@Spider-man
“I’m just trying to help you. I know you hate me but please just let me show you back to the castle. I don’t want you to get hurt,” she half begged.
“I’m just trying to help you. I know you hate me but please just let me show you back to the castle. I don’t want you to get hurt,” she half begged.
“No,” she insisted stubbornly, crossing her arms like a child. “How do I know this isn’t a ploy anyway? Besides, Eli will be here soon enough.” Hopefully.
“It’s not that small of a town. It’ll take him awhile to find you. I’m not trying to do anything. I leave you alone after just please let me show you the way,” she said stepping closer to Aurelie.
Aurelie took a step back. “Just leave me alone!” she cried, glaring at the other girl.
She backed up sighing. “I’ll leave if you really want me too but there’s no way you’re getting home without any help.”
After a moment, Aurelie gave in. She was stubborn, but she knew that Cat was right. “Fine, you can help me. But don’t try to talk to me.”
Cat nodded. “Follow me,” she said turning around and starting to walk.
Aurelie followed quickly, pulling her hood farther down to better conceal her face. She didn’t speak to Cat, keeping her head down and her pace brisk.
(Oof sorry I thought I responded)
It only took them a few minutes to get to the castle. With Cat guiding her no one bothered them. She didnt talk to Aurelie not wanting to make her even more mad.
(it’s fine my dude)
“Thanks,” Aurelie bit out, still being polite in the face of her betrayal. “Now please never speak to me again.”
“Your welcome,” she said hugging herself lightly. “One thing are you going to report me?” She knew the answer but she also needed to make sure so she knew if she had time to grab her stuff and still leave the kingdom.
“No, I’m not, against my better judgement,” Aurelie responded. “Just please…” Her voice cracked with emotion for a moment before she composed herself again. “Please leave now, before I reconsider.”
She nodded backing away from her. “I-I’m just going to get my stuff then I’ll be gone. I will never have to worry about me again I promise,” she said before turning her back to Aurelie and walking away. Her eyes were watery but she didn’t cry.
Aurelie nodded stiffly, watching her go for a moment before she could tear her eyes away and walk inside (through a side entrance of course) and head to her room, where she would probably wallow in self-pity for longer than she should. Grace, or should she say Caterina, had never cared for her, what good would being sad about it do? But whatever she thought, she was still upset.
After cat packed all her things she stood outside of Aurelie’s door. She Knocked playing with something in her pocket.
Aurelie looked up from she had been seated on her bed, her eyes a bit puffy from crying. Well, this isn’t great timing, she thought, before hurrying and putting some powder on her face to hide the evidence of tears and letting her hair down in its strawberry blonde waves to distract whoever it was from her current state. She nodded in satisfaction before rushing to her door and opening it with a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. Upon seeing Cat, the smile vanished entirely. “What do you want?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.
”I hmmm I'm going to leave I promise I just wanted to give you these, ” she took a bracelet and a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. ”I got the bracelet For you and I started the drawing. You can obviously do whatever you want with it I just don't know..” the drawing was a half-finished drawing of Aurelie. Her face was done but her body wasn't.
“Well, I have something for you too,” Aurelie said, remembering the clothes she had bought for Cat while her back was turned. She took the gifts Cat had offered and set them gently on her desk before getting the clothes she had bought for Cat and walking back to the doorway. She held out the dress to Cat. “I noticed you admiring this and I bought it for you while your back was turned.” For a moment her face was open and she seemed almost ready to forgive Cat.
Cat froze for a moment. She wasn't expecting to get anything. ”oh thank you, ” she said accepting the dress. She stood there awkwardly for a moment. ”I-I should go right?”
As soon as the words left Cat’s mouth, Aurelie’s expression shuttered, staying carefully neutral now. “Yes, you should go,” she repeated, as if she were done here. She tossed one of her curls over her shoulder. “Goodbye, Caterina.”
She sighed. ”Goodbye Aurelie.” she turned around and walked away clenching the dress as her eyes watered again.
Aurelie closed the door quickly and walked back inside. She meant to go sit down, but found that she wandered to her desk with Cat’s gifts atop it. She tried not to cry again as she looked at them, glancing back at her door.
Cat froze outside if her door for a while but then walked away and out of the castle.
Aurelie lightly turned the picture over in her hands, admiring it with a sad sort of smile. Cat drew her as being much prettier than she actually was, Aurelie thought to herself. She also looked at the bracelet, picking it up and setting it on her palm. It felt wrong to try it on without Cat there.
Cat walked down the halls. The few things that she managed to steal felt heavy in her pocket. She was about to go returned them when a group of guards rounded the corner and stopped her.
Aurelie was completely oblivious to what was happening. After a few more moments, she decided that she needed to speak to someone. Eli was her only true friend, so she went to find him, running into a group of guards and Cat in the process. Why was she still here?
Cat didn’t notice her at first. The guards where cuffing her and she wasn’t struggling but she was trying to talk her way out of it. “I didn’t do anything! Let go of me! I ca-“ she topped when she noticed Aurelie. The guards also paused.
“What is going on here?” Aurelie demanded the guards, standing straight and tall. She narrowed her eyes at them imperiously.
Cat looked down at ground. “Don’t worry we’ve caught the thief,” one of the gods reassured her.
Aurelie rolled her eyes. “I’m not worried because that girl isn’t the thief,” Aurelie replied angrily. “Do you really think that a teenage maid would try to steal from us? Whatever she had, she had it because I gave it to her. If you want a real thief, I saw a strange man outside that I was just about to inform you of.”
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