20-Talk.
Arianna POV.
I made it out of the house finally, dad and papa won’t notice me missing for another hour or two hopefully, I’ll have enough time to go out and back without them noticing my missing. I ran toward the park, it’s not the first time I do this, growing up with strict parents, sometimes you just need some time to yourself out, and dad would kick my bum if I sneak out while being grounded.
I also loved being able to get out without my bodyguards, they are there without you seeing them, but I know I’m being watched the whole time, not a thing I enjoy.
Looking around, I didn’t find him, he’s not here, it’s all my imagination, I’m just messing with myself, he’s not coming, there no one to come, I’m a crazy person, I’m going crazy! That’s it, I don’t want to go back home yet, it’s where my craziness is at it’s top, I groaned, just sitting on the bench thinking about ways to sneak back in without being caught.
“Little Fox,” a voice says, it’s his voice, turning around I saw him standing there, his face hidden as usual, which kind of drives e insane, why doesn’t he have a face.
“You’re just my imagination, aren’t you?” I ask him feeling hurt and pained from all of this, I want this to stop.
“I’m not little fox, I’m here and I’m real,” he says touching my face, this time, I could feel it, like a real touch, I could smell him, for real, I could feel the warmth of his body, my imagination is either getting too good at tricking me or this is for real.
“If you’re real, why are you doing this?” I ask him, I want to know why I can only see him in my dreams, why does it feel so wrong but so right at the same time.
“I had to find you little fox, I had to find a way to get to you if you would just… I’ll take you away and I’ll love you forever” he promises me.
“Those are stalker words, I want an explanation,” I say demanding to know more details about everything.
“Where I come from little fox, it’s dark, we don’t have foxes like you, the ones we have are all greedy or evil. The king gave us a chance to find a person of our own, but he had the condition of never saying who we really are, the other have to fall for us, before we take them home, tell them everything” he says, that sounds like a dark fairytale, but fairytales are just that, stories.
“It sounds like a dark story, but how does it end? With you killing me and making my body sleep with the fishies” I ask him, making him chuckle at me.
“You are one smart creature Rina, I know what I’m asking for is kind of crazy, but the truth is what I just told you, it’s up to you to believe me or maybe believe me” he says making me chuckle, he sounds desperate, he just wants me to say the words, but I can’t.
“Why did you come to my dreams?” I ask him.
“It was my only way to get close to you without putting myself or you in danger” he answers me, it does make sense, if papa or dad, or my uncle sees him in the house, they’d go nuts.
“Why can’t I see your face?” I say I wanted to jump up and take the hood off his face, but I wouldn’t hurt him like that, imagination or not, I’m not going to hurt him in any way.
“I don’t want to scare you away little fox, I want you to know me, not my face,” he says, it’s true, what’s inside is more important than the way his face looks.
“But I have every right to see it” I say again wanting to see his face, I can see his eyes, they are black, sparkling like the night sky.
“How about we play for a bit little fox?” he asks me, pointing toward the swings, we played on the swings in my dreams before, I want to play on them in real life too if he’s part of my imagination, I won’t be pushed.
I sat on the swing, and felt being pushed up, I smiled enjoying the feeling of someone pushing me, when Andy does it, he can never push me this high, or make me giggle this much, he kept playing with me, we next went to the slides, the monkey bars, the sandbox, he let me play every game, just standing next to me, making sure I was enjoying myself. He received random looks all over, everyone looked at him, he’s the new guy playing with me, we were just an odd couple right now but I enjoyed it.