Vivienne

I probably shouldn’t be doing this. This was my first day sneaking out of the dorms. I knew people do it all the time, but most of them get caught. Only my roommate, and a few select girls can make it past the head of the dormitory. I quickly tugged a cardigan over my nightgown, and pulled my boots on over my sock clad feet.

I snuck out of my dorm, careful not to let the door squeak too much. I left it open a crack before dinner. My roommate doesn’t mind it being open, but she despises it being all the way open, so the light can get into our dorm. I walk silently out of our room, and down the hallway. It’s about half an hour past curfew, and I can’t think. There is this one myth that there is a hidden waterfall about an eighth of a mile away from the lake. I tiptoe down the girl’s dormitory stairs, avoiding the seventeenth step, for it is very loud and would wake up the head of the girl’s dormitory, who sleeps in a room by herself underneath the stairs.

When I get onto the wooden floors of the main floor of the main level, I am careful to pass over, and by the creaky, aching floorboards, and the ones that make the loudest noise. I sneak out of the doorway of the dorms, careful of the professors patrolling the corridors, looking for people that are breaking curfew. Such as what I am doing now, but I have a very thorough plan, planned to the last detail, and even a couple excuses planned out, if I were to get caught. I walk down the long corridor of the girls section of the dorms. They don’t keep the dorms separated, they are in the same building. However, they are separated with a huge wall in between the two, and there’s a smaller bathroom area, which is segregated between the two genders as well.

The other genders are in a way smaller dorm across from the other two. They sort you by gender, not sex, which I’m sure people appreciate. I pass a statue and I hear footsteps, so I go more quietly. A small, light breeze comes in from the open air of the castle, as I walk down the small, hidden staircase that empties into the path. The normal walking path that leads to the lake. I follow that path, to just sit by the lake, and calm my mind. I walk for about fifteen minutes, and see a small, overgrown-ish trail, leading away the main path. Following that small trail, I make brush and overgrown trees bend a bit at my will, so they will not touch me. I walk for about ten minutes, when I start to hear water running.

This must be another way to get to the lake! I start walking a bit faster this time around, and what I see next blows my mind. A tall, but small waterfall with a small pond at the bottom. I quickly take off my socks and boots, and set them to where I could see them, which isn’t very far away. I hear a small sound of a twig snapping, and I look around, seeing nobody. I slowly walk into the surprisingly warm water, tying my long cardigan into a big knot on the front of my nightgown. I looked around yet again, seeing nobody once again. I walk around the shallow edge of the pond, to touch the running water of the waterfall. The water, again, was surprisingly warm.

Then, I feel eyes on me, or specifically the waterfall in front of me. I don’t turn around, but I can hear a boy behind me. He slowly walks towards me while taking off his shoes and overcoat. I can hear them drop on the soft ground, and He sits down on the edge of the stony pond, dipping his feet in the warm water, still saying nothing. Finally, he speaks.

“I don’t mean to startle you but, how do you know of this place?” I smile softly. “You didn’t startle me at all. I knew you were there. You are quite loud, mainly with that branch snap.” I laugh, and it sounds as if I was mocking him. Even if I wasn’t. “Are you serious? I thought I was being quiet!” the boy exclaimed out of frustration.

“You still haven’t answered my question though” the boy said. I could feel his eyes glancing at me, even if I hadn’t turned around. “You’re right. I haven’t” I reply. He didn’t say anything, he was probably looking at me in confusion, and he could probably predict my smirk.

I glance over my shoulder at his astonished face. “I’m only kidding, You should have seen your face. It was priceless” the boy just sat there, not saying anything. “I guess I look pretty stupid right now.” He scratched at his neck and looked away sheepishly. “I’m Kamishiro” He sticks out his hand, and I accept the handshake.

“Vivienne” Now, I finally get a good look at him. He has shorter, sandy blonde hair, and his eyes seem to be a honey brown. He wears wire rimmed glasses, and looks as if to have a button up shirt with only the top one undone, tucked into tan dress pants.

“Well, it is nice to meet you, Vivienne” he smiles and puts his hand back into his lap. Then, He looks at my person. I untied my cardigan a while back, so now I’m holding the long thing in my hands, bunched up. The tall, lanky boy doubles over my person once again.

