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Violet and Andarna

Hi so this is my very first time writing anything so please bare with me and be kind, also this isn’t my first language so there’s also that.

Anyway here’s my contribution to #FourthWingBirthdayBash hosted by @skyfallscotland and @justallihere

Mt writing prompt was “I can’t believe you remembered that” by @deity-prompts and without further ado here you have it hope you enjoy and constructive criticism is always welcome!

I jump, suddenly awake in my bed I look around for any sign, most probably of danger in this college, of what has startled me so. But i find nothing and looking outside tells me is still night so I should try to fall asleep again while I can, and so I do, except the moment my head finally touches my pillow i hear a low knock from the door, probably the reason I’m awake right now, and with a sigh I get up to check who it is disturbing me right now.

“Who is it?” I say quietly when I reach my door but without opening it, after all you can never be too safe.

“It’s me” Says with excitement a voice I can instantly recognize. With a groan that really hasn’t much effect given that I’m smiling I finally open the door.

“To what do I owe the pleasure of being woken in the middle of the night by you Bodhi? I’m gonna warn you right now that I’m not in the mood for a booty call so you can just go and bother someone else alright?”

“Damn baby you wound me” He says mockingly clutching his chest which inevitably makes me smile, I just can’t help it when it comes to him, there’s something unexplainable about his presence that just puts me at ease and makes me want to smile.

“Okey… so to answer my question?”

“Oh, right!” He chuckles while getting exited again “Come with me I have a surprise for you”

I can’t help but startle at that, a surprise? For me?

“Yeah, but we’re wasting time so hurry up getting ready I’ll wait here but I seriously don’t want to get caught” And the way he says it with pleading eyes has me rushing so much that I almost trip a couple of times but manage to make it out in a minute. Before I can really think about it we are already out the dorms corridor and out in the grounds, and that is when I finally gather myself enough to ask.

“Where are we going exactly?”

“Oh” And he blushes, he actually Blushes! “I was hoping you wouldn’t ask and I could just show you” He says it more like a question than a statement and I decide to have some mercy on him and just nod with a smile even though I’m getting more curious by the second, especially after that answer.

We keep on walking for twenty minutes in companiable silence even after we entered a forest and he grabbed my hand to guide me, and thank the Gods it was dark and he wasn’t looking because my cheeks started heating up and I don’t think I could’ve taken it if he would’ve made a joke about it. Finally he stops and turns to me instructing me to close my eyes and trust him and when I go to answer that I’m not going to make it that easy for him to kill me he just interrupts me by putting a knife in my free hand, I hadn’t even noticed that he didn’t let go of the other, and saying that that should be enough to defend myself should he try something funny, and for some reason I feel reassured enough that I do just as he instructed. Closing my eres he guides me just a few more meters forward.

“Open your eyes” He gently says, never letting go of me and I do once more just as he asks. And immediately I’m in awe, this place is wonderful, I’m looking at a lake littered by dragonfly’s and the gentle chirping of some frog in the distance, everything is just illuminated by moonlight and the reflection of in the lake is just magical. Astonished I look at him waiting for some kind of explanation and just find him blushing again but unapologetically looking at me.

“W- wh…” I clear my throat trying to find the words.

“I found this place a couple of weeks ago” He starts finally looking away for a second but immediately finding my eyes again “and just knew that I had to share it with you, especially once I remembered you said that first week how the lake by your home by moonlight was what you were already missing the most and then I just figured it best to show it to you as a birthday present so I just waited”it’s all said with such speed that when he finishes he has to take a deep inhale before he panics at seeing me standing still and with tears in my eyes “Wh- why are you crying? Did I fuck this up? I did didn’t I? Of course I did I’m so sorry plea-“

“No” I simply say and immediately he stops “It’s perfect I just…”

“Yes…?” Gently he prompts me.

“I can’t believe you remembered that”

“Of course I remember that, I remember everything you say to me and something this important I just had to try and give to you” Slowly he tugs my hand until I’m in his arms and before I can think better of it I gently kiss him “Oh” is all he can manage and then he adoringly smiles at me.

“Thank you” I say trying to convey just how much I mean it in those two words, I’ve been feeling especially homesick lately and alone and with this gesture, especially on my birthday he is showing me that I’m not, and so I just tell him how I’ve been feeling about him since the day I’ve met him if I’m being honest with myself “I love you”

“I love you too”