I grunted in pain at the impact with the floor, the weight of the deadly beast keeping me down.
I knew this was it, the beast would end me. Then the weight was lifted of me and I turned around only to see it stared me straight in the eyes.
It was cl...
Breakfast that day was quiet. The sound of cutlery against platters the only sound that was heard.
Whispers could be heard from time to time but the absence of Jadeline was the most noticeable.
She always sat with her companions and they were always the loudest but after last nights occasions when a couple of traitors had tried to kill the unusual big amount of royals residing in the castle and she had gotten in the way she had gotten hurt and been sent to the hospital with some guards and another competitor.
She had been with three of Hitler companions on their way to their rooms when the band of traitors had ran into them, hunted by a couple of guards and gotten hurt.
Two people died in that awful attack but luckily the traitors was caught and immediately brought to the prison cells were they would be waiting for their destiny, execution as every traitor that threatened the crown was punished with.
The royals at the table, every royal in this castle was surprisingly gathered at the table and ate quietly. The two kings and the foreign queen seemed to be deep in thought but the other queen and the prince seemed to be boiling with anger. What was that about?
King Garnet had announced the circumstances and bluntly explained what had happened the night before when everyone had been seated, now he ate slowly in silence.
Captain Lowell could not be seen anywhere but I guess she dealt with the prisoners and her other duties.
Despite everything the most shocking thing was that we would still have training after breakfast, I would have thought The Captain would have been too busy but I guess not.
Wouldn't we mourn the deaths and stand away from our usual jobs to honour the dead, didn't you usually do that?
All I knew was that I wanted to talk to Ruby, no, I needed to talk to her.
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Ruby was awfully quiet the whole training. I kept sneaking glances at her and I noticed that her smile was hollow, her eyes told another story.
She was sad, she felt guilty, I couldn't make out every feeling but those two was the strongest.
At the end of the training I waited as everyone left the room and when it was only me and her left I walked up to her.
Her back was against me and she braced herself like she was freezing and seemed to be lost in thoughts.
Why did the deaths seem to affect her so much? Was it personal? Did she know anyone that had died? Maybe one of the guards had been hit husband and she now regretted they had been fighting and broken up?
"Ruby?" I asked her, she didn't react like she hadn't even heard me. I waited some seconds before I asked again.
"Ruby?" I asked her and tapped her shoulder. She immediately whirled around and stared at me with big wide eyes.
"Jasper?" she asked shocked. "Yeah...umm..." I began as I tried to figure out what I would say bit she interrupted me.
"I'm sorry about the other night, I shouldn't have done what I did" she said rapidly like she wanted to throw out the words before I had the chance to get away.
What did she do the other night? Oh, yeah, the kiss. Was she sorry about it? Did she regret it?
"I don't know why I did it it's just stupid of me and I know it doesn't justify it but I can't do more than apologising" she said apologetically.
I felt myself get lost and I didn't understand what she said anymore so I just nodded and agreed to her confused.
"I should...go" she said and began to walk away, that's when I realized she had stopped talking and had been waiting for me to say something.
Suddenly I didn't want her to go, not like this. "No...wait, Ruby" I said and without thinking I grabbed her arm and turned her to me.
She lost balance and whirled around, stumbling right into me. "Sorry" I blurted out and helped her reason her footing.
She just stared at me and now with her face towards me I lost words and had no idea what to say so we just stood there in awkward silence for some minutes.
Just as she began to turn away again I blurted out the first thing on my mind "You don't need to apologize, I...really didn't mind" I said and then I realized what I had said and quickly looked away from her to hide my deep red blush. Why did I say that?
Ruby didn't seem to appreciate that as she walked over to my other side and stared me in the face, I tried to turn away again but she grabbed my chin and made me look at her.
"Really? You didn't mind me kissing you? Why?" she asked me, she stared at me in amazement and I shifted uneasily.
My cheeks heated up as I felt her intense gaze on me and I couldn't look away "Ummm..I..." my voice shook and it sounded pathetically weak under her strong gaze.
Her gaze softened as she read my expression and her grip loosened "You don't need to tell me, I just wanted to know. I like you and I thought for a second you might like me too, I'm sorry" she said bluntly and I stared at her.
Why could she be so honest with it? How did she do that without even blinking, isn't it embarrassing? I guess not, what would be embarrassing to her? Probably nothing.
She turned away again and I didn't want her to leave thinking I didn't like her when she just had confessed she liked me.
"But I do like you!" I blurted out. She stopped and this time I felt like she hadn't really intended to leave. She probably had realized that I just blurted out my thoughts whenever I felt stressed, like whenever she was leaving.
She smiled when she looked at me again and I blushed beet red and looked uncomfortably down at my feet.
