd, she held it as if it was some fragile historic object that will turn to dust if you turned a page.
   "So first I need to see a sample of your drawings."
"Um."
"Just draw anything." I say simply and she thinks for a moment and turns away from me to start drawing.
I peered over her shoulder to try to see what she was drawing but she held the book close to her chest when she felt my present.
"No! You can't look at my drawing 'till I'm done." She claimed and turned toward me but the journal faced her so I couldn't see. A smile crept on my face as I waited.
"Ugh I can't draw." She mutters as she erases parts of the drawing then she suddenly looks up at me, for some reason I froze a bit uncomfortable.
"What?" She doesn't reply and get back to drawing.
Is she drawing me? No she wouldn't do that.
"I'm done!" She says happily reveling the sketch to me, she was energetic, swinging her legs back and forth clearly proud of the sketch.
I looked at it, I admit for someone who hasn't had much experience in drawing It wasn't bad. But if you didn't know that knowledge...then yeah it didn't look that great.
   "Hm. Is that why you looked at me?" My smile returned to the sketch it was a drawing of an eye.
Simple yet difficult if you are going for being as realistic as possible.
"Heh uh yeah I forgot what an eye looks like." She chuckles nervously and I looked at her.
   "Not bad kid, as long as your proud of it."
"It's really off but..." Carla stopped her sentence looking at the drawing from different angles.
"...its decent." She finished.
"Well I could tell you what to work on..." I started, scooting closer to her. Carla was clearly uncomfortable but she would get used to a monster's presents.
"You need to create the lines more curved and wider." I motioned tracing how the lines should go on the journal as she held it.
"Hmm."
"To do this you may want to create streaks of lines inside of trying to connect one line...and draw a bit lighter it'll be easier to erase."
"Oh I get it!" She claims quickly redrawing the eye doing the best she could as I instructed.
"Like this?" She held up the drawing, it didn't get that improved but it was a start.
"Heh I mean it looks improved." I say shrugging taking the journal  accidentally brushing my hand past hers.
We both pretended it never happen but she glance away indicating she mentally cringed.
   "I think Its It's time you meet the others." I clam closing the journal.
"Others?" Carla questioned.
"Of course." I glance over at Mayhem who is fast asleep on the grass.
"Mayhem." I simply say getting up and shaking her with my foot to wake her up.
"Huh wha?"
"Come on we are meeting up with the others now."
"Oh." She rubs her sleepy eyes and stretches.
"Lets go Carla." I start walking off, she hops up behind me and Mayhem follows beside her.
I could her them talking and there laughs hopefully she will start depending on Mayhem and start to be more dependent on herself than others.
In all honesty she doesn't seem as corrupted as I thought she would. Mabye we could get along...mabye..