Bumping into each other
Another day.
I stand up from my noisy bed.
It must be 7:30 in the morning. I groan having to wake up and work.
Mom and my little sister Zora are sound asleep. I smile knowing there okay.
We lived another day. I thought.
Outside our tiny house is lots of noise. Animals screeching, people yelling, and wind blowing. I close my eyes tightly having to wake up to this every single day.
“Al”? Mom says in a raspy voice.
“Yes ma”? I respond.
“Are you going to work again”? She frowned
“Yes mom. I have to, to keep us alive”. I fake smile. “You need to rest a day Al. You’ll hurt yourself”. She frowns even more.
“Don’t worry mom. I will be alright”. I finally smile.
I get up and leave mom and my sister on the bed.
I walk to our broken mirror on our wall. I fix my hair a bit and put my work cloths on. I had to save quite a bit of money for them.
I really wish we can just live in the castle even if it means we have to work our butts off.
I say bye to my half asleep mom on the bed. I give her a kiss on the forehead. “Bye Al”. She says. I smile in return.
I walk out. People all over the place already. I work at a farm. I help out with the crops and animals. I get paid $3 dollars each day. At least it’s more then what my father used to get.
My father passed away from a really bad cold a couple years ago. I was pretty young. I’m 17 now and this happened 8 years ago. He was my mother’s mate. She must have really been having a hard time.
I was pretty depressed that he passed. I was silent for two whole years. Then my mom started getting tired. I finally started helping my mom out at the end of the year when I was 12. I became the man of the house.
I finally get to my job and my boss yells at me saying to go milk the cows.
I do as they say. Everyday. It’s like prison.
They have three cows. I take a hour milking all three cows. My hands and neck were hurting after I finished. Now they have three buckets filled with milk.
My next task is to feed the chickens and take the eggs from them. As I finish there are 26 eggs in total. Wish we can have them to eat back home.
Then I help out with planting more wheat and veggies. At the end of the tiring day I go to my boss’s wife for the payment for today.
Instead of $3 I got 6 eggs and a bottle of milk. I was so happy. “Are you sure Ma’am“? I look her into her eyes.
“Yes of course Alister. You are our best worker here. You work really hard. I’m sure your family must be struggling a bit. This is the least I can do for you”. She smiles brightly.
“Thank you Ma’am”. I smile with a bit of tear in my eye. “Your welcome”. She said.
I leave to my house with 6 eggs and a bottle of milk. Now we have something good enough to eat. Something different apart from molded bread.
People are still all over the place. It’s 8:45 now. I look down at the basket of eggs making sure there okay. But the next thing I know is there flying in the air.
I bumped into someone and the eggs almost landed on the ground. I fell but the person I bumped into managed to catch the eggs.
We both fell. “Ah! The eggs! Where are they”?! I yell. “Here”. A deep voice interrupted my panic. I look up to see two hands with all six eggs still in one piece.
I grabbed them. the basket they were in is now broken as I sat on it when I fell. Great.
I look up to see deep dark brown hair and green eyes. It’s the prince!!! What is he doing here?
I stand up so fast like I’ve never before and reach a hand out. He takes my hand. “I’m so sorry my prince! Please forgive me for bumping into you”! I panic.
“SHH”! He whisper yelled at me. “Hu-“! I got interrupted.
He pulled me to a alley way between two buildings.
I can see all of his features. I’ve never seen him this close before.
What is he doing over here?? Why is he hiding with me in a alley?! What’s going on.
I stop thinking and I take in his scent. It smells like something I never smelled before. It smelled really good.
I look at his neck and want to stuff my nose on in it. Mom told me that once you find your mate there will be this scent from a person and that’s when you know it’s your mate.
But I wasn’t sure. It was a guy. I thought it’s supposed to be a female.
I’m still wondering why
