“Wait up kiego!” I yelled after him.
He was running over to the pond where we 1st met.
“Keep up!” I heard him yell from behind him.
We were young back then. Little did we know that everything was going to change…..
“Hurry up Nica!” he yelled from in front of me.
“I'm Trying!!!” I said giggling as I chased after him.
We made it to where we were going.
It was a pound.
It was next to the village but not so close that they could see us.
That was our favorite spot in the world…
When i caught up with him i had the biggest grin on my face
“Kiego!!!” I said with a smile that could light up a dark room.
I threw my arms around him in a warm embrace.
He hugged me back and whispered in my ear that there was a frog on my shoe,and that it was huge and ugly.
“WHAAAAAATTTTTT” I said as I looked down at my shoe.
There was a frog on it but it was small, and honestly it was really cute.
Kiego was laughing as he picked up the frog from off my shoe.
I looked at it with curiosity.
“Woah, it's so cute!!!” I said as I giggled as I picked up the frog and released it into the pond.
“Why were you so scared of it? It's just a frog”
“You said it was big and that it was ugly,SO you tricked me!”
“Well i wouldn't say that i tricked you,i would say that i friendly teased you”
“That's the same thing you weirdo!”
“Hey, I'm not wired!”
After that we both laughed and then I punched him in the arm.
Best day of my life……
“NICA come here!” i heard my mom yell,
“Aww i got to go!” I waved goodbye to him and then ran off to my house.
That was the last day I saw him….
10 years later….
I had to get ready for school,my mom had laid down a dress on my bed again.
She knows I hate dresses!!!!She's so annoying at this point. I thought as i threw it aside and looked at it with disgust.
I sighed as I just went to my brother's room and grabbed a pair of his clothes.
I can make this into a cute outfit. It will work. I am not wearing that dress.God why won't she just listen to me!
I put on the outfit and if I'm being honest I didn't look that bad.
I didnt brush my hair, I just put it in a ponytail,because I know that pissed my mother off.
And I would do anything to make her mad.
My shoes clicked as I walked down my stairs and into my kitchen, I walked over to the counter and grabbed an apple,then I started to walk away from the kitchen.
I tried to walk fast so that I wouldn't run into my mother or father.
But luck clearly isn't on my side.
“Nica, why are you still wearing your brother's clothes!” my mother said as she sighed.
“Because i already told you that there's no way that i would wear a dress i haven't since i was 10,why would i start now?” I said as I gave her a glare that could pierce the air if it was solid.
“You need to start dressing like a lady! You're never going to get a husband if you keep dressing like a man!” She said her tone was mocking and harsh.
“I could really care less, I need to get to school.” I said as I pushed past her.
“Young lady!” she gasped.
My brother was my best friend and sometimes the only person who understands me.
He was a year older than me and he was over protective as heck.
He was laughing in the background when I walked past my mom and went over to him and asked if he was ready to go.
“Yeah lets get going” he said
I could tell he was trying to hold in his laughter.
I punched him in the gut,as I continued to walk out the door.
My hair flowing behind me as I left my brother in the dust.
He followed after me,he was mumbling something about him hurting,but he stopped when I gave him an “i will beat you if you don't shut up.” glare.
He was always so overprotective of me, and whenever a guy was talking to me it was like an interrogation was taking place.
He's the reason I've never had a boyfriend before.
I was lost in thought as I walked and by the time we got to the stop sign to cross the road my brother had waved his hand in my face over and over.
I think he might have been talking to me the entire time we were walking.
“Huh? Oh hey.”
“Were you even listening to me?!”
“Nope, not at all.”
I looked at him, my eyes were expressionless and he looked back at me with a confused look.
“Why are you looking at me like that!!!”
“Why are you waving your hand in my face?”
“I was trying to get your attention!”
“Well you have it now. So what do you want from me?”
“ I was telling you that we're going to have new neighbors in a week or two!”
My eyes widened at the thought.
New people huh? We haven't had new people since I was 6.
“Huh.” I said in a voice that told him that I wasn't unimused but definitely didn't care as much as I would have.
“Better not be some other pretty pink princess who's a spoiled brat and thinks they run the world.”
“Woah hey that's a lot of judgment on some people you've never met before! What if it's your new husband?” he said with a hint of mischief in his voice.
I scoffed at the comment he made, then I turned to look him in the eyes and I said “you’ve never,And i mean EVER let a guy near me.”
He gave me an innocent but defending look
“Whattttt! They weren't right for you,you deserve the entire world and more.”
“What if I don't want the entire world?”
“Well then suck it up because that's what that man or your one true love must give you in order for me not to end them :3”
“What if I don't want you to end them?”
“Well then womp womp.”
“Fine, I'll get married to a man who gives me the world but actually hates me and cheats on me every single day” My smirk growing as i talked.
My brother looked at me with disgust and defeat.
“Nope, not going to happen.”
“Aww shucks” I said as I separated ways from him because we had reached the school grounds.
