Huntress 2 - NaNoWriMo 2014

Chapter 5

When I stopped crying finally I laid back onto the rock and looked up at the sky. The sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky. Raymond was sitting beside me watching me carefully. I sighed and whiped my face. "I wish I could just fly away from all this and go home."

Once I had realized what I had said I held up a finger, "don't say anything about dragons."

Raymond smiled and laughed lightly. "I do have a dragon though."

I turned my head too look at him, my expression still sad. "Don't try to disract me."

He shrugged, "it was worth a shot." He then laid down beside me and put his arms interlocked his fingers on his stomach. His head was right beside mine and he was awfully close to me. But I was too sad to care.

"I know how you are feeling," he said sadly.

I scrunched my eyebrows, I didn't believe him. "You do?"

He nodded and kept his eyes looking up towards the sky. "The night Lucilla died, I was the one who found her as she got stabbed. I watched her get stabbed. Then I carried her away but it was too late. she died as I held onto her."

I was silent, what are you supposed to say to that?

I looked back up at the sky because I had nothing to say. And we laid there on the rocks for such a long time that my legs fell asleep and started to tingle. But I didn't care. It was telling me I'm still alive and this is real. I'm really here. I'm not in some makeshift dream like I'd hoped.

I let out a long breath, "I wonder when they're going to figure out I'm missing. Will it be a day? A Week? A month? You never know."

"You'll get home," Raymond tried to reassure me.

I turned to look at him again and he was already looking at me. "The last thing I told my siblings was that I think they're all idiots. The last thing I told my dad was that I was getting another tattoo just to piss him off. And the last thing I told my mom was that I wanted to end my life because of -." I stopped myself.

I swallowed hard to keep the tears from flowing, "the last thing I should have told each of them was that I loved them becasue I really do and I wish I could just phone them one more time to tell them that."

He looked at me silently and I really wanted to know what he was thinking. I almost spilled out all of my life secrets to this boy and I only just met him yesterday. What is wrong with me?

"My parents are forcing me to marry a girl tat I don't want to marry." He blurted out. "I hated always being compared to Lucilla becasue we are related dispite the fact that I love her because she's my cousin. I'm afraid that my dragon egg will never hatch because I've had it for a month and nothing has happened. Usually eggs hatch with-in a week, so that's really scary."

"Why are you telling me these things?" I stopped him.

He thought for a second, "I don't know, I just trust you."

We both went quiet again, our silences were never awkward and I was so happy for that. We could have laid here forever in this comfortable silence and I would be fine with it. But my stomach growled and Raymond broke out into a smile, "hungry?"

I sighed, "don't get that stick stuck back in your butt."

He laughed and sat up. I watched him as he got up, dusted himself off then held out a hand for me to grab. I accepted his hand and he pulled me up rather quickly. I swayed a little as my vision dissapeared. "Are you alright?" He asked with worry.

I smiled, even though I couldn't see him. "Yea, just stood up too quickly." My vision came back and I smiled up at him. "You are too strong for your own good."

He laughed, "I'm not that stong, you should see Theon. He wins all of the arm wrestles."

We started to walk back to the entrance to the caves and I laughed, "well sir, you just need to do some more push ups."

"What's a push up?" He was too surious for his own good.

"I'll show you one day."