Deep Forever

chapter 3 - the castle

For the rest of the ride i decided not to talk to Aden until he told me where we were going. after another 30 mins we passed the " thanks for the visit " sign , which ment we were out of town now . i had no idea but i wasnt going to ask either . another 10 mins and we passed a " welcome to Allanders " sing. ALLANDER !? what in the world are we going to do in a little country side greeny village? well i didnt have to wonder about it for too long for soon we stopped in front of a place that did not allow any other thoughts to invade my mind. A magnificent CASTEL . i looked at Aden shocked . he smiled back , urging me to go in . i shook my head franctically, afraid to go into an abandoned yet beautiful castel . he laughed saying " dont worry , its mine and i got it cleaned yesterday from the inside ." as if , i said " i am not buying it " , he told me that he would explain everything while showing me the castel . first i was ready to say no but then i thought what bad could happen after all, right? i love every magnificent and magicall thing and THIS castel , right here , topped my chart , so i agreed.

Aden guided me into the castel and the door opened with a eerie creak. i jumped , my heart hammering hard in my cheast, i steaped back ,outside,  " i am so NOT going into a haunted castel !! " , aden laughed really hard , he pulled me in by my hand saying " its just a heridatory castel " ,i nodded, then he said IT under his breadth, " my heridatory castel ". i jerked my head up and looked straight in his eyes , he was looking frightened and i ALMOST yelled on his face " YOUR heridatory castel ? " out of excitment and bewilderness. he moved over and lighted the grand crystal chandeleer which lit up the whole foyer. the foyer was large with objects of ornamental design everywhere. two golden grand staircases lead to the upper floor which mainly consisted of corridors and rooms. i looked around in amazement taking in the beautiful tapistries to the princly rich carpets ,the ornated chairs to the beautiful portraits of people in robes and buried is jwellery. i turned to aden and glared " tell me all about it. dare you miss even a single detail ." Aden huffed , prerparing himself for a rather long story obviously made even longer by my mundane questions. " well this castle is not exactly mine but you can say it is kind of "handed over" to me." he looked at me questioningly as if it was supposed to be a very hard thing to understand. i nodded at him to continue . " your remember uncle Raymond ? " i nodded , "well he died 3 months ago" he said . i gasped and said " i am sorry , you never told me about it . " aden said " i am fine , we were never so close either , but after my dad passed away he was the only relative i had left ." he didnt let the sadness show on his face but i could imagine how sad it could be to have nobody in the world. but it wasnt like that for Aden atleast because i took his hand and said ", i m here for you. " he smiled and kissed my forhead and then continued with the story " well before he died he told me that this castel belonged to him and my dad , i dont know why dad hid such a thing from me , he was never intrested in castels and all ,but anyways," he waved his hands in front of his face , as if he were clearing cobwebs from his face and then came back to the topic " he told me,now that there is no other heir to this castel , it had become nessary to tell me about our heridatory treasure. he told me he was sorry because he was breaking one of the promises he did to dad , but i dont know what . i didnt have time to ask that , because it was the last thing he ever said . even i was stunned at first to know about this place but i soon found out that uncle had already transfered this propety to me. i guess this castle belongs to the grandparents i never knew i had ! my grand mother is supposed to be some kind of a queen ." he looked at me , relieved as if a heavy load had been lifted from his shoulders. i was about to say something but suddenly many of our friends jumped out from behind the couch , we were sitting on, and yelled " SURPRISE! "