Falcon's Order

Good or Bad Girl [I]

I stood there in the middle of the field; the warm breeze of the air swirled around me making me shudder in delight. I gave a small smile before I quickly turned around and used the sword to cut the arrow in half before it made contact with my chest.

"Better luck next time." I said with a small smirk as I looked at Peter who seemed to be shocked and relief by my rapid response.

"Even in the middle of your deep meditation you respond quickly against a sudden threat, you're getting better at this." Peter said as he got near me and I simply shook my head.

"I've been practicing a lot besides I wasn't meditating." I told Peter before I looked away back at the field and closed my eyes taking a deep breath, no matter what I did it didn't calm down my nerves, I could feel part of me just trembling.

"Then what were you doing here in the middle of the field?" Peter asked me and I slowly opened my eyes.

"I was just contemplating the grass, the flowers and everything; it's just so beautiful with the spring in its full peak it just makes me forget about everything else as if what happened months ago were just not at all." I told him, he knew exactly what I was taking about, this past year had been so hectic and we both knew that we all could just take so much before we all broke down.

I felt Peter place his hand on my shoulder and immediately pulled away.

"Are you alright?" Peter asked me confused, I had hastily pulled away nearly startling him in the process.

"I'm fine." I told him as I turned around and started to walk towards the Academy hoping that he would drop the entire matter.

"What's wrong with you Alice?" Peter asked me as he followed me.

"There's nothing wrong with me, what do you mean?" I asked him faking ignorance.

"You're lying to me Alice; ever since I came back you have been acting distant towards me." Peter told me as he grabbed my shoulder and turned me around making me face him.

I shook my head and looked at anything but him.

"You're wrong Pete, it's not like that." I told him shuddering his hand off.

"Really then why is it that every time I want to speak with you or anything like that you come up with the sudden excuse that you have to be somewhere else, what's really going on?" Peter asked as he grabbed my hand and my body froze.

My eyes immediately went to his right hand where he had the scar; I avoided looking at it and met his gaze.

"That is not the question here Peter, alright? Look I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't realize that it's already time for my training, if you like you can join me with the training so you can see that I'm not avoiding you, alright?" I told him hoping that he would at least believe this.

Peter looked at me and gave a sigh.

"Sure." Peter said giving in.

Even if I hated to admit it Peter was right, I was constantly pushing him away and being distant towards him, I was aware of that and yes I was doing this on purpose; I just wasn't sure, I was no longer sure of who I could actually trust and the fact that I had read something bad with a curse that involved someone with the exact same description as Peter was not just a simple coincidence.

I no longer believed in those.

Now, I didn't know much about Peter, I had met Pete when I was twelve and he immediately hated me for no reason, after the attack on the dance Peter explained me the reason of his hostility, for his attitude towards me but even after that Pete was still a stranger for me since I didn't know whenever or not I could trust him but not because of that I would completely push him away, I needed to know more about Pete without be harder than I thought.