Runners

Chapter 2: I Love Her...

"Wow, this place is beautiful Flower," I say while looking around.

"I know the scenery is beautiful, but the people here have horrible personalities," she groans.

"How so?" I question with a concerned expression on my face.

"They are all judgemental towards what power you have or what color your hair is," she looks at me and says.

"Well, that's dumb because looks and skills don't matter," I say to her. We both look at each other and at that moment I think we both felt a spark. I looked away for a second and when I looked back I noticed she was blushing.

I said to her "Are you okay you look a little flush" I asked knowing she's fine.

"I'm fine! We should get going to my place before I get caught bringing a human here without a pass," she says as she quickly walks away knowing I knew she was blushing at me.

"Are we almost there we have been walking for so long!?" I complain.

"Sorry but we normally fly and not walk," she said "The last time I walked here was when I didn't have my wings, I was 9"

"Yeah yeah," I say. "Well, why don't we fly!" I scream in excitement.

"Okay then," she says with remorse in her voice. "Okay, I want you to hold on to my shoulders and wrap your leg around my waist," she says blushing her brains out. As I hold on I realize I began to blush. As we flew up my nerves began to skyrocket and I went into literal shock but when I saw another fairy flying and suddenly I was calm.

"We have arrived at my humble abode as you humans would say," she says giggling a little bit.

'Haha very funny Flower," I say sarcastically while opening my hands and shaking my head.

"Come inside we can eat something," she says waving her hand to the door signaling for me to come inside. We walk inside an old looking house with rotting wood and vines along with the windows, but once we enter the home it looks as if it was just renovated. Marble counters, wooden bed frames, polished wood floors, and a beautiful white comforter on a queen-sized bed.

We sat down at the island and she began to cook something and it made the house smell very good.

"What are you making Flower? It smells really good," I questioned her curious about what was inside of what she was cooking.

"I'm not sure, but my mother taught me this when I was young before she passed," she says turning back to the stainless steel pot. I look at her because I wasn't expecting her to tell me that her mother passed away.

"If you don't mind me asking what did your mother pass from?" I ask curiously about how she would respond.

"Oh yeah, it's fine," she says calmly while setting the spoon down on a bright pink cloth and turning to talk to me. "She died when I was 7 by execution,"

"Execution?! What did she do?" I ask.

"She didn't do anything she was framed by her sister, my Aunt Lilly," she says getting more and more pissed of by the second so she turns to mix the food."I'm so sorry, she should be in jail," I say placing my hands on the counter to show my passion.

"Thanks but there is no way she can go to jail because the case went cold," she says starting to cry.

"Come here it will be ok," I said this in the calmest tone that I could and hugged her. And at that exact moment, I knew I loved her. About ten minutes later we heard a knock at the door.

"Are you expecting anyone?" I ask Flower while we are sitting down eating our dinner and watching tv.

"Oh yeah! I'm expecting my sister," She said as she perked up to go and answer the door.

"Flower! How have you been it has been so long and are you still with that boyfriend of yours?" she says as she leans in to hug Flower. As soon as she said the word boyfriend I felt a sense of jealousy, but I decided to push it away and go say hello.

"Hi, Leah how have you been? And yes I'm still with my boyfriend," She said as she looked at me smiled, and pointed toward me. "This is my friend Ivy, yes she is a human."

"Oh well hello Ivy," she says acting happy although you could tell she didn't like Flower being close with humans.

"Hi," As soon as I said that Flower looked at me and blushing. "I have to go to the bathroom I will be right back!" Once I said that I ran to the bathroom to catch my breath because I kept getting embarrassed in front of Flower. I put cold water on my face and then left the room.

"Hey Flower I'm going to walk around the area while you catch up with your sister ok?" I said very happily and self-assured so she would hopefully let me go.

"Alright I'll see you later but when you hear a loud horn go off from a large tree come back home as soon as you can because that horn marks curfew," She said to me as I walked out of the door towards a little bridge across a small stream with lots of small pretty rocks and tiny fish.

As I'm walking down this pretty bridge I see someone yelling. I couldn't hear the fairy so I got closer.

"Free love potions!" a small pink looking fairy was yelling. At that second all I could think of was using it on Flower. It was almost time for the horn to blow so I went up to the girl took a potion stuffed it in my bag and ran. I only had it just in case I couldn't make her fall in love with me on my own without the potions help.