“MEET ME BACK AT THIS SPOT OKAY!!!!” he yelled as he walked away
Some people around us turned and looked at him then back at me,but then i yelled back
“NAH I'LL MEET YOU WHERE I WANNA MEET YOU!!!”
I could hear him laughing and I could tell that he was proud of me for being the stubborn prick he taught me to be.
When I got into class the teacher was already writing down all the boring math equations on her stupied green chalkboard.
“Okay class….” she said in her annoying scratchy voice.
Her voice sounds like nails on that chalk bored of hers,I mean like why is she the only teacher with the green chalkboard.
I got lost in thought again and I started to zone out and i didnt even hear someone sit down in the dest next to me.
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After a few seconds of me zoning off I could hear a guy's voice cutting through the silence in my brain.
“Hello? Are you awake?” the mail voice said from beside me.
I looked over at him and saw someone I've never seen before.
Is he the new person my brother was talking about? I've never seen him before and I've lived here my entire life…
THe thing about this town is it was small it had a few little markets,and it only had one schoolhouse for each few grades,it has a few little farms and most of the kids just go home to there neighborhoods and play in there neighborhoods.
“Hey yeah im awake,are you new here i've never seen you around?”
“Yeah my name is Kiego,and I just moved here.What's your name, fair Gwen of air?”
The fair gwen of air, is an old saying for a really pretty girl.
Did he just call me pretty? What will my brother think about this,
My smirk grew as I got lost in thought again.
When I had gotten my thoughts back in control, I flashed the guy a smile.
“I don't know? I don't think I wanna tell you yet.”
He looked at me with a grin and I could tell he was thinking, game on.
“Well I guess I'll just have to call you the fair Gwen of air until you tell me.”
“Why don't you just call me Gwen, it makes your life simpler.”
He won't ever figure out my name because only my family knows it.
I've never told anyone my name, there are always just nicknames I was given,the teacher doesn't even know my name.
“Okay gwen.”
He looked confident on how he was playing the game
If he wants to play like that then game on!
The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into a month and me and kiego had grown closer than anyone i've ever known,And if i was being honest i was starting to fall in love with him.
I was walking in the park where kiego had told me to meet him,when I heard his voice behind me.
I turned around and there he was.
He was holding a bunch of flowers and he had a suit on.
“Kiego? What is all of this.” i asked him as i covered my mouth
Is this really happening? Why now? No,shut up Nica! He could just be asking for advice on how to ask another girl in our class out,Why would he like you! You still haven't told him your name!
He looked like he was about to say something,so I cleared my thoughts as fast as I could so that I wouldn't miss what he was going to say to me.
“I want to tell you something important,Gwen?”
“Yeah?”
“I like you.”
Thoughts three words out of the blue,and they were uncalled for, especially from him.
“Y-You what?”
“I like you, Gwen.”
“But you don't even know my name.”
“It doesn't matter. It's not like your name could take away the feelings I have for you.”
I didn't know what to say to that,I didn't know what to say in general.
“So?”
“So what?”
“What do you say? Do you like me too?”
“Maybe.”
“Maybe?”
“Yes.”
“ So yes to maybe or yes to liking me,Man gwen you're a really confusing girl.”
“I like you to dirtbag!” I was flustered and I could feel my face getting more red by the second.
“Dirtbag?” he Laughed.
“Shut uppppp!!!!”
“You know it's cute when you're angry.”
“I wont be cute when I punch your lights out.”
That shut him up and I've gotta admit that was hilarious.
“So you like me?” he said after a while.
“Yes.” I looked up from the ground and we made eye contact.
“So,Now what?”
“You become my boyfriend I guess.”
“Woah really i'm your boyfriend now?”
“Sure.”
“Does that mean i get to know your name?”
“I guess so,” I sighed and then I walked over to him.
“So what's your name,Gwen?”
“My name is Nica bloom.”
His eyes widened a bit and then he laughed.
Why is he laughing? Does he hate me?
He must have noticed my face because he shut up soon after.
“Oh god no no I didn't mean it like that!!!”
“Then what did you mean!”
“I mean that your name is cute.And i laughed because i was thinking of why you never tell anyone your name.”
That's a relief.
“Nica bloom.”
I heard a stern voice from behind me and when I turned around, my mother was right there.
“Mom?”
“Why are you talking to him!”
“Because he's my boyfriend?”
I looked back at kiego and he looked just as confused as i was.
“Your boyfriend? You can't date him! That's why his family moved when you were kids! Because if you can't be childhood friends then you can't date either!”
I was stunned.
He's that kiego? OMG my childhood best friend.
I looked back at kiego and for some reason he didn't look shocked.
“Kiego? Why don't you look shocked.?”
“Because I've known for a long time.”
“What do you mean….”
“The reason I moved back here was because I was sent to kill you.”
My heart dropped.
His face went grim and cold.
He’s here to kill me…..No, No way he would do that!
“What…”
“I wasn't going to though!!! In the beginning I hated you because of what your parents did to mine! But then as we talked I started to like you!”
