My King - Part II
Autor: J.P. Sérgio | Publicado: 2011-09-11T19:33:00-07:00

"Oh My" I whispered to myself, feeling really embarrassed for I was there, in front of him, all wet and with a see-through gown. My hair was all messed up and stuck too my face and I couldn't speak at all. "Your Majesty" I said, getting desperate. "I'm terribly sorry, I'm...I'm..." I stuttered. "I don't know what to do" I confessed, letting my hands go of my private parts and starting to shake them and trying to bend over and hide myself at the same time. "Should I bend over? Should I make a reverence? I'm almost naked here" I nearly screamed and the King started laughing so beautifully I just stood there admiring his laugh, with a shy smile on my face. I bent over, feeling real bad for not having done that before. "Your Majesty, I apologize for meeting you in such shameful conditions" I said very low and he took a step towards me, touching my shoulders and making me get up."It's alright, it's OK" he said and I breathed with relief, still blushed. He grinned at me and I had to fight with my heart not to smirk at his handsomeness. "You don't need to keep blushing, all I said was the truth" he said to me and I blushed even more, laughing a little."The more you say that, the more I blush" I replied and then he blushed, which was the most adorable thing (besides puppies and little horses) I've ever seen in my whole existence. I heard Malakhai snort and then lay down on the ground and the King glanced at him, smiling. "Is that horse yours?" he questioned and I nodded, looking to my friend with a lot of love in my eyes. "He's one great animal" he said and I smiled at him, again covering my body with my hands."Yes, he is" I answered, looking away as I saw the shine in the Kings eyes. He walked all the way to the edge of the river, inhaled the air like it was a rainy day during spring and closed his eyes, just listening to the sound of the woods and the water. I turned to him, thinking it was very rude to be on your back to the King, and paralyzed at the sight of him taking his belt off with the sword and everything and put it the ground; then he took of his coat, his crown and his boots, and looked directly at me, grinning again."Do you mind if I swim here in your river for a while?" he asked me and my mouth opened, surprised. "It's not my river, Your Majesty" I asked, regretting my rudeness afterwards. "It looks like it is to me" he said, taking his shirt off and making my heart pop in a hundred pieces inside my chest. "Your eyes are as blue as the water" he said, putting his hands together, stretching his arms and diving into the river, vanishing in the big bubbles that the waterfall would create with the crash. I turned to my horse and he was looking at me with his nose in my direction. He only did that when he wanted to provoke me into rubbing him and admitting he was the best horse in Narnia. "That's not fair to me, you sneaky quadruped!" I yelled whispered at him and he sighed, looking away and laying his head down, closing his beautiful blue eyes. I rolled my eyes and turned on my heels back to the river, watching as the King emerged to the surface, his hair over his head and splatting against his big brown hazel eyes. He pushed it away and looked at me, giving me a huge smile and beckoning at me. I got closer do the river and took of my boots again, sitting by the edge and putting my feet inside the now cold water. I looked at my reflection in the not so calm water and realized my eyes were really that blue, like the King had said. I pushed my hair back because it was looking real dark in the water and that bothered me a little, so I pushed it away and got it up, holding it with a string of fabric I ripped from the hem of my dress. The King was approaching me and I got tense, making my hands a fist. "I'm sorry I said that about the river" he said, getting out of the water and sitting by me, shaking his arms so the drops would come down more quickly. "It is a very stupid thought, actually" he admitted, laughing a little. "I saw you here, all wet and pale and so, so adorable and charming" he started and I blushed again, smiling and looking away. "And I thought you were a naiad" he confessed and I had to glare him a bit offended. "Pardon me, my lady" he said, bending his head down and that back at me. "I just realized you weren't when I was in the water for more than five seconds and you were still out" he said and I smiled again, enchanted with his plainness. "You don't have to apologize, I do look pale like a naiad" I kidded and he smiled. "What are you them?" he asked and all my enchantment went away with the question. "I saw what you can do with your fingers" he said and I bent down my head, staring at my hands. "It's not just the fingers" I confessed not really knowing why was I saying all that to the King of Narnia. "I can do it with my hands, and my mouth" I added and he looked very intrigued which was kind of nice and surprising. "But I don't know exactly what I am. I consider myself a especial human" I said, smiling and the smiled back."Indeed, you are" he said and I felt my stomach dance a little. A very funny feeling it was. Very scary too. "May I ask what are you, a very young lady, doing out here alone?""I'm not alone" I corrected, very daring I was already. "I have Malakhai with me. Don't ever underestimate the power of a talking horse" I said as a hint and he agreed with me. "And to be honest, I should not be here. The heck, I should. I just