Then, he instantly started blushing, across his whole face. Even the tips of his ears were a bit red in the moonlight. He snapped his head away from me. “So sorry for staring. I didn’t mean to!” he stated, shakily, he seemed to worry about something.

“Oh, It’s fine. I don’t mind the staring.” I reply softly, smiling at him again. He seemed to look back at me, and he looked shocked. “Still, It was kind of rude for me to stare” He said back to me, His eyebrows furrowing. “You can tell me to leave, whenever necessary.” Kamishiro stated, his eyebrows furrowed still.

I sit there for a while, both of us in silence. I think about stuff in a way that I don’t think actually would have happened is I actually fell into the water. The water of pretty cold, I stick my feet in for a bit.

“Oh, I need to get back to my dorm before my roommate knows I’m gone. She’ll report it to the professors walking around campus.” I reply, and I get out of the water to slip my socks back on with my boots.

“Ahh, I see.” Kamishiro stated. “Will I see you again?” he asked me, putting on his shoes after pulling them out of the water. “Well, seeing as we are both in history courses, We will be seeing each other a lot.” I put it out there. I am fairly observant, so I knew that we had at least some classes together.

“You always seem to be buried in a book, so I wouldn’t have been surprised” I reply, walking down the trail we took earlier. He started walking and quickly caught up to me. He has way longer legs than I do, with his five’eleven height. I’ve always been told that I walk really fast, so it seems that he has a particularly hard time keeping up with me.

“You walk really fast. Although it’s not shocking, since most of the short people I’ve seen walk way faster than average” Kamishiro said and then said very quickly after, “wait- I didn’t mean to call you short or anything! I’m just a bit taller than you so- well- I-” Kamishiro shut his mouth, trying to keep his composure as the familiar crimson red spread quickly across his face. He covered his face with his hands in embarrassment.

“I’m really sorry! I’m such a disaster today! I don’t usually act like this-” Kamishiro blurted out rather quickly. “Oh, It’s fine. I don’t mind the talking. I know I’m short too, so that’s also fine” I reply as we turn onto the main path up to the castle. I grab Kamishiro’s arm to hide behind a tree as a professor walks down the trail about thirty feet in front of us.

I put my hand over his mouth and he didn’t protest against my actions. When the professor passes by us, murmuring about he doesn’t get paid enough for this and he doesn’t want to walk around at twelve at night breaking up some stupid teens kissing.

Once the professor is about fifty feet away from us, we walk out quietly and start running towards the castle. I let go of my cardigan, letting it fall to the ground, and pull my sleeves down to past my wrists. “You have to be quiet or they’ll catch us. Then we’ll be in deep trouble” I say to Kamishiro. “Yeah, why wouldn’t we be quiet?” I shush him, and he gets the hint. We sneak past all of the professors, and I leave him at the male dorms.

“Goodnight, see you at breakfast in the morning, okay?” He asks, and I nod. When he closes the door to the boy’s dormitory, I quickly run to my dorm, skipping over all the squeaky and loud floorboards.

“Hey, Vivienne. Where have you been?” My roommate asks. “Oh, I just went on a little walk. I needed to clear my head.” I reply, and she nods. “You actually managed to sneak out, I’m proud of you, Duralle” I shrug, and go over to my wardrobe. I put my boots away and grab a scarf to tie my hair up. “You could get caught, Vivienne” She says to me. “Well, I’m just that good, Aye?” I tie my hair in a tight braid, and I pull my cardigan over my wrists. “Why do you always wear cardigans?” She asks, and I reply, “they are warm” I grab my charcoal pencil and my notebook. I grab my other pencils, and I get into bed and pull the covers over my lap.

I start sketching and coloring the waterfall with the glowing blue-green water, and I find myself coloring a couple of figures, One short with a cardigan and boots, and one with a long pair of dress pants and a collared shirt. Short one had long burgundy curls, and the tall one had short-ish sandy blonde hair, both of them having hair whipping in the wind. The waterfall has almost running water and lily pads floating in the water, along with water lilies.

I had this written with my friend and I thought I was going to post it cuz why not. PLEASE DON'T COPY THIS STORYLINE, MY FRIEND AND I WORKED SO HARD ON THIS!!

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