“ This can't be happening right now.” I was freaking out and I tried to push past him and leave.
But he wouldn't let me.
My mother had left a while ago with a smirk on her face because she knew that I would go home and start listening to her.
“Nica,Please come back!”
“Why?!! So you can kill me?!!”
“Because I love you!”
I froze in place,He WHAT?
The next thing I know he was right next to me,Then he just-What!!
The next thing I realized is that he kissed me.
I melted into the kiss and when he pulled back he said something
“Let's run away together!”
“What?!!!”
“Let's run away together!Come on! We don't need her approval”
“But where would we go? Where would we get money?”
“Who Knows but we can figure it out!”
I look at him with a non believing look.
“Don't worry about that,all I know is, I love you and we should run away together!”
“Well uhh……Let's do this I guess!!!! But I'm keeping in contact with my brother!”
“Okay but it'll have to be anonymous because we cant let them find us.”
“So we'll meet at the lake we always used to play at when we were kids at 3:00am,i don't know where we're going to go but i guess home is wherever i'm with you”
He nodded as we both went “home”
It was 30 minutes before we were going to meet up and I was packing my bags when my brother walked in.
“What are you doing?”
“Uhhh packing?”
“Why are you packing? You live here!”
“Ummmmmm im moving out?”
My brothers eyes widened as i spoke,Rage was showing in his eyes
“You're running away? Are you running away with that boyfriend of yours?!”
“...”
I was stunned.
I didn't know what to say or what to do at that moment.
“So you are.”
I didn't make eye contact with him,I just stared at the floor.
“I told you that you're not running off with that boy.”
“But mom and dad won't let me be with him!”
“Then maybe it's better off that way!”
“I love him! And I'm going with him whether you like it or not.”
“Fine but don't expect me to lie for you.and you better make sure you keep in touch,Go be the little prick i taught you to be,make me proud”
After he said that, he left.
I don't know what came over me but I could sense some pride in his voice as he left.
When I had finished packing I had met Kiego at the spot I told him to meet.
When he made it to where I was we ran.
The wind was blowing my hair as I ran off with him.
When we reached the gates,it was dark out,and I could see my breath in the air in front of me.
“Let's do this!”
“It's now or never.”
I took his hand as we ran out of the gate together.
It felt like all of the years of my life were rushing back to me.
Like all those years that I wondered if I would do anything in my life,this was the answer to all of that!
I was born to run,and be myself.
I was born with broken wings and I took them and learned how to fly!
It was exhilarating.
I ran faster when we had exerted the gates.
He chased after me,we were laughing,The wind in our hair as we ran made us feel 10 times better.
But once we had gotten far enough from the village we had to make camp.
I had packed food in one of my bags and in the other was close and personal belongings.
My mom must have found the note by now and is sending the village to find us.
That unfortunately didn't last very long ....They would find us sooner than later.
We had both managed to fall asleep when I felt someone pulling on me to wake up.
“Kiego? Is that you?”
“No,Get up, we're leaving now.”
I froze.
that's not kiegos voice….it sounds like….dads…
I oppen my eyes unsure wether to run or just pretend im still sleeping and to my
“Dad?!!!! What are you doing here?”
“I'm here to take you back to the village.Your mother called me and told me that you had run off with that skumbag.”
“Like you ran away from mom?”
“That was a different story,You're running away with a tamaki.Our family's sworn enemy.”
“Well what if i don't wanna be a part of your own stupied little family!”
“Whether you like it or not you're a part of the Bloom family and you're part of this no matter what!”
“Well I say Frick that!!”
“Come one.Were leaving”
“No.im.not”
In that moment i don't know what happened
It's like something got taken over.
I punched my dad.
In the end he ended up making me come home and then when I got home they had banned me from leaving the house without my brother.
Me and kiego were separated……
I had managed to escape my house and I went to kiegos and climbed on his tree.
I knocked on his window.
I saw him walk over and he opened the window.
“What are you doing here?”
“I'm here to see you!”
“We can't.”
“You're the one who said that we should run away together.”
“Well that's different,We tried that,so how are we going to do that again if they already know what we're going to do?”
“I have an idea but it's the worst one I've had in a while.”
“What?”
“What if we Join each other in the afterlife?”
“You know what,you're right that one sucks but why not let's do it.”
“I have poison and we can write a note then drink the poison at the same time.”
“I can't believe that i'm going to do this”
The next day me and kiego snuck out again.
We had met in the same place we met 10 years ago.
“Let's do this.”
“Till death do us part”
“Here's to my love! O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." I said, quoting our favorite book.
I drank the poison and with my final breath i say
“I love you i'll see you in the after life,my love~”
He watches me die and then he puts the bottle to his lips and says.
“Eyes, look your last! / Arms, take your last embrace!”
He kisses me and then drinks the poison.
He fell right next to me as we lay where this all started.
"For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo,
This is the end of their life.
Still meeting in the afterlife.
The end~