couldn't" I said."And why is that?" he asked, entering the river again. He was so tall that, with his feet in the bottom of the river he could still talk to me directly without having to raise his eyes. "My aunt keeps me locked in the family farm, she's not my real aunt, all that drama that surrounds every family in this world" I said, resuming a huge party of my story. "The same aunt that wants you to get married, am I right?" he asked and I raised my eyebrows."Were you hidden behind a bush or a tree overhearing all my conversation with the horse?" I questioned him, who looked very ashamed of himself at the moment. "I apologize, I just got scared when I heard voices in the woods" he explained and I started moving my feet in the water until I felt him touching them, holding them by the heels and pulling me into the river with him, which scared the hell out of me and I almost drowned."Your Majesty!" I gasped, yelling at him, who was laughing his lungs out and staring at me with the most lovely expression he could ever do (I believed so). "You are one naughty King, I say" I complained and the kept laughing, holding my hand before I could get out. He pulled me to his arms and held me like we were about to dance. He turned us around together and then realized I couldn't touch the ground even in my tiptoes, so he grabbed me by the hips and pulled me up, sitting me in the edge again."I couldn't resist, my lady, you are one of a kind" he said as an excuse and I twisted the end of my hair. He came to me and sat beside me again, twisting and whipping his hair backwards. His bare chest was full of tiny drops that kept rolling until the knot in his trousers and bringing me the dirtiest thoughts, making me blush and look away. "I come here every time I feel tired of dozens of people around me, telling me what to do next, what village to visit, which one of my employees I should fire, which girl I should marry" he started and I turned my body to his, playing complete attention to his words. "Being a King is not so wonderful as the people say. It has its pros and cons. Sometimes I just feel like running away from it all" he stopped and exhaled roughly, like he was feeling guilty of saying those things and actually think of them in the first place. I dared to touch his left hand with mine very softly, just to show I shared that feeling."I know how that feels" I almost whispered and he looked at me grateful, rubbing his fingers against mine and then letting my hand go as I pulled it back. "Then I come here" he continued. "Because it reminds me of all the beauty there is in Narnia and that is my duty to look out for it" he finished as it was a election speech, which very much seemed like. I gave him a understanding smile and then I shivered with a very cold breeze. He stood up and went into the woods half naked and making me worry and came back after a while, bringing some branches and dry bushes in his hand, putting them together into a little pile. "Come" he said, holding one hand out to me and I took it, using his aid to get up and approach the pile. "Could you make us a fire so we can dry our clothes and go home without getting anyone suspicious?" he asked and I grinned very proudly, nodding and blowing the pile, making my beautiful amount of blue flames turn into a little fire. "You see, that's nothing to me ashamed of. You're special" he said and I smiled, sitting close do Malakhai e leaning against him. We kept talking, the King and I, for what seemed like a billion of years within an hour. The subjects were always different and his Majesty told me a bunch of amazing stories he had lived to see. He told me about the four Kings and Queens of Narnia, how brave they were and how they saved our precious world. He told me about Aslam, which was the most fascinating part, I must say, and how wonderful he is when you're standing right in from of him. All those stories were more than I expected to hear in all my fantasies of running away from Aunty Bea and meeting some strange traveler to tell me some of them. As the night threatened to fall upon us, the King and I got dresses up, I let him braid my hair when he asked for, and we brought our horses to drink some water before the ride back. "I must thank you for the lovely evening, my lady" he said, helping me get up on Malakhai's back and getting himself up in his own black steed. "I am the one who should be thanking you for listening to such a non important girl's stories and sharing yours with me, your Majesty. You have no clue how long I've waited for the day I would meet someone who could tell me some adventures like yours, my King" I admitted smiling and he grinned at me, that heart-melting grin of his. "Call me Caspian" he said and I bent my head in a reverence, kicking Malakhai gently in the back and starting to walk away. "My lady" the King called me and I turned my head to his. "May I ask your name?""You may" I replied and he smiled at my mock. "My name is Ariana Lazio" I said and his smiled got even bigger. He nodded and headed to the opposite direction. "Your Majesty" I called."Yes?" he said, stopping his horse and turning his perfect bright eyes to me. "You are one of a kind too, Caspian" I said, my heart pounding in my chest like a carriage wheel. A rush of emotions coming to me just with the sound of his name coming right out of my mouth. "You are one of a kind" I repeated and his smile got even prettier than I though it could get, before he kicked the horse and vanished into the woods.