HER FIRST LOVE

Her First Love(Chapter 10)

As Christine fainted, Christopher caught her and laid her gently on the living room couch. He loved to look at her lying there so innocent and beautiful.Disheveled hair and red swollen eyes just made him want to hold her that much more. He wanted so much to protect her, from the things that have made her this way. What could have been so devastating that she would cry to the point of bewilderment?

As Christopher watched Christine laying there she began to open her eyes.Oh, she said. What happened? You fainted, Christopher said.Can I get you a washcloth for your head? Yes please, she said. I can't believe that I fainted again. It would seem that I am doing a lot of that these days. Christopher, what is it that you wanted to talk to me about again? Did you say something about your father being king or something? I can't believe that this is happening. 

Christine, I have to leave tomorrow for my homeland. I do not want to go, but I have no other choice. Yes my father is king and my mother is queen, so yes that makes me a prince, and with that comes grave responsibilities, some of which I do not agree with. Long before I was born my parents arranged for me to marry a princess of another land. They say that this is the only way that we can avoid any further bloodshed between our families.

Please believe me when I say that I would much rather stay here and be with you than go back to the homeland and marry someone I do not know. Oh, Christopher, I do not know what to say. It seems that our lives just are not our own anymore, they have never been. Just tonight my father informed me that I too must leave tomorrow for another place where my mother and the twin brother that I thought was dead are waiting. I am so mixed up I just do not want to leave this place. I mean all my friends are here and you are here, well you were here but now, oh my, now oh, Christopher what are we going to do. Christine began to cry once again.

As Christine cried Christopher held her gently in his arms and thought that she never looked so beautiful, as she did at this moment.Christine, please calm down I promise that we will find some way to be together if that is what you want. Oh, Christopher how can we be together when we must each go to places that we don't want to and become people that we do not really want to be. This is just too much.

Now, Christine, there is no need to get all upset. We will find a way to be together if it is the last thing I do. I have a great ideal, why don't we run away together? We can leave right now before anyone realizes that we are gone.What do you say? Oh, Christopher, that sounds like a perfect ideal but I just can't leave my father behind. Where would we go anyway? 

As much as we want to be together, I guess that it just was not meant to be at this time. If only we had met at a different time in a different life, maybe then the fates would have smiled down upon us. No, we must both go and do what is our destiny to do. Maybe someday we will find each other again, until such time please take care of yourself, and know that I will always love you with all my heart and all my soul, for you are my soulmate. Please go now it is late and I must get some sleep, tomorrow is going to be a very long and sad day. Goodbye Christopher.

But, but Christine, wait. Don't you want to be together?Yes, Christopher, I do with all my heart but I just do not see how that is going to happen in light of everything.Now please go. Don't make this harder than it already is, and with those words and a broken heart, Christine closed the door turned out the light and went slowly back to her room and cried herself to sleep.

Christopher could not believe what he was hearing, but he knew that deep down inside Christine was right. Barring a miracle, there would be no way that they could be together, not now anyway. Relutly Christopher got in his car and headed back home. With tears in his eyes and a heavy heart he somehow managed to find his way to his room, laid down and sometime near daylight drifted off to sleep.

Christine awoke some time that morning with a migraine, she often got them when she was feeling emotional and boy was she ever emotional. After last night how could she not be? Finding out that she was a princess and that her mom and brother were alive, and that Christopher was a prince and that they both had to leave the place they knew as home for some other place and marry other people was just too much for Christine to phantom.

Even though she had only just met Christopher a couple days ago she had fallen head over heels in love with him and as she understood he had also fallen in love with her as well. Why must life be so hard at times? Christine quickly got dressed and went downstairs looking for her father. She found him in the kitchen making breakfast. Darling, there you are. I was wondering when you were going to wake up. We have a busy day ahead of us so please sit down and have something to eat.

Oh, father, I am not hungry this morning I will just have a piece of toast and some milk. My dear, you are going to waste away if you do not take better care of yourself.Here have some eggs and bacon. We have a lot to do today, and so little time to do it in before our plane leaves. Hurry up and eat and go get dressed pack your best clothes and anything that you want to take with you because we will not be coming back to this place. The life as you knew it is about to change my dear. It is time to fulfill your destiny.